Document:

Exhibit 10.12

 

Execution Version

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made by and between Virginia Partners Bank (“Employer”) and J. Adam Sothen (“Executive”) and is effective as of the 1st day of December, 2018 (the “Effective Date”).

 

WHEREAS, Employer wishes to continue the employment of Executive as a key executive of Employer and it is the desire of Employer to have the benefit of Executive’s continued loyalty and service; and

 

WHEREAS, Executive wishes to remain in the employ of Employer on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and Executive has agreed to terminate the Change of Control Agreement, made effective as of April 10, 2018, by and between Employer and Executive.

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein the parties agree as follows:

 

1.             Employment and Duties.

 

(a)           Executive shall be employed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Employer (the “Position”) on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement.  Executive accepts such employment and agrees to perform the duties and responsibilities of the Position, as may be assigned to Executive by the Chief Executive Officer or Board of Directors of Employer.

 

(b)           Executive shall devote Executive’s best efforts and full time to rendering services on behalf of Employer in furtherance of its best interests.  Executive shall comply with all policies, standards and regulations of Employer now or hereafter promulgated, and shall perform all duties under this Agreement to the best of Executive’s abilities and in accordance with the ethics and standards of conduct applicable to employees in the banking industry.

 

2.             Term.  The Term (as defined below) of this Agreement is effective as of the Effective Date and will continue through the earlier of one year from the Effective Date (the “Initial Term”) or (ii) the date this Agreement otherwise terminates pursuant to Section 6 or Section 16 below; provided, however, that, at the end of the Initial Term, if this Agreement has not been previously terminated pursuant to Section 6 or Section 16 below, this Agreement shall be automatically extended for a one-year term (a “Renewal Term”), commencing at the end of the Initial Term, unless either party gives written notice of non-renewal no later than sixty (60) days prior to the end of the Initial Term.  This Agreement shall continue to be further extended for an additional one-year term at the end of each Renewal Term, unless either party gives written notice of non-renewal no later than sixty (60) days prior to the end of the applicable Renewal Term.  During the Initial Term or any Renewal Term, this Agreement may be terminated at any time pursuant to Section 6 or Section 16 below.  The Term of this Agreement, including all Renewal Terms, if any, is referred to herein as the “Term.”

 

 

3.             Compensation.

 

(a)           Base Salary.  During the Term, Employer shall cause Executive to be paid an annual base salary of not less than One-Hundred-Ninety-Thousand Dollars ($190,000), paid in equal installments to Executive in accordance with Employer’s established payroll practices (but no less frequently than monthly).  Employer’s Board of Directors or its designee, in its discretion, may increase Executive’s base salary during the Term.  Employer shall withhold state and federal income taxes, social security taxes and such other payroll deductions as may from time to time be required by law or agreed upon in writing by Executive and Employer.  Employer shall also withhold and remit to the proper party any amounts agreed to in writing by Employer and Executive for participation in any corporate sponsored benefit plans for which a contribution is required.

 

(b)           Annual Incentive.  During the Term, Executive will be eligible to participate in any annual incentive plan applicable to Employer’s executives and approved by the Board of Directors and to be paid in accordance with the terms of such plan.  Any incentive payments due hereunder shall be payable to Executive on a date determined by Employer but in no event later than two and one-half (2 1/2) months following the end of the applicable calendar year.

 

(c)           Equity Awards.  Executive may be eligible to receive equity awards from Employer, in such manner and subject to such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors or its designee, in its sole discretion, may determine, if at all.

 

(d)           Clawback.  Executive agrees that any incentive compensation that Executive receives from Employer or a related entity shall be subject to repayment (i.e., clawback) to Employer or such related entity to the extent required under any repayment or clawback policy adopted by the Board of Directors in the future.

 

4.             Benefits.

 

(a)           Corporate Benefit Plans.  Executive shall be entitled to participate in or become a participant in any employee benefit plan maintained by Employer for which Executive is or will become eligible on such terms as the Board of Directors or its designee may, in its discretion, establish, modify or otherwise change.

 

(b)           Personal Time Off.  Executive shall be entitled to an aggregate of thirty-five (35) business days (comprised of twenty-five (25) business days of vacation and ten (10) business days of personal leave for illness, jury duty and similar matters) of paid time off (“PTO”) each year (or such greater annual number of days allowed under Employer’s PTO policy) which shall be taken in accordance with Employer’s PTO Policy.

 

5.             Reimbursement of Expenses.  Executive shall be reimbursed upon Executive’s incurring reasonable and customary business expenses in connection with the performance of Executive’s duties, subject to presentation of adequate substantiation, including receipts, for the reasonable business travel, entertainment, lodging, and other business expenses incurred by Executive.  In no event will such reimbursements be made later than the last day of the calendar

 

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month following the calendar month in which Executive submits the request for payment of the reimbursable expense, which shall be submitted no later than sixty (60) days after the expense is incurred.

 

6.             Termination of Employment.

 

(a)           Death or Incapacity.  Executive’s employment under this Agreement shall terminate automatically upon Executive’s death.  Executive’s spouse, if the spouse survives Executive, or, if not, Executive’s estate shall receive (i) any unpaid base salary which otherwise would be payable to Executive through the date of termination payable in a lump sum as soon as administratively feasible following termination, but not later than thirty (30) days thereafter; (ii) any annual bonus compensation earned and awarded pursuant to Section 3(b)(i) above, but not yet paid as of the date of termination, payable on the earlier of (A) the thirtieth (30th) day after the date of termination, or (B) when otherwise due; (iii) any benefits vested, due and owing pursuant to the terms of any other plans, policies or programs, payable when otherwise due (hereinafter subsections (i) — (iii) collectively are referred to as the “Accrued Obligations”). Executive’s spouse, if the spouse survives Executive, or, if not, Executive’s estate shall also receive an amount equal to Executive’s base salary from the date of Executive’s death through the end of the month in which Executive’s death occurs, payable in a lump sum as soon as administratively feasible following Executive’s death, but not later than thirty (30) days thereafter.  If Employer determines that Incapacity (as defined below) of Executive has occurred, it may terminate Executive’s employment and this Agreement upon ninety (90) days’ written notice, provided that, within ninety (90) days after receipt of such notice, Executive shall not have returned to full-time performance of Executive’s assigned duties.  In the event of a termination due to “Incapacity,” Employer shall pay the Accrued Obligations to Executive.  For purposes of this Agreement, “Incapacity” shall occur if (i) Executive is unable to perform the material functions of Executive’s position for thirteen (13) consecutive weeks and is then deemed to be permanently unable to continue in the Position by a physician selected by Employer or its insurer, and acceptable to Executive or Executive’s legal representative, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, or (ii) Executive is deemed disabled as defined in the policy of disability insurance maintained by Employer for the benefit of Executive (and others if a group policy).  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, Employer shall comply with all requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Further, if Executive’s employment is terminated due to death or “Incapacity,” then no payments (other than the Accrued Obligations and spousal death benefit described above) shall be owed or paid, including those under Section 7(a) or Section 9(a).

 

(b)           Termination by Employer With or Without Cause.  Employer may terminate Executive’s employment at any time during the Term of this Agreement, with or without notice (unless otherwise required herein) and with or without Cause.  For purposes of this Agreement, “Cause” shall mean:

 

(i)            Executive’s willful misconduct in connection with the performance of Executive’s duties;

 

(ii)           Executive’s misappropriation or embezzlement of funds or material property of Employer or any affiliate;

 

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(iii)          Executive’s fraud or dishonesty with respect to Employer or any affiliate;

 

(iv)          Executive’s failure to perform any of the material duties and responsibilities required by the Position (other than by reason of Incapacity), or Executive’s failure to follow reasonable instructions or policies of Employer, in either case after being advised in writing of such failure and being given a reasonable opportunity and period (as determined by Employer in its reasonable business judgment) to remedy such failure (if such breach or violation is capable of being remedied), which period shall be not less than thirty (30) days;

 

(v)           Executive’s conviction of, indictment for (or the procedural equivalent), or entering of a guilty plea or plea of no contest with respect to any felony or any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude;

 

(vi)          Executive’s breach of a material term of this Agreement, or violation in any material respect of any policy, code or standard of behavior or ethics generally applicable to officers of Employer, after being advised in writing of such breach or violation and being given a reasonable opportunity and period (as determined by Employer in its reasonable business judgment) to remedy such breach or violation (if such breach or violation is capable of being remedied), which period shall be not less than thirty (30) days;

 

(vii)         Executive’s willful violation of any final cease and desist order;

 

(viii)        Executive’s breach of any fiduciary duty owed to Employer or its affiliates; or

 

(ix)          Executive’s engaging in conduct that, if it became known by any regulatory or governmental agency or the public, would be or is reasonably likely to result, in the good faith judgment of Employer, in material injury to Employer, monetarily or otherwise.

 

(c)           Termination by Executive for Good Reason.  Executive may terminate employment for Good Reason.  For purposes of this Agreement, “Good Reason” shall mean:

 

(i)            The assignment of duties to Executive by Employer which result in Executive having materially less authority or responsibility than Executive has on the Effective Date, without Executive’s express written consent;

 

(ii)           Requiring Executive to maintain Executive’s principal office at a location that is sixty (60) miles or more from Fredericksburg, Virginia (measured by driving distance from the current headquarters), unless Employer moves its principal executive offices to the place to which Executive is required to move; or

 

(iii)          A material reduction in the Executive’s base salary; or

 

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(iv)          Any action or inaction by the Employer that constitutes a material breach of this Agreement.

 

Executive is required to provide written notice to Employer detailing the existence of a condition described above in this Section 6(c) within a sixty (60) day period after the initial existence of the condition, and Employer shall have thirty (30) days after notice to remedy the condition without liability.  In addition to the foregoing requirements, to trigger payment under this Section 6(c), Executive must also terminate employment within one hundred twenty (120) days after the initial occurrence of the event constituting “Good Reason” and Employer must have been allowed the full opportunity to cure, as set forth above.

 

Notwithstanding the above, “Good Reason” shall not include any resignation by Executive where Cause for Executive’s termination by Employer exists under Section 6(b), or there is an isolated, insubstantial or inadvertent action by Employer (provided that such action is remedied by Employer after written notice by Executive), and shall not include any action by Employer taken before the Effective Date of this Agreement.

 

(d)           Other.  Executive’s employment hereunder may be terminated voluntarily by Executive without Good Reason upon ninety (90) days’ prior written notice to Employer or at any time by mutual agreement in writing.  In the event of such voluntary termination notice by Executive without Good Reason, Employer may terminate Executive’s employment prior to the expiration of the notice period without incurring any liability under Section 7, and, under this Section 6(d).  Employer shall be required only to pay Executive’s base salary through the termination date (with such payment to be made in accordance with Employer’s established payroll practices), plus any Accrued Obligations (as defined Section 6(a)).

 

7.             Obligations Upon Termination.

 

(a)           Without Cause or for Good Reason.  If either Employer terminates Executive’s employment without Cause or Executive terminates Executive’s employment for Good Reason during the Term, Executive shall be entitled to receive, subject to any applicable delay set forth in Section 19 below:

 

(i)            The Accrued Obligations (as defined in Section 6(a)); and

 

(ii)           Subject to Executive’s signing, delivering and not revoking the Release attached as Exhibit A, which Release must be signed, delivered and not revoked within the period set forth in the Release:

 

(A)   A payment in a monthly amount equal to one-twelfth (1/12) of Executive’s annual base salary in effect immediately preceding such termination for twelve (12) months, payable in accordance with Employer’s established payroll practices (but no less frequently than monthly), provided that the amounts Executive would otherwise have received during the sixty (60) days after Executive’s termination had the payments begun immediately after Executive’s

 

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termination of employment shall be paid in a lump sum on the sixtieth (60th) day after Executive’s termination of employment; and

 

(B)   For twelve (12) months after the date of termination, Executive shall receive coverage under all employee health insurance programs or plans (medical, dental and vision) (“Health Care Plans”) in which Executive and/or Executive’s spouse and any of Executive’s dependents were entitled to participate immediately prior to such termination, with Employer paying the employer portion of the premium therefor (the “Termination Health Care Continuance Benefit”), provided that the continued participation of Executive and/or Executive’s spouse and any of Executive’s dependents  is possible under the general terms and provisions of the Health Care Plans. If Employer cannot maintain such coverage for Executive or Executive’s spouse or dependents under the terms and provisions of the Health Care Plans (or where such continuation would adversely affect the tax status of the Health Care Plans pursuant to which the coverage is provided), Employer shall provide the Termination Health Care Continuance Benefit by either providing substantially identical benefits directly or through an insurance arrangement or by paying Executive the estimated cost of the expected premium for twelve (12) months after the date of termination with such payments to be made in accordance with Employer’s established payroll practices (but no less frequently than monthly) for employees generally for the period during which such cash payments are to be provided.  To the extent allowed by applicable law, the 12-month Termination Health Care Continuance Benefit period shall run concurrently with the period for which Executive and/or Executive’s spouse and any of Executive’s dependents would be eligible for continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985 (the “COBRA Period”).

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, and in addition to Employer’s remedies set forth in Section 8(e), all such payments and benefits under Section 7(a) otherwise to be made after Executive’s termination of employment shall cease to be paid, and Employer shall have no further obligation with respect thereto, in the event Executive, without the consent of Employer, breaches or engages in any activity prohibited in Section 8 or any of its sub-parts.

 

(b)           For Cause; Other Than for Good Reason.  If Executive’s employment is terminated for Cause or if Executive voluntarily terminates Executive’s employment other than for Good Reason, this Agreement shall terminate without any further obligation of Employer to Executive other than the payment to Executive of the Accrued Obligations.

 

8.             Covenants of Executive.

 

(a)           Confidentiality.  As an employee of Employer, Executive will have access to and may participate in the origination of non-public, proprietary and confidential information relating to Employer and/or its affiliates and Executive acknowledges a fiduciary duty owed to Employer and its affiliates not to disclose any such information.  Confidential information may include, but is not limited to, trade secrets, customer lists and information, internal corporate planning, methods of marketing and operation, and other data or information of

 

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or concerning Employer and its affiliates or their customers that is not generally known to the public or generally in the banking industry.  Executive agrees that for a period of five (5) years following the cessation of employment, Executive will not use or disclose to any third party any such confidential information, either directly or indirectly, except as may be authorized in writing specifically by Employer; provided, however that to the extent the information covered by this Section 8 is otherwise protected by the law, such as “trade secrets,” as defined by the Virginia Uniform Trade Secrets Act, or customer information protected by banking privacy laws, that information shall not be disclosed or used for however long the legal protections applicable to such information remain in effect.

 

Nothing in this Agreement restricts or prohibits Executive or Executive’s counsel from initiating communications directly with, responding to any inquiry from, volunteering information to, or providing testimony before a self-regulatory authority or a governmental, law enforcement or other regulatory authority, including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Congress, and any Office of Inspector General (collectively, the “Regulators”), from participating in any reporting of, investigation into, or proceeding regarding suspected violations of law, or from making other disclosures that are protected under or from receiving an award for information provided under the whistleblower provisions of state or federal law or regulation.  Executive does not need the prior authorization of Employer to engage in such communications with the Regulators, respond to such inquiries from the Regulators, provide confidential information or documents containing confidential information to the Regulators, or make any such reports or disclosures to the Regulators.  Executive is not required to notify Employer that Executive has engaged in such communications with the Regulators.  Executive recognizes and agrees that, in connection with any such activity outlined above, Executive must inform the Regulators that the information Executive is providing is confidential.

 

Federal law provides certain protections to individuals who disclose a trade secret to their attorney, a court, or a government official in certain, confidential circumstances.  Specifically, federal law provides that an individual shall not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret under either of the following conditions:

 

·                  Where the disclosure is made (a) in confidence to a federal, state or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney; and (b) solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law; or

 

·                  Where the disclosure is made in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, if such filing is made under seal.

 

Federal law also provides that an individual who files a lawsuit for retaliation by an employer for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose the trade secret to the attorney of the individual and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, if the individual (a) files any document containing the trade secret under seal; and (b) does not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.

 

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(b)           Non-Competition.  In consideration for Employer’s entering into this Agreement and in exchange for the benefits promised herein, and other valuable consideration, Executive agrees that Executive will not engage in “Competition” for a period of twelve (12) months after Executive’s employment with Employer ceases for any reason.  For purposes hereof, “Competition” means Executive’s performing duties that are the same as or substantially similar to those duties performed by Executive for Employer or its affiliates during the last twelve (12) months of Executive’s employment, as an officer, a director, an employee, a partner or in any other capacity, within a twenty-five (25) mile radius of the headquarters of Employer (or any Virginia headquarters of any successor in the event of a merger consummated as of the last day of employment) or within a ten (10) mile radius of any branch of Employer (or any Virginia branch of any successor in the event of a merger consummated as of the last day of employment), as such locations exist as of the date Executive’s employment ceases, if those duties are performed for a bank holding company, or for a bank or other financial institution, that provides products or services that are the same as or substantially similar to, and competitive with, any of the products or services provided by Employer at the time Executive’s employment ceases.

 

(c)           Non-Piracy.  In consideration for Employer’s entering into this Agreement and in exchange for the benefits promised herein, and other valuable consideration, Executive agrees that for a period of twelve (12) months after Executive’s employment ceases for any reason, Executive will not, directly or indirectly, solicit, divert from Employer or transact business with any “Customer” of Employer with whom Executive had “Material Contact” during the last twelve (12) months of Executive’s employment or about whom Executive obtained information not known generally to the public while acting within the scope of Executive’s employment during the last twelve (12) months of employment, if the purpose of such solicitation, diversion or transaction is to provide products or services that are the same as or substantially similar to, and competitive with, those offered by Employer at the time Executive’s employment ceases. “Material Contact” means that Executive personally communicated with the Customer, either orally or in writing, for the purpose of providing, offering to provide or assisting in providing products or services of Employer during the last twelve (12) months of Executive’s employment.  “Customer” means any person or entity with whom Employer had a depository or other contractual relationship, pursuant to which Employer provided products or services during the last twelve (12) months of Executive’s employment.

 

(d)           Non-Solicitation.  In consideration for Employer’s entering into this Agreement and in exchange for the benefits promised herein, and other valuable consideration, Executive agrees that for a period of twelve (12) months after Executive’s employment ceases for any reason, Executive will not, directly or indirectly, hire any person employed by Employer during the last six (6) months of Executive’s employment, or solicit for hire or induce any such person to terminate employment with Employer, if the purpose is to compete with Employer.

 

(e)           Remedies.  Executive acknowledges that the covenants set forth in Section 8 of this Agreement are just, reasonable, and necessary to protect the legitimate business interests of Employer.  Executive further acknowledges that if Executive breaches or threatens to breach any provision of Section 8, all payments otherwise due under Section 7(a)(ii) and 9(a) shall immediately cease, but Employer’s remedies at law will be inadequate, and Employer will be irreparably harmed.  Accordingly, Employer shall be entitled to an injunction, both preliminary

 

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and permanent, restraining Executive from such breach or threatened breach, such injunctive relief not to preclude Employer from pursuing all available legal and equitable remedies, and being entitled to all reasonable attorney’s fees and costs incurred in connection with the breach, threatened breach, or any challenge to the enforceability of Section 8.

 

9.           Termination After Change of Control.

 

(a)           Without Cause or for Good Reason.  If Executive’s employment is involuntarily terminated without Cause within one (1) year after a Change of Control (as defined below) shall have occurred or if Executive resigns for Good Reason within one (1) year after a Change of Control shall have occurred, Executive shall be entitled to receive, subject to any applicable delay set forth in Section 19 below:

 

(i)            The Accrued Obligations (as defined in Section 6(a));

 

(ii)           Subject to Executive’s signing, delivering and not revoking the Release attached as Exhibit A, which Release must be signed, delivered and not revoked within the period set forth in the Release:

 

(A)   A payment equal to two (2) times Executive’s annual base salary in effect immediately preceding such termination payable in one lump sum, less all applicable withholdings, on the sixtieth (60th) day after Executive’s termination of employment;

 

(B)   For eighteen (18) months after the date of termination, Executive shall receive coverage under all Health Care Plans in which Executive and/or Executive’s spouse and any of Executive’s dependents were entitled to participate immediately prior to such termination, with Employer paying the employer portion of the premium therefor (the “Change of Control Health Care Continuance Benefit”), provided that the continued participation of Executive and/or Executive’s spouse and any of Executive’s dependents is possible under the general terms and provisions of the Health Care Plans. If Employer cannot maintain such coverage for Executive or Executive’s spouse or dependents under the terms and provisions of the Health Care Plans (or where such continuation would adversely affect the tax status of the Health Care Plans pursuant to which the coverage is provided), Employer shall provide the Change of Control Health Care Continuance Benefit by either providing substantially identical benefits directly or through an insurance arrangement or by paying Executive the estimated cost of the expected premium for eighteen (18) months after the date of termination with such payments to be made in accordance with Employer’s established payroll practices (but no less frequently than monthly) for employees generally for the period during which such cash payments are to be provided, less all applicable withholdings.  To the extent allowed by applicable law, the 18-month Change of Control Health Care Continuance Benefit period shall run concurrently with the period for which Executive and/or Executive’s spouse and any of Executive’s dependents would be eligible for continuation coverage under the COBRA Period; and

 

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(C)   An additional amount, payable in one lump sum, less all applicable withholdings, on the sixtieth (60th) day following Executive’s termination of employment, equal to one (1) times the highest annual bonus compensation pursuant to Section 3(b)(i) above earned by Executive for the three (3) immediately preceding complete fiscal years or such fewer number of complete fiscal years as Executive may have been employed by Employer.  For the avoidance of any doubt, if Employer makes a determination to award no annual bonus compensation to Executive for the three (3) immediately preceding complete fiscal years or such fewer number of complete fiscal years as Executive may have been employed by Employer, then no amount is payable under this Section 9(a)(ii)(C).

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, and in addition to Employer’s remedies set forth in Section 8(e), all such payments and benefits under Section 9(a) otherwise to be made after Executive’s termination of employment shall cease to be paid, and Employer shall have no further obligation with respect thereto, in the event Executive, without the consent of Employer, engages in any activity prohibited by Section 8.

 

(b)           Modified Cutback of Compensation Deemed to be Contingent on a Change of Control.  If any benefits or payments are to be made under the terms of this Agreement or any other agreement between Executive and Employer following a transaction that constitutes a change in the ownership or effective control of Employer or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of Employer such that the provisions of Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any regulations thereunder (“Code Section 280G”) or Section 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code and any regulations thereunder could potentially apply to such compensation, then the following provisions shall be applicable:

 

(i)            In the event the independent accountants serving as auditors for Employer on the date of a change of control within the meaning of Code Section 280G (or any other accounting firm designated by Employer) determine that some or all of the payments or benefits scheduled under this Agreement, as well as any other payments or benefits on such change of control, would be nondeductible by Employer under Code Section 280G, then the payments scheduled under this Agreement and all other agreements between Executive and Employer will be reduced to one dollar less than the maximum amount which may be paid without causing any such payment or benefit to be nondeductible.  Any reduction of benefits or payments required to be made under this Section 9(b)(i) shall be taken in the following order: first from cash compensation and then from payments or benefits not payable in cash, in each case in reverse order beginning with payments or benefits which are to be paid the farthest in time from the date of determination.

 

(ii)           Notwithstanding the foregoing Section 9(b)(i), in the event the independent accountants serving as auditors for Employer on the date of a change of control within the meaning of Code Section 280G (or any other accounting firm designated

 

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by Employer) determine that the net economic benefit to Executive after payment of all income and excise taxes is greater without giving effect to Section 9(b)(i) than Executive’s net economic benefit after a reduction by reason of the application of Section 9(b)(i), then Section 9(b)(i) shall be a nullity and without any force or effect.  Any decisions regarding the requirement or implementation of the reductions to compensation described in Section 9(b)(i) shall be made by the independent accountants serving as auditors for Employer on the date of a change of control within the meaning of Code Section 280G (or any other accounting firm designated by Employer), shall be made at Employer’s expense and shall be binding on the parties.

 

(c)           Superseding Provisions.  The benefits and payments set forth in Section 9(a) that may be due in connection with a Change of Control shall supersede all payments, entitlements and benefits of Executive otherwise payable under Section 7(a).  The benefits and payments due under Section 9(a) replace those in Section 7(a), and are not cumulative thereof.

 

(d)           For Cause; Other Than for Good Reason.  If Executive’s employment is terminated for Cause or if Executive voluntarily terminates Executive’s employment other than for Good Reason, within two (2) years after a Change of Control, this Agreement shall terminate without any further obligation of Employer to Executive other than the payment to Executive of the Accrued Obligations.

 

10.          Change of Control Defined.  For purposes of this Agreement, a “Change of Control” occurs if (a) any person, including persons acting as a group, as defined in Treasury Regulation § 1.409A-3(i)(5), becomes the owner or beneficial owner of securities of Employer having more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the then outstanding securities of Employer that may be cast for the election of Employer’s directors other than a result of an issuance of securities initiated by Employer, or open market purchases approved by the Board of Directors, as long as the majority of the Board of Directors approving the purchases constitutes a majority of the Board of Directors at the time the purchases are made; or (b) during any twelve-month period, a majority of the Board of Directors is replaced by directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the Board of Directors before the date of the appointment or election. For purposes of this Agreement, a Change of Control occurs on the date on which an event described in (a) — (b) occurs.  If a Change of Control occurs on account of a series of transactions or events, the Change of Control occurs on the date of the last of such transactions or events.  The above definition of Change of Control is intended to, and shall be interpreted and applied in a manner as to, comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any regulations thereunder (“Code Section 409A”).

 

11.          Documents.  All documents, records, tapes and other media of any kind or description relating to the business of Employer or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries (the “Documents”), whether or not prepared by Executive, shall be the sole and exclusive property of Employer.  The Documents (and any copies) shall be returned to Employer upon Executive’s termination of employment for any reason or at such earlier time or times as the Board of Directors of Employer or its designee may specify.

 

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12.          Suspension or Temporary Prohibition of Services; Permanent Prohibition of Services.  If Executive is suspended and/or temporarily prohibited from participating in the conduct of Employer’s affairs by a notice served pursuant to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, Employer’s obligations under this Agreement shall be suspended as of the date of service unless stayed by appropriate proceedings.  If the charges in the notice are dismissed, Employer may in its discretion (a) pay Executive all or part of the compensation withheld while its contract obligations were suspended, and (b) reinstate (in whole or in part) any of its obligations which were suspended.  If Executive is removed and/or permanently prohibited from participating in the conduct of Employer’s affairs by an order issued under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act or the Code of Virginia, all obligations of Employer under this Agreement shall terminate as of the effective date of the order, but vested rights of the parties shall not be affected.

 

13.          Severability/Breach Not Excuse Performance.  If any provision of this Agreement, or part thereof, is determined to be unenforceable for any reason whatsoever, it shall be severable from the remainder of this Agreement and shall not invalidate or affect the other provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect and shall be enforceable according to their terms.  No covenant shall be dependent upon any other covenant or provision herein, each of which stands independently.  No breach of this Agreement by Employer shall excuse Executive’s obligations under Section 8.

 

14.          Governing Law/Venue.  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia.  The parties further agree that venue in the event of a dispute shall be exclusively in the Circuit Court of the City of Fredericksburg, or the applicable federal court encompassing that jurisdiction, at the sole option of Employer, and Executive agrees not to object to venue.

 

15.          Notices.  All written notices required by this Agreement shall be deemed given when delivered personally or sent by overnight or registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the parties at the following addresses (or to such other address as the party entitled to notice shall hereafter designate in accordance with the terms hereof):

 

To Employer:                                                                     Chief Executive Officer

Virginia Partners Bank

410 William Street

Fredericksburg, VA  22401

 

To Executive:                                                                    At Executive’s home address as shown on the records of Employer.

 

16.          Amendment and Termination of Agreement.  This Agreement may not be varied, altered, modified or in any way amended except by an instrument in writing executed by the parties hereto or their legal representatives.  Except as specifically set forth herein, including pursuant to the provisions of Section 6 above, this Agreement may not be terminated except by an instrument in writing executed by the parties hereto or their legal representatives, provided, however, and notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Employer or its successor has the unilateral right to terminate this Agreement and pay out the full value of all

 

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benefits hereunder in one lump sum payment in connection with a Change of Control pursuant to, and in compliance with, Treasury Regulation § 1.409A-3(j)(4)(ix)(B).

 

17.          Binding Effect.  This Agreement shall be binding upon Executive and on Employer, its successors and assigns on the Effective Date, subject to the approval by the Board of Directors of Employer.  Employer will require any successor to all or substantially all of the business, stock or assets of Employer to assume expressly and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that Employer would be required to perform it if no such succession had taken place.  This Agreement shall be freely assignable by Employer.

 

18.          No Construction Against Any Party.  This Agreement is the product of informed negotiations between Executive and Employer.  If any part of this Agreement is deemed to be unclear or ambiguous, it shall be construed as if it were drafted jointly by all parties.  Executive and Employer agree that neither party was in a superior bargaining position regarding the substantive terms of this Agreement.

 

19.          Code Section 409A Compliance.

 

(a)           The intent of the parties is that payments and benefits under this Agreement comply with Code Section 409A or comply with an exemption from the application of Code Section 409A and, accordingly, all provisions of this Agreement shall be construed in a manner consistent with the requirements for avoiding taxes or penalties under Code Section 409A.

 

(b)           A termination of employment shall not be deemed to have occurred for purposes of any provision of this Agreement providing for the form or timing of payment of any amounts or benefits upon or following a termination of employment unless such termination is also a “separation from service” (within the meaning of Code Section 409A) and, for purposes of any such provision of this Agreement under which (and to the extent) deferred compensation subject to Code Section 409A is paid, references to a “termination” or “termination of employment” or like references shall mean separation from service. A “separation from service” shall not occur under Code Section 409A unless such Executive has completely severed Executive’s relationship with Employer or Executive has permanently decreased Executive’s services to twenty percent (20%) or less of the average level of bona fide services over the immediately preceding thirty-six (36) month period (or the full period if Executive has been providing services for less than thirty-six (36) months). A leave of absence shall only trigger a termination of employment that constitutes a separation from service at the time required under Code Section 409A.  If Executive is deemed on the date of separation from service with Employer to be a “specified employee”, within the meaning of that term under Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B) and using the identification methodology selected by Employer from time to time, or if none, the default methodology, then with regard to any payment or benefit that is required to be delayed for six (6) months in compliance with Code Section 409A(a)(2)(B), such payment or benefit shall be paid with interest on the earlier of (i) the first day of the seventh (7th) month measured from the date of Executive’s separation from service or (ii) the date of Executive’s death.  The amount of interest to be paid shall be based on the prime rate of interest in effect on the first day of the month following the Executive’s separation from service as reported in the Wall Street Journal.  In the

 

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case of benefits required to be delayed under Code Section 409A, however, Executive may pay the cost of benefit coverage, and thereby obtain benefits, during such six (6) month delay period and then be reimbursed by Employer thereafter on the first day of the seventh (7th) month following the date of Executive’s separation from service or, if earlier, on the date of Executive’s death.

 

(c)                                  With regard to any provision herein that provides for reimbursement of expenses or in-kind benefits subject to Code Section 409A, except as permitted by Code Section 409A, (i) the right to reimbursement or in-kind benefits is not subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit, and (ii) the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits, provided during any taxable year shall not affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefits to be provided, in any other taxable year, provided that the foregoing clause (ii) shall not be violated with regard to expenses reimbursed under any arrangement covered by Code Section 105(b) solely because such expenses are subject to a limit related to the period the arrangement is in effect. All reimbursements shall be reimbursed in accordance with Employer’s reimbursement policies but in no event later than the calendar year following the calendar year in which the related expense is incurred.

 

(d)                                 If under this Agreement, an amount is to be paid in two or more installments, for purposes of Code Section 409A, each installment shall be treated as a separate payment.

 

(e)                                  When, if ever, a payment under this Agreement specifies a payment period with reference to a number of days (e.g., “payment shall be made within ten (10) days following the date of termination”), the actual date of payment within the specified period shall be within the sole discretion of Employer.  In the event any payment payable upon termination of employment would be exempt from Code Section 409A under Treasury Regulation § 1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii) but for the amount of such payment, the determination of the payments to Executive that are exempt under such provision shall be made by applying the exemption to payments based on chronological order beginning with the payments paid closest in time on or after such termination of employment.

 

(f)                                   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, Executive shall be solely liable, and Employer shall not be liable in any way to Executive if any payment or benefit which is to be provided pursuant to this Agreement and which is considered deferred compensation subject to Code Section 409A otherwise fails to comply with, or be exempt from, the requirements of Code Section 409A.

 

20.                               Regulatory Limitation.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, neither Employer nor any subsidiary shall be obligated to make, and Executive shall have no right to receive, any payment, benefit or amount under this Agreement that would violate any law, regulation or regulatory order applicable to Employer or the subsidiary at the time such payment is due, including without limitation, any regulation or order of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.  Executive agrees that compliance by Employer with such regulatory restrictions, even to the extent that compensation or other benefits paid to Executive are limited, shall not be a breach of this Agreement by Employer.

 

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21.                               Waiver of Breach.  The failure at any time to enforce or exercise any right under any of the provisions of this Agreement or to require at any time performance by the other parties of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall in no way be construed to be a waiver of such provisions or to affect either the validity of this Agreement or any part of this Agreement, or the right of any party hereafter to enforce or exercise its rights under each and every provision in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

22.                               No Attachment.  Except as required by law, no right to receive payments under this Agreement shall be subject to anticipation, commutation, alienation, sale, assignment, encumbrance, charge, pledge or hypothecation or to execution, attachment, levy or similar process or assignment by operation of law, and any attempt, voluntary or involuntary, to effect any such action shall be null, void and of no effect; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 22 shall preclude the assumption of such rights by executors, administrators or other legal representatives of Executive or Executive’s estate and their assigning any rights under this Agreement to the person or persons entitled hereto.

 

23.                               Full Capacity.  The persons signing this Agreement represent that they have full authority and representative capacity to execute this Agreement in the capacities indicated below and to perform all obligations under this Agreement.

 

24.                               Representation and Warranty of Executive.  Executive represents and warrants to Employer that Executive is not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise, to any other firm or corporation, which would prevent Executive from entering into the employ of Employer under this Agreement or prevent Executive from performing the terms of this Agreement.

 

25.                               Entire Agreement.  Except as otherwise provided herein, this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the matters addressed herein and, upon the Effective Date, it supersedes all other prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, express or implied, with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement, including but not limited to the Change of Control Agreement, made effective as of April 10, 2018, by and between Employer and Executive, which shall be terminated immediately before the Effective Date.

 

26.                               Survivability.  The provisions of Section 8 shall survive the termination, expiration or non-renewal of this Agreement.

 

27.                               Counterparts/Facsimile.  This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (including by facsimile), each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

28.                               Case and Gender.  Wherever required by the context of this Agreement, the singular or plural case and the masculine, feminine and neuter genders shall be interchangeable.

 

29.                               Title.  The titles and sub-headings of each Section and Sub-Section in this Agreement are for convenience only and should not be considered part of this Agreement to aid in interpretation or construction.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the dates below.

 

 

	
Date:
    	
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/s/ J. Adam   Sothen
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
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President and   Chief Executive Officer
    

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

RELEASE

 

In consideration of the benefits promised in the Employment Agreement to which this Release is attached as Exhibit A (and further defined below), J. ADAM SOTHEN (“Executive”), hereby irrevocably and unconditionally releases, acquits, and forever discharges Virginia Partners Bank, and each of its agents, directors, members, shareholders, affiliated entities, officers, employees, former employees, attorneys, and all persons acting by, through, under or in concert with any of them (collectively “Releasees”) from any and all charges, complaints, claims, liabilities, grievances, obligations, promises, agreements, controversies, damages, policies, actions, causes of action, suits, rights, demands, costs, losses, debts and expenses of any nature whatsoever, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, including, but not limited to, any rights arising out of alleged violations or breaches of any contracts, express or implied, or any tort, or any legal restrictions on Releasees’ right to terminate employees, or any federal, state or other governmental statute, regulation, law or ordinance, including without limitation  (1) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Civil Rights Act of 1991; (2) the Americans with Disabilities Act; (3) 42 U.S.C. § 1981; (4) the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (age discrimination); (5) the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act; (6) the Equal Pay Act; (7) the Family and Medical Leave Act; and (8) the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“Claim” or “Claims”), which Executive now has, owns or holds, or claims to have, own or hold, or which Executive at any time heretofore had owned or held, or claimed to have owned or held, against each or any of the Releasees at any time up to and including the date of the execution of this Release.

 

Executive hereby acknowledges and agrees that the execution of this Release and the cessation of Executive’s employment and all actions taken in connection therewith are in compliance with the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act and that the releases set forth above shall be applicable, without limitation, to any claims brought under these Acts.  Executive further acknowledges and agrees that:

 

a.                                      The Release given by Executive is given solely in exchange for the benefits set forth in the Employment Agreement dated as of December 1, 2018 between Virginia Partners Bank and Executive (the “Employment Agreement”) to which this Release was initially attached and such consideration is in addition to anything of value which Executive was entitled to receive prior to entering into this Release;

 

b.                                      By entering into this Release, Executive does not waive rights or claims that may arise after the date this Release is executed;

 

c.                                       Executive has been advised to consult an attorney prior to entering into this Release, and this provision of the Release satisfies the requirements of the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act that Executive be so advised in writing;

 

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d.                                      Executive has been offered twenty-one (21) days [or forty-five (45) days if applicable] from receipt of this Release within which to consider whether to sign this Release; and

 

e.                                       For a period of seven (7) days following Executive’s execution of this Release, Executive may revoke this Release by delivering the revocation to the Chief Executive Officer of Virginia Partners Bank, and it shall not become effective or enforceable until such seven (7) day period has expired.

 

This Release shall be binding upon the heirs and personal representatives of Executive and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of Virginia Partners Bank.

 

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
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Ex. A-3atec-ex1020_211.htm

 

Exhibit 10 20

Execution Version

EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT, SECURITY AND

GUARANTY AGREEMENT

This EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT, SECURITY AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of this 6th day of November, 2018, by and among ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Alphatec Holdings”), ALPHATEC SPINE, INC., a California corporation (“Alphatec Spine”), SAFEOP SURGICAL, INC., a Delaware corporation (“SafeOp”; together with Alphatec Holdings and Alphatec Spine, each being referred to herein individually as a “Borrower”, and collectively as “Borrowers”), MIDCAP FUNDING IV TRUST (as Agent for Lenders, “Agent”), and MIDCAP FUNDING IV TRUST, individually, as a Lender, and the other financial institutions or other entities from time to time parties to the Credit Agreement referenced below, each as a Lender.

RECITALS

A.          Agent, Lenders and Borrowers are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of August 30, 2013, as amended by the First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of March 17, 2014, the Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of July 10, 2015, the Third Amendment and Waiver to Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of March 11, 2016, by the Fourth Amendment and Waiver to Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2016, by the Consent and Fifth Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of September 1, 2016, by the Sixth Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2017 and by the Consent, Joinder and Omnibus Seventh Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of March 8, 2018 (and as further amended, modified, supplemented and restated from time to time prior to the date hereof, the “Original Credit Agreement” and as the same is amended hereby and as it may be further amended, modified, supplemented and restated from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the Lenders have agreed to make certain advances of money and to extend certain financial accommodations to Borrowers and certain of their Affiliates in the amounts and manner set forth in the Credit Agreement.

B.          Borrowers desire to enter into the terms of that certain Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among Alphatec Holdings, Alphatec Spine, SafeOp, the other Credit Parties (as defined therein), and Squadron Medical Finance Solutions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Squadron”), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A (as in effect on the date hereof, the “Squadron Credit Agreement”) which shall be used in part to pay the Globus Debt in full in cash (the “Globus Payoff”), which payoff, but for the consent set forth in this Agreement, would be prohibited under Section 5.5 of the Original Credit Agreement.

C.          Borrowers desire to enter into the terms of that certain Inventory Financing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among Structure Medical, LLC, a Florida limited liability company and Alphatec Spine, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B (as in effect on the date hereof, the “Structure Medical Debt”) for the purpose of financing the manufacture of certain medical products or components thereof, which, but for the consent set forth in this Agreement, would be prohibited under Section 5.1 of the Original Credit Agreement.

D.          Borrowers have requested, and Agent and the Lenders have agreed, to amend the Original Credit Agreement to amend certain terms of the Original Credit Agreement to, among other things, (i) permit Borrowers to enter into the Squadron Credit Agreement and to incur certain Debt and grant certain Liens pursuant to the terms thereof; (ii) amend certain definitions and terms of the Original Credit Agreement, including but not limited to certain provisions set forth in Article 6 of the Original Credit Agreement; (iii) consent to the Globus Payoff, all on the terms and conditions set forth herein; and (iv) consent to the Structure Medical Debt, all on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

 

 

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Agent, the Lenders and Borrowers hereby agree as follows:

1.          Recitals. This Agreement shall constitute a Financing Document and the Recitals and each reference to the Credit Agreement in the Original Credit Agreement, unless otherwise expressly noted, will be deemed to reference the Credit Agreement as amended hereby. The Recitals set forth above shall be construed as part of this Agreement as if set forth fully in the body of this Agreement and capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Original Credit Agreement (including those capitalize terms used in the Recitals hereto).

2.          Limited Consent. At the request of and as an accommodation to the Borrowers, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, including without limitation, the terms set forth in Section 6, Agent and Lenders, (a) notwithstanding anything contained in the Globus Intercreditor Agreement to the contrary, hereby consent to the Globus Payoff, and (b) hereby consent to the Structure Medical Debt. The consents set forth in this Section 2 are effective solely for the purposes set forth herein and shall be limited precisely as written and shall not be deemed to (a) be a consent to any amendment, waiver or modification of any other term or condition of the Credit Agreement or any other Financing Document; (b) prejudice any right that Agent or Lenders have or may have in the future under or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Financing Document; (c) constitute a consent to or waiver of any past, present or future Default or Event of Default or other violation of any provisions of the Credit Agreement or any other Financing Documents, (d) create any obligation to forbear from taking any enforcement action, or to make any further extensions of credit or (e) establish a custom or course of dealing among any of the Credit Parties, on the one hand, or Agent or any Lender, on the other hand.

3.          Amendment to Original Credit Agreement. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the conditions to effectiveness set forth in Section 6 below, the Original Credit Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

(a)          Clause (u) of the definition of “Domestic Eligible Account” in Section 1.1 of the Original Credit Agreement thereof is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

“(u)          the Account arises out of the sale of any Inventory upon which any other Person holds, claims or asserts a Lien (other than Liens permitted pursuant to clause (l) of the definition of "Permitted Liens")."

(b)          The definition of “Operative Documents” in Section 1.1 of the Original Credit Agreement thereof is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

“Operative Documents” means (i) at all times on and after the Closing Date (including at all times after the Eighth Amendment Effective Date), the Financing Documents, Subordinated Debt Documents, and all documents effecting any purchase or sale or other transaction that is closing contemporaneously with the closing of the financing under this Agreement on the Closing Date, (ii) at all times on and after the Fifth Amendment Effective Date, the Fifth Amendment, and all documents effecting the purchase or sale or other transaction that is closing on or about the Fifth Amendment Effective Date and (iii) at all times on and after the Eighth Amendment Effective Date, the Eighth Amendment, the Squadron Credit Agreement, the Inventory Financing Agreement and all documents effecting the purchase or sale or other transaction that is closing on or about the Eighth Amendment Effective Date.

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(c)          The definition of “Permitted Investments” in Section 1.1 of the Original Credit Agreement thereof is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

“Permitted Investments” means: (a) Investments shown on Schedule 5.7 and existing on the Closing Date; (b) cash and cash equivalents; (c) Investments consisting of the endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the Ordinary Course of Business; (d) Investments consisting of travel advances and employee relocation loans and other employee loans and advances in the Ordinary Course of Business, but the aggregate of all such loans outstanding may not exceed $250,000 at any time; (e) Investments (including debt obligations) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of customers or suppliers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers or suppliers arising in the Ordinary Course of Business; (f) Investments consisting of notes receivable of, or prepaid royalties and other credit extensions, to customers and suppliers who are not Affiliates, in the Ordinary Course of Business, provided, however, that this subpart (f) shall not apply to Investments of Borrowers in any Subsidiary; (g) Investments consisting of deposit accounts in which Agent has received a Deposit Account Control Agreement; (h) Investments by any Borrower in any other Borrower made in compliance with Section 4.11(c); (i) Investments constituting Permitted Intercompany Advances; and (j) other cash Investments in an amount not exceeding $500,000 in the aggregate.

(d)          The following definitions hereby are hereby added to Section 1.1 of the Original Credit Agreement in alphabetical order:

“Eighth Amendment” means that certain Eighth Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 6, 2018, among Borrowers, Agent and Lenders.

“Eighth Amendment Effective Date” means the first date on which all of the conditions set forth in Section 6 of the Eighth Amendment are satisfied.

“Squadron” means Squadron Medical Finance Solutions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and their permitted successors and assigns as “Lenders” under the Squadron Credit Agreement.

“Squadron Debt” means Debt incurred pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Squadron Credit Agreement in a principal amount not to exceed $35,000,000.

“Squadron Credit Agreement” means: (a) that certain Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement dated as of November 6, 2018, by and among Alphatec Holdings, Alphatec Spine, SafeOp, the other Credit Parties (as defined therein), and Squadron Medical Finance Solutions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, without giving effect to any amendment, supplement, restatement or other modification thereto other than those made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and (b) the ancillary agreements and documents, other than any warrants issued in connection therewith, entered into by Borrowers and Squadron in connection therewith, in each case, true and complete copies of which have been provided to Agent..

“Squadron Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of November 6, 2018, between Agent and Squadron, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, pursuant to which the Squadron Debt and the Liens securing the Squadron Debt granted by any Borrower to Squadron are subordinated to the Obligations and the Liens created under the Security Documents.

“Structure Medical Debt” means the Debt payable under the terms of that certain Inventory Financing Agreement, dated as of November 6, 2018 (the "Inventory Financing Agreement"), between Structure Medical, LLC, a Florida limited liability company and Alphatec Spine.

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(e)          The definitions of "Globus", "Globus Debt", "Globus Facility Agreement" and "Globus Intercreditor Agreement" are hereby deleted from Section 1.1 of the Original Credit Agreement and each reference to "Globus Debt", "Globus Facility Agreement" and "Globus Intercreditor Agreement" contained elsewhere in the Original Credit Agreement shall be replaced with a reference to "Squadron Debt", "Squadron Credit Agreement" and "Squadron Intercreditor Agreement", respectively.

(f)          Section 2.1(a)(ii)(B)(i) of the Original Credit Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the amount “$25,000” with “$250,000”.

(g)          Section 6.1 of the Original Credit Agreement is hereby amended by amending and restating the definition of “Defined Period” in its entirety, to read as follows:

“Defined Period” means, for purposes of calculating the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, for (a) each of the months ending April 30, 2020, May 31, 2020, June 30, 2020, July 31, 2020, August 31, 2020, September 30, 2020, October 31, 2020, November 30, 2020, December 31, 2020, January 31, 2021 and February 28, 2021, the respective one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven month period immediately preceding such month end date (which period shall include the month in which the respective month end date occurs), and (b) each month thereafter, the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding such month.

(h)          The defined term “Permitted Debt” in Section 1.1 of the Original Credit Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the word “and” immediately preceding the clause (j) thereof and the period at the end of clause (j) and adding a new clause (k) as follows:

“and (k) Structure Medical Debt.”

(i)          Section 6.2 of the Original Credit Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the date “March 31, 2019” with “March 31, 2020”.

(j)          Section 6.3 of the Original Credit Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the date “April 30, 2019” with “April 30, 2020”.

4.          Representations and Warranties; Reaffirmation of Security Interest; Updated Schedules. Each Borrower hereby (a) confirms that all of the representations and warranties set forth in the Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty) with respect to such Borrower as of the date hereof except to the extent that any such representation or warranty relates to a specific date in which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct as of such earlier date, and (b) covenants to perform its respective obligations under the Credit Agreement. Each Borrower confirms and agrees that all security interests and Liens granted to Agent continue in full force and effect, and all Collateral remains free and clear of any Liens, other than Permitted Liens. Except as specifically provided in this Agreement, nothing herein is intended to impair or limit the validity, priority or extent of Agent’s security interests in and Liens on the Collateral. Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Credit Agreement, the other Financing Documents and this Agreement constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of each Borrower, and are enforceable against each Borrower in accordance with their terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles.

5.          Costs and Fees. Borrowers shall be responsible for the payment of all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and fees of Agent’s counsel incurred in connection with the preparation of this Agreement and any related documents. If Agent or any Lender uses in-house counsel for any of these purposes, Borrowers further agree that the Obligations include reasonable charges for such work commensurate with the fees that would otherwise be charged by outside legal counsel selected by Agent or such Lender for the work performed.

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6.          Conditions to Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective as of the date on which each of the following conditions has been satisfied:

(a)          Borrowers shall have delivered to Agent (i) this Agreement and (ii) that certain Eighth Amendment Fee Letter, dated as of the Eighth Amendment Effective Date, in each case, duly executed by an authorized officer of each Borrower;

(b)          (i) Agent shall have received executed copies of the Squadron Credit Agreement and all other schedules, documents or instruments and all other material ancillary agreements, instruments and documents to be executed or delivered in connection therewith and (ii) all conditions precedent (other than the effectiveness of this Agreement) to the effectiveness of the Squadron Credit Agreement shall have been satisfied or waived;

(c)          Agent shall have received the Squadron Intercreditor Agreement, duly executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto (other than Agent);

(d)          Agent shall have received evidence that the Globus Debt (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) shall have been paid in full in cash and the Globus Facility Agreement (as defined in the Original Credit Agreement) and each other ancillary agreement and document shall have been terminated and all Liens related thereto shall have been released;

(e)          all of the representations and warranties of Borrowers set forth in the herein and in the other Financing Documents are true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty) with respect to such Borrower as of the date hereof except to the extent that any such representation or warranty relates to a specific date in which case such representations and warranties were true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty) on and as of such date (and such parties’ delivery of their respective signatures hereto shall be deemed to be its certification thereof);

(f)          no Default or Event of Default shall exist under any of the Financing Documents (and such parties’ delivery of their respective signatures hereto shall be deemed to be its certification thereof);

(g)          Borrower shall have delivered such other documents, information, certificates, records, permits, and filings as the Agent may reasonably request; and

(h)          Agent shall have received from Borrowers all of the fees owing pursuant to this Agreement and the Eighth Amendment Fee Letter.

7.          Release. In consideration of the agreements of Agent and Lenders contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each Borrower, voluntarily, knowingly, unconditionally and irrevocably, with specific and express intent, for and on behalf of itself and all of its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, members, managers, predecessors, successors, and assigns, and each of their respective current and former directors, officers, shareholders, agents, and employees, and each of their respective predecessors, successors, heirs, and assigns (individually and collectively, the “Releasing Parties”) does hereby fully and completely release, acquit and forever discharge each of Agent, Lenders, and each their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, members, managers, shareholders, directors, officers and employees, and each of their respective predecessors, successors, heirs, and assigns (individually and collectively, the “Released Parties”), of and from any and all actions, causes of action, suits, debts, disputes, damages, claims, obligations, liabilities, costs, expenses and demands of any kind whatsoever, at law or in equity, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, vested or contingent, choate or inchoate, known or unknown that the Releasing Parties (or any of them) has against the Released Parties or any of them (whether directly or indirectly), based in whole or in part on facts, whether or not now known, existing on or before the Effective Date, that relate to, arise out of or otherwise are in connection with: (i) any or all of the Financing Documents or transactions contemplated thereby or any actions or omissions in connection therewith or (ii) any aspect of the dealings or relationships between or among any or all of the Borrowers, on the one hand, and any or all of the Released Parties, on the other hand, relating to any or all of the 

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documents, transactions, actions or omissions referenced in clause (i) hereof. Each Borrower acknowledges that the foregoing release is a material inducement to Agent’s and Lender’s decision to enter into this Agreement and agree to the modifications contemplated hereunder, and has been relied upon by Agent and Lenders in connection therewith.

8.          No Waiver or Novation. The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Agreement shall not, except as expressly provided in this Agreement, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of Agent, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of the Credit Agreement, the Financing Documents or any other documents, instruments and agreements executed or delivered in connection with any of the foregoing. Nothing herein is intended or shall be construed as a waiver of any existing Defaults or Events of Default under the Credit Agreement or other Financing Documents or any of Agent’s rights and remedies in respect of such Defaults or Events of Default. This Agreement (together with any other document executed in connection herewith) is not intended to be, nor shall it be construed as, a novation of the Credit Agreement.

9.          Affirmation. Except as specifically amended pursuant to the terms hereof, each Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Credit Agreement and all other Financing Documents (and all covenants, terms, conditions and agreements therein) shall remain in full force and effect, and are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects by Borrowers. Each Borrower covenants and agrees to comply with all of the terms, covenants and conditions of the Credit Agreement and the Financing Documents, notwithstanding any prior course of conduct, waivers, releases or other actions or inactions on Agent’s or any Lender’s part which might otherwise constitute or be construed as a waiver of or amendment to such terms, covenants and conditions. Each Borrower hereby agrees that (i) all representations and warranties of Borrowers contained in the Original Credit Agreement and the other Financing Documents are true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty) as of the date hereof (and such parties’ delivery of their respective signatures hereto shall be deemed to be its certification thereof), except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to a specific date, in which case such representations and warranties were true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier in the text of such representation or warranty) on and as of such date and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall exist under any of the Financing Documents (and each Borrower’s delivery of its signatures hereto shall be deemed to be its certification thereof). In consideration of the accommodations set forth herein, each Borrower hereby acknowledges, reaffirms, confirms and ratifies its prior pledge and grant to Agent, for its benefit and for the benefit of Lenders, a continuing general lien in, upon, and to the personal property set forth on Schedule 9.1 of the Credit Agreement, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, and expressly acknowledges that such lien and security interest secures the Obligations.

10.          Confidentiality. No Borrower will disclose the contents of this Agreement, the Credit Agreement or any of the other Financing Documents to any third party (including, without limitation, any financial institution or intermediary) without Agent’s prior written consent, other than to Borrowers’ officers and advisors on a need-to-know basis or as otherwise may be required by Law, including to any court or regulatory agency having jurisdiction over such Borrower. Each Borrower agrees to inform all such persons who receive information concerning this Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the other Financing Documents that such information is confidential and may not be disclosed to any other person except as may be required by Law, including to any court or regulatory agency having jurisdiction over such Borrower.

11.          Miscellaneous.

(a)          Reference to the Effect on the Credit Agreement. Upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, each reference in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement,” “hereunder,” “hereof,” “herein,” or words of similar import shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement, as amended by this Agreement. Except as specifically amended above, the Credit Agreement, and all other Financing Documents (and all covenants, terms, conditions and agreements therein), shall remain in full force and effect, and are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects by Borrowers.

(b)          Incorporation of Credit Agreement Provisions. The provisions contained in Section 11.6 (Indemnification) and Article 12 of the Credit Agreement are incorporated herein by reference to the same extent as if reproduced herein in their entirety.

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(c)          GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT, AND ALL MATTERS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO OR ARISING THEREFROM (WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW, TORT LAW OR OTHERWISE), SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES.

(d)          WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE FINANCING DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREBY AND AGREES THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY. EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND EACH LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS RELIED ON THE WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENTS, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN THEIR RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH BORROWER, AGENT AND EACH LENDER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF REVIEWING THIS JURY WAIVER WITH LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS.

(e)          Headings. Section headings in this Agreement are included for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose.

(f)          Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which when taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or by electronic mail delivery of an electronic version (e.g., .pdf or .tif file) of an executed signature page shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart hereof and shall bind the parties hereto.

(g)          Entire Agreement.   This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto and supersedes any and all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.

(h)          Severability. In case any provision of or obligation under this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any applicable jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

(i)          Successors/Assigns. This Agreement shall bind, and the rights hereunder shall inure to, the respective successors and assigns of the parties hereto, subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement and the other Financing Documents.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, intending to be legally bound, and intending that this document constitute an agreement executed under seal, the undersigned have executed this Agreement under seal as of the day and year first hereinabove set forth.

 

	
AGENT:
	
MIDCAP FUNDING IV TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust

	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
Apollo Capital Management, L.P.,

	
 
	
 
	
its investment manager

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
Apollo Capital Management GP, LLC,

	
 
	
 
	
its general partner

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
/s/ Maurice Amsellem
	
(SEAL)

	
 
	
Name:
	
Maurice Amsellem
	
 

	
 
	
Title:
	
Authorized Signatory
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
LENDERS
	
MIDCAP FUNDING IV TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust

	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
Apollo Capital Management, L.P.,
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
its investment manager
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
Apollo Capital Management GP, LLC,
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
its general partner
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
/s/ Maurice Amsellem
	
(SEAL)

	
 
	
Nacle:
	
Maurice Amsellem
	
 

	
 
	
Title:
	
Authorized Signatory
	
 

 

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MidCap I Alphatec I Eighth Amendment to A&R Credit Agreement

 

 

 

	
BORROWERS:
	
ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC.,

	
 
	
a Delaware cmporation

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
/s/ Jeff Black
	
(SEAL)

	
 
	
Name:
	
Jeff Black
	
 

	
 
	
Title:
	
Chief Financial Officer
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
ALPHATEC SPINE, INC., 

	
 
	
a California corporation

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
/s/ Jeff Black
	
(SEAL)

	
 
	
Name:
	
Jeff Black
	
 

	
 
	
Title:
	
Chief Financial Officer
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
SAFEOP SURGICAL, INC.,

	
 
	
a Delaware corporation

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
/s/ Jeff Black
	
(SEAL)

	
 
	
Name:
	
Jeff Black
	
 

	
 
	
Title:
	
Chief Financial Officer
	
 

 

 

 

 

MidCap I Alphatec I Eighth Amendment to A&R Credit Agreement

 

 

Exhibit A

Squadron Credit Agreement

(see attached)

 

SLC_3903132.5

\\DC - 039759/000002 - 12787061 v6

 

 

Execution Version

CREDIT, SECURITY AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT,

dated as of November 6, 2018,

by and among

ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC.,

ALPHATEC SPINE, INC., and

SAFEOP SURGICAL, INC.

each as a Borrower, and collectively as Borrowers,

the other Credit Parties party hereto,

and

SQUADRON MEDICAL FINANCE SOLUTIONS LLC

as Lender

 

 

 

 

Execution Version

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
 
	
 
	
Page

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 1 - DEFINITIONS
	
1

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 1.1
	
Certain Defined Terms
	
1

	
Section 1.2
	
Accounting Terms and Determinations
	
13

	
Section 1.3
	
Other Definitional and Interpretive Provisions
	
13

	
Section 1.4
	
Time is of the Essence
	
14

	
Section 1.5
	
Intercreditor Agreement
	
14

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 2 - LOAN
	
14

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 2.1
	
Term Loan
	
14

	
Section 2.2
	
Interest, Interest Calculations and Certain Fees.
	
16

	
Section 2.3
	
Term Note
	
16

	
Section 2.4
	
General Provisions Regarding Payment; Loan Account.
	
16

	
Section 2.5
	
Maximum Interest
	
17

	
Section 2.6
	
Appointment of Borrower Representative
	
17

	
Section 2.7
	
Joint and Several Liability; Rights of Contribution; Subordination and
	
 

	
 
	
Subrogation
	
18

	
Section 2.8
	
Termination; Restriction on Termination
	
19

	
Section 2.9
	
Closing Fee.
	
19

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 3 - REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	
20

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 3.1
	
Existence and Power
	
20

	
Section 3.2
	
Organization and Governmental Authorization; No Contravention
	
20

	
Section 3.3
	
Binding Effect
	
20

	
Section 3.4
	
Capitalization
	
20

	
Section 3.5
	
Financial Information
	
20

	
Section 3.6
	
Litigation
	
20

	
Section 3.7
	
Ownership of Property
	
21

	
Section 3.8
	
No Default
	
21

	
Section 3.9
	
Labor Matters
	
21

	
Section 3.10
	
Regulated Entities
	
21

	
Section 3.11
	
Margin Regulations
	
21

	
Section 3.12
	
Compliance With Laws; Anti-Terrorism Laws
	
21

	
Section 3.13
	
Taxes
	
21

	
Section 3.14
	
Compliance with ERISA
	
22

	
Section 3.15
	
Consummation of Operative Documents; Brokers
	
22

	
Section 3.16
	
Related Transactions
	
22

	
Section 3.17
	
Material Contracts
	
22

	
Section 3.18
	
Compliance with Environmental Requirements; No Hazardous Materials
	
23

	
Section 3.19
	
Intellectual Property
	
23

	
Section 3.20
	
Solvency
	
23

	
Section 3.21
	
Full Disclosure
	
23

	
Section 3.22
	
Interest Rate
	
24

	
Section 3.23
	
Subsidiaries
	
24

	
Section 3.24
	
Limited Offering of the Warrants
	
24

	
Section 3.25
	
Registration Right; Issuance Taxes.
	
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ARTICLE 4 - AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
	
24

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 4.1
	
Financial Statements and Other Reports
	
24

	
Section 4.2
	
Payment and Performance of Obligations
	
24

	
Section 4.3
	
Maintenance of Existence
	
25

	
Section 4.4
	
Maintenance of Property; Insurance.
	
25

	
Section 4.5
	
Compliance with Laws and Material Contracts
	
25

	
Section 4.6
	
Inspection of Property; Books and Records
	
26

	
Section 4.7
	
Use of Proceeds
	
26

	
Section 4.8
	
Estoppel Certificates
	
26

	
Section 4.9
	
Notices of Litigation and Defaults
	
26

	
Section 4.10
	
Hazardous Materials; Remediation.
	
26

	
Section 4.11
	
Further Assurances
	
27

	
Section 4.12
	
Power of Attorney
	
28

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 5 - NEGATIVE COVENANTS
	
28

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 5.1
	
Debt; Contingent Obligations
	
28

	
Section 5.2
	
Liens
	
28

	
Section 5.3
	
Restricted Distributions
	
28

	
Section 5.4
	
Restrictive Agreements
	
28

	
Section 5.5
	
Payments and Modifications of Subordinated Debt
	
28

	
Section 5.6
	
Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets; Change in Control
	
29

	
Section 5.7
	
Purchase of Assets, Investments
	
29

	
Section 5.8
	
Transactions with Affiliates
	
29

	
Section 5.9
	
Modification of Organizational Documents
	
29

	
Section 5.10
	
Modification of Certain Agreements
	
29

	
Section 5.11
	
Conduct of Business
	
29

	
Section 5.12
	
Lease Payments
	
29

	
Section 5.13
	
Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions
	
29

	
Section 5.14
	
Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws
	
29

	
Section 5.15
	
Orthotec Litigation
	
30

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 6 - FINANCIAL COVENANT
	
30

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 6.1
	
Additional Defined Terms
	
30

	
Section 6.2
	
Liquidity
	
30

	
Section 6.3
	
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
	
31

	
Section 6.4
	
Evidence of Compliance
	
31

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 7 - CONDITIONS
	
31

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 7.1
	
Conditions to Closing
	
31

	
Section 7.2
	
Searches
	
31

	
Section 7.3
	
Post-Closing Requirements
	
31

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 8 - REGULATORY MATTERS
	
31

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 8.1
	
Healthcare Permits.
	
31

	
Section 8.2
	
FDA Regulatory Matters
	
32

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 9 - SECURITY AGREEMENT
	
33

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 9.1
	
Generally.
	
33

	
Section 9.2
	
Representations and Warranties and Covenants Relating to Collateral.
	
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ARTICLE 10 - EVENTS OF DEFAULT
	
35

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 10.1
	
Events of Default
	
35

	
Section 10.2
	
Acceleration of Term Loan
	
37

	
Section 10.3
	
UCC Remedies
	
37

	
Section 10.4
	
Default Rate of Interest
	
38

	
Section 10.5
	
Application of Proceeds.
	
38

	
Section 10.6
	
Waivers.
	
39

	
Section 10.7
	
Injunctive Relief
	
40

	
Section 10.8
	
Marshalling; Payments Set Aside
	
40

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 11 - MISCELLANEOUS
	
41

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 11.1
	
Survival
	
41

	
Section 11.2
	
No Waivers
	
41

	
Section 11.3
	
Notices.
	
41

	
Section 11.4
	
Severability
	
41

	
Section 11.5
	
Headings
	
41

	
Section 11.6
	
Confidentiality
	
42

	
Section 11.7
	
Waiver of Consequential and Other Damages
	
42

	
Section 11.8
	
GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION.
	
42

	
Section 11.9
	
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
	
43

	
Section 11.10
	
Publication; Advertisement.
	
43

	
Section 11.11
	
Counterparts; Integration
	
43

	
Section 11.12
	
No Strict Construction
	
43

	
Section 11.13
	
Lender Approvals
	
43

	
Section 11.14
	
Expenses; Indemnity
	
44

	
Section 11.15
	
Payments
	
45

	
Section 11.16
	
Reinstatement
	
45

	
Section 11.17
	
Successors and Assigns
	
45

	
Section 11.18
	
USA PATRIOT Act Notification
	
45

	
Section 11.19
	
Right to Perform, Preserve and Protect
	
45

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
ARTICLE 12 - GUARANTY
	
46

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Section 12.1
	
Guaranty
	
46

	
Section 12.2
	
Payment of Amounts Owed
	
46

	
Section 12.3
	
Certain Waivers by Guarantor
	
46

	
Section 12.4
	
Guarantor’s Obligations Not Affected by Modifications of Financing Documents
	
47

	
Section 12.5
	
Reinstatement; Deficiency
	
48

	
Section 12.6
	
Subordination of Borrowers’ Obligations to Guarantors; Claims in Bankruptcy.
	
48

	
Section 12.7
	
Maximum Liability
	
48

	
Section 12.8
	
Guarantor’s Investigation
	
49

	
Section 12.9
	
Termination
	
49

	
Section 12.10
	
Representative
	
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CREDIT, SECURITY AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

THIS CREDIT, SECURITY AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT (as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Agreement”) is dated as of November 6, 2018, by and among ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation, ALPHATEC SPINE, INC., a California corporation, SAFEOP SURGICAL, INC., a Delaware corporation, and each additional borrower that may hereafter be added to this Agreement (each individually as a “Borrower”, and collectively as “Borrowers”), the other Credit Parties listed on the signature pages hereof, and SQUADRON MEDICAL FINANCE SOLUTIONS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company as lender (“Lender”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, in connection with the refinancing of the continued working capital and other needs of Borrowers and the other Credit Parties, Borrowers and the other Credit Parties have requested, among other things, that Lender make available to Borrowers a new term loan facility in the original principal amount of Thirty Five Million Dollars ($35,000,000); and

WHEREAS, Lender has agreed to the request of Borrowers and the other Credit Parties on the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the other Financing Documents.

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE 1 - DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1 Certain Defined Terms. The following terms have the following meanings:

“Acceleration Event” means the occurrence of an Event of Default (a) in respect of which Lender has declared all or any portion of the Obligations to be immediately due and payable pursuant to Section 10.2 and/or (b) pursuant to either Section 10.1(e) and/or Section 10.1(f).

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any Person that directly or indirectly controls such Person, (b) any Person which is controlled by or is under common control with such controlling Person, and (c) each of such Person’s (other than, with respect to Lender, Lender’s) officers or directors (or Persons functioning in substantially similar roles) and the spouses, parents, descendants and siblings of such officers, directors or other Persons. As used in this definition, the term “control” of a Person means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to vote five percent (5%) or more of any class of voting securities of such Person or to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

“Affiliated Financing Documents” means any credit, loan, letter of credit or related documents which are, by their terms and by the terms of this Agreement, cross-defaulted with the Financing Documents, and for which a Credit Party hereunder is liable or contingently liable for payment or as security for which a Credit Party hereunder has pledged, assigned or subjected any assets to Lender.

“Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any Laws relating to terrorism or money laundering, including, without limitation, Executive Order No. 13224 (effective September 24, 2001), the USA PATRIOT Act, the Laws comprising or implementing the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Laws administered by OFAC.

“Applicable Margin” means eight percent (8.00%).

“Asset Disposition” means any sale, lease, license, transfer, assignment or other consensual disposition by any Credit Party of any asset.

 

 

 

“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy”, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute thereto.

“Base Rate” means the per annum rate of interest announced, from time to time, within Wells Fargo at its principal office in San Francisco as its “prime rate,” with the understanding that the “prime rate” is one of Wells Fargo’s base rates (not necessarily the lowest of such 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 publications as Wells Fargo may designate; provided, however, that Lender may, upon prior written notice to Borrower Representative, choose a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the basis for the Base Rate.

“Blocked Person” means any Person: (a) listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (b) owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, any Person that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No.13224, (c) with which Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law, (d) that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports “terrorism” as defined in Executive Order No. 13224, or (e) that is named a “specially designated national” or “blocked person” on the most current list published by OFAC or other similar list or is named as a “listed person” or “listed entity” on other lists made under any Anti-Terrorism Law.

“Borrower” and “Borrowers” mean the entities described in the first paragraph of this Agreement and each of their successors and permitted assigns.

“Borrower Representative” means Holdings, in its capacity as Borrower Representative pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.6.

“Business Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which either the New York Stock Exchange is closed, or on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized by law to close.

“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C.A. § 9601 et seq., as the same may be amended from time to time.

“Change in Control” means any of the following events: (a) any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert shall have acquired beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, of, or shall have acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement that, upon consummation, will result in its or their acquisition of or control over, voting stock of any Borrower (or other securities convertible into such voting stock) representing 40% or more of the combined voting power of all voting stock of any Borrower; or (b) Holdings ceases to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the capital stock of any of its Subsidiaries; or (c) any “Change of Control”, “Change in Control”, or terms of similar import under any document or instrument governing or relating to Debt of or equity in such Person. As used herein, “beneficial ownership” shall have the meaning provided in Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

“Claim” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.3.

“Closing Date” means the date of this Agreement.

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

“Collateral” means all property, now existing or hereafter acquired, mortgaged or pledged to, or purported to be subjected to a Lien in favor of, Lender pursuant to this Agreement and the Security Documents, including, without limitation, all of the property described in Schedule 9.1 hereto.

“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate, duly executed by a Responsible Officer of Borrowers, appropriately completed and substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto.

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“Consolidated Subsidiary” means, at any date, any Subsidiary the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of Holdings (or any other Person, as the context may require hereunder) in its consolidated financial statements if such statements were prepared as of such date.

“Contingent Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect liability of such Person: (a) with respect to any Debt of another Person (a “Third Party Obligation”) if the purpose or intent of such Person incurring such liability, or the effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such Third Party Obligation that such Third Party Obligation will be paid or discharged, or that any agreement relating thereto will be complied with, or that any holder of such Third Party Obligation will be protected, in whole or in part, against loss with respect thereto; (b) with respect to any undrawn portion of any letter of credit issued for the account of such Person or as to which such Person is otherwise liable for the reimbursement of any drawing; (c) to make take-or-pay or similar payments if required regardless of nonperformance by any other party or parties to an agreement; or (d) for any obligations of another Person pursuant to any Guarantee or pursuant to any agreement to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire any obligation or any property constituting security therefor, to provide funds for the payment or discharge of such obligation or to preserve the solvency, financial condition or level of income of another Person. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be equal to the amount of the obligation so Guaranteed or otherwise supported or, if not a fixed and determinable amount, the maximum amount so Guaranteed or otherwise supported.

“Controlled Group” means all members of any group of corporations and all members of a group of trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together with any Borrower, are treated as a single employer under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or Section 4001(b) of ERISA.

“Copyright Security Agreement” means any Copyright Security Agreement executed and delivered by any Credit Party to Lender, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, as amended and in effect from time to time.

“Credit Exposure” means, at any time, any portion of the Term Loan Borrowing that remains outstanding; provided, however, that no Credit Exposure shall be deemed to exist solely due to the existence of contingent indemnification liability, absent the assertion of a claim, or the known existence of a claim reasonably likely to be asserted, with respect thereto. 

“Credit Party” means any Guarantor hereunder or under any other Guarantee of the Obligations or any part thereof, any Borrower and any other Person (other than Lender), whether now existing or hereafter acquired or formed, that becomes obligated as a borrower, guarantor, surety, indemnitor, pledgor, assignor or other obligor under any Financing Document and “Credit Parties” means all such Persons, collectively; provided that no Subsidiary of Holdings as of the Closing Date incorporated or organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any other political subdivision thereof shall be required to become a Credit Party.

“Debt” of a Person means at any date, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, except trade accounts payable arising and paid on a timely basis and in the Ordinary Course of Business, (d) all capital leases of such Person, (e) all non-contingent obligations of such Person to reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, (f) all equity securities of such Person subject to repurchase or redemption other than at the sole option of such Person, (g) all obligations secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such obligation is otherwise an obligation of such Person, (h) “earnouts”, purchase price adjustments, profit sharing arrangements, deferred purchase money amounts and similar payment obligations or continuing obligations of any nature of such Person arising out of purchase and sale contracts, (i) all Debt of others Guaranteed by such Person, (j) off-balance sheet liabilities and/or Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan liabilities of such Person, (k) obligations arising under non-compete agreements, and (l) obligations arising under bonus, deferred compensation, incentive compensation or similar arrangements, other than those arising in the Ordinary Course of Business. Without duplication of any of the foregoing, Debt of Borrowers shall include the Term Loan.

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

“Deficiency Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7(e).

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“Deposit Account” means a “deposit account” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC), an investment account, or other account in which funds are held or invested for credit to or for the benefit of any Borrower.

“Dollars” or “$” means the lawful currency of the United States.

“Environmental Laws” means any present and future federal, state and local laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations, standards, policies and other governmental directives or requirements, as well as common law, pertaining to the environment, natural resources, pollution, health (including any environmental clean-up statutes and all regulations adopted by any local, state, federal or other Governmental Authority, and any statute, ordinance, code, order, decree, law rule or regulation all of which pertain to or impose liability or standards of conduct concerning medical waste or medical products, equipment or supplies), safety or clean-up that apply to any Borrower and relate to Hazardous Materials, including, without limitation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. § 5101 et seq.), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq.), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. § 11001 et seq.), the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act (42 U.S.C.§ 4851 et seq.), any analogous state or local laws, any amendments thereto, and the regulations promulgated pursuant to said laws, together with all amendments from time to time to any of the foregoing and judicial interpretations thereof.

“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute thereto, and any and all rules or regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder.

“ERISA Plan” means any “employee benefit plan”, as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan), which any Borrower maintains, sponsors or contributes to, or, in the case of an employee benefit plan which is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, to which any Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group may have any liability, including any liability by reason of having been a substantial employer within the meaning of Section 4063 of ERISA at any time during the preceding five (5) years, or by reason of being deemed to be a contributing sponsor under Section 4069 of ERISA.

“Event of Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.1.

“FDA” means the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“Financing Documents” means this Agreement, the Term Note, the Security Documents, any subordination or intercreditor agreement pursuant to which any Debt and/or any Liens securing such Debt is subordinated to all or any portion of the Obligations and all other certificates, documents, instruments and agreements related to the Obligations and heretofore executed, executed concurrently herewith or executed at any time and from time to time hereafter, as any or all of the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Fiscal Quarter” means each three fiscal month period ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 or December 31.

“Forbearance Agreement” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.15.

“Fraudulent Conveyance” has the meaning set forth In Section 2.7(b).

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth from time to time in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.

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“General Intangible” means any “general intangible” as defined in Article 9 of the UCC, and any personal property, including things in action, other than accounts, chattel paper, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, documents, goods, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, letters of credit, money, and oil, gas or other minerals before extraction, but including payment intangibles and software.

“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, and any agency, department or Person exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government and any corporation or other Person owned or controlled (through stock or capital ownership or otherwise) by any of the foregoing, whether domestic or foreign.

“Guarantee” by any Person means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt or other obligation of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt or other obligation (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise), or (b) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Debt or other obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), provided, however, that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the Ordinary Course of Business. The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

“Guarantor” means any Credit Party that has executed or delivered, or shall in the future execute or deliver, this Agreement as a Guarantor or any Guarantee of any portion of the Obligations; provided that no Subsidiary of Holdings as of the Closing Date incorporated or organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States or any other political subdivision thereof shall be required to become a Guarantor. As of the Closing Date, no Credit Party is a Guarantor.

“Hazardous Materials” means petroleum and petroleum products and compounds containing them, including gasoline, diesel fuel and oil; explosives, flammable materials; radioactive materials; polychlorinated biphenyls and compounds containing them; lead and lead-based paint; asbestos or asbestos-containing materials; underground or above-ground storage tanks, whether empty or containing any substance; any substance the presence of which is prohibited by any Environmental Laws; toxic mold, any substance that requires special handling; and any other material or substance now or in the future defined as a “hazardous substance,” “hazardous material,” “hazardous waste,” “toxic substance,” “toxic pollutant,” “contaminant,” “pollutant” or other words of similar import within the meaning of any Environmental Law, including: (a) any “hazardous substance” defined as such in (or for purposes of) CERCLA, or any so-called “superfund” or “superlien” Law, including the judicial interpretation thereof; (b) any “pollutant or contaminant” as defined in 42 U.S.C.A. § 9601(33); (c) any material now defined as “hazardous waste” pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 260; (d) any petroleum or petroleum by-products, including crude oil or any fraction thereof; (e) natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel; (f) any “hazardous chemical” as defined pursuant to 29 C.F.R. Part 1910; (g) any toxic or harmful substances, wastes, materials, pollutants or contaminants (including, without limitation, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”), flammable explosives, radioactive materials, infectious substances, materials containing lead-based paint or raw materials which include hazardous constituents); and (h) any other toxic substance or contaminant that is subject to any Environmental Laws or other past or present requirement of any Governmental Authority.

“Hazardous Materials Contamination” means contamination (whether now existing or hereafter occurring) of the improvements, buildings, facilities, personalty, soil, groundwater, air or other elements on or of the relevant property by Hazardous Materials, or any derivatives thereof, or on or of any other property as a result of Hazardous Materials, or any derivatives thereof, generated on, emanating from or disposed of in connection with the relevant property.

“Healthcare Laws” means all applicable Laws relating to the possession, control, warehousing, marketing, sale, distribution procurement, development, manufacture, production, analysis, dispensing, importation, exportation, use, handling, quality, or promotion of any drug, medical device, food, dietary supplement, or other product (including, without limitation, any ingredient or component of the foregoing products) subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and similar state and foreign laws, controlled substances laws, pharmacy laws, or 

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consumer product safety laws, and all Laws pertaining to patient healthcare, patient healthcare information, rate setting, equipment, personnel, operating policies, fee splitting, or the like, as such Laws may be amended from time to time including all other applicable Laws, statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations.

“Healthcare Permit” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.2.

“Healthpoint” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.15.

“Holdings” means Alphatec Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

“Instrument” means “instrument”, as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Intellectual Property” means, with respect to any Person, all patents, patent applications and like protections, including improvements divisions, continuation, renewals, reissues, extensions and continuations in part of the same, trademarks, trade names, trade styles, trade dress, service marks, logos and other business identifiers and, to the extent permitted under applicable law, any applications therefore, whether registered or not, and the goodwill of the business of such Person connected with and symbolized thereby, copyright rights, copyright applications, copyright registrations and like protections in each work of authorship and derivative works, whether published or unpublished, technology, know- how and processes, operating manuals, trade secrets, computer hardware and software, rights to unpatented inventions and all applications and licenses therefor, used in or necessary for the conduct of business by such Person and all claims for damages by way of any past, present or future infringement of any of the foregoing.

“Inventory” means “inventory” as defined in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Inventory Financing Agreement” means that certain Inventory Financing Agreement dated as of the date hereof between Spine and Structure Medical and all amendments, supplements, restatements or modifications.

“Investment” means any investment in any Person, whether by means of acquiring (whether for cash, property, services, securities or otherwise), making or holding Debt, securities, capital contributions, loans, time deposits, advances, Guarantees or otherwise. The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus the cost of all additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect thereto.

“Laws” means any and all federal, state, provincial, territorial, local and foreign statutes, laws, judicial decisions, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, codes, injunctions, permits, governmental agreements and governmental restrictions, whether now or hereafter in effect, which are applicable to any Credit Party in any particular circumstance. “Laws” includes, without limitation, Healthcare Laws and Environmental Laws.

“Lender” means the entity described in the first paragraph of this Agreement and its successors and permitted assigns.

“LIBOR Rate” means one month LIBOR as reported in The Wall Street Journal as of any date of determination. The LIBOR Rate shall be determined as of the first Business Day of each month during the term of this Agreement and shall be the rate which is in effect for such month; provided, however that the LIBOR Rate for the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the last day of the month in which the Closing Date occurs, shall be the LIBOR Rate as of the Closing Date.

“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind, in respect of such asset. For the purposes of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents, any Borrower or any Subsidiary shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.

“Litigation” means any action, suit or proceeding before any court, mediator, arbitrator or Governmental Authority.

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“Loan Account” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.4(b).

“Material Adverse Effect” means with respect to any event, act, condition or occurrence of whatever nature (including any adverse determination in any litigation, arbitration, or governmental investigation or proceeding), whether singly or in conjunction with any other event or events, act or acts, condition or conditions, occurrence or occurrences, whether or not related, a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, any of (i) the condition (financial or otherwise), operations, business, properties or prospects of any of the Credit Parties, (ii) the rights and remedies of Lender under any Financing Document, or the ability of any Credit Party to perform any of its obligations under any Financing Document to which it is a party, (iii) the legality, validity or enforceability of any Financing Document, (iv) the existence, perfection or priority of any security interest granted in any Financing Document, (v) the value of any material Collateral, or (vi) the use or scope of any Healthcare Permits.

“Material Contracts” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.17.

“Maximum Lawful Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.5.

“Maximum Liability” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.7.

“MidCap” means, collectively, MidCap Financial, LLC, MidCap Funding IV, LLC, and their permitted successors and assigns as “Lenders” or as “Agent” under the MidCap Facility Agreement.

“MidCap Debt” means Debt incurred pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the MidCap Facility Agreement or any partial or complete refinancing or replacement thereof in a principal amount not to exceed $22,500,000.

“MidCap Facility Agreement” means: (a) that certain Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of August 30, 2013, as amended prior to and as of the date hereof, among Holdings, MidCap and the other parties party thereto and without giving effect to any further amendment, supplement, restatement or other modification thereto other than those made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and (b) the ancillary agreements and documents, other than any warrants issued in connection therewith, entered into by Holdings, the other parties party thereto and MidCap in connection therewith, in each case, true and complete copies of which have been provided to Lender.

“MidCap Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Intercreditor Agreement between Lender and any agent or lender with respect to the MidCap Debt, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any Borrower or any other member of the Controlled Group (or any Person who in the last five years was a member of the Controlled Group) is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or has within the preceding five plan years (as determined on the applicable date of determination) made contributions.

“Obligations” means all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness (monetary (including post- petition interest, whether or not allowed) or otherwise) of each Credit Party under this Agreement or any other Financing Document, in each case howsoever created, arising or evidenced, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, now or hereafter existing, or due or to become due.

“OFAC” means the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control.

“OFAC Lists” means, collectively, the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by OFAC pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, 66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (Sept. 25, 2001) and/or any other list of terrorists or other restricted Persons maintained pursuant to any of the rules and regulations of OFAC or pursuant to any other applicable Executive Orders.

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“Operative Documents” means the Financing Documents, the Warrants, the Registration Rights Agreement, MidCap Facility Agreement, Subordinated Debt Documents, Safari Acquisition Agreement and all documents effecting the acquisition of SafeOp and any documents effecting any purchase or sale or other transaction that is closing contemporaneously with the closing of the financing under this Agreement on the Closing Date.

“Ordinary Course of Business” means, in respect of any transaction involving any Credit Party, the ordinary course of business of such Credit Party, as conducted by such Credit Party in accordance with past practices.

“Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person other than a natural person, the documents by which such Person was organized (such as a certificate of incorporation, certificate of limited partnership or articles of organization, and including, without limitation, any certificates of designation for preferred stock or other forms of preferred equity) and which relate to the internal governance of such Person (such as by-laws, a partnership agreement or an operating, limited liability company or members agreement).

“Orthotec Litigation” means litigation matters in connection with, arising from, or related to Orthotec, LLC for which the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries face potential exposure (monetary or otherwise).

“Orthotec Forbearance Agreement” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.15.

“Orthotec Settlement Agreement” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.15.

“Orthotec Settlement Payments” means, collectively, all amounts paid or transferred (including cash, cash equivalents, assets and/or services) on or after the date hereof by or on behalf of the Credit Parties and/or their respective Subsidiaries in connection with any Orthotec, LLC matter (including the Orthotec Litigation).

“Patent Security Agreement” means any Patent Security Agreement executed and delivered by any Credit Party to Lender, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, as amended and in effect from time to time.

“Payment Acceleration Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.5.

“Payment Account” means the account specified on the signature pages hereof into which all payments by or on behalf of each Borrower to Lender under the Financing Documents shall be made, or such other account as Lender shall from time to time specify by notice to Borrower Representative.

“Payment Notification” means a written notification substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto.

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and any Person succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.

“Pension Plan” means any ERISA Plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA.

“Permits” means all governmental licenses, authorizations, provider numbers, supplier numbers, registrations, permits, drug or device authorizations and approvals, certificates, franchises, qualifications, accreditations, consents and approvals of a Credit Party required under all applicable Laws and required for such Credit Party in order to carry on its business as now conducted, including, without limitation, Healthcare Permits.

“Permitted Asset Dispositions” means the following Asset Dispositions, provided, however, that at the time of such Asset Disposition, no Default or Event of Default exists or would result from such Asset Disposition: (a) dispositions of Inventory in the Ordinary Course of Business and not pursuant to any bulk sale, (b) dispositions of furniture, fixtures and equipment in the Ordinary Course of Business that the applicable Borrower or Subsidiary determines in good faith is no longer used or useful in the business of such Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and (c) the non-exclusive license of patent rights granted to third parties in the Ordinary Course of Business for fair value consideration that does not result in a legal transfer of title to the licensed property.

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“Permitted Contest” means, with respect to any Tax obligation or other obligation allegedly or potentially owing from any Borrower or its Subsidiary to any Governmental Authority or other third party, a contest maintained in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted and with respect to which such reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made on the books and records and financial statements of the applicable Credit Party(ies); provided, however, that (a) compliance with the obligation that is the subject of such contest is effectively stayed during such challenge; (b) Borrowers’ and its Subsidiaries’ title to, and its right to use, the Collateral is not adversely affected thereby and Lender’s Lien and priority on the Collateral are not adversely affected, altered or impaired thereby; (c) Borrowers have given prior written notice to Lender of a Borrower’s or its Subsidiary’s intent to so contest the obligation; (d) the Collateral or any part thereof or any interest therein shall not be in any danger of being sold, forfeited or lost by reason of such contest by Borrowers or its Subsidiaries; and (e) upon a final determination of such contest, Borrowers and its Subsidiaries shall promptly comply with the requirements thereof.

“Permitted Contingent Obligations” means (a) Contingent Obligations arising in respect of the Debt under the Financing Documents; (b) Contingent Obligations resulting from endorsements for collection or deposit in the Ordinary Course of Business; (c) Contingent Obligations outstanding on the date of this Agreement and set forth on Schedule 5.1 (but not including any refinancings, extensions, increases or amendments to the indebtedness underlying such Contingent Obligations other than extensions of the maturity thereof without any other change in terms); (d) Contingent Obligations incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business with respect to surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other similar obligations not to exceed $250,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding; (e) Contingent Obligations arising under indemnity agreements with title insurers to cause such title insurers to issue to Lender mortgagee title insurance policies; (f) Contingent Obligations arising with respect to customary indemnification obligations in favor of purchasers in connection with dispositions of personal property assets permitted under Section 5.6; and (g) other Contingent Obligations not permitted by clauses (a) through (f) above, not to exceed $250,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.

“Permitted Debt” means: (a) Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’ Debt to Lender under this Agreement and the other Financing Documents; (b) Debt incurred as a result of endorsing negotiable instruments received in the Ordinary Course of Business; (c) purchase money Debt (other than purchase money Debt existing on the date of this Agreement and described on Schedule 5.1) not to exceed $2,000,000 at any time (whether in the form of a loan or a lease) used solely to acquire equipment used in the Ordinary Course of Business and secured only by such equipment; (d) Debt existing on the date of this Agreement and described on Schedule 5.1 (but not including any refinancings, extensions, increases or amendments to such Debt other than extensions of the maturity thereof without any other change in terms); (e) the MidCap Debt; (f) Debt in the form of insurance premiums financed through the applicable insurance company; (g) trade accounts payable arising and paid on a timely basis and in the Ordinary Course of Business; (h) Structure Medical Debt; (i) Subordinated Debt and (j) Permitted Intercompany Advances.

“Permitted Distributions” means: (a) dividends or other distributions by any Subsidiary of any Borrower to such parent Borrower; and (b) any repayments of or debt service on any Permitted Intercompany Advances described in clause (a), (b) or (d) of the definition thereof.

“Permitted Intercompany Advances” means loans, guarantees or other Investments made by (a) a Credit Party to another Credit Party, (b) a Subsidiary of Holdings that is not a Credit Party to another Subsidiary of Holdings that is not a Credit Party, (c) a Subsidiary of Holdings that is not a Credit Party to a Credit Party so long as such loan, guaranty or other Investment is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms and conditions acceptable to Lender, and (d) a Credit Party to a Subsidiary of Holdings that is not a Credit Party so long as the aggregate amount of all such loans, guarantees and Investments outstanding under this clause (d) does not exceed $200,000 (or such greater amount as Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion) per individual transaction, or $3,000,000 in the aggregate.

“Permitted Investments” means: (a) Investments shown on Schedule 5.7 and existing on the Closing Date; (b) cash and cash equivalents; (c) Investments consisting of the endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the Ordinary Course of Business; (d) Investments consisting of travel advances and employee relocation loans and other employee loans and advances in the Ordinary Course of Business, but the aggregate of all such loans outstanding may not exceed $250,000 at any time; (e) Investments (including debt obligations) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of customers or suppliers and in settlement 

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of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers or suppliers arising in the Ordinary Course of Business; (f) Investments consisting of notes receivable of, or prepaid royalties and other credit extensions, to customers and suppliers who are not Affiliates, in the Ordinary Course of Business, provided, however, that this subpart (f) shall not apply to Investments of Borrowers in any Subsidiary; (g) Investments consisting of deposit accounts; (h) Investments by any Borrower in any other Borrower made in compliance with Section

4.11(c); (i) Investments constituting Permitted Intercompany Advances; (j) Investments consisting of accounts receivables from Affiliates resulting from the sale of inventory to such Affiliates in the Ordinary Course of Business, so long as such sales are otherwise permitted pursuant to clause (y) of Section 5.8; (k) other Investments in an amount not exceeding $500,000 in the aggregate and (l) “Permitted Investments” as defined in the MidCap Facility Agreement.

“Permitted Liens” means: (a) deposits or pledges of cash to secure obligations under workmen’s compensation, social security or similar laws, or under unemployment insurance (but excluding Liens arising under ERISA) pertaining to a Borrower’s or its Subsidiary’s employees, if any; (b) deposits or pledges of cash to secure bids, tenders, contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money or the deferred purchase price of property or services), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds and other obligations of like nature arising in the Ordinary Course of Business; (c) carrier’s, warehousemen’s, mechanic’s, workmen’s, materialmen’s or other like Liens on Collateral arising in the Ordinary Course of Business with respect to obligations which are not due, or which are being contested pursuant to a Permitted Contest; (d) Liens on Collateral for Taxes or other governmental charges not at the time delinquent or thereafter payable without penalty or the subject of a Permitted Contest; (e) attachments, appeal bonds, judgments and other similar Liens on Collateral, for sums not exceeding $100,000 in the aggregate arising in connection with court proceedings; provided, however, that the execution or other enforcement of such Liens is effectively stayed and the claims secured thereby are the subject of a Permitted Contest; (f) Liens and encumbrances in favor of Lender under the Financing Documents; (g) Liens on Collateral existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 5.2; (h) any Lien on any equipment securing Debt permitted under subpart (c) of the definition of Permitted Debt, provided, however, that such Lien attaches concurrently with or within twenty (20) days after the acquisition thereof; (i) Liens and encumbrances securing Structure Medical Debt, (j) Liens and encumbrances in favor of the holders of the Affiliated Financing Documents and (k) Liens and encumbrances securing the MidCap Debt.

“Permitted Modifications” means (a) such amendments or other modifications to a Borrower’s or Subsidiary’s Organizational Documents as are required under this Agreement or by applicable Law and fully disclosed to Lender within thirty (30) days after such amendments or modifications have become effective, and (b) such amendments or modifications to a Borrower’s or Subsidiary’s Organizational Documents (other than those involving a change in the name of a Borrower or Subsidiary or involving a reorganization of a Borrower or Subsidiary under the laws of a different jurisdiction) that would not adversely affect the rights and interests of Lender and fully disclosed to Lender within thirty (30) days after such amendments or modifications have become effective.

“Permitted Transfers” means, with respect to Holdings only, the collective reference to one or more transfers, via a sale and not by pledge or hypothecation, which, in the aggregate during the term of this Agreement, result in a transfer of legal or beneficial ownership or control of up to 20% of the direct or indirect ownership or voting interests in the Borrowers or any Guarantor to a Person, (a) that is purchasing such ownership interest in a public offering registered with the SEC, or (b) other than a Blocked Person, that is (i) a venture capital investor so long as Borrowers have given Lender at least fifteen (15) days prior written notice of the identity of the assignees, together with such information as Lender shall deem necessary to confirm that such assignee is not a Blocked Person or (ii) at the time of such transfer, already a holder of direct or indirect ownership or voting interests in the Borrowers.

“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, professional association, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, association, company, trust, bank, trust company, land trust, business trust or other organization, whether or not a legal entity, and any Governmental Authority.

“Pledge Agreement” means that certain Pledge Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by Holdings in favor of Lender, as amended, restated, modified or otherwise supplemented from time to time.

“Promissory Note” means any promissory note (as such term is defined in the UCC) which evidences any loan, guarantee or other Investment described in clause (d) of the definition of Permitted Intercompany Advances.

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“Recovery Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7(e).

“Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of the date hereof among Holdings and the holders of the Warrants.

“Responsible Officer” means any of the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer or any other officer of the applicable Borrower acceptable to Lender.

“Restricted Distribution” means as to any Person (a) any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) on any equity interest in such Person (except those payable solely in its equity interests of the same class), (b) any payment by such Person on account of (i) the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, surrender, cancellation, termination or acquisition of any equity interests in such Person or any claim respecting the purchase or sale of any equity interest in such Person, or (ii) any option, warrant or other right to acquire any equity interests in such Person, (c) any management fees, salaries or other fees or compensation to any Person holding an equity interest in a Borrower or a Subsidiary of a Borrower (other than (i) payments of salaries and other employee benefits to individuals, (ii) directors fees, (iii) advances and reimbursements to employees or directors, all in the Ordinary Course of Business and (iv) the issuance of stock options or restricted stock to employees and board members so long as such Borrower or Subsidiary, as applicable, is not required to redeem any such stock before the Termination Date), an Affiliate of a Borrower or an Affiliate of any Subsidiary of a Borrower, (d) any lease or rental payments to an Affiliate or Subsidiary of a Borrower or (e) repayments of or debt service on loans or other indebtedness held by any Person holding an equity interest in a Borrower or a Subsidiary of a Borrower, an Affiliate of a Borrower or an Affiliate of any Subsidiary of a Borrower unless permitted under and made pursuant to a Subordination Agreement applicable to such loans or other Debt.

“Revolving Loan Availability” has the meaning set forth in the MidCap Facility Agreement (or in any replacement revolving loan facility entered into by Borrowers).

“Safari Acquisition Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 6, 2018, by and among Holdings, Safari Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation, SafeOp, the Key Stockholders (as defined therein), and Safari Holding Company, LLC.

“Safari Seller Notes” means those certain (a) Convertible Promissory Notes issued pursuant to the Safari Acquisition Agreement, each dated as of March 8, 2018, made by Alphatec Holdings and payable to each of Tullis-Dickerson Capital Focus III, L.P., Tullis Growth Fund, L.P., James L.L. Tullis, Lighthouse Holdings Corporation, Eugene Cattarina, Mark D’Addato, Robert Snow, Richard O’Brien and Christopher Brown, as in effect on March 8, 2018, and (b) Convertible Promissory Notes (if any) issued pursuant to the Safari Acquisition Agreement, made by Holdings and payable to certain other sellers of SafeOp, in each case, in form and substance identical to the Convertible Promissory Notes issued on March 8, 2018; provided that each seller receiving a Safari Seller Note described in clause (b) above shall have become a party to the Safari Subordination Agreement; provided further that the aggregate principal amount of all Safari Seller Notes shall not exceed $3,000,000.

“Safari Seller Subordination Agreement” means that certain Subordination Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the subordinated creditors signatory thereto and Lender, as such document may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time after the date hereof.

“SafeOp” means SafeOp Surgical, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Securities Account” means a “securities account” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC), an investment account, or other account in which investment property or securities are held or invested for credit to or for the benefit of any Borrower.

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Securities Account pursuant to which Lender shall obtain “control” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) over such Securities Account.

“Securitization” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.6.

“Security Document” means this Agreement, any Securities Account Control Agreement, any Patent Security Agreement, any Trademark Security Agreement, any Copyright Security Agreement, the Pledge Agreement and any other agreement, certificate, document or instrument executed concurrently herewith or at any time hereafter pursuant to which one or more Credit Parties or any other Person either (a) Guarantees payment or performance of all or any portion of the Obligations, and/or (b) provides, as security for all or any portion of the Obligations, a Lien on any of its assets in favor of Lender for its own benefit, as any or all of the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person, that such Person (a) owns and will own assets the fair saleable value of which are (i) greater than the total amount of its liabilities (including Contingent Obligations), and (ii) greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liabilities of its then existing debts as they become absolute and matured considering all financing alternatives and potential asset sales reasonably available to it; (b) has capital that is not unreasonably small in relation to its business as presently conducted or after giving effect to any contemplated transaction; and (c) does not intend to incur and does not believe that it will incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due.

“Spine” means Alphatec Spine, Inc., a California corporation.

“Stated Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.5.

“Structure Medical” means Structure Medical, LLC, a Florida limited liability company.

“Structure Medical Debt” means the Debt payable under the terms of the Inventory Financing Agreement.

“Subordinated Debt” means any Debt of Borrowers incurred pursuant to the terms of the Subordinated Debt Documents and with the prior written consent of Lender, all of which documents must be in form and substance acceptable to Lender in its sole discretion.

“Subordinated Debt Documents” means (a) the Safari Seller Notes and (b) any other documents evidencing and/or securing Debt governed by a Subordination Agreement, all of which documents must be in form and substance acceptable to Lender in its sole discretion. As of the Closing Date, there are no Subordinated Debt Documents, other than the Safari Seller Notes.

“Subordination Agreement” means (a) the Safari Seller Subordination Agreement and (b) each other agreement between Lender and another creditor of Borrowers, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, pursuant to which the Debt owing from any Borrower(s) and/or the Liens securing such Debt granted by any Borrower(s) to such creditor are subordinated in any way to the Obligations and the Liens created under the Security Documents, the terms and provisions of such Subordination Agreements to have been agreed to by and be acceptable to Lender in the exercise of its sole discretion.

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any corporation of which an aggregate of more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the time, capital stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned legally or beneficially by such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or with respect to which any such Person has the right to vote or designate the vote of more than fifty percent (50%) of such capital stock whether by proxy, agreement, operation of law or otherwise, and (b) any partnership or limited liability company in which such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person shall have an interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits or capital contribution) of more than fifty percent (50%) or of which any such Person is a general partner or may exercise the powers of a general partner.

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“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto and all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Financing Document.

“Term Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).

“Term Loan Borrowing” means a borrowing of a Term Loan.

“Term Note” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3.

“Termination Date” means the earlier to occur of (a) November 6, 2023, (b) any date on which Lender accelerates the maturity of the Term Loan pursuant to Section 10.2, or (c) the termination date stated in any notice of termination of this Agreement provided by Borrowers in accordance with Section 2.8.

“Trademark Security Agreement” means any Trademark Security Agreement executed and delivered by any Credit Party to Lender, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender, as amended and in effect from time to time.

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

“United States” means the United States of America.

“Warrants” means the warrants granted to Lender (including any designee of Lender) to purchase 845,000 shares of common stock of Holdings at $3.15 per share, which warrant shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B.

Section 1.2          Accounting Terms and Determinations. Unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all accounting determinations hereunder (including, without limitation, determinations made pursuant to the exhibits hereto) shall be made, and all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be prepared on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with the most recent audited consolidated financial statements of each Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries delivered to Lender on or prior to the Closing Date. If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio or financial requirement set forth in any Financing Document, and either Borrowers or Lender shall so request, Lender and Borrowers shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of Lender); provided, however, that until so amended, (a) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein, and (b) Borrowers shall provide to Lender financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement which include a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP. 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 Debt or other liabilities of any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party at “fair value”, as defined therein.

Section 1.3          Other Definitional and Interpretive Provisions. References in this Agreement to “Articles”, “Sections”, “Annexes”, “Exhibits”, or “Schedules” shall be to Articles, Sections, Annexes, Exhibits or Schedules of or to this Agreement unless otherwise specifically provided. Any term defined herein may be used in the singular or plural. “Include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by “without limitation”. Except as otherwise specified or limited herein, references to any Person include the successors and assigns of such Person. References “from” or “through” any date mean, unless otherwise specified, “from and including” or “through and including”, respectively. Unless otherwise specified herein, the settlement of all payments and fundings hereunder between or among the parties hereto shall be made in lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds. References to any statute or act shall include all related current regulations and all amendments and any 

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successor statutes, acts and regulations. All amounts used for purposes of financial calculations required to be made herein shall be without duplication. References to any statute or act, without additional reference, shall be deemed to refer to federal statutes and acts of the United States. References to any agreement, instrument or document shall include all schedules, exhibits, annexes and other attachments thereto. As used in this Agreement, the meaning of the term “material” or the phrase “in all material respects” is intended to refer to an act, omission, violation or condition which reflects or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. References to capitalized terms that are not defined herein, but are defined in the UCC, shall have the meanings given them in the UCC. All references herein to times of day shall be references to daylight or standard time, as applicable.

Section 1.4          Time is of the Essence. Time is of the essence in each Borrower’s and each other Credit Party’s performance under this Agreement and all other Financing Documents.

Section 1.5          Intercreditor Agreement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the terms of this Agreement and the exercise of any right or remedy by Lender hereunder or under any Financing Document with respect to the liens and security interest granted Lender pursuant to this Agreement, is subject to the provisions of the MidCap Intercreditor Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the MidCap Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement with respect to the exercise of rights and remedies or the priority of the security interests granted to the Agent herein, the terms of the MidCap Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control.

ARTICLE 2 - LOAN

Section 2.1          Term Loan.

(a)          Term Loan Amount.  On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, Lender hereby agrees to make to Borrowers a term loan in an aggregate original principal amount equal to the Thirty Five Million Dollars ($35,000,000) on the Closing Date (“Term Loan”).

(b)          Scheduled Repayments; Mandatory Prepayments; Optional Prepayments.

(i)          There shall become due and payable, and Borrowers shall repay the Term Loan through, scheduled payments beginning on June 30, 2021 and continuing on the last Business Day of each month thereafter, in monthly principal payments of $344,827. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan shall become immediately due and payable in full on the Termination Date.

(ii)          Subject to the provisions of the MidCap Intercreditor Agreement, there shall become due and payable and Borrowers shall prepay the Term Loan in the following amounts and at the following times:

(A)          Unless Lender shall otherwise consent in writing, on the date on which any Credit Party (or Lender as loss payee or assignee) receives any casualty proceeds in excess of $50,000 with respect to assets upon which Lender maintained a Lien, an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such proceeds (net of out-of-pocket expenses and repayment of secured debt permitted under clause (c) of the definition of Permitted Debt and encumbering the property that suffered such casualty), or such lesser portion of such proceeds as Lender shall elect to apply to the Obligations;

(B)          an amount equal to any interest that is deemed to be in excess of the Maximum Lawful Rate (as defined below) and is required to be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of the Term Loan by Lender as provided for in Section 2.5;

(C)          unless Lender shall otherwise consent in writing, upon receipt by any Credit Party of the proceeds of any Asset Disposition (other than Permitted Asset Dispositions), an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the net cash proceeds of such Asset Disposition (net of out-of-pocket expenses and repayment of secured debt permitted under clause (c) of the definition of Permitted Debt and encumbering such asset), or such lesser portion as Lender shall elect to apply to the Obligations; and

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(D)          unless Lender shall otherwise consent in writing, upon receipt by any Credit Party of any extraordinary receipts or the proceeds from the incurrence of Debt (other than Permitted Debt) or issuance and sale of any Debt or equity securities, an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such extraordinary receipts, or such lesser portion as Lender shall elect to apply to the Obligations.

Notwithstanding the foregoing and so long as no Event of Default or Default then exists: (1) any such casualty proceeds in excess of $50,000, but not to exceed $250,000 (other than with respect to Inventory and any real property, unless Lender shall otherwise elect) may be used by Borrowers within one hundred eighty (180) days from the receipt of such proceeds to replace or repair any assets in respect of which such proceeds were paid so long as (x) prior to the receipt of such proceeds, Borrowers have delivered to Lender a reinvestment plan detailing such replacement or repair acceptable to Lender in its reasonable discretion and (y) such proceeds are deposited into an account with Lender promptly upon receipt by such Borrower; and (2) proceeds of personal property asset dispositions (other than Permitted Asset Dispositions) may be used by Borrowers within one hundred eighty (180) days from the receipt of such proceeds to purchase new or replacement assets of comparable value, provided, however, that such proceeds are deposited into an account with Lender promptly upon receipt by such Borrower. All sums held by Lender pending reinvestment as described in subsections (1) and (2) above shall be deemed additional collateral for the Obligations and such sums may be commingled with the general funds of Lender.

(iii)          Borrowers may from time to time, with at least two (2) Business Days prior delivery to Lender of an appropriately completed Payment Notification, prepay the Term Loan in whole or in part; provided, however, that each such prepayment shall be in an amount equal to $100,000 or a higher integral multiple of $25,000 and shall be accompanied by any prepayment fees required hereunder.

(c)          All Prepayments. Except as this Agreement may specifically provide otherwise, all prepayments of the Term Loan shall be applied by Lender to the Obligations in inverse order of maturity. The monthly payments required under Schedule 2.1 shall continue in the same amount (for so long as the Term Loan and/or (if applicable) any advance thereunder shall remain outstanding) notwithstanding any partial prepayment, whether mandatory or optional, of the Term Loan.

(d)          LIBOR Rate.

(i)          Except as provided in subsection (ii) below, the Term Loan shall accrue interest at the LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Margin; provided, however, that in no event shall interest accrue at a rate lower than 10% per annum or greater than 13% per annum.

(ii)          In the event that any change in market conditions or any law, regulation, treaty, or directive, or any change therein or in the interpretation of application thereof, shall at any time after the date hereof, in the reasonable opinion of Lender, make it unlawful or impractical for Lender to maintain the Term Loan bearing interest based upon the LIBOR Rate or to continue such maintaining, or to determine or charge interest rates at the LIBOR Rate, Lender shall give notice of such changed circumstances to Borrowers, interest shall accrue interest at the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

(iii)          Anything to the contrary contained herein notwithstanding, Lender is not required actually to acquire eurodollar deposits to fund or otherwise match fund any Obligation as to which interest accrues based on the LIBOR Rate.

(e)          Warrants. The Borrowers and the Lender hereby acknowledge and agree that, for United States income tax purposes, for an aggregate purchase price of $35,000,000, (i) the Lender shall make the Term Loan to the Borrowers and (ii) the Borrowers shall sell to, and the Lender (including any designee of Lender) shall purchase from the Borrowers, the Warrants. Furthermore, the Borrowers and the Lender hereby acknowledge and agree that (i) the issue price (within the meaning of Section 1273(b) of the Internal Revenue Code) of the Term Loan is determined pursuant to Section 1272-1275 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder and (ii) for United States federal income tax purposes, the issue price of the Warrants within the meaning of Section 1273(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, which issue price was determined pursuant to Section 1.1273-2(h)(1) of the Treasury Regulations, is equal to 

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$2.00. The parties hereto agree to report all income tax matters with respect to the Warrants consistent with the provisions of this Section 2.1(e) unless otherwise required due to a change in applicable Law.

Section 2.2          Interest, Interest Calculations and Certain Fees.

(a)          Interest. From and following the Closing Date, except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, the Term Loan and the other Obligations shall bear interest at the sum of the LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Margin. Interest on the Term Loan shall be paid in arrears on the last Business Day of each month and on the maturity of such Term Loan, whether by acceleration or otherwise. Interest on all other Obligations shall be payable upon demand. For purposes of calculating interest, all funds transferred to the Payment Account for application to any Term Loan shall be subject to a six (6) Business Day clearance period and all interest accruing on such funds during such clearance period shall accrue for the benefit of Lender.

(b)          Audit Fees. Borrowers shall pay to Lender all reasonable fees and expenses in connection with audits and inspections of Borrowers’ books and records, audits, valuations or appraisals of the Collateral, audits of Borrowers’ compliance with applicable Laws and such other matters as Lender shall deem appropriate, which shall be due and payable on the last Business Day of the month following the date of issuance by Lender of a written request for payment thereof to Borrowers.

(c)          Wire Fees. Borrowers shall pay to Lender on written demand, fees incurred for incoming and outgoing wires made for the account of Borrowers, which such fees will be in an amount equal to the expenses incurred by Lender in making any such wire.

(d)          Late Charges. If payments of principal (other than a final installment of principal upon the Termination Date), interest due on the Obligations, or any other amounts due hereunder or under the other Financing Documents are not timely made and remain overdue for a period of five (5) days, Borrowers, without notice or demand by Lender, promptly shall pay to Lender as additional compensation to Lender in administering the Obligations, an amount equal to five percent (5.0%) of each delinquent payment.

(e)          Computation of Interest and Related Fees. All interest and fees under each Financing Document shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual number of days elapsed. The date of funding of a Term Loan shall be included in the calculation of interest. The date of payment of a Loan shall be excluded from the calculation of interest. If a Loan is repaid on the same day that it is made, one (1) day’s interest shall be charged.

Section 2.3          Term Note.  The Term Loan made by Lender shall be evidenced by a promissory note in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A executed by Borrowers on a joint and several basis (“Term Note”) in an original principal amount equal to Thirty Five Million Dollars ($35,000,000).

Section 2.4          General Provisions Regarding Payment; Loan Account.

(a)          All payments to be made by each Borrower under any Financing Document, including payments of principal and interest made hereunder and pursuant to any other Financing Document, and all fees, expenses, indemnities and reimbursements, shall be made without set-off, recoupment or counterclaim. If any payment hereunder becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, with respect to payments of principal, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension (it being understood and agreed that, solely for purposes of calculating financial covenants and computations contained herein and determining compliance therewith, if payment is made, in full, on any such extended due date, such payment shall be deemed to have been paid on the original due date without giving effect to any extension thereto). Any payments received in the Payment Account before 12:00 Noon (Eastern time) on any date shall be deemed received by Lender on such date, and any payments received in the Payment Account at or after 12:00 Noon (Eastern time) on any date shall be deemed received by Lender on the next succeeding Business Day. In the absence of receipt by Lender of a written designation by Borrower Representative, at least two (2) Business Days prior to such prepayment, that such prepayment is to be applied to a Term Loan, Borrowers hereby authorize and direct Lender, subject to the provisions of Section 10.5 hereof, to apply such prepayment against Term Loan in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.1(c); provided, however, that if Lender at any time determines that payments received by Lender were in respect of a 

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mandatory prepayment event, Lender shall apply such payments in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.1(b) and shall be fully authorized by Borrowers and Lender to make corresponding Loan Account reversals in respect thereof.

(b)          Lender shall maintain a loan account (the “Loan Account”) on its books to record the Term Loan and other extensions of credit made by Lender hereunder or under any other Financing Document, and all payments thereon made by each Borrower. All entries in the Loan Account shall be made in accordance with Lender’s customary accounting practices as in effect from time to time. The balance in the Loan Account, as recorded in Lender’s books and records at any time shall be conclusive and binding evidence of the amounts due and owing to Lender by each Borrower absent manifest error; provided, however, that any failure to so record or any error in so recording shall not limit or otherwise affect any Borrower’s duty to pay all amounts owing hereunder or under any other Financing Document. Lender shall endeavor to provide Borrowers with a monthly statement regarding the Loan Account (but Lender shall not have any liability if Lender shall fail to provide any such statement). Unless any Borrower notifies Lender of any objection to any such statement (specifically describing the basis for such objection) within ninety (90) days after the date of receipt thereof, it shall be deemed final, binding and conclusive upon Borrowers in all respects as to all matters reflected therein.

Section 2.5          Maximum Interest. In no event shall the interest charged with respect to the Term Loan or any other Obligations of any Borrower under any Financing Document exceed the maximum amount permitted under the laws of the State of New York or of any other applicable jurisdiction. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or elsewhere, if at any time the rate of interest payable hereunder or under the Term Note or other Financing Document (the “Stated Rate”) would exceed the highest rate of interest permitted under any applicable law to be charged (the “Maximum Lawful Rate”), then for so long as the Maximum Lawful Rate would be so exceeded, the rate of interest payable shall be equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate; provided, however, that if at any time thereafter the Stated Rate is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, each Borrower shall, to the extent permitted by law, continue to pay interest at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the total interest received is equal to the total interest which would have been received had the Stated Rate been (but for the operation of this provision) the interest rate payable. Thereafter, the interest rate payable shall be the Stated Rate unless and until the Stated Rate again would exceed the Maximum Lawful Rate, in which event this provision shall again apply. In no event shall the total interest received by Lender exceed the amount which it could lawfully have received had the interest been calculated for the full term hereof at the Maximum Lawful Rate. If, notwithstanding the prior sentence, Lender has received interest hereunder in excess of the Maximum Lawful Rate, such excess amount shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of the Term Loan or to other amounts (other than interest) payable hereunder, and if no such principal or other amounts are then outstanding, such excess or part thereof remaining shall be paid to Borrowers. In computing interest payable with reference to the Maximum Lawful Rate applicable to Lender, such interest shall be calculated at a daily rate equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate divided by the number of days in the year in which such calculation is made.

Section 2.6          Appointment of Borrower Representative. Each Borrower hereby designates Borrower Representative as its representative and agent on its behalf for the purposes of issuing Notices of Borrowing, and giving instructions with respect to the disbursement of the proceeds of the Term Loan, giving and receiving all other notices and consents hereunder or under any of the other Financing Documents and taking all other actions (including in respect of compliance with covenants) on behalf of any Borrower or Borrowers under the Financing Documents. Borrower Representative hereby accepts such appointment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, no Borrower other than Borrower Representative shall be entitled to take any of the foregoing actions. The proceeds of each Loan made hereunder shall be advanced to or at the direction of Borrower Representative and if not used by Borrower Representative in its business (for the purposes provided in this Agreement) shall be deemed to be immediately advanced by Borrower Representative to the appropriate other Borrower hereunder as an intercompany loan (collectively, “Intercompany Loans”). All collections of each Borrower in respect of proceeds of Collateral of such Borrower received by Lender and applied to the Obligations shall also be deemed to be repayments of the Intercompany Loans owing by such Borrower to Borrower Representative. Borrowers shall maintain accurate books and records with respect to all Intercompany Loans and all repayments thereof. Lender may regard any notice or other communication pursuant to any Financing Document from Borrower Representative as a notice or communication from all Borrowers, and may give any notice or communication required or permitted to be given to any Borrower or all Borrowers hereunder to Borrower Representative on behalf of such Borrower or all Borrowers. Each Borrower agrees that each notice, election, representation and warranty, covenant, agreement and undertaking made on its behalf by Borrower Representative shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by such Borrower and shall be binding upon and enforceable against such Borrower to the same extent as if the same had been made directly by such Borrower.

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Section 2.7          Joint and Several Liability; Rights of Contribution; Subordination and Subrogation.

(a)          Borrowers are defined collectively to include all Persons named as one of the Borrowers herein; provided, however, that any references herein to “any Borrower”, “each Borrower” or similar references, shall be construed as a reference to each individual Person named as one of the Borrowers herein. Each Person so named shall be jointly and severally liable for all of the obligations of Borrowers under this Agreement. Each Borrower, individually, expressly understands, agrees and acknowledges, that the credit facilities would not be made available on the terms herein in the absence of the collective credit of all of the Persons named as the Borrowers herein, the joint and several liability of all such Persons, and the cross-collateralization of the collateral of all such Persons. Accordingly, each Borrower individually acknowledges that the benefit to each of the Persons named as one of the Borrowers as a whole constitutes reasonably equivalent value, regardless of the amount of the credit facilities actually borrowed by, advanced to, or the amount of collateral provided by, any individual Borrower. In addition, each entity named as one of the Borrowers herein hereby acknowledges and agrees that all of the representations, warranties, covenants, obligations, conditions, agreements and other terms contained in this Agreement shall be applicable to and shall be binding upon and measured and enforceable individually against each Person named as one of the Borrowers herein as well as all such Persons when taken together. By way of illustration, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the terms of Section 10.1 of this Agreement are to be applied to each individual Person named as one of the Borrowers herein (as well as to all such Persons taken as a whole), such that the occurrence of any of the events described in Section 10.1 of this Agreement as to any Person named as one of the Borrowers herein shall constitute an Event of Default even if such event has not occurred as to any other Persons named as the Borrowers or as to all such Persons taken as a whole.

(b)          Notwithstanding any provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, it is intended that the joint and several nature of the liability of each Borrower for the Obligations and the Liens granted by Borrowers to secure the Obligations, not constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance (as defined below). Consequently, Lender and each Borrower agree that if the liability of a Borrower for the Obligations, or any Liens granted by such Borrower securing the Obligations would, but for the application of this sentence, constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance, the liability of such Borrower and the Liens securing such liability shall be valid and enforceable only to the maximum extent that would not cause such liability or such Lien to constitute a Fraudulent Conveyance, and the liability of such Borrower and this Agreement shall automatically be deemed to have been amended accordingly. For purposes hereof, the term “Fraudulent Conveyance” means a fraudulent conveyance under Section 548 of Chapter 11 of Title II of the Bankruptcy Code or a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under the applicable provisions of any fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer law or similar law of any state, nation or other governmental unit, as in effect from time to time.

(c)          Lender is hereby authorized, without notice or demand (except as otherwise specifically required under this Agreement and subject in all respects to the MidCap Intercreditor Agreement) and without affecting the liability of any Borrower hereunder, at any time and from time to time, to (i) renew, extend or otherwise increase the time for payment of the Obligations; (ii) with the written agreement of any Borrower, change the terms relating to the Obligations or otherwise modify, amend or change the terms of the Term Note or other agreement, document or instrument now or hereafter executed by either Borrower and delivered to Lender for Lender; (iii) accept partial payments of the Obligations; (iv) take and hold any Collateral for the payment of the Obligations or for the payment of any guaranties of the Obligations and exchange, enforce, waive and release any such Collateral; (v) apply any such Collateral and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as Lender, in its sole discretion, may determine; and (vi) settle, release, compromise, collect or otherwise liquidate the Obligations and any Collateral therefor in any manner, all surety defenses being hereby waived by each Borrower. Without limitations of the foregoing, with respect to the Obligations, each Borrower hereby makes and adopts each of the agreements and waivers set forth in each Guarantee, the same being incorporated hereby by reference. Except as specifically provided in this Agreement or any of the other Financing Documents, Lender shall have the exclusive right to determine the time and manner of application of any payments or credits, whether received from any Borrower or any other source, and such determination shall be binding on all Borrowers. All such payments and credits may be applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to any of the Obligations that Lender shall determine, in its sole discretion, without affecting the validity or enforceability of the Obligations of the other Borrower.

(d)          Each Borrower hereby agrees that, except as hereinafter provided, its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of (i) the absence of any attempt to collect the Obligations from any obligor or other action to enforce the same; (ii) the waiver or consent by Lender with respect to any provision of any instrument evidencing the Obligations, or any part thereof, or any other agreement heretofore, now or hereafter executed by a Borrower and delivered to Lender; (iii) failure by Lender to take any steps to perfect and maintain its security interest in, or to preserve its rights to, any security or collateral for the Obligations; (iv) the institution of any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code, or any similar 

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proceeding, by or against a Borrower or Lender’s election in any such proceeding of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code; (v) any borrowing or grant of a security interest by a Borrower as debtor-in-possession, under Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code; (vi) the disallowance, under Section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code, of all or any portion of Lender’s claim(s) for repayment of any of the Obligations; or (vii) any other circumstance other than payment in full of the Obligations which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor or surety.

(e)          The Borrowers hereby agree, as between themselves, that to the extent that Lender shall have received from any Borrower any Recovery Amount (as defined below), then the paying Borrower shall have a right of contribution against each other Borrower in an amount equal to such other Borrower’s contributive share of such Recovery Amount; provided, however, that in the event any Borrower suffers a Deficiency Amount (as defined below), then the Borrower suffering the Deficiency Amount shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against the other Borrowers in an amount equal to the Deficiency Amount; and provided, further, that in no event shall the aggregate amounts so reimbursed by reason of the contribution of any Borrower equal or exceed an amount that would, if paid, constitute or result in Fraudulent Conveyance. Until all Obligations have been paid and satisfied in full, no payment made by or for the account of a Borrower including, without limitation, (i) a payment made by such Borrower on behalf of the liabilities of any other Borrower, or (ii) a payment made by any other Guarantor under any Guarantee, shall entitle such Borrower, by subrogation or otherwise, to any payment from such other Borrower or from or out of such other Borrower’s property. The right of each Borrower to receive any contribution under this Section 2.7(e) or by subrogation or otherwise from any other Borrower shall be subordinate in right of payment to the Obligations and such Borrower shall not exercise any right or remedy against such other Borrower or any property of such other Borrower by reason of any performance of such Borrower of its joint and several obligations hereunder, until the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid and satisfied in full, and no Borrower shall exercise any right or remedy with respect to this Section 2.7(e) until the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid and satisfied in full. As used in this Section 2.7(e), the term “Recovery Amount” means the amount of proceeds received by or credited to Lender from the exercise of any remedy of Lender under this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, including, without limitation, the sale of any Collateral. As used in this Section 2.7(e), the term “Deficiency Amount” means any amount that is less than the entire amount a Borrower is entitled to receive by way of contribution or subrogation from, but that has not been paid by, the other Borrowers in respect of any Recovery Amount attributable to the Borrower entitled to contribution, until the Deficiency Amount has been reduced to zero through contributions and reimbursements made under the terms of this Section 2.7(e) or otherwise.

Section 2.8          Termination; Restriction on Termination.

(a)          Termination by Lenders. In addition to the rights set forth in Section 10.2, Lender may terminate this Agreement without notice upon or after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default.

(b)          Termination by Borrowers. Upon at least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to Lender, Borrowers may, at their option, terminate this Agreement. Any notice of termination given by Borrowers shall be irrevocable unless Lender otherwise agrees in writing and Lender shall not have any obligation to make the Term Loan on or after the termination date stated in such notice. Borrowers may elect to terminate this Agreement in its entirety only. No section of this Agreement or type of Loan available hereunder may be terminated singly.

(c)          Effectiveness of Termination. All of the Obligations shall be immediately due and payable upon the Termination Date. All undertakings, agreements, covenants, warranties and representations of Borrowers contained in the Financing Documents shall survive any such termination and Lender shall retain its Liens in the Collateral and Lender shall retain all of its rights and remedies under the Financing Documents notwithstanding such termination until all Obligations have been discharged or paid, in full, in immediately available funds. Notwithstanding the foregoing or the payment in full of the Obligations, Lender shall not be required to terminate its Liens in the Collateral unless, with respect to any loss or damage Lender may incur as a result of dishonored checks or other items of payment received by Lender from Borrower and applied to the Obligations, Lender shall, at its option, (i) have received a written agreement satisfactory to Lender, executed by Borrowers and by any Person whose loans or other advances to Borrowers are used in whole or in part to satisfy the Obligations, indemnifying Lender from any such loss or damage or (ii) have retained cash Collateral or other Collateral for such period of time as Lender, in its discretion, may deem necessary to protect Lender from any such loss or damage.

Section 2.9          Closing Fee. The Borrowers shall pay to the Lender for its own account (and not on behalf of any loan participant) a closing fee in the amount of $380,000 which fee shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

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ARTICLE 3 - REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

To induce Lender to enter into this Agreement and to make the Term Loan and other credit accommodations contemplated hereby, each Credit Party hereby represents and warrants to Lender that:

Section 3.1          Existence and Power. Each Credit Party is an entity as specified on Schedule 3.1, is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (or the local equivalent) under the laws of the jurisdiction specified on Schedule 3.1 and no other jurisdiction, has the same legal name as it appears in such Credit Party’s Organizational Documents and an organizational identification number (if any), in each case as specified on Schedule 3.1, and has all powers and all Permits necessary or desirable in the operation of its business as presently conducted or as proposed to be conducted, except where the failure to have such Permits could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Credit Party is qualified to do business as a foreign entity in each jurisdiction in which it is required to be so qualified, which jurisdictions as of the Closing Date are specified on Schedule 3.1, except where the failure to be so qualified could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1, no Credit Party (a) has had, over the five (5) year period preceding the Closing Date, any name other than its current name, or (b) was incorporated or organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than its current jurisdiction of incorporation or organization.

Section 3.2          Organization and Governmental Authorization; No Contravention.  The execution, delivery and performance by each Credit Party of the Operative Documents to which it is a party are within its powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary action pursuant to its Organizational Documents, require no further action by or in respect of, or filing with, any Governmental Authority and do not violate, conflict with or cause a breach or a default under (a) any Law applicable to any Credit Party or any of the Organizational Documents of any Credit Party, or (b) any agreement or instrument binding upon it, except for such violations, conflicts, breaches or defaults as could not, with respect to this clause (b), reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.3          Binding Effect. Each of the Operative Documents to which any Credit Party is a party constitutes a valid and binding agreement or instrument of such Credit Party, enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with its respective terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar laws relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles.

Section 3.4          Capitalization. The authorized equity securities of each of the Credit Parties as of the Closing Date is as set forth on Schedule 3.4. All issued and outstanding equity securities of each of the Credit Parties are duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens other than (a) those in favor of Lender for its benefit and (b) Liens permitted pursuant to clauses (l) and (m) of the definition of Permitted Liens, and such equity securities were issued in compliance with all applicable Laws. The identity of the holders of the equity securities of each of the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) and the percentage of their fully-diluted ownership of the equity securities of each of the Credit Parties (other than Holdings) as of the Closing Date is set forth on Schedule 3.4. No shares of the capital stock or other equity securities of any Credit Party, other than those described above, are issued and outstanding as of the Closing Date.

Section 3.5          Financial Information. All information delivered to Lender and pertaining to the financial condition of any Credit Party fairly presents the financial position of such Credit Party as of such date in conformity with GAAP (and as to unaudited financial statements, subject to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of footnote disclosures). Since the Closing Date, there has been no material adverse change in the business, operations, properties, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of any Credit Party.

Section 3.6          Litigation. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.6 as of the Closing Date, and except as hereafter disclosed to Lender in writing (including disclosures pursuant to Section 4.9 or otherwise, it being understood that any such disclosures shall not act as a consent or waiver of any Default or Event of Default arising under Section 4.9, Section 10.1(h) or any other provision of this Agreement), there is no Litigation pending against, or to such Credit Party’s knowledge threatened against or affecting, any Credit Party or, to such Credit Party’s knowledge, any party to any Operative Document other than a Credit Party. Other than as disclosed on Schedule 3.6, there is no Litigation pending in which an adverse decision could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or which in any manner draws into question the validity of any of the Operative Documents.

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Section 3.7          Ownership of Property. Each Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is the lawful owner of, has good and marketable title to and is in lawful possession of, or has valid leasehold interests in, all properties and other assets (real or personal, tangible, intangible or mixed) purported or reported to be owned or leased (as the case may be) by such Person.

Section 3.8          No Default. No Event of Default, or to such Credit Party’s knowledge, Default, has occurred and is continuing. No Credit Party is in breach or default under or with respect to any contract, agreement, lease or other instrument to which it is a party or by which its property is bound or affected, which breach or default could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.9          Labor Matters. As of the Closing Date, there are no strikes or other labor disputes pending or, to any Credit Party’s knowledge, threatened against any Credit Party. Hours worked and payments made to the employees of the Credit Parties have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Law dealing with such matters. All payments due from the Credit Parties, or for which any claim may be made against any of them, on account of wages and employee and retiree health and welfare insurance and other benefits have been paid or accrued as a liability on their books, as the case may be. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents will not give rise to a right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement to which it is a party or by which it is bound.

Section 3.10          Regulated Entities. No Credit Party is an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” or a “subsidiary” of an “investment company,” all within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Section 3.11          Margin Regulations. None of the proceeds from the Term Loan has been or will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any “margin stock” (as defined in Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board), for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any “margin stock” or for any other purpose which might cause the Term Loan to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meaning of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.

Section 3.12          Compliance With Laws; Anti-Terrorism Laws.

(a)          Each Credit Party is in compliance with the requirements of all applicable Laws, except for such Laws the noncompliance with which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)          None of the Credit Parties and, to the knowledge of the Credit Parties, none of their Affiliates (i) is in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law, (ii) 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, (iii) is a Blocked Person, or is controlled by a Blocked Person, (iv) is acting or will act for or on behalf of a Blocked Person, (v) is associated with, or will become associated with, a Blocked Person or (vi) is providing, or will provide, material, financial or technical support or other services to or in support of acts of terrorism of a Blocked Person. No Credit Party nor, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, any of its Affiliates or agents acting or benefiting in any capacity in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (A) conducts any business or engages in making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, or (B) deals in, or otherwise engages in any transaction relating to, any property or interest in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law.

Section 3.13          Taxes. All federal, state, local and foreign income tax returns and all other material tax returns, reports and statements required to be filed by or on behalf of each Credit Party have been filed with the appropriate Governmental Authorities in all jurisdictions in which such returns, reports and statements are required to be filed and, except to the extent subject to a Permitted Contest, all Taxes (including real property Taxes) and other charges shown to be due and payable in respect thereof have been timely paid prior to the date on which any fine, penalty, interest, late charge or loss may be added thereto for nonpayment thereof. Except to the extent subject to a Permitted Contest, all material state and local sales and use Taxes required to be paid by each Credit Party have been paid. All federal and state returns have been filed by each Credit Party for all periods for which returns were due with respect to employee income tax withholding, social security and unemployment taxes, and, except to the extent subject 

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to a Permitted Contest, the amounts shown thereon to be due and payable have been paid in full or adequate provisions therefor have been made.

Section 3.14          Compliance with ERISA.

(a)          Each ERISA Plan (and the related trusts and funding agreements) complies in form and in operation with, has been administered in compliance with, and the terms of each ERISA Plan satisfy, the applicable requirements of ERISA and the Code in all material respects. Each ERISA Plan which is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified, and the United States Internal Revenue Service has issued a favorable determination letter with respect to each such ERISA Plan which may be relied on currently. No Credit Party has incurred liability for any material excise tax under any of Sections 4971 through 5000 of the Code.

(b)          Except as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Credit Party is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the provision of the Code relating to ERISA Plans and the regulations and published interpretations therein. During the thirty-six (36) month period prior to the Closing Date or the making of the Term Loan, (i) no steps have been taken to terminate any Pension Plan, and (ii) no contribution failure has occurred with respect to any Pension Plan sufficient to give rise to a Lien under Section 302(f) of ERISA. No condition exists or event or transaction has occurred with respect to any Pension Plan which could result in the incurrence by any Credit Party of any material liability, fine or penalty. No Credit Party has incurred liability to the PBGC (other than for current premiums) with respect to any employee Pension Plan. All contributions (if any) have been made on a timely basis to any Multiemployer Plan that are required to be made by any Credit Party or any other member of the Controlled Group under the terms of the plan or of any collective bargaining agreement or by applicable Law; no Credit Party nor any member of the Controlled Group has withdrawn or partially withdrawn from any Multiemployer Plan, incurred any withdrawal liability with respect to any such plan or received notice of any claim or demand for withdrawal liability or partial withdrawal liability from any such plan, and no condition has occurred which, if continued, could result in a withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any such plan, and no Credit Party nor any member of the Controlled Group has received any notice that any Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization, that increased contributions may be required to avoid a reduction in plan benefits or the imposition of any excise tax, that any such plan is or has been funded at a rate less than that required under Section 412 of the Code, that any such plan is or may be terminated, or that any such plan is or may become insolvent.

Section 3.15          Consummation of Operative Documents; Brokers. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15 and fees payable to Lender, no broker, finder or other intermediary has brought about the obtaining, making or closing of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents, and no Credit Party has or will have any obligation to any Person in respect of any finder’s or brokerage fees, commissions or other expenses in connection herewith or therewith.

Section 3.16          Related Transactions. All transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents to be consummated on or prior to the date hereof have been so consummated (including, without limitation, the disbursement and transfer of all funds in connection therewith) in all material respects pursuant to the provisions of the applicable Operative Documents, true and complete copies of which have been delivered to Lender, and in compliance with all applicable Law, except for such Laws the noncompliance with which would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.17          Material Contracts. Except for the Operative Documents and the other agreements set forth on Schedule 3.17 (collectively with the Operative Documents, the “Material Contracts”), as of the Closing Date, no Credit Party is a party to (a) any “material contract” as such term is defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended or (b) any other agreements or instruments, the breach, nonperformance or cancellation of which, or the failure of which to renew, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents will not give rise to a right of termination in favor of any party to any Material Contract (other than any Credit Party).

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Section 3.18          Compliance with Environmental Requirements; No Hazardous Materials. Except in each case as set forth on Schedule 3.18:

(a)          no notice, notification, demand, request for information, citation, summons, complaint or order has been issued, no complaint has been filed, no penalty has been assessed and no investigation or review is pending, or to such Credit Party’s knowledge, threatened by any Governmental Authority or other Person with respect to any (i) alleged violation by any Credit Party of any Environmental Law, (ii) alleged failure by any Credit Party to have any Permits required in connection with the conduct of its business or to comply with the terms and conditions thereof, (iii) any generation, treatment, storage, recycling, transportation or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, or (iv) release of Hazardous Materials; and

(b)          no property now owned or leased by any Credit Party and, to the knowledge of each Credit Party, no such property previously owned or leased by any Credit Party, to which any Credit Party has, directly or indirectly, transported or arranged for the transportation of any Hazardous Materials, is listed or, to such Credit Party’s knowledge, proposed for listing, on the National Priorities List promulgated pursuant to CERCLA, or CERCLIS (as defined in CERCLA) or any similar state list or is the subject of federal, state or local enforcement actions or, to the knowledge of such Credit Party, other investigations which may lead to claims against any Credit Party for clean-up costs, remedial work, damage to natural resources or personal injury claims, including, without limitation, claims under CERCLA.

Section 3.19          Intellectual Property. Each Credit Party owns, is licensed to use or otherwise has the right to use, all Intellectual Property that is material to the condition (financial or other), business or operations of such Credit Party. All Intellectual Property existing as of the Closing Date which is issued, registered or pending with any United States or foreign Governmental Authority (including, without limitation, any and all applications for the registration of any Intellectual Property with any such United States or foreign Governmental Authority) and all licenses under which any Borrower is the licensee of any such registered Intellectual Property (or any such application for the registration of Intellectual Property) owned by another Person are set forth on Schedule 3.19. Such Schedule 3.19 indicates in each case whether such registered Intellectual Property (or application therefore) is owned or licensed by such Credit Party, and in the case of any such licensed registered Intellectual Property (or application therefore), lists the name of such licensor and the name and date of the agreement pursuant to which such item of Intellectual Property is licensed, and copies of all such agreements have been provided to Lender. Except as indicated on Schedule 3.19, the applicable Credit Party is the sole and exclusive owner of the entire and unencumbered right, title and interest in and to each such registered Intellectual Property (or application therefore) purported to be owned by such Credit Party, free and clear of any Liens (except for Liens granted pursuant to the MidCap Facility Agreement) and/or licenses in favor of third parties or agreements or covenants not such sue third parties for infringement. All registered Intellectual Property of each Credit Party is duly and properly registered, filed or issued in the appropriate office and jurisdictions for such registrations, filings or issuances, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Credit Party is party to, nor bound by, any material license or other agreement with respect to which any Credit Party is the licensee that prohibits or otherwise restricts such Credit Party from granting a security interest in such Credit Party’s interest in such license or agreement or other property. To such Credit Party’s knowledge, each Credit Party conducts its business without infringement or claim of infringement of any Intellectual Property rights of others. There is no infringement or claim of infringement by others of any Intellectual Property rights of any Credit Party including infringement and claims disclosed on Schedule 3.19, which infringement or claim of infringement could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.20          Solvency. After giving effect to the Loan advance and the liabilities and obligations of each Credit Party under the Operative Documents, each Borrower and each additional Credit Party is Solvent.

Section 3.21          Full Disclosure. None of the written information (financial or otherwise) furnished by or on behalf of any Credit Party to Lender in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents, contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made. All financial projections delivered to Lender by any Credit Party (or its agents) have been prepared on the basis of the assumptions stated therein. Such projections represent such Credit Party’s best estimate of such Credit Party’s future financial performance and such assumptions are believed by such Credit Party to be fair 

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and reasonable in light of current business conditions; provided, however, that the Credit Parties can give no assurance that such projections will be attained.

Section 3.22          Interest Rate. The rate of interest paid under the Term Note and the method and manner of the calculation thereof do not violate any usury or other law or applicable Laws, any of the Organizational Documents, or any of the Operative Documents.

Section 3.23          Subsidiaries. The Credit Parties do not own any stock, partnership interests, limited liability company interests or other equity securities except for (i) the Subsidiaries or (ii) Permitted Investments.

Section 3.24          Limited Offering of the Warrants. The offer and sale of the Warrants are not required to be registered pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 of the Securities Act or the registration or qualification provisions of the blue sky laws of any state. None of the Borrowers nor any agent on the Borrowers’ behalf, has solicited or will solicit any offers to sell all or any part of the Warrants to any Person so as to bring the sale of the Warrants by the Borrowers within the registration provisions of the Securities Act or any state securities laws. All prior offerings and sales of securities of the Borrowers were in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws.

Section 3.25          Registration Right; Issuance Taxes.

(a)          Except as described in the Warrants, the Registration Rights Agreement or any registration rights agreement filed by the Company with the SEC, Holdings is under no requirement to register under the Securities Act, or the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, any of its presently outstanding securities or any of its securities that may subsequently be issued.

(b)          All taxes imposed on any Borrower in connection with the issuance, sale and delivery of the Warrants have been or will be fully paid, and all laws imposing such taxes have been or will be fully satisfied by the Borrowers.

ARTICLE 4 - AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

Each Credit Party agrees that, so long as any Credit Exposure exists:

Section 4.1          Financial Statements and Other Reports. Holdings will deliver to Lender within five (5) days of delivery or filing thereof, copies of all reports and other filings made by Borrowers with any stock exchange on which any securities of any Borrower are traded and/or the SEC, unless such reports or other filings are otherwise available on the public website of the SEC (www.SEC.gov). Each Borrower will, within thirty (30) days after the last day of each Fiscal Quarter, deliver to Lender a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer setting forth calculations showing compliance with the financial covenants set forth in this Agreement. Promptly upon their becoming available, Borrowers shall deliver to Lender complete copies of all Material Contracts that Borrowers expect to file on the public website of the SEC in the form to be available on the public website of the SEC.

Section 4.2          Payment and Performance of Obligations. Each Borrower (a) will pay and discharge, and cause each Subsidiary to pay and discharge, on a timely basis as and when due, all of their respective obligations and liabilities (excluding Taxes), except for such obligations and/or liabilities (i) that may be the subject of a Permitted Contest, and (ii) the nonpayment or nondischarge of which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or result in a Lien against any Collateral, except for Permitted Liens, (b) pay all amounts due and owing in respect of Taxes (including without limitation, payroll and withholdings tax liabilities) on a timely basis as and when due, and in any case prior to the date on which any fine, penalty, interest, late charge or loss may be added thereto for nonpayment thereof, except for such Taxes (i) that may be the subject of a Permitted Contest, and (ii) the nonpayment or nondischarge of which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or result in a Lien against any Collateral, except for Permitted Liens, (c) will maintain, and cause each Subsidiary to maintain, in accordance with GAAP, appropriate reserves for the accrual of all of their respective obligations and liabilities, and (d) will not breach or permit any Subsidiary to breach, or permit to exist any default under, the terms of any lease, commitment, contract, instrument or obligation to which it is a party, or by which its properties or assets are bound, except for such breaches or defaults which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

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Section 4.3          Maintenance of Existence. Each Credit Party will preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect and in good standing, and will cause each Subsidiary that owns assets, the aggregate value of which exceeds $25,000 at any time to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect and in good standing (or the local equivalent), their respective existence and their respective rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of business.

Section 4.4          Maintenance of Property; Insurance.

(a)          Each Borrower will keep, and will cause each Subsidiary to keep, all property useful and necessary in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted. If all or any part of the Collateral useful or necessary in its business becomes damaged or destroyed, each Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, promptly and completely repair and/or restore the affected Collateral in a good and workmanlike manner, regardless of whether Lender agrees to disburse insurance proceeds or other sums to pay costs of the work of repair or reconstruction.

(b)          Each Borrower will maintain (i) casualty insurance on all real and personal property on an all risks basis (including the perils of flood, windstorm and quake), covering the repair and replacement cost of all such property and coverage, business interruption and rent loss coverages with extended period of indemnity (for the period required by Lender from time to time) and indemnity for extra expense, in each case without application of coinsurance and with agreed amount endorsements, (ii) general and professional liability insurance (including products/completed operations liability coverage), and (iii) such other insurance coverage in such amounts and with respect to such risks as Lender may request from time to time, pursuant to the Insurance Requirements attached hereto as Schedule 4.4; provided, however, that, in no event shall such insurance be in amounts or with coverage less than, or with carriers with qualifications inferior to, any of the insurance or carriers in existence as of the Closing Date (or required to be in existence after the Closing Date under a Financing Document). All such insurance shall be provided by insurers having an A.M. Best policyholders rating reasonably acceptable to Lender.

(c)          On or prior to the Closing Date, and at all times thereafter, each Borrower will cause Lender to be named as an additional insured, assignee and lender loss payee (which shall include, as applicable, identification as mortgagee), as applicable, on each insurance policy required to be maintained pursuant to this Section 4.4 pursuant to endorsements in form and substance acceptable to Lender. Borrowers shall deliver to Lender (i) on an annual basis, and upon the request of Lender from time to time full information as to the insurance carried, (ii) within five (5) days of receipt of notice from any insurer, a copy of any notice of cancellation, nonrenewal or material change in coverage from that existing on the date of this Agreement, (iii) forthwith, notice of any cancellation or nonrenewal of coverage by any Borrower, and (iv) at least 60 days prior to expiration of any policy of insurance, evidence of renewal of such insurance upon the terms and conditions herein required.

(d)          In the event any Borrower fails to provide Lender with evidence of the insurance coverage required by this Agreement, Lender may purchase insurance at Borrowers’ expense to protect Lender’s interests in the Collateral. This insurance may, but need not, protect such Borrower’s interests. The coverage purchased by Lender may not pay any claim made by such Borrower or any claim that is made against such Borrower in connection with the Collateral. Such Borrower may later cancel any insurance purchased by Lender, but only after providing Lender with evidence that such Borrower has obtained insurance as required by this Agreement. If Lender purchases insurance for the Collateral, Borrowers will be responsible for the costs of that insurance to the fullest extent provided by law, including interest and other charges imposed by Lender in connection with the placement of the insurance, until the effective date of the cancellation or expiration of the insurance. The costs of the insurance may be added to the Obligations. The costs of the insurance may be more than the cost of insurance such Borrower is able to obtain on its own.

Section 4.5          Compliance with Laws and Material Contracts. Each Borrower will comply, and cause each Subsidiary to comply, with the requirements of all applicable Laws and Material Contracts, except to the extent that failure to so comply could not reasonably be expected to (a) have a Material Adverse Effect, or (b) result in any Lien upon either (i) a material portion of the assets of any such Person in favor of any Governmental Authority, or (ii) any Collateral.

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Section 4.6          Inspection of Property; Books and Records. Each Borrower will keep, and will cause each Subsidiary to keep, proper books of record substantially in accordance with GAAP in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities.

Section 4.7          Use of Proceeds. Borrowers shall use the proceeds of the Term Loan solely for (a) transaction fees incurred in connection with the Financing Documents, (b) refinancing of Debt owing to Globus Medical, Inc. under the terms of its credit agreement and (c) for general business purposes and working capital needs of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as permitted hereunder. No portion of the proceeds of the Term Loan will be used for family, personal, agricultural or household use or the purchase of margin stock.

Section 4.8          Estoppel Certificates. After written request by Lender, Borrowers, within thirty (30) days and at their expense, will furnish Lender with a statement, duly acknowledged and certified, setting forth (a) the amount of the original principal amount of the Term Note, and the unpaid principal amount of the Term Note, (b) the rate of interest of the Term Note, (c) the date payments of interest and/or principal were last paid, (d) any offsets or defenses to the payment of the Obligations, and if any are alleged, the nature thereof, (e) that the Term Note and this Agreement have not been modified or if modified, giving particulars of such modification, and (f) that there has occurred and is then continuing no Default or if such Default exists, the nature thereof, the period of time it has existed, and the action being taken to remedy such Default. After written request by Lender, Borrowers, within fifteen (15) days and at their expense, will furnish Lender with a certificate, signed by a Responsible Officer of Borrowers, updating all of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and the other Financing Documents and certifying that all of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and the other Financing Documents, as updated pursuant to such certificate, are true, accurate and complete as of the date of such certificate.

Section 4.9          Notices of Litigation and Defaults. In addition to, but not in duplication of the information required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.1, Borrowers will give prompt written notice to Lender (a) of any litigation or governmental proceedings pending or threatened (in writing) against Borrowers or other Credit Party which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Borrowers or any other Credit Party or which in any manner calls into question the validity or enforceability of any Financing Document, (b) upon any Borrower becoming aware of the existence of any Default or Event of Default, (c) if any Credit Party is in breach or default under or with respect to any Material Contract, or if any Credit Party is in breach or default under or with respect to any other contract, agreement, lease or other instrument to which it is a party or by which its property is bound or affected, which breach or default could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (d) of any strikes or other labor disputes pending or, to any Borrower’s knowledge, threatened against any Credit Party, (e) if there is any claim by any other Person that any Credit Party in the conduct of its business is infringing on the Intellectual Property Rights of others, which claim could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (f) of all returns, recoveries, disputes and claims related to the Collateral could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.10          Hazardous Materials; Remediation.

(a)          If any release or disposal of Hazardous Materials shall occur or shall have occurred on any real property or any other assets of any Borrower or any other Credit Party, such Borrower will cause, or direct the applicable Credit Party to cause, the prompt containment and removal of such Hazardous Materials and the remediation of such real property or other assets as is necessary to comply with all Environmental Laws and to preserve the value of such real property or other assets. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Borrower shall, and shall cause each other Credit Party to, comply with each Environmental Law requiring the performance at any real property by any Borrower or any other Credit Party of activities in response to the release or threatened release of a Hazardous Material.

(b)          Borrowers will provide Lender within thirty (30) days after written demand therefor with a bond, letter of credit or similar financial assurance evidencing to the reasonable satisfaction of Lender that sufficient funds are available to pay the cost of removing, treating and disposing of any Hazardous Materials or Hazardous Materials Contamination and discharging any assessment which may be established on any property as a result thereof, such demand to be made, if at all, upon Lender’s reasonable business determination that the failure to remove, treat or dispose of any Hazardous Materials or Hazardous Materials Contamination, or the failure to discharge any such assessment could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

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Section 4.11          Further Assurances.

(a)          Each Borrower will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, at its own cost and expense, promptly and duly take, execute, acknowledge and deliver all such further acts, documents and assurances as may from time to time be necessary or as Lender may from time to time reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and purposes of the Financing Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, including all such actions to (i) establish, create, preserve, protect and perfect a first priority Lien (subject only to Permitted Liens) in favor of Lender on the Collateral (including Collateral acquired after the date hereof), and (ii) unless Lender shall agree otherwise in writing, cause all Subsidiaries of Borrowers to be jointly and severally obligated with the other Borrowers under all covenants and obligations under this Agreement, including the obligation to repay the Obligations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Borrowers shall, if requested by Lender, (x) within 60 days (or such longer period as agreed by Lender) of an acquisition by a Credit Party of any registered Intellectual Property or application for the registration of Intellectual Property, deliver to Lender a duly completed and executed supplement to the applicable Credit Party’s Patent Security Agreement or Trademark Security Agreement in the form of the respective Exhibit thereto, and (y) within 60 days (or such longer period as agreed by Lender) of an acquisition by any Credit Party of any rights under a license as a licensee with respect to any registered Intellectual Property or application for the registration of any Intellectual Property owned by another Person, execute any documents requested by Lender to establish, create, preserve, protect and perfect a first priority lien in favor of Lender, to the extent legally possible, in such Borrower’s rights under such license and shall use their commercially reasonable best efforts to obtain the written consent of the licensor which such license to the granting in favor of Lender of a Lien on such Borrower’s rights as licensee under such license. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, all documentation delivered to the Lender pursuant to this Section 4.11(a)(x) or 4.11(a)(y), including but not limited to any Patent Security Agreement or Trademark Security Agreement supplements, shall be held in accordance with Lenders’ customary procedures for handling confidential information and shall not be disclosed to any officer, director, employee, agent, consultant or contractor of Lender that is involved in any capacity in the research and development, sales, marketing, clinical, manufacturing, intellectual property or medical education divisions of Lender.

(b)          Upon receipt of an affidavit of an officer of Lender as to the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of the Term Note or any other Financing Document which is not of public record, and, in the case of any such mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of such Term Note or other applicable Financing Document, Borrowers will issue, in lieu thereof, a replacement Term Note or other applicable Financing Document, dated the date of such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Term Note or other Financing Document in the same principal amount thereof and otherwise of like tenor.

(c)          Upon the formation or acquisition of a new Subsidiary, or at the request of the Lender, Borrowers shall (i) pledge, have pledged or cause or have caused to be pledged to Lender pursuant to a pledge agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, all of the outstanding shares of equity interests or other equity interests of such new Subsidiary owned directly or indirectly by any Borrower, along with undated stock or equivalent powers for such certificates, executed in blank; (ii) unless Lender shall agree otherwise in writing, cause such new Subsidiary to take such other actions (including entering into or joining any Security Documents) as are necessary or advisable in the reasonable opinion of Lender in order to grant Lender a first priority Lien on all real and personal property of such Subsidiary in existence as of such date and in all after acquired property, which first priority Liens are required to be granted pursuant to this Agreement; (iii) unless Lender shall agree otherwise in writing, cause such new Subsidiary to either (at the election of Lender) become a Borrower hereunder with joint and several liability for all obligations of Borrowers hereunder and under the other Financing Documents pursuant to a joinder agreement or other similar agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Lender or to become a Guarantor of the obligations of Borrowers hereunder and under the other Financing Documents pursuant to a guaranty and suretyship agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Lender; and (iv) cause such new Subsidiary to deliver certified copies of such Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, together with good standing certificates, by-laws (or other operating agreement or governing documents), resolutions of the Board of Directors or other governing body, approving and authorize the execution and delivery of the Security Documents, incumbency certificates and to execute and/or deliver such other documents and legal opinions or to take such other actions as may be requested by Lender, in each case, in form and substance satisfactory to Lender.

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owned property with respect to any business location where any material portion of the Collateral, or the records relating to such Collateral and/or software and equipment relating to such records or Collateral, is stored or located, which agreement or letter shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Lender. Borrowers shall timely and fully pay and perform its obligations under all leases and other agreements with respect to each leased location where any Collateral, or any records related thereto, is or may be located.

Section 4.12          Power of Attorney. Each of the officers of Lender is hereby irrevocably made, constituted and appointed the true and lawful attorney for Borrowers (without requiring any of them to act as such) with full power of substitution to do the following after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default: (a) so long as Lender has provided not less than two (2) Business Days’ prior written notice to Borrower to perform the same and Borrower has failed to take such action, execute in the name of Borrowers any schedules, assignments, instruments, documents, and statements that Borrowers are obligated to give Lender under this Agreement; (b) take any action Borrowers are required to take under this Agreement; (c) so long as Lender has provided not less than two (2) Business Days’ prior written notice to Borrower to perform the same and Borrower has failed to take such action, do such other and further acts and deeds in the name of Borrowers that Lender may deem necessary or desirable to enforce any Account or other Collateral or perfect Lender’s security interest or Lien in any Collateral; and (d) do such other and further acts and deeds in the name of Borrowers that Lender may deem necessary or desirable to enforce its rights with regard to any Collateral. This power of attorney shall be irrevocable and coupled with an interest.

ARTICLE 5 - NEGATIVE COVENANTS

Each Borrower agrees that, so long as any Credit Exposure exists:

Section 5.1          Debt; Contingent Obligations. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to, any Debt, except for Permitted Debt. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Contingent Obligations, except for Permitted Contingent Obligations.

Section 5.2          Liens. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, except for Permitted Liens.

Section 5.3          Restricted Distributions. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, declare, order, pay, make or set apart any sum for any Restricted Distribution, except for Permitted Distributions.

Section 5.4          Restrictive Agreements. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly (a) enter into or assume any agreement prohibiting the creation or assumption of any Lien upon its properties or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (except as provided by the Financing Documents and the MidCap Facility Agreement), or (b) create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction of any kind (except as provided by the Financing Documents and the MidCap Facility Agreement) on the ability of any Subsidiary to: (i) pay or make Restricted Distributions to any Borrower or any Subsidiary; (ii) pay any Debt owed to any Borrower or any Subsidiary; (iii) make loans or advances to any Borrower or any Subsidiary; or (iv) transfer any of its property or assets to any Borrower or any Subsidiary.

Section 5.5          Payments and Modifications of Subordinated Debt. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly (a) declare, pay, make or set aside any amount for payment in respect of Subordinated Debt, except for payments made in full compliance with and expressly permitted under the Subordination Agreement, (b) amend or otherwise modify the terms of any Subordinated Debt, except for amendments or modifications made in full compliance with the Subordination Agreement, (c) declare, pay, make or set aside any amount for payment in respect of any Debt hereinafter incurred that, by its terms, or by separate agreement, is subordinated to the Obligations, except for payments made in full compliance with and expressly permitted under the subordination provisions applicable thereto, or (d) amend or otherwise modify the terms of any such Debt if the effect of such amendment or modification is to (i) increase the interest rate or fees on, or change the manner or timing of payment of, such Debt, (ii) accelerate or shorten the dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due on, or the principal amount of, such Debt, (iii) change in a manner adverse to any Credit Party or Lender any event of default or add or make more restrictive any covenant with respect to such Debt, (iv) change the prepayment provisions of 

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such Debt or any of the defined terms related thereto, (v) change the subordination provisions thereof (or the subordination terms of any guaranty thereof), or (vi) change or amend any other term if such change or amendment would materially increase the obligations of the obligor or confer additional material rights on the holder of such Debt in a manner adverse to any Borrower, any Subsidiaries or Lender. Borrowers shall, prior to entering into any such amendment or modification, deliver to Lender reasonably in advance of the execution thereof, any final or execution form copy thereof.

Section 5.6          Consolidations, Mergers and Sales of Assets; Change in Control. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly (a) consolidate or merge or amalgamate with or into any Person that is not a Credit Party, or (b) consummate any Asset Dispositions other than Permitted Asset Dispositions and other dispositions approved by Lender. No Borrower will suffer or permit to occur any Change in Control with respect to itself, any Subsidiary or any Guarantor other than Permitted Transfers with respect to such Persons.

Section 5.7          Purchase of Assets, Investments.  No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, acquire or own or enter into any agreement to acquire or own any Investment in any Person other than Permitted Investments.

Section 5.8          Transactions with Affiliates. Except as otherwise disclosed on Schedule 5.8, and except for (x) transactions that are disclosed to and approved by Lender in advance of being entered into, (y) transactions which contain terms that are no less favorable to the applicable Borrower or any Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those which might be obtained from a third party not an Affiliate of any Credit Party, or (z) transactions constituting Permitted Intercompany Advances, no Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any transaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate of any Borrower

Section 5.9          Modification of Organizational Documents. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, amend or otherwise modify any Organizational Documents of such Person, except for Permitted Modifications.

Section 5.10          Modification of Certain Agreements. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, amend or otherwise modify any Material Contract, if such amendment or modification could reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the rights, interests or privileges of Lender hereunder or its ability to enforce the same.

Section 5.11          Conduct of Business. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, engage in any line of business other than those businesses engaged in on the Closing Date and described on Schedule 5.11 and businesses reasonably related thereto.

Section 5.12          Lease Payments. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, incur or assume (whether pursuant to a Guarantee or otherwise) any liability for rental payments except in the Ordinary Course of Business.

Section 5.13          Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into any arrangement with any Person whereby, in a substantially contemporaneous transaction, any Borrower or any Subsidiaries sells or transfers all or substantially all of its right, title and interest in an asset and, in connection therewith, acquires or leases back the right to use such asset.

Section 5.14          Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws. Lender hereby notifies Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of Anti-Terrorism Laws, and Lender’s policies and practices, Lender is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies Borrowers and its principals, which information includes the name and address of each Borrower and its principals and such other information that will allow Lender to identify such party in accordance with Anti-Terrorism Laws. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, knowingly enter into any Material Contracts with any Blocked Person or any Person listed on the OFAC Lists. Each Borrower shall immediately notify Lender if such Borrower has knowledge that any Borrower, any additional Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates or agents acting or benefiting in any capacity in 

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connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement is or becomes a Blocked Person or (a) is convicted on, (b) pleads nolo contendere to, (c) is indicted on, or (d) is arraigned and held over on charges involving money laundering or predicate crimes to money laundering. No Borrower will, or will permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, (i) conduct any business or engage in any transaction or dealing with any Blocked Person, including, without limitation, the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No.13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) engage in or conspire 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 Executive Order No. 13224 or other Anti-Terrorism Law.

Section 5.15          Orthotec Litigation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article 5 or otherwise in this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, Borrowers shall be permitted to make (i) pursuant to that certain Settlement and Release Agreement dated as of August 13, 2014 (the “Orthotec Settlement Agreement”), by and among the Alphatec Parties, the Healthpoint Parties and the OrthoTec Parties (each as defined therein), Orthotec Settlement Payments each quarter in an aggregate amount not to exceed one million one hundred thousand dollars ($1,100,000) and (ii) pursuant to that certain Forbearance Agreement dated as of July 1, 2016 (the “Forbearance Agreement”), by and among Alphatec Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates, Healthpoint Capital, LLC, HealthpointCapital Partners, L.P., and HealthpointCapital Partners II, L.P. (collectively, “Healthpoint”), a payment or series of payments on or prior to September 30, 2016 to Healthpoint in an aggregate amount not to exceed nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($950,000); provided, however, at the time of each such payment, (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (ii) no party to that certain Settlement Agreement or any other settlement agreement, forbearance agreement or other settlement arrangement with respect to the Orthotec, LLC matter, including the Orthotec Litigation (collectively, the “Orthotec Settlement Agreement”) shall have breached or violated any such agreement or arrangement in any material respect, which breach or violation has not been waived or cured, and the Orthotec Settlement Agreement shall be in full force and effect and (iii) such payment shall not be prohibited by or otherwise violate the terms of the MidCap Facility Agreement.

ARTICLE 6 - FINANCIAL COVENANT

Section 6.1          Additional Defined Terms. The following additional definitions are hereby appended to Section 1.1 of this Agreement:

“Defined Period” means, for purposes of calculating the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, for (a) each of the months ending April 30, 2020, May 31, 2020, June 30, 2020, July 31, 2020, August 31, 2020, September 30, 2020, October 31, 2020, November 30, 2020, December 31, 2020, January 31, 2021 and February 28, 2021, the respective one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven month period immediately preceding such month end date (which period shall include the month in which the respective month end date occurs), and (b) each month thereafter, the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding such month.

“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, for any Defined Period, the ratio of (a) Operating Cash Flow to (b) Fixed Charges.

“Fixed Charges” has the meaning provided in the Compliance Certificate.

“Liquidity” means, the sum of (a) unrestricted cash on the balance sheet, plus (b) Revolving Loan Availability.

“Operating Cash Flow” has the meaning provided in the Compliance Certificate.

Section 6.2          Liquidity.  Borrowers will not permit the Liquidity of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries on a Consolidated Basis, as of the last day of each month ending during the period from the date hereof through and including March 31, 2020, to be less than Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00).

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Section 6.3          Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. Borrowers will not permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for any Defined Period commencing on and after the period ending April 30, 2020, as tested monthly, to be less than 1.00 to 1.00 for each month.

Section 6.4          Evidence of Compliance. Borrowers shall furnish to Lender, together with the financial reporting required of Borrowers in Section 4.1 hereof, a Compliance Certificate as evidence of Borrowers’ compliance with the covenants in this Article and evidence that no Event of Default specified in this Article has occurred. The Compliance Certificate shall include, without limitation, (a) a statement and report, on a form approved by Lender, detailing Borrowers’ calculations, and (b) if requested by Lender, back-up documentation (including, without limitation, invoices, receipts and other evidence of costs incurred during such quarter as Lender shall reasonably require) evidencing the propriety of the calculations.

ARTICLE 7 - CONDITIONS

Section 7.1          Conditions to Closing. The obligation of Lender to make the Term Loan and purchase the Warrants on the Closing Date shall be subject to the receipt by Lender of each agreement, document and instrument set forth on Schedule 7.1, each in form and substance satisfactory to Lender, and such other closing deliverables reasonably requested by Lender, and to the payment of the closing fee described in Section 2.9 and all expenses and other amounts due and payable under each Financing Document.

Section 7.2          Searches. Before the Closing Date, Lender shall have the right to perform, all at Borrowers’ expense, the searches described in clauses (a), (b), and (c) below against Borrowers and any other Credit Party, the results of which are to be consistent with Borrowers’ representations and warranties under this Agreement and the satisfactory results of which shall be a condition precedent to all advances of Loan proceeds: (a) UCC searches with the Secretary of State of the jurisdiction in which the applicable Person is organized; (b) judgment, pending litigation, federal tax lien, personal property tax lien, and corporate and partnership tax lien searches, in each jurisdiction searched under clause (a) above; and (c) searches of applicable corporate, limited liability company, partnership and related records to confirm the continued existence, organization and good standing of the applicable Person and the exact legal name under which such Person is organized.

Section 7.3          Post-Closing Requirements. Borrowers shall complete each of the post-closing obligations and/or provide to Lender each of the documents, instruments, agreements and information listed on Schedule 7.3 attached hereto on or before the date set forth for each such item thereon, each of which shall be completed or provided in form and substance satisfactory to Lender.

ARTICLE 8 - REGULATORY MATTERS

Section 8.1          Healthcare Permits.

(a)          Each Credit Party (i) has each Healthcare Permit and other rights from, and has made all declarations and filings with, all applicable Governmental Authorities, all self-regulatory authorities and all courts and other tribunals necessary to engage in the ownership, management and operation of the businesses of such Credit Party, and (ii) has no knowledge that any Governmental Authority is considering limiting, suspending or revoking any such Healthcare Permit. All such Healthcare Permits are valid and in full force and effect and Credit Parties are in material compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Healthcare Permits, except where failure to be in such compliance or for a Healthcare Permit to be valid and in full force and effect would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)          Each Credit Party will timely file or caused to be timely filed (after giving effect to any extension duly obtained), all notifications, reports, submissions, Permit renewals and reports of every kind whatsoever required by applicable Laws (which reports will be materially accurate and complete in all respects and not misleading in any respect).

(c)          Each Credit Party will maintain in full force and effect, and free from restrictions, probations, conditions or known conflicts which would materially impair the use or operation of any Credit Party, all Healthcare Permits necessary under Healthcare Laws to carry on the business of Borrowers as it is conducted on the Closing Date.

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Section 8.2          FDA Regulatory Matters.

(a)          Each Credit Party has all Permits issued or allowed by the FDA or any comparable governmental authority (including but not limited to new drug applications, abbreviated new drug applications, biologics license applications, investigational new drug applications, over-the-counter drug monograph, device pre-market approval applications, device pre-market notifications, investigational device exemptions, product recertifications, manufacturing approvals and authorizations, CE Marks, pricing and reimbursement approvals, labeling approvals or their foreign equivalent, controlled substance registrations, and wholesale distributor permits (hereinafter “Healthcare Permits”) that are required to conduct its business as currently conducted, or as proposed to be conducted. To the knowledge of Borrowers, neither the FDA nor any comparable governmental authority is considering limiting, suspending, or revoking such Permits or changing the marketing classification or labeling or other significant parameter affecting the products of a Credit Party. To the knowledge of Borrowers, there is no false or misleading information or significant omission in any product application or other submission to the FDA or any comparable governmental authority. Each Credit Party has fulfilled and performed their obligations under each Permit, and no event has occurred or condition or state of facts exists which would constitute a breach or default under, or would cause revocation or termination of, any such Permit. To the knowledge of Borrowers, any third party that is a manufacturer or contractor for a Credit Party is in compliance with all Permits required by the FDA or comparable governmental authority and all Healthcare Laws insofar as they reasonably pertain to the manufacture of product components or products regulated as medical devices and marketed or distributed by a Credit Party.

(b)          All products designed, developed, manufactured, prepared, assembled, packaged, tested, labeled, distributed or marketed by or on behalf of each Credit Party that are subject to the jurisdiction of the FDA or a comparable governmental authority have been and are being designed, developed, tested, manufactured, prepared, assembled, packaged, distributed, labeled and marketed in compliance with the Healthcare Laws, including, without limitation, clinical and non-clinical evaluation, product approval or clearance, good manufacturing practices, labeling, advertising and promotion, record-keeping, establishment registration and device listing, reporting of recalls, and adverse event reporting, and have been and are being tested, investigated, designed, developed, manufactured, prepared, assembled, packaged, labeled, distributed, marketed, and sold in compliance with all applicable Requirements of Law.

(c)          Each Credit Party is not subject to any obligation arising under an administrative or regulatory action, proceeding, or inspection by a governmental authority, including the FDA, warning letter, notice of violation letter, consent decree, request for information or other notice, response or commitment made to or with the FDA or any comparable governmental authority. There is no act, omission, event, or circumstance of which Borrowers have knowledge that would reasonably be expected to give rise to or lead to any civil, criminal or administrative action, suit, demand, claim, complaint, hearing, investigation, demand letter, warning letter, proceeding or request for information pending against Borrowers and, to Borrowers’ knowledge, Borrowers have no liability (whether actual or contingent) for failure to comply with any Healthcare Laws. There has not been any violation of any Healthcare Laws by Borrowers in their product development efforts, submissions, record keeping and reports to the FDA or any other comparable governmental authority that could reasonably be expected to require or lead to investigation, corrective action or enforcement, regulatory or administrative action that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of Borrowers, there are no civil or criminal proceedings relating to Borrowers or any officer, director or employee of Borrowers that involve a matter within or related to the FDA’s any other comparable governmental authority’s jurisdiction.

(d)          As of the Closing Date, Borrowers are not undergoing any inspection related to any activities or products of the Borrowers that are subject to Healthcare Laws, or any other governmental authority investigation.

(e)          During the period of six calendar years immediately preceding the Closing Date, Borrowers have not introduced into commercial distribution any products manufactured by or on behalf of Borrowers or distributed any products on behalf of another manufacturer that were upon their shipment by Borrowers adulterated or misbranded in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 331. Borrowers have not received any notice or communication from the FDA or comparable governmental authority alleging material noncompliance with any Healthcare Law. No product has been seized, withdrawn, recalled, detained, or subject to a suspension (other than in the Ordinary Course of Business) of research, manufacturing, distribution or commercialization activity, and there are no facts or circumstances reasonably likely to cause (i) the seizure, denial, withdrawal, recall, detention, public health notification, safety alert or suspension 

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of manufacturing or other activity relating to any product; (ii) a change in the labeling of any product suggesting a compliance issue or risk; or (iii) a termination, seizure or suspension of manufacturing, researching, distributing or marketing of any product. No proceedings in the United States or any other jurisdiction seeking the withdrawal, recall, revocation, suspension, import detention, or seizure of any product are pending or threatened against any Borrower.

(f)          Neither Borrowers nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or contractors (i) have been excluded or debarred from any federal healthcare program (including without limitation Medicare or Medicaid) or any other federal program or (ii) have received notice from the FDA or any other comparable governmental authority with respect to debarment or disqualification of any person that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither Borrowers nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or contractors have been convicted of any crime or engaged in any conduct for which (x) debarment is mandated or permitted by 21 U.S.C. § 335a or (y) such person or entity could be excluded from participating in the federal health care programs under Section 1128 of the Social Security Act or any similar law. No officer and to the knowledge of any Borrower, no employee or agent of a Borrower, has (aa) made any untrue statement of material fact or fraudulent statement to the FDA or any other comparable governmental authority; (bb) failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA or any other comparable governmental authority; or (cc) committed an act, made a statement, or failed to make a statement that would reasonably be expected to provide the basis for the FDA or any other comparable governmental authority to invoke its policy respecting “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities,” as set forth in 56 Fed. Reg. 46191 (September 10, 1991).

(g)          Borrowers have not granted rights to design, develop, manufacture, produce, assemble, distribute, license, prepare, package, label, market or sell its products to any other person nor is it bound by any agreement that affects Borrowers’ exclusive right to design, develop, manufacture, produce, assemble, distribute, license, prepare, package, label, market or sell its products.

(h)          Except as set forth on Schedule 8.2(h), (i) Borrowers and their respective contract manufacturers are, and have been for the past six calendar years, in compliance with, and each of its products in current commercial distribution is designed, manufactured, prepared, assembled, packaged, labeled, stored, installed, serviced, and processed in compliance with, the Quality System Regulation set forth in 21 C.F.R. Part 820, or comparable quality management system, including, but not limited to, ISO 13485, as applicable, (ii) Borrowers are in compliance with the written procedures, record-keeping and reporting requirements required by the FDA or any comparable governmental authority pertaining to the reporting of adverse events and recalls involving any of Borrowers’ products, including, as the case may be, Medical Device Reporting set forth in 21 C.F.R. Part 803 and Reports of Corrections and Removals set forth in 21 C.F.R. Part 806, (iii) Borrowers’ products are and have been labeled, promoted, and advertised in accordance with their Permit or within the scope of an exemption from obtaining such Permit, and (iv) Borrowers’ establishments are registered with the FDA, as applicable, and each product of Borrowers, if any, is listed with the FDA under the applicable FDA registration and listing regulations for medical devices.

(i)          Lender agrees that any breach of the terms of this Section 8.2 as a result of any action or inaction on the part of Structure Medical shall not be a breach of this Section 8.2 by Borrowers.

ARTICLE 9 - SECURITY AGREEMENT

Section 9.1          Generally.

(a)          As security for the payment and performance of the Obligations, and for the payment and performance of all obligations under the Affiliated Financing Documents (if any), and without limiting any other grant of a Lien and security interest in any Security Document, each Credit Party hereby assigns and grants to Lender, for its benefit, subject to the MidCap Intercreditor Agreement, a continuing first priority Lien on and security interest in, upon, and to the personal property set forth on Schedule 9.1 attached hereto and made a part hereof.

(b)          Each Credit Party hereby authorizes Lender to file without the signature of such Credit Party one or more UCC financing statements (or, with respect to any Credit Party organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or any jurisdiction thereof, the local equivalent, if any) relating to liens on personal property relating to all or any part of the Collateral, which financing statements may list Lender as the “secured party” and such Credit Party as the “debtor” and which describe and indicate the collateral covered thereby as all or any part of the 

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Collateral under the Financing Documents (including an indication of the collateral covered by any such financing statement as “all assets” of such Credit Party now owned or hereafter acquired), in such jurisdictions as Lender from time to time determines are appropriate, and to file without the signature of such Credit Party any continuations of or corrective amendments to any such financing statements, in any such case in order for Lender to perfect, preserve or protect the Liens, rights and remedies of Lender with respect to the Collateral. Each Credit Party also ratifies its authorization for Lender to have filed in any jurisdiction any initial financing statements or amendments thereto if filed prior to the date hereof.

Section 9.2          Representations and Warranties and Covenants Relating to Collateral.

(a)          Schedule 9.2 sets forth (i) each chief executive office and principal place of business of each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries, and (ii) all of the addresses (including all warehouses) at which any of the Collateral is located and/or books and records of any Credit Party regarding any of the Collateral are kept, which such Schedule 9.2 indicates in each case which Credit Party or Credit Parties have Collateral and/or books and records located at such address, and, in the case of any such address not owned by one or more of the Credit Parties, indicates the nature of such location (e.g., leased business location operated by such Credit Party, third party warehouse, consignment location, processor location, etc.) and the name and address of the third party owning and/or operating such location.

(b)          Without limiting the generality of Section 3.2, except as indicated on Schedule 3.19 with respect to any rights of any Credit Party as a licensee under any license of Intellectual Property owned by another Person, and except for the filing of financing statements under the UCC, as applicable, no authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or consent of any other Person is required for (i) the grant by each Credit Party to Lender of the security interests and Liens in the Collateral provided for under this Agreement and the other Security Documents (if any), or (ii) the exercise by Lender of its rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral provided for under this Agreement and the other Security Documents or under any applicable Law, including the UCC, if applicable, and neither any such grant of Liens in favor of Lender or exercise of rights by Lender shall violate or cause a default under any agreement between any Credit Party and any other Person relating to any such collateral, including any license to which a Credit Party is a party, whether as licensor or licensee, with respect to any Intellectual Property, whether owned by such Credit Party or any other Person.

(c)          As of the Closing Date, no Credit Party has any ownership interest in any Chattel Paper (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC), letter of credit rights, commercial tort claims, Instruments, documents or investment property (other than equity interests in any Subsidiaries of such Credit Party disclosed on Schedule 3.4) and the Credit Parties shall give notice to Lender promptly upon the acquisition by any Credit Party of any such Chattel Paper, letter of credit rights, commercial tort claims, Instruments, documents, investment property. No Person other than Lender or MidCap has “control” (as defined in Article 9 of the UCC) over any Deposit Account, investment property (including Securities Accounts and commodities account), letter of credit rights or electronic chattel paper in which any Credit Party has any interest (except for such control arising by operation of law in favor of any bank or securities intermediary or commodities intermediary with whom any Deposit Account, Securities Account or commodities account of Borrowers is maintained).

(d)          No Credit Party shall take any of the following actions or make any of the following changes unless the Credit Parties have given at least thirty (30) days prior written notice to Lender of Credit Parties’ intention to take any such action (which such written notice shall include an updated version of any Schedule impacted by such change) and have executed any and all documents, instruments and agreements and taken any other actions which Lender may request after receiving such written notice in order to protect and preserve the Liens, rights and remedies of Lender with respect to the Collateral: (i) change the legal name or organizational identification number of any Credit Party as it appears in official filings in the jurisdiction of its organization, (ii) change the jurisdiction of incorporation or formation of any Credit Party or allow any Credit Party to designate any jurisdiction as an additional jurisdiction of incorporation for such Credit Party, or change the type of entity that it is, or (iii) change its chief executive office, principal place of business, or the location of its records concerning the Collateral or move any Collateral to or place any Collateral on any location that is not then listed on the Schedules (other than any movement of Collateral in the Ordinary Course of Business) and/or establish any business location at any location that is not then listed on the Schedules.

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(e)          Except (i) in the Ordinary Course of Business and (ii) Inventory in an aggregate amount of $25,000, no Inventory or other Collateral shall at any time be in the possession or control of any warehouse, consignee, bailee or any of Credit Parties’ agents or processors without prior written notice to Lender and the receipt by Lender, if Lender has so requested, of warehouse receipts, consignment agreements or bailee lien waivers (as applicable) reasonably satisfactory to Lender prior to the commencement of such possession or control. The Credit Parties have notified Lender that Inventory is currently located at the locations set forth on Schedule 9.2. The Credit Parties shall, upon the request of Lender, notify any such warehouse, consignee, bailee, agent or processor of the security interests and Liens in favor of Lender created pursuant to this Agreement and the Security Documents, instruct such Person to hold all such Collateral for Lender’s account subject to Lender’s instructions and shall obtain an acknowledgement from such Person that such Person holds the Collateral for Lender’s benefit.

(f)          The Credit Parties shall cause all equipment and other tangible Personal Property other than Inventory to be maintained and preserved in the same condition, repair and in working order as when new, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and shall promptly make or cause to be made all repairs, replacements and other improvements in connection therewith that are necessary or desirable to such end. Upon request of Lender, the Credit Parties shall promptly deliver to Lender any and all certificates of title, applications for title or similar evidence of ownership of all such tangible Personal Property and shall cause Lender to be named as lienholder on any such certificate of title or other evidence of ownership. The Credit Parties shall not permit any such tangible Personal Property to become fixtures to real estate unless such real estate is subject to a Lien in favor of Lender.

(g)          As of the Closing Date or, if any Promissory Note is entered into after the Closing Date, within thirty (30) days of the date of such Promissory Note, each Credit Party shall endorse, assign and deliver each Promissory Note to the Lender, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Lender. No Credit Party shall, without the prior written consent of Lender, (A) waive or release any obligation of any person that is obligated under any Promissory Note, (B) take or omit to take any action or knowingly 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 the Promissory Notes, or (C) assign or surrender its rights and interests under any Promissory Notes or terminate, cancel, modify, change, supplement or amend the Promissory Notes.

(h)          The Credit Parties shall furnish to Lender from time to time any statements and schedules further identifying or describing the Collateral and any other information, reports or evidence concerning the Collateral as Lender may reasonably request from time to time.

ARTICLE 10 - EVENTS OF DEFAULT

Section 10.1          Events of Default. For purposes of the Financing Documents, the occurrence of any of the following conditions and/or events, whether voluntary or involuntary, by operation of law or otherwise, shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

(a)  (i)    any Borrower shall fail to pay when due any principal, interest, premium or fee under any Financing Document or any other amount payable under any Financing Document and such failure continues for a period of five (5) days, (ii) there shall occur any default in the performance of or compliance with any of the following sections of this Agreement: Section 4.4(b), Article 5 and Article 6 and Section 7.3, or (iii) there shall occur any default in the performance of or compliance with Section 4.1 of this Agreement and such failure continues for a period of five (5) days;

(b)          any Credit Party defaults in the performance of or compliance with any term contained in this Agreement or in any other Financing Document (other than occurrences described in other provisions of this Section 10.1 for which a different grace or cure period is specified or for which no grace or cure period is specified and thereby constitute immediate Events of Default) and such default is not remedied by the Credit Party or waived by Lender within fifteen (15) days after the earlier of (i) receipt by Borrower Representative of notice from Lender of such default, or (ii) actual knowledge of any Borrower or any other Credit Party of such default;

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Financing Document is incorrect in any respect (or in any material respect if such representation, warranty, certification or statement is not by its terms already qualified as to materiality) when made (or deemed made);

(d)          failure of any Credit Party to pay when due or within any applicable grace period any principal, interest or other amount on Debt (other than the Term Loan), or the occurrence of any breach, default, condition or event with respect to any Debt (other than the Term Loan), if the effect of such failure or occurrence is to cause or to permit the holder or holders of any such Debt, to cause, Debt or other liabilities having an individual principal amount in excess of $500,000 or having an aggregate principal amount in excess of $500,000 to become or be declared due prior to its stated maturity;

(e)          any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Borrower shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due, or shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the foregoing;

(f)          an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Borrower seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of forty-five (45) days; or an order for relief shall be entered against any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of a Borrower under applicable federal bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law in respect of (i) bankruptcy, liquidation, winding-up, dissolution or suspension of general operations, (ii) composition, rescheduling, reorganization, arrangement or readjustment of, or other relief from, or stay of proceedings to enforce, some or all of the debts or obligations, or (iii) possession, foreclosure, seizure or retention, sale or other disposition of, or other proceedings to enforce security over, all or any substantial part of the assets of such Credit Party or Subsidiary;

(g)  (i)    institution of any steps by any Person to terminate a Pension Plan if as a result of such termination any Credit Party or any member of the Controlled Group could be required to make a contribution to such Pension Plan, or could incur a liability or obligation to such Pension Plan, in excess of $250,000, (ii) a contribution failure occurs with respect to any Pension Plan sufficient to give rise to a Lien under Section 302(f) of ERISA, or (iii) there shall occur any withdrawal or partial withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan and the withdrawal liability (without unaccrued interest) to Multiemployer Plans as a result of such withdrawal (including any outstanding withdrawal liability that any Credit Party or any member of the Controlled Group have incurred on the date of such withdrawal) exceeds $100,000;

(h)          one or more judgments or orders for the payment of money (not paid or fully covered by insurance maintained in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement and as to which the relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage) aggregating in excess of $1,000,000 shall be rendered against any or all Credit Parties and either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon any such judgments or orders, or (ii) there shall be any period of twenty (20) consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of any such judgments or orders, by reason of a pending appeal, bond or otherwise, shall not be in effect;

(i)          any Lien created by any of the Security Documents shall at any time fail to constitute a valid and perfected Lien on all of the Collateral purported to be encumbered thereby, subject to no prior or equal Lien except Permitted Liens, or any Credit Party shall so assert;

(j)          the indictment of any Credit Party for a felony or any claim of fraud, misrepresentation or other crime of moral turpitude;

(k)          a default or event of default occurs under any Guarantee of any portion of the Obligations;

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(l)          any Borrower makes any payment on account of any Debt that has been subordinated to any of the Obligations other than payments specifically permitted by the terms of a Subordination Agreement;

(m)          if any Borrower is or becomes an entity whose equity is registered with the SEC, and/or is publicly traded on and/or registered with a public securities exchange, such Borrower’s equity fails to remain registered with the SEC in good standing, and/or such equity fails to remain publicly traded on and registered with a public securities exchange; or

(n)          there shall occur any default or event of default under the Affiliated Financing Documents or any Material Contract which results in a liability to any Borrower in excess of $5,000,000.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Credit Party fails to comply with any same provision of this Agreement two (2) times in any twelve (12) month period and Lender has given to Borrower Representative in connection with each such failure any notice to which Borrowers would be entitled under this Section before such failure could become an Event of Default, then all subsequent failures by a Credit Party to comply with such provision of this Agreement shall effect an immediate Event of Default (without the expiration of any applicable cure period) with respect to all subsequent failures by a Credit Party to comply with such provision of this Agreement, and Lender thereupon may exercise any remedy set forth in this Article 10 without affording Borrowers any opportunity to cure such Event of Default.

All cure periods provided for in this Section 10.1 shall run concurrently with any cure period provided for in any applicable Financing Documents under which the default occurred.

Section 10.2          Acceleration of Term Loan. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Lender may, by notice to Borrower Representative declare all or any portion of the Obligations to be, and the Obligations shall thereupon become, immediately due and payable, with accrued interest thereon, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Borrower and Borrowers will pay the same; provided, however, that in the case of any of the Events of Default specified in Section 10.1(e) or 10.1(f) above, without any notice to any Borrower or any other act by Lender, all of the Obligations shall become immediately and automatically due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Borrower and Borrowers will pay the same.

Section 10.3          UCC Remedies.

(a)          Upon the occurrence of and during the continuance of an Event of Default under this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, Lender, in addition to all other rights, options, and remedies granted to Lender under this Agreement or at law or in equity, may exercise, subject to the MidCap Intercreditor Agreement, either directly or through one or more assignees or designees, all rights and remedies granted to it under all Financing Documents and under the UCC in effect in the applicable jurisdiction(s) and under any other applicable law; including, without limitation:

(i)          the right to take possession of, send notices regarding, and collect directly the Collateral, with or without judicial process;

(ii)         the right to (by its own means or with judicial assistance) enter any of Borrowers’ premises and take possession of the Collateral, or render it unusable, or to render it usable or saleable, or dispose of the Collateral on such premises in compliance with subsection (iii) below and to take possession of Borrowers’ original books and records, to obtain access to Borrowers’ data processing equipment, computer hardware and software relating to the Collateral and to use all of the foregoing and the information contained therein in any manner Lender deems appropriate, without any liability for rent, storage, utilities, or other sums, and Borrowers shall not resist or interfere with such action (if Borrowers’ books and records are prepared or maintained by an accounting service, contractor or other third party agent, Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorize such service, contractor or other agent, upon notice by Lender to such Person that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to deliver to Lender or its designees such books and records, and to follow Lender’s instructions with respect to further services to be rendered);

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(iii)        the right to require Borrowers at Borrowers’ expense to assemble all or any part of the Collateral and make it available to Lender at any place designated by Lender; and/or

(iv)        the right to notify postal authorities to change the address for delivery of Borrowers’ mail to an address designated by Lender and to receive, open and dispose of all mail addressed to any Borrower.

(b)          Each Borrower agrees that a notice received by it at least ten (10) days before the time of any intended public sale, or the time after which any private sale or other disposition of the Collateral is to be made, shall be deemed to be reasonable notice of such sale or other disposition. If permitted by applicable law, any perishable Collateral which threatens to speedily decline in value or which is sold on a recognized market may be sold immediately by Lender without prior notice to Borrowers. At any sale or disposition of Collateral, Lender may (to the extent permitted by applicable law) purchase all or any part of the Collateral, free from any right of redemption by Borrowers, which right is hereby waived and released. Each Borrower covenants and agrees not to interfere with or impose any obstacle to Lender’s exercise of its rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral. Lender shall have no obligation to clean- up or otherwise prepare the Collateral for sale. Lender may comply with any applicable state or federal law requirements in connection with a disposition of the Collateral and compliance will not be considered to adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral. Lender may sell the Collateral without giving any warranties as to the Collateral. Lender may specifically disclaim any warranties of title or the like. This procedure will not be considered to adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral. If Lender sells any of the Collateral upon credit, Borrowers will be credited only with payments actually made by the purchaser, received by Lender and applied to the indebtedness of the purchaser. In the event the purchaser fails to pay for the Collateral, Lender may resell the Collateral and Borrowers shall be credited with the proceeds of the sale. Borrowers shall remain liable for any deficiency if the proceeds of any sale or disposition of the Collateral are insufficient to pay all Obligations.

(c)          Without restricting the generality of the foregoing and for the purposes aforesaid, each Borrower hereby appoints and constitutes Lender its lawful attorney-in-fact with full power of substitution in the Collateral, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, to (i) use unadvanced funds remaining under this Agreement or which may be reserved, escrowed or set aside for any purposes hereunder at any time, or to advance funds in excess of the face amount of the Term Note, (ii) pay, settle or compromise all existing bills and claims, which may be Liens or security interests, or to avoid such bills and claims becoming Liens against the Collateral, (iii) execute all applications and certificates in the name of such Borrower and to prosecute and defend all actions or proceedings in connection with the Collateral, and (iv) do any and every act which such Borrower might do in its own behalf; it being understood and agreed that this power of attorney in this subsection (c) shall be a power coupled with an interest and cannot be revoked.

(d)          Lender is hereby granted a non-exclusive, royalty-free license or other right to use, without charge, Borrowers’ labels, mask works, rights of use of any name, any other Intellectual Property and advertising matter, and any similar property as it pertains to the Collateral, in completing production of, advertising for sale, and selling any Collateral and, in connection with Lender’s exercise of its rights under this Article, Borrowers’ rights under all licenses (whether as licensor or licensee) and all franchise agreements inure to Lender’s benefit.

Section 10.4          Default Rate of Interest. At the election of Lender, after the occurrence of an Event of Default and for so long as it continues, the Term Loan and other Obligations shall bear interest at rates that are five percent (5.0%) per annum in excess of the rates otherwise payable under this Agreement.

Section 10.5          Application of Proceeds.

(a)          Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Borrower irrevocably waives the right to direct the application of any and all payments at any time or times thereafter received by Lender from or on behalf of such Borrower or any Guarantor of all or any part of the Obligations, and, as between Borrowers on the one hand and Lender on the other, Lender shall have the continuing and exclusive right to apply and to reapply any and all payments received against the Obligations in such manner as Lender may deem advisable notwithstanding any previous application by Lender.

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(b)          Following the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, but absent the occurrence and continuance of an Acceleration Event, Lender shall apply any and all payments received by Lender in respect of the Obligations, and any and all proceeds of Collateral received by Lender, in such order as Lender may from time to time elect.

(c)          Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if an Acceleration Event shall have occurred, and so long as it continues, Lender shall apply any and all payments received by Lender in respect of the Obligations, and any and all proceeds of Collateral received by Lender, in the following order: first, to all fees, costs, indemnities, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred by or owing to Lender with respect to this Agreement, the other Financing Documents or the Collateral; second, to accrued and unpaid interest on the Obligations (including any interest which, but for the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, would have accrued on such amounts); third, to the principal amount of the Obligations outstanding; and fourth to any other indebtedness or obligations of Borrowers owing to Lender under the Financing Documents. Any balance remaining shall be delivered to Borrowers or to whomever may be lawfully entitled to receive such balance or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct. In carrying out the foregoing and (y) amounts received shall be applied in the numerical order provided until exhausted prior to the application to the next succeeding category.

Section 10.6          Waivers.

(a)          Except as otherwise provided for in this Agreement and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Borrower waives: (i) presentment, demand and protest, and notice of presentment, dishonor, intent to accelerate, acceleration, protest, default, nonpayment, maturity, release, compromise, settlement, extension or renewal of any or all Financing Documents, the Term Note or any other notes, commercial paper, accounts, contracts, documents, Instruments, Chattel Paper and Guarantees at any time held by Lenders on which any Borrower may in any way be liable, and hereby ratifies and confirms whatever Lenders may do in this regard; (ii) all rights to notice and a hearing prior to Lender’s taking possession or control of, or to Lender’s replevy, attachment or levy upon, any Collateral or any bond or security which might be required by any court prior to allowing Lender to exercise any of its remedies; and (iii) the benefit of all valuation, appraisal and exemption Laws. Each Borrower acknowledges that it has been advised by counsel of its choices and decisions with respect to this Agreement, the other Financing Documents and the transactions evidenced hereby and thereby.

(b)          Each Borrower for itself and all its successors and assigns, (i) agrees that its liability shall not be in any manner affected by any indulgence, extension of time, renewal, waiver, or modification granted or consented to by Lender; (ii) consents to any indulgences and all extensions of time, renewals, waivers, or modifications that may be granted by Lender with respect to the payment or other provisions of the Financing Documents, and to any substitution, exchange or release of the Collateral, or any part thereof, with or without substitution, and agrees to the addition or release of any Borrower, endorsers, guarantors, or sureties, or whether primarily or secondarily liable, without notice to any other Borrower and without affecting its liability hereunder; (iii) agrees that its liability shall be unconditional and without regard to the liability of any other Borrower or Lender for any tax on the indebtedness; and (iv) to the fullest extent permitted by law, expressly waives the benefit of any statute or rule of law or equity now provided, or which may hereafter be provided, which would produce a result contrary to or in conflict with the foregoing.

(c)          To the extent that Lender may have acquiesced in any noncompliance with any requirements or conditions precedent to the closing of the Term Loan or to any subsequent disbursement of Loan proceeds, such acquiescence shall not be deemed to constitute a waiver by Lender of such requirements with respect to any future disbursements of Loan proceeds and Lender may at any time after such acquiescence require Borrowers to comply with all such requirements. Any forbearance by Lender in exercising any right or remedy under any of the Financing Documents, or otherwise afforded by applicable law, including any failure to accelerate the maturity date of the Term Loan, shall not be a waiver of or preclude the exercise of any right or remedy nor shall it serve as a novation of the Term Note or as a reinstatement of the Term Loan or a waiver of such right of acceleration or the right to insist upon strict compliance of the terms of the Financing Documents. Lender’s acceptance of payment of any sum secured by any of the Financing Documents after the due date of such payment shall not be a waiver of Lender’s right to either require prompt payment when due of all other sums so secured or to declare a default for failure to make prompt payment. The procurement of insurance or the payment of taxes or other Liens or charges by Lender as the result of an Event of Default shall not be a waiver of Lender’s right to accelerate the maturity of the Term Loan, nor shall 

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Lender’s receipt of any condemnation awards, insurance proceeds, or damages under this Agreement operate to cure or waive any Credit Party’s default in payment of sums secured by any of the Financing Documents.

(d)          Without limiting the generality of anything contained in this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, each Borrower agrees that if an Event of Default is continuing (i) Lender shall not be subject to any “one action” or “election of remedies” law or rule, and (ii) all Liens and other rights, remedies or privileges provided to Lender shall remain in full force and effect until Lender has exhausted all remedies against the Collateral and any other properties owned by Borrowers and the Financing Documents and other security instruments or agreements securing the Term Loan have been foreclosed, sold and/or otherwise realized upon in satisfaction of Borrowers’ obligations under the Financing Documents.

(e)          Nothing contained herein or in any other Financing Document shall be construed as requiring Lender to resort to any part of the Collateral for the satisfaction of any of Borrowers’ obligations under the Financing Documents in preference or priority to any other Collateral, and Lender may seek satisfaction out of all of the Collateral or any part thereof, in its absolute discretion in respect of Borrowers’ obligations under the Financing Documents. In addition, Lender shall have the right from time to time to partially foreclose upon any Collateral in any manner and for any amounts secured by the Financing Documents then due and payable as determined by Lender in its sole discretion, including, without limitation, the following circumstances: (i) in the event any Borrower defaults beyond any applicable grace period in the payment of one or more scheduled payments of principal and/or interest, Lender may foreclose upon all or any part of the Collateral to recover such delinquent payments, or (ii) in the event Lender elects to accelerate less than the entire outstanding principal balance of the Term Loan, Lender may foreclose all or any part of the Collateral to recover so much of the principal balance of the Term Loan as Lender may accelerate and such other sums secured by one or more of the Financing Documents as Lender may elect. Notwithstanding one or more partial foreclosures, any unforeclosed Collateral shall remain subject to the Financing Documents to secure payment of sums secured by the Financing Documents and not previously recovered.

(f)          To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Borrower, for itself and its successors and assigns, waives in the event of foreclosure of any or all of the Collateral any equitable right otherwise available to any Credit Party which would require the separate sale of any of the Collateral or require Lender to exhaust its remedies against any part of the Collateral before proceeding against any other part of the Collateral; and further in the event of such foreclosure each Borrower does hereby expressly consent to and authorize, at the option of Lender, the foreclosure and sale either separately or together of each part of the Collateral.

Section 10.7          Injunctive Relief. The parties acknowledge and agree that, in the event of a breach or threatened breach of any Credit Party’s obligations under any Financing Documents, Lender may have no adequate remedy in money damages and, accordingly, shall be entitled to an injunction (including, without limitation, a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, writ of attachment, or order compelling an audit) against such breach or threatened breach, including, without limitation, maintaining any cash management and collection procedure described herein. However, no specification in this Agreement of a specific legal or equitable remedy shall be construed as a waiver or prohibition against any other legal or equitable remedies in the event of a breach or threatened breach of any provision of this Agreement. Each Credit Party waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the requirement of the posting of any bond in connection with such injunctive relief. By joining in the Financing Documents as a Credit Party, each Credit Party specifically joins in this Section as if this Section were a part of each Financing Document executed by such Credit Party.

Section 10.8          Marshalling; Payments Set Aside. Lender shall not be under any obligation to marshal any assets in payment of any or all of the Obligations. To the extent that Borrower makes any payment or Lender enforces its Liens or Lender exercises its right of set-off, and such payment or the proceeds of such enforcement or set-off is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, or required to be repaid by anyone, then to the extent of such recovery, the Obligations or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefore, 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.

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ARTICLE 11- MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.1          Survival. All agreements, representations and warranties made herein and in every other Financing Document shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents and the other Operative Documents. The provisions of Section 2.6 and Articles 11 and 12 shall survive the payment of the Obligations and any termination of this Agreement and any judgment with respect to any Obligations, including any final foreclosure judgment with respect to any Security Document, and no unpaid or unperformed, current or future, Obligations will merge into any such judgment.

Section 11.2          No Waivers. No failure or delay by Lender in exercising any right, power or privilege under any Financing Document shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein and therein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law. Any reference in any Financing Document to the “continuing” nature of any Event of Default shall not be construed as establishing or otherwise indicating that any Borrower or any other Credit Party has the independent right to cure any such Event of Default, but is rather presented merely for convenience should such Event of Default be waived in accordance with the terms of the applicable Financing Documents.

Section 11.3          Notices.

(a)          All notices, requests and other communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including prepaid overnight courier, facsimile transmission or similar writing) and shall be given to such party at its address, facsimile number or e-mail address set forth on the signature pages hereof or at such other address, facsimile number or e-mail address as such party may hereafter specify for the purpose by notice to Lender and Borrower Representative; provided, however, that notices, requests or other communications shall be permitted by electronic means only in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.3(b) and (c). Each such notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by facsimile, when such notice is transmitted to the facsimile number specified by this Section and the sender receives a confirmation of transmission from the sending facsimile machine, or (ii) if given by mail, prepaid overnight courier or any other means, when received or when receipt is refused at the applicable address specified by this Section 11.3(a).

(b)          Notices and other communications to the parties hereto may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved from time to time by Lender. Lender or Borrower Representative may, in their discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to them hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided, however, that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

(c)          Unless Lender otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e- mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgment from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgment), and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor, provided, however, that if any such notice or other communication is not sent or posted during normal business hours, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day.

Section 11.4          Severability. In case any provision of or obligation under this Agreement or any other Financing Document shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 11.5          Headings. Headings and captions used in the Financing Documents (including the Exhibits, Schedules and Annexes hereto and thereto) are included for convenience of reference only and shall not be given any substantive effect.

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Section 11.6          Confidentiality.

(a)          Each Credit Party agrees (i) not to transmit or disclose provisions of any Financing Document to any Person (other than to Borrowers’ advisors and officers on a need-to-know basis or as otherwise may be required by Law) without Lender’s prior written consent, (ii) to inform all Persons of the confidential nature of the Financing Documents and (iii) to direct them not to disclose the same to any other Person and to require each of them to be bound by these provisions.

(b)          Subject to Section 4.11(a), Lender shall hold all non-public information regarding the Credit Parties and their respective businesses identified as such by Borrowers and obtained by Lender pursuant to the requirements hereof in accordance with its customary procedures for handling information of such nature, except that disclosure of such information may be made (i) to its agents, employees, Subsidiaries, Affiliates, attorneys, auditors, professional consultants, rating agencies, insurance industry associations and portfolio management services, (ii) as required by Law, subpoena, judicial order or similar order and in connection with any litigation, (iii) as may be required in connection with the examination, audit or similar investigation of such Person, and (iv) to a Person that is a trustee, investment advisor, collateral manager, servicer, noteholder or secured party in a Securitization (as hereinafter defined) in connection with the administration, servicing and reporting on the assets serving as collateral for such Securitization. For the purposes of this Section, “Securitization” shall mean (A) the pledge of the Term Loan as collateral security for loans to Lender, or (B) a public or private offering by Lender or any of its Affiliates or their respective successors and assigns, of securities which represent an interest in, or which are collateralized, in whole or in part, by the Term Loan. Confidential information shall include only such information identified as such at the time provided to Lender and shall not include information that either: (y) is in the public domain, or becomes part of the public domain after disclosure to such Person through no fault of such Person, or (z) is disclosed to such Person by a Person other than a Credit Party, provided, however, Lender does not have actual knowledge that such Person is prohibited from disclosing such information. The obligations of Lender under this Section 11.6 shall supersede and replace the obligations of Lender under any confidentiality agreement in respect of this financing executed and delivered by Lender prior to the date hereof.

Section 11.7          Waiver of Consequential and Other Damages. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no Borrower shall assert, and each Borrower hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee (as defined below), on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of this Agreement, any other Financing Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, the Term Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Financing Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.

Section 11.8          GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION.

(a)          THIS AGREEMENT, EACH NOTE AND EACH OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT, AND ALL MATTERS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO OR ARISING THEREFROM (WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW, TORT LAW OR OTHERWISE), SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES.

(b)          EACH BORROWER HEREBY CONSENTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT LOCATED WITHIN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK COUNTY, STATE OF NEW YORK AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT, SUBJECT TO LENDER’S ELECTION, ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENTS SHALL BE LITIGATED IN SUCH COURTS. EACH BORROWER EXPRESSLY SUBMITS AND CONSENTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS AND WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS. EACH BORROWER HEREBY WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF ANY AND ALL PROCESS AND AGREES THAT ALL SUCH SERVICE OF PROCESS MAY BE MADE UPON SUCH BORROWER BY CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, ADDRESSED TO SUCH BORROWER AT THE ADDRESS SET 

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FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT AND SERVICE SO MADE SHALL BE COMPLETE TEN (10) DAYS AFTER THE SAME HAS BEEN POSTED.

Section 11.9          WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH BORROWER AND LENDER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE FINANCING DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREBY AND AGREES THAT ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY. EACH BORROWER AND LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS RELIED ON THE WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENTS, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN THEIR RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH BORROWER AND LENDER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF REVIEWING THIS JURY WAIVER WITH LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS.

Section 11.10          Publication; Advertisement.

(a)           Publication. No Credit Party will directly or indirectly publish, disclose or otherwise use in any public disclosure, advertising material, promotional material, press release or interview, any reference to the name, logo or any trademark of Lender or any of its Affiliates or any reference to this Agreement or the financing evidenced hereby, in any case except (i) as required by Law, subpoena or judicial or similar order, in which case the applicable Credit Party shall give Lender prior written notice of such publication or other disclosure, or (ii) with Lender’s prior written consent.

(b)          Advertisement. Each Credit Party hereby authorizes Lender to publish the name of such Credit Party, the existence of the financing arrangements referenced under this Agreement, the primary purpose and/or structure of those arrangements, the amount of credit extended under each facility, the title and role of each party to this Agreement, and the total amount of the financing evidenced hereby in any “tombstone”, comparable advertisement or press release which Lender elects to submit for publication. In addition, each Credit Party agrees that Lender may provide lending industry trade organizations with information necessary and customary for inclusion in league table measurements after the Closing Date.With respect to any of the foregoing, Lender shall provide Borrowers with an opportunity to review and confer with Lender regarding the contents of any such tombstone, advertisement or information, as applicable, prior to its submission for publication and, following such review period, Lender may, from time to time, publish such information in any media form desired by Lender, until such time that Borrowers shall have requested Lender cease any such further publication.

Section 11.11          Counterparts; Integration. This Agreement and the other Financing Documents may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. Signatures by facsimile or by electronic mail delivery of an electronic version of any executed signature page shall bind the parties hereto. This Agreement and the other Financing Documents constitute the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto and supersede any and all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof.

Section 11.12          No Strict Construction. The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement.

Section 11.13          Lender Approvals. Unless expressly provided herein to the contrary, any approval, consent, waiver or satisfaction of Lender with respect to any matter that is the subject of this Agreement, the other Financing Documents may be granted or withheld by Lender in its sole and absolute discretion and credit judgment. No provision of this Agreement or any other Financing Document may be materially amended, waived or otherwise modified unless such amendment, waiver or other modification is in writing and is signed or otherwise approved by Borrowers and Lender.

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Section 11.14          Expenses; Indemnity

(a)          Borrowers hereby agree to promptly pay (i) all costs and expenses of Lender (including, without limitation, the fees, costs and expenses of counsel to, and independent appraisers and consultants retained by Lender) in connection with the examination, review, due diligence investigation, documentation, negotiation, closing and syndication of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents, in connection with the performance by Lender of its rights and remedies under the Financing Documents and in connection with the continued administration of the Financing Documents including (A) any amendments, modifications, consents and waivers to and/or under any and all Financing Documents, and (B) any periodic public record searches conducted by or at the request of Lender (including, without limitation, title investigations, UCC searches, fixture filing searches, judgment, pending litigation and tax lien searches and searches of applicable corporate, limited liability, partnership and related records concerning the continued existence, organization and good standing of certain Persons); (ii) without limitation of the preceding clause (i), all costs and expenses of Lender in connection with the creation, perfection and maintenance of Liens pursuant to the Financing Documents; (iii) without limitation of the preceding clause (i), all costs and expenses of Lender in connection with (A) protecting, storing, insuring, handling, maintaining or selling any Collateral, (B) any litigation, dispute, suit or proceeding relating to any Financing Document, and (C) any workout, collection, bankruptcy, insolvency and other enforcement proceedings under any and all of the Financing Documents; (iv) without limitation of the preceding clause (i), all costs and expenses of Lender in connection with Lender’s reservation of funds in anticipation of the funding of the Term Loan to be made hereunder; and (v) all costs and expenses incurred by Lenders in connection with any litigation, dispute, suit or proceeding relating to any Financing Document and in connection with any workout, collection, bankruptcy, insolvency and other enforcement proceedings under any and all Financing Documents, whether or not Lender is a party thereto. If Lender uses in-house counsel for any of these purposes, Borrowers further agree that the Obligations include reasonable charges for such work commensurate with the fees that would otherwise be charged by outside legal counsel selected by Lender for the work performed. This Section 11.14(a) shall not apply to any Taxes of any Lender. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 11.14(a), Lender shall bear its own costs and expenses in connection with due diligence and the preparation of documentation related to the Term Loan including the fees and expenses of Lender’s counsel.

(b)          Each Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify, pay and hold harmless Lender and the officers, directors, employees, trustees, agents, investment advisors, collateral managers, servicers, and counsel of Lender (collectively called the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, claims, costs, expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever (including the fees and disbursements of counsel for such Indemnitee) in connection with any investigative, response, remedial, administrative or judicial matter or proceeding, whether or not such Indemnitee shall be designated a party thereto and including any such proceeding initiated by or on behalf of a Credit Party, and the reasonable expenses of investigation by engineers, environmental consultants and similar technical personnel and any commission, fee or compensation claimed by any broker (other than any broker retained by Lender) asserting any right to payment for the transactions contemplated hereby, which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnitee as a result of or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby or by the other Operative Documents (including (i)(A) as a direct or indirect result of the presence on or under, or escape, seepage, leakage, spillage, discharge, emission or release from, any property now or previously owned, leased or operated by Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Person of any Hazardous Materials, (B) arising out of or relating to the offsite disposal of any materials generated or present on any such property, or (C) arising out of or resulting from the environmental condition of any such property or the applicability of any governmental requirements relating to Hazardous Materials, whether or not occasioned wholly or in part by any condition, accident or event caused by any act or omission of Borrowers or any Subsidiary, and (ii) proposed and actual extensions of credit under this Agreement) and the use or intended use of the proceeds of the Term Loan, except that Borrowers shall have no obligation hereunder to an Indemnitee with respect to any liability resulting from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of such Indemnitee, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. To the extent that the undertaking set forth in the immediately preceding sentence may be unenforceable, Borrowers shall contribute the maximum portion which it is permitted to pay and satisfy under applicable Law to the payment and satisfaction of all such indemnified liabilities incurred by the Indemnitees or any of them. This Section 11.14(b) shall not apply to any Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.

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INDEMNITEE SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO THE BORROWERS OR TO ANY OTHER PARTY TO ANY FINANCING DOCUMENT, ANY SUCCESSOR, ASSIGNEE OR THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY OR ANY OTHER PERSON ASSERTING CLAIMS DERIVATIVELY THROUGH SUCH PARTY, FOR INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE ALLEGED AS A RESULT OF CREDIT HAVING BEEN EXTENDED, SUSPENDED OR TERMINATED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT OR AS A RESULT OF ANY OTHER TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER.

Section 11.15          Payments. Payments of principal, interest and fees in respect of the Term Loan will be settled on the date of receipt if received by Lender on the last Business Day of a month or on the Business Day immediately following the date of receipt if received on any day other than the last Business Day of a month.

Section 11.16          Reinstatement. This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any petition or other proceeding be filed by or against any Credit Party for liquidation or reorganization, should any Credit Party become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of any creditor or creditors or should an interim receiver, receiver, receiver and manager or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of any Credit Party’s assets, and shall continue to be effective or to be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Obligations, or any part thereof, is, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee of the Obligations, whether as a fraudulent preference reviewable transaction or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made. In the event that any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Obligations shall be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.

Section 11.17          Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Borrowers and Lender and their respective successors and permitted assigns. No Credit Party may assign, delegate or otherwise transfer any of its rights or other obligations hereunder or under any other Financing Document without the prior written consent of Lender. Lender may assign, delegate or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder (including participations) only upon (a) the written consent by the Borrowers and (b) surrender and cancellation (with reissuance to the assignee) of the Term Note; provided, however, that the written consent of the Borrowers shall not be required for an assignment or the sale of a participation in the Term Note by Lender (w) to an Affiliate of Lender, (x) in connection with a sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets or capital stock of Lender to a third party, (y) an Event of Default shall have occurred or (z) or the sale of any participation in the Term Note. Borrower Representative shall keep at its principal executive office a register for the registration and registration of transfers of the Term Note. The name and address of each holder of one or more Term Notes, each transfer thereof and the name and address of each transferee of one or more Term Notes shall be registered in such register. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer, the Person in whose name Term Note shall be registered shall be deemed and treated as the owner and holder thereof for all purposes hereof. If Lender sells a participation in the Term Note, Lender shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each participant’s interest in the Term Loan or other obligations under the Financing Documents; provided that Lender shall have no obligation to disclose all or any portion of the participant register (including the identity of any participant or any information relating to a participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Financing Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the participant register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the participant register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.

Section 11.18          USA PATRIOT Act Notification.  Lender hereby notifies Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record certain information and documentation that identifies Borrowers, which information includes the name and address of Borrower and such other information that will allow Lender to identify Borrowers in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act.

Section 11.19          Right to Perform, Preserve and Protect. If any Credit Party fails to perform any obligation hereunder or under any other Financing Document, Lender itself may, but shall not be obligated to, cause such obligation to be performed at Borrowers’ expense. Lender is further authorized by Borrowers to make expenditures 

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from time to time which Lender, in its reasonable business judgment, deems necessary or desirable to (a) preserve or protect the business conducted by Borrowers, the Collateral, or any portion thereof, and/or (b) enhance the likelihood of, or maximize the amount of, repayment of the Loan and other Obligations. Each Borrower hereby agrees to reimburse Lender on demand for any and all costs, liabilities and obligations incurred by Lender pursuant to this Agreement.

ARTICLE 12 - GUARANTY

Section 12.1          Guaranty. Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, jointly and severally with each other Guarantor when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by notice of prepayment or otherwise, the due and punctual performance of all of the Obligations. Each payment made by any Guarantor pursuant to this Section 12 shall be made in lawful money of the United States in immediately available funds.

Section 12.2          Payment of Amounts Owed.  The Guarantee hereunder is an absolute, unconditional and continuing guaranty of the full and punctual payment and performance of all of the Obligations and not of their collectability only and is in no way conditioned upon any requirement that Lender first attempt to collect any of the Obligations from any Borrower or resort to any collateral security or other means of obtaining payment. In the event of any default by Borrowers in the payment of the Obligations, after the expiration of any applicable cure or grace period, each Guarantor agrees, on demand by Lender (which demand may be made concurrently with notice to Borrowers that the Borrowers are in default of their obligations), to pay the Obligations, regardless of any defense, right of set-off or recoupment or claims which any Borrower or Guarantor may have against Lender. All of the remedies set forth in this Agreement, in any other Financing Agreement or at law or equity shall be equally available to Lender, and the choice by Lender of one such alternative over another shall not be subject to question or challenge by any Guarantor or any other person, nor shall any such choice be asserted as a defense, setoff, recoupment or failure to mitigate damages in any action, proceeding, or counteraction by Lender to recover or seeking any other remedy under this Guarantee, nor shall such choice preclude Lender from subsequently electing to exercise a different remedy.

Section 12.3          Certain Waivers by Guarantor. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Guarantor does hereby:

(a)          waive notice of acceptance of this Agreement by Lender and any and all notices and demands of every kind which may be required to be given by any statute, rule or law;

(b)          agree to refrain from asserting, until after repayment in full of the Obligations, any defense, right of set-off, right of recoupment or other claim which such Guarantor may have against any Borrower;

(c)          waive any defense, right of set-off, right of recoupment or other claim which such Guarantor may have against Lender;

(d)          waive any and all rights such Guarantor may have under any anti-deficiency statute or other similar protections;

(e)          waive all rights at law or in equity to seek subrogation, contribution, indemnification or any other form of reimbursement or repayment from any Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other person or entity now or hereafter primarily or secondarily liable for any of the Obligations until the Obligations have been paid in full;

(f)          waive presentment for payment, demand for payment, notice of nonpayment or dishonor, protest and notice of protest, diligence in collection and any and all formalities which otherwise might be legally required to charge such Guarantor with liability;

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(h)          waive any defense based on the incapacity, lack of authority, death or disability of any other person or entity or the failure of Lender to file or enforce a claim against the estate of any other person or entity in any administrative, bankruptcy or other proceeding;

(i)          waive any defense based on an election of remedies by Lender, whether or not such election may affect in any way the recourse, subrogation or other rights of such Guarantor against any Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other person in connection with the Obligations;

(j)          waive any defense based on the failure of Lender to (i) provide notice to such Guarantor of a sale or other disposition of any of the security for any of the Obligations, or (ii) conduct such a sale or disposition in a commercially reasonable manner;

(k)          waive any defense based on the negligence of Lender in administering this Agreement or the other Financing Documents (including, but not limited to, the failure to perfect any security interest in any Collateral), or taking or failing to take any action in connection therewith, provided, however, that such waiver shall not apply to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Lender, as determined by the final, non-appealable decision of a court having proper jurisdiction;

(l)          waive the defense of expiration of any statute of limitations affecting the liability of such Guarantor hereunder or the enforcement hereof;

(m)          waive any right to file any Claim (as defined below) as part of, and any right to request consolidation of any action or proceeding relating to a Claim with, any action or proceeding filed or maintained by Lender to collect any Obligations of such Guarantor to Lender hereunder or to exercise any rights or remedies available to Lender under the Financing Documents, at law, in equity or otherwise;

(n)          agree that Lender shall not have any obligation to obtain, perfect or retain a security interest in any property to secure any of the Obligations (including any mortgage or security interest contemplated by the Financing Documents), or to protect or insure any such property;

(o)          waive any obligation Lender may have to disclose to such Guarantor any facts Lender now or hereafter may know or have reasonably available to it regarding the Borrowers or Borrowers’ financial condition, whether or not Lender has a reasonable opportunity to communicate such facts or have reason to believe that any such facts are unknown to such Guarantor or materially increase the risk to such Guarantor beyond the risk such Guarantor intends to assume hereunder;

(p)          agree that Lender shall not be liable in any way for any decrease in the value or marketability of any property securing any of the Obligations which may result from any action or omission of Lender in enforcing any part of this Agreement;

(q)          waive any defense based on any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability, in whole or in part, of any one or more of the Financing Documents;

(r)          waive any defense based on any change in the composition of Borrowers, and

(s)          waive any defense based on any representations and warranties made by such Guarantor herein or by any Borrower herein or in any of the Financing Documents.

For purposes of this section, the term “Claim” shall mean any claim, action or cause of action, defense, counterclaim, set-off or right of recoupment of any kind or nature against Lender, its officers, directors, employees, agents, members, actuaries, accountants, trustees or attorneys, or any affiliate of Lender in connection with the making, closing, administration, collection or enforcement by Lender of the Obligations.

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or extensions which may be made from time to time, with or without the knowledge or consent of Guarantor for the time for payment of interest or principal or by any forbearance or delay in collecting interest or principal hereunder, or by any waiver by Lender under this Agreement or any other Financing Documents, or by Lenders’ failure or election not to pursue any other remedies it may have against any Borrower or Guarantor, or by any change or modification in the Term Note, this Agreement or any other Financing Document, or by the acceptance by Lender of any additional security or any increase, substitution or change therein, or by the release by Lender of any security or any withdrawal thereof or decrease therein, or by the application of payments received from any source to the payment of any obligation other than the Obligations even though Lender might lawfully have elected to apply such payments to any part or all of the Obligations, it being the intent hereof that, subject to Lenders’ compliance with the terms of this Section 12 and the Financing Documents, each Guarantor shall remain liable for the payment of the Obligations, until the Obligations have been paid in full, notwithstanding any act or thing which might otherwise operate as a legal or equitable discharge of a surety. Each Guarantor further understands and agrees that Lender may at any time enter into agreements with Borrowers to amend, modify and/or increase the principal amount of, interest rate applicable to or other economic and non-economic terms of this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, and may waive or release any provision or provisions of this Agreement or the other Financing Documents, and, with reference to such instruments, may make and enter into any such agreement or agreements as Lender and Borrowers may deem proper and desirable, without in any manner impairing this Guarantee or any of Lender’s rights hereunder or each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, and each Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall apply to the this Agreement and other Financing Documents as so amended, modified, extended, renewed or increased.

Section 12.5          Reinstatement; Deficiency. This guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated (as the case may be) if at any time payment of all or any part of any sum payable pursuant to this Agreement or any other Financing Document is rescinded or otherwise required to be returned by Lender upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation, or reorganization of any Borrower, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor, custodian or conservator of or trustee or similar officer for, any Borrower or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise, all as though such payment to Lender had not been made, regardless of whether Lender contested the order requiring the return of such payment. In the event of the foreclosure of the Financing Documents and of a deficiency, each Guarantor hereby promises and agrees forthwith to pay the amount of such deficiency notwithstanding the fact that recovery of said deficiency against Borrowers would not be allowed by applicable law; however, the foregoing shall not be deemed to require that Lender institute foreclosure proceedings or otherwise resort to or exhaust any other collateral or security prior to or concurrently with enforcing this guaranty.

Section 12.6          Subordination of Borrowers’ Obligations to Guarantors; Claims in Bankruptcy.

(a)          Any indebtedness of any Borrower to any Guarantor (including, but not limited to, any right of such Guarantor to a return of any capital contributed to a Borrower), whether now or hereafter existing, is hereby subordinated to the payment of the Obligations. Each Guarantor agrees that, until the Obligations have been paid in full, such Guarantor will not seek, accept, or retain for its own account, any payment from any Borrower on account of such subordinated debt. Any payments to any Guarantor on account of such subordinated debt shall be collected and received by such Guarantor in trust for Lender and shall be immediately paid over to Lender on account of the Obligations without impairing or releasing the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder.

(b)          Each Guarantor shall promptly file in any bankruptcy or other proceeding in which the filing of claims is required by law, all claims and proofs of claims that such Guarantor may have against any Borrower or any other Guarantor and does hereby assign to Lender or its nominee (and will, upon request of Lender, reconfirm in writing the assignment to Lender or its nominee of) all rights of such Guarantor under such claims. If such Guarantor does not file any such claim, Lender, as attorney‐in‐fact for such Guarantor, is hereby irrevocably authorized to do so in the name of such Guarantor, or in Lender’s discretion, to assign the claim to a designee and cause proof of claim to be filed in the name of Lender’s designee. In all such cases, whether in administration, bankruptcy or otherwise, the person or persons authorized to pay such claim shall pay to Lender the full amount thereof and, to the full extent necessary for that purpose, each Guarantor hereby assigns to Lender all of such Guarantor’s rights to any such payments or distributions to which such Guarantor would otherwise be entitled, such assignment being a present and irrevocable assignment of all such rights.

Section 12.7          Maximum Liability. The provisions of this Section 12 are severable, and in any action or proceeding involving any state corporate law, or any state, federal or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization 

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or other law affecting the rights of creditors generally, if the obligations of any Guarantor under this Section 12 would otherwise be held or determined to be avoidable, invalid or unenforceable on account of the amount of such Guarantor’s liability under this Section 12, then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 12 to the contrary, the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by the Guarantors or Lender, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount that is valid and enforceable as determined in such action or proceeding (such highest amount determined hereunder being the relevant Guarantor’s “Maximum Liability”). This Section 12.7 with respect to the Maximum Liability of each Guarantor is intended solely to preserve the rights of Lender to the maximum extent not subject to avoidance under applicable law, and no Guarantor nor any other Person shall have any right or claim under this Section 12.7 with respect to such Maximum Liability, except to the extent necessary so that the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder shall not be rendered voidable under applicable law. Each Guarantor agrees that the Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the Maximum Liability of each Guarantor without impairing this guaranty or affecting the rights and remedies of the Lender hereunder, provided that, nothing in this sentence shall be construed to increase any Guarantor’s obligations hereunder beyond its Maximum Liability.

Section 12.8          Guarantor’s Investigation. Each Guarantor acknowledges receipt of a copy of each of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents. Each Guarantor has made an independent investigation of the other Credit Parties and of the financial condition of the other Credit Parties. Lender has not made and Lender does not make any representations or warranties as to the income, expense, operation, finances or any other matter or thing affecting any Credit Party nor has Lender made any representations or warranties as to the amount or nature of the Obligations of any Credit Party to which this Section 12 applies as specifically herein set forth, nor has Lender or any officer, agent or employee of Lender or any representative thereof, made any other oral representations, agreements or commitments of any kind or nature, and each Guarantor hereby expressly acknowledges that no such representations or warranties have been made and such Guarantor expressly disclaims reliance on any such representations or warranties

Section 12.9          Termination. The provisions of this Section 12 shall remain in effect until the payment and satisfaction in full, in immediately available funds, of the Term Loan and other Obligations and termination of this Agreement.

Section 12.10          Representative. Each Guarantor hereby designates Borrower Representative and its representatives and agents on its behalf for the purpose of giving and receiving all notices and other consents hereunder or under any other Financing Document and taking all other actions on behalf of such Guarantor under the Financing Documents. Borrower Representative hereby accepts such appointment.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, intending to be legally bound, and intending that this Agreement constitute an agreement executed under seal, each of the parties have caused this Agreement to be executed under seal the day and year ftrst above mentioned.

 

	
BORROWERS:
	
ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC.,

	
 
	
a Delaware corporation

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Name:
	
Jeffrey Black

	
 
	
Title:
	
Chief Financial Officer

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
Address:

	
 
	
5818 El Camino Real

	
 
	
Carlsbad, CA 92008

	
 
	
Attn:

	
 
	
E-Mail:

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
ALPHATEC SPINE, INC.,

	
 
	
a California corporation

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Name:
	
Jeffrey Black

	
 
	
Title:
	
Chief Financial Officer

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
SAFEOP SURGICAL, INC.,

	
 
	
a Delaware corporation

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Name:
	
Jeffrey Black

	
 
	
Title:
	
Chief Financial Officer

 

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Signature Page to Credit Agreement

 

 

	
LENDER:
	
SQUADRON MEDICAL FINANCE SOLUTIONS LLC, as

	
 
	
Lender

	
 
	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Name:
	
David R.Pelizzon

	
 
	
Title:
	
President

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
Address:

	
 
	
18 Hartford Avenue

	
 
	
Granby, CT 06035

	
 
	
Emai l:
	
dpeli zzon@sqdncap.com

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
Payment Account Designation:

	
 
	
See attached

 

Signature Page to Cred it Agreement

 

 

Signature Page to Credit Agreement

 

EXHIBITS

 

		
	
EXHIBITS

	
 
	
 

	
Exhibit A
	
List of Guarantors

	
Exhibit B
	
Compliance Certificate

	
Exhibit C
	
Form of Payment Notification

 

 

 

Exhibit A to Credit Agreement

LIST OF GUARANTORS

As of the Closing Date, none.

 

 

 

 

Exhibit B to Credit Agreement

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

This Compliance Certificate is given by___________________________, a Responsible Officer of Alphatec Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower Representative”), pursuant to that certain Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of____________ ___________, 2018, by and among the Borrower Representative and Alphatec Spine, Inc., a California corporation, and SafeOp Surgical, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (each, a “Borrower”, and collectively, “Borrowers”), the other Credit Parties party thereto, and Squadron Medical Finance Solutions, LLC, as Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.

The undersigned Responsible Officer hereby certifies to Lender that:

a)          I have reviewed the terms of the Credit Agreement and have made, or caused to be made under my supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and conditions of the Borrower Representative and its Consolidated Subsidiaries during the accounting period covered by such financial statements, and such review has not disclosed the existence during or at the end of such accounting period, and I have no knowledge of the existence as of the date hereof, of any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default, except as set forth in Schedule 1 hereto, which includes a description of the nature and period of existence of such Default or an Event of Default and what action Borrowers have taken, are undertaking and propose to take with respect thereto;

b)          except as noted on Schedule 2 attached hereto, Schedule 9.2 to the Credit Agreement contains a complete and accurate list of (i) each chief executive office and principal place of business of each Credit Party and each of their respective Subsidiaries and (ii) all addresses (including warehouses) at which any of the Collateral is located and/or books and records of any Credit Party regarding any of the Collateral are kept, and Schedule 2 specifically notes any changes in the names under which Credit Parties and each of their respective Subsidiaries conduct business;

c)          except as noted on Schedule 3 attached hereto, the undersigned has no knowledge of (i) any federal or state tax liens having been filed against the Credit Parties or any Collateral, or (ii) any failure of any Credit Party to make required payments of withholding or other tax obligations of such Credit Party during the accounting period to which the attached statements pertain or any subsequent period;

d)          except as noted on Schedule 4 attached hereto or Schedule 3.6 to the Credit Agreement, the undersigned has no knowledge of (i) any current, pending or threatened litigation against the Credit Parties which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to Borrowers or any other Credit Party or which in any manner calls into question the validity or enforceability of any Financing Document or (ii) any default by the Credit Parties under any Material Contract to which such Credit Party is a party; provided, however, that the information required pursuant to this clause (d) shall be deemed to have been delivered if the Credit Parties deliver to Lender that certain litigation letter or disclosure statement delivered to Borrower Representative’s independent public accountants on a quarterly basis at substantially the same time such letter or disclosure statement is delivered to Borrower Representatives independent public accountants;

e)          [except as noted on Schedule 5 attached hereto, no Credit Party has acquired, by purchase, by the approval or granting of any application for registration (whether or not such application was previously disclosed to Lender by Borrowers) or otherwise, any Intellectual Property that is registered with any United States or foreign Governmental Authority, or has filed with any such United States or foreign Governmental Authority, any new application for the registration of any Intellectual Property, or acquired rights under a license as a licensee with respect to any such registered Intellectual Property (or any such application for the registration of Intellectual Property) owned by another Person, that has not previously been reported to Lender on Schedule 3.19 to the Credit Agreement or any Schedule 5 to any previous Compliance Certificate delivered by the Borrower Representative to Lender;] [To be included in the Compliance Certificate provided at the end of each Fiscal Quarter only]

 

 

f)          except as noted on Schedule 6 attached hereto and except in the ordinary course of business, no Credit Party has acquired, since the Closing Date, by purchase or otherwise, any Chattel Paper, Letter of Credit Rights, Instruments, Documents or Investment Property that has not previously been reported to Lender on any Schedule 6 to any previous Compliance Certificate delivered by Borrower Representative to Lender;

g)          [except as noted on Schedule 7 attached hereto, no Credit Party is aware of any commercial tort claim that has not previously been reported to Lender on any Schedule 7 to any previous Compliance Certificate delivered by Borrower Representative to Lender; and] [To be included in the Compliance Certificate provided at the end of each Fiscal Quarter only]

h)          Borrowers are in compliance with the covenants contained in Article 6 of the Credit Agreement, as demonstrated by the calculation of such covenants as set forth in the attached worksheets [see attached worksheets], and such calculations and the certifications contained therein are true, correct and complete;

The foregoing certifications and computations are made as of______________, 20____ (end of month) and as of____________, 20_____

 

	
 
	
Sincerely,

	
 
	
ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC., as

	
 
	
Borrower Representative

	
 
	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Name:
	
 

	
 
	
Title:
	
 

 

 

 

Worksheet for Calculation of EBITDA

EBITDA for the applicable Defined Period is calculated as follows:

 

	
Net income (or loss) for the Defined Period of Borrowers and their Consolidated Subsidiaries, but excluding: (a) the income (or loss) of any Person (other than Subsidiaries of Borrowers) in which Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries has an ownership interest unless received by Borrower or their Subsidiary in a cash distribution; and (b) the income (or loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date it became a Subsidiary of Borrowers or is merged into or consolidated with Borrowers
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Any provision for (or minus any benefit from) income and franchise
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
taxes deducted in the determination of net income for the Defined Period
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Interest expense, net of interest income, deducted in the determination of
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
net income for the Defined Period
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Stock-based compensation expense 
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Amortization and depreciation deducted in the determination of net income for the Defined Period (including impairment charges to
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
goodwill and write downs of intangible assets)
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Non-recurring expenses approved by Agent (including transaction
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
expenses and restructuring charges related to acquisitions)
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Any effect for (or minus any benefit from) foreign currency deducted in
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
the determination of net income for the Defined Period
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
EBITDA for the Defined Period: 
	
 
	
$
	
 

 

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Worksheet for Calculation of Fixed Charges

Fixed Charges for the applicable Defined Period is calculated as follows:

 

	
Interest expense ($______), net of interest income ($______), interest paid in kind ($______) and amortization of capitalized fees and expenses incurred to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents and included in interest expense ($______), included in the determination of net income of Borrowers and their Consolidated Subsidiaries for the Defined Period (“Total Interest Expense”)
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Any provision for (or minus any benefit from) income or franchise taxes
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
included in the determination of net income for the Defined Period *
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Payments of principal and interest for the Defined Period with respect to all Debt (including the portion of scheduled payments under capital leases allocable to principal and excluding scheduled repayments of Revolving Loans and other Debt subject to reborrowing to the extent not accompanied by a concurrent and permanent reduction of the Revolving Loan Commitment (or equivalent loan commitment)
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Permitted Distributions
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Fixed Charges for the applicable Defined Period:
	
 
	
$
	
 

 

Worksheet for Calculation of Operating Cash Flow

Operating Cash Flow for the applicable Defined Period is calculated as follows:

 

	
EBITDA for the Defined Period (calculated pursuant to the EBITDA Worksheet)
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Minus:
	
Unfinanced capital expenditures for the Defined Period
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Minus:
	
To the extent not already reflected in the calculation of EBITDA, other capitalized costs, defined as the gross amount paid in cash and capitalized during the Defined Period, as long term assets, other than amounts capitalized during the Defined Period as capital expenditures for property, plant and equipment or similar fixed asset accounts
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Operating Cash Flow for the Defined Period:
	
 
	
$
	
 

 

Covenant Compliance:

(To be included in the Compliance Certificate for each month ending after April 30, 2020.)

 

	
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Defined Period
	
 
	
 
	
       to 1.0

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Minimum Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Defined Period
	
 
	
 
	
[***] to 1.0

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
In Compliance
	
 
	
 
	
Yes / No

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Operating Cash Flow for the Defined Period:
	
 
	
 
	
 

 

 

 

Worksheet for Calculation of Liquidity

(To be included in the Compliance Certificate for each month ending prior to March 31, 2020.)

 

	
Balance Sheet Cash
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Plus:
	
Revolving Loan Availability
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
$
	
 

	
Liquidity
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

 

Covenant Compliance:

 

	
Liquidity
	
 
	
 
	
> $[***]

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
In Compliance
	
 
	
 
	
Yes / No

 

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Exhibit C to Credit Agreement

PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

 

This Payment Notification is given by                               , a Responsible Officer of Alphatec Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower Representative”), pursuant to that certain Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of [          ], 2018, by and among the Borrower Representative, Alphatec Spine, Inc., a California corporation, and SafeOp Surgical, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and any additional Borrower that may hereafter be added thereto (each, a “Borrower”, and collectively, “Borrowers”), and Squadron Medical Finance Solutions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as Lender (as such agreement may have been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.

Please be advised that funds in the amount of $                     will be wire transferred to Lender on             , 20       . Such funds shall constitute [an optional] [a mandatory] prepayment of the Term Loans, with such prepayments to be applied in the manner specified in Section 2.1(c). [Such mandatory prepayment is being made pursuant to Section                of the Credit Agreement.]

Note: Funds must be received in the Payment Account by no later than 12:00 noon Eastern time for same day application

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned officer has executed and delivered this Payment Notification this        day of             , 20      .

 

 

	
	
Sincerely,

	
ALPHATEC HOLDINGS, INC.,

	
as Borrower Representative

	
 

	
 

	
By:

	
Name:

	
Title:

 

 

 

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Exhibit B

Structure Medical Inventory Financing Agreement

(see attached)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLC 3903132.5

\\DC -039759/000002 12787061 v6

 

Execution Version

INVENTORY FINANCING AGREEMENT

THIS INVENTORY FINANCING AGREEMENT (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”) dated as of November 6, 2018 is between Structure Medical, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (together with its successors and assigns, if any, “Lender”) and Alphatec Spine, Inc., a California corporation (“Borrower”).

RECITALS

A.          Lender is a manufacturer of medical devices, implants and other orthopedic medical products.

B.          Borrower has contracted with Lender to manufacture certain orthopedic medical products or components thereof for sale in its business (“Inventory”).

C.          Lender has agreed to finance the purchase of the Inventory in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises contained in this Agreement and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, Lender and Borrower agree as follows:

1.          FINANCING.

(a)          Financing. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, Lender shall finance Inventory purchased by Borrower from Lender from time to time during the term of this Agreement in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000. The amount of Inventory purchased from Lender which remains unpaid 60 days after the date of shipment shall constitute a loan hereunder (“Loan”). Except as provided in Section 1(h) or Section 8(b), the unpaid principal balance of the Loan shall accrue interest at the LIBOR Rate (as defined herein) plus 8% (the “Interest Rate”), provided, however, that in no event shall the Interest Rate be lower than 10% per annum or greater than 13% per annum. The Interest Rate shall adjust on the first day of each month during the term of this Agreement. The unpaid principal balance of the Loan plus all accrued but unpaid interest and Costs (as defined herein) shall be due and payable on November 6, 2023 (the “Maturity Date”). The principal balance of the Loan and interest accruing thereon shall be evidenced by a term note, executed by Borrower in favor of Lender in the form on Exhibit A attached hereto, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference, (the “Note”). As used herein, “LIBOR Rate” means the one month LIBOR as reported in The Wall Street Journal as of any date of determination. The LIBOR Rate shall be determined as of the first Business Day of each month during the term of this Agreement and shall be the rate which is in effect for such month; provided, however that the LIBOR Rate for the period commencing on the day of the month in which the Loan is first made under this Agreement and ending on the last day of such month, shall be the LIBOR Rate as of the date of such Loan.

(b)          Payments. Borrower shall pay all amounts under the Note and in this Agreement without notice or demand and without abatement, set-off, deferment, reduction, counterclaim, recoupment or deduction of any amount whatsoever for any reason as follows:

(i)          Interest Payments. Borrower promises to pay to the order of Lender accrued and unpaid interest of the Loan monthly in arrears on the 15th day of the month following the last day of the month in which interest is calculated during the term of this Loan.

(ii)          Principal Payment. Borrower promises to pay to the order of Lender the unpaid principal amount of the Loan plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon on the Maturity Date.

 

 

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(c)          Optional and Mandatory Prepayment. The Loan may be prepaid in whole or in part, in each case without premium or penalty upon written notice to Lender. In the event the loan under the Squadron Credit Agreement (as defined herein) is prepaid in whole, the Loan shall be subject to mandatory prepayment. No amount of the Loan once repaid may be reborrowed.

(d)          Costs. Borrower shall be responsible for the payment of all fees, charges, costs and expenses (including, but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by Lender at any time in connection with the enforcement of this Agreement, the Note and the other Debt Documents (as defined below) (the “Costs”). Borrower shall pay all Costs promptly after receipt of a written statement from Lender.

(e)          Method of Payment. All scheduled payments to Lender hereunder and under the Note shall be made by Automated Clearing House (ACH) debit to the bank account of Borrower or by means of any other electronic payment method approved by Lender which automatically deducts the payment from Borrower’s bank account on or prior to the due date of each payment.

(f)          Revival. To the extent that Lender receives any payment on account of the Obligations and any such payment(s) and/or proceeds or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, subordinated and/or required to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any bankruptcy act, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then, to the extent of such payment(s) or proceeds received, the Obligations or part thereof intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continue in full force and effect, as if such payment(s) and/or proceeds had not been received by Lender and applied on account of the Obligations shall be deemed to continue in full force and effect.

(g)          Usury. The provisions of this Section 1(g) shall govern and control over any irreconcilably inconsistent provision contained in this Agreement, the Note or in any Debt Document. Lender shall not be entitled to receive, collect, or apply as interest hereon (for purposes of this Section 1(g), the word “interest” shall be deemed to include any sums treated as interest under applicable law governing matters of usury and unlawful interest), any amount in excess of the Highest Lawful Rate and, in the event Lender ever receives, collects, or applies as interest any such excess, such amount which would be excessive interest shall be deemed a partial prepayment of principal and shall be treated hereunder as such; and, if the principal of this Agreement is paid in full, any remaining excess shall forthwith be paid to Borrower. In determining whether or not the interest paid or payable, under any specific contingency, exceeds the Highest Lawful Rate, Borrower and Lender shall, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law: (i) characterize any non-principal payment as an expense, fee or premium rather than as interest, (ii) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (iii) spread the total amount of interest throughout the entire contemplated term of this Agreement, provided, that if this Agreement is paid and performed in full prior to the end of the full contemplated term hereof, and if the interest received for the actual period of existence hereof exceeds the Highest Lawful Rate, Lender shall refund to Borrower the amount of such excess.

(h)          LIBOR. In the event that any change in market conditions or any law, regulation, treaty, or directive, or any change therein or in the interpretation of application thereof, shall at any time after the date hereof, in the reasonable opinion of Lender, make it unlawful for Lender to maintain the Loan bearing interest based upon the LIBOR Rate or to continue such maintaining, or to determine or charge interest rates at the LIBOR Rate, Lender shall give notice of such changed circumstances to Borrower, and thereafter the Loan shall accrue interest at the Base Rate (as defined herein) plus 8%; provided, however, that in no event shall the Loan accrue interest at a rate lower than 10% per annum or greater than 13% per annum. As used herein, Base Rate means the per annum rate of interest announced, from time to time, within Wells Fargo at its principal office in San Francisco as its “prime rate,” with the understanding that the “prime rate” is one of Wells Fargo’s base rates (not necessarily the lowest of such 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 publications as Wells Fargo may designate; provided, however, that Lender may, upon prior written notice to Borrower, choose a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the basis for the Base Rate.

2.          SECURITY INTEREST. Lender acknowledges and agrees that it shall not have a security interest in the Inventory, all goods and general intangibles relating to, arising from or embedded in the Inventory, all cash and non-cash proceeds (including insurance provisions) or accounts or accounts receivable derived therefrom, all products and 

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proceeds thereof and all additions and accessions thereto, substitutions therefor and replacements thereof pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or by operation of law; provided, however, that this Agreement shall not affect the security interest in the Inventory, all goods and general intangibles relating to, arising from or embedded in the Inventory, all cash and non- cash proceeds (including insurance provisions) or accounts or accounts receivable derived therefrom, all products and proceeds thereof and all additions and accessions thereto, substitutions therefor and replacements thereof which Borrower has granted to Squadron Medical Finance Solutions LLC (“Squadron”) pursuant to the Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement dated as the date hereof as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time among Squadron, Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (“Holdings”), Borrower and SafeOp Surgical, Inc. (“SafeOp”) (the “Squadron Credit Agreement”).

3.          REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS OF BORROWER. Borrower represents, warrants and covenants on the date of this Agreement (the “Closing Date”) that the following statements are true and correct (it being understood and agreed that the representations and warranties made on the Closing Date are deemed to be made concurrently with the consummation of the Loan):

(a)          Organization. Borrower’s exact legal name is as set forth in the preamble of this Agreement and Borrower is, and will remain, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization. Borrower has, and will maintain, its chief executive office at the location specified on the signature page to this Agreement, and is, and will remain, duly qualified and licensed as a foreign corporation in any state in which the failure to be so qualified and licensed would result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(b)          Authority. Borrower has all necessary corporate power and capacity to enter into, and to perform its obligations under the Debt Documents;

(c)          Execution and Delivery. This Agreement and the other Debt Documents have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and constitute legal, valid and binding agreements enforceable in accordance with their terms, except to the extent that the enforcement of remedies may be limited by or subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium and other laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights, to the application of equitable principles and to the exercise of judicial discretion in appropriate cases;

(d)          No Consent. No approval, consent or withholding of objections is required from, and no notice is required to be given to, any governmental authority or instrumentality, or any other person or entity, with respect to the entry into, or performance by Borrower of any of the Debt Documents, except any already obtained or given;

(e)          No Violation. The entry into, and performance by, Borrower of the Debt Documents will not (i) violate any of the Organizational Documents of Borrower or any judgment, order, law or regulation applicable to Borrower, or (ii) result in any breach of or constitute a default under any material contract or agreement to which Borrower is a party, or result in the creation of any lien, claim or encumbrance on any of Borrower’s property pursuant to any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan, credit agreement, or other agreement or instrument to which Borrower is a party;

(f)          Litigation. There are no suits or proceedings pending or, to the best of Borrower’s knowledge, threatened in any court or before any Governmental Authority against or affecting Borrower which, if adversely determined, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on Borrower;

(g)          Financial Statements. All financial statements delivered to Lender in connection with the Obligations have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and since the date of the most recent financial statements, there has been no material adverse change in Borrower’s financial condition.

(h)          Licenses and Permits. Borrower is in compliance with and has procured and is now in possession of, all licenses and permits required by any applicable federal, state, provincial or local law or regulation for the operation of its business in each jurisdiction wherein it is now conducting. In connection with the development, testing, manufacture, marketing or sale of any products, Borrower has complied and shall comply in all material respects with all Required Permits issued by any Governmental Authority (including the FDA) with respect to such development, 

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testing, manufacture, marketing or sales of such products by Borrower as such activities are at any such time being conducted by Borrower, including the timely filing (after giving effect to any extension duly obtained) of all material notifications, reports, submissions, Required Permit renewals, cost reports and other reports of every kind whatsoever required by laws (which reports shall be accurate and complete in all material respects and not misleading in any material respect and shall not remain open or unsettled) and shall operate in a manner such that the Required Permits remain in full force and effect;

(i)          Products. (i) Borrower has good, marketable and indefeasible title to its products and has not made any prior sale, pledge, encumbrance, assignment or other disposition of any of products (except for sales in the ordinary course of business); (ii) the products are and shall remain free from all encumbrances and rights of setoff of any kind except the Liens in favor of (x) Squadron pursuant to the Squadron Credit Agreement and (y) MidCap Funding IV Trust (together with its successors and assigns “MidCap”) pursuant to the Amended and Restated Credit, Security and Guaranty Agreement dated as of August 30, 2013, as amended from time to time, among MidCap, other lender parties thereto, Holdings, Borrower and SafeOp (the “MidCap Credit Agreement”); (iii) the products are and shall be maintained in good repair at all times and Borrower shall immediately notify Lender of any event causing a material loss or decline in the value of the products, whether or not covered by insurance, and the amount of such loss or depreciation; (iv) Borrower shall only use or permit its products to be used in accordance with all Governmental Authority; (v) if any products are sold, lost, destroyed, damaged or taken by condemnation, Borrower shall provide replacement products of like kind and quality promptly upon such event; and (vi) any products consisting of disposable medical products shall be promptly replaced.

(j)          Collateral. The Collateral is and shall remain free from all encumbrances and rights of setoff of any kind except for (i) the Lien in favor of Squadron, as agent or the lenders under the Squadron Credit Agreement and (ii) any other Lien in favor of MidCap, as agent or the lenders under the MidCap Credit Agreement.

(k)          Compliance with Laws. Borrower (i) is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority, including the Specified Laws and (ii) has obtained all Required Permits, or has contracted with third parties holding Required Permits, necessary for compliance with all laws, including the Specified Laws, and all such Required Permits are current and each holder of such Required Permits is in material compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Required Permits.

(l)          Taxes. Borrower shall report and pay promptly when due all taxes, license fees, assessments and public and private charges levied or assessed on any of its assets, on its use, operation, purchase, ownership, delivery or possession thereof, or on this Agreement or any of the other Debt Documents (or any receipts hereunder and thereunder), by any Governmental Authority during or related to the term of this Agreement, or to any other period during which Borrower had use or possession of its assets, including, without limitation, all license and registration fees, and all sales, use, personal property, excise, gross receipts, franchise, stamp or other taxes, imposts, duties and charges, together with any penalties, fines or interest thereon (collectively “Taxes”).

(m)          Solvency. Borrower is, and after taking into effect the Loan contemplated by this Agreement will be, Solvent.

4.          INSURANCE.

(a)          Risk of Loss. Borrower shall at all times bear the entire risk of any loss, theft, damage to, or destruction of, any of its assets from any cause whatsoever.

(b)          Insurance. Borrower agrees to take all such action as may be necessary to obtain and maintain (i) property insurance on its assets for the replacement cost thereof and for the duration of this Agreement, (ii) liability insurance for bodily injury or death and property damage in a minimum amount as is appropriate for a company operating in a line of business similar to the Company.

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5.          REPORTS.

(a)          Material Changes. Borrower shall promptly notify Lender (i) at least 30 days prior to any change in the name of Borrower, (ii) at least 60 days prior to any change in the state of its incorporation, organization or registration, (iii) at least 30 days prior to any relocation of its chief executive offices, (iv) immediately upon any material portion of the assets being lost, stolen, missing, destroyed, materially damaged or worn out, or (v) immediately upon Borrower becoming aware of any lien, claim or encumbrance other than liens in favor of Squadron attaching to or being made against a material portion of any of its assets.

(b)          Financial Statements. Borrower will deliver to Lender Borrower’s financial statements, in accordance with the provisions set forth in Section 4.1 of the Squadron Credit Agreement.

(c)          Notice of Certain Remedial Actions. Promptly upon the occurrence thereof, Borrower shall provide Lender of written notice describing in reasonable detail any investigation by any Governmental Authority or any litigation commenced, pending or threatened in writing against Borrower that (1) alleges the violation of, and seeks remedies or threatens enforcement action in connection with, the FDCA, or any law, regulation, or order administered by the FDA or equivalent agency and, with respect to investigations (but not litigation), would reasonably be expected to result in, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, or (2) seeks to suspend or revoke any material Required Permits or materially change the market classification of any product or initiate a material Recall.

(d)          Notice of Change in Bank Account. Borrower shall notify Lender within 45 days of any change in or closing of the bank account of Borrower which could affect its ability to make its Note payments by ACH pursuant to Section 1(e) hereof. Lender will not object to a change in bank account to a commercial bank or savings bank or savings and loan association each having membership either in the FDIC or the deposits of which are insured by the FDIC.

6.          FURTHER ASSURANCES.

(a)          Indemnification. Borrower shall indemnify and save Lender and its affiliates and all of Lender’s and such affiliates’ respective members, managers, directors, shareholders, officers, employees, agents, predecessors, attorneys-in-fact, lawyers, successors and assigns (each an “Indemnitee”), harmless from and against all claims, reasonable costs and expenses (including legal fees), demands, suits, damages and liabilities of any kind and nature whatsoever, including without limitation personal injury, death and property damage claims arising in tort or otherwise, under any legal theory including but not limited to strict liability (including claims involving or alleging environmental damage, criminal acts, hijacking, acts of terrorism or similar acts, product liability or strict or absolute liability in tort, latent and other defects (whether or not discoverable), or for patent, trademark or copyright infringement, collectively, “Claims”), that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee whether or not such Indemnitee shall also be indemnified as to any such Claim by any other Person in any way relating to, arising out of or in connection with (i) the Debt Documents, including, without limitation, the execution, delivery, breach (including any Event of Default), enforcement, performance or administration of the Debt Documents and (ii) the Inventory, including, without limitation, the perfection, maintenance, protection or realization upon the Inventory or any other security for the Obligations, and the manufacture, inspection, purchase, acceptance, rejection, ownership, management, delivery, lease, sublease, possession, use, operation, maintenance, condition, registration or re-registration, sale, removal, repossession, storage or other disposition of the Inventory or any part thereof or any accident in connection therewith; provided, however that Borrower shall have no such indemnification obligation to the extent that any Claim has found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final nonappelable judgment to have arisen or resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Indemnitee.

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7.          CONDITION TO BORROWING. The obligations of Lender to make the Loan shall be subject to the satisfaction (as determined by Lender) of the following conditions precedent:

(a)          Debt Documents. Lender shall have received a fully executed original of each of the following documents which shall have been duly executed and delivered by the respective parties thereto, shall be in full force and effect and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to Lender:

(i)          this Agreement; 

(ii)         the Note; and

(iii)        such other agreements as Lender may require.

(b)          Corporate or Other Action. All corporate (or other) action necessary for the valid execution, delivery and performance by Borrower of this Agreement and the other Debt Documents shall have been duly and effectively taken, and evidence thereof satisfactory to Lender, certified by an officer of Borrower shall have been provided to Lender.

(c)          No Litigation. There is no action, suit, or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of Borrower, threatened against or affecting, Borrower or its assets before any court or arbitrator or any Governmental Authority which, if adversely determined, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(d)          Consents and Approvals. Lender shall have received evidence that all material governmental and third-party approvals necessary or advisable in connection with the Loan contemplated hereby and the continuing operations of Borrower shall have been obtained (or, to the extent consented to in writing by Lender, waived) 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 materially adverse conditions on Borrower taken as a whole or the Loan.

9.          DEFAULT AND REMEDIES.

(a)          Events of Default. Borrower shall be in default under this Agreement and each of the other Debt Documents upon the occurrence of any of the following (an “Event of Default”):

(i)          Borrower fails to pay within 5 days after its due date any installment of interest or other amounts due under any Note or other Debt Documents;

(ii)         Borrower fails to pay the outstanding principal and all accrued interest or other amounts due on the Maturity Date;

(iii)        Borrower breaches any of its covenants or obligations under any of the Debt Documents and the breach of such covenant or obligation is not cured to the satisfaction of Lender within 15 days of the earlier to occur of (A) notice of such breach to Borrower from Lender or (B) Borrower’s knowledge of such breach;

(iv)        Any warranty, representation or statement made by Borrower in any of the Debt Documents or otherwise in connection with any of the Obligations shall be false or misleading in any material respect when made;

(v)         A material portion of its assets is subjected to attachment, execution, levy, seizure or confiscation in any legal proceeding or otherwise, or if any legal or administrative proceeding is commenced against Borrower or a material portion of its assets, which in the good faith judgment of Lender subjects such assets to a material risk of attachment, execution, levy, seizure or confiscation and no bond is posted or protective order obtained to negate such risk;

(vi)       An event of default has occurred and is continuing under the Squadron Credit Agreement;

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(vii)     Borrower dissolves, terminates its existence, becomes insolvent, ceases to do business as a going concern, is merged out of existence, consolidates, sells substantially all its assets or a change occurs in the controlling ownership of Borrower;

(viii)    A receiver, custodian or trustee is appointed for all or of any part of the property of Borrower, Borrower makes any assignment for the benefit of creditors or Borrower by any act or omission shall indicate its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such appointment of a custodian, receiver or trustee;

(ix)      Borrower files a petition under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, in the event an involuntary petition is filed against Borrower and such petition is not dismissed or stayed within 45 days or Borrower by any act or omission shall indicate its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such petition, application, proceeding, order for relief;

(x)       Borrower defaults under (A) any other obligations for borrowed money or (B) any obligations for the deferred purchase price of property or payments due under any lease agreement, in each case having an individual principal amount in excess of $500,000 or having an aggregate principal amount in excess of $500,000, and any such default under (A) or (B) results in the right by the other party to the agreement to either accelerate the obligations thereunder or enforce its rights and remedies thereunder in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof; or

(xi)      There occurs an event or circumstance that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on Borrower.

(b)          Acceleration; Default Interest Rate. Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default, Lender, at its option, may declare any or all of the Obligations to be immediately due and payable, without demand or notice to Borrower and any shipments of Inventory from Lender to Borrower shall immediately cease. The accelerated Obligations shall bear interest from the occurrence of the Event of Default (both before and after any judgment) until paid in full at the lower of (i) a rate that is five percent (5.0%) per annum in excess of the rate otherwise payable under this Agreement, or (ii) the maximum rate not prohibited by applicable law (the “Default Rate”). The application of such Default Rate shall not be interpreted or deemed to extend any cure period set forth herein, cure any default or otherwise limit Lender’s right or remedies hereunder. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall this Agreement require the payment or permit the collection of amounts in excess of the maximum permitted by applicable law.

(c)          Remedies. After default, Lender shall have all of the rights and remedies of a creditor under the applicable law.

(d)          Attorneys’ Fees. Borrower agrees to pay all reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs incurred by Lender in connection with the enforcement, assertion, defense or preservation of Lender’s rights and remedies under this Agreement, or if prohibited by law, such lesser sum as may be permitted. Borrower further agrees that such fees and costs shall constitute Obligations.

(e)          Non-Exclusive Remedies. Lender’s rights and remedies under this Agreement or otherwise arising are cumulative and nonexclusive of any other rights and remedies that Lender may have under any other agreement or at law or in equity and may be exercised individually or concurrently, any or all thereof may be exercised instead of or in addition to each other or any remedies at law, in equity, or under statute. Neither the failure nor any delay on the part of Lender to exercise any right, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise of that or any other right, power or privilege. LENDER SHALL NOT BE DEEMED TO HAVE WAIVED ANY OF ITS RIGHTS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR UNDER ANY OTHER AGREEMENT, INSTRUMENT OR PAPER SIGNED BY BORROWER UNLESS SUCH WAIVER IS EXPRESSED IN WRITING AND SIGNED BY LENDER. A waiver on any one occasion shall not be construed as a bar to or waiver of any right or remedy on any future occasion.

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10.          MISCELLANEOUS.

(a)          This Agreement, the Note and/or any of the other Debt Documents may be assigned, in whole or in part, by Lender without notice to Borrower, and Borrower hereby waives and agrees not to assert against any such assignee, or assignee’s assigns, any defense, set-off, recoupment, claim or counterclaim which Borrower has or may at any time have against Lender for any reason whatsoever. Borrower agrees that if Borrower receives written notice of an assignment from Lender, Borrower will pay all amounts payable under any assigned Debt Documents to such assignee or as instructed by Lender. Borrower also agrees to confirm in writing receipt of the notice of assignment as may be reasonably requested by Lender or assignee.

(b)          All notices, demands, requests, consents, approvals and other communications required or permitted hereunder (“Notices”) must be in writing and will be effective upon receipt. Notices may be given in any manner to which the parties may separately agree, including electronic mail. Without limiting the foregoing, first-class mail, facsimile transmission and commercial courier service are hereby agreed to as acceptable methods for giving Notices. Regardless of the manner in which provided, Notices may be sent to a party’s address as set forth on the signature page hereto or to such other address as any party may give to the other for such purpose in accordance with this section.

(c)          Time is of the essence of this Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding, jointly and severally, upon all parties described as the “Borrower” and their respective heirs, executors, representatives, successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of Lender, its successors and assigns; provided, however, that Borrower may not assign this Agreement in whole or in part without Lender’s prior written consent.

(d)          If any provision contained in this Agreement should be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, it shall not affect or impair the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement.

(e)          No modification, amendment or waiver of, or consent to any departure by Borrower from, any provision of this Agreement will be effective unless made in a writing signed by Lender, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. No notice to or demand on Borrower will entitle Borrower to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstance.

(f)          This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and supersede all prior understandings (whether written, verbal or implied) with respect to such subject matter. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL NOT BE CHANGED OR TERMINATED ORALLY OR BY COURSE OF CONDUCT, BUT ONLY BY A WRITING SIGNED BY BOTH PARTIES. Section headings contained in this Agreement have been included for convenience only, and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

(g)          In this Agreement, unless Lender and Borrower otherwise agree in writing, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; words importing any gender include the other genders; references to statutes are to be construed as including all statutory provisions consolidating, amending or replacing the statute referred to; the word “or” shall be deemed to include “and/or”, the words “including”, “includes” and “include” shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”; references to articles, sections (or subdivisions of sections) or exhibits are to those of this Agreement; and references to agreements and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments and other modifications to such instruments, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement. Section headings in this Agreement are included for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement for any other purpose. Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, all accounting terms shall be interpreted and all accounting determinations shall be made in accordance with GAAP. If this Agreement is executed by more than one Borrower, the obligations of such persons or entities will be joint and several.

(h)          This Agreement shall continue in full force and effect until all of the Obligations has been indefeasibly paid in full to Lender or its assignee. This Agreement shall automatically be reinstated if Lender is ever required to return or restore the payment of all or any portion of the Obligations (all as though such payment had never been made).

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(i)          BORROWER AND LENDER HEREBY UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE THEIR RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OF THE DEBT DOCUMENTS, ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN BORROWER AND LENDER RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION OR ANY RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND/OR THE RELATIONSHIP THAT IS BEING ESTABLISHED BETWEEN BORROWER AND LENDER. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE ALL ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS). THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING, AND THE WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OF THE OTHER DEBT DOCUMENTS OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THIS TRANSACTION OR ANY RELATED TRANSACTION. IN THE EVENT OF ANY LITIGATION, THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.

(j)          THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES OF SUCH STATE), INCLUDING ALL MATTERS OF CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND PERFORMANCE. BORROWER IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO HEAR AND DETERMINE ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING AND TO SETTLE ANY DISPUTES, WHICH MAY ARISE OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION HEREWITH AND WITH THE DEBT DOCUMENTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “PROCEEDINGS”), AND BORROWER FURTHER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO REMOVE ANY SUCH PROCEEDINGS FROM ANY SUCH COURT (EVEN IF REMOVAL IS SOUGHT TO ANOTHER OF THE ABOVE-NAMED COURTS). BORROWER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION WHICH IT MIGHT NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED COURTS BEING NOMINATED AS THE EXCLUSIVE FORUM TO HEAR AND DETERMINE ANY SUCH PROCEEDINGS AND AGREES NOT TO CLAIM THAT IT IS NOT PERSONALLY SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE ABOVE-NAMED COURTS FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, THAT IT OR ITS PROPERTY IS IMMUNE FROM LEGAL PROCESS FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, THAT ANY SUCH COURT IS NOT A CONVENIENT OR APPROPRIATE FORUM IN EACH CASE WHETHER ON THE GROUNDS OF VENUE OR FORUM NON- CONVENIENS OR OTHERWISE. BORROWER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT BRINGING ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY COURT OTHER THAN THE COURTS SET FORTH ABOVE WILL CAUSE IRREPARABLE HARM TO LENDER WHICH COULD NOT ADEQUATELY BE COMPENSATED BY MONETARY DAMAGES, AND, AS SUCH, BORROWER AGREES THAT, IN ADDITION TO ANY OF THE REMEDIES TO WHICH LENDER MAY BE ENTITLED AT LAW OR IN EQUITY, LENDER WILL BE ENTITLED TO AN INJUNCTION OR INJUNCTIONS (WITHOUT THE POSTING OF ANY BOND AND WITHOUT PROOF OF ACTUAL DAMAGES) TO ENJOIN THE PROSECUTION OF ANY SUCH PROCEEDINGS IN ANY OTHER COURT.

(k)          Lender and Borrower hereby agree that MidCap is an intended and express third party beneficiary of Section 2 of this Agreement and shall have the right, exercisable in its sole discretion, to enforce the terms and conditions of this Agreement against Lender and/or Borrower, as applicable, or prevent the breach thereof, or to exercise any other right, or seek any other remedy, which may be available to it as a third-party beneficiary of Section 2 of this Agreement. In addition, Lender and Borrower shall not agree to any changes, modifications or amendments to Section 2 of this Agreement (or otherwise, if the effect would be to modify the provisions of Section 2), without the prior written consent of MidCap.

(l)          This Agreement and any amendments, waivers, consents or supplements hereto in connection herewith may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument; signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached to a single counterpart so that all signature pages are physically attached to the same document. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement or any delivery contemplated hereby by facsimile or electronic transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof.

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11.          DEFINITIONS. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the following meanings:

“Applicable Margin” means eight percent (8.00%).“Base Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 1(h).

“Business Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which either the New York Stock Exchange is closed, or on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized by law to close.

“Claims” has the meaning in Section 6.

“Closing Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.

“Correction” means repair, modification, adjustment, relabeling, or destruction of Inventory without its physical removal to some other location; or any plan in response to a notice of violation or deficiency from any Governmental Authority, such as, without limitation, FDA 483 inspection reports, FDA warning letters, and any plans to implement, monitor and audit ongoing compliance with plans of correction.

“Costs” has the meaning specified in Section 1(d).

“Debt Documents” means, this Agreement, the Exhibit hereto, the Note and any other documents evidencing or given in connection with any of the Obligations.

“Default Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 8(b).

“Device Approval” means, with respect to any Inventory in a particular country or legal jurisdiction, all approvals, licenses, registrations or authorization of any Governmental Authority, necessary for the manufacture, use, storage, import, transport and sale of the Inventory in such country or

legal jurisdiction, including without limitation, CE marking,      510(k) and premarket notification or premarket approval (a “PMA”) application, as such terms are defined in the FDCA.

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8(a).

“FDA” means the Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America or any successor entity thereto.

“FDCA” means the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, 21 U.S.C. Section 301 et seq. and all regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Good Manufacturing Practice” means current good manufacturing practices, as set forth in the Quality System Regulation, 21 C.F.R. Part 820 and the international quality system standards for medical devices as issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (ISO13485:2003 and ISO13488: 1996).

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

“Highest Lawful Rate” means the maximum rate of interest which Lender is allowed to contract for, charge, take, reserve or receive under applicable law after taking into account, to the extent required by applicable law, any and all relevant payments or charges hereunder.

“Holdings” has the meaning specified in Section 2.

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“Indemnitee” has the meaning specified in Section 6.

“Interest Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 1(a).

“Inventory” means goods which (A) are held by the Borrower for sale or (B) consist of raw materials, work in process or materials used or consumed in its business.

“LIBOR Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 1(a).

“Lien” means with respect to any asset, any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, preference, priority or other security interest or similar preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (excluding preferred stock and equity related preferences) including, without limitation, those created by, arising under or evidenced by any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, the interest of a lessor under a capital lease, or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing.

“Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 1(a).

“Market Withdrawal” means a Person’s Removal or Correction of a distributed Inventory which involves a minor violation that would not be subject to legal action by any Governmental Authority or which involves no violation, including but not limited to normal stock rotation practices, routine equipment adjustments and repairs.

“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect on:

(a)          the business, operations, properties, prospects, condition (financial or otherwise), assets and income of Borrower;

(b)          the ability of Borrower to pay or perform any Obligation under any of the Debt Documents; or

(c)          (i) the validity, binding effect or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Debt Documents or (ii) the rights, remedies or benefits available to Lender under this Agreement or the Debt Documents taken as a whole.

“Maturity Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1(a).

“MidCap” has the meaning specified in Section 3(i).

“MidCap Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 3(i).

“Note” has the meaning specified in Section 1(a).

“Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 9(b).

“Obligations” means, collectively, debts, obligations and liabilities of any kind whatsoever of Borrower to Lender, now existing or arising in the future, including but not limited to the payment and performance of the Note, the Debt Documents, and any renewals, extensions and modifications of such debts, obligations and liabilities.

“Organizational Documents” means as applicable, a Person’s articles of incorporation, by-laws, certificate of good standing, operating agreement, shareholders’ agreement, certificate of partnership, certificate of limited partnership, partnership agreement, articles of organization, or similar documents or agreements governing its management and the rights, duties and privileges of its equity owners.

“Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation, institution, entity, party or government (whether national, federal, state, county, 

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city, municipal or otherwise, including without limitation any instrumentality, division, agency, body or department thereof).

“Recall” means a Person’s Removal or Correction of a marketed product that the FDA considers to be in violation of the laws it administers and against which the FDA would initiate legal action.

“Removal” means the physical removal of a device from its point of use to some other location for repair, modification, adjustment, relabeling or destruction.

“Required Permit” means a permit issued or required under laws applicable to the business of Borrower or necessary in the manufacturing, importing, exporting, possession, ownership, warehousing, marketing, promoting, sale, labeling, furnishing, distribution or delivery of goods or services under laws applicable to the business of Borrower, including without limitation any Device Approval (including without limitation, at any point in time, all licenses, approvals and permits issued by the FDA or any other applicable Governmental Authority necessary for the testing, manufacture, marketing or sale of any products by Borrower as such activities are being conducted by such Person with respect to such products at such time).

 “Solvent” means with respect to any Person as of a particular date, (i) such Person is able to pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the normal course of business, (ii) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature in their ordinary course, (iii) such Person is not engaged in a business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in a business or a transaction, for which such Person’s assets would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which such Person is engaged or is to engage, (iv) the fair value of the assets of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including, without limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person and (v) the aggregate fair saleable value (i.e., the amount that may be realized within a reasonable time, considered to be six months to one year, either through collection or sale at the regular market value, conceiving the latter as the amount that could be obtained for the assets in question within such period by a capable and diligent businessman from an interested buyer who is willing to purchase under ordinary selling conditions) of the assets of such Person will exceed its debts and other liabilities (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured and unliquidated debts and liabilities). For purposes of this definition, “debt” means any liability on a claim, and “claim” means (i) a right to payment or (ii) a right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance, if in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, such right can reasonably be expected to give rise to an actual or matured liability.

“Specified Laws” means all applicable laws relating to the operation of private label and other medical device product distributions, and the possession, control, warehousing, marketing, sale and distribution of medical devices, including without limitation, Good Manufacturing Practices, the Occupational Health and Safety Act (29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), any laws pertaining to the manufacture and sale of products, any laws or regulations pertaining to being in good standing to sell products to any Governmental Authority or receive reimbursement from any applicable Governmental Authorities, and any implementing regulations to any of the foregoing or other applicable laws of any other country or legal jurisdiction. This shall include all guidelines and standards established by applicable Governmental Authorities for the manufacture or repair of the Inventory.

“SafeOp” has the meaning specified in Section 2.

“Squadron” has the meaning specified in Section 2.

“Squadron Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.

“Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 3(l).

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Borrower and Lender, intending to be legally bound hereby, have duly executed this Agreement in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, as of the day and year first aforesaid.

 

	
LENDER:
	
 
	
BORROWER:

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Structure Medical, LLC
	
 
	
Alphatec Spine, Inc.

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
By:
	
/s/ Robert Boody
	
 
	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Robert Boody,President
	
 
	
 
	
Jeffrey Black, Chief Financial Officer

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Address
	
 
	
Address

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
111 Cayuga Drive
	
 
	
5181 El Camino Real

	
Mooresville, NC 28117
	
 
	
Carlsbad, CA 92008

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Borrower and Lender, intending to be legally bound hereby, have duly executed this Agreement in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, as of the day and year first aforesaid.

 

	
LENDER:
	
 
	
BORROWER:

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Structure Medical, LLC
	
 
	
Alphatec Spine, Inc.

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
By:
	
 
	
 
	
By:
	
/s/ Jeffrey Black

	
 
	
Robert Boody,President
	
 
	
 
	
Jeffrey Black, Chief Financial Officer

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
Address
	
 
	
Address

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
111 Cayuga Drive
	
 
	
5181 El Camino Real

	
Mooresville, NC 28117
	
 
	
Carlsbad, CA 92008

 

 

 

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Exhibit A

Term Note

See attached.

 

 

 

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TERM NOTE

Alphatec Spine, Inc.

 

	
$3,000,000
	
November 6, 2018

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, Alphatec Spine, Inc., a California corporation (the “Borrower”), promises to pay to the order of Structure Medical, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (the “Lender”), at the place provided in the Inventory Financing Agreement referred to below on the Maturity Date (as defined in the Inventory Financing Agreement), the lesser of (i) $3,000,000 or (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Loan outstanding and owing to the Lender, together with all the accrued and unpaid interest under this Term Note under and pursuant to the Inventory Financing Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, supplemented, modified or restated from time to time, the “Inventory Financing Agreement”) between Borrower and Lender. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the Inventory Financing Agreement.

The unpaid principal amount of this Term Note from time to time outstanding is subject to mandatory repayment from time to time as provided in the Inventory Financing Agreement and shall bear interest as provided in Section 1 of the Inventory Financing Agreement. This Term Note may be voluntarily prepaid from time to time as provided in the Inventory Financing Agreement. All payments of principal and interest on this Term Note shall be payable in lawful currency of the United States of America in immediately available funds to such account as the Lender shall specify from time to time by notice to the Borrower.

This Term Note is entitled to the benefits of, and evidences Obligations incurred under, the Inventory Financing Agreement, to which reference is made for a description of the security for this Term Note and for a statement of the terms and conditions on which Borrower is permitted and required to make prepayments and repayments of principal of the Obligations evidenced by this Term Note and on which such Obligations may be declared to be immediately due and payable.

THIS TERM NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED, CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO THE CONFLICTS OR CHOICE OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

Borrower hereby waives all requirements as to diligence, presentment, demand of payment, protest and (except as required by the Inventory Financing Agreement) notice of any kind with respect to this Term Note.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Term Note as of the day and year first written above.

 

	
BORROWER:

	
 
	
 

	
ALPHATEC SPINE, INC.

	
 
	
 

	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Jeffrey Black, Chief Financial Officer

 

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