Document:

EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Copy

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of

March 31, 2009

Among

BOWNE & CO., INC.,

The other US Borrowers Party Hereto,

BOWNE OF CANADA, LTD.,

The Subsidiary Guarantors Party Hereto,

The Lenders Party Hereto,

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as US Administrative Agent,

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., TORONTO BRANCH,

as Canadian Administrative Agent,

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

as Syndication Agent,

and

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.

and

BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC

as Joint Bookrunners and Joint Lead Arrangers

 

 

CHASE BUSINESS CREDIT

 

 

     This AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of March 31, 2009 (as it may be amended or
modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), among BOWNE & CO., INC., the other US
Borrowers party hereto, BOWNE OF CANADA, LTD., the other Loan Parties from time to time party
hereto, the Lenders party hereto, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as US Administrative Agent (as defined
below), and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., TORONTO BRANCH, as Canadian Administrative Agent (as defined
below), amends and restates in full the Five-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of May 11, 2005 (as
amended prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”), among Bowne & Co.,
Inc., the borrowing subsidiaries party thereto, the lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank,
N.A., as administrative agent.

     The parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

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

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

     “Account” means, individually and collectively, any “Account” referred to in any
Security Agreement.

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

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

     “Administrative Agents” means, individually and collectively, the US Administrative
Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent.

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

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

     “Aggregate Availability” means, with respect to all Borrowers, at any time, an amount
equal to (a) the lesser of (i) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (ii) the Aggregate Borrowing
Base minus (b) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure.

     “Aggregate Borrowing Base” means the aggregate amount of the US Borrowing Base and the
Canadian Borrowing Base; provided that the maximum amount of the Aggregate Borrowing Base
that may be attributable to the Canadian Borrowing Base shall be an amount equal to the Canadian
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     “Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate, signed and certified as
accurate and complete by a Financial Officer of the Borrower Representative, in substantially the
form of Exhibit B-1.

     “Aggregate Credit Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate Credit Exposure of all
the Lenders.

     “Aggregate Revolving Commitments” means, at any time, the aggregate Revolving
Commitments of all Lenders. The initial amount of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments is
$123,000,000, as such amount may be increased in accordance with Section 2.22 and reduced from time
to time in accordance with Section 2.09.

     “Aggregate Revolving Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate Revolving Exposures
of all Lenders.

     “Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of
(a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such
day plus 1/2 of 1%, and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one month Interest Period on such day (or if
such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1%, provided that, for
the avoidance of doubt, the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the rate appearing on
the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page 1 (or on any successor or substitute page) at approximately 11:00
a.m. London time on such day. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime
Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and
including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or
the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively.

     “Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender, (a) with respect to
Revolving Loans, LC Exposure, Swingline Loans or Protective Advances, a percentage equal to a
fraction the numerator of which is such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and the denominator of which
is the Aggregate Revolving Commitments (or, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated or
expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon such Lender’s share of the
Aggregate Revolving Exposure at that time), (b) with respect to any Class of Term Loans, a
percentage equal to a fraction the numerator of which is such Lender’s outstanding principal amount
of the Term Loans of such Class and the denominator of which is the aggregate outstanding amount of
the Term Loans of such Class of all Lenders and (c) with respect to all Loans, a percentage equal
to a fraction the numerator of which is the sum of (i) such Lender’s Revolving Commitment
plus (ii) such Lender’s outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans and the denominator
of which is the sum of (A) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments (or, if the Revolving Commitments
have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon such Lender’s
share of the Aggregate Revolving Exposure at such time) plus (B) the aggregate outstanding
amount of the Term Loans of all Lenders.

     “Applicable Spread” means, for any day, with respect to (a) any ABR Revolving Loan,
3.00%, (b) any Eurodollar Revolving Loan, 4.00%, (c) any ABR Term Loan, 3.25% or (d) any Eurodollar
Term Loan, 4.25%; provided that during the Temporary Overadvance Period, the “Applicable
Spread” shall be increased by 0.25% over the rates set forth in this definition.

     “Approved Fund” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04.

     “Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a
Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.04),
and accepted by the US Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form
approved by the US Administrative Agent.

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     “Augmenting Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.22.

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

     “Available Revolving Commitment” means, at any time, the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments then in effect minus the Aggregate Revolving Exposure at such time.

     “Average Aggregate Quarterly Availability” means, as of any date of determination, the
daily average Aggregate Availability during the fiscal quarter of the Company most recently ended.

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

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

     “Banking Services Reserves” means all Reserves which the Administrative Agents from
time to time establish in their Permitted Discretion for Banking Services then provided or
outstanding.

     “Billed Accounts” means Accounts of any Borrower arising from the sale of products
which have been shipped or the rendering of services which have been completed and for which
invoices (in form and substance acceptable to the applicable Administrative Agent in its Permitted
Discretion) bearing an invoice date contemporaneous with or later than the date of the sale of
products or rendering of services giving rise to such Accounts have been sent to the applicable
Account Debtors.

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

     “Borrower” or “Borrowers” means, individually or collectively, each US
Borrower and the Canadian Borrower.

     “Borrower Representative” means the Company, in its capacity as contractual
representative of the Borrowers pursuant to Article XI.

     “Borrowing” means (a) Revolving Loans of the same Type and currency, made, converted
or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest
Period is in effect, (b) a Term Loan of the same Class made on the same date and, in the case of
Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, (c) a Swingline Loan, and (d)
a Protective Advance.

     “Borrowing Base” means, individually and collectively, each of the Aggregate Borrowing
Base, the US Borrowing Base and the Canadian Borrowing Base.

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     “Borrowing Base Certificate” means, individually and collectively, each of the
Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate, the US Borrowing Base Certificate and the Canadian Borrowing
Base Certificate.

     “Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower Representative (or the applicable
Borrower) for a Borrowing of Revolving Loans in accordance with Section 2.02.

     “Boston Property” means the real property owned by Bowne of Boston, Inc. and located
at 411 D Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

     “Bowne Translation Services Business” means the business consisting of Bowne
Translation Services LLC and the related division operating as part of Bowne of Paris, Inc.,
providing document translation services and foreign language materials to global financial
institutions, law firms and corporations through its network of linguists and localized resources.

     “Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed;
provided that, (a) when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business
Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in
the London interbank market, and (b) when used in connection with any Canadian Loan, the term
“Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which commercial banks in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

     “Canada Pension Plan” means the pension benefit plan maintained by the Government of
Canada.

     “Canadian Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch, in
its capacity as administrative agent, collateral agent, security trustee and fonde de pouvoir for
itself and for the Lenders hereunder with respect to the administration and funding of Canadian
Loans to the Canadian Borrower, and the administration, possession, perfection and monitoring of,
and exercise of control over, Collateral of the Canadian Loan Parties, and its successors in such
capacity (or such of its Affiliates as it may designate from time to time).

     “Canadian Availability” means (a) the lesser of (x) the Canadian Sublimit and (y) the
sum of (i) the Canadian Borrowing Base plus (ii) solely to the extent the total Revolving
Exposure relating to the Canadian Borrower exceeds the Canadian Borrowing Base, the US Availability
(calculated without giving effect to any Canadian Borrowing Base Utilization), minus (b)
the total Revolving Exposure relating to the Canadian Borrower.

     “Canadian Benefit Plans” means any plan, fund, program, policy or agreement, whether
oral or written, formal or informal, funded or unfunded, insured or uninsured, providing employee
benefits, including medical, hospital care, dental, sickness, accident, disability, life insurance,
pension, retirement, supplemental retirement or savings benefits, maintained by any Loan Party or
any Subsidiary of any Loan Party or under which any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party
has any actual or potential liability with respect to any employee or former employee, but
excluding any Canadian Pension Plans.

     “Canadian Borrower” means (a) Bowne of Canada, Ltd. and (b) each other Canadian Group
Member that becomes a party to this Agreement as a “Borrower” hereunder after the Effective Date in
accordance with the terms of Section 5.13.

     “Canadian Borrowing Base” means, at any time, with respect to the Canadian Borrower,
the sum, in dollars, of:

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     (a) the product of (i) 85% multiplied by (ii) the Canadian Borrower’s Eligible Billed
Accounts at such time, plus

     (b) the product of (i) 80% multiplied by (ii) the Canadian Borrower’s Eligible
Unbilled Accounts at such time, plus

     (c) the product of (i) 50% multiplied by (ii) the Canadian Borrower’s Eligible WIP at
such time, plus

     (d) the product of (i) 50% multiplied by (ii) the Canadian Borrower’s Eligible
Inventory, valued at the lower of cost (determined on a first-in-first-out basis) or market value,
at such time, minus

     (e) Reserves established by the Canadian Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

provided, that (i) the portion of the Canadian Borrowing Base comprised of Eligible
Unbilled Accounts shall not at any time exceed thirty percent (30%) of the aggregate portion of the
Canadian Borrowing Base comprised of Eligible Unbilled Accounts and Eligible Billed Accounts (in
each case, determined after giving effect to the applicable advance rate) and (ii) the aggregate
portion of the Canadian Borrowing Base comprised of Eligible WIP and Eligible Inventory (in each
case, determined after giving effect to the applicable advance rate) shall not exceed $2,000,000 at
any time. The Canadian Administrative Agent may, in its Permitted Discretion, adjust Reserves used
in computing the Aggregate Borrowing Base and the Canadian Borrowing Base, with any such changes to
be effective two Business Days after delivery of notice thereof to the Borrower Representative and
the Lenders. The Canadian Borrowing Base at any time shall be determined by reference to the most
recent Canadian Borrowing Base Certificate delivered to the Canadian Administrative Agent pursuant
to Section 5.01(g) of this Agreement. To the extent that the amount of any Accounts, Inventory or
WIP included in the Canadian Borrowing Base shall be expressed in Canadian Dollars, the Canadian
Borrower shall convert such amount into the Dollar Equivalent thereof on the relevant date of
determination of the Canadian Borrowing Base.

     “Canadian Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate, signed and certified as
accurate and complete by a Financial Officer, in substantially the form of Exhibit B-3.

     “Canadian Borrowing Base Utilization” means the excess of (i) the total Revolving
Exposure relating to the Canadian Borrower minus (ii) the Canadian Borrowing Base.

     “Canadian Cash Management Bank” means (a) as of the Effective Date, The Bank of Nova
Scotia, in its capacity as the principal depositary bank for the Canadian Loan Parties, and (b) at
any time after the Effective Date, any one or more of the Lenders selected by the Canadian Loan
Parties, with the prior written consent of the Canadian Administrative Agent, to become the
successor principal depository bank for the Canadian Loan Parties; provided that, unless the
Canadian Administrative Agent otherwise consents in writing, no Person shall become the successor
“Canadian Cash Management Bank” unless and until such Person shall have entered into a Control
Agreement with the Canadian Loan Parties and the Canadian Administrative Agent in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to the Canadian Administrative Agent.

     “Canadian Collection Account” means the account at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto
Branch, so designated by the Canadian Administrative Agent, in a written notice delivered to the
Canadian Loan Parties, to be the “Collection Account”, to which funds on deposit in Deposit
Accounts and Securities Accounts (other than Excluded Accounts) and all payments received in
respect of Accounts shall be remitted (a) at all times during a Full Cash Dominion Period and (b)
at any time during the

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Temporary Overadvance Period if so requested by the Canadian Administrative Agent in its
Permitted Discretion; together with any replacement or additional account so designated by the
Canadian Administrative Agent.

     “Canadian Dollars” and “C$” means dollars in the lawful currency of Canada.

     “Canadian Funding Office” means the office of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto
Branch specified in Section 9.01 or such other office as may be specified from time to time by the
Administrative Agents by written notice to the Canadian Borrower and the Lenders.

     “Canadian GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in Canada, as in effect
from time to time.

     “Canadian Group Member” means any Subsidiary of the Company (including the Canadian
Borrower) organized under the laws of Canada or any province or other political subdivision
thereof.

     “Canadian LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount
of all outstanding Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Canadian Borrower at such time
plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements relating to Letters of Credit issued for the
account of the Canadian Borrower that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Canadian
Borrower at such time. The Canadian LC Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its
Applicable Percentage of the total Canadian LC Exposure at such time.

     “Canadian LC Sublimit” means $1,000,000.

     “Canadian Loans” means, individually and collectively, Canadian Revolving Loans,
Canadian Swingline Loans and Canadian Protective Advances.

     “Canadian Loan Party” means any Loan Party (including the Canadian Borrower) organized
under the laws of Canada or any province or other political subdivision thereof.

     “Canadian Pension Plan” means any pension plan, supplemental pension, retirement
savings, deferred profit sharing or other retirement income plan or arrangement of any kind,
registered or unregistered, established, maintained or contributed to by a Loan Party or any
Subsidiary of a Loan Party for its employees or former employees, but does not include the Canada
Pension Plan or the Quebec Pension Plan.

     “Canadian Protective Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.04.

     “Canadian Revolving Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum
of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Canadian Revolving Loans and an amount equal
to its Applicable Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Canadian Swingline Loans and
Canadian Protective Advances outstanding at such time.

     “Canadian Revolving Loan” means a Revolving Loan made to the Canadian Borrower.

     “Canadian Secured Obligations” means the Secured Obligations of the Canadian Borrower
and the other Canadian Loan Parties.

     “Canadian Security Agreement” means that certain Canadian Pledge and Security
Agreement dated as of the date hereof, between the Loan Parties party thereto and the Canadian
Administrative

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Agent for the benefit of the Canadian Administrative Agent and the Lenders, as the same may be
amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, and any other pledge or security
agreement entered into, on or after the date of this Agreement, by any other Canadian Loan Party
(as required by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for the purpose of creating a Lien on the
property of any Canadian Loan Party (or any other property located in the Canada)), as the same may
be amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

     “Canadian Sublimit” means $15,000,000, as such sublimit may be reduced or terminated
in accordance with Section 2.09 (which amount includes the Canadian Swingline Sublimit).

     “Canadian Swingline Lender” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch, in its
capacity as lender of Canadian Swingline Loans hereunder, and its successors and assigns in such
capacity.

     “Canadian Swingline Loan” means a Swingline Loan made to the Canadian Borrower by the
Canadian Swingline Lender.

     “Canadian Swingline Sublimit” means $2,000,000 (which amount comprises part of the
Canadian Sublimit).

     “Capital Expenditures” means, without duplication, any expenditure or commitment to
expend money for any purchase or other acquisition of any asset which would be classified as a
fixed or capital asset on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries prepared
in accordance with GAAP, but excluding any such expenditure made (i) in connection with a Permitted
Acquisition or (ii) with the Net Proceeds of an asset sale, casualty, condemnation or similar
event.

     “Capital Impairment” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.09.

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

     “Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly,
beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission thereunder as in effect on the date hereof) of Equity Interests representing more than
50% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity
Interests of the Company; (b) occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on
the board of directors of the Company by Persons who were neither (i) nominated by the board of
directors of the Company, or a committee thereof, nor (ii) appointed by directors so nominated; (c)
the Company shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, free and clear of all Liens or other
encumbrances (other than Liens created pursuant to any Loan Document), 100% of the outstanding
voting Equity Interests of each Borrower (other than the Company) on a fully diluted basis (other
than any directors’ qualifying shares of any Borrower).

     “Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any law, rule, regulation, treaty, practice
or concession after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation,
treaty, practice or concession or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental
Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender or any Issuing Bank (or,
for purposes of Section 2.15(b), by any lending office of such Lender or such Issuing Bank or by
such Lender’s or such Issuing Bank’s

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holding company, if any) with any request, guideline, directive, notice, ruling, statement or
policy or practice statement (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority
made or issued after the date of this Agreement.

     “Class”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan,
or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, Eighteen Month Term Loans, Twenty-Six
Month Term Loans, Swingline Loans or Protective Advances.

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

     “Collateral” means any and all property or rights owned, leased or operated by a
Person covered by the Collateral Documents and any and all other property or rights owned, leased
or operated by any Loan Party, now existing or hereafter acquired, that may at any time be or
become subject to a security interest or Lien in favor of the applicable Administrative Agent (on
behalf of the Lenders, and the Issuing Banks) pursuant to the Collateral Documents in order to
secure the Secured Obligations.

     “Collateral Access Agreement” means, individually and collectively, each “Collateral
Access Agreement” referred to in any Security Agreement.

     “Collateral Document” means, individually and collectively, each Security Agreement,
each Control Agreement, each Mortgage and each other document granting a Lien upon any of the
Collateral as security for payment of the Secured Obligations.

     “Collection Account” means, either the US Collection Account or the Canadian
Collection Account, as applicable.

     “Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the sum of such Lender’s Revolving
Commitment and Term Loan Commitments, together with the commitment of such Lender to acquire
participations in Protective Advances hereunder. The initial amount of each Lender’s Commitment is
set forth on the Commitment Schedule, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which
such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as applicable.

     “Commitment Fee Rate” means a rate equal to 0.750% per annum.

     “Commitment Schedule” means the Schedule attached hereto identified as such.

     “Company” means Bowne & Co., Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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

     “Control Agreement” means an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Administrative Agents, among (a) the applicable Loan Party, (b) a banking institution,
securities broker or securities intermediary at which such Loan Party maintains a Deposit Account
or a Securities Account, and (c) the applicable Administrative Agent, providing for the applicable
Administrative Agent to have control over the funds or securities and other financial assets held
in such Deposit Account or Securities Account.

     “Convertible Notes” means the 5.00% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due October 1,
2033 issued by the Company pursuant to the Convertible Notes Indenture.

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     “Convertible Notes Indenture” means that certain Indenture dated as of September 24,
2003 between Bowne & Co., Inc., as issuer and The Bank of New York, as trustee, as amended by that
certain First Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 19, 2008 and that certain Second
Supplemental Indenture dated as of September 18, 2008, and as the same shall be further amended
from time to time.

     “Credit Exposure” means, as to any Lender at any time, the sum of (a) such Lender’s
Revolving Exposure at such time, plus (b) an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount
of its Term Loans outstanding at such time.

     “Dallas Property” means the real property owned by Bowne of Dallas, Inc. and located
at 1931 Market Center Blvd, Dallas, Texas.

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

     “Defaulting Lender” means any Lender, as determined by the Administrative Agents, that
has (a) failed to fund any portion of its Loans or participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline
Loans within three Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) notified
any Borrower, the applicable Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, any Swingline Lender or any
Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under this
Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with its
funding obligations under this Agreement or under other agreements in which it commits to extend
credit, (c) failed, within three Business Days after request by the applicable Administrative
Agents, to confirm that it will comply (subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in
Sections 4.01 and 4.02) with the terms of this Agreement relating to its obligations to fund
prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans, (d)
otherwise failed to pay over to the applicable Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other
amount required to be paid by it hereunder within three Business Days of the date when due, unless
the subject of a good faith dispute, or (e) (i) become or is insolvent or has a parent company that
has become or is insolvent or (ii) become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or
has had a receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, administrator, liquidator, conservator,
trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its
consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or has a parent
company that has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a
receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, administrator, liquidator, conservator, trustee
or custodian appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent
to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment.

     “Defaulting Loan Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.26(a).

     “Departing Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(b).

     “Deposit Account” has the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

     “Dilution Factors” shall mean, without duplication, with respect to any period, the
aggregate amount of all deductions, credit memos, returns, adjustments, allowances, bad debt
write-offs and other non-cash credits which are recorded to reduce accounts receivable in a manner
consistent with current and historical accounting practices of the Borrowers.

     “Dilution Ratio” shall mean, at any date, the amount (expressed as a percentage) equal
to (a) the aggregate amount of the applicable Dilution Factors for the twelve (12) most recently
ended fiscal months divided by (b) total gross sales for the twelve (12) most recently
ended fiscal months.

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     “Dilution Reserve” shall mean, at any date, the applicable Dilution Ratio multiplied
by the Eligible Accounts on such date.

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

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

     “Dollar Equivalent” means, on any date of determination, (a) with respect to any
amount expressed in Canadian Dollars, the amount of dollars that would be required to purchase the
amount of such currency based upon the Spot Selling Rate as of such date of determination and (b)
with respect to any amount expressed in dollars, such amount.

     “dollars” or “$” means the lawful money of the United States of America unless
otherwise specified.

     “Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary organized under the laws of any
jurisdiction within the United States.

     “EBITDA” means, for any period, Net Income for such period plus (a) without
duplication and to the extent deducted in determining Net Income for such period, the sum of (i)
Interest Expense for such period, (ii) income or franchise tax expense for such period, (iii) all
amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization expense for such period, (iv) any
extraordinary non-cash charges for such period (but excluding any loss or charge from any sale,
transfer, lease or other disposition of assets during such period), (v) non-recurring cash expenses
and charges incurred as a result of or in connection with restructuring and integration charges of
the Company and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed (A) $2,600,000 for the fiscal
quarter ended March 31, 2008, (B) $17,500,000 for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2008, (C)
$8,500,000 for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2008, (D) $10,800,000 for the fiscal quarter
ended December 31, 2008, (E) $4,000,000 for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2009 and (F)
$3,500,000 for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2009, (vi) any other non-cash charges for such
period (but excluding any non-cash charge in respect of an item that was included in Net Income in
a prior period and any non-cash charge that relates to the write-down or write-off of inventory),
(vii) amortization of acquired beneficial lease interests included in rent expense under GAAP for
such period, (viii) unrealized translation losses for currency exchange for such period, (ix) any
expense attributed to transaction costs associated with this agreement for such period, and (x)
amortization of any acquisition deal related costs included in such period, minus (b)
without duplication and to the extent included in Net Income, (i) any cash payments made during
such period in respect of non-cash charges described in clause (a)(vi) taken in a prior period and
(ii) any extraordinary gains and any non-cash items of income for such period, all calculated for
the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if during any period for which EBITDA is being determined, the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company shall have consummated any acquisition permitted under Section 6.04 or
any sale, transfer, lease or other disposition permitted under Section 6.05(g) or (h) of any
business or operating unit or group of assets, then, for all purposes of this Agreement, EBITDA
shall be determined on a pro forma basis, taking into account the positive historical EBITDA
generated by such business or operating unit or group of assets as if such acquisition, sale,
transfer, lease or other disposition had been consummated on the first day of such period (for the
avoidance of doubt, the determination of EBITDA on a pro forma basis in connection with any
acquisition, sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of any business or operating unit or group
of assets, shall be computed using the actual positive historical EBITDA generated by such business
or operating unit or group of assets, without any adjustment, and shall not be reduced by any
negative historical EBITDA of such business or operating unit or group of assets).

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     “Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 are
satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02).

     “Eighteen Month Term Loan Commitment” means (a) as to any Term Lender, the aggregate
commitment of such Term Lender to make Eighteen Month Term Loans as set forth in the Commitment
Schedule or in the most recent Assignment and Assumption executed by such Term Lender and (b)
as to all Term Lenders, the aggregate commitment of all Term Lenders to make Eighteen Month Term
Loans, which aggregate commitment shall be seven million dollars ($7,000,000) on the date of this
Agreement. After advancing the Eighteen Month Term Loans, each reference to a Term Lender’s
Eighteen Month Term Loan Commitment shall refer to that Term Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the
Eighteen Month Term Loans.

     “Eighteen Month Term Loan Maturity Date” means the earlier of (a) September 30, 2010
and (b) the Termination Date.

     “Eighteen Month Term Loans” means the Eighteen Month Term Loans extended by the
Lenders to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(d) hereof.

     “Eligible Accounts” means, at any time, the Accounts of any Borrower which, in
accordance with the terms hereof, are eligible as the basis for the extension of Revolving Loans,
Swingline Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder. Eligible Accounts shall not
include any Account:

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

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

     (c) which has been written off the books of such Borrower or otherwise designated as
uncollectible;

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

     (e) which is owing by an Account Debtor to the extent the aggregate amount of Accounts owing
from such Account Debtor and its Affiliates to all Borrowers exceeds 10% of the aggregate amount of
Eligible Accounts of all Borrowers;

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

     (g) which (i) does not arise from the sale of goods or performance of services in the ordinary
course of business, (ii) represents a progress billing, (iii) is contingent upon such Borrower’s
completion of material further performance, (iv) represents a sale on a bill-and-hold, guaranteed
sale, sale-and-return, sale on approval, consignment, cash-on-delivery or any other repurchase or
return basis or (v) relates to payments of interest;

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

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     (i) with respect to which any check or other instrument of payment has been returned
uncollected for any reason, in each case, to the extent thereof;

     (j) which is owed by an Account Debtor that (i) has applied for or been the subject of a
petition or application for, suffered, or consented to the appointment of any receiver, custodian,
trustee, administrator, liquidator or similar official for such Account Debtor of its assets, (ii)
has had possession of all or a material part of its property taken by any receiver, custodian,
trustee or liquidator, (iii) has filed, or had filed against it, under any Insolvency Laws, any
assignment, application, request or petition for liquidation, reorganization, compromise,
arrangement, adjustment of debts, stay of proceedings, adjudication as bankrupt, winding-up, or
voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding, (iv) has admitted in writing its inability to pay its
debts as they become due, or (v) has ceased operation of its business;

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

     (l) which is owed by an Account Debtor which (i) does not maintain its chief executive office
(or its domicile, for the purposes of the Quebec Civil Code) in the United States or Canada or (ii)
is not organized under any applicable law of the United States, any state of the United States or
the District of Columbia, Canada or any province or other political subdivision of Canada, unless,
in any such case, such Account is backed by a letter of credit reasonably acceptable to the
applicable Administrative Agent which is in the possession of, has been assigned to and is directly
drawable by the applicable Administrative Agent;

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

     (n) which is owed by the government (or any department, agency, public corporation, or
instrumentality thereof, excluding states of the United States of America) of any country and
except to the extent that the subject Account Debtor is (i) the federal government of the United
States of America and, with respect to Accounts in excess of $5,000,000 (individually or in the
aggregate) at any time, has complied with the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended
(31 USC. § 3727 et seq. and 41 USC. § 15 et seq.) or (ii) the federal government of Canada and has
complied with the Financial Administration Act (Canada), as amended, as applicable, and any other
steps necessary to perfect the Lien of the applicable Administrative Agent in such Account have
been complied with to the satisfaction of such applicable Administrative Agent;

     (o) which is owed by any Affiliate, employee, officer, director or agent of any Borrower;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

     (x) which is subject to any limitation on assignments or other security interests (whether
arising by operation of law, by agreement or otherwise), unless the applicable Administrative Agent
has determined in its Permitted Discretion that such limitation is not enforceable;

     (y) which is governed by the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States, any state
thereof or the District of Columbia, Canada or any province or other political subdivision of
Canada;

     (z) which is owed by an Account Debtor in respect of which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries has received notice of any proceedings or actions which are threatened or pending
against such Account Debtor which would reasonably be expected to affect the value of the Account
as Collateral or the likelihood of payment by the Account Debtor;

     (aa) which is not owned by a Borrower or such Borrower does not have good or marketable title
to such Account; or

     (bb) which the applicable Administrative Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion may not
be paid by reason of the Account Debtor’s inability to pay or which the applicable Administrative
Agent otherwise determines in its Permitted Discretion is unacceptable for any reason whatsoever.

     In the event that an Account which was previously an Eligible Account ceases to be an Eligible
Account hereunder, such Borrower or the Borrower Representative shall notify the applicable
Administrative Agent thereof on and at the time of submission to the applicable Administrative
Agent of the next Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate and the next Borrowing Base Certificate of
any Borrower. In determining the amount of an Eligible Account, the face amount of an Account may,
in the applicable Administrative Agent’s Permitted Discretion, be reduced by, without duplication,
to the extent not reflected in such face amount, (i) the amount of all accrued and actual
discounts, claims, credits or credits pending, promotional program allowances, price adjustments,
finance charges or other allowances (including any amount that such Borrower may be obligated to
rebate to an Account Debtor pursuant to the terms of any agreement or understanding (written or
oral)) and (ii) the aggregate amount of all cash received in respect of such Account but not yet
applied by such Borrower to reduce the amount of such Account. Standards of eligibility may be
made more restrictive (and such increased restrictiveness subsequently reversed in whole or in
part) from time to time solely by the applicable Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion,
with any such changes to be effective two Business Days after notice thereof to the Borrower
Representative and the Lenders.

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     “Eligible Billed Accounts” means, Billed Accounts (a) which meet all of the criteria
for inclusion as “Eligible Accounts”, (b) which have not remained outstanding in whole or in part
(i) more than 120 days after the date of the original invoice therefor or (ii) more than 90 days
after the original due date (in determining the aggregate amount from the same Account Debtor that
is unpaid hereunder there shall be excluded the amount of any net credit balances relating to
Accounts due from an Account Debtor which are unpaid more than 120 days from the date of invoice or
more than 90 days from the due date) and (c) which has not been written off the books of the
applicable Borrower or otherwise designated as uncollectible.

     “Eligible Inventory” means, at any time, the Paper Inventory of a Borrower which, in
accordance with the terms hereof, is eligible as the basis for the extension of Revolving Loans,
Swingline Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder. Eligible Inventory shall not
include any Inventory which is not Paper Inventory and shall not include any Inventory:

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

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

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

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

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

     (f) which is returned or marked for return, repossessed, defective or damaged, or held on
consignment;

     (g) which is in transit;

     (h) which is not located at premises owned or operated by any US Borrower in the U.S. or by
the Canadian Borrower in Canada or at a warehouse utilized by any US Borrower in the U.S. or by the
Canadian Borrower in Canada;

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

     (j) which is located in any third party warehouse and is not evidenced by a Document, unless
(i) such warehouseman has delivered to the applicable Administrative Agent a Collateral Access
Agreement and such other documentation as the applicable Administrative Agent may reasonably
require

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or (ii) an appropriate Reserve has been established by the applicable Administrative Agent in
its Permitted Discretion;

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

     (l) which the applicable Administrative Agent otherwise determines in its Permitted Discretion
is unacceptable for any reason whatsoever.

     In the event that any material Inventory which was previously Eligible Inventory ceases to be
Eligible Inventory hereunder, such Borrower or the Borrower Representative shall notify the
applicable Administrative Agent thereof on and at the time of submission to the applicable
Administrative Agent of the next Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate and the next Borrowing Base
Certificate of any Borrower. Standards of eligibility may be made more restrictive (and such
increased restrictiveness subsequently reversed in whole or in part) from time to time solely by
the applicable Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion, with any such changes to be
effective two Business Days after notice thereof to the Borrower Representative and the Lenders.

     “Eligible Unbilled Accounts” means, Unbilled Accounts (a) which, if billed, would meet
all of the criteria for inclusion as “Eligible Accounts”, (b) in respect of which the services
giving rise to such Unbilled Accounts have been fully performed or the products giving rise to such
Unbilled Accounts have been shipped and (c) for which an invoice will be issued within 45 days of
the date on which such products were shipped or such services were fully performed. In the event
that any Unbilled Account which was previously an Eligible Unbilled Account ceases to meet any of
the criteria described above, such Borrower or the Borrower Representative shall notify the
applicable Administrative Agent thereof and on and at the time of submission to the applicable
Administrative Agent of the next Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate and the next Borrowing Base
Certificate of any Borrower (for the avoidance of doubt, any Unbilled Account for which an invoice
is not issued within 45 days after the date on which the products giving rise to such Unbilled
Account were shipped or the services giving rise to such Unbilled Account were fully performed
shall cease to be an Eligible Unbilled Account until such Account shall be invoiced, at which time
such Account shall be eligible for inclusion as an Eligible Billed Account, provided that such
Account meets all criteria for eligibility set forth in the definition of “Eligible Billed
Accounts”). Standards of eligibility may be made more restrictive (and such increased
restrictiveness subsequently reversed in whole or in part) from time to time solely by the
applicable Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion, with any such changes to be effective
two Business Days after notice thereof to the Borrower Representative and the Lenders.

     “Eligible WIP” means, WIP of a Borrower consisting of finished products waiting to be
shipped or products which are substantially complete and will be ready to be shipped to a customer
within fifteen (15) days and which, in each case in accordance with the terms hereof, is eligible
as the basis for the extension of Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans and the issuance of Letters of
Credit hereunder. Eligible WIP shall not include any product which is not complete in all respects
and ready to be shipped to a customer or any product:

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

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

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

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

     (e) which is not located at premises owned or operated by any Borrower in the U.S. or Canada
or at any warehouse utilized by any Borrower in the U.S. or Canada;

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

     (g) which is located in any third party warehouse and is not evidenced by a Document, unless
(i) such warehouseman has delivered to the applicable Administrative Agent a Collateral Access
Agreement and such other documentation as the applicable Administrative Agent may reasonably
require or (ii) an appropriate Reserve has been established by the applicable Administrative Agent
in its Permitted Discretion; or

     (h) which the applicable Administrative Agent otherwise determines in its Permitted Discretion
is unacceptable for any reason whatsoever.

In the event any material product which was previously Eligible WIP ceases to be Eligible WIP
hereunder, such Borrower or the Borrower Representative shall notify the applicable Administrative
Agent thereof on and at the time of submission to the applicable Administrative Agent of the next
Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate and the next Borrowing Base Certificate of any Borrower.
Standards of eligibility may be made more restrictive (and such increased restrictiveness
subsequently reversed in whole or in part) from time to time solely by the applicable
Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion, with any such changes to be effective two
Business Days after notice thereof to the Borrower Representative and the Lenders.

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

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

     “Equipment” the meaning assigned to such term in the US Security Agreement, or, in the
case of any of the Canadian Loan Parties, in the Canadian Security Agreement.

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

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

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

     “ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or
the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day
notice period is waived); (b) any failure by any Plan to satisfy minimum funding standards (within
the meaning of Sections 412 or 430 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan,
whether or not waived, if such failure could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an
application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the
incurrence by any Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA
with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt by any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate
from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan
or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by any Borrower or any
of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from
any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any
notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any
notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer
Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of
ERISA.

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

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

     “Excess Cash Flow” means, for any fiscal year of the Company, the excess, if any, of
(a) the sum, without duplication, of (i) Net Income for such fiscal year, (ii) the amount of all
non-cash charges (including depreciation and amortization) deducted in arriving at such Net Income,
(iii) decreases in Working Capital for such fiscal year, and (iv) the aggregate net amount of
non-cash loss on the disposition of property by the Company and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal
year (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business), to the extent deducted in
arriving at such Net Income minus (b) the sum, without duplication, of (i) the amount of
all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Net Income, (ii) the aggregate amount actually
paid by the Company and its Subsidiaries in cash during such fiscal year on account of Capital
Expenditures (excluding the principal amount of Indebtedness incurred in connection with such
expenditures and any such expenditures financed with the proceeds of asset dispositions that have
not yet been used to pay down the Loans), (iii) the aggregate amount of all prepayments of
Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans during such fiscal year to the extent accompanying permanent
optional reductions of the Revolving Commitments and all optional prepayments of the Term Loans
during such fiscal year, (iv) the aggregate amount of all regularly scheduled principal payments
and all mandatory prepayments of Long-Term Debt (including the Term

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Loans) of the Company and its Subsidiaries made during such fiscal year (other than in respect
of any revolving credit facility to the extent there is not an equivalent permanent reduction in
commitments thereunder), (v) increases in Working Capital for such fiscal year, and (vi) the
aggregate net amount of non-cash gain on the disposition of property by the Company and its
Subsidiaries during such fiscal year (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of
business), to the extent included in arriving at such Net Income.

     “Excluded Accounts” means, collectively, (a) any Deposit Account of any Loan Party
which is used exclusively for the payment of payroll, payroll taxes, employee benefits or escrow
deposits or to maintain client postage advances, and (b) any other Deposit Account of any Loan
Party, so long as the aggregate amount of available funds on deposit in such Deposit Account does
not at any time exceed $250,000 for more than three (3) consecutive Business Days, provided that
the aggregate amount of available funds on deposit in all Deposit Accounts under this clause (b)
does not at any time exceed $1,000,000.

     “Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to either or both of the Administrative Agents,
any Lender, the Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of
any obligation of any Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by)
its net income by the United States of America, or by the jurisdiction (or any political
subdivision thereof) under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal
office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located,
(b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by
any other jurisdiction in which any Borrower is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender
(other than an assignee pursuant to a request by a Borrower under Section 2.19(b)), any withholding
tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender
becomes a party to this Agreement (or at the time such Foreign Lender designates a new lending
office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.17(f), except
to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of
designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the
Borrowers with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.17(a).

     “Existing Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

     “Existing Letters of Credit” means the letters of credit referred to on Schedule
2.06 hereto, which letters of credit have been issued by an Issuing Bank or any Lender.

     “Existing Loan Documents” means the “Loan Documents” under and as defined in the
Existing Credit Agreement.

     “Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded
upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as
published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such
rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received
by the US Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by
the US Administrative Agent.

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

     “Fixed Charges” means, with reference to any period, without duplication, cash
Interest Expense for such period (excluding arrangement and upfront fees and deal costs related to
this Agreement), plus

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scheduled principal payments on Indebtedness for borrowed money made during such period,
plus expense for income taxes paid in cash during such period, net of cash income tax
refunds, plus dividends or distributions paid in cash during such period, plus
Capital Lease Obligation payments made during such period, plus cash contributions to any
Plan made during such period, all calculated for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis.

     “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, for any period, the ratio of (a) EBITDA
minus the unfinanced portion of Capital Expenditures to (b) Fixed Charges, all calculated
for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

     “Foreign Lender” means any Lender or Issuing Bank, (a) with respect to the Canadian
Borrower, that is subject to Canadian taxes on the basis that such Lender or Issuing Bank is
treated as a non-resident of Canada for the purposes of imposing any Canadian Federal income tax,
(b) with respect to any US Borrower, (1) that, is not a “United States person” as defined by
section 7701(a)(30) of the Code (a “US Person”), or (2) that is a partnership or other entity
treated as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes which is a US Person, but
only to the extent the beneficial owners (including indirect partners if its direct partners are
partnerships or other entities treated as partnerships for United States federal income tax
purposes are US Persons) are not US Persons.

     “Foreign Loan Parties” means, individually and collectively, the Loan Parties other
than the US Loan Parties.

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

     “Full Cash Dominion Period” means (a) any period commencing with the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default until such Event of Default has been cured or waived
and (b) any period (i) commencing on the date that Aggregate Availability shall have been less than
$25,000,000 for three consecutive days and (ii) ending on the date thereafter on which Aggregate
Availability shall have exceeded $30,000,000 for ninety (90) consecutive days; provided,
that solely for purposes of clause (b) above, (x) no Full Cash Dominion Period shall be deemed to
be in effect during the Temporary Overadvance Period and (y) during (A) the period from January 1,
2010 through March 31, 2010 and (B) the period from January 1, 2011 through March 31 2011, a Full
Cash Dominion Period shall not commence unless Aggregate Availability shall have been less than
$17,500,000 for three consecutive days.

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

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

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

     “Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation,
contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of
guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary
obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the
guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase
or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds
for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease

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property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or
other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any
other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary
obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any
letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation;
provided, that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit
in the ordinary course of business.

     “Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.01.

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

     “Hostile Acquisition” means (a) the acquisition of the Equity Interests of a Person
through a tender offer or similar solicitation of the owners of Equity Interests of such Person
which has not been approved (prior to such acquisition) by the board of directors (or any other
applicable governing body) of such Person or by similar action if such Person is not a corporation
and (b) any such acquisition as to which such approval has been withdrawn.

     “Increasing Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.22.

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

     “Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.

     “Information Memorandum” means the Confidential Information Memorandum dated February
2009 relating to the Borrowers and the Transactions.

     “Insolvency Laws” means each of the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
(Canada), the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), the Winding-Up and Restructuring Act
(Canada) and any other applicable state, provincial, territorial or federal bankruptcy laws, each
as now and hereafter in effect, any successors to such statutes and any other applicable insolvency
or other similar law of any jurisdiction, including any law of any jurisdiction permitting a debtor
to obtain a stay

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or a compromise of the claims of its creditors against it and including any rules and
regulations pursuant thereto.

     “Intellectual Property” means, individually and collectively, trademarks, service
marks, tradenames, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, industrial designs, internet domain names
and other intellectual property, including any applications and registrations pertaining thereto
and with respect to trademarks, service marks and tradenames, the goodwill of the business
symbolized thereby and connected with the use thereof.

     “Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower Representative (or the
applicable US Borrower) to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07.

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

     “Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline
Loan), the first Business Day of each calendar month, (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the
last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in
the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration,
each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’
duration after the first day of such Interest Period, (c) with respect to any Swingline Loan, the
day that such Loan is required to be repaid, and (d) with respect to any Loan, the Maturity Date.

     “Interest Period” means with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period
commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the
calendar month that is one, two, three or six months (or, nine or twelve months with the consent of
each affected Term Lender in the case of Term Loans and all Revolving Lenders in the case of
Revolving Loans) thereafter, as the Borrower Representative may elect; provided, that (i)
if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be
extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing only,
such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such
Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (ii) any Interest Period
pertaining to a Eurodollar Borrowing that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month
(or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such
Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest
Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such
Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or
continuation of such Borrowing.

     “Inventory” has the meaning assigned to such term in any Security Agreement. For
avoidance of doubt, the term “Inventory” as used herein, shall include Paper Inventory and WIP.

     “Issuing Bank” means (a) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as the issuer of
Letters of Credit for the account of the US Borrowers hereunder and (b) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Toronto Branch, in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit for the account of the Canadian
Borrower hereunder, and each of their respective successors in such capacity as provided in Section
2.06(i). The Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be
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the Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with
respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.

     “ITA” means the Income Tax Act (Canada), as amended.

     “Joinder Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.11.

     “LC Collateral Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(j).

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

     “LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the US LC Exposure at such time plus
(b) the Canadian LC Exposure at such time. The LC Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time
shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.

     “Lenders” means the Persons listed on the Commitment Schedule and any other
Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than
any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless
the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lenders.

     “Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement.

     “LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period,
the rate appearing on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or on any successor or substitute page of such
Service, or any successor to or substitute for such Service, providing rate quotations comparable
to those currently provided on such page of such Service, as determined by the US Administrative
Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar
deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business
Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a
maturity comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not available at such
time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurodollar Borrowing for
such Interest Period shall be the rate at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 and for a maturity
comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the principal London office of the US
Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately
11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.

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

     “Loan Documents” means this Agreement, any promissory notes issued pursuant to the
Agreement, any Letter of Credit applications, the Collateral Documents, the Loan Guaranty and all
other agreements, instruments, documents and certificates identified in Section 4.01 executed by or
on behalf of any Loan Party and delivered to, or in favor of, the applicable Administrative Agent
or any Lender and including all other pledges, powers of attorney, consents, assignments,
contracts, notices, letter of credit agreements and all other written matter whether heretofore,
now or hereafter executed by or on behalf of any Loan Party, and delivered to the applicable
Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the Agreement or the transactions
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Loan Document to a Loan Document shall include all appendices, exhibits or schedules thereto,
and all amendments, restatements, supplements or other modifications thereto, and shall refer to
the Agreement or such Loan Document as the same may be in effect at any and all times such
reference becomes operative.

     “Loan Guarantor” means each Loan Party other than any Canadian Borrower.

     “Loan Guaranty” means Article X of this Agreement.

     “Loan Parties” means (i) the US Borrowers, (ii) the Canadian Borrower, (iii) all
Significant Domestic Subsidiaries in existence as of the Effective Date, (iv) any Significant
Canadian Subsidiary, additional Significant Domestic Subsidiary or other Person (including, without
limitation, any Subsidiary existing as of the Effective Date), in each case, that becomes a party
to this Agreement pursuant to a Joinder Agreement, and (v) the successors and assigns of any of the
Persons described in clause (i) through (iv) of this definition.

     “Loans” means the loans and advances made by the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement,
including Swingline Loans and Protective Advances.

     “Local Time” means, (a) local time in New York, with respect to the times for the
receipt of Borrowing Requests of Revolving Loans, requests for Letters of Credit, for receipt and
sending of notices by and disbursement by the US Administrative Agent or any Lender and any Issuing
Bank and for payment by the Company with respect to Revolving Loans and Term Loans and
reimbursement obligations in respect of Letters of Credit, (b) local time in London, with respect
to the times for the determination of “LIBO Rate”, (c) local time in Toronto, with respect to the
times for receipt of Borrowing Requests for Canadian Loans, for receipt and sending of notices by
and disbursement by the Canadian Administrative Agent or any Lender and for payment by the Canadian
Borrower with respect to Canadian Loans, (d) otherwise, if a place for any determination is
specified herein, the local time at such place of determination and (e) otherwise, New York time.

     “Lock Box Agreement” means, individually and collectively, each “Lock Box Agreement”
referred to in any Security Agreement.

     “Long-Term Debt” means any Indebtedness that, in accordance with GAAP, constitutes
(or, when incurred, constituted) a long-term liability.

     “Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets,
operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole, (b) the ability of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their obligations under
the Loan Documents, (c) any Material Collateral, or the Administrative Agents’ Liens (on behalf of
each Administrative Agent and the Lenders) any Material Collateral or the priority of such Liens,
(d) any Mortgaged Property if such material adverse effect could reasonably be expected to result
in a diminution in the value of such Mortgaged Property by more than $3,000,000, or (e) the rights
of or benefits available to the Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank or the Lenders under the
Loan Documents.

     “Material Collateral” means all or any portion of the Collateral having an aggregate
market value in excess of $7,500,000.

     “Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of
Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of the
Company and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $7,500,000. For purposes
of determining

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Material Indebtedness, the “obligations” of any Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any
Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting
agreements) that such Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement
were terminated at such time.

     “Maximum Liability” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.09.

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

     “Mortgage” means any mortgage, hypothec, deed of trust or other agreement which
conveys or evidences a Lien in favor of the applicable Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the
Lenders and the Issuing Banks, on real property of a Loan Party, including any amendment,
modification or supplement thereto.

     “Mortgaged Properties” means the real properties listed on Schedule 1.01(b)
and noted thereon as to which the applicable Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders
and the Issuing Bank shall be granted a Lien pursuant to the Mortgages.

     “Mortgaged Property Prepayment Amount” means, with respect to any Mortgaged Property
listed on Schedule 1.01(c), the “Prepayment Amount” listed opposite such Mortgaged Property
on such schedule.

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

     “Net Income” means, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the
Company and its Subsidiaries from continuing operations, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income (or deficit) of
any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a
Subsidiary) in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership interest, except to
the extent that any such income is actually received by the Company or such Subsidiary in the form
of dividends or similar distributions and (c) the undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary to the
extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary is
not at the time permitted by the terms of any contractual obligation (other than under any Loan
Document) or Requirement of Law applicable to such Subsidiary. For the avoidance of doubt, the
determination of Net Income will exclude any non-cash write-off or write down of goodwill or other
intangible assets in connection with any impairment charge for such period as required by GAAP.

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

     “Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.02(d).

     “Non-Paying Guarantor” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.10.

     “Obligated Party” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.02.

     “Obligations” means all unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on the
Loans, all LC Exposure, all accrued and unpaid fees and all expenses, reimbursements, indemnities
and other obligations of the Loan Parties to the Lenders or to any Lender, the Administrative
Agent, the Issuing Bank or any indemnified party arising under the Loan Documents, in each case,
whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or
hereafter incurred.

     “Off-Balance Sheet Liability” of a Person means (a) any repurchase obligation or
liability of such Person with respect to accounts or notes receivable sold by such Person, (b) any
indebtedness, liability or obligation under any so-called “synthetic lease” transaction entered
into by such Person, or (c) any indebtedness, liability or obligation arising with respect to any
other transaction which is the functional equivalent of or takes the place of borrowing but which
does not constitute a liability on the balance sheets of such Person (other than operating leases).

     “Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any
other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder
or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement.

     “Paper Inventory” means the raw material inventory of the Borrowers consisting solely
of jumbo roll paper. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “Paper Inventory” as used herein shall
exclude WIP.

     “Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04.

     “Patriot Act” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.14.

     “Paying Guarantor” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.10.

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

     “Permitted Acquisition” means any acquisition (whether by purchase, merger,
consolidation or otherwise but excluding in any event a Hostile Acquisition) or series of related
acquisitions by any Loan Party of (a) all or substantially all or any significant portion of the
assets of a Person or division or line of business or a business unit of a Person, or (b) all or
substantially all of the Equity Interests of a Person, which meets each of the following criteria:

     (i) at the time of and after giving effect to such acquisition, no Default has occurred and is
continuing;

     (ii) the Person being acquired or whose assets, division, line of business or business unit is
being acquired, is engaged in a line of business in which the Loan Parties are engaged as of, or
immediately prior to, the Effective Date, or any similar or related or complementary business, or
that is a reasonable extension or expansion thereof, or any business which provides a service
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products in connection with a line of business in which the Loan Parties are engaged as of, or
immediately prior to, the Effective Date;

     (iii) the aggregate consideration paid by the Loan Parties for such acquisition and all other
Permitted Acquisitions consummated after the Effective Date (including for this purpose all
transaction costs and all Indebtedness (including all earn out payments and similar obligations)
incurred or assumed in connection with such acquisition and all such other Permitted Acquisitions
or otherwise reflected in the balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated
Basis) shall not exceed $25,000,000 in any fiscal year;

     (iv) as soon as available, but not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the closing of
such acquisition, the Loan Parties shall submit to the Administrative Agents (A) notice of such
acquisition, (B) copies of all business and financial information reasonably requested by any
Administrative Agent, (C) pro forma financial statements which demonstrate, on a pro forma basis
(1) a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the period of twelve consecutive months most recently ended
of not less than 1.45 to 1.00, (2) Aggregate Availability after giving effect to payment of all
consideration for such acquisition of not less than $35,000,000, and (3) Average Aggregate
Quarterly Availability during the period of two consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended
prior to the consummation of such acquisition of not less than $35,000,000; and (D) a certificate
of a Financial Officer certifying that such pro forma financial statements present fairly in all
material respects the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis as of the date thereof after giving effect to such acquisition and setting forth reasonably
detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with the minimum Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio,
minimum Aggregate Availability and minimum Average Aggregate Quarterly Availability set forth in
clause (C) above, and which shall include a representation and warranty as to compliance with each
of the other criteria for a “Permitted Acquisition”;

     (v) if the Accounts or Inventory acquired in connection with such acquisition are proposed to
be included in the determination of any Borrowing Base and the applicable Administrative Agent
elects to include such Accounts or Inventory in its Permitted Discretion, such Administrative Agent
shall have conducted an audit and field examination and appraisal of such Accounts and Inventory to
its satisfaction;

     (vi) in connection with an acquisition of the Equity Interests of any Person, all Liens on the
Inventory and Accounts of such Person, and on the Equity Interests of such Person, shall be
terminated, and in connection with an acquisition of the assets of any Person, all Liens on the
Inventory and Accounts of such Person shall be terminated;

     (vii) if such Acquisition is structured as a merger involving a Loan Party or any Subsidiary
and a Person that is not a Subsidiary, such Loan Party or such Subsidiary will be the surviving
entity, or otherwise, the surviving entity shall become a Loan Party;

     (viii) no Loan Party shall, as a result of or in connection with any such Acquisition, assume
or incur any direct or contingent liabilities (whether relating to environmental, tax, litigation,
or other matters) that would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; and

     (ix) if, as a result of such investment, a new Subsidiary is formed or acquired, the Loan
Parties shall comply with all applicable provisions of Section 5.13.

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

     “Permitted Encumbrances” means:

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     (a) Liens imposed by law for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges that are not yet
due or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.04;

     (b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens
imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not
overdue by more than 30 days or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.04, but excluding,
for greater certainty, any landlord hypothecs registered in the province of Quebec;

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

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

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

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

     (g) solely with respect to any Mortgaged Property, matters shown on Schedule B – Section II of
the title policy delivered with respect thereto;

     (h) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising by operation of law (i) for
obligations not more than thirty (30) days past due or (ii) for obligations not in excess of
$1,000,000 which are being contested pursuant to appropriate procedures and for which the Loan
Parties have established appropriate reserves;

     (i) Liens evidenced by precautionary filings relating to operating leases; and

     (j) Liens (i) of a collecting bank arising in the ordinary course of business under Section
4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the relevant jurisdiction covering only the items
being collected upon or (ii) in favor of a banking institution arising as a matter of law,
encumbering amounts credited to deposit or securities accounts (including the right of set-off) and
which are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry with respect to the
negotiation and clearing of instruments and other payment items;

provided that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing
Indebtedness.

     “Permitted Investments” means:

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

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

     (c) investments in certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and time deposits maturing
within 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and
money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank
organized under the laws of the United States or Canada (with respect to investments made by any
Canadian Group Member) or any State or Province or other political subdivision thereof, as
applicable, in each case, which has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not
less than $500,000,000;

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

     (e) money market funds that (i) (x) comply with the criteria set forth in Securities and
Exchange Commission Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (y) are money market
mutual funds (as defined in National Instrument 81-102 Mutual Funds) that are reporting issuers (as
defined in Ontario securities law) in the Province of Ontario, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by
Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000;

     (f) in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary (other than a Canadian Group Member), investments
substantially comparable to any of the foregoing investments with respect to the United Kingdom or
the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary is organized.

     “Permitted Lien” means Liens permitted by Section 6.02.

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

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

     “PPSA” means the Personal Property Security Act (Ontario), including the regulations
thereto, provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority
of any Lien created hereunder or under any other Loan Document on the Collateral is governed by the
personal property security legislation or other applicable legislation with respect to personal
property security in effect in a province or other jurisdiction other than Ontario, “PPSA” means
the Personal Property Security Act or such other applicable legislation in effect from time to time
in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection,
effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.

     “Prepayment Event” means:

     (a) any sale, transfer or other disposition (including pursuant to a sale and leaseback
transaction) of any property or asset of any Loan Party pursuant to Section 6.05(g) or (h); or

     (b) any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by
condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of any Loan Party with a fair value
immediately prior to such event equal to or greater than $500,000; or

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     (c) the issuance by the Company of any Equity Interests, or the receipt by the Company of any
capital contribution; or

     (d) the incurrence by any Loan Party of any Indebtedness, other than Indebtedness permitted
under Section 6.01 or permitted by the Required Lenders pursuant to Section 9.02.

     “Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time
by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as its prime rate at its offices at 270 Park Avenue in New York City;
each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is
publicly announced as being effective.

     “Prior Claims” means all Liens created by applicable law (in contrast with Liens
voluntarily granted) which rank or are capable of ranking prior to or pari passu with the Liens
created by the Collateral Documents (or interests similar thereto under applicable law) including,
without limitation, for amounts owing for employee source deductions, vacation pay, goods and
services taxes, sales taxes, harmonized sales taxes, municipal taxes, workers’ compensation, Quebec
corporate taxes, pension fund obligations and overdue rents.

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

     “Protective Advance” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.04.

     “Quebec Pension Plan” means the pension benefit plan maintained by the Province of
Quebec.

     “Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04.

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

     “Report” means reports prepared by the applicable Administrative Agent or another
Person showing the results of appraisals, field examinations or audits pertaining to the Borrowers’
assets from information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrowers, after the applicable
Administrative Agent has exercised its rights of inspection pursuant to this Agreement, which
Reports may be distributed to the Lenders by the applicable Administrative Agent.

     “Reporting Frequency Increase Period” means any period (a) commencing on the date that
Aggregate Availability shall have been less than $25,000,000 for three consecutive days and (b)
ending on the date thereafter on which Aggregate Availability shall have exceeded $30,000,000 for
ninety (90) consecutive days; provided, that no Reporting Frequency Increase Period shall
be deemed to be in effect during the Temporary Overadvance Period.

     “Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Credit Exposure and unused
Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the total Credit Exposure and unused
Commitments at such time.

     “Requirement of Law” means, as to any Person, the Certificate of Incorporation and
By-Laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or
regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each
case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or
any of its property is subject.

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     “Reserves” means any and all reserves which either or both of the Administrative
Agents deem necessary, in their respective Permitted Discretion, to maintain (including, without
limitation, the Dilution Reserve, reserves for accrued and unpaid interest on the Secured
Obligations, Banking Services Reserves, reserves for rent at locations leased by any Loan Party and
for consignee’s, warehousemen’s and bailee’s charges, reserves for revindication or rights of
unpaid suppliers to repossess goods, reserves for Paper Inventory shrinkage, reserves for Swap
Obligations, reserves for contingent liabilities of any Loan Party, reserves for uninsured losses
of any Loan Party, reserves for any Canadian Pension Plan shortfall, deficiency, insolvency or
other matter relating to Canadian Pension Plan obligations, reserves for uninsured, underinsured,
un-indemnified or under-indemnified liabilities or potential liabilities with respect to any
litigation and reserves for taxes, fees, assessments, and other governmental charges) with respect
to the Collateral or any Loan Party.

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

     “Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of
such Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and
Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum possible amount of such
Lender’s Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be reduced or increased from time to
time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of
each Lender’s Revolving Commitment is set forth on the Commitment Schedule, or in the
Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Revolving
Commitment, as applicable.

     “Revolving Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the
outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure and an amount
equal to its Applicable Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans and
Protective Advances at such time.

     “Revolving Exposure Limitations” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.01(a).

     “Revolving Lender” means, as of any date of determination, a Lender with a Revolving
Commitment or, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Revolving
Exposure.

     “Revolving Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01(a).

     “Revolving Maturity Date” means May 31, 2011.

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

     “Secured Obligations” means all Obligations, together with all (a) Banking Services
Obligations and (b) Swap Obligations owing to any Person that is a Lender or an Affiliate thereof,
or that was a Lender or an Affiliate thereof at the time the relevant Swap Agreement was entered
into; provided that the Lender party thereto (other than JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.) shall
have delivered written notice to the US Administrative Agent that such a transaction constitutes a
Secured Obligation entitled to the benefits of the Collateral Documents.

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     “Securities Account” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article 8 of the UCC or
the Securities Transfer Act of Ontario, as applicable.

     “Security Agreement” means, individually and collectively, any US Security Agreement
and any Canadian Security Agreement.

     “Settlement” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).

     “Settlement Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c).

     “Significant Canadian Subsidiary” means any (a) Canadian Group Member that is a
wholly-owned subsidiary, whether existing as of the Effective Date or formed or acquired
thereafter, (i) the revenues of which, as of end of any fiscal quarter, for the period of four
consecutive fiscal quarters then ended, was or is reasonably projected to be equal to or greater
than 5% of the consolidated revenues of the Company, its Domestic Subsidiaries and its Canadian
Subsidiaries for such period, or (ii) the consolidated assets of which, as of end of any fiscal
quarter, were greater than 5% of the consolidated total assets of the Company, its Domestic
Subsidiaries and its Canadian Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal quarter, in each case as
reflected on the most recent annual or quarterly consolidated financial statements of the Company,
its Domestic Subsidiaries and its Canadian Subsidiaries, and (b) any Canadian Group Member that
owns, directly or indirectly, any equity interests of any entity described in clause (a) above.

     “Significant Domestic Subsidiary” means (a) each Domestic Subsidiary of the Company
listed on Schedule 1.01(a) hereto, (b) any wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Company,
whether existing as of the Effective Date or formed or acquired thereafter, (i) the revenues of
which, as of end of any fiscal quarter, for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters then
ended, was equal to or greater than 5% of the consolidated revenues of the Company, its Domestic
Subsidiaries and its Canadian Subsidiaries for such period, or (ii) the consolidated assets of
which, as of end of any fiscal quarter, were greater than 5% of the consolidated total assets of
the Company, its Domestic Subsidiaries and its Canadian Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal
quarter, in each case as reflected on the most recent annual or quarterly consolidated financial
statements of the Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries and (c) any Domestic Subsidiary of the
Company that owns directly or indirectly, any equity interests of any Domestic Subsidiary described
in clause (a) or (b) above.

     “Specified Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that is a Defaulting Lender pursuant to
clauses (a), (b), (d) or (e) of the definition of “Defaulting Lender” set forth herein.

     “Spot Selling Rate” means, on any date, as determined by the US Administrative Agent,
the spot selling rate posted by Reuters on its website for the sale of Canadian dollars for dollars
at approximately 11:00 a.m., Local Time, two Business Days prior to such date (the “Applicable
Quotation Date”); provided that if, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the spot
selling rate shall be determined by reference to such publicly available service for displaying
exchange rates as may be selected by the US Administrative Agent, or, in the event no such service
is selected, such spot selling rate shall instead be the rate determined by the US Administrative
Agent as the spot rate of exchange in the market where the US Administrative Agent’s foreign
currency exchange operations in respect of Canadian dollars are then being conducted, at or about
11.00 a.m. Local Time, on the Applicable Quotation Date for the purchase of the relevant currency
for delivery two Business Days later.

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

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

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

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

     “Supermajority Revolving Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving
Exposure and unused Revolving Commitments representing at least 75% of the sum of the Aggregate
Revolving Exposure and unused Aggregate Revolving Commitments at such time.

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

     “Swap Obligations” of a Person means any and all obligations of such Person, whether
absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired
(including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under
(a) any and all Swap Agreements, and (b) any and all cancellations, buy backs, reversals,
terminations or assignments of any Swap Agreement transaction.

     “Swingline Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all
Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Lender (other than a
Swingline Lender) at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total Swingline Exposure at
such time.

     “Swingline Lender” means, individually and collectively, the US Swingline Lender and
the Canadian Swingline Lender, as the context may require.

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     “Swingline Loan” means, individually and collectively, each US Swingline Loan and each
Canadian Swingline Loan, as the context may require.

     “Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority.

     “Temporary Overadvance Loan” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.01(b).

     “Temporary Overadvance Period” means the period commencing on the Effective Date and
ending on May 15, 2009.

     “Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of (a) the Revolving Maturity Date, (b)
the date on which the Borrowers terminate the Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof
and (c) the date on which the Commitments are reduced to zero and terminated pursuant to Article
VII hereof.

     “Term Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, collectively, (a) Lenders
having a Twenty-Six Month Term Loan Commitment and (b) Lenders having an Eighteen Month Term Loan
Commitment.

     “Term Loans” means, collectively, the Eighteen Month Term Loans and the Twenty-Six
Month Term Loans.

     “Term Loan Commitments” means, collectively, the Eighteen Month Term Loan Commitment
and the Twenty-Six Month Term Loan Commitment.

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

     “Twenty-Six Month Term Loan Commitment” means (a) as to any Term Lender, the aggregate
commitment of such Term Lender to make Twenty-Six Month Term Loans as set forth in the
Commitment Schedule or in the most recent Assignment and Assumption executed by such Term
Lender and (b) as to all Term Lenders, the aggregate commitment of all Term Lenders to make
Twenty-Six
Month Term Loans, which aggregate commitment shall be twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) on
the date of this Agreement. After advancing the Twenty-Six Month Term Loans, each reference to a
Term Lender’s Twenty-Six Month Term Loan Commitment shall refer to that Term Lender’s Applicable
Percentage of the Twenty-Six Month Term Loans.

     “Twenty-Six Month Term Loan Maturity Date” means the earlier of (a) May 31, 2011 and
(b) the Termination Date.

     “Twenty-Six Month Term Loans” means the Twenty-Six Month Term Loans extended by the
Lenders to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(c) hereof.

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

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

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     “Unbilled Accounts” means Accounts of any Loan Party in respect of which invoices have
not been sent to the applicable Account Debtors.

     “United States” and “US” means the United States of America.

     “Unliquidated Obligations” means, at any time, any Secured Obligations (or portion
thereof) that are contingent in nature or unliquidated at such time, including any Secured
Obligation that is: (i) an obligation to reimburse a bank, including, without limitation the
Issuing Bank for drawings not yet made under a letter of credit issued by it; (ii) any other
obligation (including any guarantee) that is contingent in nature at such time; or (iii) an
obligation to provide collateral to secure any of the foregoing types of obligations.

     “US Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as the
administrative agent and collateral agent for the Lenders hereunder with respect to all matters
other than the administration and funding of Canadian Loans and the administration, possession,
perfection and monitoring of, and exercise of control over, Collateral of the Canadian Loan
Parties.

     “US Availability” means an amount equal to (a) the US Borrowing Base minus (b)
the total Revolving Exposure relating to the US Borrowers minus (c) the Canadian Borrowing
Base Utilization; provided, that, in no event shall US Availability be greater than the
Aggregate Revolving Commitments minus the Aggregate Revolving Exposure.

     “US Borrower” or “US Borrowers” means, individually or collectively, (i) the
Company (ii) each of the Subsidiaries of the Company listed as a “US Borrower” on the signature
pages to this Agreement and (iii) each other Domestic Subsidiary of the Company that becomes a
party to this Agreement as a “Borrower” hereunder after the Effective Date in accordance with the
terms of Section 5.13.

     “US Borrowing Base” means, at any time, with respect to the US Borrowers, the sum of:

     (a) the product of (i) 85% multiplied by (ii) the US Borrowers’ Eligible Billed
Accounts at such time, plus

     (b) the product of (i) 80% multiplied by (ii) the US Borrowers’ Eligible Unbilled
Accounts at such time, plus

     (c) the product of (i) 50% multiplied by (ii) the US Borrowers’ Eligible WIP at such
time and, plus

     (d) the product of (i) 50% multiplied by (ii) the US Borrowers’ Eligible Inventory,
valued at the lower of cost (determined on a first-in-first-out basis) or market value, at such
time, minus

     (e) Reserves established by the US Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

provided, that (i) the portion of the US Borrowing Base comprised of Eligible Unbilled
Accounts shall not at any time exceed thirty percent (30%) of the aggregate portion of the US
Borrowing Base comprised of Eligible Unbilled Accounts and Eligible Billed Accounts (in each case,
determined after giving effect to the applicable advance rate) and (ii) the aggregate portion of
the US Borrowing Base comprised of Eligible WIP and Eligible Inventory (in each case, determined
after giving effect to the applicable advance rate) shall not exceed an amount equal to $10,000,000
minus the portion of the Canadian Borrowing Base attributable to Eligible WIP and Eligible
Inventory. The US Administrative Agent may, in its Permitted Discretion, adjust Reserves used in
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Borrowing Base, with any such changes to be
effective two Business Days after delivery of notice thereof to the Borrower Representative and the
Lenders. The US Borrowing Base at any time shall be determined by reference to the most recent US
Borrowing Base Certificate delivered to the US Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.01(g) of
this Agreement.

     “US Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate, signed and certified as accurate
and complete by a Financial Officer of the Borrower Representative, in substantially the form of
Exhibit B-2.

     “US Cash Management Bank” means (a) as of the Effective Date, Wachovia Bank, National
Association, in its capacity as the principal depositary bank for the US Loan Parties, and (b) at
any time after the Effective Date, any one or more of the Lenders selected by the US Loan Parties,
with the prior written consent of the US Administrative Agent, to become the successor principal
depository bank for the US Loan Parties; provided that, unless the US Administrative Agent
otherwise consents in writing, no Person shall become the successor “US Cash Management Bank”
unless and until such Person shall have entered into a Control Agreement with the US Loan Parties
and the US Administrative Agent in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the US
Administrative Agent.

     “US Collection Account” means the account at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., so designated
by the US Administrative Agent, in a written notice delivered to the US Loan Parties, to be the
“Collection Account”, to which funds on deposit in Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts (other
than Excluded Accounts) and all payments received in respect of Accounts shall be remitted (a) at
all times during a Full Cash Dominion Period and (b) at any time during the Temporary Overadvance
Period if so requested by the US Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion; together with
any replacement or additional account so designated by the US Administrative Agent.

     “US LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of
all outstanding Letters of Credit issued to the US Borrowers at such time plus (b) the aggregate
amount of all
LC Disbursements relating to Letters of Credit issued for the account of the US Borrowers that
have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the US Borrowers at such time. The US LC Exposure
of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total US LC Exposure
at such time.

     “US LC Sublimit” means $24,000,000.

     “US Loan Party” means, individually and collectively, any Loan Party (including the
Company) organized under the laws of the United States.

     “US Protective Advance” means a Protective Advance made to or for the account of the
US Borrowers.

     “US Revolving Loan” means a Revolving Loan made to the US Borrowers.

     “US Security Agreement” means that certain Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of
the date hereof, between the US Loan Parties party thereto and the US Administrative Agent (for the
benefit of each Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Banks), and any other pledge or
security agreement entered into, after the date of this Agreement by any other US Loan Party (as
required by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for the purpose of creating a Lien on the
property of any Loan Party organized in the US (or any other property located therein)), or any
other Person, as the same may be amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

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     “US Swingline Lender” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as lender of US
Swingline Loans hereunder, and its successors and assigns in such capacity.

     “US Swingline Loan” means a Swingline Loan made to the US Borrowers.

     “US Swingline Sublimit” means $12,000,000.

     “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.17(f)(iii).

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

     “WIP” means, with respect to any Borrower, work-in-process which are recorded on the
books and records of the such Borrower as work-in-process in accordance with such Borrower’s past
practices, including finished products which are complete in all respects and ready to be shipped
to a customer and substantially finished products which will be ready to be shipped to a customer
within a reasonable period of time.

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

     “Working Capital” means, of any date, the excess of current assets of the Company and
its Subsidiaries on such date over current liabilities of the Company and its Subsidiaries
on such date, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

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

     SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to
the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”,
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The
word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the
context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other
document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as
from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such
amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person
shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein”,
“hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this
Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to
Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of,
and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be
construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible
assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

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     SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in
effect from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower Representative notifies the US
Administrative Agent that the Borrowers request an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate
the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on
the operation of such provision (or if the US Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower
Representative that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such
purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in
the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect
and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall
have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. In the event that historical
accounting practices, systems or reserves relating to the components of the Aggregate Borrowing
Base, the US Borrowing Base or the Canadian Borrowing Base are modified in a manner that is adverse
to the Lenders in any material respect, the Borrowers hereby agree to maintain such additional
reserves (for purposes of computing the Aggregate Borrowing Base, the US Borrowing Base or the
Canadian Borrowing Base) in respect to the components of the Aggregate Borrowing Base, the US
Borrowing Base and the Canadian Borrowing Base and make such other adjustments (which may include
maintaining additional reserves, modifying the advance rates or modifying the eligibility criteria
for the components of the Aggregate Borrowing Base, the US Borrowing Base and the Canadian
Borrowing Base).

     SECTION 1.05. Currency Translations.

     (a) For purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, where the permissibility of a
transaction or determinations of required actions or circumstances depend upon compliance with, or
are determined by reference to, amounts stated in dollars, such amounts shall be deemed to refer to
dollars or Dollar Equivalents and any Canadian dollar currency translation shall be based on the
Spot Selling Rate and the permissibility of actions taken under Article VI shall not be affected by
subsequent fluctuations in exchange rates (provided that if Indebtedness is incurred to refinance,
replace or renew other Indebtedness, and such refinancing or renewal would cause the applicable
dollar denominated limitation to be exceeded if calculated at the Spot Selling Rate, such dollar
denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as (i) such refinancing,
replacement or renewal Indebtedness is denominated in the same currency as such Indebtedness being
refinanced, replaced or renewed and (ii) the principal amount of such refinancing or renewal
Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced or renewed
except as permitted under Section 6.01).

     (b) For purposes of all calculations and determinations under this Agreement, any amount in
Canadian dollars shall be deemed to refer to dollars or Dollar Equivalents and any Canadian dollar
currency translation shall be based on the Spot Selling Rate, and all certificates delivered under
this Agreement, shall express such calculations or determinations in dollars or Dollar Equivalents.

     (c) The US Administrative Agent shall determine the Dollar Equivalent of any amount to be
converted into dollars in accordance with the provisions hereof at the time of such conversion.

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ARTICLE II

The Credits

     SECTION 2.01. Commitments.

     (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (i) each Lender agrees to make
Revolving Loans from time to time during the Availability Period to the US Borrowers in dollars and
(ii) each Lender agrees to make Canadian Revolving Loans from time to time during the Availability
Period to the Canadian Borrower in dollars, if, in each case after giving effect thereto:

	 	(A)	 	such Lender’s Revolving Exposure would not
exceed such Lender’s Revolving Commitment;
	 
	 	(B)	 	the Aggregate Revolving Exposure would not
exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments;
	 
	 	(C)	 	the total Canadian Revolving Exposures would
not exceed the Canadian Sublimit;
	 
	 	(D)	 	Canadian Availability shall not be less than
zero;
	 
	 	(E)	 	US Availability shall not be less than zero;
and
	 
	 	(F)	 	Aggregate Availability shall not be less than
zero;

subject, (1) in the case of each of clauses (D), (E) and (F) above, to each Administrative Agent’s
authority, in its respective sole discretion, to make Protective Advances pursuant to the terms of
Section 2.04 and (2) in the case of each of clauses (E) and (F) above, to Temporary Overadvance
Loans made in accordance with Section 2.01(b). The limitations described in the foregoing clauses
(A) through (F) above, as modified by clauses (1) and (2) above, are collectively, the
“Revolving Exposure Limitations”. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, the Borrowers may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans.

     (b) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, during the
Temporary Overadvance Period, the US Borrowers may borrow, and each Lender agrees to make,
Revolving Loans in excess of the US Borrowing Base (such Revolving Loans, “Temporary
Overadvance Loans”); provided that (i) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure (including all
Temporary Overadvance Loans) shall not at any time exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (ii)
during the Temporary Overadvance Period, the aggregate outstanding amount of Temporary Overadvance
Loans shall not exceed $20,000,000 at any time, and (iii) at all times following the expiration of
the Temporary Overadvance Period, no Temporary Overadvance Loans shall remain outstanding.

     (c) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make a
Twenty-Six Month Term Loan to the US Borrowers in dollars, on the Effective Date, in an amount
equal to such Lender’s Twenty-Six Month Term Loan Commitment by making immediately available funds
available to the US Administrative Agent’s designated account, not later than 11:00 a.m., Local
Time. Amounts repaid in respect of Twenty-Six Month Term Loans may not be reborrowed.

     (d) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make an
Eighteen Month Term Loan to the US Borrowers in dollars, on the Effective Date, in an amount equal
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such Lender’s Eighteen Month Term Loan Commitment by making immediately available funds
available to the US Administrative Agent’s designated account, not later than 11:00 a.m., Local
Time. Amounts repaid in respect of Eighteen Month Term Loans may not be reborrowed.

     SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings.

     (a) Each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of
Loans of the same Class and Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective
Commitments of the applicable Class. Each Protective Advance and Swingline Loan shall be made in
accordance with the procedures set forth respectively in Section 2.04 and Section 2.05. The Term
Loans shall amortize as set forth in Section 2.10.

     (b) Subject to Section 2.14, (i) each Borrowing of Revolving Loans and each Term Loan
Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower
Representative may request in accordance herewith; provided that all Borrowings made on the
Effective Date must be made as ABR Borrowings, as applicable, but ABR Revolving Borrowings (other
than any Swingline Loan) and ABR Term Loan Borrowings may be subsequently converted into Eurodollar
Borrowings in accordance with Section 2.08. Each US Swingline Loan and each Canadian Swingline
Loan shall be an ABR Loan. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any
domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any
exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the US Borrowers to repay such Loan in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

     (c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, such
Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less
than $1,000,000. ABR Revolving Borrowings may be in any amount. Borrowings of more than one Type
and Class may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be
more than a total of twelve (12) Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding.

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

     (e) On the Effective Date, the loans outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement shall be
automatically and without further action by the parties hereto deemed converted into Loans under
this Agreement as set forth on Schedule 2.02 (it being understood that, at the Borrowers’
request, $27,000,000 of the loans outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement as of the
Effective Date shall be deemed to have been automatically converted into Term Loans under this
Agreement and the remaining principal amount of the loans outstanding under the Existing Credit
Agreement as of the Effective Date shall be deemed to have been automatically converted into US
Revolving Loans under this Agreement as agreed by the Borrowers and the Administrative Agents) and
shall be included in the calculation of “Credit Exposure”, “Revolving Exposure”, “Aggregate Credit
Exposure” and “Aggregate Revolving Exposure”. All liabilities of the Company and the other Loan
Parties with respect to such Loans shall constitute Obligations and it is the intention of the
Company and the Other Loan Parties that such obligations shall be secured by the Collateral
Documents.

     SECTION 2.03. Requests for Revolving Borrowings. To request a Borrowing of Revolving
Loans, the Borrower Representative (or the Canadian Borrower if applicable) shall notify (i) the US
Administrative Agent in the case of a requested Borrowing of US Revolving Loans and (ii) the
Canadian Administrative Agent in the case of a requested Borrowing of Canadian Revolving Loans, in
each case, either in writing (delivered by hand or facsimile), with a copy to the US Administrative
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of requested Borrowing of Canadian Revolving Loans, in a form approved by the
applicable Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower Representative (or the Canadian Borrower
if applicable) or by telephone (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00
noon., New York time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing and (b) in the
case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than noon, Local Time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing.
Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand
delivery, facsimile or .pdf transmission to the US Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a
Borrowing of Canadian Revolving Loans, to the Canadian Administrative Agent with a copy to the US
Administrative Agent) of a written Borrowing Request in a form approved by the applicable
Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower Representative (or the Canadian Borrower if
applicable). Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following
information in compliance with Section 2.01:

	 	(i)	 	whether such Borrowing is to be made to the US Borrowers or the
Canadian Borrower;
	 
	 	(ii)	 	the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing and a breakdown
of the separate wires comprising such Borrowing;
	 
	 	(iii)	 	the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
	 
	 	(iv)	 	whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a
Eurodollar Borrowing; and
	 
	 	(v)	 	in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest
Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the
definition of the term “Interest Period.”

If no election as to the Type of Revolving Borrowing is specified, then the requested Revolving
Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any
requested Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, then the Borrower Representative shall be deemed to have
selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing
Request in accordance with this Section, the applicable Administrative Agent shall advise each
Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the
requested Borrowing.

     SECTION 2.04. Protective Advances.

     (a) Subject to the limitations set forth below, each Administrative Agent is authorized by the
Borrowers and the Lenders, from time to time after the expiration of the Temporary Overadvance
Period in such Administrative Agent’s sole discretion (but shall have absolutely no obligation to),
to make (i) in the case of the US Administrative Agent, Loans to the US Borrowers in dollars on
behalf of the Lenders (each such Loan, a “US Protective Advance” and all such Loans,
collectively with any US Protective Advances, “Protective Advances”) and (ii) in the case
of the Canadian Administrative Agent, Loans to the Canadian Borrower in dollars on behalf of the
Lenders (each such Loan, a “Canadian Protective Advance”), which the applicable
Administrative Agent, in its Permitted Discretion, deems necessary or desirable (x) to preserve or
protect the Collateral, or any portion thereof, (y) to enhance the likelihood of, or maximize the
amount of, repayment of the Loans and other Obligations, or (z) to pay any other amount chargeable
to or required to be paid by the Borrowers pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, including
payments of reimbursable expenses (including costs, fees, and expenses as described in Section
9.03) and other sums payable under the Loan Documents (provided, that, in the case of any
Protective Advance made pursuant to this clause (z) the applicable Administrative Agent shall
provide prior notice the Borrower Representative); provided that, the aggregate amount of
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outstanding at any time shall not (1) exceed the lesser at such time of
(X) ten percent (10%) of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments or (Y) $12,000,000 or (2) when added
to the Aggregate Revolving Exposure, exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, and (B) Canadian
Protective Advances outstanding at any time shall not exceed (1) $2,000,000 or (2) when added to
the Canadian Revolving Exposure, exceed the Canadian Sublimit. Protective Advances may be made
even if the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 have not been satisfied. US Protective
Advances shall be secured by the Liens in favor of the US Administrative Agent (for the benefit of
the Lenders and the Issuing Banks) in and to the Collateral of the US Loan Parties and shall
constitute Obligations hereunder. Canadian Protective Advances (i) shall be secured by the Liens
in favor of the Canadian Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Lenders) in and to the
Collateral of the Canadian Loan Parties, (ii) shall be secured by the Liens in favor of the US
Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Lenders) in and to the Collateral of the US Loan
Parties, and (iii) shall constitute Obligations hereunder. All US Protective Advances and Canadian
Protective Advances shall be ABR Borrowings. Each Administrative Agent’s authorization to make
Protective Advances may be revoked at any time by the Required Lenders. Any such revocation must
be in writing and shall become effective prospectively upon the Administrative Agent’s or Canadian
Administrative Agent’s (as applicable) receipt thereof. At any time that the Revolving Exposure
Limitations and the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 have been satisfied, the US
Administrative Agent or Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, may request that the Lenders
make a Revolving Loan in dollars to repay a Protective Advance. At any other time, the
applicable Administrative Agent may require the Lenders to fund their risk participations described
in Section 2.04(b).

     (b) Upon the making of a Protective Advance (whether before or after the occurrence of a
Default) by the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative Agent, each Lender shall be
deemed, without further action by any party hereto, to have unconditionally and irrevocably
purchased from the applicable Administrative Agent, without recourse or warranty, an undivided
interest and participation in such Protective Advance in proportion to its Applicable Percentage.
From and after the date, if any, on which any Lender is required to fund its participation in any
Protective Advance purchased hereunder, the applicable Administrative Agent shall promptly
distribute to such Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of all payments of principal and
interest and all proceeds of Collateral received by the applicable Administrative Agent in respect
of such Protective Advance.

     SECTION 2.05. Swingline Loans.

(a) (i) The US Administrative Agent, the US Swingline Lender and the Lenders agree that in
order to facilitate the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
promptly after the Borrower Representative delivers a Borrowing Request to the US
Administrative Agent and the US Swingline Lender requesting an ABR Borrowing on behalf of
the US Borrowers to be made pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(i), and provided that such ABR
Borrowing request is received by the US Administrative Agent and the US Swingline Lender not
later than 11:00 a.m., Local Time, the US Swingline Lender may elect to have the terms of
this Section 2.05(a)(i) apply to such Borrowing Request by advancing, on behalf of the
Lenders and in the amount so requested, same day funds to the US Borrowers on the date such
request is received to the Funding Account(s) (each such Loan, a “US Swingline
Loan”), with settlement among the Lenders as to the US Swingline Loans to take place on
a periodic basis as set forth in Section 2.05(c). Each US Swingline Loan shall be subject
to all the terms and conditions applicable to other ABR Loans funded by the Lenders, except
that all payments thereon shall be payable to the US Swingline Lender solely for its own
account. In addition, no US Swingline Loan shall be made if, after giving effect thereto:

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     (A) the Borrowers would not be in compliance with the Revolving Exposure Limitations;
or

     (B) the aggregate principal amount of the US Swingline Loans would exceed the US
Swingline Sublimit.

     (ii) The Canadian Administrative Agent, the Canadian Swingline Lender and the Lenders
agree that in order to facilitate the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, promptly after the Canadian Borrower delivers a Borrowing Request to the Canadian
Administrative Agent and the Canadian Swingline Lender (with a copy to the US Administrative
Agent) requesting an ABR Borrowing to be made pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(ii), and
provided that such ABR Borrowing request, as applicable, is received by the Canadian
Administrative Agent and the Canadian Swingline Lender not later than 11:00 a.m., Local
Time, the Canadian Swingline Lender may elect to have the terms of this Section 2.05(a)(ii)
apply to such Borrowing Request by advancing, on behalf of the Lenders and in the amount so
requested, same day funds to the Canadian Borrower on the date such Borrowing Request is
received to the Funding Account(s) (each such Loan, a “Canadian Swingline Loan”),
with settlement among the
Lenders as to the Canadian Swingline Loans to take place on a periodic basis as set
forth in Section 2.05(c). Each Canadian Swingline Loan shall be subject to all the terms and
conditions applicable to other Loans funded by the Lenders that are ABR Revolving Loans
except that all payments thereon shall be payable to the Canadian Swingline Lender solely
for its own account. In addition, no Canadian Swingline Loan shall be made if, after giving
effect thereto:

     (A) the Borrowers would not be in compliance with the Revolving Exposure Limitations;
or

     (B) the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Canadian Swingline Loans would
exceed the Canadian Swingline Sublimit.

     (b) Upon the making of a US Swingline Loan or a Canadian Swingline Loan (whether before or
after the occurrence of a Default and regardless of whether a Settlement has been requested with
respect to such Swingline Loan), each Lender shall be deemed, without further action by any party
hereto, to have unconditionally and irrevocably purchased from the applicable Swingline Lender, as
the case may be, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation in such
Swingline Loan in proportion to its Applicable Percentage. The applicable Swingline Lender may, at
any time, require the applicable Lenders to fund, in dollars, their participations. From and after
the date, if any, on which any Lender is required to fund (and has funded) its participation in any
Swingline Loan purchased hereunder, the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative
Agent, as applicable, shall promptly distribute to such Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage
of all payments of principal and interest and all proceeds of Collateral received by such
Administrative Agent in respect of such Loan.

     Each Administrative Agent, on behalf of the applicable Swingline Lender, shall request
settlement (a “Settlement”) with the Lenders on at least a weekly basis or on any earlier
date that the applicable Administrative Agent elects, by notifying the Lenders of such requested
Settlement by facsimile or e-mail no later than 11:00 a.m. Local Time (i) on the date of such
requested Settlement (the “Settlement Date”) with regard to US Swingline Loans, and (ii)
two Business Days prior to the Settlement Date with regard to Canadian Swingline Loans (or on the
date of such requested Settlement, if a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing) (the date of any request made pursuant to clauses (i) or (ii) above, a “Settlement
Request Date”). Each Lender (other than the Swingline Lenders, in the case of the Swingline
Loans) shall transfer, in the currency in which the applicable Loan was denominated, the amount of
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the applicable Loan with
respect to which Settlement is requested to the applicable Administrative Agent, to an account of
such Administrative Agent as such Administrative Agent may designate, not later than 2:00 p.m.,
Local Time, on such Settlement Date. Settlements may occur during the existence of a Default and
whether or not the applicable conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 have then been
satisfied. Such amounts transferred to the applicable Administrative Agent shall be applied against
the amounts of the applicable Swingline Lender’s Swingline Loans and, together with such Swingline
Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan, shall (so long as no Event of Default
pursuant to clause (h) or (i) of Article VII shall have occurred and be continuing) constitute
Revolving Loans (and shall no longer constitute Swingline Loans). If any such amount referred to
in this clause (c) is not transferred to the applicable Administrative Agent by any applicable
Lender on such Settlement Date, the applicable Swingline Lender shall be entitled to recover such
amount on demand from such Lender together with interest thereon as specified in Section 2.07.

     SECTION 2.06. Letters of Credit.

     (a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower
Representative may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of any US Borrower,
and the Canadian Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account, in
each case, in a form reasonably acceptable to the applicable Administrative Agent and the Issuing
Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period. In the event of any
inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of
any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrowers or the
Borrower Representative to, or entered into by the Borrowers or the Borrower Representative with,
the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall
control.

     (b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request
the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter
of Credit), the Borrower Representative or the Canadian Borrower as applicable, shall hand deliver
or facsimile (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been
approved by the Issuing Bank) to the Issuing Bank and the applicable Administrative Agent (prior to
12:00 noon, Local Time, at least three Business Days prior to the requested date of issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or
identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such
Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount
of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other
information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If
requested by the Issuing Bank, the Borrower Representative or, if applicable, the Canadian
Borrower, shall also submit a letter of credit application on the Issuing Bank’s standard form in
connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended,
renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of
Credit the Borrower Representative or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable, shall be deemed to
represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension
(i) the US LC Exposure shall not exceed the US LC Sublimit, (ii) the Canadian LC Exposure shall not
exceed the Canadian LC Sublimit, and (iii) the Borrowers shall be in compliance with the Revolving
Exposure Limitations.

     (c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of
business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of
Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or
extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date.

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     (d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a
Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the
Issuing Bank or the Revolving Lenders, the Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Lender, and each
Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to
such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter
of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and
unconditionally agrees to pay to the applicable Administrative Agent, for the account of the
Issuing Bank, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank
and not reimbursed by the Borrowers on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section,
or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrowers for any reason. Each
Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to
this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be
affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any
Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction
or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any
offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

     (e) Reimbursement. If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a
Letter of Credit, the Borrowers shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the applicable
Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 1:00 p.m., Local Time,
on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower Representative or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable,
receives notice of such LC Disbursement, if such notice is received prior to 9:00 a.m., Local Time,
on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower
Representative or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable, receives such notice, if such notice is not
received prior to such time on the day of receipt; provided that (x) in the case of any LC
Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit issued for the account of a US Borrower, the Borrower
Representative may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance
with Section 2.03 or 2.05 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing or US
Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the US Borrowers’ obligation
to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or
US Swingline Loan and (y) in the case of any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit
issued for the account of the Canadian Borrower, the Canadian Borrower may, subject to the
conditions to borrowing set forth herein request in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.05 that such
payment be financed with a Canadian Revolving Loan or a Canadian Swingline Loan in an equivalent
amount and to the extent so financed, the Canadian Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall
be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Canadian Swingline Loan. If
the Borrowers fail to make such payment when due, the applicable Administrative Agent shall notify
each Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrowers in respect
thereof and such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such
notice, each Lender shall pay to the applicable Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of
the payment then due from the Borrowers, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.07 with
respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.07 shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the applicable Administrative
Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Lenders.
Promptly following receipt by the applicable Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrowers
pursuant to this paragraph, such Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing
Bank or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the
Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and the Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment
made by a Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement
(other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans, a US Swingline Loan, or a Canadian Swingline Loan
as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrowers of their
obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.

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     (f) Obligations Absolute. The Borrowers’ obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as
provided in paragraph (e) of this Section shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and
shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all
circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any
Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other
document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any
respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the
Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does
not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance
whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of
this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against,
the Borrowers’ obligations hereunder. Neither the US Administrative Agent, the Canadian
Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor the Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties, shall
have any
liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any
Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of
the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption,
loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or
relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder),
any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the
control of the Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse
the Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrowers to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to
consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers to the extent
permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrowers that are caused by the Issuing Bank’s
failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a
Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the
absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Bank (as finally
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have
exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting
the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on
their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank
may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without
responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary,
or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict
compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set
forth herein, in no event shall the Canadian Borrower have any payment obligation with respect to
an LC Disbursement in respect of any Letter of Credit issued for the account of a US Borrower.

     (g) Disbursement Procedures. The Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt
thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of
Credit. The Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the applicable Administrative Agent and the
Borrower Representative (or, if applicable, the Canadian Borrower) by telephone (confirmed by
facsimile) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC
Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice
shall not relieve the Borrowers of their obligation to reimburse the Issuing Bank and the Lenders
with respect to any such LC Disbursement.

     (h) Interim Interest. If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect
of a Letter of Credit issued for the account of a US Borrower or the Canadian Borrower, then,
unless the US Borrowers or, as applicable, the Canadian Borrower shall reimburse such LC
Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear
interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding
the date that the applicable Borrowers reimburse such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then
applicable to ABR Revolving Loans. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary set forth in this
Section 2.06(h), if the Borrowers fail to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to
Section 2.06(e), then Section 2.13(d) shall apply.

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Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph
shall be for the account of the Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of
payment by any Lender pursuant Section 2.06(e), to reimburse the Issuing Bank shall be for the
account of such Lender to the extent of such payment.

     (i) Replacement of the Issuing Bank. The Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by
written agreement among the Borrower Representative, the Canadian Borrower, the Administrative
Agents, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. The US Administrative Agent
shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of the Issuing Bank. At the time any such
replacement shall become effective, the Borrowers shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account
of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.12(b). From and after the effective date of any
such replacement, (i) the
successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of the Issuing Bank under
this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein
to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing
Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the
replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and
shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with
respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to
issue additional Letters of Credit.

     (j) Cash Collateralization.

     (i) If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day
that the Borrower Representative receives notice from the US Administrative Agent or
the Required Lenders demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this
paragraph, the US Borrowers shall deposit in an account with the US Administrative
Agent, in the name of the US Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the
Revolving Lenders (the “US LC Collateral Account”), an amount in cash equal
to 103% of the US LC Exposure as of such date plus accrued and unpaid interest
thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall
become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and
payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any
Event of Default with respect to any Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of
Article VII. Such deposit shall be held by the US Administrative Agent as
collateral for the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations. The US
Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the
exclusive right of withdrawal, over the US LC Collateral Account and the US
Borrowers hereby grant the US Administrative Agent a security interest in the US LC
Collateral Account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such
deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the
US Administrative Agent and at the US Borrowers’ risk and expense, such deposits
shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall
accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the US
Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it
has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the
satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the US Borrowers for the US LC
Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but
subject to the consent of Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater
than 50% of the total LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other Secured Obligations.
If the US Borrowers are required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder
as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not
applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the US Borrowers within three Business
Days after all such Defaults have been cured or waived.

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     (ii) If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day
that the Canadian Borrower receives notice from the Canadian Administrative Agent or
the Required Lenders demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this
paragraph, the Canadian Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Canadian
Administrative Agent, in the name of the Canadian Administrative Agent and for the
benefit of the Revolving Lenders (the “Canadian LC Collateral Account”), an
amount in cash equal to 103% of the Canadian LC Exposure as of such date plus
accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit
such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall
become immediately due and
payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any
Event of Default with respect to any Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of
Article VII. Such deposit shall be held by the Canadian Administrative Agent as
collateral for the payment and performance of the Canadian Secured Obligations. The
Canadian Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including
the exclusive right of withdrawal, over the Canadian LC Collateral Account and the
Canadian Borrower hereby grants the Canadian Administrative Agent a security
interest in the Canadian LC Collateral Account. Other than any interest earned on
the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and
sole discretion of the Canadian Administrative Agent and at the Canadian Borrower’s
risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if
any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account
shall be applied by the Canadian Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank
for Canadian LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the
extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement
obligations of the Canadian Borrower for the Canadian LC Exposure at such time or,
if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of
Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 50% of the total LC
Exposure), be applied to satisfy other Canadian Secured Obligations. If the
Canadian Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a
result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not
applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Canadian Borrower within three
Business Days after all such Defaults have been cured or waived.

     (k) On the Effective Date, (i) each Existing Letter of Credit, to the extent outstanding,
shall be automatically and without further action by the parties thereto deemed converted into a
Letter of Credit under this Agreement (as reflected on Schedule 2.06) pursuant to this
Section 2.06 and subject to the provisions hereof as if each such Existing Letter of Credit had
been issued on the Effective Date, (ii) each such Existing Letter of Credit shall be included in
the calculation of LC Exposure, and (iii) all liabilities of the Borrowers and the other Loan
Parties with respect to such Existing Letters of Credit shall constitute Obligations.

     SECTION 2.07. Funding of Borrowings.

     (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan (other than a Protective Advance for which the provisions
of Section 2.04 shall apply) to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire
transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., Local Time, to the account of the US
Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, most recently designated
by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders in an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable
Percentage; provided that, Term Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.01(c), 2.01(d)
and 2.02(b) and Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.05. Each Administrative
Agent will make such Loans available to the US Borrowers or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable,
by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to the Funding Account(s);
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to finance the reimbursement of (i) an LC
Disbursement as provided in Section 2.06(e) shall be remitted by the US Administrative Agent to the
Issuing Bank and (ii) a Protective Advance shall be retained by the US Administrative Agent or the
Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, and disbursed in such Administrative Agent’s
discretion.

     (b) Unless an Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the
proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to such Administrative
Agent
such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agents may assume that each Lender
has made its share of such Borrowing available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of
this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the applicable Borrower a
corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable
Borrowing available to the applicable Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the US
Borrowers or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable, severally agree to pay to the applicable
Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each
day from and including the date such amount is made available to the US Borrowers or the Canadian
Borrower, as applicable, to but excluding the date of payment to the US Administrative Agent or the
Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the
Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian
Administrative Agent, as applicable, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation or (ii) in the case of any Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Loans. If
such Lender pays such amount to the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative Agent,
as applicable, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.

     SECTION 2.08. Interest Elections.

     (a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing
Request and in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as
specified in such Borrowing. Thereafter, the Borrower Representative may elect to convert such
Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar
Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section. The Borrower
Representative may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected
Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the
Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a
separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Swingline Borrowings or Protective Advances,
which may not be converted or continued.

     (b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower Representative shall notify the
US Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be
required under Section 2.03 if the Borrowers were requesting a Borrowing of Revolving Loans of the
Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such
telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand
delivery, facsimile or .pdf transmission to the US Administrative Agent, as applicable, of a
written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the US Administrative Agent and signed by
the Borrower Representative.

     (c) Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following
information in compliance with Section 2.02:

	 	(i)	 	whether such Interest Election Request applies to the US
Borrowers or to the Canadian Borrower;
	 
	 	(ii)	 	the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies
and, if different options are being elected with respect to different
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	 	 	 	thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in
which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii)
below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
	 
	 	(iii)	 	the effective date of the election made pursuant to such
Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;
	 
	 	(iv)	 	whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a
Eurodollar Borrowing; and
	 
	 	(v)	 	if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the
Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election,
which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest
Period”.

If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an
Interest Period, then the US Borrowers, or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable shall be deemed to
have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

     (d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the US Administrative Agent or
the Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, shall advise each Lender of the details thereof
and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

     (e) If the Borrower Representative fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with
respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then,
unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such
Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof,
if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the US Administrative Agent, at the
request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower Representative, then, so long as an Event
of Default is continuing, no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar
Borrowing.

     SECTION 2.09. Termination and Reduction of Commitments.

     (a) Unless previously terminated, (i) the Term Loan Commitments shall terminate at 5:00 p.m.,
New York time, on the Effective Date and (ii) all other Commitments shall terminate on the
Termination Date.

     (b) The Borrowers may at any time terminate the Commitments upon (i) the payment in full of
all outstanding Loans, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon and on any Letters of
Credit, (ii) the cancellation and return of all outstanding Letters of Credit (or alternatively,
with respect to each such Letter of Credit, (A) the furnishing to the US Administrative Agent of a
cash deposit (or at the discretion of the US Administrative Agent a back up standby letter of
credit satisfactory to the US Administrative Agent) equal to 103% of the US LC Exposure as of such
date and (B) the furnishing to the Canadian Administrative Agent of a cash deposit (or at the
discretion of the Canadian Administrative Agent a back up standby letter of credit satisfactory to
the Canadian Administrative Agent) equal to 103% of the Canadian LC Exposure as of such date),
(iii) the payment in full of the accrued and unpaid fees, and (iv) the payment in full of all
reimbursable expenses and other Obligations together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon.

     (c) The Borrowers may from time to time reduce the Revolving Commitments or the Canadian
Sublimit; provided that (i) each such reduction of the Revolving Commitments or the Canadian
Sublimit shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000, (ii) each such reduction
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Revolving Commitments shall be in an amount not less than $5,000,000 (unless the US
Administrative Agent otherwise agrees), and (iii) the Borrowers shall not reduce the Revolving
Commitments if, after
giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans in accordance with Section
2.11, the Borrowers would not be in compliance with the Revolving Exposure Limitations.

     (d) The Borrower Representative shall notify (x) the US Administrative Agent of any election
to terminate or reduce the Commitments and (y) the Canadian Administrative Agent (with a copy to
the Administrative Agent) of any election to terminate or reduce the Canadian Sublimit, in each
case, under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date
of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof.
Promptly following receipt of any notice, the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian
Administrative Agent, as applicable, shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice
delivered by the Borrower Representative pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable;
provided that a notice of termination of the Commitments delivered by the Borrower
Representative may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit
facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower Representative (by notice to
the Administrative Agents on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not
satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent.

     (e) Upon the termination in full of the Canadian Sublimit and the satisfaction in full of the
Obligations of the Canadian Borrower (other than Obligations in respect of contingent liabilities)
(x) the Canadian Borrower will be released from its obligations under this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents (including, but not limited to, all reporting obligations contained in section 5.01
relating to the Canadian Borrowing Base) in its capacity as such, other than in respect of
obligations which expressly survive the term of this Agreement and (y) all Collateral and any Loan
Guaranties of the Canadian Borrower or any other Canadian Loan Party will be released.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the termination of the Canadian Sublimit without a corresponding
termination of the Commitments shall have no effect on the availability to the US Borrowers of all
or any portion of the Revolving Commitments.

     SECTION 2.10. Repayment and Amortization of Loans; Evidence of Debt.

     (a) The US Borrowers hereby unconditionally promise to pay (i) to the US Administrative Agent
or the Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, for the account of each Lender the then unpaid
principal amount of each Revolving Loan on the Termination Date, (ii) to the US Administrative
Agent the then unpaid amount of each US Protective Advance on the earlier of the Termination Date
and demand by the US Administrative Agent, and (iii) to the Canadian Administrative Agent the then
unpaid amount of each Canadian Protective Advance on the earlier of the Termination Date and demand
by the Canadian Administrative Agent. The Canadian Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay
to the Canadian Administrative Agent (x) the then unpaid amount of each Canadian Revolving Loan on
the Termination Date and (y) the then unpaid amount of each Canadian Protective Advance on the
earlier of the Termination Date and demand by the Canadian Administrative Agent.

     (b) The US Borrowers shall repay the Eighteen Month Term Loans on the last Business Day of
each calendar quarter in the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite such date (as adjusted
from time to time pursuant to Sections 2.11(c) and (d)):

	 	 	 	 	 
	Date	 	Amount
	June 30, 2009
	 	$	1,166,667	 
	September 30, 2009
	 	$	1,166,667	 
	December 31, 2009
	 	$	1,166,667	 

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	Date	 	Amount
	March 31, 2010
	 	$	1,166,667	 
	June 30, 2010
	 	$	1,166,667	 

To the extent not previously paid, all unpaid Eighteen Month Term Loans shall be paid in full in
cash by the US Borrowers on the Eighteen Month Term Loan Maturity Date.

     (c) The US Borrowers shall repay the Twenty-Six Month Term Loans on the last Business Day of
each calendar quarter in the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite such date (as adjusted
from time to time pursuant to Sections 2.11(c) and (d)):

	 	 	 	 	 
	Date	 	Amount
	June 30, 2009
	 	$	1,666,667	 
	September 30, 2009
	 	$	1,666,667	 
	December 31, 2009
	 	$	1,666,667	 
	March 31, 2010
	 	$	1,666,667	 
	June 30, 2010
	 	$	1,666,667	 
	September 30, 2010
	 	$	1,666,667	 
	December 31, 2010
	 	$	1,666,667	 
	March 31, 2011
	 	$	1,666,667	 

To the extent not previously paid, all unpaid Twenty-Six Month Term Loans shall be paid in full in
cash by the US Borrowers on the Twenty-Six Month Term Loan Maturity Date.

     (d) At all times during any Full Cash Dominion Period, on each Business Day, the
Administrative Agents shall apply all funds credited to the relevant Collection Account the
previous Business Day (whether or not immediately available) first to prepay any Protective
Advances that may be outstanding, pro rata, and second to prepay Swingline Loans, and
third (subject to the terms of Section 2.18(e) with respect to Eurodollar Loans) to prepay
Revolving Loans and to cash collateralize outstanding LC Exposure. Any such application of funds
shall be made (i) from Collection Accounts of the US Loan Parties first in respect of Obligations
of the US Borrowers, as directed by the Borrower Representative (or, if on such date the applicable
conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 have not been satisfied, in respect of the
Obligations of the US Borrowers, ratably in accordance with the then outstanding amounts thereof)
and second in respect of Obligations of the Canadian Borrower, as directed by the Borrower
Representative (or, if on such date the applicable conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02
have not been satisfied, in respect of the Obligations of the Canadian Borrower, as directed by the
US Administrative Agent) and (ii) from Collection Accounts of the Canadian Loan Parties, solely in
respect of Obligations of the Canadian Borrower, respectively, as directed by the Canadian Borrower
(or, if on such date the applicable conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 have not been
satisfied, in respect of the Obligations of the Canadian Borrower, as directed by the Canadian
Administrative Agent).

     (e) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts
evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such
Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from
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     (f) The Administrative Agents shall maintain accounts in which they shall record (i) the
amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable
thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable
from the Borrowers to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the US
Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders
and each Lender’s share thereof.

     (g) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (c) or (d) of this
Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the
obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative
Agents to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation
of the Borrowers to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

     (h) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such
event, the Borrowers shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to
the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered
assigns) and in a form approved by the US Administrative Agent. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by
such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant
to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the order
of the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its
registered assigns).

     SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans.

     (a) The Borrowers shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any
Revolving Borrowing or the Term Loans, in each case, in whole or in part, subject to prior notice
in accordance with paragraph (h) of this Section. Voluntary prepayments of the Term Loans, shall
be allocated between the Eighteen Month Term Loans and Twenty-Six Month Term Loans as specified by
the Borrower Representative and shall be applied on a pro rata basis against remaining installments
of the Class of Term Loans specified.

     (b) Except for Temporary Overadvance Loans permitted under Section 2.01(b) and Protective
Advances permitted under Section 2.04, in the event and on such occasion that the Borrowers are not
in compliance with the Revolving Exposure Limitations, the Borrowers shall promptly prepay (or in
the case of LC Exposure, cash collateralize) the Revolving Loans, LC Exposure and/or Swingline
Loans in an aggregate amount necessary such that, on a pro forma basis following such prepayments
or cash collateralization, the Borrowers shall be in compliance with the Revolving Exposure
Limitations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, at the expiration of the
Temporary Overadvance Period, the US Borrowers shall prepay the entire outstanding principal amount
of the Temporary Overadvance Loans, together with interest thereon.

     (c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.11(f), in the event and on each occasion that any
Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of any Loan Party prior to the payment in full of the
Term Loan Obligations in respect of any Prepayment Event described in clause (b) of the definition
of the term “Prepayment Event” (to the extent that such Net Proceeds arise from casualties or
losses to Equipment, Fixtures and real property) or in clauses (c) or (d) of the definition of the
term “Prepayment Event”, the Borrowers shall, immediately after such Net Proceeds are received by
any Loan Party, apply 100% of
such Net Proceeds, first to prepay any Protective Advances that may be outstanding,
pro rata, second, to prepay any Temporary Overadvance Loans that may be outstanding, pro
rata, third, to prepay the Eighteen Month Term Loans and the Twenty-Six Month Term Loans on
a pro rata basis (to be applied, in each case, to remaining installments in inverse order of
maturity) and fourth, at all times during any Full Cash Dominion Period, to prepay the
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corresponding reduction in the Revolving
Commitment and to cash collateralize outstanding LC Exposure. In the event and on each occasion
that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of any Loan Party (x) prior to the payment in
full of the Term Loan Obligations, in respect of any Prepayment Event described in clause (b) of
the definition of the term “Prepayment Event” (to the extent that such Net Proceeds arise from
casualties or losses to Inventory) and (y) from and after the date on which all Term Loan
Obligations shall have been paid in full, in respect of any Prepayment Event described in clauses
(a), (b), (c) or (d) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, in each case, immediately
after such Net Proceeds are received by any Loan Party, the Borrowers shall apply 100% of such Net
Proceeds, first to prepay any Protective Advances that may be outstanding, pro rata, and
second, at all times during any Full Cash Dominion Period, to prepay the Revolving Loans
(including Swingline Loans) without a corresponding reduction in the Revolving Commitment and to
cash collateralize outstanding LC Exposure. If the precise amount of insurance or condemnation
proceeds allocable to Inventory as compared to Equipment, Fixtures and real property is not
otherwise determined, the allocation and application of those proceeds shall be determined by the
Administrative Agent, in its Permitted Discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any amounts that
would be required to be applied under this Section 2.11(c) to prepay the Revolving Loans during a
Full Cash Dominion Period shall not be required to be so applied if a Full Cash Dominion Period is
not in effect, and instead, the Borrowers shall be permitted to deposit such amounts into their
general operating accounts and/or to utilize such amounts for corporate purposes not inconsistent
with this Agreement.

     (d) In the event and on each occasion that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of
any Loan Party in respect of any Prepayment Event described in clause (a) of the definition of the
term “Prepayment Event” at any time prior to the payment in full of the Term Loan Obligations, the
Borrowers shall, immediately after such Net Proceeds are received by any Loan Party, apply 100% of
such Net Proceeds, first, to prepay any Protective Advances that may be outstanding, pro
rata second, to prepay any Temporary Overadvance Loans that may be outstanding (with a
corresponding permanent reduction in the maximum aggregate amount of Temporary Overadvance Loans
permitted to be outstanding at any time), pro rata, third, to prepay installments of the
Twenty-Six Month Term Loans in inverse order of maturity until payment in full of the Twenty-Six
Month Term Loans, fourth, to prepay installments of the Eighteen Month Term Loans in
inverse order of maturity until payment in full of the Eighteen Month Term Loans, and
fifth, during any Full Cash Dominion Period, to prepay the Revolving Loans (including
Swingline Loans) without a corresponding reduction in the Revolving Commitment and to cash
collateralize outstanding LC Exposure. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any amounts that would be
required under this Section 2.11(d) to be applied to prepay the Revolving Loans during a Full Cash
Dominion Period shall not be required to be so applied if a Full Cash Dominion Period is not in
effect, and instead, the Borrowers shall be permitted to deposit such amounts into their general
operating accounts and/or to utilize such amounts for corporate purposes not inconsistent with this
Agreement.

     (e) Until the Term Loan Obligations have been paid in full, the Borrowers shall prepay the
Term Loans as set forth in this paragraph (e) on the date that is seven (7) days after the earlier
of (i) the date on which Company’s annual audited financial statements for the immediately
preceding fiscal year are delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 or (ii) the date on which such annual
audited financial statements were required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01, in an amount
equal to fifty percent (50%) of the
Company’s Excess Cash Flow for the immediately preceding fiscal year. Each Excess Cash Flow
prepayment shall be applied first, to prepay installments of the Eighteen Month Term Loans
in inverse order of maturity, until payment in full of the Eighteen Month Term Loans and
second, to prepay installments of the Twenty-Six Month Term Loans in inverse order of
maturity. Each Excess Cash Flow prepayment shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by a
Financial Officer certifying the manner in which Excess Cash Flow and the resulting prepayment were
calculated, which certificate shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the US Administrative
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     (f) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary set forth in this Section 2.11, so long as
no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrowers may elect to apply any Net
Proceeds in respect of any Prepayment Event described in clause (b) of the definition of the term
“Prepayment Event” that would be required to be applied to prepay Term Loans pursuant to Section
2.11(c), within 270 days of receipt thereof to acquire (or replace or rebuild) real property,
equipment or other tangible assets (other than inventory) to be used in the business of the Loan
Parties, in lieu of applying such amounts to prepay Term Loans. In the case of any election
pursuant to this Section 2.11(f), the Borrower Representative shall deliver to the US
Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect that the Loan Parties
intend to apply such Net Proceeds to acquire (or replace or rebuild) real property, equipment or
other tangible assets (other than inventory) to be used in the business of the Loan Parties,
indicating the amount of Net Proceeds to be so applied and certifying that no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing. Upon receipt of the Net Proceeds to be applied in accordance with this
Section 2.11(f), the applicable Loan Party shall deposit such Net Proceeds in a cash collateral
account with the US Administrative Agent and, thereafter, such funds shall be available to the
applicable Loan Party for application in accordance with this Section 2.11(f) at such Loan Party’s
request, so long as, as of the date of such request, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing; provided that to the extent any such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied
within 270 days after the applicable Loan Party’s receipt thereof, the Borrowers shall be required
to apply such remaining proceeds to prepay Loans in accordance with Section 2.11(c) or 2.11(d)(iv),
as applicable.

     (g) For the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the Loan Parties be required to prepay Loans
with Net Proceeds of (i) any sale, transfer or disposition of any property or asset of a Foreign
Subsidiary or (ii) any casualty or other insured damage to, or taking under power of eminent domain
or by condemnation or similar proceeding of any property or asset of a Foreign Subsidiary.

     (h) The Borrower Representative shall notify the US Administrative Agent and the Canadian
Administrative Agent, as applicable, (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the
applicable Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of any estimated prepayment
amount hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00
a.m., Local Time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment
of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., Local Time, one Business Day before the date of
prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the
estimated principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided
that, if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of
the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.09, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if
such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.09. Promptly following receipt
of any such notice relating to a Borrowing, the applicable Administrative Agent shall advise the
Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount
that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in
Section 2.02. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the
prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by
Section 2.13.

     SECTION 2.12. Fees.

     (a) The US Borrowers agree to pay to the US Administrative Agent for the account of each
Lender a commitment fee, which shall accrue at the Commitment Fee Rate on the average daily amount
of the Available Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including the
Effective Date to but excluding the date on which the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments terminate.
Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears on the first Business Day of each January,
April, July and October and on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate, commencing on
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first such date to occur after the date hereof. All commitment fees shall be computed on the
basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed.

     (b) (i) The US Borrowers agree to pay to the US Administrative Agent for the account of each
Lender a participation fee with respect to such Lender’s participations in Letters of Credit issued
for the account of the US Borrowers and (ii) the Canadian Borrower agrees to pay to the Canadian
Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a participation fee with respect to such
Lender’s participations in Letters of Credit issued to the Canadian Borrower, which, in each case,
shall accrue at the same Applicable Spread used to determine the interest rate applicable to
Eurodollar Revolving Loans on the average daily amount of such Lender’s applicable LC Exposure
(excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period
from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s
Revolving Commitment terminates and the date on which such Revolving Lender ceases to have any such
LC Exposure. In addition, (i) the US Borrowers agree to pay to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee,
which shall accrue at the rate of 0.125% per annum on the average daily amount of the US LC
Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) and (ii) the
Canadian Borrower agrees to pay to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at a rate of
0.125% per annum on the average daily amount of the Canadian LC Exposure (excluding any portion
thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements), in each case, during the period from and
including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination of the Revolving
Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure, as well as the Issuing Bank’s
standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit
or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and
including the last day of each calendar month shall be payable on the first Business Day of each
calendar month following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the
Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the
Revolving Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments
terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank pursuant to this
paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees
shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of
days elapsed.

     (c) The Borrowers agree to pay to the Administrative Agents, for their own accounts, fees
payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrowers and the
Administrative Agents.

     (d) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds,
to the US Administrative Agent (or to the Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for
distribution, in the case of commitment fees and participation fees, to the Lenders. Fees paid
shall not be refundable under any circumstances.

     SECTION 2.13. Interest.

     (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each US Swingline Loan, each Canadian
Swingline Loan and each Temporary Overadvance Loan but excluding US Protective Advances and
Canadian Protective Advances) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable
Spread.

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

     (c) Each US Protective Advance and each Canadian Protective Advance shall bear interest at the
Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Spread for Revolving Loans plus 2%.

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     (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the occurrence and continuance of an Event of
Default, the US Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may, at its or their option, by notice
to the Borrower Representative (which notice may be revoked at the option of the Required Lenders
notwithstanding any provision of Section 9.02 requiring the consent of “each Lender affected
thereby” for reductions in interest rates), declare that, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, (i) all Loans shall bear interest at 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such
Loans as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other
amount outstanding hereunder, such amount shall accrue at 2% plus the rate then applicable to ABR
Revolving Loans as provided herein.

     (e) Accrued interest on each Loan (for ABR Loans, accrued through the last day of the prior
calendar month) shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and upon
termination of the Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph
(f) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) subject to Section 2.18(e), in the event of
any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to
the end of the Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid
shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any
conversion of any Eurodollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued
interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.

     (f) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that
interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is
based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap
year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed. The applicable
Alternate Base Rate, Adjusted LIBO Rate or LIBO Rate shall be determined by the US Administrative
Agent and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

     (g) For purposes of disclosure pursuant to the Interest Act (Canada), the annual rates of
interest or fees to which the rates of interest or fees provided in this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents (and stated herein or therein, as applicable, to be computed on the basis of 360
days or any other period of time less than a calendar year) are equivalent are the rates so
determined multiplied by the actual number of days in the applicable calendar year and divided by
360 or such other period of time, respectively.

     (h) All interest hereunder shall be paid in the currency in which the Loan giving rise to such
interest is denominated.

     SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any
Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:

     (a) the US Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent
manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO
Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period; or

     (b) the US Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate
or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect
the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans (or its Loan) included in
such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

then the US Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower Representative and the
Lenders by telephone or facsimile as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the US
Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower Representative and the Lenders that the circumstances
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notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any
Revolving Borrowing to, or continuation of any Revolving Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall
be ineffective, and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, such
Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing.

     SECTION 2.15. Increased Costs. (a) If any Change in Law shall:

	 	(i)	 	impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit
or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of,
or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement
reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate) or the Issuing Bank; or
	 
	 	(ii)	 	impose on any Lender or the Issuing Bank or the London
interbank market any other condition affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar
Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or
maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to
increase the cost to such Lender or the Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining
any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or
the Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrowers will
pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as
will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such additional costs
incurred or reduction suffered. This Section 2.15(a) shall not apply to any Taxes, which shall be
governed exclusively by Section 2.17.

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

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

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

     SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any
principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable
thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan
other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow,
convert, continue or prepay any Eurodollar Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered
pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.09(c) and is
revoked in accordance therewith), or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the
last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower
Representative pursuant to Section 2.19, then, in any such event, the US Borrowers, or the Canadian
Borrower, as applicable, shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable
to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be
deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount
of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not
occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period
from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in
the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the
Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest which would accrue on such
principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid,
at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from
other banks in the eurodollar market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or
amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the
Borrower Representative and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The US Borrowers, or the
Canadian Borrower, as applicable, shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such
certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

     SECTION 2.17. Taxes.

     (a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrowers hereunder shall
be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes;
provided that if the Borrowers or any other Loan Party shall be required to deduct any
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as
necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section) the applicable Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing
Bank (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such
deductions been made, (ii) the Borrowers or such other Loan Party shall make such deductions and
(iii) the Borrowers or such other Loan Party shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

     (b) In addition, the Borrowers shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental
Authority in accordance with applicable law.

     (c) The (i) US Borrowers shall jointly and severally indemnify the US Administrative Agent,
each Lender and the Issuing Bank within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount
of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the US Administrative Agent, such Lender or the
Issuing Bank on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the US
Borrowers hereunder, and (ii) the Canadian Borrower shall indemnify the Canadian Administrative
Agent and each Lender on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the
Canadian Borrower hereunder (including, in each case, Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or
asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and, in each case, any
penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or
not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the
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amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower Representative by a Lender or
the Issuing Bank, or by either Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or
the Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

     (d) Each Lender and the Issuing Bank shall indemnify the Borrowers and the Administrative
Agents, within 10 days after written demand therefor, against any and all Taxes and any and all
related losses, claims, liabilities, penalties, interest and reasonable expenses (including the
fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Borrowers or the Administrative Agents)
incurred by or asserted against the Borrowers or the Administrative Agents by any Governmental
Authority as a result of the failure by such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to
deliver, or as a result of the inaccuracy, inadequacy or deficiency of, any documentation required
to be delivered to the Borrowers or the Administrative Agents pursuant to Section 2.17(f). Each
Lender and the Issuing Bank hereby authorizes the Administrative Agents to set off and apply any
and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, under
this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agents under
this Section 2.17(d).

     (e) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the
Borrowers or any other Loan Party to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower Representative shall
deliver to the applicable Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued
by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment
or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Administrative Agent.

     (f) Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax
under the law of the jurisdiction in which any Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such
jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the
Borrower Representative (with a copy to the US Administrative Agent), at the time or times
prescribed by applicable law, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by
applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower Representative as will permit such payments
to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate. In addition, any Lender, if requested by the
Borrower Representative or the US Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation
prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower Representative or the US
Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the US Administrative Agent to determine
whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.

	 	(i)	 	Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the case
of any US Borrower, any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally
entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower Representative and the US
Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the
recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a
Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request
of the Borrower Representative or the US Administrative Agent), whichever of
the following is applicable:

	 	(A)	 	duly completed copies of Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8BEN claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax
treaty to which the United States of America is a party,
	 
	 	(B)	 	duly completed copies of Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8ECI,
	 
	 	(C)	 	in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the
benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c)
of the Code, (x) a certificate in form and substance reasonably
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	 	 	 	Agent and the Borrower Representative to the effect that such Foreign
Lender is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A)
of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within
the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, (C) a “controlled
foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code
and (D) the interest payment in question are not effectively
connected with the United States trade or business conducted by such
Lender (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) duly completed
copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN,

	 	(D)	 	to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the
beneficial owner (for example, where the Foreign Lender is a
partnership or participating Lender granting a typical participation),
an Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY, accompanied by a Form W-8ECI,
W-8BEN, U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate, Form W-9, and/or other
certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable;
provided that, if the Foreign Lender is a partnership (and not a
participating Lender) and one or more beneficial owners of such Foreign
Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign
Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate on behalf of each
such beneficial owner, or
	 
	 	(E)	 	any other form prescribed by applicable law as
a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States
federal withholding tax duly completed together with such supplementary
documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the
Borrower to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.

	 	(ii)	 	Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it
previously delivered by it expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any
respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the
Borrower Representative and the US Administrative Agent in writing of its legal
inability to do so.
	 
	 	(iii)	 	Each Administrative Agent shall, to the extent it is legally
entitled to do so, provide the Borrower Representative with, (i) with respect
to any amount received on behalf of a Lender with respect to a US Borrower, one
completed original of IRS Form W-9 or W-8IMY, as applicable, (ii) with respect
to any fee received by such Administrative Agent hereunder from a US Person,
one completed original of IRS Form W-9 or applicable W-8 and (iii) any other
documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower Representative as will
permit any payment to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of
withholding. Thereafter and from time to time, each Administrative Agent
shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, provide the Borrower
Representative such additional duly completed and signed copies of one or more
of such forms (or such successor forms) or documentations on or prior to the
date on which any such form or documentation expires or becomes obsolete or
incorrect.

     (g) If either Administrative Agent, a Lender or the Issuing Bank determines, in its sole
discretion, that it has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been
indemnified by the Borrowers or with respect to which the Borrowers or any other Loan Party have
paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.17, it shall pay over such refund to the
Borrowers or such other Loan Party (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or
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or such other Loan Party under this Section 2.17 with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes
giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of such Administrative Agent or such
Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority
with respect to such refund); provided, that the Borrowers or such other Loan Party, upon the
request of such Administrative Agent, such Lender or the Issuing Bank, agree to repay the amount
paid over to the Borrowers or such other Loan Party (plus any penalties, interest or other charges
imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to such Administrative Agent, such Lender or the
Issuing Bank in the event such Administrative Agent, such Lender or the Issuing Bank is required to
repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This Section shall not be construed to require
either Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other
information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to the Borrowers or any other
Person.

     SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Allocation of Proceeds; Sharing of Set-offs.

     (a) The Borrowers shall make each payment required to be made by them hereunder (whether of
principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section
2.15, 2.16 or 2.17, or otherwise) prior to 3:00 p.m., Local Time, on the date when due, in
immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim. All payments hereunder shall be made
in dollars. All payments made in respect of Loans shall be made for the account of the Lenders pro
rata in accordance with the respective unpaid principal amounts of the Loans held by such Lenders.
Any amounts received after 3:00 p.m. Local Time on any date may, in the discretion of the
applicable Administrative Agent be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day
for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made (i) with respect to
payments of US Revolving Loans and Term Loans, to the US Administrative Agent at its offices at 10
South Dearborn Street, 22nd Floor, Chicago, Illinois, (ii) with respect to payments of
Canadian Revolving Loans, to the Canadian Administrative Agent at its offices at 200 Bay Street,
Royal Bank Plaza, Floor 18, Toronto, M57 2J2 Canada, except payments to be made directly to the
Issuing Bank or to a Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments
pursuant to Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled
thereto. Each of the US Administrative Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent shall
distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate
recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that
is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day,
and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period
of such extension.

     (b) Any proceeds of Collateral received by any Administrative Agent (i) not constituting
either (A) a specific payment of principal, interest, fees or other sum payable under the Loan
Documents (which shall be applied as specified by the Borrowers), (B) a mandatory prepayment (which
shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.11) or (C) amounts to be applied from the Collection
Account during a Full Cash Dominion Period (which shall be applied in accordance with Section
2.10(d)) or (ii) after an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the US Administrative
Agent so elects or the Required Lenders so direct, such funds shall be applied ratably
first, to pay any fees, indemnities, or expense reimbursements including amounts then due
to any Administrative Agent and the Issuing Banks from the Borrowers (other than in connection with
Banking Services or Swap Obligations), second, to pay any fees or expense reimbursements
then due to the Lenders from the Borrowers (other than in connection with Banking Services or Swap
Obligations), third, to pay interest due in respect of the Protective Advances,
fourth, to pay the principal of the Protective Advances, fifth, to pay interest
then due and payable on the Loans (other than the Protective Advances) ratably, sixth, to
prepay principal on the Loans (other than the Protective Advances) and unreimbursed LC
Disbursements ratably (with amounts applied to the Eighteen Month Term Loans and the Twenty-Six
Month Term Loans on a pro rata basis (in each case, against remaining installments in inverse order
of maturity), seventh, to pay an amount to the US

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Administrative Agent equal to one hundred three percent (103%) of the aggregate undrawn face
amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit and the aggregate amount of any unpaid LC
Disbursements, to be held as cash collateral for such Obligations, eighth, to payment of
any amounts owing with respect to Banking Services and Swap Obligations, and ninth, to the
payment of any other Secured Obligation due to any Administrative Agent or any Lender by the
Borrowers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, unless so
directed by the Borrower Representative, or unless an Event of Default is continuing, neither the
US Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall apply any payment which it receives to any Eurodollar
Loan of a Class, except (a) on the expiration date of the Interest Period applicable to any such
Eurodollar Loan or (b) in the event, and only to the extent, that there are no outstanding ABR
Loans of the same Class and, in any such event, (subject to the terms of Section 2.18(e)) the US
Borrowers shall pay the break funding payment required in accordance with Section 2.16. Each of
the US Administrative Agent, the Canadian Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have the
continuing and exclusive right to apply and reverse and reapply any and all such proceeds and
payments to any portion of the Secured Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such
payment from the Canadian Borrower and any such application of proceeds from Collateral of the
Canadian Loan Parties shall be made solely in respect of Obligations of the Canadian Loan Parties.

     (c) At the election of the US Administrative Agent, all payments of principal, interest, LC
Disbursements, fees, premiums, reimbursable expenses (including, without limitation, all
reimbursement for fees and expenses pursuant to Section 9.03), and other sums payable under the
Loan Documents, may be paid from the proceeds of Borrowings of US Revolving Loans hereunder whether
made following a request by the Borrower Representative pursuant to Section 2.03 or a deemed
request as provided in this Section or may be deducted from any deposit account of any US Borrower
maintained with the US Administrative Agent. The US Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorize the US
Administrative Agent to make a Borrowing for the purpose of paying each payment of principal,
interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder or any other amount due under the Loan Documents and
agrees that all such amounts charged shall constitute Loans (including Swingline Loans, but such a
Borrowing may only constitute a Protective Advance if it is to reimburse costs, fees and expenses
as described in Section 9.03) and that all such Borrowings shall be deemed to have been requested
pursuant to Sections 2.03, 2.04 or 2.05, as applicable. At the election of the Canadian
Administrative Agent, all payments of principal, interest, LC Disbursements, fees, premiums,
reimbursable expenses (including, without limitation, all reimbursement for fees and expenses
pursuant to Section 9.03) for which the Canadian Borrower is obligated, and other sums payable in
respect of Obligations of the Canadian Borrower under the Loan Documents, may be paid from the
proceeds of Borrowings of Canadian Revolving Loans hereunder whether made following a request by
the Borrower Representative pursuant to Section 2.03 or a deemed request as provided in this
Section or may be deducted from any deposit account of the Canadian Borrower maintained with the
Canadian Administrative Agent. The Canadian Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes the Canadian
Administrative Agent to make a Borrowing for the purpose of paying each payment of principal,
interest and fees in respect of Canadian Revolving Loans as such payment becomes due hereunder or
any other amount due from the Canadian Borrower under the Loan Documents and agrees that all such
amounts charged shall constitute Canadian Revolving Loans (including Canadian Swingline Loans, but
such a Borrowing may only constitute a Canadian Protective Advance for purposes of this Section
2.18(c), if it is to reimburse costs, fees and expenses as described in Section 9.03) and that all
such Borrowings shall be deemed to have been requested pursuant to Sections 2.03, 2.04 or 2.05, as
applicable. The US Borrowers authorize the US Administrative Agent to charge any deposit account
of any US Borrower maintained with the US Administrative Agent for each payment of principal,
interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder or any other amount due under the Loan Documents.
The Canadian Borrower authorize the Canadian Administrative Agent to charge any deposit account of
the Canadian Borrower maintained with the Canadian Administrative Agent for each payment of
principal, interest and fees in respect of Canadian Revolving Loans as such payment becomes due
hereunder or any other amount due from the Canadian Borrower under the Loan Documents.
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Canadian Borrower and any such application of proceeds from Collateral of the Canadian Loan
Parties shall be made solely in respect of Obligations of the Canadian Loan Parties.

     (d) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise,
obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in
LC Disbursements resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the
aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and accrued interest thereon
than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion
shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and participations in LC
Disbursements of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments
shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and
accrued interest on their respective Loans and participations in LC Disbursements; provided
that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise
thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the
extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be
construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the
express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the
assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements
to any assignee or participant (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any assignment of or sale of
a participation in any Loans to the Borrowers or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof in accordance
with Section 9.04(b)(ii)(G)). Each Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it
may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to
the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim
with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such
Borrower in the amount of such participation.

     (e) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if at any time that the
US Borrowers or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable, are required to make a payment or prepayment
hereunder, the US Borrowers, or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable, would incur breakage costs
under Section 2.16 as a result of any Eurodollar Loan being prepaid other than on the last day of
an Interest Period applicable thereto (each such Eurodollar Loan, an “Affected Eurodollar
Loan”), and provided that no Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing at such
time, then the US Borrowers or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable, may, in their discretion,
initially deposit a portion (up to 100%) of the amount that otherwise would have been paid in
respect of any Affected Eurodollar Loan with the applicable Administrative Agent, (which deposit
must be equal in amount to the aggregate amount of the Affected Eurodollar Loans not immediately
prepaid plus accrued interest to the date of such deposit (the amount of such deposit, the
“Cash Collateral Amount”)) to be held as security for the Obligations of the Loan Parties
hereunder pursuant to a cash collateral agreement to be entered into in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Administrative Agent. On the last day of the Interest
Period in which the Cash Collateral Amount is deposited in accordance with this Section 2.18(e) in
respect of the applicable Affected Eurodollar Loans (or such earlier date or dates as shall be
requested by the US Borrowers or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable), the Cash Collateral Amount
shall be applied to repay an aggregate principal amount of such Loans equal to the Affected
Eurodollar Loans not initially prepaid pursuant to this sentence, plus accrued interest
thereon to the date of such deposit (it being understood, for avoidance of doubt, that the US
Borrowers or the Canadian Borrower, as applicable, shall also be required to pay on the date of
such application interest which has accrued on each such Affected Eurodollar Loan from the date of
such deposit to the date of such application in accordance with Section 2.13(e)(ii)).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.18(e), all Cash Collateral
Amounts deposited in accordance with this Section 2.18(e) shall be held for the sole benefit of the
Lenders whose Loans would otherwise have been immediately prepaid with the amounts deposited and
may be applied to the prepayment of such Loans immediately if an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing.

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     (f) Unless the applicable Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower
Representative prior to the date on which any payment is due to such Administrative Agent for the
account of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank hereunder that the applicable Borrower(s) will not make
such payment, the applicable Administrative Agent may assume that the applicable Borrower(s) have
made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption,
distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event,
if the Borrowers have not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank,
as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian
Administrative Agent, as applicable, forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender
or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is
distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the US Administrative Agent or the
Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate
and a rate determined by the US Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on
interbank compensation.

     (g) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it hereunder, then the
applicable Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision
hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the applicable Administrative Agent for the
account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations hereunder until all such unsatisfied
obligations are fully paid.

     SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.

     (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if the Borrowers are required
to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any
Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a
different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and
obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of
such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant
to Section 2.15 or 2.17, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender
to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender (and
the Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in
connection with any such designation or assignment).

     (b) The Borrowers may, at their sole expense and effort, require such Lender or any Lender
that becomes a Defaulting Lender (herein, a “Departing Lender”), upon notice to the
Departing Lender and the US Administrative Agent, to assign and delegate, without recourse (in
accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests,
rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations
(which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that
(i) the Borrowers shall have received the prior written consent of the US Administrative Agent (and
if a Revolving Commitment is being assigned, the Issuing Bank), which consent shall not
unreasonably be withheld, (ii) the Departing Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal
to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline
Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from
the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the
Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts) (except, in the case of Defaulting Lenders, as
otherwise provided in Section 2.21) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a
claim for compensation under Section 2.15 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17,
such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Departing Lender
shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of
a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such
assignment and delegation cease to apply. In the case of any Defaulting Lender, such assignment
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upon payment of any relevant amounts described in clause (ii) above without any requirement
that such Defaulting Lender execute and deliver any documentation.

     SECTION 2.20. Returned Payments. If, after receipt of any payment which is applied to
the payment of all or any part of the Obligations, the US Administrative Agent, the Canadian
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender is for any reason compelled to surrender such
payment or proceeds to any Person because such payment or application of proceeds is invalidated,
declared fraudulent, set aside, determined to be void or voidable as a preference, impermissible
setoff, or a diversion of trust funds, or for any other reason, then the Obligations or part
thereof intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued and this Agreement shall continue
in full force as if such payment or proceeds had not been received by the US Administrative Agent,
the Canadian Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or such Lender. The provisions of this Section
2.20 shall be and remain effective notwithstanding any contrary action which may have been taken by
the US Administrative Agent, the Canadian Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in
reliance upon such payment or application of proceeds. The provisions of this Section 2.20 shall
survive the termination of this Agreement.

     SECTION 2.21. Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to
the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply
for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:

     (a) fees shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the Commitment of such Defaulting
Lender pursuant to Section 2.12(a);

     (b) the Commitment and Revolving Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in
determining whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder
(including any consent to any amendment or waiver pursuant to Section 9.02); provided that any
waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender
which affects such Defaulting Lender differently than other affected Lenders shall require the
consent of such Defaulting Lender;

     (c) if any Swingline Exposure or LC Exposure exists at the time a Lender becomes a Specified
Defaulting Lender then: (i) all or any part of such Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure shall be
reallocated among the non-Specified Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective
Applicable Percentages (determined for this purpose without including the Revolving Commitment of
the Specified Defaulting Lender) but only to the extent (x) the sum of all non-Specified Defaulting
Lenders’ Credit Exposures plus, without duplication, such Specified Defaulting Lender’s Swingline
Exposure and LC Exposure, does not exceed the total of all non-Specified Defaulting Lenders’
Commitments and (y) the conditions set forth in Section 2.01 are satisfied at such time; (ii) if
the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the
Borrowers shall within one Business Day following notice by the applicable Administrative Agent (x)
first, prepay such Swingline Exposure and (y) second, cash collateralize such Defaulting Lender’s
LC Exposure (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in
accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.06(j) for so long as such LC Exposure is
outstanding; (iii) if the Borrowers cash collateralize any portion of such Specified Defaulting
Lender’s LC Exposure pursuant to this Section 2.21(c), no Borrower shall be required to pay any
fees to such Specified Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.12(b) with respect to such Specified
Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure during the period such Specified Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure is
cash collateralized; or (iv) if the LC Exposure of the non-Specified Defaulting Lenders is
reallocated pursuant to Section 2.21(c), then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Section
2.12(a) and Section 2.12(b) shall be adjusted in accordance with such non-Specified Defaulting
Lenders’ Applicable Percentages; and (v) the US Administrative Agent or Canadian Administrative
Agent, as applicable, shall promptly notify the Lenders of any reallocation described in this
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     (d) so long as any Lender is a Specified Defaulting Lender, no Swingline Lender shall be
required to fund any Swingline Loan and no Issuing Bank shall be required to issue, extend the
expiry date of or increase the amount of any Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the
related exposure will be 100% covered by the Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash
collateral will be provided by the Borrowers in accordance with Section 2.23(c), and participating
interests in any such newly issued or increased Letter of Credit or newly made Swingline Loan shall
be allocated among non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.23(c)(i) (and
Defaulting Lenders shall not participate therein); and

     (e) any amount payable to such Defaulting Lender hereunder (whether on account of principal,
interest, fees or otherwise and including any amount that would otherwise be payable to such
Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.18(d)) shall, in lieu of being distributed to such
Defaulting Lender, be retained by the US Administrative Agent in a segregated account and, subject
to any applicable requirements of law, be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the
US Administrative Agent (i) first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to
any Administrative Agent hereunder, (ii) second, pro rata, to the payment of any amounts owing by
such Defaulting Lender to any Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender hereunder, (iii) third, if so
determined by the US Administrative Agent or requested by an Issuing Bank, Swingline Lender or any
other Lender, held in such account as cash collateral for future funding obligations of the
Defaulting Lender in respect of any existing or future participating interest in any Swingline Loan
or Letter of Credit, (iv) fourth, to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting
Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the
applicable Administrative Agent, (v) fifth, if so determined by the US Administrative Agent and the
Borrowers, held in such account as cash collateral for future funding obligations of the Defaulting
Lender in respect of any Loans under this Agreement, and (vi) sixth, to such Defaulting Lender or
as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if such payment is (x) a
prepayment of the principal amount of any Loans or reimbursement obligations in respect of LC
Disbursements which a Defaulting Lender has funded its participation obligations and (y) made at a
time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 are satisfied, such payment shall be applied
solely to prepay the Loans of, and reimbursement obligations owed to, all non-Defaulting Lenders
pro rata prior to being applied to the prepayment of any Loans, or reimbursement obligations owed
to, any Defaulting Lender.

     (f) In the event that the US Administrative Agent, the Canadian Administrative Agent, the
applicable Borrower(s), the Issuing Bank and the applicable Swingline Lender(s) each agrees that a
Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting
Lender, then the Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure of the Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect
the inclusion of such Lender’s Commitments and on such date such Lender shall purchase at par such
of the Loans of the other Lenders (other than Swingline Loans) as the US Administrative Agent shall
determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Loans in accordance with its
Applicable Percentage.

     SECTION 2.22. Expansion Option. The Borrowers may from time to time elect to
request that the Aggregate Revolving Commitments be increased in a minimum amount of $10,000,000
(unless otherwise agreed by the US Administrative Agent) so long as, after giving effect thereto,
the Aggregate Revolving Commitments does not exceed $158,000,000. The US Administrative Agent may
arrange for any such increase to be provided by one or more Lenders (each Lender so agreeing to an
increase in its Revolving Commitment, an “Increasing Lender”), or by one or more new banks,
financial institutions or other entities acceptable to the US Administrative Agent in its Permitted
Discretion (each such new bank, financial institution or other entity, an “Augmenting
Lender”), to increase their existing Revolving Commitments, or extend new Revolving
Commitments, as the case may be, provided that (i) each Augmenting Lender shall be reasonably
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Lender, the Borrowers, the US Administrative Agent and such Increasing Lender shall execute an
agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit E-1 hereto, and (y) in the case of an
Augmenting Lender, the Borrowers, the US Administrative Agent and such Augmenting Lender shall
execute an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit E-2 hereto, (iii) any Lender
approached to so increase its Revolving Commitment may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to
provide any such increase and (iv) each Increasing Lender and each Augmenting Lender, as
applicable, shall also be obligated to acquire a portion of each other Lender’s outstanding Term
Loans such that, after giving effect to all increases in Revolving Commitments and new Revolving
Commitments, each Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments is
equivalent to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each Class of Term Loans then outstanding.
Increases in Revolving Commitments and new Revolving Commitments created pursuant to this Section
2.22 shall become effective on the date agreed by the Borrowers, the US Administrative Agent and
the relevant Increasing Lenders or Augmenting Lenders. The US Administrative Agent shall notify
the Borrowers and each Lender of the effective date of any increase in the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no increase in the Aggregate Revolving Commitments (or
in the Revolving Commitment of any Lender), shall become effective under this paragraph unless, (i)
on the proposed date of the effectiveness of such increase, the conditions set forth in paragraphs
(a), (b) and (c) of Section 4.02 shall be satisfied or waived by the Required Lenders and the US
Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate to that effect dated such date and executed
by a Responsible Officer of the Borrowers, (ii) the US Administrative Agent shall have received
documents consistent with those delivered on the Effective Date as to the corporate power and
authority of the Borrowers to borrow hereunder after giving effect to such increase and (iii) the
US Administrative Agent shall have received a written opinion addressed to the US Administrative
Agent and the Lenders and dated the effective date of such increase of counsel to the Loan Parties
in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the US Administrative Agent in its Permitted
Discretion. On the effective date of any increase in the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (i) each
relevant Increasing Lender and Augmenting Lender shall make available to the US Administrative
Agent such amounts in immediately available funds as the US Administrative Agent shall determine,
for the benefit of the other Lenders, as being required in order to cause, after giving effect to
such increase and the use of such amounts to make payments to such other Lenders, each Lender’s
Applicable Percentage of each Class of outstanding Loans is equivalent to such Lender’s Applicable
Percentage the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (ii) the Borrower shall be deemed to have repaid
and reborrowed all outstanding Revolving Loans as of the date of any increase in the Aggregate
Revolving Commitments (with such reborrowing to consist of the Types of Revolving Loans, with
related Interest Periods if applicable, specified in a notice delivered by the Borrowers in
accordance with the requirements of Section 2.03). The deemed payments made pursuant to clause
(ii) of the immediately preceding sentence shall be accompanied by payment of all accrued interest
on the amount prepaid and, in respect of each Eurodollar Loan, shall be subject to indemnification
by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.16 if the deemed payment occurs other than
on the last day of the related Interest Periods.

ARTICLE III

Representations and Warranties

     Each Loan Party represents and warrants to the Lenders that:

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

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     SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability.

     (a) The Transactions to be entered into by each Loan Party are within each Loan Party’s
organizational powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary organizational actions and, if
required, actions by equity holders. The Loan Documents to which each Loan Party is a party have
been duly executed and delivered by such Loan Party and constitute a legal, valid and binding
obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law.

     (b) The choice of governing law provisions contained in this Agreement and each other Loan
Document to which any Loan Party is a party are enforceable in the jurisdictions where such Loan
Party is organized or incorporated or any Collateral of such Loan Party is located. Any judgment
obtained in connection with any Loan Document in the jurisdiction of the governing law of such Loan
Document will be recognized and be enforceable in the jurisdictions where such Loan Party is
organized or any Collateral is located.

     (c) The Loan Documents to which each Foreign Loan Party is a party are in proper legal form
under the laws of the jurisdiction in which each such Foreign Loan Party is organized or
incorporated and existing (i) for the enforcement thereof against each such Foreign Loan Party
under the laws of each such jurisdiction and (ii) in order to ensure the legality, validity,
enforceability, priority or admissibility in evidence of such Loan Documents. It is not necessary
to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability, priority or admissibility in evidence of the Loan
Documents to which any Foreign Loan Party is a party that any such Loan Documents be filed,
registered or recorded with, or executed or notarized before, any court or other authority in the
jurisdiction in which any such Foreign Loan Party is organized or that any registration charge or
stamp or similar tax be paid on or in respect of the applicable Loan Documents or any other
document, except (i) for any such filing, registration, recording, execution or notarization that
is referred to in Section 3.16 or is not required to be made until enforcement of the applicable
Loan Document or (ii) to the extent the foregoing have been made or paid.

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

     SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change.

     (a) The Company has heretofore furnished to the Administrative Agents and the Lenders the
consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006, December
31, 2007 and December 31, 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations,
stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss) and cash flows for each of the years then
ended, reported on by KPMG LLP. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material
respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP.

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     (b) No event, change or condition has occurred that has had, or could reasonably be expected
to have, a Material Adverse Effect, since December 31, 2008.

     SECTION 3.05. Properties.

     (a) As of the date of this Agreement, Schedule 3.05 sets forth the address of each
parcel of real property that is owned or leased by each Loan Party. Each of the Loan Parties and
its Subsidiaries has good and indefeasible (or in the Province of Ontario, Canada, marketable and
insurable) title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property (except as
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect), free of all Liens other than
those permitted by Section 6.02.

     (b) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Loan
Party and its Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights,
patents and other intellectual property necessary to its business as currently conducted. A
correct and complete list of applications and registrations for trademarks, copyrights and patents
owned by each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries, as of the date of this Agreement, is set forth on
Schedule 3.05, and the use thereof by the Loan Parties and its Subsidiaries does not
infringe in any material respect upon the rights of any other Person.

     SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters.

     (a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental
Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened against or affecting
the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries (i) that could reasonably be expected, individually
or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters) or
(ii) that involve this Agreement or the Transactions.

     (b) Except for the Disclosed Matters (i) no Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries has
received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or knows of any basis for
any Environmental Liability that in any such case could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect and (ii) and except with respect to any other matters that, individually or
in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, no Loan
Party nor any of its Subsidiaries (1) has failed to comply with any applicable Environmental Law or
to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any
applicable Environmental Law or (2) has become subject to any Environmental Liability.

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

     SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements. Each Loan Party and its
Subsidiaries is in compliance with all Requirements of Law applicable to it or its property and all
indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except where the
failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing.

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

     SECTION 3.09. Taxes. Each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused
to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be
paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except (i) Taxes that are being contested in good
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and for which such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books
adequate reserves and (ii) to the extent the failure to file any such return or pay any such Taxes
could not reasonably be expected to result in liabilities or obligations in excess of $1,000,000 in
the aggregate. Except as permitted under Section 6.02, no tax liens have been filed and no claims
are being asserted with respect to any such taxes. Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary of the Loan
Parties has withheld all employee withholdings and has made all employer contributions to be
withheld and made by such Loan Party and such Subsidiary pursuant to applicable law on account of
the Canada Pension Plan and/ or the Quebec Pension Plan, employment insurance and employee income
taxes.

     SECTION 3.10. ERISA; Benefit Plans.

     (a) Except as could not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in
a Material Adverse Effect: (i) no ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (ii)
each Loan Party and each of its ERISA Affiliates is in compliance with the applicable provisions of
ERISA and the Code relating to the Plans, and with all regulations and published interpretations
thereunder; (iii) all amounts required by applicable law with respect to, or by the terms of, any
retiree welfare benefit arrangement maintained by any Loan Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates or
to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate has an obligation to contribute have been accrued in
accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 106; and (iv) the present value of
all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent
financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed the fair market value of the assets of such
Plan allocable to such accrued benefits.

     (b) Except as could not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, a
Material Adverse Effect: (i) there are no outstanding disputes concerning the assets held in any
Canadian Pension Plans or Canadian Benefit Plans pursuant to any funding agreement; (ii) all
employee contributions to any Canadian Pension Plans or Canadian Benefit Plans required to be made
by way of authorized payroll deduction have been properly withheld and fully paid into such plans
in a timely fashion; (iii) all reports and disclosures relating to any Canadian Pension Plans or
Canadian Benefit Plans required by any applicable laws or regulations have been filed or
distributed in a timely fashion; (iv) to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, there have been no
improper withdrawals, or applications of, the assets of any Canadian Pension Plans; (v) no amount
is owing by or in respect of any Canadian Pension Plans under the ITA or any provincial taxation
statute; (vi) no Canadian Pension Plan is a defined benefit pension plan that is registered with
the applicable governmental authorities for such plans; (vii) the Loan Parties, after diligent
enquiry, have neither any knowledge, nor any grounds for believing, that any of the Canadian
Pension Plans is the subject of an investigation, any other proceeding, an action or a claim;
(viii) no promises of benefit improvements under any Canadian Benefit Plan or Canadian Pension Plan
have been made; and (ix) no Canadian Benefit Plan provides benefits to retired employees or
promises benefits at and after retirement to active employees.

     SECTION 3.11. Disclosure. The Company has disclosed to the Lenders all agreements,
instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which the Company or any Subsidiary is subject,
and all other matters known to it, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Information Memorandum nor any of the
other reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of
the any Loan Party to any Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of
this Agreement or any other Loan Document (as modified or supplemented by other information so
furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Borrowers
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faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time delivered and, if such
projected financial information was delivered prior to the Effective Date, as of the Effective
Date.

     SECTION 3.12. Material Agreements. All material agreements and contracts to which any
Loan Party is a party or is bound as of the date of this Agreement are listed on Schedule
3.12. No Loan Party is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the
obligations, covenants or conditions contained in (i) any material agreement to which it is a party
or (ii) any agreement or instrument evidencing or governing any Indebtedness having a principal
amount in excess of $1,000,000.

     SECTION 3.13. Solvency.

     (a) Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions to occur on the Effective Date, (i)
the fair value of the assets of the Loan Parties, on a consolidated basis, at a fair valuation,
will exceed their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent (to the extent constituting
identified contingent liabilities) or otherwise; (ii) the present fair saleable value of the
property of the US Loan Parties, on a consolidated basis, will be greater than the amount that will
be required to pay the probable liability of their debts and other liabilities, subordinated,
contingent (to the extent constituting identified contingent liabilities) or otherwise, as such
debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured; (iii) the Loan Parties, on a consolidated
basis, will be able to pay their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as
such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured; and (iv) the Loan Parties, on a
consolidated basis, will not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in
which they are engaged as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted after the
Effective Date.

     (b) The Loan Parties, on a consolidated basis, do not intend to incur debts beyond their
ability to pay such debts as they mature, taking into account the timing of and amounts of cash to
be received by the Loan Parties and the timing of the amounts of cash to be payable on or in
respect of Indebtedness of the Loan Parties.

     SECTION 3.14. Insurance. Schedule 3.14 sets forth a description of all
insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and the Subsidiaries as of the Effective
Date. As of the Effective Date, all premiums in respect of such insurance have been paid. The
Loan Parties believe that the insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and their
Subsidiaries is adequate.

     SECTION 3.15. Capitalization and Subsidiaries. As of the Effective Date, Schedule
3.15 sets forth (a) a correct and complete list of the name and relationship to the Company of
each of the Company’s Subsidiaries, (b) a true and complete listing of each class of each of the
Loan Parties’ authorized Equity Interests, of which all of such issued shares are validly issued,
outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable, and, in the case of each of the Loan Parties other than
the Company, owned beneficially and of record by the Persons identified on Schedule 3.15,
and (c) the type of entity of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries. All of the issued and
outstanding Equity Interests owned by any Loan Party in any Subsidiary (other than any Subsidiary
that is a shell entity or other entity that does not own any material assets) has been (to the
extent such concepts are relevant with respect to such ownership interests) duly authorized and
issued and is fully paid and non-assessable.

     SECTION 3.16. Security Interest in Collateral. The provisions of this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents create legal and valid Liens on all the Collateral in favor of the
applicable Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Banks, and upon filing of UCC
financing statements and the taking of any other actions or making of filings required for
perfection under the laws of the relevant Collateral Documents and specified in such Collateral
Documents, as necessary (including but not limited to the filing of financing statements under the
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or making of filings with respect to Intellectual Property registrations or applications
issued or pending as specified, and, in the case of real property, filing of the Mortgages as
necessary, and, if applicable, taking control or possession by the applicable Administrative Agent
of the relevant Collateral, such Liens constitute perfected and continuing Liens on the Collateral,
securing the applicable Secured Obligations, enforceable against the applicable Loan Party and all
third parties (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless
of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), and having priority over all other
Liens on the Collateral, except in the case of Permitted Liens, to the extent any such Permitted
Liens would have priority over the Liens in favor of the applicable Administrative Agent, pursuant
to any applicable law.

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

     SECTION 3.18. Common Enterprise. The successful operation and condition of each of
the Loan Parties is dependent on the continued successful performance of the functions of the group
of the Loan Parties as a whole and the successful operation of each of the Loan Parties is
dependent on the successful performance and operation of the Loan Parties. Each Loan Party expects
to derive benefit (and its board of directors or other governing body has determined that it may
reasonably be expected to derive benefit), directly and indirectly, from (i) successful operations
of the Loan Parties and (ii) the credit extended by the Lenders to the Borrowers hereunder, both in
their separate capacities and as members of the group of companies. Each Loan Party has determined
that execution, delivery, and performance of this Agreement and any other Loan Documents to be
executed by such Loan Party is within its purpose, will be of direct and indirect benefit to such
Loan Party, and is in its best interest.

     SECTION 3.19. Canadian Anti Money Laundering Legislation. Neither the Canadian
Borrower nor any other Canadian Group Member is a charity registered with the Canada Revenue Agency
and it does not solicit charitable financial donations from the public and none of the Borrowings
under this Agreement and none of the other services and products, if any, to be provided by any of
the Lenders or the Administrative Agents under or in connection with this Agreement will be used
by, on behalf of or for the benefit, of any Person other than the Borrowers or any other Loan
Party.

ARTICLE IV

Conditions

     SECTION 4.01. Effective Date. The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the
Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective until the date on
which each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02):

     (a) Credit Agreement and Loan Documents. The Administrative Agents (or their counsel)
shall have received (i) from each party hereto either (A) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on
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of such party or (B) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agents (which may
include facsimile or .pdf transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that such
party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement and (ii) duly executed copies of the Loan
Documents and such other certificates, documents, instruments and agreements as the Administrative
Agents shall reasonably request in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents, including any promissory notes requested by a Lender pursuant to
Section 2.10 payable to the order of each such requesting Lenders.

     (b) Financial Statements and Projections. The Lenders shall have received (i) audited
consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries for their 2006, 2007 and 2008
fiscal years, (ii) unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of the Company and its
Subsidiaries for each fiscal quarter ended after the date of the latest applicable financial
statements delivered pursuant to clause (i) of this paragraph as to which such financial statements
are available, (iii) quarterly projections for each fiscal quarter ending during the period from
January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009, and (iv) annual projections for fiscal years 2010 and
2011.

     (c) Closing Certificates; Certified Certificate of Incorporation; Good Standing
Certificates. The Administrative Agents shall have received (i) a certificate of each Loan
Party, dated the Effective Date and executed by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary, which shall
(A) certify the resolutions of its Board of Directors, members or other body authorizing the
execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (B) identify by
name and title and bear the signatures of the Financial Officers and any other officers of such
Loan Party authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (C) contain
appropriate attachments, including the certificate or articles of incorporation or organization of
each Loan Party certified by the relevant authority of the jurisdiction of organization of such
Loan Party, and a true and correct copy of its by-laws, memorandum and articles of association or
operating, management or partnership agreement, and (ii) a long form certificate of good standing,
status or compliance for each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization.

     (d) No Default Certificate. The Administrative Agents shall have received a
certificate, signed by the chief financial officer of the Company and the Canadian Borrower, on the
initial Borrowing date stating that (i) no Default has occurred and is continuing and (ii) the
representations and warranties contained in Article III are true and correct as of such date.

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

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

     (g) Funding Accounts. The Administrative Agents shall have received a notice setting
forth the deposit account(s) of the Borrowers (the “Funding Accounts”) to which the Lenders
are authorized by the Borrowers to transfer the proceeds of any Borrowings requested or authorized
pursuant to this Agreement.

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     (h) Collateral Access and Control Agreements. The Administrative Agents shall have
received each (i) Collateral Access Agreement required to be provided pursuant to Section 4.13 of
the Security Agreement and (ii) Control Agreements required to be provided pursuant to Section 5.12
of this Agreement.

     (i) Solvency. The Administrative Agents shall have received a solvency certificate
from a Financial Officer of the Company.

     (j) Borrowing Base Certificates. The Administrative Agents shall have received (i) an
Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate that calculates the Aggregate Borrowing Base as of February
28, 2009, (ii) a US Borrowing Base Certificate that calculates the US Borrowing Base as of February
28, 2009, and (iii) a Canadian Borrowing Base Certificate that calculates the Canadian Borrowing
Base as of February 28, 2009.

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

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

     (m) Environmental Reports. The US Administrative Agent shall have received
environmental review reports with respect to each of the Mortgaged Properties from firm(s)
reasonably satisfactory to the US Administrative Agent, which review reports shall be reasonably
acceptable to the US Administrative Agent.

     (n) Mortgages, etc. The US Administrative Agent shall have received, with respect to
each Mortgaged Property, each of the following, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the US Administrative Agent:

	 	(i)	 	a Mortgage on such property;
	 
	 	(ii)	 	a live ALTA or other mortgagee’s title policy;
	 
	 	(iii)	 	a survey, site plan or plat acceptable to Stewart Title
Guaranty Company (or such other title company retained by the Loan parties as
shall be reasonably acceptable to the US Administrative Agent) for purposes of
providing the title policy and endorsements reasonably required by the US
Administrative Agent;
	 
	 	(iv)	 	an opinion of counsel in the state in which such parcel of real
property is located in form and substance and from counsel reasonably
satisfactory to the US Administrative Agent; and

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	 	(v)	 	such other information, documentation, and certifications as
may be reasonably required by the US Administrative Agent.

     (o) Insurance. The Administrative Agents shall have received evidence of insurance
coverage in form, scope, and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agents and
otherwise in compliance with the terms of Section 5.09 and Section 4.12 of the US Security
Agreement and the applicable provisions of the Canadian Security Agreement.

     (p) Letter of Credit Application. The US Administrative Agent shall have received a
properly completed letter of credit application if the issuance of a Letter of Credit will be
required on the Effective Date.

     (q) Legal Opinions. The Administrative Agents shall have received customary legal
opinions from counsel for the Loan Parties.

     (r) Appraisals and Field Exams. The US Administrative Agent shall have received
appraisals of the Mortgaged Property and Equipment from appraisers reasonably satisfactory to the
US Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agents shall have completed their field examinations
of the Borrowers books, records, Accounts, Inventory and other Collateral.

     (s) Patriot Act. Each Lender shall have received all information necessary to enable
such Lender to identify each Borrower and each other Loan Party to the extent required for
compliance with the Patriot Act or other “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and
regulations..

     (t) Other Documents. The Administrative Agents shall have received such other
documents as the Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank, any Lender or their respective counsel
may have reasonably requested, including without limitation, information and documents required by
Section 9.20 of this Agreement.

The US Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and
such notice shall be conclusive and binding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of the
Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become
effective unless each of the foregoing conditions is satisfied (or waived pursuant to Section 9.02)
at or prior to 2:00 p.m., New York time, on March 31, 2009 (and, in the event such conditions are
not so satisfied or waived, the Commitments shall terminate at such time).

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

     (a) The representations and warranties of the Loan Parties set forth in this Agreement shall
be true and correct in all material respects (provided that if any representation or warranty is by
its terms qualified by concepts of materiality, such representation or warranty shall be true and
correct in all respects) on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, renewal,
extension or increase in amount of such Letter of Credit, as applicable (except that
representations or warranties that are made as of a specific earlier date shall be true and correct
in all material respects as of such earlier date).

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

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     (c) After giving effect to any Borrowing or the issuance, renewal, extension or increase in
amount of any Letter of Credit, the Borrowers shall be in compliance with the Revolving Exposure
Limitations.

Each Borrowing and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall be
deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrowers on the date thereof as to the
matters specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section.

ARTICLE V

Affirmative Covenants

     Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on
each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit
shall have expired or terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each Loan
Party executing this Agreement covenants and agrees, jointly and severally with all of the Loan
Parties, with the Lenders that:

     SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements; Borrowing Base and Other Information. The
Borrowers will furnish to the Administrative Agents:

     (a) As soon as available, but in any event, within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year
of the Company, (i) the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries and
related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such
year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all
reported on by KPMG LLP or another registered public accounting firm of recognized national
standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any material
qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated
financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of
operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP consistently applied, accompanied by any required accountants’ communications to the
Company’s Audit Committee related to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses prepared by
said accountants, and (ii) the unaudited consolidating balance sheets of the US Loan Parties, the
Canadian Group Members and the other Foreign Subsidiaries and related consolidating statements of
operations as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the
figures for the previous fiscal year, all certified by a Financial Officer of the Company as
presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the
US Loan Parties, the Canadian Group Members or the other Foreign Subsidiaries, as the case may be,
on a consolidating basis;

     (b) As soon as available, but in any event, within 45 days after the end of each of the first
three fiscal quarters of the Company, (i) the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company
and its Subsidiaries and related statements of operations as of the end of and for such fiscal
quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative
form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet,
as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of the Financial Officers of the
Company as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of
operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of
footnotes, and (ii) the unaudited consolidating balance sheets of the US Loan Parties, the Canadian
Group Members and the other Foreign Subsidiaries and related statements of operations as of the end
of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in
each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or

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periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year,
all certified by a Financial Officer of the Company as presenting fairly in all material respects
the financial condition and results of operations of the US Loan Parties, the Canadian Group
Members or the other Foreign Subsidiaries, as the case may be, on a consolidating basis;

     (c) during any Reporting Frequency Increase Period, within 30 days after the end of each
fiscal month of the Company, the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
Subsidiaries and related statements of operations as of the end of and for such fiscal month and
the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the
figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the
end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of the Financial Officers of the Company as
presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the
Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;

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

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

     (f) as soon as available, but in any event on or prior to the date that is 30 days after the
last day of each fiscal year of the Company, a copy of the plan and forecast (including a projected
consolidated and consolidating balance sheet, income statement and funds flow statement) of the
Company for each month of the upcoming fiscal year (the “Projections”) in form reasonably
satisfactory to the US Administrative Agent;

     (g) as soon as available but in any event within 20 days of the end of each calendar month,
(or, during any Reporting Frequency Increase Period, within 3 Business Days of the end of each
week) and at such other times as may be requested by the Administrative Agents, as of the period
then ended, an Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate, a US Borrowing Base Certificate and a Canadian
Borrowing Base Certificate, each calculated as of the last day of the calendar month (or, during
any Reporting Frequency Increase Period, as of the end of each week) most recently ended, and
supporting information in connection therewith, together with any additional reports with respect
to the Aggregate Borrowing Base, US Borrowing Base and Canadian Borrowing Base as the
Administrative Agents may reasonably request;

     (h) as soon as available but in any event within 20 days of the end of each calendar month
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week) and at such other times as may be requested by the US Administrative Agent, as of the
period then ended, all delivered electronically in a text formatted file acceptable to the US
Administrative Agent:

	 	(i)	 	a detailed aging of the Loan Parties’ Billed Accounts and
Unbilled Accounts (1) including all invoices aged by invoice date and due date
(with an explanation of the terms offered) and (2) reconciled to the Aggregate
Borrowing Base Certificate, the US Borrowing Base Certificate and the Canadian
Borrowing Base Certificate, delivered as of such date prepared in a manner
reasonably acceptable to the US Administrative Agent, together with a summary
specifying the name, address, and balance due for each Account Debtor;
	 
	 	(ii)	 	a schedule detailing the Loan Parties’ Eligible Inventory and
Eligible WIP, in form satisfactory to the US Administrative Agent, (1) by
location, by product type, and by volume on hand, which Eligible Inventory and
Eligible WIP shall, in each case, be valued at the lower of cost (determined on
a first-in, first-out basis) or market and adjusted for Reserves as the
Administrative Agents have previously indicated to the Borrower Representative
are deemed by the Administrative Agents to be appropriate, (2) including a
report of any variances or other results of Paper Inventory counts performed by
the Borrowers since the last Paper Inventory schedule, and (3) reconciled to
the Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate, US Borrowing Base Certificate and
Canadian Borrowing Base Certificate delivered as of such date;
	 
	 	(iii)	 	worksheet of calculations prepared by the Borrowers to
determine Eligible Billed Accounts, Eligible Unbilled Accounts and Eligible
Inventory, such worksheets detailing the Billed Accounts, Unbilled Accounts,
Paper Inventory and WIP excluded from Eligible Billed Accounts, Eligible
Unbilled Accounts, Eligible Inventory and Eligible WIP and the reason for such
exclusion;
	 
	 	(iv)	 	a reconciliation of the Loan Parties’ Billed Accounts, Unbilled
Accounts, Paper Inventory and WIP between the amounts shown in the Loan
Parties’ general ledger and financial statements and the reports delivered
pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above; and
	 
	 	(v)	 	a reconciliation of the loan balance per the Borrowers’ general
ledger to the loan balance under this Agreement;

     (i) as soon as available but in any event within 20 days of the end of each calendar month and
at such other times as may be requested by the US Administrative Agent, as of the month then ended,
a schedule and aging of the Borrowers’ accounts payable, delivered electronically in a text
formatted file acceptable to the US Administrative Agent;

     (j) as soon as available but in any event within 20 days of March 31 and September 30 of each
year, as of the quarter then ended, and at such other times as may be requested by the US
Administrative Agent, a list of all customer addresses, delivered electronically in a text
formatted file acceptable to the US Administrative Agent;

     (k) promptly upon any Administrative Agent’s request:

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	 	(i)	 	copies of invoices in connection with the invoices issued by
the Borrowers in connection with any Accounts, credit memos, shipping and
delivery documents, and other information related thereto;
	 
	 	(ii)	 	copies of purchase orders, invoices, and shipping and delivery
documents in connection with any Paper Inventory or Equipment purchased by any
Loan Party;
	 
	 	(iii)	 	a schedule detailing the balance of all intercompany accounts
of the Loan Parties;
	 
	 	(iv)	 	the Borrowers’ sales journal, cash receipts journal
(identifying trade and non-trade cash receipts) and debit memo/credit memo
journal; and
	 
	 	(v)	 	a detailed listing of all advances of proceeds of Loans
requested by the Borrower Representative for each Borrower during the calendar
month immediately preceding such request and a detailed listing of all
intercompany loans made by the Borrowers during such calendar month;

     (l) within 20 days of March 31 of each year, a certificate of good standing, status or
compliance, as applicable, for each Loan Party from the appropriate governmental officer in its
jurisdiction of incorporation, formation, or organization;

     (m) promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other
reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by the Company or any Subsidiary with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any or all of the
functions of said Commission, or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by the
Company to its shareholders generally, as the case may be (provided that delivery shall not
be required with respect to documents, or links to documents, posted on the Company’s website); and

     (n) promptly following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations,
business affairs and financial condition of the Company or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the
terms of this Agreement, as the Administrative Agents or any Lender (through the US Administrative
Agent) may reasonably request.

     SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. The Borrowers will furnish to the
Administrative Agents prompt written notice of the following:

     (a) the occurrence of any Default;

     (b) receipt of any notice of any governmental investigation or any litigation or proceeding
commenced or threatened in writing against the Company or any other Loan Party that owns Collateral
having an aggregate value in excess of $2,500,000 that (i) seeks damages in excess of $7,500,000,
(ii) seeks injunctive relief, (iii) alleges criminal misconduct by the Company or any other Loan
Party that owns Collateral having an aggregate value in excess of $2,500,000, (iv) alleges the
violation of any law regarding, or seeks remedies in connection with, any Environmental Laws which,
in any case, could reasonably be expected to result in liabilities or obligations of the Loan
Parties in excess of $2,500,000, or (v) contests any tax, fee, assessment, or other governmental
charge in excess of $7,500,000;

     (c) any Lien (other than Permitted Encumbrances) or claim made or asserted against any
Collateral having an aggregate value in excess of $2,500,000;

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     (d) any loss, damage, or destruction to the Collateral in the amount of $2,500,000 or more,
whether or not covered by insurance;

     (e) any and all default notices received under or with respect to any material leased location
or public warehouse where Collateral having an aggregate value in excess of $2,500,000 is located;

     (f) all material amendments to the Convertible Notes, together with a copy of each such
amendment;

     (g) the fact that a Loan Party has entered into a Swap Agreement or an amendment to a Swap
Agreement, together with copies of all agreements evidencing such Swap Agreement or amendments to
any Swap Agreement that extend the term thereof or materially increase the Loan Parties’ exposure
thereunder;

     (h) (i) the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events
that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $7,500,000 or (ii) any litigation or proceeding is
asserted or instituted against any Plan, its fiduciaries or its assets seeking damages in excess of
$7,500,000;

     (i) the receipt by any Canadian Group Member of any notice or directive or order from any
Canadian federal or provincial governmental or regulatory authority having jurisdiction over any
Canadian Pension Plan regarding a Canadian Pension Plan shortfall, deficiency, insolvency or other
matter, together with a copy of any such notice, directive or order (including, without limitation,
any Form 7 (summary of contributions/revised summary of contributions) received by any Canadian
Group Member in connection with the Pension Benefits Act (Ontario));

     (j) the release into the environment of any Hazardous Material that is required by any
applicable Environmental Law to be reported to a Governmental Authority or which could reasonably
be expected to lead to any material Environmental Liability which, in any case, could reasonably be
expected to result in liabilities or obligations of the Loan Parties in excess of $2,500,000; and

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

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

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

     SECTION 5.04. Payment of Taxes. Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary
to, pay or discharge all Taxes, before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where
(a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b)
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Party or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in
accordance with GAAP and (c) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably
be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Canadian Loan Parties shall pay, or cause
to be paid, when due all payroll taxes, vacation pay amounts, employer health taxes, Canada Pension
Plan contributions, Quebec Pension Plan contributions, unemployment insurance payments, workers’
compensation premiums and all other amounts (together with any installments thereon and any
interest, fines and penalties with respect thereto) which, in each case, if not paid could
reasonably be expected to have priority over the Administrative Agents’ first secured priority
position (subject to Permitted Encumbrances) over the portion of the Collateral owned by the
Canadian Loan Parties.

     SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties. Except as could not reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, keep
and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and
condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.

     SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights. Each Loan Party will, and will
cause each Subsidiary to, (i) keep proper books of record and account in which entries that are
full, true and correct in all material respects are made of all dealings and transactions in
relation to its business and activities and (ii) permit any representatives designated by any
Administrative Agent or any Lender (including employees of the Administrative Agents, any Lender or
any consultants, accountants, lawyers and appraisers retained by the Administrative Agents), upon
reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its
books and records, including environmental assessment reports and Phase I or Phase II studies (with
respect to such environmental reports and studies, subject to any limitations of any lease,
sublease or other agreement with, or other obligations to, any third party by which any Loan Party
is bound with respect to the property at issue; and, with respect to any Phase II study, subject to
execution of a customary access agreement reasonably acceptable to the US Administrative Agent and
the relevant Loan Party), and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and
independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested. The
Loan Parties acknowledge that the Administrative Agents, after exercising their rights of
inspection, may prepare and distribute to the Lenders certain Reports pertaining to the Loan
Parties’ assets for internal use by the Administrative Agents and the Lenders.

     SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party will, and will cause each
Subsidiary to, comply with all Requirements of Law applicable to it or its property, except where
the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect.

     SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Loans will be used only for
working capital needs and general corporate purposes, including refinancing certain existing
Indebtedness. No part of the proceeds of any Loan and no Letter of Credit will be used, whether
directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the
Board, including Regulations T, U and X.

     SECTION 5.09. Insurance. Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to,
maintain with financially sound and reputable carriers having a financial strength rating
reasonably acceptable to the US Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion (a) insurance in
such amounts (with no greater risk retention) and against such risks (including loss or damage by
fire and loss in transit; theft, burglary, pilferage, larceny, embezzlement, and other criminal
activities; business interruption; and general liability) and such other hazards, as is customarily
maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating
in the same or similar locations and (b) all insurance required pursuant to the Collateral
Documents. The Borrowers will furnish to the Lenders, upon request of any Administrative Agent,
information in reasonable detail as to the insurance so maintained.

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     SECTION 5.10. Casualty and Condemnation. The Borrowers (a) will furnish to the
Administrative Agents and the Lenders prompt written notice of any casualty or other insured damage
to any Collateral having an aggregate value in excess of $2,500,000 or the commencement of any
action or proceeding for the taking of any Collateral having an aggregate value in excess of
$2,500,000 or interest therein under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar
proceeding and (b) will ensure that the Net Proceeds of any such event (whether in the form of
insurance proceeds, condemnation awards or otherwise) are collected and applied in accordance with
the applicable provisions of this Agreement and the Collateral Documents.

     SECTION 5.11. Appraisals; Field Examinations.

     (a) In the event any Administrative Agent so requests in its Permitted Discretion, the Loan
Parties will provide such Administrative Agent with appraisals or updates thereof of their
Equipment or real property, as applicable, not more frequently than once during each period of
twelve consecutive months, such appraisals and updates to be from an appraiser selected and engaged
by such Administrative Agent, and prepared on a basis satisfactory to such Administrative Agent,
and to include, without limitation, information required by applicable law and regulations.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be no limitation on the number of Equipment or real
property appraisals if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. For purposes of
this Section 5.11(a), it is understood and agreed that a single Equipment or real estate appraisal
may consist of examinations conducted at multiple relevant sites, both domestic and international,
and involve one or more relevant Loan Parties and their assets. All such Collateral appraisals
shall be at the sole expense of the Loan Parties.

     (b) At the request of any Administrative Agent, the Loan Parties will permit, upon reasonable
notice, such Administrative Agent to conduct field examinations during normal business hours to
ensure the adequacy of Collateral included in any Borrowing Base and related reporting and control
systems. Two such field examinations per calendar year shall be at the sole expense of the Loan
Parties; provided that there shall be no limitation on the number or frequency of field
examinations at the sole expense of the Loan Parties (a) during any Reporting Frequency Increase
Period or (b) if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and this Section
5.11(b) shall not be construed to limit any Administrative Agent’s right to conduct filed
examinations with greater frequencies at any time in such Administrative Agent’s Permitted
Discretion at the expense of the Lenders. For purposes of this Section 5.11(b), it is understood
and agreed that a single field examination may be conducted at multiple relevant sites, both
domestic and international, and involve one or more relevant Loan Parties and their assets.

     SECTION 5.12. Depository Banks; Control Agreements.

     (a) The US Loan Parties will at all times maintain the US Cash Management Bank as their
principal depository bank, including for the maintenance of operating, administrative, cash
management, collection activity, and other Deposit Accounts for the conduct of their business. The
Canadian Loan Parties will at all times maintain the Canadian Cash Management Bank as their
principal depository bank, including for the maintenance of operating, administrative, cash
management, collection activity, and other Deposit Accounts for the conduct of its business.

     (b) On or before the Effective Date (i) the US Loan Parties will cause the US Cash Management
Bank to enter into a Control Agreement with respect to all Deposit Accounts and Securities Account
(other than Excluded Accounts) maintained by the US Loan Parties with the US Cash Management Bank
as of the Effective Date, and (ii) the Canadian Loan Parties will cause the Canadian Cash
Management Bank to enter into a Control Agreement with respect to all Deposit Accounts and
Securities Account (other than Excluded Accounts) maintained with the Canadian Loan Parties at the
Canadian Cash Management Bank as of the Effective Date. As soon as practicable but in any event
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later than May 15, 2009, the Loan Parties will cause each other depository bank or other
institution at which any Deposit Account or Securities Account (other than Excluded Accounts) is
maintained as of the Effective Date to enter into a Control Agreement with respect to such Deposit
Account or Securities Account; provided that, in the event the Loan Parties are not able to obtain
a Control Agreement with respect to any such Deposit Account or Securities Account (other than
Excluded Accounts) as of May 15, 2009, then, unless waived by the Administrative Agents, not later
than June 15, 2009, the Loan Parties shall close each such Deposit Account or Securities Account
(other than an Excluded Account) for which a Control Agreement was not obtained, and shall transfer
all cash or securities (or proceeds thereof) maintained in such accounts to new Deposit Accounts or
Securities Accounts maintained with a depository bank, securities broker, securities intermediary
or other financial institution that is a party to a Control Agreement.

     (c) The Loan Parties will (i) provide prompt written notice to the Administrative Agents of
the establishment of any Deposit Account or Securities Account after the Effective Date and (ii)
contemporaneous with the establishment of such Deposit Account or Securities Account (other than an
Excluded Account), obtain a Control Agreement with respect to such Deposit Account or Securities
Account. The US Loan Parties will not change the US Cash Management Bank without the prior written
consent of the US Administrative Agent. The Canadian Loan Parties will not change the Canadian
Cash Management Bank without the prior written consent of the Canadian Administrative Agent.

     (d) At all times during the continuance of a Full Cash Dominion Period (i) the US Cash
Management Bank shall be required to remit to the US Collection Account on a daily basis (A) all
available funds on deposit in any Deposit Account (other than an Excluded Account) maintained by
the US Loan Parties with the US Cash Management Bank and (B) all cash, checks, electronic funds
transfers and other similar payments relating to or constituting payments made in respect of
Accounts of the US Loan Parties received by the US Cash Management Bank, including any such items
remitted to any Lock Box maintained or controlled by the US Cash Management Bank, and (ii) the
Canadian Cash Management Bank shall be required to remit to the Canadian Collection Account on a
daily basis (A) all available funds on deposit in any Deposit Account (other than an Excluded
Account) maintained by the Canadian Loan Parties with the Canadian Cash Management Bank and (B) all
cash, checks, electronic funds transfers and other similar payments relating to or constituting
payments made in respect of Accounts of the Canadian Loan Parties received by the Canadian Cash
Management Bank, including any such items remitted to any Lock Box maintained or controlled by the
Canadian Cash Management Bank.

     (e) If, at any time at any time during the Temporary Overadvance Period, the Administrative
Agents, in their Permitted Discretion, so request (i) the US Loan Parties will cause the US Cash
Management Bank to promptly remit to the US Collection Account all available funds on deposit in
any Deposit Account (other than an Excluded Account) maintained by the US Loan Parties with the US
Cash Management Bank and (ii) the Canadian Loan Parties will cause the Canadian Cash Management
Bank to promptly remit to the Canadian Collection Account all available funds on deposit in any
Deposit Account (other than an Excluded Account) maintained by the Canadian Loan Parties with the
Canadian Cash Management Bank.

     SECTION 5.13. Additional Collateral; Further Assurances.

     (a) Subject to applicable law, the Company shall cause each Significant Domestic Subsidiary
and each Significant Canadian Subsidiary formed or acquired after the date of this Agreement in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement to become a Loan Party by executing the Joinder
Agreement set forth as Exhibit D hereto (the “Joinder Agreement”). Upon execution
and delivery thereof, each such Person (i) shall automatically become a Loan Guarantor or, at the
option of the Company and subject to the consent of the US Administrative Agent in its Permitted
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(subject to the terms of this Section 5.13(a)) thereupon shall have all of the rights,
benefits, duties, and obligations in such capacity under the Loan Documents and (ii) will grant
Liens to the Administrative Agents, for the benefit of the Administrative Agents and the Lenders,
in any property of such Loan Party which constitutes Collateral. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
(x) no Accounts, Inventory or WIP of any Significant Domestic Subsidiary or Significant Canadian
Subsidiary that becomes a Borrower hereunder after the Effective Date shall be eligible for
inclusion in the US Borrowing Base, the Canadian Borrowing Base or the Aggregate Borrowing Base
unless the Administrative Agents shall have conducted such audits, field examinations and
appraisals as the Administrative Agents shall elect in their Permitted Discretion, and (y) any
Canadian Subsidiary that is required to become a Loan Party shall only be liable for, and any Liens
granted by such Canadian Subsidiary in any Collateral owned by such Canadian Subsidiary shall only
secure, the Canadian Secured Obligations.

     (b) The Company will cause (i) 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each of
its direct and indirect Significant Domestic Subsidiaries to be subject at all times to a first
priority, perfected Lien in favor of the US Administrative Agent as security for the Secured
Obligations pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Loan Documents or other security documents
as the US Administrative Agent shall reasonably request, (ii) 100% of the issued and outstanding
Equity Interests of the Canadian Borrower and of each other Significant Canadian Subsidiary to be
subject at all times to a first priority perfected Lien in favor of the Canadian Administrative
Agent as security for the Canadian Secured Obligations pursuant to the terms and conditions of the
Loan Documents or other security documents as the Canadian Administrative Agent shall reasonably
request, and (iii) 65% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests entitled to vote (within the
meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) and 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity
Interests not entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.956-2(c)(2) in the
Canadian Borrower to be subject at all times to a second priority, perfected Lien in favor of the
US Administrative Agent as security for the Secured Obligations pursuant to the terms and
conditions of the Loan Documents or other security documents as the US Administrative Agent shall
reasonably request.

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

     (d) If any material assets (including any real property having a value individually in excess
of $2,500,000, but excluding leased real property) are acquired by any Loan Party after the
Effective Date (other than assets constituting Collateral under the Security Agreements that become
subject to the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agents upon acquisition thereof), the Borrower
Representative will notify the Administrative Agents and the Lenders thereof, and, if requested by
the Administrative Agents or the Required Lenders, the Borrowers will cause such assets to be
subjected to a Lien securing the Secured Obligations and will take, and cause the Subsidiary Loan
Parties to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative
Agents to grant and perfect such Liens, including actions described in paragraph (c) of this
Section, all at the expense of the Loan Parties.

     SECTION 5.14. Collateral Access Agreements. The Loan Parties shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to deliver to the applicable Administrative Agent any Collateral Access
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required pursuant to the Security Agreements, in each case, in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to the applicable Administrative Agent.

     SECTION 5.15. Post Closing Items. The Loan Parties shall take or cause to be taken
each action set forth on Schedule 5.15 and such action is to be completed within the time
period set forth on Schedule 5.15 for such action, it being understood that the applicable
Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, grant extensions to the time period set forth
thereon.

ARTICLE VI

Negative Covenants

     Until the Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each
Loan and all fees, expenses and other amounts payable under any Loan Document have been paid in
full and all Letters of Credit have expired or terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been
reimbursed, the Loan Parties covenant and agree, jointly and severally, with the Lenders that:

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

     (a) the Secured Obligations;

     (b) Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.01 and
extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness in accordance with clause (f)
hereof;

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

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

     (e) Indebtedness of any Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition,
construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets (whether or not constituting purchase
money Indebtedness), including Capital Lease Obligations and any Indebtedness assumed in connection
with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets prior to the
acquisition thereof, and extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness in
accordance with clause (f) hereof; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is incurred prior to
or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and
(ii) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (e) shall not exceed
$20,000,000 at any time outstanding;

     (f) Indebtedness which represents an extension, refinancing, or renewal of any of the
Indebtedness described in clauses (b), and (e) hereof; provided that, (i)
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value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if
applicable) of the Indebtedness extended, refinanced, replaced or renewed, (ii) any Liens securing
such Indebtedness are not extended to any additional property of any Loan Party, (iii) no Loan
Party that is not originally obligated with respect to repayment of such Indebtedness is required
to become obligated with respect thereto, (iv) such extension, refinancing or renewal does not
result in a shortening of the average weighted maturity of the Indebtedness so extended, refinanced
or renewed, and (v) if the Indebtedness that is refinanced, renewed, or extended was subordinated
in right of payment to the Secured Obligations, then the terms and conditions of the refinancing,
renewal, or extension Indebtedness must include subordination terms and conditions that are at
least as favorable to the Administrative Agents and the Lenders as those that were applicable to
the refinanced, renewed, or extended Indebtedness;

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

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

     (i) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties; provided that the
aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this paragraph (i) shall not exceed
$20,000,000 at any time outstanding;

     (j) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the date hereof; provided that
(i) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and is not created in
contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary and (ii) the aggregate
principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this paragraph (j) shall not exceed $25,000,000 at
any time outstanding;

     (k) other Indebtedness not otherwise permitted by this Section 6.01; provided the aggregate
principal amount of all Indebtedness permitted by this paragraph (k) shall not exceed $50,000,000
at any time outstanding and not more than $10,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of such
Indebtedness shall be secured by Liens permitted under Section 6.02.

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

     (a) Liens created pursuant to any Loan Document;

     (b) Permitted Encumbrances;

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

     (d) Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by any Borrower or any
Subsidiary; provided that (i) such security interests secure Indebtedness permitted by
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Section 6.01, (ii) such security interests and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred
prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or
improvement, (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed 100% of the cost of acquiring,
constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets and (iv) such security interests shall not
apply to any other property or assets of such Borrower or Subsidiary or any other Borrower or
Subsidiary;

     (e) Liens arising out of sale and leaseback transactions permitted by Section 6.06;

     (f) Liens granted by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in favor of any Borrower or another
Loan Party in respect of Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary;

     (g) Sales of income or revenues pursuant to any sale of a business unit permitted by Section
6.05;

     (h) any Lien existing on any property or asset (other than Accounts and Inventory) prior to
the acquisition thereof by any Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on any property or asset
(other than Accounts and Inventory) of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the date hereof
prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Lien is not created in
contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary, as
the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of such Borrower or
Subsidiary or any other Borrower or Subsidiary and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those
obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a
Subsidiary, as the case may be and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not
increase the outstanding principal amount thereof except to the extent permitted by clause (f) of
Section 6.01;

     (i) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01(i), provided that such Lien shall
only cover the property of the applicable Foreign Subsidiary;

     (j) sales by any Foreign Subsidiary of receivables owing to such Foreign Subsidiary; and

     (k) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section 6.02 so long as (i) the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby does not exceed $10,000,000 at any
time and (ii) such Liens do not cover any Collateral other than any non-consensual Liens arising by
operation of law.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the Liens permitted pursuant to this Section 6.02 may at any
time attach to any Loan Party’s (i) Accounts, other than those permitted under clauses (a) or (e)
of the definition of Permitted Encumbrance and clause (a) above, (ii) Inventory other than those
permitted under clauses (a), (b) or (e) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrance and clause (a)
above or (iii) real property, other than those permitted under clauses (a), (b), (e) or (f) of the
definition of Permitted Encumbrance and clause (a) and (h) above. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agreement or any Collateral Document (including any provision for,
reference to, or acknowledgement of, any Lien or Permitted Lien), nothing herein and no approval by
any Administrative Agent or the Lenders of any Lien or Permitted Lien (whether such approval is
oral or in writing) shall be construed as or deemed to constitute a subordination by any
Administrative Agent or the Lenders of any security interest or other right, interest or Lien in or
to the Collateral or any part thereof in favor of any Lien or Permitted Lien or any holder of any
Lien or Permitted Lien.

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     (a) No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amalgamate with, merge
into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to amalgamate with, merge
into or consolidate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and
immediately after giving effect thereto no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
(i) with the consent of US Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion, any Subsidiary of a
Borrower may merge or amalgamate into a Borrower in a transaction in which such Borrower is the
surviving entity, (ii) any Subsidiary may merge or amalgamate into or with any Loan Party in a
transaction in which the surviving entity is a Loan Party, (iii) any Subsidiary may liquidate or
dissolve if (x) the Company determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the
best interests of the Company and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders and (y) in
connection with any such dissolution of a Loan Party, all the assets of such Loan Party are
transferred to another Loan Party, (iv) any non-Loan Party may merge into, amalgamate with or
consolidate with, another non-Loan Party; provided that any such merger, amalgamation or
consolidation involving a Person that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary immediately prior to such
merger, amalgamation or consolidation shall not be permitted unless also permitted by Section 6.04;
and (v) any acquisition or disposition permitted by Section 6.04 or 6.05 may be consummated.

     (b) No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any business
other than businesses of the type conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries on the Effective
Date and businesses reasonably related or incidental thereto.

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

     (a) Permitted Investments (subject, in the case of the Loan Parties, to the requirements set
forth in Section 5.12(b) regarding Control Agreements (other than (i) Permitted Investments
maintained in Excluded Accounts and (ii) Permitted Investments held by any Foreign Subsidiary other
than a Canadian Loan Party) or otherwise subject to a perfected security interest in favor of the
applicable Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, in each case, in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement) and Permitted Acquisitions; provided, that no Loan Party shall
consummate any Permitted Acquisition prior to the date on which the Term Loan Obligations shall
have been paid in full;

     (b) investments in existence on the date of this Agreement and described in Schedule
6.04;

     (c) investments by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in Equity Interests in their
respective Subsidiaries, provided that (A) such investments are made in the ordinary course
of business and consistent with past practices, (B) any such Equity Interests held by a Loan Party
shall be pledged pursuant to the applicable Security Agreement (subject to the limitations
applicable to common stock of a Foreign Subsidiary referred to in Section 5.13) and (C) the
aggregate amount of investments by Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together
with outstanding intercompany loans permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(d) and outstanding
Guarantees permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed $50,000,000 at any time
outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);

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     (d) loans or advances made by any Borrower to any Subsidiary and made by any Subsidiary to any
other Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (A) in the case of loans or advances
from Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, such loans and advances are made in
the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices and (B) the amount of such loans
and advances made by Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with
outstanding investments permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(c) and outstanding Guarantees
permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed $50,000,000 at any time
outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);

     (e) Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01, provided that (A)
in the case of Guarantees by Loan Parties of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan
Parties, such Guarantees are entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with
past practices, and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not
Loan Parties that is Guaranteed by any Loan Party shall (together with outstanding investments
permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(c) and outstanding intercompany loans permitted under
the proviso to Section 6.04(d)) shall not exceed $50,000,000 at any time outstanding (in each case
determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);

     (f) loans or advances made by a Loan Party to its employees on an arms-length basis in the
ordinary course of business for travel and entertainment expenses, relocation costs and similar
purposes up to a maximum of $2,500,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding;

     (g) subject to the applicable provisions of the Security Agreements (including Sections 4.2(a)
and 4.4 of the US Security Agreement), notes payable, or stock or other securities issued by
Account Debtors to a Loan Party pursuant to negotiated agreements with respect to settlement of
such Account Debtor’s Accounts in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practices;

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

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

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

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

     (l) investments consisting of stock, obligations, securities or other property received in
settlement of accounts receivable (created in the ordinary course of business) from bankrupt
obligors of any Loan Party or Subsidiary; and

     (m) Guarantees by any Loan Party or any of Subsidiary of leases (other than Capital Leases) or
of other obligations of any Loan Party or Subsidiary that do not constitute Indebtedness, in each
case entered into in the ordinary course of business.

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

     (a) sales, transfers, licenses and dispositions of (i) inventory and intellectual property in
the ordinary course of business and (ii) used, obsolete, worn out, discontinued or surplus
equipment or property (including intellectual property) in the ordinary course of business;

     (b) sales, transfers and dispositions to any Borrower or any Subsidiary, provided that
any such sales, transfers or dispositions involving a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be
made in compliance with Sections 6.04 and 6.09;

     (c) sales, transfers and dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with the
compromise, settlement or collection thereof;

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

     (e) sale and leaseback transactions permitted by Section 6.06;

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

     (g) sales, transfers and other dispositions of (i) any Mortgaged Property other than the
Boston Property and the Dallas Property, for cash consideration not less than the Mortgaged
Property Prepayment Amount with respect to such Mortgaged Property, (ii) the Boston Property and
the Dallas Property and (iii) the Bowne Translation Services Business; provided that the
Net Proceeds of any such sale, transfer or other disposition are applied in accordance with Section
2.11;

     (h) sales, transfers and other dispositions of assets (other than Equity Interests in a Loan
Party unless all Equity Interests in such Loan Party are sold) that are not permitted by any other
paragraph of this Section, provided that the aggregate fair market value of all assets
sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in reliance upon this paragraph (h) shall not exceed
$10,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrowers; and

     (i) sales, transfers and other dispositions of receivables by Foreign Subsidiaries in
accordance with Section 6.02(j);

provided that all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted by
paragraphs (d), (e), (g) and (h) above shall be made for fair value and for at least 75% cash
consideration.

     SECTION 6.06. Sale and Leaseback Transactions. No Loan Party will, nor will it permit
any Subsidiary to, enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby it shall sell or
transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or other property that it intends to
use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or transferred, except for
(a) any such sale of any fixed or capital assets by any Borrower or any Subsidiary that is made for
cash consideration in an amount not less than the fair value of such fixed or capital asset and is
consummated within 180 days after such Borrower or such Subsidiary acquires or completes the
construction of such fixed or capital asset, (b) any sale and leaseback of the Boston Property or
the Dallas Property (provided that the cash proceeds of such sale are applied to prepay the Loans
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Mortgaged Property for cash consideration of not less than the applicable Mortgaged Property
Prepayment Amount (provided that the cash proceeds of such sale are applied to prepay the Loans in
accordance with Section 2.11).

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

     SECTION 6.08. Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness.

     (a) No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to pay
or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or
otherwise) to do so, except (i) the Company may declare and pay dividends with respect to its
common stock payable solely in additional shares of its common stock, and, with respect to its
preferred stock, payable solely in additional shares of such preferred stock or in shares of its
common stock, (ii) Subsidiaries may declare and pay dividends ratably with respect to their Equity
Interests, (iii) the Company may make Restricted Payments, in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$25,000,000 during any fiscal year, pursuant to and in accordance with stock option plans or other
benefit plans for management or employees of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, (iv) after the
date on which the Eighteen Month Term Loan shall have been paid in full, the Company may pay cash
dividends in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,750,000 during any fiscal quarter
provided that immediately prior to and after giving effect to the payment of such dividends
no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and (v) the Company may pay
cash dividends in aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000 per fiscal year (inclusive of any
dividends paid in accordance with the provisions of clause (iv) of this Section 6.08(a))
provided that immediately prior to and after giving effect to the payment of such dividends
(w) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (x) the Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio shall equal or exceed 1.45 to 1.00, (y) the Borrowers shall have Average Aggregate
Quarterly Availability for the period of two consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended of at
least $35,000,000 and (z) the Borrowers shall have Aggregate Availability after giving effect to
such payment of $35,000,000; provided, further, that no Loan Party shall make any
Restricted Payment pursuant to clause (iv) or clause (v) of this Section 6.08(a) prior to January
1, 2010.

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

	 	(i)	 	payment of Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;
	 
	 	(ii)	 	(x) payment of regularly scheduled interest and principal
payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness and (y) prepayments of
revolving Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries, in each case, other than
payments in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness prohibited by the
subordination provisions thereof;
	 
	 	(iii)	 	refinancings of Indebtedness to the extent permitted by
Section 6.01;

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	 	(iv)	 	payment of secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of
the voluntary sale or transfer of, or casualty with respect to, the property or
assets securing such Indebtedness;
	 
	 	(v)	 	payment of Indebtedness owed to the Company or any Subsidiary
of the Company in accordance with the terms of any subordination provisions
thereof;
	 
	 	(vi)	 	payment of Indebtedness owed by non-Loan Parties to Loan
Parties;
	 
	 	(vii)	 	repurchases of Convertible Notes by the Company at the request
of the holders of such Convertible Notes as required by Section 13.1 of the
Convertible Notes Indenture; and
	 
	 	(viii)	 	optional prepayments of the Convertible Notes by the Company;
provided, that at the time of and after giving effect to any such
prepayment (w) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, (x) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall equal or exceed 1.45 to
1.00, (y) the Borrowers shall have Average Aggregate Quarterly Availability for
the period of two consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended of at least
$35,000,000 and (z) the Borrowers shall have Aggregate Availability after
giving effect to such prepayment of $35,000,000; provided, further,
that no Loan Party shall make any optional prepayment in respect of the
Convertible Notes prior to the date on which the Term Loan Obligations shall
have been paid in full.

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

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

     SECTION 6.11. Amendment of Material Documents. No Loan Party will, nor will it permit
any Subsidiary to, amend, modify or waive any of its rights under (a)  agreement relating to any
Subordinated Indebtedness or (b) its certificate of incorporation, by-laws, operating, management
or partnership agreement or other organizational documents, in each case, to the extent any such
amendment, modification or waiver would be adverse to the Lenders.

     SECTION 6.12. Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. The Loan Parties will not permit the Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio, determined for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the
last day of each fiscal quarter to be less than the ratio set forth below opposite such fiscal
quarter:

	 	 	 	 	 
	Fiscal Quarter	 	Ratio
	Fiscal Quarter Ending March 31, 2009:
	 	 	1.35 to 1.00	 
	Fiscal Quarter Ending June 30, 2009:
	 	 	1.25 to 1.00	 
	Fiscal Quarter Ending September 30, 2009:
	 	 	1.20 to 1.00	 
	Fiscal Quarter Ending December 31, 2009:
	 	 	1.15 to 1.00	 
	Fiscal Quarter Ending March 31, 2010 and each Fiscal Quarter
Thereafter:
	 	 	1.20 to 1.00	 

     SECTION 6.13. Changes in Fiscal Periods. No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any
Subsidiary to, permit the fiscal year of such Loan Party to end on a day other than December 31 or
change the Company’s method of determining fiscal quarters or fiscal months.

ARTICLE VII

Events of Default

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

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

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

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

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

     (e) any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement
contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than those which constitute a default
under another Section of this Article), and such failure shall continue unremedied (i) for a period
of five days after the earlier of any Loan Party’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from
the applicable Administrative Agent (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender) if
such breach relates to terms or provisions of Section 5.01, 5.02 (other than Section 5.02(a)), 5.03
through 5.07, 5.09, 5.10 or 5.12 of this Agreement or (ii) for a period of 15 days after the
earlier of any Loan Party’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the applicable
Administrative Agent (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender) if such breach
relates to terms or provisions of any other Section of this Agreement, (iii) for a period of 15
days after the earlier of any Loan Party’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the
applicable Administrative Agent (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender) if such
breach relates to terms or provisions of any other Loan Document if such Loan Document set forth a
grace period for any such provision, or (iv) for a period beyond any period of grace with respect
to any provision of any other Loan Document if such Loan Document provides a period of grace with
respect to such provision;

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

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

     (h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed
seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization, arrangement or other relief in respect of a Loan Party or
any Subsidiary of any Loan Party or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any
Insolvency Law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian,
sequestrator, conservator or similar official for any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan
Party or for a substantial part of its assets, or (iii) possession, foreclosure, seizure or
retention, sale or other disposition of, or other proceedings to enforce security over any
substantial part of the assets of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party and, in any such
case, such proceeding or petition shall not be dismissed or stayed within 60 days or an order or
decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;

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

     (j) any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party shall become unable, admit in writing
its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;

     (k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of
$7,500,000 (to the extent not covered by insurance as to which the relevant insurance company has
not disputed coverage) shall be rendered against any Loan Party, any Subsidiary of any Loan Party
or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 consecutive
days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken
by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any
Loan Party to enforce any such judgment or any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party shall
fail within 30 days to discharge one or more non-monetary judgments or orders which, individually
or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, which
judgments or orders, in any such case, are not stayed on appeal or otherwise being appropriately
contested in good faith by proper proceedings diligently pursued;

     (l) loss, theft, damage or destruction occurs with respect to any Material Collateral not
covered by insurance;

     (m) (i) an ERISA Event shall have occurred, (ii) a trustee shall be appointed by a United
States district court to administer any Plan, (iii) the PBGC shall institute proceedings to
terminate any Plan, (iv) any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates shall have been
notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that it has incurred or will be assessed Withdrawal
Liability to such Multiemployer Plan and such entity does not have reasonable grounds for
contesting such Withdrawal Liability or is not contesting such Withdrawal Liability in a timely and
appropriate manner; or (v) any other event or condition shall occur or exist with respect to a
Plan; and in each case in clauses (i) through (v) above, such event or condition, together with all
other such events or conditions, if any, could, in the opinion of the Required Lenders, reasonably
be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect;

     (n) a Change in Control shall occur;

     (o) the Loan Guaranty shall fail to remain in full force or effect or any action shall be
taken to discontinue or to assert the invalidity or unenforceability of the Loan Guaranty, or any
Loan Guarantor shall fail to comply with any of the terms or provisions of the Loan Guaranty to
which it is a party, or any Loan Guarantor shall deny that it has any further liability under the
Loan Guaranty to which it is a party, or shall give notice to such effect;

     (p) any Collateral Document shall for any reason fail to create a valid and perfected first
priority security interest in any Collateral purported to be covered thereby, except as permitted
by the terms of any Collateral Document, or any Collateral Document shall fail to remain in full
force or effect or any action shall be taken to discontinue or to assert the invalidity or
unenforceability of any Collateral Document, or any Loan Party shall fail to comply with any of the
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     (q) any material provision of any Loan Document for any reason ceases to be valid, binding and
enforceable in accordance with its terms (or any Loan Party shall challenge the enforceability of
any Loan Document or shall assert in writing, or engage in any action or inaction based on any such
assertion, that any provision of any of the Loan Documents has ceased to be or otherwise is not
valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms);

then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrowers described in
clause (h) or (i) of this Article), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such
event, the Administrative Agents may, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice
to the Borrower Representative, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or
different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate
immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in
part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared
to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable,
together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrowers accrued
hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other
notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers; and in case of any event with
respect to the Borrowers described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitments shall
automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued
interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrowers accrued hereunder, shall
automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any
kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers. Upon the occurrence and the continuance of
an Event of Default, the Administrative Agents may, and at the request of the Required Lenders
shall, exercise any rights and remedies provided to the Administrative Agents under the Loan
Documents or at law or equity, including all remedies provided under the UCC and the PPSA.

ARTICLE VIII

The Administrative Agents

     (a) Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the US Administrative
Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent, each individually, as its agent and authorizes the US
Administrative Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf,
including execution of the other Loan Documents, and to exercise such powers as are delegated to
such Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers
as are reasonably incidental thereto.

     (b) Any bank serving as the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative Agent
hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and
may exercise the same as though it were not the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian
Administrative Agent, and such bank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to,
invest in and generally engage in any kind of business with the Loan Parties or any Subsidiary of a
Loan Party or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian
Administrative Agent hereunder.

     (c) Neither the US Administrative Agent nor the Canadian Administrative Agent shall have any
duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, (a) neither the US Administrative Agent nor the Canadian
Administrative Agent shall be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of
whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (b) neither the US Administrative Agent nor the
Canadian Administrative Agent shall have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any
discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan
Documents that such Administrative Agent is required to exercise in writing as directed by the
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percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section
9.02), and (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, neither the US Administrative
Agent nor the Canadian Administrative Agent shall have any duty to disclose, and shall not be
liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as the US Administrative Agent
or the Canadian Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. Neither the US
Administrative Agent, nor the Canadian Administrative Agent shall be liable for any action taken or
not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or
percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section
9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Neither the US
Administrative Agent nor the Canadian Administrative Agent shall be deemed to have knowledge of any
Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to such Administrative Agent by the
Borrower Representative or a Lender, and neither the US Administrative Agent nor the Canadian
Administrative Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any
statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the
contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or in connection with any
Loan Document, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other
terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (iv) the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of
any information (whether oral or written) set forth or in connection with any Loan Document, (v)
the legality, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, adequacy or genuineness of any Loan Document
or any other agreement, instrument or document, (vi) the creation, perfection or priority of Liens
on the Collateral or the existence of the Collateral, or (vii) the satisfaction of any condition
set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items
expressly required to be delivered to the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative
Agent.

     (d) The US Administrative Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent shall each be entitled
to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, (i) any representation, notice,
request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing or communication
believed by it to be genuine, correct and to have been authorized, signed or sent by the proper
Person, (ii) any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made or
authorized by the proper Person or (iii) any statement made by a director, authorized signatory or
employee of any Person regarding any matters which may reasonably be assumed to be within his or
her knowledge or within his or her power to verify. The US Administrative Agent and the Canadian
Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrowers),
independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action
taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

     (e) The US Administrative Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent may perform any and all
its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by
the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative Agent, as the case may be. The US
Administrative Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any
and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties.
The exculpatory provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the
Related Parties of the US Administrative Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent and any such
sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the
credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as the US Administrative Agent and the
Canadian Administrative Agent, as the case may be.

     (f) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor US Administrative Agent, or
Canadian Administrative Agent, as the case may be, as provided in this paragraph, the US
Administrative Agent and the Canadian Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the
Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Borrower Representative. Upon any such resignation, the Required
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have the right, in consultation with the Borrowers, to appoint a successor (which shall, in
the case of the Canadian Administrative Agent only, be an Affiliate of the US Administrative Agent
acting through a branch or an office in Canada). If no successor shall have been so appointed by
the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring
Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may,
on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank, appoint its successor in such capacity, which shall
be a commercial bank or an Affiliate of any such commercial bank or a Lender (and in the case of
the Canadian Administrative Agent only, be an Affiliate of the US Administrative Agent acting
through an office in Canada). Upon the acceptance of its appointment as US Administrative Agent or
Canadian Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become
vested with all the rights, powers, privileges, obligations and duties of the retiring US
Administrative Agent or Canadian Administrative Agent, and the retiring US Administrative Agent or
Canadian Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and any further obligations
hereunder. The retiring US Administrative Agent or Canadian Administrative Agent shall, at its own
cost, make available to the successor US Administrative Agent or Canadian Administrative Agent any
documents and records and provide any assistance which the successor US Administrative Agent or
Canadian Administrative Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions
as US Administrative Agent or Canadian Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents. The fees
payable by the Borrowers to a successor US Administrative Agent or Canadian Administrative Agent
shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrowers
and such successor. After the US Administrative Agent’s or Canadian Administrative Agent’s
resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03 shall continue in effect for
the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related
Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting
as US Administrative Agent or Canadian Administrative Agent.

     (g) Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the US
Administrative Agent, the Canadian Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision
to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and
without reliance upon the US Administrative Agent, the Canadian Administrative Agent or any other
Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate,
continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this
Agreement, any other Loan Document or related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or
thereunder.

     (h) Each Lender hereby agrees that (a) it has been provided access to each Report prepared by
or on behalf of the US Administrative Agent; (b) neither the US Administrative Agent nor the
Canadian Administrative Agent (i) makes any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to
the completeness or accuracy of any Report or any of the information contained therein or any
inaccuracy or omission contained in or relating to a Report and (ii) shall be liable for any
information contained in any Report; (c) the Reports are not comprehensive audits or examinations,
and that any Person performing any field examination will inspect only specific information
regarding the Loan Parties and will rely significantly upon the Loan Parties’ books and records, as
well as on representations of the Loan Parties’ personnel and that neither the US Administrative
Agent nor the Canadian Administrative Agent undertakes any obligation to update, correct or
supplement the Reports; (d) it will keep all Reports confidential and strictly for its internal
use, and it will not share the Report with any other Person except as otherwise permitted pursuant
to Section 9.12 of this Agreement; and (e) without limiting the generality of any other
indemnification provision contained in this Agreement, it will pay and protect, and indemnify,
defend, and hold the US Administrative Agent, the Canadian Administrative Agent and any such other
Person preparing a Report harmless from and against, the claims, actions, proceedings, damages,
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or indirect result of any third parties who might obtain all or part of any Report through the
indemnifying Lender (except as permitted pursuant to Section 9.12 of this Agreement).

     (i) For the purposes of holding any security granted by any Borrower or any other Loan Party
pursuant to the laws of the Province of Quebec to secure payment of any bond, note or other title
of indebtedness issued by any Borrower or any Loan Party, each Administrative Agent, each Lender
and each Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Canadian Administrative Agent
and, to the extent necessary, ratifies the appointment and authorization of the Canadian
Administrative Agent, to act as the person holding the power of attorney (i.e. “fondé de pouvoir”)
(in such capacity, the “Attorney”) of the Administrative Agents, the Lenders and the
Issuing Bank as contemplated under Article 2692 of the Civil Code of Québec, and to enter into, to
take and to hold on its behalf, and for its benefit, and for the benefit of each Administrative
Agent, each Lender and the Issuing Bank, any hypothec, and to exercise such powers and duties that
are conferred upon the Attorney under any hypothec. Moreover, without prejudice to such
appointment and authorization to act as the person holding the power of attorney as aforesaid, each
Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes
the Canadian Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Custodian”) to act as agent and
custodian for and on behalf of the Administrative Agents, the Lenders and the Issuing Bank to hold
and be the sole registered holder of any bond, note or title of indebtedness which may be issued
under any hypothec, the whole notwithstanding Section 32 of An Act respecting the special powers of
legal persons (Quebec) or any other applicable law, and to execute all related documents. Each of
the Attorney and the Custodian shall: (a) have the sole and exclusive right and authority to
exercise, except as may be otherwise specifically restricted by the terms hereof, all rights and
remedies given to the Attorney and the Custodian (as applicable) pursuant to any hypothec, bond,
note or title of indebtedness, pledge, applicable laws or otherwise, (b) benefit from and be
subject to all provisions hereof with respect to the Canadian Administrative Agent mutatis
mutandis, including, without limitation, all such provisions with respect to the liability or
responsibility to and indemnification by the Administrative Agents, the Lenders and the Issuing
Bank, and (c) be entitled to delegate from time to time any of its powers or duties under any
hypothec, bond, note or title of indebtedness or pledge on such terms and conditions as it may
determine from time to time. Any person who becomes an Administrative Agent, a Lender or the
Issuing Bank shall, by its execution of an Assignment and Assumption, be deemed to have consented
to and confirmed: (i) the Attorney as the person holding the power of attorney as aforesaid and to
have ratified, as of the date it becomes an Administrative Agent, a Lender or the Issuing Bank, as
applicable all actions taken by the Attorney in such capacity, and (ii) the Custodian as the agent
and custodian as aforesaid and to have ratified, as of the date it becomes an Administrative Agent,
a Lender or the Issuing Bank, all actions taken by the Custodian in such capacity. The
substitution of the Canadian Administrative Agent pursuant to the provisions of this Article VIII
shall also constitute the substitution of the Attorney and the Custodian.

     (j) None of the Syndication Agent, the Joint Bookrunners or the Joint Lead Arrangers shall
have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement or any
other Loan Document, except in its capacity, as applicable, as an Administrative Agent, a Lender, a
Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank under this Agreement.

ARTICLE IX

Miscellaneous

     SECTION 9.01. Notices.

     (a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by
telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for

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herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed
by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile, as follows:

	 	(i)	 	if to any Loan Party, to the Borrower Representative at:
	 
	 	 	 	Bowne & Co., Inc.

55 Water Street

New York, NY 10041

Attention: Chief Financial Officer

Facsimile No: (212) 658-5871
	 
	 	 	 	with copies to:
	 
	 	 	 	Attention: General Counsel

Facsimile No: (212) 658-5898
	 
	 	 	 	and
	 
	 	 	 	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

425 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Attention: Vincent Pagano Jr.

Facsimile No: (212) 455-2502
	 
	 	(ii)	 	if to the US Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the US
Swingline Lender, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. at:
	 
	 	 	 	270 Park Avenue, 44th Floor

Mail Code: NY1-K855

New York, New York 10017

Attention: Mark Cuccinello

Facsimile No: (646) 534-2274
	 
	 	(iii)	 	if to the Canadian Administrative Agent or the Canadian
Swingline Lender, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. at:
	 
	 	 	 	J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch

200 Bay Street

Royal Bank Plaza, Floor 18

Toronto M57 2J2 Canada

Attention: Dan Howat

Facsimile No: (416) 981-2375
	 
	 	(iv)	 	if to any other Lender, to it at its address or facsimile
number set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.

All such notices and other communications (i) sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed
by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received or (ii) sent by
facsimile shall be deemed to have been given when sent, provided that if not given during
normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of
business on the next Business Day for the recipient.

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     (b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by
electronic communications (including e-mail and internet or intranet websites) pursuant to
procedures approved by the US Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not
apply to notices pursuant to Article II or to no Event of Default certificates delivered pursuant
to Section 5.01(d) unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agents. The US Administrative
Agent or the Borrower Representative (on behalf of the Loan Parties) may, in its discretion, agree
to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to
procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to
particular notices or communications. All such notices and other communications (i) sent to an
e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the
intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail
or other written acknowledgement), provided that if not given during the normal business
hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given at the
opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) posted to an Internet or
intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its
e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (b)(i) of notification that such notice or
communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.

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

     SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments.

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

     (b) Neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document nor any provision hereof or thereof may
be waived, amended or modified except (i) in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement
or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrowers and the Required Lenders or, (ii) in the
case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by
the Administrative Agents and the Loan Party or Loan Parties that are parties thereto, with the
consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase the
Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce or forgive the
principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce
or forgive any interest or fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender
directly affected thereby, (iii) extend any of the Eighteen Month Term Loan Maturity Date,
Twenty-Six Month Term Loan Maturity Date or Revolving Maturity Date, postpone the scheduled date of
expiration of any Commitment, or postpone any scheduled date of payment of the principal amount of
any Loan or LC Disbursement without the written consent of each Lender, (iv) postpone any date for
the payment of any interest, fees or other Obligations (other than the principal amount of any Loan
or LC Disbursement) payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment,
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(v) change Section 2.18(b) or (d) in a manner that would alter the manner in which payments
are shared, without the written consent of each Lender, (vi) increase the advance rates set forth
in the definitions of Canadian Borrowing Base or US Borrowing Base, or the Aggregate Borrowing Base
without consent of each Lender, (vii) add new categories of or materially broaden the criteria for
inclusion of eligible assets, without the written consent of the Supermajority Revolving Lenders,
(viii) change any of the provisions of this Section or the definitions of “Required Lenders” or
“Supermajority Revolving Lenders” or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number
or percentage of Lenders (or Lenders of any Class) required to waive, amend or modify any rights
thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent
of each Lender, (ix) release any Borrower from its Obligations hereunder or all or substantially
all of the Loan Guarantors from their obligation under the Loan Guaranty (except as otherwise
permitted herein or in the other Loan Documents) or limit the liability of all or substantially all
of the Loan Guarantors under the Loan Guaranty, in each case, without the written consent of each
Lender, or (x) except as provided in clauses (c) of this Section, release all or substantially all
of the Collateral, without the written consent of each Lender; provided further that no
such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative
Agents, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender hereunder without the prior written consent of the
applicable Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be. The
US Administrative Agent may also amend the Commitment Schedule to reflect assignments
entered into pursuant to Section 9.04.

     (c) The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize each Administrative Agent, at its option and in
its sole discretion, to release any Liens granted to such Administrative Agent by the Loan Parties
on any Collateral (i) upon the termination of the all Commitments, payment and satisfaction in full
in cash of all Secured Obligations (other than Unliquidated Obligations), and the cash
collateralization of all Unliquidated Obligations in a manner reasonably satisfactory to each
affected Lender, (ii) constituting property being sold or disposed of if the Loan Party disposing
of such property certifies to such Administrative Agent that the sale or disposition is made in
compliance with the terms of this Agreement (and the Administrative Agents may rely conclusively on
any such certificate, without further inquiry), and to the extent that the property being sold or
disposed of constitutes 100% of the Equity Interest of a Subsidiary, the applicable Administrative
Agent is authorized to release any Loan Guaranty provided by such Subsidiary, (iii) constituting
property leased to a Loan Party under a lease which has expired or been terminated in a transaction
permitted under this Agreement, (iv) as required to effect any sale or other disposition of such
Collateral in connection with any exercise of remedies of the Administrative Agents and the Lenders
pursuant to Article VII, (v) in accordance with Section 2.09(e) or (vi) to otherwise facilitate a
transaction expressly permitted by this Agreement. Except as provided in the preceding sentence,
the Administrative Agents will not release any Liens on Collateral without the prior written
authorization of the Required Lenders; provided that, the Administrative Agents may in their
discretion, release their Liens on Collateral valued in the aggregate not in excess of $5,000,000
during any calendar year without the prior written authorization of the Required Lenders. Any such
release shall not in any manner discharge, affect, or impair the Obligations or any Liens (other
than those expressly being released) upon (or obligations of the Loan Parties in respect of) all
interests retained by the Loan Parties, including the proceeds of any sale, all of which shall
continue to constitute part of the Collateral.

     (d) If, in connection with any proposed amendment, waiver or consent requiring the consent of
“each Lender” or “each Lender directly affected thereby,” or similar requirements, the consent of
the Required Lenders is obtained, but the consent of other necessary Lenders is not obtained (any
such Lender whose consent is necessary but not obtained being referred to herein as a
“Non-Consenting Lender”), then the Borrowers may elect to replace a Non-Consenting Lender
as a Lender party to this Agreement, provided that, concurrently with such replacement, (i)
another bank or other entity which is reasonably satisfactory to the Borrowers and the US
Administrative Agent shall agree, as of such date, to purchase for cash the Loans and other
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Assignment and Assumption and to become a Lender for all purposes under this Agreement and to
assume all obligations of the Non-Consenting Lender to be terminated as of such date and to comply
with the requirements of clause (b) of Section 9.04, and (ii) the Borrowers shall pay to such
Non-Consenting Lender in same day funds on the day of such replacement (1) all interest, fees and
other amounts then accrued but unpaid to such Non-Consenting Lender by the Borrowers hereunder to
and including the date of termination, including without limitation payments due to such
Non-Consenting Lender under Sections 2.15 and 2.17, and (2) an amount, if any, equal to the payment
which would have been due to such Lender on the day of such replacement under Section 2.16 had the
Loans of such Non-Consenting Lender been prepaid on such date rather than sold to the replacement
Lender.

     SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.

     (a) The Borrowers shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the
Administrative Agents and their Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and
disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agents, in connection with the syndication and
distribution (including, without limitation, via the internet or through a service such as
Intralinks) of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and administration of the
Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions of the Loan Documents
(whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and
(iii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank or any
Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agents, the
Issuing Bank and the Lenders, in connection with the enforcement, collection or protection of its
or their rights in connection with the Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or
in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such
out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout or restructuring in respect of such Loans or
Letters of Credit; provided, that, for purposes of this clause (iii), the Lenders (but not
the Administrative Agents and Issuing Bank) shall be limited to one counsel together for the
Lenders as a group so long as any Lender has not, in good faith (and based on advice of counsel for
such Lender) reasonably determined that its interests conflict sufficiently with those of the other
Lenders to warrant the employment of separate counsel for such Lender, in which case such Lender
shall be paid, or reimbursed for payment of the fees, charges and disbursements of such separate
counsel. Expenses being reimbursed by the Borrowers under this Section include, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, costs and expenses incurred in connection with:

	 	(A)	 	Appraisals (subject to the limits set forth in Section
5.11(a));
	 
	 	(B)	 	insurance reviews;
	 
	 	(C)	 	field examinations (subject to the limits set forth in Section
5.11(b)) and the preparation of Reports based on the fees charged by a third
party retained by the applicable Administrative Agent or the internally
allocated fees for each Person employed by applicable Administrative Agent with
respect to each field examination;
	 
	 	(D)	 	taxes, fees and other charges for (1) lien and title searches
and title insurance and (2) recording the Mortgages, filing financing
statements and continuations, and other actions to perfect, protect, and
continue the Liens of each Administrative Agent;

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	 	(E)	 	sums paid or incurred to take any action required of any Loan
Party under the Loan Documents that such Loan Party fails to pay or take;
	 
	 	(F)	 	forwarding loan proceeds, collecting checks and other items of
payment, and establishing and maintaining the accounts and lock boxes, and
costs and expenses of preserving and protecting the Collateral; and

All of the foregoing costs and expenses may be charged to the Borrowers as Revolving Loans or to
another deposit account, all as described in Section 2.18(c).

     (b) The Borrowers shall, jointly and severally, indemnify the Administrative Agents, the Lead
Arranger, the Issuing Bank and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons
(each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless
from, any and all losses, claims, damages, penalties, incremental taxes, liabilities and related
expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred
by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the
execution or delivery of the Loan Documents or any agreement or instrument contemplated thereby,
the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations thereunder or the
consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or
Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the Issuing Bank to
honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with
such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or
alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any
Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any
Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries, (iv) the failure of the Borrowers to deliver to the
Administrative Agents the required receipts or other required documentary evidence with respect to
a payment made by the Borrowers for Taxes pursuant to Section 2.17, or (v) any actual or
prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing,
whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a
party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available
to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, penalties, liabilities or related expenses are
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have
resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or its Related Parties.

     (c) To the extent that the Borrowers fail to pay any amount required to be paid by the
Borrowers to any Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger, the Bookrunner, the Issuing Bank or the
Swingline Lender under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, each Lender severally agrees to pay to
such Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger, the Bookrunner, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline
Lender, as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the
applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount;
provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, penalty,
liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against such
Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger, the Bookrunner, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender
in its capacity as such.

     (d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Loan Party shall assert, and each hereby
waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect,
consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in
connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated
hereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof.

     (e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable promptly after written demand
therefor.

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     SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns.

     (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the
parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any
Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrowers may
not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior
written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrowers without
such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights
or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement,
expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto,
their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing
Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of
this Section) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the
Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

	 	(b)	 	(i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender
may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations
under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the
time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld) of:

	 	(A)	 	the Borrower Representative, provided
that no consent of the Borrower Representative shall be required for an
assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund or,
if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other
assignee; and
	 
	 	(B)	 	the US Administrative Agent.

	 	(ii)	 	Assignments shall be subject to the following additional
conditions:

	 	(A)	 	except in the case of an assignment to a Lender
or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining
amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the
amount of the Revolving Commitment or Revolving Loans of the assigning
Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the
Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered
to the US Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 in
the aggregate unless each of the Borrower Representative and the US
Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that no such
consent of the Borrower Representative shall be required if an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing;
	 
	 	(B)	 	each partial assignment of an assigning
Lender’s Revolving Commitment or Revolving Loans shall be made as an
assignment of a proportionate part of (1) such Lender’s share of the
Canadian Sublimit, (2) such Lender’s share of the LC Exposure, (3) such
Lender’s Eighteen Month Term Loan, (4) such Lender’s Twenty-Six Month
Term Loan and (5) all such Lender’s other rights and obligations under
this Agreement;
	 
	 	(C)	 	each partial assignment of an assigning
Lender’s Eighteen Month Term Loan shall be made as an assignment of a
proportionate part of (1) such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and
outstanding Revolving Loans, (2)

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	 	 	 	such Lender’s share of the Canadian Sublimit, (3) such Lender’s share
of the LC Exposure, (4) such Lender’s Twenty-Six Month Term Loan and
(5) all such Lender’s other rights and obligations under this
Agreement;
	 
	 	(D)	 	each partial assignment of an assigning
Lender’s Twenty-Six Month Term Loan shall be made as an assignment of a
proportionate part of (1) such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and
outstanding Revolving Loans, (2) such Lender’s share of the Canadian
Sublimit, (3) such Lender’s share of the LC Exposure, (4) such Lender’s
Eighteen Month Term Loan and (5) all such Lender’s other rights and
obligations under this Agreement;
	 
	 	(E)	 	the assignor and assignee party to each
assignment shall execute and deliver to the US Administrative Agent an
Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation
fee of $3,500;
	 
	 	(F)	 	the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender,
shall deliver to the US Administrative Agent an Administrative
Questionnaire in which the assignee designates one or more credit
contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain
material non-public information about the Company, the Loan Parties and
their Related Parties or their respective securities) will be made
available and who may receive such information in accordance with the
assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal
and state securities laws; and
	 
	 	(G)	 	no Lender shall be permitted to assign any
Loans to the Borrowers or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof with the
prior written consent of the US Administration Agent and the Required
Lenders (which consent may include such additional conditions as the US
Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders shall deem necessary or
appropriate in their Permitted Discretion).

For the purposes of this Section 9.04(b), the term “Approved Fund” has the following
meaning:

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

	 	 	(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) of
this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and
Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the
interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations
of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the
extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from
its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this
Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be
entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16,

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	 	 	2.17 and 9.03). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations
under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 9.04 shall be treated
for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such
rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section.

	 	(iv) The US Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the
Borrowers, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and
Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and
addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans
and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to
time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive
absent manifest error, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agents, the Issuing
Bank and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register
pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available
for inspection by the Borrowers, the Issuing Bank and any Lender, at any reasonable
time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
	 
	 	(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an
assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative
Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the
processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and any
written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section, the US
Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the
information contained therein in the Register; provided that if either the
assigning Lender or the assignee shall have failed to make any payment required to
be made by it pursuant to Section 2.05, 2.06(d) or (e), 2.07(b), 2.18(d) or 9.03(c),
the US Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to accept such Assignment and
Assumption and record the information therein in the Register unless and until such
payment shall have been made in full, together with all accrued interest thereon.
No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been
recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.

	(c)	 	(i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrowers, the Administrative
Agents, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lenders, sell participations to one or more
banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s
rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its
Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s
obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain
solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations
and (C) the Borrowers, the Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank and the other
Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with
such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument
pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender
shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment,
modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such
agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of
the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first
proviso to Section 9.02(b) (other than clause (vii) thereof) that affects such
Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, the Borrowers agree that
each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17 to
the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment
pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each
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	 	 	though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section
2.18(d) as though it were a Lender.

		 	(ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section
2.15 or 2.17 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with
respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the
participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower Representative’s prior
written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender
shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.17 unless the Borrower
Representative is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such
Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrowers, to comply with Section 2.17(f)
as though it were a Lender.

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

     SECTION 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties
made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments
delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be
considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and
delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit,
regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding
that any Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of
any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder,
and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on
any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or
any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated.
The provisions of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in
full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the
repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments
or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof.

     SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be
executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which
shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single
contract. This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect
to fees payable to the US Administrative Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties
relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and
understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in
Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the US
Administrative Agent and when the US Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof
which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter
shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective
successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement
by facsimile shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

     SECTION 9.07. Severability. Any provision of any Loan Document held to be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the
extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality
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remaining provisions thereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular
jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

     SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time
to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general
or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other obligations at any
time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrowers or any
Loan Guarantor against any of and all the Secured Obligations held by such Lender, irrespective of
whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under the Loan Documents and although such
obligations may be unmatured, provided that, no such Lender shall exercise any right of set
off prior to the date on which the Loans are declared to be immediately due and payable, without
the prior consent of the US Administrative Agent. The applicable Lender shall notify the Borrower
Representative and the US Administrative Agent of such set-off or application, provided
that any failure to give or any delay in giving such notice shall not affect the validity of any
such set-off or application under this Section. The rights of each Lender under this Section are
in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may
have.

     SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.

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

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

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

     (d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner
provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will
affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by
law.

     SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
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OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED
THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES
THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR
OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE
FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO
ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS
SECTION.

     SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used
herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect
the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

     SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank
and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below),
except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers,
employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood
that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of
such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested
by any regulatory authority, (c) to the extent required by Requirement of Laws or by any subpoena
or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the
exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or
any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an
agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any
assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights
or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its
advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Loan Parties and their obligations,
(g) with the consent of the Borrower Representative or (h) to the extent such Information
(i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (ii) becomes
available to any Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a non-confidential basis
from a source other than the Borrowers. For the purposes of this Section, “Information”
means all information received from the Borrowers relating to the Borrowers or their business,
other than any such information that is available to any Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or
any Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrowers; provided that,
in the case of information received from the Borrowers after the date hereof, such information is
clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the
confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied
with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the
confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential
information.

     EACH LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT INFORMATION AS DEFINED IN SECTION 9.12 FURNISHED TO IT PURSUANT
TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY INCLUDE MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION CONCERNING THE COMPANY AND ITS
AFFILIATES AND THEIR RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES, AND CONFIRMS THAT IT HAS
DEVELOPED COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES REGARDING THE USE OF MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION AND THAT IT
WILL HANDLE SUCH MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE
LAW, INCLUDING FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS.

     ALL INFORMATION, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR WAIVERS AND AMENDMENTS, FURNISHED BY THE BORROWERS OR
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENTS

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PURSUANT TO, OR IN THE COURSE OF ADMINISTERING, THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE SYNDICATE-LEVEL
INFORMATION, WHICH MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPANY, THE LOAN PARTIES
AND THEIR RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES. ACCORDINGLY, EACH LENDER REPRESENTS TO
THE BORROWERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENTS THAT IT HAS IDENTIFIED IN ITS ADMINISTRATIVE
QUESTIONNAIRE A CREDIT CONTACT WHO MAY RECEIVE INFORMATION THAT MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC
INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING FEDERAL AND
STATE SECURITIES LAWS.

     SECTION 9.13. Several Obligations; Nonreliance; Violation of Law. The respective
obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several and not joint and the failure of any Lender to
make any Loan or perform any of its obligations hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender from
any of its obligations hereunder. Each Lender hereby represents that it is not relying on or
looking to any margin stock for the repayment of the Borrowings provided for herein. Anything
contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, neither the Issuing Bank nor any
Lender shall be obligated to extend credit to the Borrowers in violation of any Requirement of Law.

     SECTION 9.14. USA PATRIOT Act. Each Lender that is subject to the requirements of the
USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Patriot
Act”) hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is
required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrowers, which information
includes the names and addresses of the Borrowers and other information that will allow such Lender
to identify the Borrowers in accordance with the Patriot Act.

     SECTION 9.15. Disclosure. Each Loan Party and each Lender hereby acknowledges and
agrees that the Administrative Agents and/or their Affiliates from time to time may hold
investments in, make other loans to or have other relationships with any of the Loan Parties and
their respective Affiliates.

     SECTION 9.16. Appointment for Perfection. Each Lender hereby appoints each other
Lender as its agent for the purpose of perfecting Liens, for the benefit of the Administrative
Agents and the Lenders, in assets which, in accordance with Article 9 of the UCC or any other
applicable law can be perfected only by possession. Should any Lender (other than the
Administrative Agents) obtain possession of any such Collateral, such Lender shall notify the
applicable Administrative Agent thereof, and, promptly upon such Administrative Agent’s request
therefor shall deliver such Collateral to such Administrative Agent or otherwise deal with such
Collateral in accordance with such Administrative Agent’s instructions.

     SECTION 9.17. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges
and other amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the
“Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) which may be
contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance
with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with
all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent
lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not
payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and
Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not
above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the
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     SECTION 9.18. Waiver of Immunity. To the extent that any Loan Party has, or hereafter
may be entitled to claim or may acquire, for itself, any Collateral or other assets of the Loan
Parties, any immunity (whether sovereign or otherwise) from suit, jurisdiction of any court or from
any legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in
aid of execution or otherwise) with respect to itself, any Collateral or any other assets of the
Loan Parties, such Loan Party hereby waives such immunity in respect of its hereunder and under any
promissory notes evidencing the Loans hereunder and any other Loan Document to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable Requirements of Law and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
agrees that the waivers set forth in this Section 9.18 shall be effective to the fullest extent now
or hereafter permitted under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (as amended, and together
with any successor legislation) and are, and are intended to be, irrevocable for purposes thereof.

     SECTION 9.19. Currency of Payment. Each payment owing by any Borrower hereunder shall
be made in the relevant currency specified herein or, if not specified herein, specified in any
other Loan Document executed by the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative Agent
(the “Currency of Payment”) at the place specified herein (such requirements are of the
essence of this Agreement). If, for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary
to convert a sum due hereunder in a Currency of Payment into another currency, the parties hereto
agree that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking
procedures the US Administrative Agent or the Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, could
purchase such Currency of Payment with such other currency at the Spot Selling Rate on the Business
Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligations in respect of any sum due
hereunder to any Lender or the Issuing Bank shall, notwithstanding any adjudication expressed in a
currency other than the Currency of Payment, be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business
Day following receipt by such Lender or the Issuing Bank of any sum adjudged to be so due in such
other currency, such Lender or the Issuing Bank may, in accordance with normal banking procedures,
purchase the Currency of Payment with such other currency. Each Borrower agrees that (a) if the
amount of the Currency of Payment so purchased is less than the sum originally due to such Lender
or the Issuing Bank in the Currency of Payment, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding the
result of any such adjudication, such Borrower shall immediately pay the shortfall (in the Currency
of Payment) to such Lender or the Issuing Bank and (b) if the amount of the Currency of Payment so
purchased exceeds the sum originally due to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, such Lender or Issuing
Bank shall promptly pay the excess over to such Borrower in the currency and to the extent actually
received.

     SECTION 9.20. Canadian Anti-Money Laundering Legislation.

     (a) Each Borrower acknowledges that, pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and
Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) and other applicable Canadian anti-money laundering,
anti-terrorist financing, government sanction and “know your client” laws (collectively, including
any guidelines or orders thereunder, “AML Legislation”), the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and
the Administrative Agents may be required to obtain, verify and record information regarding the
Borrowers and their respective directors, authorized signing officers, direct or indirect
shareholders or other Persons in control of the Borrowers, and the transactions contemplated hereby
and in that regard, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may require that the
authorized signing officers of each of the relevant Loan Parties who will be signing this
Agreement, and other Loan Documents (each, a “signatory”) shall have made themselves available to
the Canadian Administrative Agent in person, and shall have produced to the Canadian Administrative
Agent a minimum of two unexpired identification documents (at least one of which must be a birth
certificate, driver’s license, passport, provincial health insurance card, if permitted by the
applicable provincial law, or other government-issued document) and permitted examination and the
making of copies of same with a view to the Canadian Administrative Agent gathering the full names
of, and the dates of birth of each such signatory, the type of identification

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document examined, the reference numbers of each of the identification documents examined
(collectively, the “Personal Information”) and such Personal Information (together with photocopies
of each identification document examined) shall have been provided to the Canadian Administrative
Agent on or prior to the closing date. Each Borrower shall promptly provide all such information,
including supporting documentation and other evidence, as may be reasonably requested by any
Lender, the Issuing Bank or any Administrative Agent, or any prospective assignee or participant of
a Lender, the Issuing Bank or any Administrative Agent, in order to comply with any applicable AML
Legislation, whether now or hereafter in existence.

     (b) If the Canadian Administrative Agent has ascertained the identity of any Borrower or any
authorized signatories of any Borrower for the purposes of applicable AML Legislation, then the
Canadian Administrative Agent:

	 	(i)	 	Shall be deemed to have done so as an agent for each Lender and
the Issuing Bank (and to hold on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank for
their review upon reasonable request from time to time), and this Agreement
shall constitute a “written agreement” in such regard between each Lender, the
Issuing Bank and the Canadian Administrative Agent within the meaning of the
applicable AML Legislation; and
	 
	 	(ii)	 	Shall provide to each Lender and the Issuing Bank copies of all
information obtained in such regard without any representation or warranty as
to its accuracy or completeness.

Notwithstanding the preceding sentence and except as may otherwise be agreed in writing, each of
the Lenders and the Issuing Bank agrees that neither the Canadian Administrative Agent nor any
other Administrative Agent has any obligation to ascertain the identity of the Borrowers or any
authorized signatories of the Borrowers on behalf of any Lender or the Issuing Bank, or to confirm
the completeness or accuracy of any information it obtains from any Borrower or any such authorized
signatory in doing so.

     SECTION 9.21. Subordination. Each Loan Party party hereto hereby agrees that, upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, unless otherwise agreed by the
applicable Administrative Agent, all Indebtedness owing to it by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries shall be fully subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full in cash of such Loan
Party’s Secured Obligations or Guaranteed Obligations, as the case may be.

     SECTION 9.22. Process Agent. Each Foreign Loan Party hereby irrevocably designates and
appoints the Company, in the case of any suit, action or proceeding brought in the United States as
its designee, appointee and agent to receive, accept and acknowledge for and on its behalf, and in
respect of its property, service of any and all legal process, summons, notices and documents that
may be served in any action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or
any other Loan Document. Such service may be made by mailing (by registered or certified mail,
postage prepaid) or delivering a copy of such process to such Foreign Loan Party in care of the
Company at the Company’s address set forth in Section 9.01, and such Foreign Loan Party hereby
irrevocably authorizes and directs the Company to accept such service on its behalf. As an
alternative method of service, each Foreign Loan Party irrevocably consents to the service of any
and all process in any such action or proceeding by the mailing (by registered or certified mail,
postage prepaid) of copies of such process to the Company or such Foreign Loan Party at its address
specified in Section 9.01. Each Loan Party agrees that a final judgment in any such action or
proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment
or in any other manner provided by law.

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ARTICLE X

Loan Guaranty 

     SECTION 10.01. Guaranty. Each Loan Guarantor (other than those that have delivered a
separate Guaranty) hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as primary
obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to the Lenders the
prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all
times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all costs and expenses including, without
limitation, all court costs and attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of
in-house counsel and paralegals) and expenses paid or incurred by the Administrative Agents and the
Issuing Bank in endeavoring to collect all or any part of the Secured Obligations from, or in
prosecuting any action against, any Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or
any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured
Obligations, collectively the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each Loan Guarantor further
agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without
notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding
any such extension or renewal. All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or
on behalf of any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any Lender that extended any portion of
the Guaranteed Obligations.

     SECTION 10.02. Guaranty of Payment. This Loan Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and
not of collection. Each Loan Guarantor waives any right to require any Administrative Agent, the
Issuing Bank or any Lender to sue any Borrower, any Loan Guarantor, any other guarantor, or any
other person obligated for all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations (each, an “Obligated
Party”), or otherwise to enforce its payment against any collateral securing all or any part of
the Guaranteed Obligations.

     SECTION 10.03. No Discharge or Diminishment of Loan Guaranty. (a) Except as
otherwise provided for herein, the obligations of each Loan Guarantor hereunder are unconditional
and absolute and not subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason
(other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations), including:
(i) any claim of waiver, release, extension, renewal, settlement, surrender, alteration, or
compromise of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, by operation of law or otherwise; (ii) any change
in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of any Borrower or any other guarantor of or
other person liable for any of the Guaranteed Obligations; (iii) any insolvency, bankruptcy,
reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting any Obligated Party, or their assets or any
resulting release or discharge of any obligation of any Obligated Party; or (iv) the existence of
any claim, setoff or other rights which any Loan Guarantor may have at any time against any
Obligated Party, any Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, any Lender, or any other person,
whether in connection herewith or in any unrelated transactions.

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

     (c) Further, the obligations of any Loan Guarantor hereunder are not discharged or impaired or
otherwise affected by: (i) the failure of any Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender
to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy with respect to all or any part of the
Guaranteed Obligations; (ii) any waiver or modification of or supplement to any provision of any
agreement relating to the Guaranteed Obligations; (iii) any release, non-perfection, or invalidity
of any indirect or direct security for the obligations of any Borrower for all or any part of the
Guaranteed Obligations or any obligations of any other guarantor of or other person liable for any
of the Guaranteed Obligations; (iv)

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any action or failure to act by any Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender with
respect to any collateral securing any part of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (v) any default,
failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the payment or performance of any of the Guaranteed
Obligations, or any other circumstance, act, omission or delay that might in any manner or to any
extent vary the risk of such Loan Guarantor or that would otherwise operate as a discharge of any
Loan Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of
the Guaranteed Obligations).

     SECTION 10.04. Defenses Waived. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
each Loan Guarantor hereby waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of any
Borrower or any Loan Guarantor or the unenforceability of all or any part of the Guaranteed
Obligations from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any Borrower or any
Loan Guarantor, other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Loan Guarantor irrevocably waives acceptance
hereof, presentment, demand, protest and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any notice not
provided for herein, as well as any requirement that at any time any action be taken by any person
against any Obligated Party, or any other person. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Administrative Agents may, at their election, foreclose on any Collateral held
by it by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such Collateral in
lieu of foreclosure or otherwise act or fail to act with respect to any collateral securing all or
a part of the Guaranteed Obligations, compromise or adjust any part of the Guaranteed Obligations,
make any other accommodation with any Obligated Party or exercise any other right or remedy
available to it against any Obligated Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the
liability of such Loan Guarantor under this Loan Guaranty except to the extent the Guaranteed
Obligations have been fully and indefeasibly paid in cash. To the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, each Loan Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election even though
that election may operate, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or extinguish any right of
reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of any Loan Guarantor against any Obligated
Party or any security.

     SECTION 10.05. Rights of Subrogation. No Loan Guarantor will assert any right, claim
or cause of action, including, without limitation, a claim of subrogation, contribution or
indemnification that it has against any Obligated Party, or any collateral, until the Loan Parties
and the Loan Guarantors have fully performed all their obligations to the Administrative Agents,
the Issuing Bank and the Lenders.

     SECTION 10.06. Reinstatement; Stay of Acceleration. If at any time any payment of any
portion of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned upon
the insolvency, bankruptcy, or reorganization of any Borrower or otherwise, each Loan Guarantor’s
obligations under this Loan Guaranty with respect to that payment shall be reinstated at such time
as though the payment had not been made and whether or not the Administrative Agents, the Issuing
Bank and the Lenders are in possession of this Loan Guaranty. If acceleration of the time for
payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or
reorganization of any Borrower, all such amounts otherwise subject to acceleration under the terms
of any agreement relating to the Guaranteed Obligations shall nonetheless be payable by the Loan
Guarantors forthwith on demand by the Lender.

     SECTION 10.07. Information. Each Loan Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being
and keeping itself informed of the Borrowers’ financial condition and assets, and of all other
circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature,
scope and extent of the risks that each Loan Guarantor assumes and incurs under this Loan Guaranty,
and agrees that none of the Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank or any Lender shall have any
duty to advise any Loan Guarantor of information known to it regarding those circumstances or
risks.

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     SECTION 10.08. Termination. The Lenders may continue to make loans or extend credit
to the Borrowers based on this Loan Guaranty until five days after it receives written notice of
termination from any Loan Guarantor. Notwithstanding receipt of any such notice, each Loan
Guarantor will continue to be liable to the Lenders for any Guaranteed Obligations created, assumed
or committed to prior to the fifth day after receipt of the notice, and all subsequent renewals,
extensions, modifications and amendments with respect to, or substitutions for, all or any part of
that Guaranteed Obligations.

     SECTION 10.09. Maximum Liability. The provisions of this Loan Guaranty are severable,
and in any action or proceeding involving any state corporate law, or any state, federal or foreign
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law affecting the rights of creditors generally, if
the obligations of any Loan Guarantor under this Loan Guaranty would otherwise be held or
determined to be avoidable, invalid or unenforceable on account of the amount of such Loan
Guarantor’s liability under this Loan Guaranty, then, notwithstanding any other provision of this
Loan Guaranty to the contrary, the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by
the Loan Guarantors or the Lenders, 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 Loan Guarantor’s “Maximum Liability”. This Section with
respect to the Maximum Liability of each Loan Guarantor is intended solely to preserve the rights
of the Lenders to the maximum extent not subject to avoidance under applicable law, and no Loan
Guarantor nor any other person or entity shall have any right or claim under this Section with
respect to such Maximum Liability, except to the extent necessary so that the obligations of any
Loan Guarantor hereunder shall not be rendered voidable under applicable law. Each Loan Guarantor
agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the Maximum
Liability of each Loan Guarantor without impairing this Loan Guaranty or affecting the rights and
remedies of the Lenders hereunder, provided that, nothing in this sentence shall be
construed to increase any Loan Guarantor’s obligations hereunder beyond its Maximum Liability.

     SECTION 10.10. Contribution. In the event any Loan Guarantor (a “Paying
Guarantor”) shall make any payment or payments under this Loan Guaranty or shall suffer any
loss as a result of any realization upon any collateral granted by it to secure its obligations
under this Loan Guaranty, each other Loan Guarantor (each a “Non-Paying Guarantor”) shall
contribute to such Paying Guarantor an amount equal to such Non-Paying Guarantor’s “Applicable
Percentage” of such payment or payments made, or losses suffered, by such Paying Guarantor. For
purposes of this Article X, each Non-Paying Guarantor’s “Applicable Percentage” with
respect to any such payment or loss by a Paying Guarantor shall be determined as of the date on
which such payment or loss was made by reference to the ratio of (i) such Non-Paying Guarantor’s
Maximum Liability as of such date (without giving effect to any right to receive, or obligation to
make, any contribution hereunder) or, if such Non-Paying Guarantor’s Maximum Liability has not been
determined, the aggregate amount of all monies received by such Non-Paying Guarantor from the
Borrowers after the date hereof (whether by loan, capital infusion or by other means) to (ii) the
aggregate Maximum Liability of all Loan Guarantors hereunder (including such Paying Guarantor) as
of such date (without giving effect to any right to receive, or obligation to make, any
contribution hereunder), or to the extent that a Maximum Liability has not been determined for any
Loan Guarantor, the aggregate amount of all monies received by such Loan Guarantors from the
Borrowers after the date hereof (whether by loan, capital infusion or by other means). Nothing in
this provision shall affect any Loan Guarantor’s several liability for the entire amount of the
Guaranteed Obligations (up to such Loan Guarantor’s Maximum Liability). Each of the Loan
Guarantors covenants and agrees that its right to receive any contribution under this Loan Guaranty
from a Non-Paying Guarantor shall be subordinate and junior in right of payment to the payment in
full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations. This provision is for the benefit of both the
Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank, the Lenders and the Loan Guarantors and may be enforced by
any one, or more, or all of them in accordance with the terms hereof.

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     SECTION 10.11. Liability Cumulative. The liability of each Loan Party as a Loan
Guarantor under this Article X is in addition to and shall be cumulative with all liabilities of
each Loan Party to the Administrative Agents, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or in respect of any obligations
or liabilities of the other Loan Parties, without any limitation as to amount, unless the
instrument or agreement evidencing or creating such other liability specifically provides to the
contrary.

ARTICLE XI

The Borrower Representative

     SECTION 11.01. Appointment; Nature of Relationship. The Company is hereby appointed
by each of the Borrowers as its contractual representative (herein referred to as the “Borrower
Representative”) hereunder and under each other Loan Document, and each of the Borrowers
irrevocably authorizes the Borrower Representative to act as the contractual representative of such
Borrower with the rights and duties expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents.
The Borrower Representative agrees to act as such contractual representative upon the express
conditions contained in this Article XI. Additionally, the Borrowers hereby appoint the Borrower
Representative as their agent to receive all of the proceeds of the Loans in the Funding
Account(s), at which time the Borrower Representative shall promptly disburse such Loans to the
appropriate Borrower. The Administrative Agents and the Lenders, and their respective officers,
directors, agents or employees, shall not be liable to the Borrower Representative or any Borrower
for any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Borrower Representative or the Borrowers
pursuant to this Section 11.01.

     SECTION 11.02. Powers. The Borrower Representative shall have and may exercise such
powers under the Loan Documents as are specifically delegated to the Borrower Representative by the
terms of each thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The
Borrower Representative shall have no implied duties to the Borrowers, or any obligation to the
Lenders to take any action thereunder except any action specifically provided by the Loan Documents
to be taken by the Borrower Representative.

     SECTION 11.03. Employment of Agents. The Borrower Representative may execute any of
its duties as the Borrower Representative hereunder and under any other Loan Document by or through
authorized officers.

     SECTION 11.04. Notices. Any notice provided to the Borrower Representative hereunder
shall constitute notice to each Borrower on the date received by the Borrower Representative.

     SECTION 11.05. Successor Borrower Representative. Upon the prior written consent of
the US Administrative Agent, the Borrower Representative may resign at any time, such resignation
to be effective upon the appointment of a successor Borrower Representative. The US Administrative
Agent shall give prompt written notice of such resignation to the Lenders.

     SECTION 11.06. Execution of Loan Documents; Borrowing Base Certificate. The Borrowers
hereby empower and authorize the Borrower Representative, on behalf of the Borrowers, to execute
and deliver to the Administrative Agents and the Lenders the Loan Documents and all related
agreements, certificates, documents, or instruments as shall be necessary or appropriate to effect
the purposes of the Loan Documents, including without limitation, the Aggregate Borrowing Base
Certificate, the Canadian Borrowing Base Certificate and the US Borrowing Base Certificate and the
Compliance Certificates. Each Borrower agrees that any action taken by the Borrower Representative
or the Borrowers in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, and
the

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exercise by the Borrower Representative of its powers set forth therein or herein, together
with such other powers that are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be binding upon all of the
Borrowers.

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	US BORROWERS:

 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE & CO. INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel and

Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE MBC, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF NEW YORK CITY, L.L.C.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE GCOM2 SOLUTIONS, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
 Corporate Secretary 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	BOWNE OF DALLAS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF LOS ANGELES, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF SOUTH BEND, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF CHICAGO, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF BOSTON, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF PHOENIX, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	BOWNE OF ATLANTA, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF CLEVELAND, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF DALLAS, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	CANADIAN BORROWER:

 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE OF CANADA, LTD.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	OTHER LOAN PARTIES:

 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS, L.L.C.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	BOWNE OF SOUTH BEND I, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE SOLUTIONS, L.L.C.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 
	 
	 	BOWNE MB CORPORATION

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Scott L. Spitzer
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Scott L. Spitzer 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President, General Counsel
and 
Corporate Secretary 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	US ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., individually, as US

Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and US Swingline

Lender

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Kathleen C. Maggi
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Kathleen C. Maggi 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	CANADIAN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., TORONTO 
BRANCH,
individually as Canadian Administrative
Agent and
Canadian Swingline Lender

	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Dan Howat
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Dan Howat 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	LENDERS:

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Robert Anchundia
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Robert Anchundia 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President 	 
	 
	 	BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. CANADIAN BRANCH

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Clara McGibbon
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Clara McGibbon 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Assistant Vice President 	 
	 
	 	US BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Michael P. Dickman
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Michael P. Dickman 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President 	 
	 
	 	CAPITAL ONE, N.A.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Philip Davi
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Philip Davi 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President 	 
	 
	 	WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Tray Jones
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Tray Jones 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President 	 
	 
	 	CITIBANK, N.A

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Anthony J. Timpanaro
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Anthony J. Timpanaro 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President 	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 

SCHEDULES:

Commitment Schedule

Schedule 1.01(a) – Significant Domestic Subsidiaries

Schedule 1.01(b) – Mortgaged Properties

Schedule 1.01(c) – Mortgaged Property Prepayment Amounts

Schedule 2.02 – Loans Under Existing Credit Agreement

Schedule 2.06 – Existing Letters of Credit

Schedule 3.05 – Properties

Schedule 3.06 – Disclosed Matters

Schedule 3.12 – Material Agreements

Schedule 3.14 – Insurance

Schedule 3.15 – Capitalization and Subsidiaries

Schedule 5.15 – Post-Closing Items

Schedule 6.01 – Existing Indebtedness

Schedule 6.02 – Existing Liens

Schedule 6.04 – Existing Investments

Schedule 6.10 – Existing Restrictions

EXHIBITS:

Exhibit A – Form of Assignment and Assumption

Exhibit B-1 – Form of Aggregate Borrowing Base Certificate

Exhibit B-2 – Form of US Borrowing Base Certificate

Exhibit B-3 – Form of Canadian Borrowing Base Certificate

Exhibit C – Form of Compliance Certificate

Exhibit D – Form of Joinder Agreement

Exhibit E-1 – Form of Increasing Lender Supplement

Exhibit E-2 – Form of Augmenting Lender Supplement

 

 

COMMITMENT SCHEDULE

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	Twenty-Six	 	Eighteen	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	Month Term	 	Month Term	 	 
	 	 	Revolving	 	Loan	 	Loan	 	Total
	Lender	 	Commitment	 	Commitment	 	Commitment	 	Commitment
	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
	 	$	27,333,333.33	 	 	$	4,444,444.44	 	 	$	1,555,555.56	 	 	$	33,333,333.33	 
	Bank of America, N.A.
	 	$	27,333,333.33	 	 	$	4,444,444.44	 	 	$	1,555,555.56	 	 	$	33,333,333.33	 
	Citibank, N.A.
	 	$	21,476,190.48	 	 	$	3,492,063.49	 	 	$	1,222,222.22	 	 	$	26,190,476.19	 
	Wachovia Bank, National Association
	 	$	15,619,047.62	 	 	$	2,539,682.54	 	 	$	888,888.89	 	 	$	19,047,619.05	 
	Capital One, N.A.
	 	$	15,619,047.62	 	 	$	2,539,682.54	 	 	$	888,888.89	 	 	$	19,047,619.05	 
	US Bank, National Association
	 	$	15,619,047.62	 	 	$	2,539,682.54	 	 	$	888,888.89	 	 	$	19,047,619.05	 
	Total
	 	$	123,000,000.00	 	 	$	20,000,000.00	 	 	$	7,000,000.00	 	 	$	150,000,000.00	 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Page	 
	ARTICLE I Definitions
	 	 	1	 
	 
	SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms
	 	 	1	 
	SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings
	 	 	36	 
	SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally
	 	 	36	 
	SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP
	 	 	37	 
	SECTION 1.05. Currency Translations
	 	 	37	 
	 
	ARTICLE II The Credits
	 	 	38	 
	 
	SECTION 2.01. Commitments
	 	 	38	 
	SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings
	 	 	39	 
	SECTION 2.03. Requests for Revolving Borrowings
	 	 	39	 
	SECTION 2.04. Protective Advances
	 	 	40	 
	SECTION 2.05. Swingline Loans
	 	 	41	 
	SECTION 2.06. Letters of Credit
	 	 	43	 
	SECTION 2.07. Funding of Borrowings
	 	 	47	 
	SECTION 2.08. Interest Elections
	 	 	48	 
	SECTION 2.09. Termination and Reduction of Commitments
	 	 	49	 
	SECTION 2.10. Repayment and Amortization of Loans; Evidence of Debt
	 	 	50	 
	SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans
	 	 	52	 
	SECTION 2.12. Fees
	 	 	54	 
	SECTION 2.13. Interest
	 	 	55	 
	SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest
	 	 	56	 
	SECTION 2.15. Increased Costs
	 	 	57	 
	SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments
	 	 	58	 
	SECTION 2.17. Taxes
	 	 	58	 
	SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Allocation of Proceeds; Sharing of Set-offs
	 	 	61	 
	SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
	 	 	64	 
	SECTION 2.20. Returned Payments
	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 2.21. Defaulting Lenders
	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 2.22. Expansion Option 
	 	 	66	 
	 
	ARTICLE III Representations and Warranties
	 	 	67	 
	 
	SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers
	 	 	67	 
	SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability
	 	 	68	 

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	SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts
	 	 	68	 
	SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change
	 	 	68	 
	SECTION 3.05. Properties
	 	 	69	 
	SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters
	 	 	69	 
	SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements
	 	 	69	 
	SECTION 3.08. Investment Company Status
	 	 	69	 
	SECTION 3.09. Taxes
	 	 	69	 
	SECTION 3.10. ERISA; Benefit Plans
	 	 	70	 
	SECTION 3.11. Disclosure
	 	 	70	 
	SECTION 3.12. Material Agreements
	 	 	71	 
	SECTION 3.13. Solvency
	 	 	71	 
	SECTION 3.14. Insurance
	 	 	71	 
	SECTION 3.15. Capitalization and Subsidiaries
	 	 	71	 
	SECTION 3.16. Security Interest in Collateral
	 	 	71	 
	SECTION 3.17. Employment Matters
	 	 	72	 
	SECTION 3.18. Common Enterprise
	 	 	72	 
	SECTION 3.19. Canadian Anti Money Laundering Legislation
	 	 	72	 
	 
	ARTICLE IV Conditions
	 	 	72	 
	 
	SECTION 4.01. Effective Date
	 	 	72	 
	SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event
	 	 	75	 
	 
	ARTICLE V Affirmative Covenants
	 	 	76	 
	 
	SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements; Borrowing Base and Other Information
	 	 	76	 
	SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events
	 	 	79	 
	SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business
	 	 	80	 
	SECTION 5.04. Payment of Taxes
	 	 	80	 
	SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties
	 	 	81	 
	SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights
	 	 	81	 
	SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws
	 	 	81	 
	SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds
	 	 	81	 
	SECTION 5.09. Insurance
	 	 	81	 
	SECTION 5.10. Casualty and Condemnation
	 	 	82	 
	SECTION 5.11. Appraisals; Field Examinations
	 	 	82	 

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	SECTION 5.12. Depository Banks; Control Agreements
	 	 	82	 
	SECTION 5.13. Additional Collateral; Further Assurances
	 	 	83	 
	SECTION 5.14. Collateral Access Agreements
	 	 	84	 
	SECTION 5.15. Post Closing Items
	 	 	85	 
	 
	ARTICLE VI Negative Covenants
	 	 	85	 
	 
	SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness
	 	 	85	 
	SECTION 6.02. Liens
	 	 	86	 
	SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes
	 	 	87	 
	SECTION 6.04. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions
	 	 	88	 
	SECTION 6.05. Asset Sales
	 	 	89	 
	SECTION 6.06. Sale and Leaseback Transactions
	 	 	90	 
	SECTION 6.07. Swap Agreements
	 	 	91	 
	SECTION 6.08. Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness
	 	 	91	 
	SECTION 6.09. Transactions with Affiliates
	 	 	92	 
	SECTION 6.10. Restrictive Agreements
	 	 	92	 
	SECTION 6.11. Amendment of Material Documents
	 	 	93	 
	SECTION 6.12. Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
	 	 	93	 
	SECTION 6.13. Changes in Fiscal Periods
	 	 	93	 
	 
	ARTICLE VII Events of Default
	 	 	93	 
	 
	ARTICLE VIII The Administrative Agents
	 	 	96	 
	 
	ARTICLE IX Miscellaneous
	 	 	99	 
	 
	SECTION 9.01. Notices
	 	 	99	 
	SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments
	 	 	101	 
	SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver
	 	 	103	 
	SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns
	 	 	105	 
	SECTION 9.05. Survival
	 	 	108	 
	SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness
	 	 	108	 
	SECTION 9.07. Severability
	 	 	108	 
	SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff
	 	 	109	 
	SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process
	 	 	109	 
	SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
	 	 	109	 
	SECTION 9.11. Headings
	 	 	110	 

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	SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality
	 	 	110	 
	SECTION 9.13. Several Obligations; Nonreliance; Violation of Law
	 	 	111	 
	SECTION 9.14. USA PATRIOT Act
	 	 	111	 
	SECTION 9.15. Disclosure
	 	 	111	 
	SECTION 9.16. Appointment for Perfection
	 	 	111	 
	SECTION 9.17. Interest Rate Limitation
	 	 	111	 
	SECTION 9.18. Waiver of Immunity
	 	 	112	 
	SECTION 9.19. Currency of Payment
	 	 	112	 
	SECTION 9.20. Canadian Anti-Money Laundering Legislation
	 	 	112	 
	SECTION 9.21. Subordination
	 	 	113	 
	SECTION 9.22. Process Agent
	 	 	113	 
	 
	ARTICLE X Loan Guaranty
	 	 	114	 
	 
	SECTION 10.01. Guaranty
	 	 	114	 
	SECTION 10.02. Guaranty of Payment
	 	 	114	 
	SECTION 10.03. No Discharge or Diminishment of Loan Guaranty
	 	 	114	 
	SECTION 10.04. Defenses Waived
	 	 	115	 
	SECTION 10.05. Rights of Subrogation
	 	 	115	 
	SECTION 10.06. Reinstatement; Stay of Acceleration
	 	 	115	 
	SECTION 10.07. Information
	 	 	115	 
	SECTION 10.08. Termination
	 	 	116	 
	SECTION 10.09. Maximum Liability
	 	 	116	 
	SECTION 10.10. Contribution
	 	 	116	 
	SECTION 10.11. Liability Cumulative
	 	 	117	 
	 
	ARTICLE XI The Borrower Representative
	 	 	117	 
	 
	SECTION 11.01. Appointment; Nature of Relationship
	 	 	117	 
	SECTION 11.02. Powers
	 	 	117	 
	SECTION 11.03. Employment of Agents
	 	 	117	 
	SECTION 11.04. Notices
	 	 	117	 
	SECTION 11.05. Successor Borrower Representative
	 	 	117	 
	SECTION 11.06. Execution of Loan Documents; Borrowing Base Certificate
	 	 	117	 

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Exhibit 4.1

ALLIED HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL INC.

and

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.

as Rights Agent

RIGHTS AGREEMENT

Dated as
of April 2, 2009

 

 

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	Section 1.

	 	Definitions
	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.

	 	Appointment of Rights Agent
	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.

	 	Issuance of Rights Certificates
	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 4.

	 	Form of Rights Certificates
	 	 	9	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.

	 	Countersignature and Registration
	 	 	10	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.

	 	Transfer, Split Up, Combination and Exchange
of Rights Certificates; Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or
Stolen Rights Certificates
	 	 	11	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 7.

	 	Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights
	 	 	12	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.

	 	Cancellation and Destruction of Rights Certificates
	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.

	 	Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock
	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 10.

	 	Preferred Stock Record Date
	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.

	 	Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and
Kind of Shares or Number of Rights
	 	 	16	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 12.

	 	Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares
	 	 	23	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 13.

	 	Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power
	 	 	23	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 14.

	 	Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares
	 	 	27	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 15.

	 	Rights of Action
	 	 	28	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 16.

	 	Agreement of Rights Holders
	 	 	28	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 17.

	 	Rights Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Shareholder
	 	 	29	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 18.

	 	Concerning the Rights Agent
	 	 	29	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 19.

	 	Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent
	 	 	30	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 20.

	 	Duties of Rights Agent
	 	 	30	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 21.

	 	Change of Rights Agent
	 	 	32	 

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
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	Section 22.

	 	Issuance of New Rights Certificates
	 	 	33	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 23.

	 	Redemption and Termination
	 	 	33	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 24.

	 	Exchange
	 	 	34	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 25.

	 	Notice of Certain Events
	 	 	35	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 26.

	 	Notices
	 	 	36	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 27.

	 	Supplements and Amendments
	 	 	37	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 28.

	 	Successors
	 	 	38	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 29.

	 	Determinations and Actions by the Board, etc.
	 	 	38	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 30.

	 	Independent Director Evaluation
	 	 	38	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 31.

	 	Benefits of this Agreement
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 32.

	 	Severability
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 33.

	 	Governing Law
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 34.

	 	Counterparts
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 35.

	 	Descriptive Headings
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Section 36.

	 	Force Majeure
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Exhibit A

	 	Form of Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Exhibit B

	 	Form of Rights Certificate	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Exhibit C

	 	Summary of Rights to Purchase Series A Preferred Stock	 	 	 	 

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RIGHTS AGREEMENT

          RIGHTS
AGREEMENT dated as of April 2, 2009, between Allied Healthcare International Inc., a
New York corporation (the “Company”), and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a federally
chartered trust company, as Rights Agent (the “Rights Agent”).

WITNESSETH

          WHEREAS, on March 23, 2009 (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”), the Board
authorized and declared a dividend distribution of one (1) preferred share purchase right (a
“Right”) for each share of Common Stock (as hereinafter defined) of the Company outstanding
at the close of business on April 2, 2009 (the “Record Date”), and has authorized the
issuance of one (1) Right (as such number may hereinafter be adjusted pursuant to the provisions of
Section 11(i) hereof) for each share of Common Stock of the Company issued between the Record Date
(whether originally issued or delivered from the Company’s treasury) and the earliest of the
Distribution Date, the Redemption Date and the Final Expiration Date (each as hereinafter defined)
and in certain circumstances after the Distribution Date, each Right initially representing the
right to purchase one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred Stock (as hereinafter
defined) having the rights, powers and preferences set forth in the form of the Certificate of
Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation attached hereto as Exhibit A, upon the terms
and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth;

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

     Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the
meanings indicated:

          (a) “Acquiring Person” shall mean any Person who or which, together with all
Affiliates and Associates of such Person shall be the Beneficial Owner of twenty percent (20%) or
more of the shares of Common Stock of the Company then outstanding, but shall not include an Exempt
Person.

          (b) “Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

          (c) “Adjustment Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(ii) hereof.

          (d) “Affiliate” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 12b-2 of the
General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof.

          (e) “Agreement” shall mean this Rights Agreement as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented, amended, renewed, restated or extended pursuant to the
applicable provisions hereof.

          (f) “Associate” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 12b-2 of the
General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof.

 

 

          (g) A Person shall be deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of, and shall be deemed to
“beneficially own,” any securities:

               (i) which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates, directly or
indirectly, owns or has the right to acquire (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only
after the passage of time) pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not
in writing) or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, rights, warrants, options
or otherwise; provided, however, that a Person shall not be deemed the “Beneficial
Owner” of, or to “beneficially own,” (A) securities tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer
made by or on behalf of such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates until such
tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange, (B) securities issuable upon exercise of
Rights at any time prior to the occurrence of a Triggering Event or (C) securities issuable upon
exercise of Rights from and after the occurrence of a Triggering Event which Rights are Original
Rights or securities issued pursuant to Section 11(i) hereof in connection with an adjustment made
with respect to any Original Rights;

               (ii) which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates, directly or
indirectly, has the right to vote or dispose of or has “beneficial ownership” of (as determined
pursuant to Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act), including
pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing);
provided, however, that a Person shall not be deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of, or
to “beneficially own,” any security under this Section 1(g)(ii) as a result of an agreement,
arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing) to vote such security if such agreement,
arrangement or understanding: (A) arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given in response
to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable
provisions of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act and (B) is not also then
reportable by such Person on Schedule 13D under the Exchange Act (or any comparable or successor
report);

               (iii) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other Person (or any
Affiliate or Associate thereof) with which such Person (or any of such Person’s Affiliates or
Associates) has any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing) for the
purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except pursuant to a revocable proxy as described in clause
(A) of the proviso to Section 1(g)(ii) above) or disposing of any voting securities of the Company;
or

               (iv) in respect of which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates has a
Synthetic Long Position;

provided, however, that nothing in this Section 1(g) shall cause a Person engaged
in business as an underwriter of securities to be the “Beneficial Owner” of, or to be deemed to
“beneficially own,” any securities acquired, or which that Person has the right to acquire, through
such Person’s participation in good faith in a firm commitment underwriting until the expiration of
forty (40) days after the date of such acquisition, and then only if such securities continue to be
owned by such Person at such expiration of forty (40) days; provided further that
in no case shall an officer or director of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company be deemed
(x) the Beneficial Owner of any securities beneficially owned by another officer or director of the

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Company or any Subsidiary of the Company solely by reason of actions undertaken by such persons in
their capacity as officers or directors of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or (y) the
Beneficial Owner of securities held of record by the trustee of any employee benefit plan of the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company for the benefit of any employee of the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company, other than the officer or director, by reason of any influence that such
officer or director may have over the voting of the securities held in the plan.

          (h) “Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.

          (i) “Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which
banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order
to close.

          (j) “Close of Business” on any given date shall mean 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on
such date; provided, however, that if such date is not a Business Day, it shall
mean 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day.

          (k) “Common Stock”, when used in reference to the Company, shall mean the common
stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company or any other shares of capital stock of the Company
into which such stock shall be reclassified or changed. “Common Stock” when used with reference to
any Person other than the Company organized in corporate form shall mean (i) the capital stock or
other equity interest in such Person with the greatest voting power, (ii) the equity securities or
other equity interest having power to control or direct the management of such Person or (iii) if
such Person is a Subsidiary of another Person, the capital stock, equity securities of, or other
equity interest in, the Person or Persons which ultimately control such first-mentioned Person and
which has issued any such outstanding capital stock, equity securities or equity interest. “Common
Stock” when used with reference to any Person not organized in corporate form shall mean units of
beneficial interest which (x) represent the right to participate generally in the profits and
losses of such Person (including without limitation any flow-through tax benefits resulting from an
ownership interest in such Person) and (y) are entitled to exercise the greatest voting power of
such Person or, in the case of a limited partnership, have the power to remove the general partner
or partners.

          (l) “Common Stock Equivalents” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii)
hereof.

          (m) “Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble of this Agreement,
until a successor corporation or entity shall have become such or until a Principal Party shall
assume, and thereafter be liable for, all obligations and duties of the Company hereunder pursuant
to the applicable provisions of this Agreement and, thereafter, “Company” shall mean such successor
or Principal Party, respectively.

          (n) “Current Market Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(d) hereof.

          (o) “Current Value” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii) hereof.

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          (p) “Distribution Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a) hereof.

          (q) “Equivalent Preference Stock” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(b)
hereof.

          (r) “Exchange Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(a) hereof.

          (s) “Exchange Ratio” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 24(a) hereof.

          (t) “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

          (u) “Exempt Person” shall mean (i) the Company, (ii) any Subsidiary of the Company,
(iii) any employee benefit plan or employee stock plan of the Company or of any Subsidiary of the
Company, (iv) any Person or entity organized, appointed, established or holding Common Stock of the
Company by, for or pursuant to the terms of any employee benefit plan or employee stock plan, (v) a
Person who, together with its Affiliates and Associates, becomes the Beneficial Owner of twenty
percent (20%) or more of the shares of Common Stock of the Company then outstanding solely as a
result of a reduction in the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company outstanding due to the
repurchase of shares of Common Stock of the Company by the Company, unless and until such time as
such Person shall purchase or otherwise become (as a result of actions taken by such Person or its
Affiliates or Associates) the Beneficial Owner of any additional shares of Common Stock of the
Company, (vi) any Person who the Board in good faith determines has inadvertently become the
Beneficial Owner of twenty percent (20%) or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, so
long as such Person divests as promptly as practicable a sufficient number of shares of Common
Stock so that such Person would no longer be the Beneficial Owner of twenty percent (20%) or more
of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company, and (vii) any Person who, on the
date of execution of this Agreement, is the Beneficial Owner of twenty percent (20%) or more of the
shares of Common Stock of the Company then outstanding, unless and until such Person, together with
its Affiliates and Associates, while remaining the Beneficial Owner of twenty percent (20%) or more
of the shares of Common Stock of the Company then outstanding, acquires beneficial ownership of
additional shares of Common Stock of the Company representing half a percent (0.5%) or more of the
shares of Common Stock of the Company then outstanding.

          (v) “Expiration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(a) hereof.

          (w)
“Final Expiration Date” shall mean the Close of
Business on (i) April 1, 2019, if this Agreement is
approved at the 2010 annual meeting of shareholders by the
affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of
the shares of stock of the Company who are present or represented by
proxy and entitled to vote on the matter at a meeting of the
shareholders held in accordance with applicable law, or (ii) on
the Business Day after the 2010 annual meeting of shareholders, if
this Agreement is not so approved at the 2010 annual meeting of
shareholders, in each case, unless the Rights are previously
redeemed, exchanged or terminated or a Distribution Date has
occurred.

          (x) “Independent Director” shall mean a director of the Company who shall have been
determined by the Board to be independent under Nasdaq listing standards, or, if the shares of
Common Stock are listed on another national exchange, such national exchange’s listing standards.

          (y) “Nasdaq” shall mean The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC.

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          (z) “Original Rights” shall mean Rights acquired by a Person or such Person’s
Associates or Affiliates prior to the Distribution Date or issued pursuant to Section 3(a) or
Section 22 hereof.

          (aa) “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, limited liability partnership, association, trust, syndicate or other entity,
and includes without limitation an unincorporated group of individuals who, by formal or informal
agreement or arrangement (whether or not in writing), have embarked on a common purpose or act.

          (bb) “Preferred Stock” shall mean shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $.01
per share, of the Company, and, to the extent that there is not a sufficient number of shares of
Series A Preferred Stock authorized to permit the full exercise of the Rights, any other series of
preferred stock of the Company designated for such purpose containing terms substantially similar
to the terms of the Series A Preferred Stock.

          (cc) “Principal Party” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13(b) hereof.

          (dd) “Purchase Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) hereof.

          (ee) “Qualifying Offer” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(ii) hereof.

          (ff) “Record Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the “WHEREAS” clause at the
beginning of this Agreement.

          (gg) “Redemption Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(a) hereof.

          (hh) “Redemption Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 23(a) hereof.

          (ii) “Redemption Price” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 23(a) hereof.

          (jj) “Right” shall have the meaning set forth in the “WHEREAS” clause at the beginning
of this Agreement.

          (kk) “Rights Agent” shall mean the Person named as the “Rights Agent” in the preamble
of this Agreement until a successor Rights Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions hereof, and thereafter “Rights Agent” shall mean such successor Rights Agent. If at any
time there is more than one Person appointed by the Company as Rights Agent pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Agreement, “Rights Agent” shall mean and include each such Person.

          (ll) “Rights Certificate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a) hereof.

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          (mm) “Rights Dividend Declaration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in the
“WHEREAS” clause at the beginning of this Agreement.

          (nn) “Section 11(a)(ii) Event” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(ii)
hereof.

          (oo) “Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
11(a)(iii) hereof.

          (pp) “Section 13 Event” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13(a) hereof.

          (qq) “Spread” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii) hereof.

          (rr) “Stock Acquisition Date” shall mean the first date of public announcement (which,
for purposes of this definition, shall include, without limitation, a report filed pursuant to the
Exchange Act) by the Company or an Acquiring Person that an Acquiring Person has become such.

          (ss) “Subsidiary” shall mean, with reference to any Person, any corporation or other
entity of which securities or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power sufficient, in
the absence of contingencies, to elect at least a majority of the board of directors or other
persons performing similar functions of such corporation or other entity are at the time directly
or indirectly beneficially owned or otherwise controlled by such Person and any Affiliate or
Associate of such Person.

          (tt) “Substitution Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(a)(iii)
hereof.

          (uu) “Summary of Rights” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(b) hereof.

          (vv) “Synthetic Long Position” shall mean any option, warrant, convertible security,
stock appreciation right or other contractual right, whether or not presently exercisable, which
has an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to
shares of Common Stock of the Company or a value determined in whole or part with reference to, or
derived in whole or in part from, the market price or value of shares of Common Stock of the
Company, whether or not such right is subject to settlement in whole or in part in shares of Common
Stock of the Company, and which increases in value as the value of a share of Common Stock of the
Company increases or which provides to the holder of such right an opportunity, directly or
indirectly, to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase in the value of a share of
Common Stock of the Company, but shall not include:

               (i) rights of a pledgee under a bona fide pledge of shares of Common Stock of the Company;

               (ii) rights of all holders of shares of Common Stock of the Company to receive shares of
Common Stock of the Company pro rata, or obligations to dispose of shares of

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Common Stock of the Company, as a result of a merger, exchange offer, or consolidation
involving the Company;

               (iii) rights or obligations to surrender shares of Common Stock of the Company, or have shares
of Common Stock of the Company withheld, upon the receipt or exercise of a derivative security or
the receipt or vesting of equity securities, in order to satisfy the exercise price or the tax
withholding consequences of receipt, exercise or vesting;

               (iv) interests in broad-based index options, broad-based index futures, and broad-based
publicly traded market baskets of stocks approved for trading by the appropriate federal
governmental authority;

               (v) interests or rights to participate in employee benefit plans of the Company held by
employees or former employees of the Company; or

               (vi) options granted to an underwriter in a registered public offering for the purpose of
satisfying over-allotments in such offering.

The number of shares of Common Stock of the Company in respect of which a Person has a Synthetic
Long Position shall be the notional or other number of shares of Common Stock of the Company
specified in a filing by such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 13D-G or Regulation 14D under the
Exchange Act in respect of which shares of Common Stock are the subject security or in the
documentation evidencing the Synthetic Long Position as being subject to be acquired upon the
exercise or settlement of the applicable right or as the basis upon which the value or settlement
amount of such right, or the opportunity of the holder of such right to profit or share in any
profit, is to be calculated in whole or in part or, if no such filing is made or required to be
made pursuant to Regulation 13D-G or Regulation 14D under the Exchange Act or if no such number of
shares of Common Stock is specified in such filing or documentation, as determined by the Board of
Directors of the Company in good faith to be the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company to
which the Synthetic Long Position relates.

          (ww) “Trading Day” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 11(d)(i) hereof.

          (xx) “Triggering Event” shall mean any Section 11(a)(ii) Event or any Section 13
Event.

     Section 2. Appointment of Rights Agent. The Company hereby appoints the Rights Agent
to act as agent for the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and
the Rights Agent hereby accepts such appointment. The Company may from time to time appoint such
co-Rights Agents as it may deem necessary or desirable, upon ten (10) days’ prior written notice to
the Rights Agent. The Rights Agent shall have not duty to supervise, and shall in no event be
liable for, the acts or omissions of any such co-Rights Agent. Unless otherwise determined by the
Company, any actions which may be taken by the Rights Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement
may be taken by any such co-Rights Agent.

     Section 3. Issuance of Rights Certificates.

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          (a) Until the earlier of:

               (i) the Close of Business on the tenth (10th) Business Day (or such specified or unspecified
later date as may be determined by the Board before the occurrence of a Distribution Date) after
the Stock Acquisition Date (or, if the tenth (10th) Business Day (or such later date) after the
Stock Acquisition Date occurs before the Record Date, the Close of Business on the Record Date) and

               (ii) the Close of Business on the tenth (10th) Business Day (or such specified or unspecified
later date as may be determined by the Board before the occurrence of a Distribution Date) after
the date that a tender or exchange offer by any Person is first published or sent or given within
the meaning of Rule 14d-2(a) of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act, if upon
consummation thereof such Person would become an Acquiring Person made at a time when the Rights
are redeemable hereof (the earlier of (i) and (ii) being herein referred to as the
“Distribution Date”),

(x) the Rights will be evidenced (subject to the provisions of Section 3(b) and Section 3(c))
by the certificates for the Common Stock of the Company registered in the names of the holders
thereof (which certificates for Common Stock shall be deemed also to be certificates for Rights)
and not by separate certificates and (y) the Rights will be transferable only in connection with
the transfer of the underlying shares of Common Stock (including a transfer to the Company). As
soon as practicable after the Distribution Date, the Company shall prepare and execute, the Rights
Agent shall countersign and the Company shall send or cause to be sent (and the Rights Agent shall,
if requested, send) by first-class, insured, postage-prepaid mail, to each record holder of the
Common Stock of the Company as of the Close of Business on the Distribution Date, at the address of
such holder shown on the records of the Company, a rights certificate substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit B (each, a “Rights Certificate”), evidencing one (1)
Right for each share of Common Stock so held, subject to adjustment as provided herein. In the
event that an adjustment in the number of Rights per share of Common Stock has been made pursuant
to Section 11 hereof, at the time of distribution of the Rights Certificates, the Company shall not
be required to issue Rights Certificates evidencing fractional Rights, but may, in lieu thereof,
make the necessary and appropriate rounding adjustments (in accordance with Section 14(a) hereof)
so that Rights Certificates representing only whole numbers of Rights are distributed and cash is
paid in lieu of any fractional Rights. As of and after the Distribution Date, the Rights will be
evidenced solely by such Rights Certificates.

          (b) As promptly as practicable following the Record Date, the Company will make available a
copy of a summary of Rights (a “Summary of Rights”) substantially in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit C to any holder of the Rights who may so request from time to time prior
to the Expiration Date. With respect to certificates for the Common Stock outstanding as of the
Record Date, until the Distribution Date, the Rights will be evidenced by such certificates for the
Common Stock and the registered holders of the Common Stock shall also be the registered holders of
the associated Rights. Until the earlier of the Distribution Date and the Expiration Date, the
transfer of any certificates representing shares of Common Stock in respect of which Rights have
been issued shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with such shares of Common
Stock.

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          (c) Rights shall be issued in respect of all shares of Common Stock which are issued (whether
originally issued or from the Company’s treasury) after the Record Date but prior to the earlier of
the Close of Business on the Distribution Date and the Expiration Date and, to the extent provided
in Section 22 hereof, in respect of shares of Common Stock of the Company issued after the
Distribution Date and prior to the Expiration Date. Certificates representing such shares of Common
Stock of the Company shall also be deemed to be certificates for Rights, and shall, as promptly as
practicable following the Record Date, bear the following legend:

This certificate also evidences and entitles the holder hereof to certain Rights as
set forth in the Rights Agreement between Allied Healthcare International Inc. (the
“Company”) and the Rights Agent thereunder, dated as
of April 2, 2009, as
the same may be amended, restated, renewed or extended from time to time (the
“Rights Agreement”), the terms of which are hereby incorporated herein by
reference and a copy of which is on file at the principal offices of the Company.
Under certain circumstances, as set forth in the Rights Agreement, such Rights will
be evidenced by separate certificates and will no longer be evidenced by this
certificate. The Company will mail to the holder of this certificate a copy of the
Rights Agreement, as in effect on the date of mailing, without charge promptly after
receipt of a written request therefor. Under certain circumstances set forth in the
Rights Agreement, Rights beneficially owned (as such term is defined in the Rights
Agreement) by any Person who is, was or becomes an Acquiring Person or any Affiliate
or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights
Agreement), whether currently held by or on behalf of such Person or by any
subsequent holder, may become null and void. The Rights shall not be exercisable,
and shall be void so long as held, by a holder in any jurisdiction where the
requisite qualification to the issuance to such holder, or the exercise by such
holder, of the Rights in such jurisdiction shall not have been obtained or be
obtainable.

With respect to such certificates containing the foregoing legend, until the earlier of (i) the
Distribution Date or (ii) the Expiration Date, the Rights associated with the Common Stock
represented by such certificates shall be evidenced by such certificates alone and registered
holders of Common Stock shall also be the registered holders of the associated Rights, and the
transfer of any such certificates shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with
the Common Stock represented by such certificates. Notwithstanding this Section 3(c), the omission
of a legend shall not affect the enforceability of any part of this Agreement or the rights of any
holder of the Rights.

     Section 4. Form of Rights Certificates.

          (a) The Rights Certificates (and the forms of election to purchase, assignment and certificate
contained therein to be printed on the reverse thereof) shall each be substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit B and may have such marks of identification or designation and
such legends, summaries or endorsements printed thereon as the Company may deem appropriate and as
are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, or as may be required to comply with
any applicable law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto

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or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on which the Rights may from time to time
be listed, or to conform to usage. Subject to the provisions of Section 11 and Section 22 hereof,
the Rights Certificates, whenever distributed, shall be dated as of the Record Date and on their
face shall entitle the holders thereof to purchase such number of one one-ten thousandths of a
share of Preferred Stock as shall be set forth therein at the exercise price set forth therein
(such exercise price per one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share, as adjusted from time to time
hereunder, the “Purchase Price”), but the amount and type of securities purchasable upon
the exercise of each Right and the Purchase Price thereof shall be subject to adjustment as
provided herein, including as provided in Section 11(a)(ii) hereof.

          (b) Any Rights Certificate issued pursuant to Section 3(a), Section 11(i) or Section 22 hereof
that represents Rights beneficially owned by: (i) an Acquiring Person or any Associate or Affiliate
of an Acquiring Person; (ii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or
Affiliate) who becomes a transferee after the Acquiring Person becomes such; or (iii) a transferee
of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee prior to or
concurrently with the Acquiring Person becoming such and receives such Rights pursuant to either
(A) a transfer (whether or not for consideration) from the Acquiring Person to holders of equity
interests in such Acquiring Person or to any Person with whom such Acquiring Person has any
continuing agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing) regarding the
transferred Rights or (B) a transfer which the Board, in its sole discretion, has determined is
part of a plan, arrangement or understanding which has as a primary purpose or effect avoidance of
the provisions of Section 7(e) hereof, and any Rights Certificate issued pursuant to Section 6 or
Section 11 hereof upon transfer, exchange, replacement or adjustment of any other Rights
Certificate referred to in this sentence, shall contain (to the extent feasible) the following
legend:

The Rights represented by this Rights Certificate are or were beneficially owned by
a Person who is, was or became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of
an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement).
Accordingly, this Rights Certificate and the Rights represented hereby may become
null and void in the circumstances specified in Section 7(e) of such Agreement.

     Section 5. Countersignature and Registration.

          (a) The Rights Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the
Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, any Vice President or its Chief Financial
Officer, either manually or by facsimile signature, and attested to by the Secretary or any
Assistant Secretary, either manually or by facsimile or other reproduced signature. The Rights
Certificates shall be countersigned by an authorized signatory of the Rights Agent, either manually
or by facsimile or other reproduced signature, and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so
countersigned. In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Rights
Certificates shall cease to be such officer of the Company before countersignature by an authorized
signatory of the Rights Agent and issuance and delivery by the Company, such Rights Certificates,
nevertheless, may be countersigned by an authorized signatory of the Rights Agent and issued and
delivered by the Company with the same force and effect as though the person who signed such Rights
Certificates had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any

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Rights Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by any person who, at the actual
date of the execution of such Rights Certificate, shall be a proper officer of the Company to sign
such Rights Certificate, although at the date of the execution of this Agreement any such person
was not such an officer.

          (b) Following the Distribution Date, the Rights Agent will keep or cause to be kept, at its
office or offices designated as the appropriate place for surrender of Rights Certificates upon
exercise or transfer, books for registration and transfer of the Rights Certificates issued
hereunder. Such books shall show the names and addresses of the respective holders of the Rights
Certificates, the number of Rights evidenced on its face by each of the Rights Certificates and the
date of each of the Rights Certificates.

     Section 6. Transfer, Split Up, Combination and Exchange of Rights Certificates; Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Rights Certificates.

          (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 4(b), Section 7(e) and Section 14 hereof, at any time
after the Close of Business on the Distribution Date, and at or prior to the Close of Business on
the Expiration Date, any Rights Certificate or Certificates may be transferred, split up, combined
or exchanged for another Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates entitling the registered holder
to purchase a like number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or, following
the occurrence of a Triggering Event, Common Stock, other securities, cash or other assets, as the
case may be) as the Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates surrendered then entitled such holder
(or former holder in the case of a transfer) to purchase. Any registered holder desiring to
transfer, split up, combine or exchange any Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates shall make
such request in writing delivered to the Rights Agent, and shall surrender the Rights Certificate
or Rights Certificates to be transferred, split up, combined or exchanged, with the forms of
assignment and certificate contained therein duly executed, at the office or offices of the Rights
Agent designated for such purpose. Neither the Rights Agent nor the Company shall be obligated to
take any action whatsoever with respect to the transfer of any such surrendered Rights Certificate
or Rights Certificates until the registered holder shall have completed and signed the certificate
contained in the form of assignment on the reverse side of such Rights Certificate or Rights
Certificates and shall have provided such additional evidence of the identity of the Beneficial
Owner (or former Beneficial Owner) or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company shall
reasonably request. Thereupon, the Rights Agent shall, subject to Section 4(b), Section 7(e) and
Section 14, countersign and deliver to the Person entitled thereto a Rights Certificate or Rights
Certificates, as the case may be, as so requested. The Company may require payment from the holder
of a Rights Certificate of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any transfer, split up, combination or exchange of Rights Certificates.
The Rights Agent shall have no duty or obligation under this Section 6 unless and until it is
satisfied that all such taxes and/or charges have been paid in full.

          (b) Upon receipt by the Company and the Rights Agent of evidence reasonably satisfactory to
them of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of a valid Rights Certificate and, in case of
loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security satisfactory to them, and reimbursement to the
Company and the Rights Agent of all reasonable expenses incidental thereto, and upon surrender to
the Rights Agent and cancellation of the Rights Certificate if mutilated, the Company will execute
and deliver a new Rights Certificate of like tenor to the

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Rights Agent for countersignature and delivery to the registered owner in lieu of the Rights
Certificate so lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated.

     Section 7. Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights.

          (a) Subject to Section 7(e) hereof, the registered holder of any Rights Certificate may
exercise the Rights evidenced thereby (except as otherwise provided herein, including, without
limitation, the restrictions on exercisability set forth in Section 9(c), Section 11(a)(iii) and
Section 23(a) hereof) in whole or in part at any time after the Distribution Date upon surrender of
the Rights Certificate, with the form of election to purchase and the certificate contained therein
duly executed, to the Rights Agent at the office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for such
purpose, together with payment of the aggregate Purchase Price with respect to the total number of
one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or, following the occurrence of a Triggering
Event, Common Stock, other securities, cash or other assets, as the case may be) as to which such
surrendered Rights are exercisable, at or prior to the earliest of (i) the Final Expiration Date,
(ii) the time at which all of the Rights are redeemed as provided in Section 23 hereof (the
“Redemption Date”) and (iii) the time at which all of the Rights are exchanged as provided
in Section 24 hereof (the “Exchange Date”) (the earliest of (i), (ii) and (iii) being
herein referred to as the “Expiration Date”).

          (b) The Purchase Price for each one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred Stock
pursuant to the exercise of a Right shall initially be Twenty Dollars ($20.00), shall be subject to
adjustment from time to time as provided in Sections 11 and 13(a) hereof and shall be payable in
accordance with Section 7(c) below.

          (c) Upon receipt of a Rights Certificate representing exercisable Rights, with the form of
election to purchase and the certificate contained therein duly executed, accompanied by payment,
with respect to each Right so exercised, of the Purchase Price, as such amount may be reduced
pursuant to Section 11(a)(iii) hereof, per one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred
Stock (or, following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, for Common Stock, other securities, cash
or other assets, as the case may be) to be purchased (as set forth below) and an amount equal to
any applicable tax or governmental charge, the Rights Agent shall, subject to Sections 7(f) and
20(k) hereof, thereupon promptly (i)(A) requisition from any transfer agent of the shares of
Preferred Stock (or make available, if the Rights Agent is the transfer agent for such shares)
certificates for the total number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock to be
purchased, and the Company hereby irrevocably authorizes its transfer agent to comply with all such
requests or (B) if the Company shall have elected to deposit the total number of shares of
Preferred Stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights hereunder with a depositary agent, requisition
from the depositary agent depositary receipts representing such number of one one-ten thousandths
of a share of Preferred Stock as are to be purchased (in which case certificates for the shares of
Preferred Stock represented by such receipts shall be deposited by the transfer agent with the
depositary agent to comply with such request), (ii) after receipt of such certificates or
depositary receipts, cause the same to be delivered to, or upon the order of, the registered holder
of such Rights Certificate, registered in such name or names as may be designated by such holder,
(iii) requisition from the Company the amount of cash, if any, to be paid in lieu of fractional
shares in accordance with Section 14 hereof and (iv) after receipt thereof, deliver such cash, if
any, to, or upon the order of, the registered holder of such Rights Certificate, registered

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in such name or names as may be designated by such holder. The payment of the Purchase Price
(as such amount may be reduced pursuant to Section 11(a)(iii) hereof) shall be made in cash or by
certified check, cashier’s check or bank draft payable to the order of the Company. In the event
that the Company is obligated to issue other securities (including Common Stock) of the Company,
pay cash and/or distribute other property pursuant to this Section 7(c) or Section 11(a) hereof,
the Company will make all arrangements necessary so that such other securities, cash and/or other
property are available for distribution by the Rights Agent, if and when necessary to comply with
this Agreement. The Company reserves the right to require, prior to the occurrence of a Triggering
Event, that, upon any exercise of Rights, a number of Rights be exercised so that only whole shares
of Preferred Stock will be issued.

          (d) In case the registered holder of any Rights Certificate shall exercise less than all of
the Rights evidenced thereby, a new Rights Certificate evidencing Rights equivalent to the Rights
remaining unexercised shall be issued by the Rights Agent and delivered to, or upon the order of,
the registered holder of such Rights Certificate, registered in such name or names as may be
designated by such holder, subject to the provisions of Sections 6 and 14 hereof.

          (e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, from and after the first
occurrence of a Triggering Event, any Rights beneficially owned by (i) an Acquiring Person or an
Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person, (ii) a transferee of any such Acquiring Person (or
of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee after such Acquiring Person becomes
such or (iii) a transferee of any such Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who
becomes a transferee prior to or concurrently with such Acquiring Person becoming such and receives
such Rights pursuant to either (A) a transfer (whether or not for consideration) from such
Acquiring Person to holders of equity interests in such Acquiring Person or to any Person with whom
such Acquiring Person has any continuing agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in
writing) regarding the transferred Rights or (B) a transfer which the Board has determined is part
of a plan, arrangement or understanding which has as a primary purpose or effect the avoidance of
this Section 7(e), shall become null and void without any further action, and no holder of such
Rights shall have any rights whatsoever with respect to such Rights, whether under any provision of
this Agreement or otherwise. The Company shall notify the Rights Agent when this Section 7(e)
applies and shall use all reasonable efforts to ensure that the provisions of this Section 7(e) and
Section 4(b) hereof are complied with, but neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall have any
liability to any holder of Rights Certificates or other Person as a result of the Company’s failure
to make any determinations with respect to an Acquiring Person or any of its Affiliates, Associates
or transferees hereunder.

          (f) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, neither the Rights Agent nor
the Company shall be obligated to undertake any action with respect to a registered holder of any
Rights Certificate upon the occurrence of any purported assignment or exercise as set forth in this
Section 7 unless such registered holder shall have (i) properly completed and signed the
certificate contained in the form of assignment or election to purchase set forth on the reverse
side of the Rights Certificate surrendered for such assignment or exercise and (ii) provided such
additional evidence of the identity of the Beneficial Owner (or former

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Beneficial Owner) or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company or the Rights Agent shall
reasonably request.

     Section 8. Cancellation and Destruction of Rights Certificates. All Rights
Certificates surrendered for the purpose of exercise, transfer, split up, combination or exchange
shall, if surrendered to the Company or any of its agents, be delivered to the Rights Agent for
cancellation or in cancelled form, or, if surrendered to the Rights Agent, shall be cancelled by
it, and no Rights Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any
of the provisions of this Agreement. The Company shall deliver to the Rights Agent for cancellation
and retirement, and the Rights Agent shall so cancel and retire, any other Rights Certificate
purchased or acquired by the Company otherwise than upon the exercise thereof. The Rights Agent
shall deliver all cancelled Rights Certificates to the Company, or shall, at the written request of
the Company, destroy such cancelled Rights Certificates and, in such case, shall deliver a
certificate of destruction thereof to the Company.

     Section 9. Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock.

          (a) The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be reserved and kept available out
of its authorized and unissued shares of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a
Triggering Event, out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock and/or other securities
or out of its authorized and issued shares held in its treasury), the number of shares of Preferred
Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, the amount of Common Stock and/or other
securities) that, as provided in this Agreement (including Section 11(a)(iii) hereof) will be
sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Rights.

          (b) So long as the shares of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Triggering
Event, Common Stock and/or other securities) issuable and deliverable upon the exercise of the
Rights may be listed on any stock exchange, the Company shall use all reasonable efforts to cause,
from and after such time as the Rights become exercisable, all shares reserved for such issuance to
be listed on such exchange upon official notice of issuance upon such exercise.

          (c) The Company shall use reasonable efforts to (i) file, as soon as practicable following the
earliest date after the first occurrence of a Triggering Event in which the consideration to be
delivered by the Company upon exercise of the Rights has been determined in accordance with this
Agreement, or as soon as required by law following the Distribution Date, as the case may be, a
registration statement under the Act on an appropriate form with respect to the Common Stock of the
Company or other securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights, (ii) cause such registration
statement to become effective as soon as practicable after such filing and (iii) cause such
registration statement to remain effective (with a prospectus at all times meeting the requirements
of the Act) until the earlier of (A) the date as of which the Rights are no longer exercisable for
such securities and (B) the Expiration Date. The Company will also take such action as may be
appropriate under, or to ensure compliance with, the securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the various
states in connection with the exercisability of the Rights. The Company may, acting by resolution
of the Board, temporarily suspend, for a period of time not to exceed ninety (90) days after the
date set forth in clause (i) of the first sentence (1st) of this Section 9(c), the exercisability
of the Rights in order to prepare and file such registration

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statement and permit it to become effective. In the event of any such suspension, the Company
shall promptly notify the Rights Agent thereof and issue a public announcement stating that the
exercisability of the Rights has been temporarily suspended and shall issue a public announcement
(with prompt notice thereof to the Rights Agent) at such time as the suspension is no longer in
effect. In addition, if the Company shall determine that a registration statement is required in
other circumstances following the Distribution Date, the Company may similarly temporarily suspend
the exercisability of the Rights until such time as a registration statement has been declared
effective. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Rights shall not be
exercisable in any jurisdiction if the requisite qualification in such jurisdiction shall not have
been obtained or the exercise thereof shall not otherwise be permitted under applicable law or a
registration statement shall not have been declared effective.

          (d) The Company covenants and agrees that it will take all such action as may be necessary to
ensure that all one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (and, following the
occurrence of a Triggering Event, Common Stock and/or other securities) delivered upon exercise of
Rights shall, at the time of delivery of the certificates for such shares (subject to payment of
the Purchase Price), be duly and validly authorized and issued and fully paid and nonassessable.

          (e) The Company further covenants and agrees that, except as set forth in Section 6(a) hereof
and this Section 9(e), it will pay when due and payable any and all taxes and charges which may be
payable in respect of the issuance or delivery of the Rights Certificates and of any certificates
for a number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other
securities, as the case may be) upon the exercise of Rights. The Company shall not, however, be
required to pay any tax or charge which may be payable in respect of any transfer or delivery of
Rights Certificates to a Person other than, or the issuance or delivery of a number of one one-ten
thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may
be) in respect of a name other than that of, the registered holder of the Rights Certificates
evidencing Rights surrendered for exercise, nor shall the Company be required to issue or deliver
any certificates for a number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or Common
Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) in a name other than that of the registered
holder upon the exercise of any Rights until such tax or charge shall have been paid (any such tax
or charge being payable by the holder of such Rights Certificate at the time of surrender) or until
it has been established to the Company’s satisfaction that no such tax or charge is due.

     Section 10. Preferred Stock Record Date. Each Person in whose name any certificate for
a number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other
securities, as the case may be) is issued upon the exercise of Rights shall for all purposes be
deemed to have become the holder of record of such fractional shares of Preferred Stock (or Common
Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) represented thereby, and such certificate shall
be dated the date upon which the Rights Certificate evidencing such Rights was duly surrendered and
payment of the Purchase Price (and all applicable taxes or charges) was made; provided,
however, that if the date of such surrender and payment is a date upon which the transfer
books for the Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) are
closed, such Person shall be deemed to have become the record holder of such shares (fractional or
otherwise) on, and such certificate shall be dated, the next succeeding Business

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Day on which the transfer books for the Preferred Stock (or Common Stock and/or other
securities, as the case may be) are open. Prior to the exercise of the Rights evidenced thereby,
the holder of a Rights Certificate, as such, shall not be entitled to any rights of a shareholder
of the Company (or the Principal Party) with respect to shares for which the Rights shall be
exercisable, including without limitation the right to vote, to receive dividends or other
distributions or to exercise any preemptive rights, and shall not be entitled to receive any notice
of any proceedings of the Company (or the Principal Party), except as provided herein.

     Section 11. Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and Kind of Shares or Number of
Rights. The Purchase Price, the number and kind of shares (or fractions thereof) purchasable
upon exercise of each Right and the number of Rights outstanding are subject to adjustment from
time to time as provided in this Section 11.

          (a) (i) In the event that the Company shall at any time after the date of this Agreement (A)
declare a dividend on the Preferred Stock payable in shares of Preferred Stock, (B) subdivide or
split the outstanding Preferred Stock, (C) combine or consolidate the outstanding Preferred Stock
into a smaller number of shares or (D) issue any shares of its capital stock in a reclassification
of the Preferred Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or
merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), then, except as otherwise
provided in this Section 11(a) and Section 7(e) hereof, the Purchase Price in effect at the time of
the record date for such dividend or of the effective date of such subdivision, split, combination,
consolidation or reclassification, and the number and kind of shares of Preferred Stock (or Common
Stock and/or other securities, as the case may be) issuable on such date, shall be proportionately
adjusted so that the holder of any Right exercised after such time shall be entitled to receive,
upon payment of the Purchase Price then in effect, the aggregate number and kind of shares of
Preferred Stock or capital stock, as the case may be, which, if such Right had been exercised
immediately prior to such date, whether or not such Right was then exercisable, and at a time when
the transfer books for the Preferred Stock (or other capital stock, as the case may be) of the
Company were open, such holder would have owned upon such exercise and been entitled to receive by
virtue of such dividend, subdivision, split, combination, consolidation or reclassification;
provided, however, that in no event shall the consideration to be paid upon the
exercise of one (1) Right be less than the aggregate par value of the shares of capital stock of
the Company issuable upon exercise of one (1) Right. If an event occurs which would require an
adjustment under both this Section 11(a)(i) and Section 11(a)(ii) hereof, the adjustment provided
for in this Section 11(a)(i) shall be in addition to, and shall be made prior to, any adjustment
required pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii) hereof.

          (ii) Subject to Sections 23 and 24 of this Agreement, in the event (a “Section 11(a)(ii)
Event”) that any Person shall, at any time after the Rights Dividend Declaration Date, become
an Acquiring Person, unless the event causing such Person to become an Acquiring Person is a
Section 13 Event or is an acquisition of shares of Common Stock pursuant to a tender offer or an
exchange offer for all outstanding shares of Common Stock at a price and on terms determined by at
least a majority of the Independent Directors of the Company, after receiving advice from one or
more investment banking firms, to be (a) at a price which is fair to shareholders (taking into
account all factors which such members of the Board deem relevant, including, without limitation,
prices which could reasonably be achieved if the Company or its assets were sold on an orderly
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otherwise in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders (hereinafter a
“Qualifying Offer”), proper provision shall be made so that promptly after the date of
occurrence of such Section 11(a)(ii) Event, each holder of a Right (except as provided below and in
Section 7(e) hereof) shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon exercise thereof at the then
current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, in lieu of a number of one
one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock, such number of shares of Common Stock of the
Company as shall equal the result obtained by (x) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by
the then number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right was
exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event (whether or not
such Right was then issued or exercisable) and (y) dividing that product (which following such
first occurrence shall thereafter be referred to as the “Purchase Price” for each Right and
for all purposes of this Agreement) by fifty percent (50%) of the Current Market Price per share of
Common Stock of the Company on the date of such first occurrence (such number of shares being
referred to as the “Adjustment Shares”).

          (iii) In the event that the number of shares of Common Stock which are authorized by the
Company’s certificate of incorporation but not outstanding or reserved for issuance for purposes
other than upon exercise of the Rights is not sufficient to permit the exercise in full of the
Rights in accordance with Section 11(a)(ii), the Company, acting by resolution of the Board, shall:
(A) determine the excess of (1) the value of the Adjustment Shares issuable upon the exercise of a
Right (the “Current Value”) over (2) the Purchase Price attributable to each Right and (B)
with respect to all or a portion of each Right (subject to Section 7(e) hereof), make adequate
provision to substitute for the Adjustment Shares, upon the exercise of a Right and payment of the
applicable Purchase Price, (1) cash, (2) a reduction in the Purchase Price, (3) Common Stock or
other equity securities, if any, of the Company other than Common Stock (including, without
limitation, shares or units of shares of Preferred Stock, which the Board has deemed to have the
same value or economic rights as shares of Common Stock (such shares of Preferred Stock being
referred to herein as “Common Stock Equivalents”)), (4) debt securities of the Company, (5)
other assets or (6) any combination of the foregoing, having an aggregate value equal to the
Current Value, where such aggregate value has been determined by the Board based upon the advice of
a nationally recognized investment banking firm selected by the Board; provided,
however, that if the Company shall not have made adequate provision to deliver value
pursuant to clause (B) above within thirty (30) days following the later of (x) the first
occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event and (y) the date on which the Company’s right of redemption
pursuant to Section 23(a) hereof, as such date may be extended pursuant to Section 23(a) hereof or
amended pursuant to Section 27 hereof, expires (the later of (x) and (y) being referred to herein
as the “Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date”), then the Company shall be obligated to deliver,
upon the surrender for exercise of a Right and without requiring payment of the Purchase Price,
shares of Common Stock (to the extent available) and then, if necessary, cash, which shares and/or
cash have an aggregate value equal to the Spread. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term
“Spread” shall mean the excess of (i) the Current Value over (ii) the Purchase Price. If
the Board shall determine in good faith that it is likely that sufficient additional shares of
Common Stock of the Company could be authorized for issuance upon exercise in full of the Rights,
the 30-day period set forth above may be extended to the extent necessary, but not more than ninety
(90) days after the Section 11(a)(ii) Trigger Date, in order that the Company may seek shareholder
approval for the authorization of such additional shares (such period, as it may be extended, being
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extent that the Company determines that some action need be taken pursuant to the first (1st)
and/or third (3rd) sentences of this Section 11(a)(iii), the Company (x) shall provide, subject to
Section 7(e) hereof, that such action shall apply uniformly to all outstanding Rights and (y) may
suspend the exercisability of the Rights until the expiration of the Substitution Period in order
to seek any authorization of additional shares or to decide the appropriate form of distribution to
be made pursuant to such first (1st) sentence and to determine the value thereof. In the event of
any such suspension, the Company shall promptly notify the Rights Agent thereof and issue a public
announcement stating that the exercisability of the Rights has been temporarily suspended and a
public announcement (with prompt notice thereof to the Rights Agent) at such time as the suspension
is no longer in effect. For purposes of this Section 11(a)(iii), the value of the Common Stock of
the Company shall be the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the Section
11(a)(ii) Trigger Date, and the value of any Common Stock Equivalent shall be deemed to be equal to
the value of the Common Stock on such date.

          (b) In case the Company shall fix a record date for the issuance of rights, options or
warrants to all holders of Preferred Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase (for a
period expiring within forty five (45) calendar days after such record date) Preferred Stock (or
shares having the same rights, privileges and preferences as the shares of Preferred Stock (such
shares being referred to herein as the “Equivalent Preference Stock”)) or securities
convertible into Preferred Stock or Equivalent Preference Stock at a price per share of Preferred
Stock or per share of Equivalent Preference Stock (or having a conversion price per share, if a
security convertible into Preferred Stock or Equivalent Preference Stock) less than the Current
Market Price per share of Common Stock on such record date, except as otherwise provided in Section
11(a) and Section 7(e) hereof, the Purchase Price to be in effect after such record date shall be
determined by multiplying the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such record date by a
fraction, the numerator of which shall be the sum of (i) the number of shares of Preferred Stock
outstanding on such record date and (ii) the number of shares of Preferred Stock which the
aggregate offering price of the total number of shares of Preferred Stock and/or Equivalent
Preference Stock so to be offered (or the aggregate initial conversion price of the convertible
securities so to be offered) would purchase at such Current Market Price, and the denominator of
which shall be the sum of (i) the number of shares of Preferred Stock outstanding on such record
date and (ii) the number of additional shares of Preferred Stock and/or Equivalent Preference Stock
to be offered for subscription or purchase (or into which the convertible securities so to be
offered are initially convertible); provided, however, that in no event shall the
consideration to be paid upon the exercise of one (1) Right be less than the aggregate par value of
the shares of capital stock of the Company issuable upon exercise of one (1) Right. In case such
subscription price may be paid by delivery of consideration, part or all of which may be in a form
other than cash, the value of such consideration shall be as determined in good faith by the Board,
which determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be
conclusive for all purposes. Shares of Preferred Stock owned by or held for the account of the
Company shall not be deemed outstanding for the purpose of any such computation. Such adjustment
shall be made successively whenever such a record date is fixed, and in the event that such rights,
options or warrants are not so issued, the Purchase Price shall be adjusted to be the Purchase
Price which would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed.

          (c) In case the Company shall fix a record date for a distribution to all holders of Preferred
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merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation) of evidences of
indebtedness, cash (other than a regular periodic cash dividend out of the earnings or retained
earnings of the Company), assets (other than a dividend payable in Preferred Stock, but including
any dividend payable in stock other than Preferred Stock) or subscription rights or warrants
(excluding those referred to in Section 11(b) hereof), except as otherwise provided in Section
11(a) and Section 7(e) hereof, the Purchase Price to be in effect after such record date shall be
determined by multiplying the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such record date by a
fraction, the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price per share of Preferred Stock on
such record date, less the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board, which
determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive
for all purposes) of the portion of the cash, assets or evidences of indebtedness so to be
distributed or of such subscription rights or warrants applicable to a share of Preferred Stock and
the denominator of which shall be such Current Market Price per share of Preferred Stock;
provided, however, that in no event shall the consideration to be paid upon the
exercise of one (1) Right be less than the aggregate par value of the shares of capital stock of
the Company issuable upon exercise of one (1) Right. Such adjustments shall be made successively
whenever such a record date is fixed, and in the event that such distribution is not so made, the
Purchase Price shall be adjusted to be the Purchase Price which would have been in effect if such
record date had not been fixed.

          (d) (i) For the purpose of any computation hereunder, other than computations made pursuant to
Section 11(a)(iii) hereof, the “Current Market Price” per share of Common Stock on any date
shall be deemed to be the average of the daily closing prices per share of such Common Stock for
the thirty (30) consecutive Trading Days immediately prior to, but not including, such date, and
for purposes of computations made pursuant to Section 11(a)(iii) hereof, the Current Market Price
per share of Common Stock on any date shall be deemed to be the average of the daily closing prices
per share of such Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Days immediately following such date;
provided, however, that in the event that the Current Market Price per share of the
Common Stock is determined during a period following the announcement by the issuer of such Common
Stock of (A) a dividend or distribution on such Common Stock payable in shares of such Common Stock
or securities convertible into shares of such Common Stock (other than the Rights) or (B) any
subdivision, combination, consolidation, reverse stock split or reclassification of such Common
Stock, and prior to the expiration of the requisite 30-Trading Day or 10-Trading Day period, as set
forth above, after the ex-dividend date for such dividend or distribution, or the record date for
such subdivision, combination, consolidation, reverse stock split or reclassification, then, and in
each such case, the Current Market Price shall be properly adjusted to take into account
ex-dividend trading. The closing price for each day shall be the last sale price, regular way, or,
in case no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices,
regular way, in either case, as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system
with respect to securities listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the
shares of Common Stock are not listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange, as
reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities
listed on the principal national securities exchange on which the shares of Common Stock are listed
or admitted to trading or, if the shares of Common Stock are not listed or admitted to trading on
any national securities exchange, the last quoted price or, if not so quoted, the average of the
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such other system then in use, or, if on any such date the shares of Common Stock are not
quoted by any such organization, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a
professional market maker making a market in the shares of Common Stock selected by the Board. If
on any such date the Common Stock is not publicly held or is not so listed, admitted to trading or
quoted, and no market maker is making a market in such Common Stock, Current Market Price shall
mean the fair value of such shares on such date as determined in good faith by the Board, which
determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive
for all purposes. The term “Trading Day” shall mean a day on which the principal national
securities exchange on which the shares of Common Stock are listed or admitted to trading is open
for the transaction of business or, if the shares of Common Stock are not listed or admitted to
trading on any national securities exchange, a Business Day.

               (ii) For the purpose of any computation hereunder, the “Current Market Price” per
share of Preferred Stock shall be determined in the same manner as set forth above for the Common
Stock in Section 11(d)(i) hereof (other than the last sentence thereof). If the Current Market
Price per share of Preferred Stock cannot be determined in the manner provided above or if the
Preferred Stock is not publicly held or listed or traded in a manner described in Section 11(d)(i)
hereof, the Current Market Price per share of Preferred Stock shall be conclusively deemed to be an
amount equal to 10,000 (as such number may be appropriately adjusted for such events as stock
splits, stock dividends and recapitalizations with respect to the Common Stock occurring after the
date of this Agreement) multiplied by the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock. If
neither the Common Stock nor the Preferred Stock is publicly held or so listed or traded, Current
Market Price per share of the Preferred Stock shall mean the fair value per share as determined in
good faith by the Board, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the
Rights Agent and shall be conclusive for all purposes. For all purposes of this Agreement, the
Current Market Price of one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred Stock shall be
equal to the Current Market Price of one share of Preferred Stock divided by 10,000.

          (e) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, no adjustment in the Purchase Price shall
be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent
(1%) in the Purchase Price; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason
of this Section 11(e) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account
in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations under this Section 11 shall be made to the nearest
cent or to the nearest ten-thousandth of a share of Common Stock or other share or one-millionth of
a share of Preferred Stock, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the first (1st) sentence of this
Section 11(e), any adjustment required by this Section 11 shall be made no later than the earlier
of (i) three (3) years from the date of the transaction which mandates such adjustment or (ii) the
Expiration Date.

          (f) If as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii) or Section 13(a)
hereof, the holder of any Right thereafter exercised shall become entitled to receive any shares of
capital stock other than Preferred Stock, thereafter the number of such other shares so receivable
upon exercise of any Right and the Purchase Price thereof (or the number of Rights) shall be
subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as
practicable to the provisions with respect to the Preferred Stock contained in Sections 11(a), (b),
(c), (e), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l) and (m) hereof, and the provisions of Sections

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7, 9, 10, 13 and 14 hereof with respect to the Preferred Stock of the Company shall apply on
like terms to any such other shares.

          (g) All Rights originally issued by the Company subsequent to any adjustment made to the
Purchase Price hereunder shall evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted Purchase Price, the
number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock purchasable from time to time
hereunder upon exercise of the Rights, all subject to further adjustment as provided herein.

          (h) Unless the Company shall have exercised its election as provided in Section 11(i) hereof,
upon each adjustment of the Purchase Price as a result of the calculations made in Sections 11(b)
and (c) hereof, each Right outstanding immediately prior to the making of such adjustment shall
thereafter evidence the right to purchase, at the adjusted Purchase Price, that number of one
one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock (calculated to the nearest one-millionth of a
share) obtained by (i) multiplying (x) the number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of
Preferred Stock covered by a Right immediately prior to this adjustment by (y) the Purchase Price
in effect immediately prior to such adjustment of the Purchase Price, and (ii) dividing the product
so obtained by the Purchase Price in effect immediately after such adjustment of the Purchase
Price.

          (i) The Company may elect on or after the date of any adjustment of the Purchase Price to
adjust the number of Rights, in lieu of any adjustment in the number of one one-ten thousandths of
a share of Preferred Stock purchasable upon the exercise of a Right. Each of the Rights outstanding
after the adjustment in the number of Rights shall be exercisable for the number of one one-ten
thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to
such adjustment. Each Right held of record prior to such adjustment of the number of Rights shall
become that number of Rights (calculated to the nearest one-ten thousandth of a Right) obtained by
dividing the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to adjustment of the Purchase Price by the
Purchase Price in effect immediately after adjustment of the Purchase Price. The Company shall make
a public announcement (with prompt notice thereof to the Rights Agent) of its election to adjust
the number of Rights, indicating the record date for the adjustment and, if known at the time, the
amount of the adjustment to be made. This record date may be the date on which the Purchase Price
is adjusted or any day thereafter, but, if the Rights Certificates have been issued, shall be at
least 10 days later than the date of the public announcement. If Rights Certificates have been
issued, upon each adjustment of the number of Rights pursuant to this Section 11(i), the Company
shall, as promptly as practicable, cause to be distributed to holders of record of Rights
Certificates on such record date Rights Certificates evidencing, subject to Section 14 hereof, the
additional Rights to which such holders shall be entitled as a result of such adjustment or, at the
option of the Company, shall cause to be distributed to such holders of record in substitution and
replacement for the Rights Certificates held by such holders prior to the date of adjustment and
upon surrender thereof, if required by the Company, new Rights Certificates evidencing all the
Rights to which such holders shall be entitled after such adjustment. Rights Certificates so to be
distributed shall be issued, executed and countersigned in the manner provided for herein (and may
bear, at the option of the Company, the adjusted Purchase Price) and shall be registered in the
names of the holders of record of Rights Certificates on the record date specified in the public
announcement.

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          (j) Irrespective of any adjustment or change in the Purchase Price or the number of one
one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Rights, the
Rights Certificates theretofore and thereafter issued may continue to express the Purchase Price
per one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred Stock and the number of one one-ten
thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock which were expressed in the initial Rights Certificates
issued hereunder.

          (k) Before taking any action that would cause an adjustment reducing the Purchase Price below
the par value, if any, of the number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock
issuable upon exercise of the Rights, the Company shall use all reasonable efforts to take any
corporate action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that the Company
may validly and legally issue, fully paid and nonassessable, such number of one one-ten thousandths
of a share of Preferred Stock at such adjusted Purchase Price.

          (l) In any case in which this Section 11 shall require that an adjustment in the Purchase
Price be made effective as of a record date for a specified event, the Company may elect to defer
(and shall promptly notify the Rights Agent of any such election) until the occurrence of such
event the issuance to the holder of any Right exercised after such record date of the number of one
one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock or other capital stock or securities of the
Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise over and above the number of one one-ten thousandths
of a share of Preferred Stock or other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable
upon such exercise on the basis of the Purchase Price in effect prior to such adjustment;
provided, however, that the Company shall deliver to such holder a due bill or
other appropriate instrument evidencing such holder’s right to receive such additional shares
(fractional or otherwise) or securities upon the occurrence of the event requiring such adjustment.

          (m) Anything in this Section 11 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall be entitled
to make such adjustments in the Purchase Price, in addition to those adjustments expressly required
by this Section 11, as and to the extent that in its good faith judgment the Board shall determine
to be advisable in order that any (i) consolidation or subdivision of the Preferred Stock, (ii)
issuance wholly for cash of any shares of Preferred Stock at less than the Current Market Price,
(iii) issuance wholly for cash of shares of Preferred Stock or securities which by their terms are
convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Preferred Stock, (iv) stock dividends or (v)
issuance of rights, options or warrants referred to in this Section 11, hereafter made by the
Company to holders of its Preferred Stock, shall not be taxable to such shareholders.

          (n) The Company covenants and agrees that it shall not, at any time after the Distribution
Date, (i) consolidate with any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a
transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), (ii) merge with or into any other Person
(other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof)
or (iii) sell or transfer (or permit any Subsidiary to sell or transfer), in one transaction or a
series of related transactions, assets or earning power aggregating more than fifty percent (50%)
of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other
Person or Persons (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in one or more transactions
each of which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), if (x) at the time of or

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immediately after such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer there are any rights, warrants
or other instruments or securities outstanding or agreements in effect which would substantially
diminish or otherwise eliminate the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights or (y) prior to,
simultaneously with or immediately after such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer, the
shareholders of the Person who constitutes, or would constitute, the “Principal Party” for purposes
of Section 13(a) hereof shall have received a distribution of Rights previously owned by such
Person or any of its Associates or Affiliates.

          (o) The Company covenants and agrees that, after the Distribution Date, it will not, except as
permitted by Section 23 or Section 27 hereof, take (or permit any Subsidiary to take) any action if
at the time such action is taken it is reasonably foreseeable that such action will diminish
substantially or otherwise eliminate the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights.

          (p) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event that the Company
shall at any time after the Rights Dividend Declaration Date and prior to the Distribution Date (i)
declare a dividend on the outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock,
(ii) subdivide the outstanding shares of Common Stock or (iii) combine the outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the number of Rights associated with each share of
Common Stock then outstanding, or issued or delivered thereafter but prior to the Distribution
Date, shall be proportionately adjusted so that the number of Rights thereafter associated with
each share of Common Stock following any such event shall equal the result obtained by multiplying
the number of Rights associated with each share of Common Stock immediately prior to such event by
a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to the occurrence of the event and the denominator of which shall be the total
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately following the occurrence of such event.

     Section 12. Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares. Whenever an
adjustment is made as provided in Section 11 or Section 13 hereof, the Company shall (a) promptly
prepare a certificate setting forth such adjustment and a brief statement of the facts and
computations accounting for such adjustment, (b) promptly file with the Rights Agent, and with each
transfer agent for the Preferred Stock and the Common Stock, a copy of such certificate and (c) if
a Distribution Date has occurred, mail or cause the Rights Agent to mail a brief summary thereof to
each record holder of a Rights Certificate (or, if prior to the Distribution Date, to each record
holder of a certificate representing shares of Common Stock) in accordance with Section 26 hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the failure of the Company to prepare such certificate or
statement or make such filings or mailings shall not affect the validity of, or the force or effect
of, the requirement for such adjustment. The Rights Agent shall be fully protected in relying on
any such certificate and on any adjustment therein contained and shall have no duty with respect to
and shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any such adjustment unless and until it shall have
received such certificate.

     Section 13. Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power.

          (a) In the event (a “Section 13 Event”) that, at any time after a Person becomes an
Acquiring Person, directly or indirectly, (x) the Company shall consolidate or

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otherwise combine with, or merge with or into, any other Person or Persons (other than a
Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof) and the
Company shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation, combination or
merger, (y) any Person or Persons (other than a Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which
complies with Section 11(o) hereof) shall consolidate or otherwise combine with, or merge with or
into, the Company, and the Company shall be the continuing or surviving corporation of such
consolidation, combination or merger and, in connection with such consolidation, combination or
merger, all or part of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company shall be changed into
or exchanged for stock or other securities of any other Person or Persons or cash or any other
property or the shares of Common Stock held by shareholders of the Company immediately prior to the
consummation of the transaction which remain outstanding shall constitute less than fifty percent
(50%) of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately following consummation
of the transaction, or (z) the Company shall sell or otherwise transfer (or one or more of its
Subsidiaries shall sell or otherwise transfer), in one transaction or a series of related
transactions, assets, earning power or cash flow aggregating more than fifty percent (50%) of the
assets, earning power or cash flow of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole and
calculated on the basis of the Company’s most recent regularly prepared financial statements) to
any Person or Persons (other than the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in one or more
transactions each of which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), then, and in each such case (except
as may be contemplated by Section 13(d) hereof), proper provision shall be made so that: (i) each
holder of a Right, except as provided in Section 7(e) hereof, shall, on or after the later of (A)
the date of the first occurrence of any such Section 13 Event or (B) the expiration of the
Redemption Period, thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then
current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, in lieu of a number of one
one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock, such number of validly authorized and issued,
fully paid, nonassessable and freely tradeable shares of Common Stock of the Principal Party, not
subject to any liens, encumbrances, rights of first refusal or other adverse claims, as shall be
equal to the result obtained by (1) multiplying the then current Purchase Price by the number of
one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right is exercisable immediately
prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event (or, if a Section 11(a)(ii) Event has occurred
prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, multiplying the number of one one-ten
thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to
the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event by the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior
to such first occurrence), and (2) dividing that product (which, following the first occurrence of
a Section 13 Event, shall be referred to as the “Purchase Price” for each Right and for all
purposes of this Agreement) by fifty percent (50%) of the Current Market Price per share of the
Common Stock of such Principal Party on the date of consummation of such Section 13 Event; (ii) the
shares of Common Stock of such Principal Party received by each holder of a Right upon exercise of
that Right shall be fully paid and nonassessable; (iii) such Principal Party shall thereafter be
liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of such Section 13 Event, all the obligations and duties of
the Company pursuant to this Agreement; (iv) the term “Company” shall thereafter be deemed to refer
to such Principal Party, it being specifically intended that the provisions of Section 11 hereof
shall apply only to such Principal Party following the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event; (v)
such Principal Party shall take such steps (including without limitation the reservation of a
sufficient number of shares of its Common Stock) in connection with the consummation of

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any such transaction as may be necessary to assure that the provisions hereof shall thereafter
be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in relation to its shares of Common Stock thereafter
deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights; and (vi) the provisions of Section 11(a)(ii) hereof
shall be of no effect following the first occurrence of any Section 13 Event.

          (b) “Principal Party” shall mean:

               (i) in the case of any transaction described in clause (x) or (y) of the first (1st) sentence
of Section 13(a) hereof, (A) the Person that is the issuer of any securities into which shares of
Common Stock of the Company are converted, changed or exchanged in such merger, consolidation or
combination (or, if there is more than one such issuer, the issuer the Common Stock of which has
the greatest market value) or (B) if no securities are so issued, the Person that is the other
party to such merger (and survives the merger), consolidation or combination (or, if there is more
than one such Person, the Person the Common Stock of which has the greatest market value), or if
the other party to the merger does not survive the merger, the Person that does survive the merger
(including the Company, if it survives); and

               (ii) in the case of any transaction described in clause (z) of the first (1st) sentence of
Section 13(a) hereof, the Person that is the party receiving the greatest portion of the assets or
earning power transferred pursuant to such transaction or transactions or, if each Person that is a
party to such transaction or transactions receives the same portion of the assets or earning power
so transferred or if the Person receiving the greatest portion of the assets or earning power
cannot be determined, whichever of such Persons is the issuer of Common Stock having the greatest
market value; provided, however, that in any such case, (1) if the Common Stock of
such Person is not at such time and has not been continuously over the preceding 12-month period
registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, and such Person is a direct or indirect Subsidiary
of another Person the Common Stock of which is and has been so registered, “Principal Party” shall
refer to such other Person; (2) if the Common Stock of such Person is not and has not been so
registered and such Person is a Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, of more than one Person, the
Common Stocks of two or more of which are and have been so registered, “Principal Party” shall
refer to whichever of such Persons is the issuer of the Common Stock having the greatest aggregate
market value; and (3) if the Common Stock of such Person is not and has not been so registered and
such Person is owned, directly or indirectly, by a joint venture formed by two or more Persons that
are not owned, directly or indirectly, by the same Person, the rules set forth in (1) and (2) above
shall apply to each of the chains of ownership having an interest in such joint venture as if such
party were a Subsidiary of both or all of such joint venturers, and the Principal Parties in each
such chain shall bear the obligations set forth in this Section 13 in the same ratio as their
direct or indirect interests in such Person bear to the total of such interests.

          (c) The Company shall not consummate any Section 13 Event unless the Principal Party shall
have a sufficient number of authorized shares of its Common Stock which have not been issued or
reserved for issuance to permit the exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with this Section
13 and unless prior thereto the Company and such Principal Party shall have executed and delivered
to the Rights Agent a supplemental agreement confirming that the requirements of Section 13(a) and
Section 13(b) hereof shall promptly be performed in accordance with their terms, that all rights of
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issuance of Common Stock of such Principal Party upon exercise of outstanding Rights have been
waived, that there are no rights, warrants, instruments or securities outstanding or any agreements
or arrangements which, as a result of the consummation of such transaction, would eliminate or
substantially diminish the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights and that such Section 13
Event shall not result in a default by the Principal Party under this Agreement as the same shall
have been assumed by the Principal Party pursuant to Section 13(a) and Section 13(b) hereof and
further providing that, as soon as practicable after the date of any such Section 13 Event, the
Principal Party will:

               (i) prepare and file a registration statement under the Act with respect to the Rights and the
securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights on an appropriate form, and use its best efforts
to cause such registration statement to (A) become effective as soon as practicable after such
filing and (B) remain effective (with a prospectus at all times meeting the requirements of the
Act) until the Expiration Date, and to similarly comply with applicable state securities laws;

               (ii) use its best efforts to list or obtain quotation of (or continue the listing or quotation
of) the Rights and the securities purchasable upon exercise of the Rights on a national securities
exchange or by an automated quotation service; and

               (iii) deliver to holders of the Rights historical financial statements for the Principal Party
and each of its Affiliates which comply in all respects with the requirements for registration on
Form 10 (or any successor form) under the Exchange Act.

The provisions of this Section 13 shall similarly apply to successive mergers, consolidations,
combinations or sales or other transfers. In the event that a Section 13 Event shall occur at any
time after the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, the Rights which have not theretofore been
exercised shall thereafter become exercisable in the manner described in Section 13(a) hereof.

          (d) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Section 13 shall not be
applicable to a transaction described in subparagraphs (x) and (y) of Section 13(a) if (i) such
transaction is consummated with a Person or Persons (or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of any such
Person or Persons) who acquired shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Qualifying Offer, (ii) the
price per share of Common Stock offered in such transaction is not less than the price per share of
Common Stock paid to all holders of shares of Common Stock whose shares were purchased pursuant to
such tender offer or exchange offer and (iii) the form of consideration being offered to the
remaining holders of shares of Common Stock pursuant to such transaction is the same as the form of
consideration paid pursuant to such tender offer or exchange offer. Upon consummation of any such
transaction contemplated by this Section 13(d), all Rights hereunder shall expire.

          (e) The Company covenants and agrees not to consummate a transaction constituting a Section 13
Event unless a Distribution Date shall have occurred as a result of the actions described in
clauses (i) or (ii) of Section 3(a) hereof or unless the Board takes all actions that may be
necessary to cause Rights Certificates to be distributed as contemplated by clause (iii) of Section
3(a) hereof.

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     Section 14. Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares.

          (a) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Rights, except prior to the
Distribution Date as provided in Sections 11(i) and (p) hereof, or to distribute Rights
Certificates which evidence fractional Rights. In lieu of any such fractional Rights, there shall
be paid to the registered holders of the Rights Certificates with regard to which such fractional
Rights would otherwise be issuable an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current
market value of a whole Right. For purposes of this Section 14(a), the “current market value of a
whole Right” shall be the closing price of the Rights for the Trading Day immediately prior to the
date on which such fractional Rights would have been otherwise issuable. The closing price of the
Rights for any Trading Day shall be the last sale price, regular way, or, in case no such sale
takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in either
case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to
securities listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Rights are not
listed or admitted to trading on the New York Stock Exchange, as reported in the principal
consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal
national securities exchange on which the Rights are listed or admitted to trading or, if the
Rights are not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the last quoted
price or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices in the
over-the-counter market, as reported by Nasdaq or such other system then in use or, if on any such
date the Rights are not quoted by any such organization, the average of the closing bid and asked
prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in the Rights selected by the
Board. If on any such date no such market maker is making a market in the Rights, the fair value
of the Rights on such date as determined in good faith by the Board, whose determination will be
described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent, shall be used.

          (b) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of shares of Preferred Stock (other
than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of
Preferred Stock, unless, at the Company’s option, the Company issues depositary receipts therefor)
upon exercise of the Rights or to distribute certificates which evidence fractional shares of
Preferred Stock, unless, at the Company’s option, the Company issues depositary receipts therefor.
In lieu of issuing fractional shares of Preferred Stock, the Company may, at its election, issue
depositary receipts evidencing fractions of shares pursuant to an appropriate agreement between the
Company and a depositary selected by it provided that the holders of such depositary receipts shall
have all of the rights, privileges and preferences to which they would be entitled as beneficial
owners of Preferred Stock. With respect to fractional shares that are not integral multiples of one
one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred Stock, if the Company does not issue such
fractional shares or depositary receipts in lieu thereof, there shall be paid to the registered
holders of Rights Certificates at the time such Rights are exercised as herein provided an amount
in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of one one-ten thousandth (0.0001)
of a share of Preferred Stock. For purposes of this Section 14(b), the “current market value of one
one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred Stock” shall be one one-ten thousandth (0.0001)
of the closing price of a share of Preferred Stock (or, if unavailable, the appropriate alternative
price (in each case, as determined pursuant to Section 11(d)(ii) hereof)) for the Trading Day
immediately prior to the date of such exercise.

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          (c) Following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, the Company shall not be required to issue
fractions of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Rights or to distribute certificates which
evidence fractional shares of Common Stock. In lieu of fractional shares of Common Stock, the
Company may pay to the registered holders of Rights Certificates at the time such Rights are
exercised as herein provided an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market
value of one (1) share of Common Stock. For purposes of this Section 14(c), the “current market
value of one (1) share of Common Stock” shall be the closing price of one (1) share of Common
Stock, or if unavailable, the appropriate alternative price (in each case, as determined pursuant
to Section 11(d)(i) hereof) for the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of such exercise.

          (d) The holder of a Right by the acceptance of that Right expressly waives such holder’s right
to receive any fractional Rights or any fractional shares upon exercise of a Right, except as
required by this Section 14.

     Section 15. Rights of Action. All rights of action in respect of this Agreement, other
than rights of action vested in the Rights Agent hereunder, are vested in the respective registered
holders of the Rights Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, the registered holders of
the Common Stock); and any registered holder of any Rights Certificate (or, prior to the
Distribution Date, of the Common Stock), without the consent of the Rights Agent or of the holder
of any other Rights Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, of the Common Stock), may, in
the holder’s own behalf and for the holder’s own benefit, enforce, and may institute and maintain
any suit, action or proceeding against the Company to enforce, or otherwise act in respect of, the
holder’s right to exercise the Rights evidenced by such Rights Certificate in the manner provided
in such Rights Certificate and in this Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing or any remedies
available to the holders of Rights, it is specifically acknowledged that the holders of Rights
would not have an adequate remedy at law for any breach of this Agreement and shall be entitled to
specific performance of the obligations hereunder and injunctive relief against actual or
threatened violations of the obligations hereunder by any Person subject to this Agreement.

     Section 16. Agreement of Rights Holders. Every holder of a Right, by accepting the
same, consents and agrees with the Company and the Rights Agent and with every other holder of a
Right that:

          (a) prior to the Distribution Date, the Rights will be transferable only in connection with
the transfer of shares of Common Stock of the Company;

          (b) after the Distribution Date, the Rights Certificates are transferable only on the registry
books of the Rights Agent if surrendered at the office or offices of the Rights Agent designated
for such purposes, duly endorsed or accompanied by a proper instrument of transfer and with the
appropriate forms and certificates contained therein duly executed;

          (c) subject to Section 6(a) and Section 7(f) hereof, the Company and the Rights Agent may deem
and treat the Person in whose name a Rights Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, the
associated certificate for Common Stock) is registered as the absolute owner thereof and of the
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or writing on the Rights Certificate or the associated certificate for Common Stock made by
anyone other than the Company or the Rights Agent) for all purposes whatsoever, and neither the
Company nor the Rights Agent, subject to the last sentence of Section 7(e) hereof, shall be
required to be affected by any notice to the contrary; and

          (d) notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, neither the Company nor the
Rights Agent shall have any liability to any holder of a Right or other Person as a result of its
inability to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of any preliminary or
permanent injunction or other order, decree, judgment or ruling (whether interlocutory or final)
issued by a court of competent jurisdiction or by a governmental, regulatory or administrative
agency or commission, or by reason of any statute, rule, regulation or executive order promulgated
or enacted by any governmental authority, prohibiting or otherwise restraining performance of such
obligation; provided, however, that the Company must use its reasonable best
efforts to have any such order, decree, judgment or ruling lifted or otherwise overturned as soon
as possible.

     Section 17. Rights Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Shareholder. No holder, as such, of
any Rights Certificate shall be entitled to vote, receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose
the holder of the number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock or any other
securities of the Company which may at any time be issuable upon the exercise of the Rights
represented thereby, nor shall anything contained herein or in any Rights Certificate be construed
to confer upon the holder of any Rights Certificate, as such, any of the rights of a shareholder of
the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to
shareholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any corporate action, or to
receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting shareholders (except as provided in Section
25 hereof), or to receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights
evidenced by such Rights Certificate shall have been exercised in accordance with the provisions
hereof.

     Section 18. Concerning the Rights Agent.

          (a) The Company agrees to pay to the Rights Agent such compensation as shall be agreed in
writing between the Company and the Rights Agent for all services rendered by the Rights Agent
hereunder and, from time to time, on demand of the Rights Agent, reimbursement for its reasonable
expenses and counsel fees and disbursements and other disbursements incurred in the administration
and execution of this Agreement and the exercise and performance of its duties hereunder. The
Company also agrees to indemnify the Rights Agent for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss,
liability demand, judgment, fine, penalty, claim, settlement, cost or expense incurred without
gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Rights Agent for any action
taken, suffered or omitted by the Rights Agent in connection with the acceptance and administration
of this Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending against any claim of liability in
the premises.

          (b) The Rights Agent shall be authorized to rely on, shall be protected and shall incur no
liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it in good faith in
connection with its administration of this Agreement in reliance upon, any Rights Certificate or
certificate for Common Stock or for other securities of the Company or upon any instrument

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of assignment or transfer, power of attorney, endorsement, affidavit, letter, notice,
direction, consent, certificate, statement or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to
be genuine and to be signed, executed and, where necessary, verified or acknowledged, by the proper
Person or Persons.

     Section 19. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent.

          (a) Any Person into which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may be merged or with
which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the
Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to the
shareholder services business of the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent, shall be the
successor to the Rights Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or
any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided, however, that
such Person would be eligible for appointment as a successor Rights Agent under the provisions of
Section 21 hereof. If at the time such successor Rights Agent shall succeed to the agency created
by this Agreement any of the Rights Certificates shall have been countersigned but not delivered,
any such successor Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature of a predecessor Rights Agent and
deliver such Rights Certificates so countersigned; and if at that time any of the Rights
Certificates shall not have been countersigned, any successor Rights Agent may countersign such
Rights Certificates either in the name of the predecessor or in the name of the successor Rights
Agent; and in all such cases such Rights Certificates shall have the full force provided in the
Rights Certificates and in this Agreement.

          (b) If at any time the name of the Rights Agent shall be changed and at such time any of the
Rights Certificates shall have been countersigned but not delivered, the Rights Agent may adopt the
countersignature under its prior name and deliver Rights Certificates so countersigned; and if at
that time any of the Rights Certificates shall not have been countersigned, the Rights Agent may
countersign such Rights Certificates either in its prior name or in its changed name; and in all
such cases such Rights Certificates shall have the full force provided in the Rights Certificates
and in this Agreement.

     Section 20. Duties of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent undertakes only the duties and
obligations expressly imposed by this Agreement (and no implied duties or obligations) upon the
following terms and conditions, by all of which the Company and the holders of Rights Certificates,
by their acceptance thereof, shall be bound:

          (a) The Rights Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be legal counsel for the
Company), and the advice or opinion of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection to the Rights Agent, and the Rights Agent shall incur no liability for or in respect of
any action taken, suffered or omitted by it in good faith and in accordance with such advice or
opinion.

          (b) Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement the Rights Agent shall deem
it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter (including without limitation the identity of any
Acquiring Person and the determination of Current Market Price) be proved or established by the
Company prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such

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fact or matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed)
may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial
Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the
Company and delivered to the Rights Agent; and such certificate shall be full authorization and
protection to the Rights Agent, and the Rights Agent shall incur no liability for or in respect of
any action taken, suffered or omitted in good faith by it under the provisions of this Agreement in
reliance upon such certificate.

          (c) The Rights Agent shall be liable hereunder only for its own gross negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct.

          (d) The Rights Agent shall not be liable for or by reason of any of the statements of fact or
recitals contained in this Agreement or in the Rights Certificates, nor shall it be required to
verify the same (except as to its countersignature on such Rights Certificates). All such
statements and recitals are and shall be deemed to have been made by the Company only.

          (e) The Rights Agent shall not have any liability for nor be under any responsibility in
respect of the validity of this Agreement or the execution and delivery hereof (except the due
execution hereof by the Rights Agent) or in respect of the validity or execution of any Rights
Certificate (except its countersignature thereon); nor shall it be liable or responsible for any
breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Rights
Certificate; nor shall it be liable or responsible for any adjustment required under the provisions
of Sections 11, 13 or 24 hereof or responsible for the manner, method or amount of any such
adjustment or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such adjustment
(except with respect to the exercise of Rights evidenced by Rights Certificates after receipt of a
certificate describing any such adjustment); nor shall it by any act hereunder be deemed to make
any representation or warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any shares of Common Stock
or Preferred Stock of the Company to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Rights Certificate
or as to whether any shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock of the Company will, when so issued,
be validly authorized and issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

          (f) The Company agrees that it will perform, execute, acknowledge and deliver, or cause to be
performed, executed, acknowledged and delivered, all such further and other acts, instruments and
assurances as may reasonably be required by the Rights Agent for the carrying out or performing by
the Rights Agent of the provisions of this Agreement.

          (g) The Rights Agent is hereby authorized and directed to accept instructions with respect to
the performance of its duties hereunder from the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any
Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company, and to apply to such
officers for advice or instructions in connection with its duties, and the Rights Agent shall incur
no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good
faith in accordance with the advice or instructions of any such officer.

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          (h) The Rights Agent and any shareholder, director, Affiliate, officer or employee of the
Rights Agent may buy, sell or deal in any of the Rights or other securities of the Company, become
pecuniarily interested in any transaction in which the Company may be interested, contract with or
lend money to the Company or otherwise act as fully and freely as though the Rights Agent were not
Rights Agent under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Rights Agent from acting in
any other capacity for the Company or for any other Person.

          (i) The Rights Agent may execute and exercise any of the rights or powers hereby vested in it
or perform any duty hereunder either itself or by or through its attorneys or agents, and the
Rights Agent shall not be liable, answerable or accountable for any act, default, neglect or
misconduct of any such attorneys or agents or for any loss to the Company, any holders or Rights or
any other Person resulting from any such act, default, neglect or misconduct, absent gross
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Rights Agent in the selection and
continued employment thereof.

          (j) No provision of this Agreement shall require the Rights Agent to expend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder
(other than internal costs incurred by the Rights Agent in providing services to the Company in the
ordinary course of its business as Rights Agent) or in the exercise of its rights if it believes
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnification against such risk or liability is not
assured to it.

          (k) If, with respect to any Rights Certificate surrendered to the Rights Agent for exercise or
transfer, the certificate contained in the form of assignment or form of election to purchase, as
the case may be, has either not been completed or indicates an affirmative response to clause 1 or
clause 2 thereof, the Rights Agent shall not take any further action with respect to such requested
exercise or transfer without first consulting with the Company.

     Section 21. Change of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may
resign and be discharged from its duties under this Agreement upon thirty (30) days’ notice in
writing mailed to the Company and to each transfer agent of the Common Stock and Preferred Stock of
the Company, by registered or certified mail, and to the holders of the Rights Certificates, if
any, by first-class mail. In the event the transfer agency relationship in effect between the
Company and the Rights Agent terminates, the Rights Agent will be deemed to have resigned
automatically and be discharged from its duties under this Agreement as of the effective date of
such termination, and the Company shall be responsible for sending any required notice. The
Company may remove the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent upon thirty (30) days’ notice in
writing mailed to the Rights Agent or successor Rights Agent, as the case may be, and to each
transfer agent of the Common Stock and Preferred Stock of the Company, by registered or certified
mail, and to the holders of the Rights Certificates, if any, by first-class mail. If the Rights
Agent shall resign or be removed or shall otherwise become incapable of acting, the Company shall
appoint a successor to the Rights Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within
a period of thirty (30) days after giving notice of such removal or after it has been notified in
writing of such resignation or incapacity by the resigning or incapacitated Rights Agent or by the
holder of a Rights Certificate (who shall, with such notice, submit his Rights Certificate for
inspection by the Company), then any registered holder of any

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Rights Certificate may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
new Rights Agent. Any successor Rights Agent appointed by the Company or by such a court shall be
(a) a Person organized and doing business under the laws of the United States, the State of
Delaware or of any other state of the United States so long as such Person is in good standing, is
authorized to do business in such state, is authorized under such laws to exercise shareholder
services powers, is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority and has at
the time of its appointment as Rights Agent a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000
or (b) an Affiliate of a Person described in clause (a) of this sentence. After appointment, the
successor Rights Agent shall be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as
if it had been originally named as Rights Agent without further act or deed; but the predecessor
Rights Agent shall deliver and transfer to the successor Rights Agent any property at the time held
by it hereunder and shall execute and deliver, if applicable, any further assurance, conveyance,
act or deed necessary for that purpose. Not later than the effective date of any such appointment,
the Company shall file notice thereof in writing with the predecessor Rights Agent and each
transfer agent of the Common Stock and the Preferred Stock of the Company and shall mail a notice
thereof in writing to the registered holders of the Rights Certificates, if any. Failure to give
any notice provided for in this Section 21, however, or any defect therein, shall not affect the
legality or validity of the resignation or removal of the Rights Agent or the appointment of the
successor Rights Agent, as the case may be.

     Section 22. Issuance of New Rights Certificates. Notwithstanding any of the provisions
of this Agreement or of the Rights Certificates to the contrary, the Company may, at its option,
issue new Rights Certificates evidencing Rights in such form as may be approved by the Board to
reflect any adjustment or change in the Purchase Price and the number or kind or class of shares or
other securities or property purchasable under the Rights Certificates made in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement. In addition, in connection with the issuance or sale of shares of
Common Stock of the Company following the Distribution Date and prior to the redemption, exchange
or expiration of the Rights, the Company (a) shall, with respect to shares of Common Stock of the
Company so issued or sold pursuant to the exercise of stock options or under any employee plan or
arrangement or upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of securities hereafter issued by the
Company, and (b) may, in any other case, if deemed necessary or appropriate by the Board, issue
Rights Certificates representing the appropriate number of Rights in connection with such issuance
or sale; provided, however, that (i) no such Rights Certificate shall be issued if
and to the extent that the Company shall be advised by counsel that such issuance would create a
significant risk of material adverse tax consequences to the Company or the Person to whom such
Rights Certificate would be issued and (ii) no such Rights Certificate shall be issued if and to
the extent that appropriate adjustment shall otherwise have been made in lieu of the issuance
thereof.

     Section 23. Redemption and Termination.

          (a) The Board may, at its option, at any time prior to the earlier of (i) the Close of
Business on the tenth (10th) Business Day (or such specified or unspecified later date as may be
determined by the Board before the Rights cease being redeemable) following the Stock Acquisition
Date (or, if the Stock Acquisition Date shall have occurred prior to the Record Date, the Close of
Business on the tenth (10th) Business Day following the Record Date) and (ii) the Final Expiration
Date (the “Redemption Period”), direct the Company to, and if directed, the

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Company shall, redeem all but not less than all of the then outstanding Rights at a redemption
price of $.001 per Right, as such amount may be appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock split,
stock dividend or similar transaction occurring after the date hereof (such redemption price being
hereinafter referred to as the “Redemption Price”). The Company may, at its option, pay the
Redemption Price in shares of Common Stock of the Company (based on the Current Market Price of the
Common Stock of the Company at the time of redemption), cash or any other form of consideration
deemed appropriate by the Board. The redemption of the Rights by the Board pursuant to this Section
23(a) may be made effective at such time, on such basis and with such conditions as the Board in
its sole discretion may establish. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the
contrary, the Rights shall not be exercisable after the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii)
Event until such time as the Company’s right of redemption hereunder has expired.

          (b) Immediately upon the action of the Board directing the Company to make the redemption of
the Rights, evidence of which shall have been filed with the Rights Agent, and without any further
action and without any notice, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right
thereafter of the holders of Rights shall be to receive the Redemption Price for each Right so
held. Promptly after the action of the Board directing the Company to make the redemption of the
Rights, the Company shall give notice of such redemption to the Rights Agent and the holders of the
then outstanding Rights by mailing such notice to each such holder at such holder’s last address as
it appears upon the registry books of the Rights Agent, or, prior to the Distribution Date, on the
registry books of the transfer agent for the Common Stock. Any notice which is mailed in the manner
herein provided shall be deemed given, whether or not the holder receives the notice. Each such
notice of redemption will state the method by which the payment of the Redemption Price will be
made, unless notice is mailed together with such payment.

     Section 24. Exchange.

          (a) The Board may, at its option, at any time after any Person becomes an Acquiring Person,
exchange all or part of the then outstanding and exercisable Rights (which shall not include Rights
that have become null and void pursuant to the provisions of Section 7(e) hereof) for Common Stock
at an exchange ratio of one (1) share of Common Stock per Right (or at such other exchange ratio as
the Board may determine), appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock split, stock dividend or
similar transaction occurring after the date hereof (such exchange ratio being hereinafter referred
to as the “Exchange Ratio”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board shall not be
empowered to effect such exchange at any time after any Person (other than the Company, any
Subsidiary of the Company, any employee benefit plan of the Company or any such Subsidiary, or any
entity holding Common Stock for or pursuant to the terms of any such plan), together with all
Affiliates and Associates of such Person, becomes the Beneficial Owner of fifty percent (50%) or
more of the Common Stock then outstanding. The exchange of the Rights by the Board pursuant may be
made effective at such time, on such basis and with such conditions as the Board in its sole
discretion may establish.

          (b) Immediately upon the action of the Board ordering the exchange of any Rights pursuant to
Section 24(a) of this Agreement and without any further action and without any notice, the right to
exercise such Rights shall terminate and the only right thereafter of a holder of such Rights shall
be to receive that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the

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number of such Rights held by such holder multiplied by the Exchange Ratio. The Company shall
promptly give public notice of any such exchange; provided, however, that the
failure to give, or any defect in, such notice shall not affect the validity of such exchange. The
Company promptly shall mail a notice of any such exchange to all of the holders of such Rights at
their last addresses as they appear upon the registry books of the Rights Agent. Any notice which
is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be deemed given, whether or not the holder receives
the notice. Each such notice of exchange will state the method by which the exchange of the Common
Stock for Rights will be effected and, in the event of any partial exchange, the number of Rights
which will be exchanged. Any partial exchange shall be effected pro rata based on the number of
Rights (other than Rights which have become null and void pursuant to the provisions of Section
7(e) hereof) held by each holder of Rights.

          (c) In any exchange pursuant to this Section 24, the Company, at its option, may substitute
Preferred Stock (or Equivalent Preference Stock) for Common Stock exchangeable for Rights, at the
initial rate of one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred Stock (or Equivalent
Preference Stock) for each share of Common Stock, as appropriately adjusted to reflect stock
splits, stock dividends and other similar transactions after the date hereof.

          (d) In the event that (i) the number of shares of Common Stock which are authorized by the
Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, but which are not outstanding or reserved for issuance for
purposes other than upon exercise of the Rights, is not sufficient to permit any exchange of Rights
as contemplated in accordance with this Section 24 and (ii) the Board determines to exchange shares
of Common Stock for Rights pursuant to this Section 24, then the Board shall take all such action
as may be necessary to authorize additional shares of Common Stock for issuance upon exchange of
the Rights.

          (e) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of shares of Common Stock or to
distribute certificates which evidence fractional shares of Common Stock. In lieu of such
fractional shares of Common Stock, there shall be paid to the registered holders of the Rights
Certificates with regard to which such fractional shares of Common Stock would otherwise be
issuable an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of a whole share
of Common Stock. For the purposes of this Section 24(e), the “current market value of a whole share
of Common Stock” shall be the closing price of a share of Common Stock (as determined pursuant to
the second (2nd) sentence of Section 11(d)(i) hereof) for the Trading Day immediately prior to the
date of exchange pursuant to this Section 24.

     Section 25. Notice of Certain Events.

          (a) In case the Company shall propose, at any time after the Distribution Date, (i) to pay any
dividend payable in stock of any class to the holders of Preferred Stock or to make any other
distribution to the holders of Preferred Stock (other than a regular periodic cash dividend out of
earnings or retained earnings of the Company), (ii) to offer to the holders of Preferred Stock
rights or warrants to subscribe for or to purchase any additional shares of Preferred Stock or
shares of stock of any class or any other securities, rights or options, (iii) to effect any
reclassification of the Preferred Stock (other than a reclassification involving only the
subdivision or split of outstanding shares of Preferred Stock), (iv) to effect any consolidation,

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combination or merger into or with any other Person or Persons (other than a Subsidiary of the
Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), or to effect any sale or other
transfer (or to permit one or more of its Subsidiaries to effect any sale or other transfer), in
one transaction or a series of related transactions, of fifty percent (50%) or more of the assets,
earning power or cash flow of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other
Person or Persons (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in one or more transactions
each of which complies with Section 11(o) hereof) or (v) to effect the liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Company, then, in each such case, the Company shall give to each holder of a
Rights Certificate, to the extent feasible and in accordance with Section 26 hereof, a notice of
such proposed action which shall specify the record date for the purposes of such stock dividend,
distribution of rights or warrants, or the date on which such reclassification, consolidation,
combination, merger, sale, transfer, liquidation, dissolution or winding up is to take place and
the date of participation therein by the holders of the shares of Preferred Stock of the Company,
if any such date is to be fixed, and such notice shall be so given in the case of any action
covered by clause (i) or (ii) above at least twenty (20) days prior to the record date for
determining holders of the shares of Preferred Stock of the Company for purposes of such action,
and in the case of any such other action, at least twenty (20) days prior to the date of the taking
of such proposed action or the date of participation therein by the holders of the shares of
Preferred Stock of the Company, whichever shall be the earlier.

          (b) In case a Section 11(a)(ii) Event shall occur, then (i) the Company shall as soon as
practicable thereafter give to each holder of a Rights Certificate, to the extent feasible, and to
the Rights Agent, in accordance with Section 26 hereof, a notice of the occurrence of such event,
which notice shall specify the event and the consequences of the event to holders of Rights under
Section 11(a)(ii) hereof, and (ii) all references in Section 25(a) above to Preferred Stock of the
Company shall be deemed thereafter to refer to Common Stock and/or, if appropriate, to other
securities.

          (c) The failure of the Company to give any notice provided for in this Section 25, or any
defect therein, shall not (i) relieve the Company of any of its other obligations under this
Agreement or (ii) affect the legality or validity of the action for which such notice was hereby
required.

     Section 26. Notices. Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or
made by the Rights Agent or by the holder of any Rights Certificate to or on the Company shall be
sufficiently given or made if sent by overnight delivery service or first-class mail, postage
prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing with the Rights Agent) as follows:

Allied Healthcare International Inc.

245 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10167

Attention: Sandy Young

                 Chief Executive Officer

with a copy to:

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WolfBlock LLP

250 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10177

Attention: Leslie Levinson, Esq.

Subject to the provisions of Section 21 hereof, any notice or demand authorized by this Agreement
to be given or made by the Company or by the holder of any Rights Certificate to or on the Rights
Agent shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by overnight delivery service or first-class
mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing with the Company) as
follows:

Computershare Trust Company, N.A.

250 Royall Street

Canton, Massachusetts 02021

Attention: Client Services

Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Company or the Rights
Agent to the holder of any Rights Certificate (or, if prior to the Distribution Date, to the holder
of any certificate representing shares of Common Stock) shall be sufficiently given or made if sent
by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to such holder at the address of such holder as
shown on the registry books of the Company.

     Section 27. Supplements and Amendments.

          (a) Prior to the Distribution Date, and subject to the penultimate sentence of this Section
27(a), the Rights Agent shall, if the Company so directs, supplement or amend any provision of this
Agreement (including, without limitation, any extension of the period in which the Rights may be
redeemed, any increase in the Purchase Price and any extension of the Final Expiration Date), so
long as the duties, liabilities and indemnification of the Rights Agent are not affected, without
the approval of any holders of certificates representing shares of Common Stock. From and after the
Distribution Date, and subject to the penultimate sentence of this Section 27(a), the Company and
the Rights Agent shall, if the Company so directs, supplement or amend this Agreement, so long as
the duties, liabilities and indemnification of the Rights Agent are not affected, without the
approval of any holders of Rights Certificates in order (i) to cure any ambiguity, (ii) to correct
or supplement any provision contained herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other
provisions herein, (iii) to shorten or lengthen any time period hereunder (including the redemption
period prior to the Rights becoming non-redeemable), or (iv) to change or supplement the provisions
hereunder in any manner which the Company may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not
materially adversely affect the interests of the holders of Rights Certificates (other than an
Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person); provided,
however, that this Agreement may not be supplemented or amended to lengthen, pursuant to
clause (iii) of this sentence, (A) a time period relating to when the Rights may be redeemed, or to
modify the ability (or inability) of the Board to redeem the Rights, in either case at such time as
the Rights are not then redeemable, or (B) any other time period unless such lengthening is for the
purpose of protecting, enhancing or clarifying the rights of, and/or the benefits to, the holders
of Rights (other than an Acquiring Person or any Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person).
Notwithstanding anything

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contained in this Agreement to the contrary, no supplement or amendment shall be made which
changes the Redemption Price or the number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock
for which a Right is exercisable. Prior to the Distribution Date, the interests of the holders of
Rights shall be deemed coincident with the interests of the holders of Common Stock.

          (b) Upon the delivery of a certificate from an appropriate officer of the Company which states
that the proposed supplement or amendment is in compliance with the terms of this Section 27, the
Rights Agent shall execute such supplement or amendment.

     Section 28. Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for
the benefit of the Company or the Rights Agent shall bind and inure to the benefit of their
respective successors and assigns hereunder.

     Section 29. Determinations and Actions by the Board, etc. For all purposes of this
Agreement, any calculation of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company outstanding at
any particular time, including for purposes of determining the particular percentage of such
outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company of which any Person is the Beneficial Owner,
shall be made in accordance with the last sentence of Rule 13d-3(d)(1)(i) of the General Rules and
Regulations under the Exchange Act. The Board shall have the exclusive power and authority to
administer this Agreement and to exercise all rights and powers specifically granted to the Board
or to the Company, or as may be necessary or advisable in the administration of this Agreement,
including without limitation the right and power to (a) interpret the provisions of this Agreement
and (b) make all determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration of this
Agreement (including without limitation a determination to redeem or not redeem the Rights or to
amend this Agreement). All such actions, calculations, interpretations and determinations
(including without limitation for purposes of clause (y) below, all omissions with respect to the
foregoing) which are done or made by the Board or the Company in good faith, shall (x) be final,
conclusive and binding on the Company, the Rights Agent, the holders of the Rights and all other
parties and (y) not subject the Board to any liability to the holders of the Rights or otherwise
and the Rights Agent may assume that any such actions, calculations, interpretations and
determinations made by the Board or the Company, were made in good faith, without the need to
inquire or investigate such action whatsoever.

     Section 30. Independent Director Evaluation. A committee of the Board shall
review this Agreement in order to consider whether the maintenance of this Agreement continues to
be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders. Such committee shall conduct such
review periodically when, as and in such manner as the committee deems appropriate, after giving
due regard to all relevant circumstances; provided, however, that the committee
shall take such action at least annually. Following each
such review, such committee will report its conclusions to the full Board, including any
recommendation in light thereof as to whether this Agreement should be modified or the Rights
should be redeemed. Such committee shall be comprised only of Independent Directors of the Company.
Such committee is authorized to retain, at the expense of the Company, such legal counsel,
financial advisors and other advisors as the committee deems appropriate in order to assist the
committee in carrying out its foregoing responsibilities under this Agreement. Such committee shall
initially be the Nominating Committee of the Board, provided that the Board may, at
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committee of Independent Directors (whether such committee be a permanent committee of the
Board or ad hoc) pursuant to this Section 30.

     Section 31. Benefits of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed
to give to any Person other than the Company, the Rights Agent and the registered holders of the
Rights Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, registered holders of the Common Stock of
the Company) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement; this Agreement
shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the Rights Agent and the registered
holders of the Rights Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, registered holders of the
Common Stock of the Company).

     Section 32. Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this
Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void or
unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions of this Agreement
shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated;
provided, however, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary,
if any such term, provision, covenant or restriction is held by such court or authority to be
invalid, void or unenforceable and the Board determines in its good faith judgment that severing
the invalid language from this Agreement would adversely affect the purpose or effect of this
Agreement, the right of redemption set forth in Section 23 hereof shall be reinstated and shall not
expire until the Close of Business on the tenth (10th) Business Day following the date of such
determination by the Board. Without limiting the foregoing, if any provision of this Agreement
requiring that a determination be made by less than the entire Board (or at a time or with the
concurrence of a group of directors consisting of less than the entire Board) is held by a court of
competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void or unenforceable, such determination
shall then be made by the entire Board in accordance with applicable law and the certificate of
incorporation and bylaws of the Company, each as then in effect.

     Section 33. Governing Law. The validity, enforceability, interpretation and
performance of this Agreement, each Right and each Rights Certificate issued hereunder shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, applicable to
contracts made and to be performed entirely within such state.

     Section 34. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and
all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

     Section 35. Descriptive Headings. Descriptive headings of the several sections of this
Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not control or affect the meaning or
construction of any of the provisions hereof.

     Section 36. Force Majeure. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
the Rights Agent shall not be liable for any delays or failures in performance resulting from acts
beyond its reasonable control including, without limitation (but only if beyond the reasonable
control of the Rights Agent), acts of God, terrorist acts, shortage of supply, breakdowns or
malfunctions, interruptions or malfunction of computer facilities, or loss of data due to power

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failures or mechanical difficulties with information storage or retrieval systems, labor
difficulties, war, or civil unrest.

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	ALLIED HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL INC.

 	 
	 	By  	/s/ Sandy Young 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Alexander S. Young 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Chief Executive Officer 	 
	 
	 	COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY,

N.A., as Rights Agent

 	 
	 	By  	/s/ Michael Lang 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Michael Lang 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Senior Vice President 	 

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Exhibit A

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

of the

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

of

ALLIED HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL INC.

(Under Section 805 of the Business Corporation Law)

          It is hereby certified that:

          FIRST: The name of the Corporation is “Allied Healthcare International Inc.”

          The name under which the Corporation was formed is United States Home Health Care Corp.

          SECOND: The date that the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the
Department of State is November 30, 1981.

          THIRD: The amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation effected by this
Certificate of Amendment is to designate up to five thousand (5,000) shares of the authorized ten
million (10,000,000) shares of preferred stock as Series A Preferred Stock.

          FOURTH: Section I of Article FOURTH of the Certificate of Incorporation, relating to the
preferred stock which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue, is hereby amended by
adding the following provisions at the end thereof:

“SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK

     The Board of Directors has authorized a series of Preferred Stock which series
shall be designated as Series A Preferred Stock, $.01 par value per share (the
“Series A Preferred Stock”), and the number of shares constituting such
series shall be Five Thousand (5,000). Such number of shares may be increased or
decreased by resolution of the Board of Directors; provided,
however, that no decrease shall reduce the number of shares of Series A
Preferred Stock to a number less than the number of shares of Series A Preferred
Stock then outstanding plus the number of shares reserved for issuance upon the
exercise of outstanding options, rights or warrants or upon the conversion of any
outstanding securities issued by the Corporation convertible into Series A Preferred
Stock.

     (a) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of
any series of Preferred Stock, if any, ranking prior and superior to the shares of
Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Series

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A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the
Board of Directors out of funds legally available for that purpose, quarterly
dividends payable in cash on the 15th day of March, June, September and December in
each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after
the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock, in
an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (x) $.01
($.04 per annum) and (y) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set
forth, 10,000 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 10,000
times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or
other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of common stock (the
“Common Stock”) or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock
(by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the
immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first
Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction
of a share of Series A Preferred Stock. In the event the Corporation shall at any
time after April 2, 2009 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declare any
dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the
outstanding Common Stock, or (iii) combine the outstanding Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares, then in each such case the amount to which holders of
 shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event
under clause (y) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such
amount by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number
of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

     The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series A
Preferred Stock as provided in the above paragraph immediately after it declares a
dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in
 shares of Common Stock); provided, however, that, in the event no
dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the
period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly
Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $.01 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock
shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.

     Dividends shall accrue and be deemed to accrue from day to day whether or not
declared and shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Series
A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date
of issue of such shares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless the date of issue of
such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment
Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date of
issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment
Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of shares
of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such
Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either

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of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such
Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear
interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock in an amount less
than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such
 shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares
at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the
determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive
payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be
no more than 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.

     (b) Subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each share
of Series A Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 10,000 votes on all
matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders of the Corporation. In the event the
Corporation shall at any time after the Rights Declaration Date (i) declare any
dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the
outstanding Common Stock, or (iii) combine the outstanding Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares, then in each such case the number of votes per share to
which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior
to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such number by a fraction the
numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately
after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common
Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

     Except as otherwise provided herein or by law, the holders of shares of Series
A Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of Common Stock shall vote together as
one class on all matters submitted to a vote of shareholders of the Corporation.

     (c) Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on
the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in Section 5(a) of this Article Four are in
arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions,
whether or not declared, on shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding shall
have been paid in full, the Corporation shall not:

     (i) declare or pay dividends on, make any other distributions on, or redeem or
purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock ranking junior
(either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the
Series A Preferred Stock;

     (ii) pay dividends on or make any other distributions on any shares of stock
ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except dividends paid ratably on the
Series A Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or
in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such
 shares are then entitled;

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     (iii) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any
stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution
or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may
at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such parity stock in
exchange for shares of any stock of the Corporation ranking junior (either as to
dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the Series A Preferred
Stock; or

     (iv) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of
Series A Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity with the Series
A Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by
publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such shares
upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective
annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective
series and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable
treatment among the respective series or classes.

     The Corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase or
otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Corporation unless
the Corporation could, under this Section (c), purchase or otherwise acquire such
 shares at such time and in such manner.

     (d) Any shares of Series A Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by
the Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and cancelled promptly
after the acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become
authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of a
new series of Preferred Stock to be created by resolution or resolutions of the
Board of Directors, subject to the conditions and restrictions on issuance set forth
herein.

     (e) Upon any liquidation (voluntary or otherwise), dissolution or winding up of
the Corporation, no distribution shall be made to the holders of shares of stock
ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding
up) to the Series A Preferred Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of
Series A Preferred Stock shall have received $100 per share, plus an amount equal to
accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or not declared, to
the date of such payment (the “Series A Liquidation Preference”). Following
the payment of the full amount of the Series A Liquidation Preference, no additional
distributions shall be made to the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock
unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Common Stock shall have received an
amount per share (the “Common Adjustment”) equal to the quotient obtained by
dividing (i) the Series A Liquidation Preference by (ii) 10,000 (as appropriately
adjusted as set forth in the paragraph below to reflect such events as stock splits,
stock dividends and recapitalizations with respect to the Common Stock) (such number
in clause (ii), the “Adjustment Number”). Following the payment of the full
amount of the Series A Liquidation Preference and the Common Adjustment in respect
of all

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outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock and Common Stock, respectively,
holders of Series A Preferred Stock and holders of Common Stock shall receive their
ratable and proportionate share of the remaining assets to be distributed in the
ratio of the Adjustment Number to 1 with respect to such Preferred Stock and Common
Stock, on a per share basis, respectively. In the event, however, that there are not
sufficient assets available to permit payment in full of the Series A Liquidation
Preference and the liquidation preferences of all other series of Preferred Stock,
if any, which rank on a parity with the Series A Preferred Stock, then such
remaining assets shall be distributed ratably to the holders of such parity shares
in proportion to their respective liquidation preferences. In the event, however,
that there are not sufficient assets available to permit payment in full of the
Common Adjustment, then such remaining assets shall be distributed ratably to the
holders of Common Stock.

     In the event the Corporation shall at any time after the Rights Declaration
Date (i) declare any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock,
(ii) subdivide the outstanding Common Stock, or (iii) combine the outstanding Common
Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the Adjustment Number
in effect immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such
Adjustment Number by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which
is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to
such event.

     (f) In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger,
combination or other transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are exchanged
for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then
in any such case the shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall at the same time be
similarly exchanged or changed in an amount per share (subject to the provision for
adjustment hereinafter set forth) equal to 10,000 times the aggregate amount of
stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may
be, into which or for which each share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged. In
the event the Corporation shall at any time after the Rights Declaration Date (i)
declare any dividend on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii)
subdivide the outstanding Common Stock, or (iii) combine the outstanding Common
Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the amount set forth
in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or change of shares of Series
A Preferred Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction the
numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately
after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common
Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

     (g) The shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.

     (h) Series A Preferred Stock may be issued in fractions of a share which shall
entitle the holder, in proportion to such holder’s fractional shares, to

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exercise voting rights, receive dividends, participate in distributions and to have
the benefit of all other rights of holders of Series A Preferred Stock.

     (i) The Series A Preferred Stock shall rank junior to all other series of the
Corporation’s Preferred Stock, if any, as to the payment of dividends and the
distribution of assets, unless the terms of any such series shall provide otherwise.

     (j) Holders of Series A Preferred Stock will have no preemptive rights to
subscribe for or purchase additional shares of any class of stock or other security
of the Corporation.

     (k) The shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall not be convertible into or
exchangeable for shares of any other class.

     (l) This Certificate of Incorporation shall not be further amended in any
manner which would alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the
Series A Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely in a material manner without
the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority or more of the outstanding shares
of Series A Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class.”

          FIFTH: The foregoing amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was
authorized by a vote of the Board of Directors of the Corporation. Under Section 502 of the
Business Corporation Law, shareholder approval was not required to approve the foregoing amendment
to the Certificate of Incorporation.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have executed and subscribed this Certificate of Amendment on the date
set forth below and do hereby affirm, under the penalties of perjury, that the statements contained
herein have been examined by us and are true and correct.

Dated:
April      , 2009

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	By:  	
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	 	 
	 	 	Title:  	 	 

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Exhibit B

[Form of Rights Certificate]

			
	Certificate No. R-
	 	                     Rights

          NOT
EXERCISABLE AFTER THE FINAL EXPIRATION DATE (AS DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT REFERRED TO BELOW),
SUBJECT TO EARLIER REDEMPTION OR EXPIRATION OR EXCHANGE
PURSUANT TO THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT. THE RIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION, AT THE OPTION OF THE
COMPANY, AT $.001 PER RIGHT ON THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT. THE RIGHTS EVIDENCED BY
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL NOT BE EXERCISABLE, AND SHALL BE VOID SO LONG AS HELD, BY A HOLDER IN ANY
JURISDICTION WHERE THE REQUISITE QUALIFICATION FOR THE ISSUANCE TO SUCH HOLDER, OR THE EXERCISE BY
SUCH HOLDER, OF THE RIGHTS IN SUCH JURISDICTION SHALL NOT HAVE BEEN OBTAINED OR BE OBTAINABLE.
UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, RIGHTS BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY AN ACQUIRING PERSON OR AN ASSOCIATE OR
AFFILIATE OF AN ACQUIRING PERSON (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT) AND ANY
SUBSEQUENT HOLDER OF SUCH RIGHTS MAY BECOME NULL AND VOID. [THE RIGHTS REPRESENTED BY THIS RIGHTS
CERTIFICATE ARE OR WERE BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY A PERSON WHO IS, WAS OR BECAME AN ACQUIRING PERSON OR
AN ASSOCIATE OR AFFILIATE OF AN ACQUIRING PERSON (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS
AGREEMENT). ACCORDINGLY, THIS RIGHTS CERTIFICATE AND THE RIGHTS REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY BECOME NULL
AND VOID IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SPECIFIED IN SECTION 7(E) OF SUCH RIGHTS AGREEMENT.]*

RIGHTS CERTIFICATE

ALLIED HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL INC.

          This certifies that                                         , or registered assigns, is the registered owner of the
number of Rights set forth above, each of which entitles the owner thereof, subject to the terms,
provisions and conditions of the Rights Agreement, dated as of April 2, 2009, as amended,
restated, renewed or extended from time to time (the “Rights Agreement”), between Allied
Healthcare International Inc., a New York corporation (the “Company”), and Computershare
Trust Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company, as Rights Agent (the “Rights
Agent”), to purchase from the Company at any time prior to
5:00 P.M., New York time, on the Final Expiration Date (as defined in
the Rights Agreement) (unless the Rights evidenced hereby shall have
been previously redeemed by the Company or exchanged) at the office
or offices of the Rights Agent, or its successor as

 

			
	*	 	The portion of the legend in brackets shall be inserted
only if applicable, shall be modified to apply to an Acquiring Person, an
Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring Person and certain transferees of the
foregoing, as applicable, and shall replace the preceding sentence.

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Rights Agent, designated for such purpose, one one-ten thousandth (0.0001) of a fully paid,
nonassessable share of Series A Preferred Stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the
“Preferred Stock”), at a purchase price of $20.00 per one one-ten thousandth of a share
(the “Purchase Price”), upon presentation and surrender of this Rights Certificate with the
Form of Election to Purchase and included Certificate duly completed and executed. The number of
Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate (and the number of shares which may be purchased upon
exercise thereof) set forth above, and the Purchase Price set forth above, are the number and
Purchase Price as of April 2, 2009, based on the Preferred Stock as constituted at such date. The
Company reserves the right to require prior to the occurrence of a Triggering Event (as such term
is defined in the Rights Agreement) that a number of Rights be exercised so that only whole shares
of Preferred Stock will be issued. The holder of the Rights evidenced hereby consents and agrees
that, subject to the terms of the Rights Agreement, the Company and the Rights Agent may deem and
treat the Person in whose name this Rights Certificate is registered as the absolute owner hereof
and of the Rights evidenced hereby (notwithstanding any notations of ownership or writing on this
Rights Certificate made by anyone other than the Company or the Rights Agent) for all purposes
whatsoever, and neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall be required to be affected by any
notice to the contrary.

          As more fully set forth in the Rights Agreement, from and after the first occurrence of a
Triggering Event (as such term is defined in the Rights Agreement), if the Rights evidenced by this
Rights Certificate are beneficially owned by (i) an Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate
of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement), (ii) a transferee of
such Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who becomes a transferee after such
Acquiring Person becomes such, or (iii) under certain circumstances specified in the Rights
Agreement, a transferee of such Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) who
becomes a transferee prior to or concurrently with such Acquiring Person becoming such, such Rights
shall become null and void without any further action, and no holder hereof shall have any right
with respect to such Rights from and after the occurrence of such Triggering Event, whether under
the Rights Agreement or otherwise.

          As provided in the Rights Agreement, the Purchase Price and the number and kind of shares of
Preferred Stock or other securities, which may be purchased upon the exercise of the Rights
evidenced by this Rights Certificate, are subject to modification and adjustment upon the happening
of certain events, including Triggering Events (as defined in the Rights Agreement).

          This Rights Certificate is subject to all of the terms, provisions and conditions of the
Rights Agreement, which terms, provisions and conditions are hereby incorporated herein by
reference and made a part hereof and to which Rights Agreement reference is hereby made for a full
description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of
the Rights Agent, the Company and the holders of the Rights Certificates, which limitations of
rights include the temporary suspension of the exercisability of such Rights under the specific
circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement. Reference is also made to the Rights Agreement for
definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined herein. Copies of the Rights Agreement are on
file at the principal office of the Rights Agent and are also available upon written request to the
Rights Agent.

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          This Rights Certificate, with or without other Rights Certificates, upon surrender at the
office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, may be exchanged for another
Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates of like tenor and date evidencing Rights entitling the
holder to purchase a like aggregate number of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock
(or such other securities which may be issuable upon the exercise of the Rights) as the Rights
evidenced by the Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates surrendered shall have entitled such
holder to purchase. If this Rights Certificate shall be exercised in part, the holder shall be
entitled to receive upon surrender hereof another Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates for the
number of whole Rights not exercised.

          Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights evidenced by this Certificate
may be redeemed by the Company at its option at a redemption price of $.001 per Right at any time
prior to the earlier of (i) the Close of Business on the tenth (10th) Business Day following the
Stock Acquisition Date (as such time period may be extended pursuant to the Rights Agreement) and
(ii) the Final Expiration Date (as defined in the Rights Agreement). In addition, under certain
circumstances following the Stock Acquisition Date, the Rights may be exchanged, in whole or in
part, for shares of the Common Stock, or shares of preferred stock of the Company having
essentially the same value or economic rights as such shares. Immediately upon the action of the
Board of Directors of the Company authorizing any such redemption or exchange, and without any
further action or any notice, the Rights (other than, in the case of an exchange, Rights which are
not subject to such exchange) will terminate and the Rights will only enable holders to receive the
redemption price or the shares issuable upon such exchange, respectively.

          If the Company so determines, no fractional shares of Preferred Stock will be issued upon the
exercise of any Right or Rights evidenced hereby (other than fractions which are integral multiples
of one one-ten thousandths of a share of Preferred Stock, which may, at the election of the
Company, be evidenced by depositary receipts), but in lieu thereof, a cash payment will be made, as
provided in the Rights Agreement.

          No holder of this Rights Certificate, as such, shall be entitled to vote or receive dividends
or be deemed for any purpose to be the holder of shares of Common Stock, Preferred Stock or of any
other securities of the Company which may at any time be issuable on the exercise hereof, nor shall
anything contained in the Rights Agreement or herein be construed to confer upon the holder hereof,
as such, any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company or any right to vote for the election of
directors or upon any matter submitted to shareholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or
withhold consent to any corporate action, or to receive notice of meetings or other actions
affecting shareholders (except as provided in the Rights Agreement), or to receive dividends or
other distributions or to exercise any preemptive or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the
Right or Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate shall have been exercised as provided in the
Rights Agreement.

          This Rights Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until it shall have
been countersigned by the Rights Agent.

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          WITNESS the facsimile signature of the proper officers of the Company.

Dated as of                     , 20   

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	ATTEST:

	
	 	 	ALLIED HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL INC.
	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	By

	 	 	 	 	 	By	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 
	 

	 	Name:
	 	 	 	 	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	
	 	 	 	Title:	 	 

Countersigned:

	 	 	 	 	 
	COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,

as Rights Agent

 	 	 
	By  	 	 	 
	 	Authorized Signature 	 	 
	 	 	 	 

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[Form of Reverse Side of Rights Certificate]

ASSIGNMENT

(To be executed by the registered holder if such

holder desires to transfer the Rights Certificate.)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED  

hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto  

 

(Please print name and address of transferee)

 

this Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest herein, and does hereby
irrevocably constitute and appoint                      Attorney, to transfer the within Rights
Certificate on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution.

Dated:                                         ,                     

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	Signature	 
	 	 	 

Signature Medallion Guaranteed:

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Certificate

          The undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes that:

          (1) the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate [     ] are [     ] are not being sold,
assigned and transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person, or an
Associate or Affiliate of any such Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights
Agreement); and

          (2) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, the undersigned [     ] did
[     ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate from any Person who is, was
or subsequently became an Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring Person.

Dated:                                         ,                     

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	Signature	 
	 	 	 

Signature Medallion Guaranteed:

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NOTICE

          The signatures to the foregoing Assignment and Certificate must correspond to the name as
written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatsoever.

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FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE

(To be executed if holder desires to exercise Rights represented by the Rights Certificate.)

To: Allied Healthcare International Inc.

          The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise                      Rights represented by this
Rights Certificate to purchase the shares of Preferred Stock issuable upon the exercise of the
Rights (or such other securities of the Company or of any other Person which may be issuable or
such other assets which may be deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights) and requests that
certificates for any such shares or securities be issued in the name of and delivered to:

Please insert social security

or other identifying number                                         

 

(Please print name and address)

 

If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate, a new
Rights Certificate for the balance of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered
to:

Please insert social security

or other identifying number                                         

 

(Please print name and address)

      

     

 

Dated:                                          ,                     

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	Signature	 
	 	 	 

Signature Guaranteed:

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Certificate

          The undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes that:

          (1) the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate [     ]are [     ] are not being exercised by
or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate of any such
Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement); and

          (2) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, the undersigned [     ]did
[     ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate from any Person who is, was
or became an Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring Person.

Dated:                                         ,                     

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	Signature	 
	 	 	 

Signature Guaranteed:

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NOTICE

          The signature to the foregoing Election to Purchase and Certificate must correspond to the
name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatsoever.

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Exhibit C

SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO PURCHASE

SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK

          On March 23, 2009, the Board of Directors of Allied Healthcare International Inc., a New York
corporation (the “Company”), declared a dividend distribution of one right (a
“Right”) for each outstanding share of the Company’s common stock, par value $.01 per share
(the “Common Stock”), to shareholders of record at the close of business on April 2, 2009
(the “Record Date”). The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights
Agreement (the “Rights Agreement”), dated as of April 2, 2009, between the Company and
Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent.

          Initially, the Rights will be attached to all Common Stock certificates representing shares
then outstanding, and no separate Rights certificates (the “Rights Certificates”) will be
distributed. Subject to certain exceptions specified in the Rights Agreement, the Rights will
separate from the Common Stock and a distribution date (a “Distribution Date”) will occur
upon the earlier to occur of (1) the tenth (10th) business day following the date (the “Stock
Acquisition Date”) of the first public announcement by the Company or an Acquiring Person (as
defined below) that any person or entity (a “Person”) or group (other than an Exempt Person
(as defined below) has become the beneficial owner of twenty percent (20%) or more of the Common
Stock then outstanding (an “Acquiring Person”) and (2) the tenth (10th) business day
following the commencement of a tender or exchange offer by a Person, if upon its consummation,
such Person would become an Acquiring Person.

          An “Exempt Person” means (i) the Company, (ii) any subsidiary of the Company, (iii)
any employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (iv) any Person organized,
appointed, established or holding Common Stock by, for or pursuant to the terms of any employee
benefit plan, (v) a Person who becomes the beneficial owner of twenty percent (20%) or more of the
Common Stock then outstanding as a result of a reduction in the Common Stock outstanding due to
repurchases of stock by the Company, (vi) a Person who the Board of Directors determines
inadvertently became the beneficial owner of twenty percent (20%) or more of the Common Stock then
outstanding so long as such Person as promptly as practicable divests a sufficient number of shares
of Common Stock so as to no longer own shares at or above the twenty percent (20%) ownership
threshold, and (vii) a Person who, on the date of the Rights Agreement, beneficially owned twenty
percent (20%) or more of the Common Stock then outstanding so long as such Person, while the
beneficial owner of twenty percent (20%) or more of the Common Stock then outstanding, does not
acquire more than one-half of one percent (0.5%) or more of the Common Stock then outstanding.

          Until the Distribution Date, (1) the Rights will be evidenced by the Common Stock certificates
and will be transferred with and only with such Common Stock certificates, (2) new Common Stock
certificates issued after the Record Date will contain a notation incorporating the Rights
Agreement by reference and (3) the surrender for transfer of any certificates for Common Stock
outstanding will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Common Stock
represented by such certificate. Pursuant to the Rights Agreement, the Company reserves the right
to require prior to the occurrence of a Triggering

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Event (as defined below) that, upon any exercise of Rights, a number of Rights be exercised so
that only whole shares of Preferred Stock will be issued.

          The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date and, if no Distribution Date occurs, will expire on the Close of Business on (i) April 1, 2019, if the
Rights Agreement is approved at the 2010 annual meeting of shareholders by the affirmative vote of
the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of stock of the Company who are present
or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the matter at a meeting of the shareholders held in
accordance with applicable law, or (ii) on the business day after the 2010 annual meeting of
shareholders, if the Rights Agreement is not so approved at the 2010 annual meeting of
shareholders, in each case, unless the Rights are previously redeemed, exchanged or terminated. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-ten
thousandth (0.0001) of a share of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share
(the “Series A Preferred Stock”), at a purchase price of $20.00 per one one-ten thousandth
(0.0001) of a share. The amount and type of securities that may be purchased upon exercise of a
Right is subject to adjustment, as described below. Because of the nature of the dividend,
liquidation and voting rights of the Series A Preferred Stock, the value of the one one-ten
thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Series A Preferred Stock purchasable upon exercise of a right is
intended to approximate the value of one (1) share of Common Stock.

          As soon as practicable after the Distribution Date, Rights Certificates will be mailed to
holders of record of the Common Stock as of the close of business on the Distribution Date and,
thereafter, the separate Rights Certificates alone will represent the Rights. Except for shares
issued upon the exercise of stock options or as otherwise determined by the Board of Directors,
only shares of Common Stock issued prior to the close of business on the Distribution Date will be
issued with Rights.

          In the event that a Person becomes an Acquiring Person, each holder of a Right will thereafter
have the right to receive, upon exercise, Common Stock (or, in certain circumstances, cash,
property or other securities of the Company) having a value equal to two (2) times the exercise
price of the Right. The foregoing will not apply, however, to an acquisition of shares of Common
Stock pursuant to a tender or exchange offer for all outstanding shares of the Company, at a price
and on terms determined by a majority of the independent directors of the Company, after receiving
advice from an investment banking firm, to be fair and otherwise in the best interest of the
Company and its shareholders (a “Qualifying Offer”). In addition, following the occurrence
of the event set forth in the first (1st) sentence of this paragraph, all Rights that are, or
(under certain circumstances specified in the Rights Agreement) were, beneficially owned by an
Acquiring Person will be null and void.

          For example, at an exercise price of $20.00 per Right, each Right not owned by an Acquiring
Person (or by certain related parties) following an event set forth in first (1st) sentence of the
preceding paragraph would entitle its holder to purchase $40.00 worth of Common Stock (or other
consideration, as noted above) for $20.00. Assuming that the Common Stock had a per share value of
$5.00 at such time, the holder of each valid Right would be entitled to purchase eight shares of
Common Stock for $20.00.

          In the event that, after a Person becomes an Acquiring Person, (i) the Company is acquired in
a merger or other business combination transaction (x) in which the Company is not the surviving
entity (other than a merger consummated pursuant to a Qualifying Offer), or (y) in which the
Company is the surviving entity and the Common Stock is changed or exchanged or the Common Stock
remains outstanding but constitutes less than fifty percent (50%) of the shares outstanding
immediately following the merger, or (ii) fifty percent (50%) or more of the Company’s assets,
earning power or cash flow is sold or transferred, each holder of a Right

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(except Rights which have previously been voided as set forth above) shall thereafter have the
right to receive, upon exercise, common stock of the acquiring company having a value equal to two
(2) times the exercise price of the Right. However, the right to purchase common shares of the
acquiring company will not apply to a transaction described in clause (i) of the first (1st)
sentence of this paragraph which is a Qualifying Offer and which meet certain other conditions set
forth in the Rights Agreement. The events set forth in the first (1st) sentence of this paragraph
and in the first (1st) sentence of the seventh (7th) paragraph of this summary are referred to as
the “Triggering Events.”

          At any time until ten (10) business days following the Stock Acquisition Date, the Company may
redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.001 per Right (payable in cash, Common
Stock or other consideration deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors). Immediately upon the
action of the Board of Directors ordering redemption of the Rights, the Rights will terminate and
the only right of the holders of Rights will be to receive the redemption price.

          At any time after a Person becomes an Acquiring Person and prior to the acquisition by a
Person and its affiliates (other than a Person of the type described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or
(iv) in the third (3rd) paragraph of this summary) of fifty percent (50%) or more of the
outstanding Common Stock, the Board of Directors may exchange the Rights (other than Rights which
have become null and void), in whole or in part, at an exchange ratio of one (1) share of Common
Stock (or at such other exchange ratio as the Board of Directors shall determine), or one one-ten
thousandth (0.0001) of a share of Preferred Stock (or of a share of a class or series of the
Company’s preferred stock having equivalent rights, preferences and privileges), per Right (subject
to adjustment). Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors ordering exchange of any of
the Rights, such Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of such Rights will be to
receive the exchange shares.

          Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a shareholder
of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends. While the
distribution of the Rights will not be taxable to shareholders or to the Company, shareholders may,
depending upon the circumstances, recognize taxable income in the event that the Rights become
exercisable for Common Stock (or other consideration) of the Company or for common stock of an
acquiring company or in the event of the redemption of the Rights.

          Any of the provisions of the Rights Agreement may be amended by the Board of Directors prior
to the Distribution Date, with certain exceptions. After the Distribution Date, the provisions of
the Rights Agreement may be amended by the Board of Directors, with certain exceptions, in order to
cure any ambiguity, to shorten or lengthen any time period under the Rights Agreement or to make
changes which do not materially adversely affect the interests of holders of Rights (other than an
Acquiring Person or its affiliates).

          The
Rights Agreement provides that is shall be reviewed annually by a committee of independent directors of the Company in order to consider whether the
maintenance of this Agreement continues to be in the best interests of the Company and its
shareholders. Following its review, the committee of independent directors will

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report its conclusions to the full Board of Directors, including any recommendation as to
whether the Rights Agreement should be modified or the Rights should be redeemed.

          The term “beneficial ownership” is defined in the Rights Agreement and includes, among other
things, certain derivative or synthetic arrangements having characteristics of a long position in
shares of Common Stock.

          A copy of the Rights Agreement is being filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as
an exhibit to a current report on Form 8-K. A copy of the Rights Agreement is available free of
charge from the Company. This summary description of the Rights does not purport to be complete and
is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Rights Agreement, which is incorporated herein by
reference.

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