Document:

exv10w9

Exhibit 10.9

F21.088

DATED 14 July 2010

GRAND AFFECTION S.A.

GRAND AFFINITY S.A.

(as Borrowers)

- and —

DVB BANK SE

and others

(as Lenders)

- and -

DVB BANK SE

(as Agent)

- and -

DVB BANK SE

(as Security Agent)

 

SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT

TO A SECURED LOAN FACILITY AGREEMENT

DATED 9 JULY 2010

 

STEPHENSON HARWOOD

Ariston Building

2 Filellinon Street & Akti Miaouli

Piraeus 185 36

Greece

Tel: +30 210 4295 160

Fax: +30 210 4295 166

Ref: F21.088

 

 

CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Page	 
	1 Interpretation
	 	 	1	 
	 
	2 Conditions
	 	 	3	 
	 
	3 Representations and Warranties
	 	 	5	 
	 
	4 Amendments to Loan Agreement and the Security Documents
	 	 	5	 
	 
	5 Confirmation and Undertaking
	 	 	13	 
	 
	6 Communications, Law and Jurisdiction
	 	 	13	 
	 
	Schedule 1
	 	 	14	 
	Effective Date Confirmation
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SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT

Dated: 14 July 2010

BETWEEN:-

	(1)	 	GRAND AFFECTION S.A. (“Affection”) and GRAND AFFINITY S.A. (“Affinity”), each a company
incorporated under the laws of the Marshall Islands with its registered office at c/o The
Trust Company of the Marshall Islands Inc., The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Island,
Ajeltake Road, Majuro, Marshall Islands M.H. 96960; and (together the “Borrowers” and each a
“Borrower”) jointly and severally; and
	 
	(2)	 	the banks listed in schedule 1 of the loan agreement, each acting through its office at the
address indicated against its name in schedule 1 (together the “Lenders” and each a “Lender”);
and
	 
	(3)	 	DVB BANK SE, acting as agent, as underwriter and as arranger through its office at Platz der
Republik 6, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany (in that capacity the
“Agent”); and
	 
	(4)	 	DVB BANK SE, acting as security agent through its office at Platz der Republik 6, D-60325
Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany (in that capacity the “Security Agent”).

SUPPLEMENTAL TO a Secured Loan Facility Agreement dated 9 July 2010 (the “Loan Agreement”) made
between (1) the Lenders, as lenders, (2) the Agent, acting as agent for the Lenders, (3) the
Security Agent, acting as security agent for the Lenders and (4) the Borrowers, each of the
Republic of the Marshall Islands, as joint and several borrowers, on the terms and subject to the
conditions of which the Lenders have agreed to advance to the Borrowers, on a joint and several
basis, an aggregate amount not exceeding forty eight million United States Dollars (US$48,000,000)
(the “Loan”) in order to assist the Borrowers in pre-delivery and post-delivery finance of part of
the aggregate Contract Price of the Vessels and to refinance certain Existing Indebtedness.

 

 

WHEREAS:-

	(A)	 	The Borrowers have requested that the Corporate Guarantor and the Personal Guarantors be
released from the Corporate Guarantee and the Personal Guarantees respectively and that the
Agent agrees to accept the New Corporate Guarantor in its stead as a replacement corporate
guarantor.
	 
	(B)	 	The Lenders, the Agent, Security Agent, the Borrowers, the Corporate Guarantor and the
Personal Guarantors have agreed to amend the Loan Agreement on the terms and subject to the
conditions contained in this Supplemental Agreement.

IT IS AGREED THAT:-

	1	 	Interpretation

	 	1.1	 	In this Supplemental Agreement the following words and expressions shall have
the following meanings:-

	 	1.1.1	 	“Additional Security Documents” means this Supplemental
Agreement, the New Corporate Guarantee and any other agreement or document
which may at any time be executed by any person as additional security for the
payment of all or any part of the Indebtedness.
	 
	 	1.1.2	 	“Bonds” means the senior, unsecured, unlisted and unrated
convertible 7% notes.
	 
	 	1.1.3	 	“Bond Agent” means Marfin Egnatia Bank S.A. and/or any of its
affiliates as agent for the bond holders in relation to the IBG Bond Issue.
	 
	 	1.1.4	 	“Effective Date” means the date on which the Agent confirms to
the Borrowers in writing substantially in the form set out in Schedule 1 that
all of the conditions referred to in Clause 2.1 have been satisfied, which
confirmation the Agent shall be under no obligation to give if an Event of
Default shall have occurred.
	 
	 	1.1.5	 	“IBG” means Investment Bank of Greece.

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	 	1.1.6	 	“IBG Bond Issue” means the issue by the New Corporate
Guarantor of the one hundred and forty five million Dollars ($145,000,000)
Bonds, initially purchased by Focus Maritime Corp. and IBG and having the Bond
Agent as agent for the bond holders.
	 
	 	1.1.7	 	“New Corporate Guarantee” means the guarantee and indemnity of
the New Corporate Guarantor in favour of the Security Agent in such form and
containing such terms and conditions as the Security Agent shall require.
	 
	 	1.1.8	 	“New Corporate Guarantor” means Newlead Holdings Ltd. a
company duly incorporated and existing under the laws of Bermuda and/or (where
the context permits) any other person or company who shall at any time during
the Facility Period give to the Security Agent a guarantee and/or indemnity for
the repayment of all or part of the Indebtedness.
	 
	 	1.1.9	 	“Supplemental Agreement” means the agreement herein contained.

	 	1.2	 	All words and expressions defined in the Loan Agreement shall have the same
meaning when used in this Supplemental Agreement unless the context otherwise requires,
and clause 1.2 of the Loan Agreement shall apply to the interpretation of this
Supplemental Agreement as if it were set out in full.
	 
	 	1.3	 	All obligations, representations, warranties, covenants and undertakings of the
Borrowers under or pursuant to this Supplemental Agreement shall, unless otherwise
expressly provided, be entered into, made or given by them jointly and severally.

	2	 	Conditions

	 	2.1	 	Before Clause 4 of this Supplemental Agreement shall take effect, the Security
shall deliver or cause to be delivered to or to the order of the Agent the following
documents and evidence:-

	 	2.1.1	 	A certificate from a duly authorised officer of each of the
Security Party confirming that none of the documents delivered to the Lender
pursuant to Schedule 2, Part I and Schedule 2, Part II of the Loan Agreement
have been amended or modified in any way since the date

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	 	 	 	of their delivery to the Agent, or copies, certified by a duly
authorised officer of the Security Party in question as true, complete,
accurate and neither amended nor revoked, of any which have been amended
or modified.

	 	2.1.2	 	A copy, certified by a director or the secretary of the
Security Party in question as true, complete and accurate and neither amended
nor revoked, of a resolution of the directors and a resolution of the
shareholders of each Security Party (together, where appropriate, with signed
waivers of notice of any directors’ or shareholders’ meetings) approving, and
authorising or ratifying the execution of, the Additional Security Documents.
	 
	 	2.1.3	 	The legalised power of attorney of each of the Security
Parties under which the Additional Security Documents to which that Security
Party is to be a party, are to be executed by that Security Party.
	 
	 	2.1.4	 	A certificate of good standing in respect of each Security
Party.
	 
	 	2.1.5	 	The Additional Security Documents, together with all
notices and other documents required by any of them, duly executed.
	 
	 	2.1.6	 	A letter from Holman Nominees Limited, Marlow House, Lloyds
Avenue, London EC3N 3AL, England (tel.: + 44 (0) 20 7488 2300 / Fax: +
44 (0) 20 7481 0316) accepting their appointment by each of the Security
Parties as agent for service of proceedings pursuant to this Supplemental
Agreement.
	 
	 	2.1.7	 	If required by the Agent, confirmation satisfactory to the
Lenders that all legal opinions required by the Lender will be given
substantially in the form required by the Agent.
	 
	 	2.1.8	 	Evidence of the transfer of the ultimate beneficial ownership
of the Vessels from the Corporate Guarantor to the New Corporate Guarantor to
be provided by the Borrowers to the Agent.

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	 	2.1.9	 	Evidence acceptable to Lenders that funds being made available
by the IBG Bond Issue can be used for equity installments for the Vessels.

	 	2.2	 	If the Agent agrees to waive any conditions under Clause 2.1, the Borrowers
undertake to deliver all outstanding documents and evidence to or to the order of the
Agent no later than the date specified by the Agent, which however, shall not be taken
as a waiver of the Agent’s right to require production of all the documents and
evidence required by Clause 2.1.
	 
	 	2.3	 	All documents and evidence delivered to the Agent pursuant to this Clause shall:-

	 	2.3.1	 	be in form and substance acceptable to the Agent;
	 
	 	2.3.2	 	be accompanied, if required by the Agent, by translations into
the English language, certified in a manner acceptable to the Agent; and
	 
	 	2.3.3	 	if required by the Agent, be certified, notarised, legalised
or attested in a manner acceptable to the Agent.

	3	 	Representations and Warranties
	 
	 	 	Each of the representations and warranties contained in clause 11 of the Loan Agreement
shall be deemed repeated by the Borrowers at the date of this Supplemental Agreement and at
the Effective Date, by reference to the facts and circumstances then pertaining, as if
references to the Finance Documents included this Supplemental Agreement.
	 
	4	 	Amendments to the Loan Agreement and the Security Documents
	 
	 	 	With effect from the Effective Date, the Loan Agreement and the Security Documents shall be
read and construed as if:-

	 	4.1	 	the definitions of “Corporate Guarantor” and “Corporate Guarantee” set out in
Clause 1.1 of the Loan Agreement were deleted and replaced with the definitions of New
Corporate Guarantor and New Corporate Guarantee respectively;
	 
	 	4.2	 	all references in the Loan Agreement and the Security Documents to “Corporate
Guarantee” and “Corporate Guarantor” were references to the “New Corporate Guarantee”
and “New Corporate Guarantor” respectively;

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	 	4.3	 	the definition of “Security Parties” set out in clause 1.1 of the Loan
Agreement was amended to include the New Corporate Guarantor and exclude the Corporate
Guarantor and the Personal Guarantors;
	 
	 	4.4	 	the definition of “Security Documents” set out in clause 1.1 of the Loan
Agreement was amended to include the Additional Security Documents and exclude the
Corporate Guarantee and the Personal Guarantees;
	 
	 	4.5	 	clause 12.2.1 of the Loan Agreement shall be deleted and replaced with the
following:-

	 	 	 	“12.2.1 The Borrower shall:

	 	12.2.1.1	 	procure that the New Corporate Guarantor shall at all times during
the Facility Period:

	 	(a)	 	maintain an Equity Ratio of not less than:

	 	(i)	 	from the
Financial Quarter Day ending on 30 June 2012 until the
Financial Quarter Day ending on 30 June 2013, 25%; and
	 
	 	(ii)	 	from the
Financial Quarter Day ending on 30 June 2013 onwards,
30%;

	 	(b)	 	maintain on a consolidated
basis the Minimum Liquidity;
	 
	 	(c)	 	maintain on a consolidated
basis on each Financial Quarter Day, Working Capital of not
less than zero Dollars ($0);
	 
	 	(d)	 	maintain a ratio of EBITDA to
Interest Payable on a trailing four (4) Financial Quarter basis
of not less than:

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	 	(i)	 	from the
Financial Quarter Day ending on 30 June 2012 until the
Financial Quarter Day ending on 30 June 2013, 2.00 to
1.00; and
	 
	 	(ii)	 	from the
Financial Quarter Day ending on 30 June 2013 onwards,
2.50 to 1.00; and

	 	(e)	 	maintain free Cash in an amount
which is no less than five million Dollars ($5,000,000).

	 	 	 	The financial covenants contained in this Clause 12.2.1.1 (a) — (d)
shall be tested quarterly on the basis of the quarterly Financial
Statements provided under Clause 12.1.1 and Clause 12.1.3 and shall
be confirmed in the relevant Compliance Certificate and the
financial covenants contained in this Clause 12.2.1.1 (e) shall be
tested monthly by the provisions of bank statements in form and
substance acceptable to the Agent.”;
	 
	 	12.2.1.2	 	procure that the New Corporate Guarantor as soon as possible, but in no
event no later than twenty one (21) days after the end of each month in each
financial year provide to the Agent a cash balance report showing (a) Minimum
Liquidity, (b) detailed break down of unrestricted cash, restricted cash,
unrestricted cash equivalents and restricted cash equivalents of the New
Corporate Guarantor, (c) the unutilised funds under the IBG Bond Issue and (d)
the unutilised overdraft limits and the identity of the banks that these relate
to; and
	 
	 	12.2.1.3	 	maintain at any time following each Vessel’s delivery, the Minimum
Liquidity Reserve (which is included in the total sum of the Minimum Liquidity
and which is identifiable on a per Vessel basis in the relevant monthly bank
statements) in respect of each Vessel and as soon as possible, but in no event
later than twenty one (21) days after the end of each month in each financial
year provide to the Agent a cash balance report showing each Borrower’s
unrestricted Cash balances.

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	 	4.6	 	clause 12.1.3 of the Loan Agreement shall be deleted and replaced with the
following:-
	 
	 	 	 	“12.1.3 Interim Financial Statements The Borrowers shall supply to the Agent and
shall procure that the New Corporate Guarantor supplies to the Agent as soon as the
same become available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each
financial quarter, each Borrower’s quarterly management accounts for that quarter
and the New Corporate Guarantor’s quarterly interim Financial Statement for that
quarter.”
	 
	 	4.7	 	clause 12.2.2 of the Loan Agreement shall be deleted and replaced with the
following:-

	 	“12.2.2 	 	The expressions used in Clause 12.2.1 shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, and for the purposes of Clause 12.2.1:

“Borrowed Money” means Indebtedness in respect of (i) money borrowed or
raised and debit balances at banks, (ii) any bond, note, loan stock,
debenture or similar debt instrument, (iii) acceptance or documentary credit
facilities, (iv) receivables sold or discounted (otherwise than on a
non-recourse basis), (v) deferred payments for assets or services acquired,
(vi) finance leases and hire purchase contracts, (vii) swaps, forward
exchange contracts, futures and other derivatives, (viii) any other
transaction (including without limitation forward sale or purchase
agreements) having the commercial effect of a borrowing or raising of money
or of any of (ii) to (vii) above and (ix) guarantees in respect of
Indebtedness of any person falling within any of (i) to (viii) above;

“Cash” means free and available negotiable money, orders, cheques and bank
balances and deposits but to exclude (a) any cash that is specifically
blocked and charged and (b) cash standing to the credit of any blocked
account and charged to the Agent pursuant to this Agreement;

“Cash Equivalent Investments” means at any time:

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	 	a)	 	certificates of deposit maturing within one
year after the relevant date of calculation and issued by a bank or
financial institution acceptable to the Agent;
	 
	 	b)	 	any investment in marketable debt obligations
issued or guaranteed by the government of the United States of
America, the United Kingdom, any member state of the European Economic
Area or any Participating Member State or by an instrumentality or
agency of any of them having an equivalent credit rating, maturing
within one year after the relevant date of calculation and not
convertible or exchangeable to any other security; or
	 
	 	c)	 	any other debt security approved by the
Agent; or
	 
	 	d)	 	amounts standing to the credit of the
Retention Account,

in each case, to which any member of the Group is beneficially entitled at
that time and which is not issued or guaranteed by any member of the Group or
subject to any Encumbrance (other than one arising under the Security
Documents);

“Current Assets” means, at any time in the respect of the Group, the
aggregate of the cash and marketable securities, trade and other receivable
from persons other than a member of the Group realisable within one year,
inventories and prepaid expenses which are to be charged to income within one
year less any doubtful debts and any discounts or allowances given as stated
in the most recent Financial Statements.

“Current Liabilities” means, at any time in respect of the Group, the amount
of current liabilities of the Group on a consolidated basis which would be
included as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet of the
Group in accordance with GAAP drawn up at such time as stated in the most
recent Financial Statements;

“EBITDA” on a consolidated basis of the Group means the Earnings before
interest and taxes, depreciation and amortization;

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“Equity Ratio” means Shareholders Equity as a percentage of Total
Assets adjusted, in each case, for the difference between Fleet Market Value
and Fleet Book Value;

“Finance Lease” means any lease under which a member of the Group is
the lessee which is or should be treated as a finance lease under GAAP (and
includes any hire purchase contract or other arrangement which is similarly
treated);

“Financial Quarter” means each period of approximately three (3) months
commencing on the day after a Financial Quarter Day and ending on the next
following Financial Quarter Day;

“Financial Quarter Day” means 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31
December in any year;

“Financial Year” means the annual accounting period of the Group ending on
31 December in each year;

“Fleet Book Value” means, at the end of a Financial Year, the aggregate book
value of the Fleet Vessels less depreciation as stated in the most recent
financial statements delivered pursuant to Clause 12.1.1;

“Fleet Market Value” means, at the date of calculation, the aggregate of the
Market Value of all of the Fleet Vessels as last determined in accordance
with the Market Value;

“Fleet Vessels” means the vessels (including, but not limited to, the
Vessels) from time to time owned by a member of the Group (each a “Fleet
Vessel”);

“Group” means the New Corporate Guarantor and its Related Companies
(including, but not limited to, the Borrowers) and “member of the Group”
shall be construed accordingly;

“Indebtedness” means any obligation for the payment or repayment of money,
whether as principal or as surety and whether present or future, actual or
contingent;

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“Interest” means, in respect of any specified Borrowed Money, all continuing
regular or periodic costs, charges and expenses incurred in effecting,
servicing or maintaining such Borrowed Money including:

(a) gross interest, commitment fees, discount and acceptance fees and
guarantee, fronting and ancillary facility fees payable or incurred on any
form of such Borrowed Money;

(b) repayment and prepayment premiums payable or incurred in repaying or
prepaying such Borrowed Money; and

(c) the interest element of Finance Leases,

but excluding, in respect of such Borrowed Money, agency and arrangement
fees or other up-front fees;

“Interest Payable” means, in respect of any period, the aggregate
(calculated on a consolidated basis) of:

	 	(a)	 	the amounts charged and posted (or estimated to
be charged and posted) as a current accrual accrued during such period
in respect of members of the Group by way of Interest on all Borrowed
Money, but excluding any amount accruing as interest in-kind (and not
as cash pay) to the extent capitalised as principal during such period;
and
	 
	 	(b)	 	net payments in relation to interest rate or
currency hedging arrangements in respect of Borrowed Money (after
deducting net income in relation to such interest rate or currency
hedging arrangements);

“Market Value”, in respect of a Fleet Vessel, means the market value of the
relevant Vessel to be conclusively determined on the basis of the average of
valuations (which are not more than two months old at the time of the
calculation of the Market Value in question) provided by two reputable,
independent and first class firm of shipbrokers appointed by the Agent. If
the two valuations differ by a margin of over 15% then a third shipbroker
shall be appointed by the Agent and the market value shall be the average of
the three valuations. All valuations shall be on the basis of a

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charter-free sale for prompt delivery for cash at arm’s length on normal
commercial terms as between a willing seller and a willing buyer and at the
expense of the Borrowers.

“Minimum Liquidity” means, at any time in respect of the Group, the minimum
amount of Cash and Cash Equivalent Investments being no less than 5% of the
Group’s overall Indebtedness (committed and drawn and comprising short term
debt, long term debt and long terms leases) to the Lenders and any other
banks and financial institutions;

“Related Company” of a person means Subsidiary of such person, any company
or other entity of which such person is a Subsidiary and any Subsidiary of
any such company or entity;

“Shareholders Equity” means, at any time in respect of the Group, the amount
of shareholders equity of the Group on a consolidated basis which would be
included as shareholders equity in the consolidated balance sheet of the
Group in accordance with GAAP drawn up at such time as stated in the most
recent Financial Statements;

“Subsidiary” of a person means any company or entity directly or indirectly
controlled by such person, and for this purpose “control” means either the
ownership of more than fifty per cent (50%) of the voting share capital (or
equivalent rights of ownership) of such company or entity or the power to
direct its policies and management, whether by contract or otherwise;

“Total Assets” means, at any time in respect of the Group, the amount of
total assets of the Group on a consolidated basis which would be included as
total assets in a consolidated balance sheet of the Group in accordance with
GAAP drawn up at such time as stated in the most recent Financial
Statements; and

“Working Capital” means Current Assets less Current Liabilities.

	 	4.8	 	The following sub-paragraph (f) was included in paragraph 4
Schedule 2, Part I of the Loan Agreement:

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	 	“(f)	 	 If applicable, confirmation satisfactory to the
Agent that funds in the amount of the next Equity Portion in respect of
an Installment are available under the IBG Bond Issue to be received no
later than twenty (20) Business days prior to the relevant Drawdown
Date.”.

	 	4.9	 	The following sub-paragraph (c) was included in paragraph 4
Schedule 2, Part III of the Loan Agreement:

	 	“(c)	 	 If applicable, confirmation satisfactory to the
Agent that funds in the amount of the next Equity Portion in respect of
an Installment are available under the IBG Bond Issue to be received no
later than twenty (20) Business days prior to the relevant Drawdown
Date.”.

	 	4.10	 	The following sub-paragraph (g) was included in paragraph 4
Schedule 2, Part I of the Loan Agreement:
	 
	 	 	 	“(d) Equity Portion If the funds for the Equity Portion in respect of an
Installment are available under the IBG Bond Issue, the Borrowers to deposit
with the Agent the Equity Portion in respect of that Installment no less than
fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the relevant Drawdown Date or, if the
New Corporate Guarantor has sufficient funds freely available to pay the
Equity Portion in respect of an Installment without using funds of the IBG
Bonds Issue Facility, then the Equity Portion should be deposited with the
Agent (20) Business days prior to that drawdown, for remittance to the
Builder with the relevant portion of the Loan.”
	 
	 	4.11	 	Sub-paragraph (e) in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2, Part III of the
Loan Agreement was deleted and replaced as follows:
	 
	 	 	 	“(d) Equity Portion If the funds for the Equity Portion in respect of an
Installment are available under the IBG Bond Issue, the Borrowers to deposit
with the Agent the Equity Portion in respect of that Installment no less than
fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the relevant Drawdown Date or, if the
New Corporate Guarantor has sufficient funds freely available to pay the
Equity Portion in respect of an Installment without using funds of the IBG
Bonds Issue Facility, then the Equity Portion should be deposited

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	 	 	 	with the Agent (20) Business days prior to that drawdown, for remittance to
the Builder with the relevant portion of the Loan.”

	 	4.12	 	The definition of “GAAP” contained in clause 1.1 of the Loan
Agreement was deleted and replaced as follows:
	 
	 	 	 	““GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
of America.”.
	 
	 	4.13	 	The definition of “IFRS” was deleted from clause 1.1. of the
Loan Agreement.

All other terms and conditions of the Loan Agreement shall remain unaltered and in
full force and effect.

	5	 	Confirmation and Undertaking

	 	5.1	 	Each of the Security Parties confirms that all of its respective obligations
under or pursuant to each of the Security Documents to which it is a party remain in
full force and effect, despite the amendments to the Loan Agreement made in this
Supplemental Agreement, as if all references in any of the Security Documents to the
Loan Agreement were references to the Loan Agreement as amended and supplemented by
this Supplemental Agreement.
	 
	 	5.2	 	The definition of any term defined in any of the Security Documents shall, to
the extent necessary, be modified to reflect the amendments to the Loan Agreement made
in or pursuant to this Supplemental Agreement.

	6	 	Communications, Law and Jurisdiction
	 
	 	 	The provisions of clauses 18 and 23 of the Loan Agreement shall apply to this Supplemental
Agreement as if they were set out in full and as if references to the Loan Agreement were
references to this Supplemental Agreement.

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Schedule 1

Effective Date Confirmation

	To: 	 	 GRAND AFFECTION S.A.

GRAND AFFINITY S.A.

each of The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Island, Ajeltake Road Majuro,
Marshall Islands M.H. 96960

We, DVB BANK SE, refer to the supplemental agreement dated 14 July 2010 (the “Supplemental
Agreement”) relating to a secured loan facility agreement dated 9 July 2010 (the “Loan Agreement”)
made between, inter alia, you as Borrowers, the banks listed in it as the Lenders, ourselves as the
Agent and ourselves as the Security Agent, in respect of a loan to you from the Lenders of up to
forty eight million Dollars ($48,000,000).

We hereby confirm that all conditions precedent referred to in Clause 2.1 of the Supplemental
Agreement have been satisfied. In accordance with Clauses 1.1 and 4 of the Supplemental Agreement
the Effective Date is the date of this confirmation and the amendments to the Loan Agreement are
now effective.

Dated:      2010

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	Signed:  	 	 	 
	 	for and on behalf of 	 	 
	 	DVB BANK SE 	 	 

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IN WITNESS of which the parties to this Supplemental Agreement have executed this Supplemental
Agreement the day and year first before written.

	 	 	 

	SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by
	 	)
	GRAND AFFECTION S.A.
	 	)
	acting by Michael Livanos
	 	)  /s/ Michael Livanos
	its duly authorised attorney-in-fact
	 	)
	in the presence of: Nigel Bowen-Morris
	 	)
	 
	 	 
	/s/ Nigel Bowen-Morris

STEPHENSON HARWOOD 

ARISTON BUILDING

2 FILELLINON STR. & AKTI MIAOULI

PIRAEUS 185 36 GREECE 

VAT No 998711156

TEL 210 42 95 160
	 	
	 
	SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by
	 	)
	GRAND AFFINITY S.A.
	 	)
	acting by Michael Livanos
	 	)  /s/ Michael Livanos
	its duly authorised attorney-in-fact
	 	)
	in the presence of: Nigel Bowen-Morris
	 	)
	 
	 	 
	/s/ Nigel Bowen-Morris

STEPHENSON HARWOOD 

ARISTON BUILDING

2 FILELLINON STR. & AKTI MIAOULI

PIRAEUS 185 36 GREECE 

VAT No 998711156

TEL 210 42 95 160
	 	
	 
	SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by
	 	)
	DVB BANK SE (as a Lender)
	 	)
	acting by Pinelopi Karamadouki
	 	)  /s/ Pinelopi Karamadouki
	its duly authorised attorney-in-fact
	 	)
	in the presence of: Nigel Bowen-Morris
	 	)
	 
	 	 
	/s/ Nigel Bowen-Morris

STEPHENSON HARWOOD 

ARISTON BUILDING

2 FILELLINON STR. & AKTI MIAOULI

PIRAEUS 185 36 GREECE 

VAT No 998711156

TEL 210 42 95 160
	 	
	 
	SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by
	 	)
	DVB BANK SE (as the Agent)
	 	)
	acting by Pinelopi Karamadouki
	 	)  /s/ Pinelopi Karamadouki
	its duly authorised attorney-in-fact
	 	)
	in the presence of: Nigel Bowen-Morris
	 	)
	 
	 	 
	/s/ Nigel Bowen-Morris

STEPHENSON HARWOOD 

ARISTON BUILDING

2 FILELLINON STR. & AKTI MIAOULI

PIRAEUS 185 36 GREECE 

VAT No 998711156

TEL 210 42 95 160
	 	
	 
	SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by
	 	)
	DVB BANK SE (as the Security Agent)
	 	)
	acting by Pinelopi Karamadouki
	 	)  /s/ Pinelopi Karamadouki
	its duly authorised attorney-in-fact
	 	)
	in the presence of: Nigel Bowen-Morris
	 	)
	 
	/s/ Nigel Bowen-Morris

STEPHENSON HARWOOD 

ARISTON BUILDING

2 FILELLINON STR. & AKTI MIAOULI

PIRAEUS 185 36 GREECE 

VAT No 998711156

TEL 210 42 95 160
	 	

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	SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by
	 	)
	Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale
	 	)
	(as a Lender)
	 	)   /s/ Pinelopi Karamadouki
	acting by Pinelopi Karamadouki
	 	)
	its duly authorised attorney-in-fact
	 	)
	in the presence of: Nigel Bowen-Morris
	 	)
	 
	 	 
	/s/ Nigel Bowen-Morris

STEPHENSON HARWOOD 

ARISTON BUILDING

2 FILELLINON STR. & AKTI MIAOULI

PIRAEUS 185 36 GREECE 

VAT No 998711156

TEL 210 42 95 160
	 	
	 
	SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by
	 	)
	EMPORIKI BANK OF GREECE S.A.
	 	)
	(as a Lender)
	 	)  /s/ Georgios Koutsoudakis
	acting by Georgios Koutsoudakis
	 	)
	and Chryssa Voulgari
	 	)  /s/ Chryssa Voulgari
	its duly authorised attorney-in-fact
	 	)
	in the presence of: Nigel Bowen-Morris
	 	)
	 
	/s/ Nigel Bowen-Morris

STEPHENSON HARWOOD 

ARISTON BUILDING

2 FILELLINON STR. & AKTI MIAOULI

PIRAEUS 185 36 GREECE 

VAT No 998711156

TEL 210 42 95 160
	 	

17exv10w10

Exhibit 10.10

Dated 21 July 2010

as novated, amended and restated on 21 July 2010

 

THE BANKS LISTED IN SCHEDULE 1

as Lenders

-and-

MARFIN EGNATIA BANK Societe Anonyme

as Agent

NEWLEAD HOLDINGS LTD.

as Borrower

 

FINANCIAL AGREEMENT

reducing revolving credit facility of up to US $23,000,000

 

 

 

INDEX

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	1.

	 	PURPOSE
	 	 	1	 
	2.

	 	DEFINITIONS
	 	 	1	 
	3.

	 	THE FACILITY
	 	 	11	 
	4.

	 	AVAILABILITY
	 	 	13	 
	5.

	 	NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN
	 	 	13	 
	6.

	 	INTEREST PERIODS
	 	 	15	 
	7.

	 	INTEREST
	 	 	15	 
	8.

	 	DEFAULT INTEREST
	 	 	16	 
	9.

	 	SUBSTITUTE BASIS
	 	 	17	 
	10.

	 	PREPAYMENT
	 	 	18	 
	11.

	 	REDUCTION- REPAYMENT
	 	 	18	 
	12.

	 	APPLICATION
	 	 	19	 
	13.

	 	EVIDENCE OF DEBT
	 	 	19	 
	14.

	 	PAYMENTS
	 	 	20	 
	15.

	 	CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
	 	 	21	 
	16.

	 	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	 	 	23	 
	17.

	 	SECURITIES
	 	 	26	 
	18.

	 	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
	 	 	27	 
	19.

	 	FINANCIAL AND GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS
	 	 	28	 
	20.

	 	EVENTS OF DEFAULT
	 	 	31	 
	21.

	 	SET-OFF
	 	 	34	 
	22.

	 	FEES
	 	 	34	 
	23.

	 	EXPENSES
	 	 	34	 
	24.

	 	INDEMNITY
	 	 	35	 
	25.

	 	STAMP DUTIES
	 	 	35	 
	26.

	 	DETERMINATIONS
	 	 	35	 
	27.

	 	NO WAIVER
	 	 	35	 
	28.

	 	PARTIAL INVALIDITY
	 	 	35	 
	29

	 	THE AGENT
	 	 	36	 
	30.

	 	RETIREMENT OF THE AGENT
	 	 	40	 
	31.

	 	LIMITS OF THE AGENT’S OBLIGATIONS
	 	 	40	 
	32.

	 	SHARING OF PAYMENTS
	 	 	42	 
	33.

	 	TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION, CHANGE OF LENDING BRANCH
	 	 	43	 
	34.

	 	NON-IMMUNITY
	 	 	45	 
	35.

	 	NOTICES
	 	 	46	 
	36

	 	SUPPLEMENTAL
	 	 	47	 
	37.

	 	LAW AND JURISDICTION
	 	 	47	 
	38.

	 	THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER FINANCE DOCUMENTS
	 	 	48	 
	SCHEDULE 1: LENDERS AND COMMITMENTS	 	 	51	 
	SCHEDULE 2: FORM OF NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN	 	 	52	 
	SCHEDULE 3: FORM OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT	 	 	54	 
	SCHEDULE 4: FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE	 	 	55	 
	SCHEDULE: ADMINISTRATION DETAILS OF TRANSFEREE LENDER	 	 	59	 

 

 

THIS AGREEMENT is made the 21 day of July 2010

BETWEEN

	1)	 	THE BANKS listed in Schedule 1 as Lenders; and
	 
	2)	 	MARFIN EGNATIA BANK Societe Anonyme as Agent; and
	 
	3)	 	NEWLEAD HOLDINGS LTD. as Borrower.

	1.	 	PURPOSE
	 
	 	 	This Agreement sets out the terms and conditions on which the Lenders have agreed
to make available to the Borrower as borrower a reducing revolving credit facility,
not exceeding at any relevant time the aggregate amount of Twenty Three million
Dollars ($23,000,000) in multiple Advances for the purpose of providing the Borrower
with working and investment capital.
	 
	2.	 	DEFINITIONS
	 
	2.1	 	In this Agreement the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context
otherwise requires:
	 
	 	 	“Advance” means the principal amount of each borrowing by the Borrower under this Agreement
or, if the context may require, so much thereof as shall for the time being be outstanding
to the Lenders hereunder or, as the case may be, the principal amount of that portion of
each borrowing by the Borrower under this Agreement for which the Borrower selects an
Interest Period of a particular duration and, in the plural, means all of them;
	 
	 	 	“Agent” means Marfin Egnatia Bank Societe Anonyme, a company duly incorporated under the
laws of the Republic of Greece, having its registered office at 20 Mitropoleos and
Komninon, 546 24 Thessaloniki, Greece and acting in this case through its office at 91 Akti
Miaouli, 185 38 Piraeus, Greece and shall include its successors and assigns, subject to
the provisions of Clause 29;
	 
	 	 	“Anemi” means Grand Anemi Limited, a company duly formed and existing under the laws of the
Republic of Malta, having its registered office at 198 Old Bakery Street, Valletta, Malta;
	 
	 	 	“Applicable Accounting Principles” means those accounting principles, standards and
practices on which preparation of the Financial Statements is based, which are IFRS or US
GAAP and principles and practices adopted by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at the date
hereof or at any time hereafter and notified to and accepted by the Lender;
	 
	 	 	“Applicable Limit” means the maximum amount available for drawing hereunder at any relevant
time and being on the date hereof Twenty Three million Dollars ($23,000,000) and

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	 	 	being reduced on each of the twelve (12) Reduction Dates by the relevant Reduction
Installment referred to in Clause 11.1 and as it may be further reduced in accordance
Clauses 10.1 and/or 10.2 and/or 11.2 and/or any other provision of this Agreement;
	 
	 	 	“Applicable Margin” means three point seventy five per cent (3.75% ) per annum;
	 
	 	 	“Associated Costs” means any additional cost (expressed as a percentage rate per annum)
which is necessary to compensate the Lenders for the cost of complying with existing or
future reserve asset, special deposit, cash ratio, liquidity or capital adequacy
requirements or any other form of banking of monetary control (whether or not having the
force of law) from time to time of any central bank or any other relevant fiscal or
monetary authority including (without limitation), any requirements of the Bank of Greece
(including, without limitation, the Bank of Greece Contribution) or any other applicable
regulatory authority (as conclusively determined by Lenders and/or the Agent);
	 
	 	 	“Auditors” means any first class firm of international accountants to be approved by the
Lender;
	 
	 	 	“Banking Day” means a day on which banks and financial markets are open for business in
Athens, Nicosia, New York and London and any other financial centre which the Lenders may
deem appropriate for the operation of the provisions of this Agreement;
	 
	 	 	“Bank of Greece Contribution” means the contribution provided for by Greek Law Decree Nr.
128/75 as amended and in force and as may from time to time be further amended by or
supplemented, such contribution presently amounting to zero point six per cent (0.6%) per
annum;
	 
	 	 	“Bonds” means the $145,000,000 senior unsecured, unlisted and unrated convertible seven per
cent (7%) notes issued by the Borrower;
	 
	 	 	“Borrowed Money” means Financial Indebtedness in respect of (i) money borrowed or raised
and debit balances at banks, (ii) any bond, note, loan stock, debenture or similar debt
instrument, (iii) acceptance or documentary credit facilities, (iv) receivables sold or
discounted (otherwise than on a non-recourse basis), (v) deferred payments for assets or
services acquired, (vi) finance leases and hire purchase contracts, (vii) swaps, forward
exchange contracts, futures and other derivatives, (viii) any other transaction (including
without limitation forward sale or purchase agreements) having the commercial effect of a
borrowing or raising of money or of any of (ii) to (vii) above and (ix) guarantees in
respect of Financial Indebtedness of any person falling within any of (i) to (viii) above;
	 
	 	 	“Borrower” means Newlead Holdings Ltd., a company organised and existing under the laws of
Bermuda, having its registered office at Canon’s Court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton,
Bermuda;
	 
	 	 	“Broken Funding Costs” means any amount that the Agent may certify as necessary to
compensate the Lenders for any loss incurred or to be incurred by them as a consequence of
repayment in respect of funds borrowed (or committed to be borrowed) or deposits taken

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	 	 	(or committed to be taken) from third parties in connection with the commitment of the
Lenders in the Facility, or in liquidating or re-employing such funds or deposits for the
remaining part of the then current Interest Period;
	 
	 	 	“Cash” means free and available negotiable money, orders, cheques and bank balances and
deposits but to exclude (a) any cash that is specifically blocked and charged and (b) cash
standing to the credit of any blocked account and charged to the Lenders, the Agent or any
other person;
	 
	 	 	“Commitment” means, in relation to a Lender, the amount set opposite its name in
Schedule 1, or as the case may be, the amount specified in any Transfer Certificate, to the
extent not reduced, cancelled, terminated, or transferred in accordance with the provisions
of this Agreement and “Total Commitments” means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the
Lenders;
	 
	 	 	“Commitment Period” means in relation to each Advance, the period commencing on the date of
this Agreement and ending on the earlier of (a) the Termination Date and (b) the date on
which the relevant amounts of the Commitments of the Lenders in respect of that Advance are
cancelled;
	 
	 	 	“Contribution” means, in relation to a Lender in respect of the Facility or any part
thereof or any other amount, the part thereof owing to that Lender at any relevant time;
	 
	 	 	“Control” means in relation to a body corporate:

	 	(a)	 	the power (whether by way of ownership of shares, proxy, contract, agency or
otherwise) to:

	 	(i)	 	cast, or control the casting of, more than fifty per cent
(50%) of the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a general meeting
of such body corporate; or
	 
	 	(ii)	 	appoint or remove all, or the majority, of the directors or
other equivalent officers of such body corporate; or
	 
	 	(ii)	 	give directions with respect to the operating and financial
polices of such body corporate with which the directors or other equivalent
officers of such body corporate are obliged to comply; and/or

	 	(b)	 	the holding beneficially of more than fifty per cent (50%) of the issued share
capital of such body corporate (excluding any part of that issued capital that carries
no right to participate beyond a specified amount in a distribution of either profits
or capital),

and “Controlled” shall be construed accordingly;

“Corporate Security Party” means a Security Party which is a company or a corporation;

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“Current Assets” means, at any time in respect of the Group, the amount of current assets
of the Group on a consolidated basis which would be included as current assets in a
consolidated balance sheet of the Group in accordance with US GAAP drawn up at such
time together with such amount of Cash forming part of the Minimum Liquidity (but
always excluding any current assets arising from Derivative Financial Instruments)
which may be disregarded from the current assets in a consolidated balance sheet of the
Group;

“Current Liabilities” means, at any time in respect of the Group, the
amount of current liabilities of the Group on a consolidated basis which would be
included as current liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet of the Group in
accordance with US GAAP drawn up at such time excluding Deferred Revenue and all
current liabilities arising from Derivative Financial Instruments;

“Deed of Novation, Amendment and Restatement” means the deed of novation, amendment and
restatement dated [•] 2010 and made between (i) Grandunion Inc. as existing borrower, (ii)
the Borrower as new borrower (iii) the Lenders and (iv) the Agent setting out the main
terms and conditions upon which this Agreement was novated, amended and restated;

“Default Rate” means the interest rate referred to in Clause 8.1;

“Deferred Revenue” means for the purposes of Clause 19.21, at the relevant time in respect
of the Group, that liability calculated at the time a charter or other employment
arrangement in respect of a Fleet Ship is assumed, by discounting at the Group’s weighted
average cost of capital, the difference between the market charter rate for an equivalent
ship and the assumed charter rate (as set out in the then latest Financial Statements
delivered to the Agent pursuant to Clause 19.1);

“Derivative Financial Instruments” means at any time in respect of the Group the fair value
of any other derivative financial instruments appearing under this heading (and previously
approved by the Agent) in the consolidated latest Financial Statements delivered to the
Agent in accordance with the provisions of Clause 19.1 or otherwise and in the event of the
Borrower or any other member of the Group changing the form or substance of the Financial
Statements (always in accordance with US GAAP) provided to the Agent so that Derivative
Financial Instruments no longer appears as a heading and/or such Derivative Financial
Instruments are otherwise accounted for, the determination of what constitutes Derivative
Financial Instruments shall be made by the Agent acting reasonably;

“Dollars” or “$” means the lawful currency for the time being of the United States of
America;

“Drawdown” means the making of an Advance by the Lenders to the Borrower;

“Drawdown Date” means, in relation to each Advance, the date requested by the Borrower for
that Advance to be made available or (as the context requires) the date on which that
Advance is actually made available;

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“EBITDA” means, in respect of any period, the consolidated profit on ordinary activities of
the Group before Taxation for such period:

	 	(a)	 	adjusted to exclude Interest Receivable and Interest Payable and other
similar income or costs to the extent not already excluded;
	 
	 	(b)	 	adjusted to exclude any gain or loss realised on the disposal of fixed assets
(whether tangible or intangible);
	 
	 	(c)	 	after adding back depreciation and amortisation;
	 
	 	(d)	 	adjusted to exclude any exceptional or extraordinary costs or income;
	 
	 	(e)	 	after deducting any profit arising out of the release of any provisions
against a liability or charge (excluding in this context the release of any provisions
against liabilities or charges relating to exceptional or extraordinary items);

“Encumbrance” means a mortgage, pledge, lien, charge (whether fixed or floating),
assignment, hypothecation, security interest, title retention, preferential right or trust
arrangement and any other security agreement or arrangement whether now existing or arising
in the future on the assets or revenue of the Borrower or any other Security Party other
than a pledge or lien arising by operation of law;

“Equity Ratio” means Shareholders’ Equity as a percentage of Total Assets adjusted, in
each case for the difference between Fleet Market Value and Fleet Book Value;

“Event of Default” means any event referred to in Clause 20;

“Facility” means a reducing revolving credit facility in the principal amount of up to
Twenty Three million Dollars ($23,000,000) at any time outstanding to be made available to
the Borrower by the Lenders in multiple Advances pursuant to the terms of Clause 1 and
Clause 3 or, if the context may so require, so much thereof as shall for the time being be
outstanding to the Lenders hereunder;

“Fair Market Value” means, in relation to each Fleet Ship, the fair market value of such
Fleet Ship determined in accordance with Clause 19.22;

“Finance Documents” means:

	 	(a)	 	this Agreement;
	 
	 	(b)	 	the Deed of Novation, Amendment and Restatement
	 
	 	(c)	 	the Security Documents; and

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	 	(d)	 	any other document (whether creating an Encumbrance or not) which is
executed at any time by any Security Party or any other person as security for, or to
establish any form of subordination or priorities’ arrangement in relation to any
amount payable to the Lenders and/or the Agent under this Agreement or any of the
documents referred to in this definition or in any other Clause of this Agreement;

“Financial Indebtedness” means any obligation for the payment or repayment of money,
whether as principal or as surety and whether present or future, actual or contingent;

“Financial Quarter” means each period of approximate three (3) months commencing on the
day after a Financial Quarter Day and ending on the next following Financial Quarter Day;

“Financial Quarter Day” means 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December in any year;

“Financial Statements” means the audited by the Auditors or unaudited annual or
quarterly financial statements of the Group, referred to in Clause 19.1 comprising in each
case of a statement of income, balance sheet, cash flow statement and relative notes;

“Fleet Book Value” means, at the end of a Relevant Period, the aggregate book value of
the Fleet Ships less depreciation as stated in the most recent Financial Statements
delivered to the Agent pursuant to Clause 19.1;

“Fleet Market Value” means, at the date of calculation, the aggregate of the Fair Market
Values of all of the Fleet Ships as last determined in accordance with Clause 19.22;

“Fleet Ships” means all the vessels from time to time wholly owned by the Borrower or any
other members of the Group and, in the singular, means any of them;

“Group” means the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (whether direct or indirect) from time
to time during the Security Period and “members of the Group” shall be construed
accordingly;

“IFRS” means international accounting reporting standards within the meaning of the IAS
Regulations 1606/2002 to the extent applicable to the relevant Financial Statements;

“Indebtedness” means any and all moneys, liabilities and obligations (whether actual or
contingent, whether existing or hereafter arising, whether or not for the payment of money
and including, without limitation, Broken Funding Costs and any obligation or liability to
pay damages) which are now or which may at any time and from time to time hereafter be due,
owing, payable or incurred or expressed to be due, owing, payable or incurred from the
Borrower (whether as principal, surety or otherwise) to the Lenders and/or the Agent under
this Agreement and the other Finance Documents;

“Interest Determination Date” means the Banking Day which is two (2) Banking Days
prior to the commencement of an Interest Period;

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“Interest Payable” means, in respect of any period, the aggregate (calculated on a
consolidated basis) of:

	 	(a)	 	the amounts charged and posted (or estimated to be charged and posted) as a
current accrual accrued during such period in respect of members of the Group by way
of Interest on all Borrowed Money, but excluding any amount accruing as interest
in-kind (and not as cash pay) to the extent capitalised as principal during such
period; and
	 
	 	(b)	 	net payments in relation to interest rate or currency hedging arrangements in
respect of Borrowed Money (after deducting net income in relation to such interest
rate or currency hedging arrangements);

“Interest Payment Date” means each day on which interest is payable in accordance with
Clause 7, provided that if any such day is not a Banking Day, the relevant Interest Payment
Date shall be the next succeeding day which is a Banking Day, unless such next succeeding
Banking Day falls into another calendar month, in which event, the relevant Interest
Payment Date shall be the immediately preceding Banking Day;

“Interest Period” means, for each Advance, each of the successive periods determined
in accordance with Clause 6 of this Agreement during which such Advance or any part thereof
is outstanding and for which an Interest Rate in respect thereof is to be established
hereunder;

“Interest Rate” means for each Advance (save as provided in Clause 9) the rate of
interest applicable to that Advance (or any part thereof) during each Interest Period in
respect thereof which is/are conclusively certified by the Agent to the Borrower to be the
aggregate of (a) the Applicable Margin, (b) LIBOR or the average of each Lenders’ cost of
funding the relevant Advance, for Interest Periods of longer than six (6) months and (c)
the Associated Costs;

“Interest Receivable” means, in respect of any period, the amount of Interest accrued on
cash balances of the Group during such period;

“Lender” means:

	 	(a)	 	any of the banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 1, unless it
has delivered as transferor a Transfer Certificate or Certificates in respect of the
whole of its Commitment or its Contribution; and
	 
	 	(b)	 	a bank or financial institution holding a Transfer Certificate;

“LIBOR” means, for an Interest Period:

	 	(a)	 	the rate per annum equal to the offered quotation for deposits in Dollars for
a period equal to, or as near as possible equal to, the relevant Interest Period which

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	 	 	 	appears on the appropriate page of the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service at or
about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Interest Determination Date for that Interest
Period (or on such other service as may be nominated by the British Bankers’
Association as the information vendor for the purpose of displaying British
Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates for Dollars); or
	 
	 	(b)	 	if no rate is quoted on the appropriate page of the Reuters Monitor Money
Rates Service, the rate per annum determined by the Agent to be the arithmetic mean
(rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest one-sixteenth of one per cent) of the
rates per annum at which deposits in Dollars are offered to the Lenders by leading
banks in the London Interbank Market at the Lenders’ request at or about 11.00 a.m.
(London time) on the Interest Determination Date for that Interest Period for a period
equal to that Interest Period and for delivery on the first Banking Day of it;

“Loan Account” means collectively the account or accounts maintained by the Lenders
and the Agent referred to in Clause 13;

“Majority Lenders” means:

	 	(a)	 	before any part of the Facility has been advanced, Lenders the aggregate of
whose Commitments at any relevant time exceeds seventy five per cent (75%) of the
Total Commitments at such time; and
	 
	 	(b)	 	after any part of the Facility has been advanced, Lenders the aggregate of
whose Contributions at any relevant time exceeds seventy five (75%) of that part of
the Facility;

“Minimum Liquidity” means an amount of Cash equal to five per cent (5%) of the, at any
time, outstanding amount of the Facility;

“Nasdaq” means the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation;

“Nomination Date” means the Banking Day which is three (3) Banking Days prior to the
commencement of an Interest Period;

“Notice of Drawdown” means each written notice given by the Borrower to the Agent
pursuant to Clause 5.1 substantially in the form set out in Schedule 2 hereto;

“Permitted Liens” means any supplier’s, carrier’s, workman’s or similar lien arising in the
ordinary course of business automatically by statute or by operation of law and not by way
of contract in respect of amounts not yet due and payable but excluding any lien arising
from any default or omission of the Security Parties or any of them;

Pertinent Jurisdiction”, in relation to a company, means:

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	 	(a)	 	England and Wales;
	 
	 	(b)	 	the country under the laws of which the company is incorporated or formed;
	 
	 	(c)	 	a country in which the company’s central management and control is or has
recently been exercised;
	 
	 	(d)	 	a country in which the overall net income of the company is subject to
corporation tax, income tax or any similar tax;
	 
	 	(e)	 	a country in which assets of the company (other than securities issued by, or
loans to, related companies) having a substantial value are situated, in which the
company maintains a permanent place of business, or in which an Encumbrance created by
the company must or should be registered in order to ensure its validity or priority;
and
	 
	 	(f)	 	a country the courts of which have jurisdiction to make a winding up,
administration or similar order in relation to the company or which would have such
jurisdiction if their assistance were requested by the courts of a country referred to
in paragraphs (b) or (c) above;

“Reduction Date” means the date falling three (3) months from the Drawdown Date of the
Advance first to occur and each of the eleven (11) dates falling at successive quarterly
intervals thereafter throughout the Security Period, on each of which dates the amount of
the Facility available hereunder shall be reduced in accordance with Clause 11.1 provided
that if any such day is not a Banking Day the relevant Reduction Date shall be the next
succeeding day which is a Banking Day unless such next succeeding Banking Day falls in
another calendar month in which event the relevant Reduction Date shall be the immediately
preceding Banking Day;

“Reduction Installments” means, collectively the twelve (12) consecutive quarterly
installments, being in the amount of One hundred thousand Dollars ($100,000 ) each, the
first such installment being due and payable on the first Reduction Date and each subsequent
installment being due and payable on each Reduction Date falling at successive quarterly
intervals thereafter; provided that if the Facility drawn down is less than Twenty Three
million Dollars ($23,000,000) then the Reduction Installments shall be reduced
proportionately;

“SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;

“Security Documents” means collectively the Personal Guarantee and where the context
so admits this Agreement and any other agreement or document that may be executed at any
time by the Borrower, the other Security Parties or any other person as security for the
due payment of the Indebtedness;

“Security Parties” means each party to the Finance Documents (other than the Lenders
and the Agent) and, in the singular, means any of them;

“Security Period” means the period during which the Finance Documents remain in effect
and ending when the Indebtedness is paid in full;

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“Shareholders Equity” means, at any time in respect of the Group, the amount of
shareholders equity of the Group on a consolidated basis which would be included as
shareholders equity in the consolidated balance sheet of the Group in accordance with US
GAAP drawn up at such time;

“Subject Documents” means all of the Finance Documents (none to be amended, varied,
supplemented or modified without the consent of the Agent), and together with any other
instrument, document or memorandum, scheduled to any of the documents referred to above,
and any notice, consent to acknowledgement referred to in or required pursuant to any of
the documents referred to above and any document, instrument or memorandum which secures
any of the obligations of the Borrower under any of the Finance Documents or under any
other Subject Document;

“Subsidiary” of a person means: (a) any other person directly or indirectly Controlled
by that person; or (b) any other person whose dividends or distributions on ordinary voting
share capital that person is entitled to receive more than fifty per cent (50%); or (c) any
entity (whether or not so Controlled) treated as a Subsidiary in the financial statements
of that person from time to time;

“Taxes” means all present and future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees,
deductions and withholdings, and any restrictions or conditions resulting in a charge
(other than taxes on the overall net income of the Lender) and “Tax” and “Taxation” shall
be construed accordingly;

“Termination Date” means the date falling one (1) month prior to the last Reduction Date or such later
date as the Lenders and the Agent may approve in writing;

“Total Assets” means at any time in respect of the Group, the amount of total assets of
the Group on a consolidated basis which would be included as total assets in a
consolidated balance sheet of the Group in accordance with US GAAP drawn up at such time;

“Transfer Certificate” means a transfer certificate in the form set out in Schedule 4 with
any modification or amendments approved or required by the Agent;

“US GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles adopted in the United States; and

“Working Capital” means for the purposes of Clause 19.21 Current Assets less Current
Liabilities (excluding at any given time, (a) the current portion of long -term debt
maturing within twelve (12) months and (b) non-cash current liabilities of the Group on a
consolidated basis which would be included as non cash liabilities in the consolidated
balance sheet of the Group in accordance with US GAAP drawn up at such time in relation to
Deferred Revenue).

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	2.2	 	In this Agreement clause headings are for ease of reference only and shall be disregarded in
the construction of this Agreement.
	 
	2.3	 	In this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires:

	 	2.3.1	 	words importing the singular number shall include the plural and vice versa;
	 
	 	2.3.2	 	fees, costs and expenses shall be exclusive of any value added tax or similar tax (if any)
which shall accordingly be payable in addition;
	 
	 	2.3.3	 	any reference to a document or instrument is a reference to that document or instrument as
the same may have been, or may from time to time be amended or supplemented;
	 
	 	2.3.4	 	the liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of a company or body corporate or the appointment
of a receiver, administrative receiver, manager or administrator of or in relation to a
company or corporation or any of its assets shall be construed so as to include any equivalent
or analogous proceedings under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated or any
jurisdiction in which it carries on business or has assets or liabilities;
	 
	 	2.3.5	 	references to persons include any individual, partnership, firm, trust, body corporate,
government, governmental body, authority, agency, unincorporated body of persons or
association;
	 
	 	2.3.6	 	a reference to any enactment or statutory provision include any enactment or statutory
provision which amends, extends, consolidates or replaces the same or which has been amended,
extended, consolidated or replaced by the same and shall include any orders, regulations,
codes of practice, instruments or other subordinated legislation made under the relevant
enactment or statutory provision; and
	 
	 	2.3.7	 	the words “herein”, “hereto” and “hereunder” refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
the particular Clause or Schedule in which the words may be used.

	2.4	 	The following expressions shall be construed in the following manner:
	 
	 	 	“Lender” and “Agent” include their respective successors, assigns, transferees and
sub-participants in accordance with their respective interests.
	 
	3.	 	THE FACILITY
	 
	3.1	 	The Lenders hereby agree to make available to the Borrower subject to the terms and the
conditions hereof the Facility for the purposes stated in Clause 1 in an aggregate amount

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	 	 	not exceeding at any relevant time Twenty Three million Dollars ($23,000,000) provided
however that (a) no Advance shall be drawn down unless specifically approved by the Lenders
and the Agent and (b) to the extent that the Borrower prepays any sums initially borrowed
in respect of the Facility it shall be entitled to reborrow the amount so prepaid up to the
Applicable Limit.
	 
	3.2	 	Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each Lender will participate in the Facility and
each part thereof up to an aggregate maximum principal amount not exceeding its Commitment and
in the proportion which its Commitment bears to the Total Commitments. No Lender is obliged
to lend more than its Commitment.
	 
	3.3	 	No Lender will have any liability whatsoever to make available the relevant part of its
Commitment in respect of any Advance or any part thereof after the date of the expiry of the
Commitment Period applicable to such Advance and any part of any Lender’s Commitment in
respect of that Advance which has not been advanced to the Borrower at close of business on
such date shall be cancelled.
	 
	3.4	 	The obligations of each Lender under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents are
several and, accordingly:

	 	3.4.1	 	no Lender shall be liable for the failure of any other Lender to perform its obligations
under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents; and
	 
	 	3.4.2	 	the failure of a Lender to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement or any of the
other Finance Documents shall not relieve any other Lender or any Security Party from any of
their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder.

	3.5	 	The rights and interests of each Lender and the Agent under this Agreement and the other
Finance Documents are several and, accordingly, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary
herein or therein:

	 	3.5.1	 	the aggregate of the amounts outstanding at any time under this Agreement and the other
Finance Documents to each Lender shall be due as a separate and independent debt; and
	 
	 	3.5.2	 	each Lender and the Agent shall have the right to sue for any amount due and payable to it
from the Borrower or any other Security Party under this Agreement or any of the other Finance
Documents and it shall not be necessary for any other Lender to be joined as an additional
party in any proceedings to that end.

	3.6	 	No Lender shall, except with the prior written consent of the Majority Lenders, bring any
proceedings against the Borrower or any other Security Party in respect of any other claim
(whether in contract, tort or otherwise) which that Lender may have under or in connection
with this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents.

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	3.7	 	The Borrower undertakes to use the proceeds of each Advance in accordance with and for the
purposes referred to in Clause 1; the Lenders and the Agent (although entitled) shall not be
obliged to monitor the application of such proceeds.
	 
	4.	 	AVAILABILITY
	 
	 	 	Subject as herein provided, the Facility is available to the Borrower to be drawn down
during the Commitment Period. Any part of the Facility which remains undrawn at the close
of business in Athens on the relevant Termination Date shall be automatically cancelled.
	 
	5.	 	NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN
	 
	5.1	 	The Borrower may draw an Advance subject to giving the Agent Notice of Drawdown not later
than 11:00 a.m. London time two (2) Banking Days before the proposed Drawdown Date, which
notice shall:

	 	5.1.1	 	be effective on receipt by the Agent;
	 
	 	5.1.2	 	specify the Banking Day during the Commitment Period applicable to that Advance upon which
that Advance is required;
	 
	 	5.1.3	 	give full details of the place and account, which must be acceptable to the Agent, to which
the proceeds of that Advance are to be paid;
	 
	 	5.1.4	 	constitute a representation and warranty in the terms of Clause 16; and
	 
	 	5.1.5	 	be irrevocable.

	5.2	 	Upon receipt of a Notice of Drawdown, the Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of:

	 	5.2.1	 	the amount of that Advance;
	 
	 	5.2.2	 	the amount of that Lender’s participation in that Advance;
	 
	 	5.2.3	 	the Drawdown Date of that Advance; and
	 
	 	5.2.4	 	the duration of the first Interest Period for that Advance.

	5.3	 	Each Lender shall, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, make available to the Agent
on each Drawdown Date the relevant part of its Commitment in respect of the Advance to be
drawn on that Drawdown Date.
	 
	5.4	 	Notwithstanding the giving of a Notice of Drawdown pursuant to Clause 5.1 neither the Lenders
nor the Agent shall be obliged to disburse any funds until all the applicable conditions set
out in Clause 18.1 have been satisfied.

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	5.5	 	Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the Agent will pay to the Borrower on each
Drawdown Date the amounts which the Agent receives from the Lenders
under Clause 5.3 in like
funds as are received by the Agent from the Lenders by applying the same in accordance with
the Notice of Drawdown given by the Borrower.
	 
	5.6	 	The payment by the Agent under Clause 5.5 shall constitute the making of that Advance and the
Borrower shall thereupon become indebted, as principal and direct obligor, to each Lender in
the amount of each Lender’s Contribution in respect of that Advance (in addition to any amount
previously advanced by that Lender pursuant to this Agreement).
	 
	5.7	 	Unless otherwise expressly agreed between the Borrower, the Lenders and the Agent no Working
and Investment Capital Advance shall be made:

	 	5.7.1	 	if by being drawn down it would increase the Facility to a sum in excess of the Applicable
Limit prevailing at the relevant time; and/or
	 
	 	5.7.2	 	in an amount of less than One million Dollars ($1,000,000) or multiples thereof.

	5.8	 	Each Notice of Drawdown shall be irrevocable and the Borrower shall be bound to borrow in
accordance with such notice.
	 
	5.9	 	On payment of each Advance drawn down the Borrower shall sign an Acknowledgement in the form
set out in Schedule 3 hereto.
	 
	5.10	 	If the Borrower gives a Notice of Drawdown pursuant to Clause 5.1 and the Lenders make
arrangements on the basis of such notice to acquire Dollars in the London Interbank Market to
fund an Advance or any part thereof and the Borrower is not permitted or otherwise fails to
borrow in accordance with such Notice of Drawdown (either on account of any condition
precedent not being fulfilled or otherwise) the Borrower shall indemnify the Lenders against
any damages, losses or expenses which the Lenders may incur (either directly or indirectly) as
a consequence of the failure by the Borrower to borrow in accordance with such Notice of
Drawdown.
	 
	5.11	 	The Borrower may, at any time during the Availability Period, cancel the Facility or, as the
case may be, any part thereof which remains undrawn in whole or in part (but if in part in a
minimum of One hundred thousand Dollars ($100,000) or a multiple thereof upon giving the
Lenders and/or the Agent three (3) Banking Days’ notice in writing to that effect. Such notice
once given shall be irrevocable and upon such cancellation taking effect the Facility shall be
reduced accordingly. Notwithstanding any such cancellation pursuant to this Clause 5.11 the
Borrower shall continue to be liable for any and all amounts due to the Lenders under this
Agreement including without limitation any amounts due to the Lenders under Clauses 7, 9, 15
and 24.

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	6.	 	INTEREST PERIODS
	 
	6.1	 	Subject to Clause 6.2, the Interest Periods applicable to each Advance shall (subject to
market availability) be periods of a duration of three (3) or six (6) months (or such other
periods as the Agent and the Borrower may agree) as selected by the Borrower by written notice
to be received by the Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the relevant Nomination
Date.
	 
	6.2	 	Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 6.1:

	 	6.2.1	 	the initial Interest Period in respect of each Advance shall commence on the Drawdown
Date thereof and shall end on the expiry date thereof and each subsequent Interest Period for
that Advance shall commence on the expiry of the preceding Interest Period in respect thereof;
	 
	 	6.2.2	 	if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Banking Day, that
Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding day which is a Banking Day unless
such next succeeding Banking Day falls in another calendar month in which event that Interest
Period shall end upon the immediately preceding Banking Day;
	 
	 	6.2.3	 	where any Reduction Date occurs other than at the end of an Interest Period there shall in
respect of that part of the Facility equivalent to the amount of the Reduction Installment by
which the Applicable Limit is to be reduced on such Reduction Date, be a separate Interest
Period expiring on such Reduction Date and the Interest Rate relating to such part shall be
fixed separately;
	 
	 	6.2.4	 	no Interest Period shall extend beyond the final Reduction Date;
	 
	 	6.2.5	 	if the Borrower fails to select an Interest Period in accordance with the above, such
Interest Period shall be of three (3) months duration or of such other duration as the Agent
in its sole discretion may select; and
	 
	 	6.2.6	 	save as provided in Clause 6.2.1 the Borrower shall not select more than one (1) Interest
Period at any one time.

	6.3	 	The Agent will notify the Lenders and the Borrower of each determination of the duration of
an interest period promptly upon the determination thereof.
	 
	7.	 	INTEREST
	 
	7.1	 	Subject to the terms of this Agreement the Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the account of
the Lenders interest in respect of each Advance (or the relevant part thereof) accruing at the
Interest Rate for each Interest Period relating thereto in arrears on the last day of each
Interest Period, provided that where such Interest Period is of a duration longer than three
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	 	 	every three (3) months during such Interest Period and on the last day of such Interest
Period.
	 
	7.2	 	Interest shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a three
hundred and sixty (360) day year.
	 
	7.3	 	The Interest Rate applicable for each Interest Period shall be calculated and determined by
the Agent on each Interest Determination Date and each such determination of an Interest Rate
hereunder shall be promptly notified by the Agent to the Borrower at the beginning of each
Interest Period in respect thereof. The Agent’s certificate as to the Interest Rate
applicable shall be final and (except in the case of manifest error) binding on the Borrower
and the other Security Parties.
	 
	7.4	 	Each Lender shall use all reasonable endeavours promptly to provide the Agent whenever so
required with the necessary quotation for the purposes of fixing a rate of interest under this
Agreement. If any Lender fails to provide the Agent with any such quotation, the applicable
rate of interest shall be based on the quotations supplied by the other Lenders, provided that
if all the Lenders fail to provide a quotation then the applicable rate of interest shall be
determined in accordance with Clause 9.3
	 
	7.5	 	The Agent will notify the Lenders and the Borrower of each determination of a rate of
interest under this Agreement and any of the other Finance Documents promptly upon the
determination thereof.
	 
	8.	 	DEFAULT INTEREST
	 
	8.1	 	In the event of a failure by the Borrower to pay any amount on the date on which such amount
is due and payable pursuant to this Agreement and/or the other Finance Documents and
irrespective of any notice by the Agent or any other person to the Borrower in respect of such
failure, the Borrower shall pay interest on such amount on demand from the date of such
default up to the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at the per annum
rate which is the aggregate of (a) two point five per cent (2.5%), (b) the Applicable Margin,
(c) the Associated Costs and (d) the average of the rates at which each Lender in accordance
with its normal practice are offered deposits in Dollars in the London Interbank Market for
such period as the Agent may select at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Banking Day
immediately following that on which the Agent becomes aware of the default and, so long as the
default continues, such rate shall be recalculated on the same basis thereafter.
	 
	8.2	 	Any interest which shall have accrued under Clause 8.1 in respect of an unpaid amount shall
be due and payable at the end of the period by reference to which it is calculated or such
other date or dates as the Agent may specify by written notice to the Borrower.
	 
	8.3	 	Clauses 7.2 and 7.3 shall apply to the calculation of interest on amounts in default.

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	9.	 	SUBSTITUTE BASIS
	 
	9.1	 	If a Lender determines (which determination shall be conclusive) that:

	 	9.1.1	 	at 11.00 a.m. (London time) on any Interest Determination Date such Lender was not being
offered by banks in the London Interbank Market deposits in Dollars in the required amount and
for the required period; or
	 
	 	9.1.2	 	LIBOR would not adequately reflect the cost of such Lender of making, funding or maintaining
the Facility or any part thereof for the duration of the next succeeding Interest Period; or
	 
	 	9.1.3	 	by reason of circumstances affecting the London Interbank Market such deposits are not
available to such Lender in such market; or
	 
	 	9.1.4	 	adequate and reasonable means do not or will not exist for such Lender to ascertain the
Interest Rate applicable to the next succeeding Interest Period; or
	 
	 	9.1.5	 	Dollars will or may not continue to be freely transferable;

	 	 	then, and in any such case the Agent shall give notice of any such event to the Borrower
and in case any of the above occurs on the Interest Determination Date prior to a Drawdown
Date the Borrower’s right to borrow an Advance which remains available for borrowing shall
be suspended during the continuation of such circumstances.
	 
	9.2	 	If, however, any of the events described in Clause 9.1 occurs on any other Interest
Determination Date relative to an Advance or any part thereof, then the duration of the
relevant Interest Period(s) shall be up to one (1) month and during such Interest Period the
Interest Rate applicable to such Advance or the relevant part thereof shall be the rate per
annum determined by the Agent rounded upwards to the nearest whole multiple of one sixteenth
per cent (1/16th%) to be the aggregate of the Applicable Margin and the cost (expressed as a
percentage rate per annum) to the Lenders of funding the amount of such Advance or any part
thereof during such Interest Period(s).
	 
	9.3	 	During such Interest Period(s) the Borrower and the Agent on behalf of the relevant Lender(s)
shall negotiate in good faith in order to agree an Interest Rate or Rates and Interest Period
or Periods satisfactory to the Borrower and the relevant Lender(s) to be substituted for those
which but for the occurrence of any such event as specified in this Clause would have applied.
If the Borrower and the relevant Lender(s) are unable to agree on such an Interest Rate(s) and
Interest Period(s) by the day which is two (2) Banking Days before the end of the Interest
Period referred to above, the Borrower shall repay the Facility together with accrued interest
thereon at the Interest Rate set out above together with all other amounts due under this
Agreement relative to the Facility but without any prepayment fee, on the last day of such
Interest Period, whereupon the Facility shall be cancelled and no further Advances shall be
made hereunder.

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	10.	 	PREPAYMENT
	 
	10.1	 	By giving not less than fifteen (15) Banking Days’ prior written notice to the Agent the
Borrower may prepay all or any part of the Facility (but if in part the amount to be prepaid
shall be One hundred thousand Dollars ($100,000) or a multiple thereof) at the end of the then
current Interest Period. The Borrower shall obtain any consent or approval from the relevant
authorities that may be necessary to make any such prepayment of the Facility or any part
thereof and if it fails to obtain and/or comply with the terms of such consent or approval and
in consequence thereof the Lenders have to repay the amount prepaid or the Lenders incur any
penalty or loss then the Borrower shall indemnify the Lenders forthwith against all amounts so
repaid and/or against all such penalties and losses incurred.
	 
	10.2	 	Save as otherwise herein expressly provided, any prepayment of the Facility or any part
thereof made or deemed to be made under this Agreement shall, if made otherwise than at the
end of an Interest Period relative to the amounts prepaid, be made together with accrued
interest thereon and such additional amount (if any) as the Agent may certify as necessary to
compensate the Lenders for any Broken Funding Costs incurred or to be incurred by it as a
result of such prepayment.
	 
	10.3	 	Any notice of prepayment given by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be irrevocable and
the Borrower shall be bound to prepay in accordance with each such notice.
	 
	10.4	 	Subject to other provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, Clauses 9.1,
11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 15.1 and 20) any prepayment made under this Agreement and applied against
the Facility or any part thereof may be reborrowed hereunder.
	 
	10.5	 	The Borrower may not prepay all or any part of the Facility except in accordance with the
express terms of this Agreement.
	 
	10.6	 	The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of any notice which is received from the Borrower
under Clause 10.1.
	 
	11.	 	REDUCTION- REPAYMENT
	 
	11.1	 	The Facility shall be reduced by the Borrower by the twelve (12) Reduction Installments, each
such Reduction Installment being due and payable on the Reduction Date numerically
corresponding to it and, on which such Reduction Installment shall be due and payable
hereunder. On the final Reduction Date the Borrower shall also pay to the Lenders any other
outstanding amounts of the Facility.
	 
	11.2	 	The Borrower accepts and agrees that on each Reduction Date, the maximum amount of the
Facility shall be reduced to the Applicable Limit available on such Reduction Date and in case
that on any Reduction Date the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Advances drawn
down and outstanding on such Reduction Date, exceeds the Applicable Limit available on such
Reduction Date the Borrower covenants to pay to the Lenders on such Reduction Date such part
of the Facility as shall be required in order to reduce the Facility to the Applicable Limit
available on such Reduction Date.

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	12.	 	APPLICATION
	 
	 	 	All moneys received by the Lenders and/or the Agent under or pursuant to this Agreement
and/or any of the other Finance Documents and expressed to be applicable in accordance with
the provisions of this Clause 12 shall be held by the Agent for the account of the Lenders,
to be applied in the following manner:

	 	(a)	 	first, in or towards payment of all sums other than principal of or interest
on the Facility which may be owing to the Lenders and/or the Agent under this
Agreement and the other Finance Documents or any of them;
	 
	 	(b)	 	second, in or towards payment to the Lenders, of any default interest and/or
overdue interest and/or overdue principal payments payable to the Lenders under the
Finance Documents;
	 
	 	(c)	 	third, in or towards payment to the Lenders of any interest owing in respect
of the Facility or any part thereof;
	 
	 	(d)	 	fourth, in or towards payment to the Lenders of principal owing in respect of
the Facility;
	 
	 	(e)	 	fifth, in or towards payment to the Lenders of any amount due to it in
accordance with the provisions of Clauses 10.3 and 24 by reason of any such payment in
respect of the Facility not being effected on the last day of an Interest Period in
respect of the total amount of the Facility;
	 
	 	(f)	 	sixth, at any time on or after the occurrence of an Event of Default or any
event which with the giving of notice or passage of time or a determination by the
Agent and/or the Lenders and/or satisfaction of any condition or any continuation of
the foregoing may become an Event of Default in retention of a sum equal to the total
of any and all other amounts which (in the reasonable opinion of the Agent) although
not then due to the Lenders and/or the Agent under this Agreement and the other
Finance Documents will become so due to the Lenders and/or the Agent, such sums
thereafter to be applied by the Agent from time to time in accordance with this Clause
12; and
	 
	 	(g)	 	seventh, the surplus (if any) shall be paid to the Borrower or to whomsoever
else may be entitled to receive such surplus.

	13.	 	EVIDENCE OF DEBT
	 
	13.1	 	Each Lender will open and maintain on its books accounts showing the amount owing to it from
the Borrower and the other Security Parties and the amounts of all payments of principal,
interest and other moneys falling due and received by that Lender.

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	13.2	 	The Agent will open and maintain on its books accounts showing the amounts owing to each
Lender from the Borrower and the other Security Parties and the amounts of all payments of
principal, interest and other moneys falling due and received by that Lender.
	 
	13.3	 	The Borrower’s obligation to repay the Facility or any part thereof, to pay interest
thereon and to pay all other sums due under the other Finance Documents shall be conclusively
evidenced (in the absence of manifest error) by the entries from time to time made in the
accounts opened and maintained under this Clause 13.
	 
	14.	 	PAYMENTS
	 
	14.1	 	All amounts payable under this Agreement and/or the other Finance Documents by the Borrower,
including amounts payable under this Clause 14, shall be paid in full to the Agent for the
account of the Lenders without set-off or counterclaim or retention and free and clear of and
without any deduction or withholding for or on account of any Taxes.
	 
	14.2	 	In the event the Borrower is required by law to make any such deduction or withholding from
any payment hereunder then the Borrower shall forthwith pay to the Agent on behalf of the
Lenders such additional amount as will result in the immediate receipt by the Agent for the
account of the Lenders of the full amount which would have been received hereunder had no such
deduction or withholding been made, but if a Lender shall be or become entitled to any Tax
credit or relief in respect of any Tax which is deducted from any payment by the Borrower and
if a Lender in its sole determination actually receives a benefit from such Tax credit or
relief in its country of domicile, incorporation or residence, such Lender shall, subject to
any laws or regulations applicable thereto, pay to the Borrower after such benefit is
effectively received by that Lender such amounts (which shall be conclusively certified by
that Lender) as shall ensure that the net amount actually retained by that Lender is equal to
the amount which would have been retained if there had been no such deduction; the Borrower
shall immediately forward to the Agent official receipt of the relevant taxation or other
authority or other evidence acceptable to the relevant Lender of the amount deducted or
withheld as aforesaid, provided that in the event that it shall be illegal for the Borrower to
pay such additional amount as is referred to in this Clause 14.2 then the Indebtedness shall
be repayable by the Borrower to the relevant Lender on demand.
	 
	14.3	 	Unless otherwise specified by the Agent, all moneys to be paid by the Lenders to the Agent or
by the Borrower to any Lender under this Agreement and any of the other Finance Documents
shall be paid to the Agent, in the case of an amount payable to it:

	 	14.3.1	 	in banking hours on their due date in Dollars, in funds which are for same day settlement in
the New York Clearing House Interbank Payments System (or in such other Dollar funds as shall
for the time being be customary for settlement of international banking transactions in
Dollars); and
	 
	 	14.3.2	 	in the case of an amount payable to the Agent or the Lenders, to such account as the Agent
may from time to time notify the Borrower and the other Lender; and

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	14.4	 	The Agent shall not be obliged to make available to any of the parties hereto any amount
which it is due to receive for the account of that party unless it is satisfied that it has
unconditionally received the funds concerned.
	 
	14.5	 	Without prejudice to Clause 14.4 if the Agent makes an amount available to the Borrower which
has not (but should have) been made unconditionally available to the Agent by a Lender, the
Borrowers shall on demand refund such amount to the Agent.
	 
	14.6	 	Without prejudice to Clause 14.4, if the Agent makes an amount available to a Lender, which
has not (but should have) been paid to the Agent by the Borrower and such Lender, (as
appropriate) shall:

	 	14.6.1	 	on demand refund such amount to the Agent; and
	 
	 	14.6.2	 	pay to the Agent on demand such further amount (as conclusively certified by the Agent) as
shall indemnify the Agent against any cost, loss, liability or expense suffered or incurred by
the Agent as a result of its having made available such amount to that Lender, before
receiving it from the Borrower.

	14.7	 	The Borrower undertakes to indemnify the Lenders and the Agent against any loss incurred by
the Lenders and/or the Agent as a result of any judgment or order being given or made for the
payment of any amount due under this Agreement and/or the other Finance Documents and such
judgment or order being expressed in a currency other than the currency in which the payment
was due under this Agreement and/or the other Finance Documents and as a result of any
variation having occurred in rates of exchange between the date on which the currency is
converted for the purpose of such judgment or order and the date of actual payment thereof.
This indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent liability of the Borrower and shall
continue in force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid.
	 
	15.	 	CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
	 
	15.1	 	If:

	 	15.1.1	 	any law, regulation, treaty or official directive (whether or not having the force of law)
or the interpretation thereof by any authority charged with the administration thereof:

	 	(a)	 	subjects a Lender to any Tax with respect to payments of
principal of or interest on the Facility or any other amount payable
hereunder; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	changes the basis of Taxation of payments to a Lender of
principal of or interest on the Facility or of any other amount payable
hereunder (other than a change in the rate of Tax on the overall net income of
such Lender); or

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	 	(c)	 	imposes, modifies or deems applicable any reserve and/or
special deposit requirements against or in respect of assets or liabilities
of, or deposits with or for the account of, or loans or credit extended by any
office of a Lender; or
	 
	 	(d)	 	imposes on a Lender any other condition affecting this
Agreement, the Facility or any part thereof or its funding; or

	 	15.1.2	 	any Lender complies with any request, law, regulation (including any which relates to
capital adequacy or liquidity control or which affects the manner in which that Lender
allocates capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement (including without
limitation, those resulting from the implementation or application of or compliance with the
“International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework”
published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June 2004 in the form existing on
the date of this Agreement (“Basel ll”) or any other law or regulation which implements Basel
II) or directive from any applicable fiscal or monetary authority (whether or not having the
force of law) and as a result of any of the foregoing either directly or indirectly:

	 	(a)	 	the cost to such Lender of making, funding or maintaining its
Commitment in respect of the Facility or any part thereof is increased; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	the amount of principal, interest or other amount payable to
such Lender or the effective return to such Lender hereunder is reduced; or
	 
	 	(c)	 	such Lender makes any payment or foregoes any interest or
other return on or calculated by reference to the gross amount receivable by
it from the Borrower hereunder,

	 	 	then and in each such case upon demand from time to time the Borrower shall pay to the
Agent for the account of the relevant Lender such amount as shall compensate such Lender
for such increased cost, reduction, payment or foregone interest or other return. If that
Lender is entitled to make a claim pursuant to this Clause it shall notify the Borrower of
the event by reason of which it is so entitled and shall submit to the Borrower a
certificate setting out details of the event giving rise to such compensation, the amount
thereof and the manner in which it has been calculated and in the absence of manifest error
such certificate shall be conclusive.
	 
	 	 	On receipt of such certificate the Borrower shall have the option to prepay within ninety
(90) days that Lender’s Contribution together with all interest accrued thereof and all
costs and other amounts (including amounts payable referred to above and any amount payable
under Clause 10.2) payable to the relevant Lenders hereunder. If the Borrower decides to
exercise such option it shall give written notice to the Agent and prepay the amount due to
the relevant Lender within ninety (90) days of the receipt of the certificate referred to
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	 	 	The relevant Lender’s duties and liabilities hereunder shall be cancelled on the giving of
such notice.
	 
	15.2	 	Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, if any change in law, regulation
or treaty or in the interpretation or application thereof by any authority charged with the
administration thereof shall make it unlawful for a Lender to make, fund or maintain the
Commitment or the Contribution of such Lender or any part thereof, the Agent may by written
notice thereof to the Borrower declare that the relevant Lenders’ duty to provide the Borrower
with its Commitment or its Contribution shall be terminated forthwith whereupon the Borrower
will prepay forthwith (or if permitted by law on the next following Interest Payment Date) the
Contribution of such Lender(s) together with all interest accrued thereon and all other
amounts payable to the relevant Lender hereunder including the amounts due under Clause 10.2.
That Lender’s duties and liabilities hereunder and its Commitment and Contribution shall be
cancelled on the giving of such notice.
	 
	15.3	 	If any of the events referred to in Clause 15.1 or Clause 15.2 shall occur, but without
prejudice to the liability of the Borrower to prepay the Facility, the Borrower, the Agent and
the Lender(s) concerned shall negotiate in good faith with a view to agreeing terms for making
the Commitment or the Contribution of such Lender(s) available from another jurisdiction, or
funding the Commitment or the Contribution of such Lender(s) from alternative sources or
otherwise restructuring the Commitment or the Contribution of such Lender(s) on a basis which
is not unlawful.
	 
	16.	 	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
	 
	16.1	 	The Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Lenders and the Agent that:

	 	16.1.1	 	each Security Party is a company or corporation duly formed and validly existing under the
laws of the country of its incorporation and has the power and authority to own its assets and
carry on business in each jurisdiction in which it owns assets or carries on business;
	 
	 	16.1.2	 	each Security Party has power to enter into this Agreement and the other Finance Documents
to which such Security Party is a party and to perform and discharge its/his/her duties and
liabilities hereunder and thereunder and (in the case of the Borrower) to borrow hereunder and
each Security Party has taken all necessary action (whether corporate or otherwise) required
to authorise the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Finance
Documents and the borrowings to be made hereunder;
	 
	 	16.1.3	 	the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents
will not contravene or exceed the powers granted to each Security Party or by, or any
provision of, any law or regulation in any jurisdiction to which the Security Parties or any
of them are/is subject, any order or decree of any governmental agency or court of or in any
jurisdiction to which the Security Parties or any of them are/is subject, the certificates of
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	 	 	 	constitutional documents of the Security Parties or any of them or any mortgage,
deed, contract or agreement to which the Security Parties or any of them is/are a
party and which is binding upon the Security Parties’ assets, and will not cause
any Encumbrance to arise over or attach to all or any part of any Security Party’s
revenues or assets nor require any Security Party to create any such Encumbrance;
	 
	 	16.1.4	 	all consents, licences, approvals, registrations, authorisations or declarations (including,
without limitation, all foreign exchange control approvals) in any jurisdiction to which the
Security Parties or any of them is/are subject required to enable the Borrower to borrow
hereunder and the Borrower and the other Security Parties lawfully to enter into and perform
and discharge their respective duties and liabilities under this Agreement and the other
Subject Documents to which each of them is a party and to ensure that the duties and
liabilities of the Borrower and the other Security Parties hereunder and thereunder are legal,
valid and enforceable in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Subject
Documents to which each of them is a party and to make this Agreement and the other Subject
Documents admissible in evidence in such aforesaid jurisdictions have been obtained or made
and are in full force and effect;
	 
	 	16.1.5	 	this Agreement and each of the other Subject Documents to which each Security Party is a
party constitute the legal, valid, binding and unconditional duties and liabilities of such
Security Party as is a party thereto, enforceable against such Security Party in accordance
with the terms hereof or thereof;
	 
	 	16.1.6	 	no Security Party has failed to pay when due any material amount or to perform any material
duty under the provisions of any agreement relating to indebtedness in excess in aggregate of
Three hundred thousand Dollars ($300,000) to which such Security Party is a party or by which
it may be bound and no event has occurred and is continuing which constitutes, or which with
the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would constitute, a material breach or default
by such Security Party under any such agreement;
	 
	 	16.1.7	 	no litigation or administrative proceedings in any court, arbitration tribunal or
governmental authority are pending or threatened against any Security Party or any of its
assets which might materially adversely affect such Security Party’s ability to perform and
discharge its duties and liabilities hereunder and under the other Subject Documents to which
it/he is a party thereto;
	 
	 	16.1.8	 	the Financial Statements provided by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance with Clause
19.1 are complete and correct and present fairly the position of the members of the Group
therein stated and the results of the operations of the members of the Group ended on such
date, and have been prepared in accordance with the Applicable Accounting Principles
consistently applied and give a true and fair view of the financial condition, assets and
liabilities of the members of the Group therein stated at the date to which such Financial
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	 	 	 	been prepared and since that date there has been no adverse change in the financial
conditions of the business, assets or operation of the members of the Group therein
stated or the Group taken as a whole (as the case may be);
	 
	 	16.1.9	 	the information provided to the Agent in relation to this transaction is true and correct in
all material respects and does not omit any information necessary to make any of the
information so provided not misleading;
	 
	 	16.1.10	 	the copy of each Subject Document delivered by the Borrower to the Agent is a true and
complete copy thereof;
	 
	 	16.1.11	 	none of the parties to the Subject Documents is in default thereunder;
	 
	 	16.1.12	 	none of the Security Parties is in default under any agreement to which it is a party or by
which it may be bound and no litigation, arbitration, tax claim, administrative proceeding or
investigation is current or pending or (to its knowledge) threatened;
	 
	 	16.1.13	 	the financial condition of the Borrower and the other Security Parties has not suffered any
material deterioration since that condition was last disclosed to the Lender;
	 
	 	16.1.14	 	all the obligations and liabilities of the Borrower hereunder rank and will rank at least
pari passu in right of payments with all other unsubordinated indebtedness of the Borrower;
	 
	 	16.1.15	 	save as disclosed to the Agent in writing neither the Borrower nor any other Security Party
has incurred any indebtedness or authorised or accepted any capital commitments;
	 
	 	16.1.16	 	no Taxes are imposed by deduction withholding or otherwise or any other payment to be made
by any Security Party under this Agreement and/or any other of the Subject Documents or are
imposed on or by virtue of the execution or delivery of the Agreement and/or any other of the
Subject Documents or any document or instrument to be executed or delivered hereunder or
thereunder and all relevant tax returns have been filed;
	 
	 	16.1.17	 	the choice of law agreed to govern this Agreement and/or any other Subject Document and the
submission to the jurisdiction of the courts agreed in each of the Subject Documents are or
will be on execution of the respective Subject Documents valid and binding on the Borrower and
any other Security Party which is a party thereto;
	 
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	 	16.1.19	 	each of the Subject Documents is in full force and effect and constitutes the valid binding
and enforceable obligations of the Borrower and each other Security Party which is a party
thereto, and the other parties to it and there has been no breach of the terms or the
obligations of any party to it thereunder and no person has disputed or repudiated or
disclaimed any liability under it or indicated that it does not consider itself bound by or
does not intend to comply with any of the terms of any such documents;
	 
	 	16.1.20	 	the Borrower and the other Security Parties have filed all tax and other fiscal returns
required to be filed by any tax authority to which they are subject and neither the Borrower
nor any other Security Party has an office in England or in the United States of America;
	 
	 	16.1.21	 	no member of the Group is overdue in the payment of any amount in respect of Tax;
	 
	 	16.1.22	 	it is not necessary or advisable to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or
admissibility in evidence of this Agreement and the other Subject Documents, that any of them
be filed, recorded or enrolled with any governmental authority or agency or that they be
stamped with any stamp, registration or similar transaction tax in the United Kingdom or in
the Republic of Greece or in the Republic of Cyprus, or in the Republic of the Marshall
Islands or in any other country where any Security Party carries on business;

	16.2	 	The representations and warranties of the Borrower set out in Clause 16.1 above shall survive
the execution of this Agreement and shall be deemed to be repeated on each Drawdown Date and
on each Interest Payment Date with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at each
such time as if made at such time.
	 
	17.	 	SECURITIES
	 
	17.1	 	The Borrower hereby agrees that the Security Documents shall secure with first priority, the
due payment of the Indebtedness.
	 
	17.2	 	It is declared and agreed in relation to the security created by the Security Documents that:

	 	17.2.1	 	it shall be held by the Lenders and the Agent as a continuing security for the payment of
the Indebtedness;
	 
	 	17.2.2	 	the security so created shall not be satisfied or discharged by intermediate payment or
satisfaction of any part of the amount secured thereunder;
	 
	 	17.2.3	 	the security so created shall be in addition to and shall not in any way be prejudiced or
affected by any collateral or other security now or hereafter held by the Lenders for all or
any part of the amounts thereby secured; and

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	 	17.2.4	 	every power and right given to the Lenders hereunder shall be in addition to and not in
limitation of any and every other power or right of the Lenders under the Security Documents
and may be exercised from time to time in such order and as often as the Lenders may consider
appropriate.

	18.	 	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
	 
	18.1	 	Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 5, the agreement of the Lenders to make available
the amounts of their Commitment in respect of any Advance on any Drawdown Date hereunder is
subject to the condition that the Agent shall have received not later than the Drawdown Date
in respect of such Advance the following documents or evidence in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent and its legal advisers:

	 	18.1.1	 	a certificate signed by the secretary or a director of each Security Party, stating, inter
alia, the full names of the persons or persons legally and beneficially entitled as
shareholders/stockholders of the entire issued and outstanding shares/stock of that Security
Party and a copy, certified as a true copy by the secretary of each Security Party of the
resolutions of the board of directors and of the shareholders of each Security Party
authorising the transaction contemplated hereby and authorising a person or persons to sign or
execute on behalf of each Security Party this Agreement, each Notice of Drawdown (as in the
form of Schedule 2 thereof), each Acknowledgement (as in the form of Schedule 3 hereof) and
the other Finance Documents as is a party thereto;
	 
	 	18.1.2	 	the originals of any power or powers of attorney granted pursuant to Clause 18.1.1;
	 
	 	18.1.3	 	specimen signatures, duly authenticated of the person or persons referred to in Clause
18.1.1;
	 
	 	18.1.4	 	certificates or other evidence satisfactory to the Agent in its sole discretion of the
existence and good standing of each Security Party, dated not more than fifteen (15) days
before the date of this Agreement;
	 
	 	18.1.5	 	copies, duly certified as a true copy by the respective secretaries of each Security Party
of the certificate of incorporation and the other constitutional documents of each Security
Party;
	 
	 	18.1.6	 	certified copies of all documents (with a certified translation if an original is not in
English) evidencing any other necessary action (including but without limitation governmental
approval, consents, licences, authorisations, validations or exemptions which the Agent or its
legal advisers may require) by the Security Parties or any of them with respect to this
Agreement and the other Finance Documents;
	 
	 	18.1.7	 	such documentation and other evidence (in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender) as
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	 	 	 	Agent to comply with all necessary “know your customer” or similar identification
procedures in relation to the transactions contemplated in the Subject Documents;
	 
	 	18.1.8	 	letter from HFW Nominees Limited to the Agent confirming acceptance of their appointment as
agents for service of process in England under Clause 37.4;
	 
	 	18.1.9	 	a letter from Mr. Peter Kallifidas to the Agent confirming acceptance of her appointment as
agent for service of process in Greece under Clause 37.5;
	 
	 	18.1.10	 	the opinion letters from Bermuda, Marshall Islands and such other legal counsels as the
Agent may require, all acceptable to the Agent, in relation to this Agreement and the other
Finance Documents referred to in this Clause 18.1, and in form and substance satisfactory to
the Agent; and
	 
	 	18.1.11	 	such further documents and evidence as the Agent may hereafter request.

	18.2	 	If the Lenders, at their discretion, permits an Advance or any part thereof to be borrowed
before certain of the conditions referred to in Clause 18.1 are satisfied, the Borrower shall
ensure that those conditions are satisfied within five (5) Banking Days after the relevant
Drawdown Date (or such longer period as the Agent specifies).
	 
	19.	 	FINANCIAL AND GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS
	 
	 	 	The Borrower hereby undertakes with the Lenders and the Agent that throughout the Security
Period the Borrower shall (and shall procure that each other relevant Security Party shall)
comply with the following provisions of this Clause 19, except as the Agent may otherwise
permit:
	 
	19.1	 	to supply the Agent with such number of copies as the Agent may require of (i) the annual
Financial Statements of the Group audited by the Auditors as soon as available but in any
event not later than one hundred and eighty (180) days after the end of the relevant period to
which they relate starting with the 2009 Financial Statements, (ii) the quarterly unaudited
Financial Statements of the Group as soon as available but in any event not later than ninety
(90) days after the end of the relevant quarterly period starting with the accounts for the
quarterly period ending 31 December 2009 and (iii) such other information with regard to the
business, properties or condition, financial or otherwise, of each member of the Group as the
Agent may from time to time reasonably request;
	 
	19.2	 	to procure that the Financial Statements to be delivered from time to time in accordance with
Clause 19.1 shall be prepared in accordance with the Applicable Accounting Principles and
practices consistently applied, which shall present fairly the financial position of the Group
as at the end of each period, to which they relate and the results of the operations for the
period which they relate;
	 
	19.3	 	to obtain promptly at any time and from time to time such registrations, licenses, consents
and approvals as may be required in respect of this Agreement and the Subject Documents

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	 	 	under any applicable law or regulation to enable them to perform and discharge their duties
and liabilities hereunder and thereunder and promptly supply the Agent with copies thereof;
	 
	19.4	 	to ensure that at all times the claims of the Lenders and the Agent against each Security
Party under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents rank at least pari passu with the
claims of all its other unsecured creditors save those whose claims are preferred by any
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar laws of general application;
	 
	19.5	 	to deliver to the Agent translations into English (certified by an authorised translator) of
any documents which have to be delivered to the Agent under the terms of this Agreement or the
other Finance Documents, the originals of which are not in the English language;
	 
	19.6	 	not to make any loans or advances to, or any investments in any officer, director,
stockholder, employee or customer of the Borrower;
	 
	19.7	 	not to declare or pay any dividends or repay any shareholders’ loans or make any
distributions to its shareholders in any form whatsoever;
	 
	19.8	 	not to and procure that each other Security Party shall not change the nature of their/its
business or commence any business other than the business presently conducted by it;
	 
	19.9	 	without prejudice to the obligations of the Borrower under Clause 19.10, promptly after the
happening of an Event of Default or any event which with the giving of notice or passage of
time or a determination of the Agent and/or the Lenders or either of them and/or satisfaction
of any condition or any combination of the foregoing, may become an Event of Default has
occurred, to notify the Agent of such event and of the steps (if any) which are being taken to
nullify or mitigate its effect;
	 
	19.10	 	from time to time (but not more than once every six (6) months) on request by the Lender, to
deliver to it a certificate signed by a director or officer of the Borrower confirming that,
save as may be notified in detail in such certificate, no Event of Default or an event which
with the giving of notice or passage of time or a determination of the Agent and/or the
Lenders or any of them and/or satisfaction of any condition or any combination of the
foregoing, may become an Event of Default has occurred and is then subsisting to be
accompanied by such evidence as to the information and matters contained in such certificate
as the Agent may from time to time reasonably require;
	 
	19.11	 	to maintain and ensure and procure that each Security Party shall maintain its corporate
existence under the laws of the country of its incorporation and shall comply with all
relevant legislation and laws and regulations applicable to it;
	 
	19.12	 	to pay and to ensure and procure that the other Security Parties shall pay all Taxes,
assessments and other governmental charges when the same fall due and ensure and procure that
all relevant tax returns of the Borrower and the other Security Parties shall be properly and
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	19.13	 	to send (or procure that it is sent) to the Agent as soon as the same is instituted details
of any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings against or involving any one or
more of the Borrower or the other Security Parties, which is likely to have a material adverse
effect on the Borrower, the other Security Parties;
	 
	19.14	 	to comply (and ensure that each other Security Party will comply) with all laws regulations
treaties and conventions applicable to the Borrower and the other Security Parties;
	 
	19.15	 	not to and ensure and procure that each other Corporate Security Party shall not dissolve,
merge into or consolidate with any other company or person and procure that no change in the
management or the legal or beneficial ownership of the Borrower or the other Corporate
Security Parties shall be effected;
	 
	19.16	 	to execute and procure the execution by each other Security Party of any further document or
documents required by the Agent and/or the Lenders in order to perfect or complete the
security created by the Finance Documents;
	 
	19.17	 	to use the proceeds of the Facility for the Borrower’s benefit and under its full
responsibility and exclusively for the purposes specified in this Agreement; and
	 
	19.18	 	to provide the Agent and each Lender with such documents as the Agent and each Lender may
from time to time require on the basis of laws and regulations applicable from time to time
and the Lender’s own internal guidelines and “know your customer” requirements applicable from
time to time and required to identify the Borrower and each other Security Party, including
without limitation, documents and information in respect of the ultimate legal and beneficial
owners of the Borrower and each other Security Party.
	 
	19.19	 	to ensure and procure that Mr. Michail Zolotas and Mr. Nicholas Fistes shall own at all
times whether directly or indirectly an aggregate of at least ten per cent (10%) of the issued
voting share capital of the Borrower;
	 
	19.20	 	to ensure and procure that all times throughout the Security Period the Borrower shall
maintain with the Lender to the credit of any account held with the Lender the Minimum
Liquidity;
	 
	19.21	 	to ensure and procure that:

	 	a)	 	the Equity Ratio shall (i) from the Financial Quarter Day ending on
30th September 2012 until the Financial Quarter Day ending on
30th June 2013 be no less than: twenty five per cent (25%) and (ii) from
the Financial Quarter Day ending on 30th June 2013 and at all times
thereafter throughout the Security Period shall be no less than: thirty per cent
(30%);
	 
	 	b)	 	the ratio of EBITDA to Interest Payable on a trailing four (4) Financial
Quarter basis shall (i) from the Financial Quarter Day ending on 30th
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	 	 	 	Financial Quarter Day ending a on 30th June 2013 be no less than: 2:1;
and (ii) from the Financial Quarter Day ending on 30th June 2013 and at
all times thereafter throughout the Security Period shall be no less than: 2.5 :1;
and
	 
	 	c)	 	the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall maintain on a consolidated basis on
each Financial Quarter Day during the Security Period Working Capital of no less than
zero Dollars ($0).

	 	 	Compliance with the undertakings contained in this Clause 19.21 shall be determined
quarterly by the Agent by reference to the latest Financial Statements of the Group
delivered to the Agent pursuant to Clauses 19.1 and 19.2. Unless and until the Agent
otherwise agrees in writing, at the same time as they deliver those Financial
Statements or at any other time upon the Agent’s request, the Borrower shall deliver
to the Agent a certificate in the form set out in Schedule 3 hereto, signed by the
chief financial officer of the Borrower. In the case that the Financial Statements are
prepared on the basis of US GAAP the covenants referred to in this Clause 19.21 may be
readjusted by the Agent and notified to the Borrower; and
	 
	19.22	 	when so requested by the Agent, the Borrower shall appoint and procure that two (2)
independent sale and purchase shipbrokers shall be appointed, nominated by the Agent to give
valuations of each Fleet Ship without physical inspection and on the basis of an arms length
purchase by a willing buyer from a willing seller and, unless the Agent otherwise requires,
without taking into account any charterparty in respect thereof; all costs and fees payable in
connection with such valuations shall be paid by the Borrower and the Fair Market Value of the
relevant Fleet Ship shall be determined by taking into account the average of the aforesaid
valuations.
	 
	20.	 	EVENTS OF DEFAULT
	 
	20.1	 	If:

	 	20.1.1	 	the Borrower or any other Security Party fail to pay on the due date for payment any amount
which shall have become due hereunder or under the other Finance Documents;
	 
	 	20.1.2	 	any representation, warranty or statement made by the Borrower or any other Security Party
in this Agreement or in any of the Subject Documents or any certificate, statement or opinion
delivered or made hereunder or under the Subject Documents or in connection herewith or with
the Subject Documents shall be incorrect or inaccurate when made in any material respect;
	 
	 	20.1.3	 	an event of default under and as defined in any of the Subject Documents shall occur;
	 
	 	20.1.4	 	the Borrower or any other Security Party fail(s) duly and punctually to perform or observe
any other term of this Agreement and in any such case such failure, if

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	 	 	 	capable of remedy, shall continue for fourteen (14) days after the Agent (with the
Majority Lenders’ authority) shall have given to the Borrower notice in writing of
such failure;
	 
	 	20.1.5	 	any other indebtedness of the Borrower, the other Security Parties or any of them exceeding
in aggregate Three hundred thousand Dollars ($300,000), shall become due and payable or, with
the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, capable of being declared due and payable prior
to its stated maturity by reason of any circumstance entitling the creditor(s) thereof to
declare such indebtedness due and payable and such indebtedness is not paid within fourteen
(14) days thereof;
	 
	 	20.1.6	 	the Borrower or any other Security Party or any other member of the Group shall enter into
voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy, liquidation or dissolution, or shall become insolvent, or
an administrator, administrative receiver, receiver or liquidator shall be appointed of all or
a material part of its undertaking or assets or proceedings are commenced by or against
them/it under any reorganisation, arrangement, readjustment of debts, dissolution or
liquidation law or regulation, or if any event shall occur which, under the relevant system of
law, shall have an equivalent effect;
	 
	 	20.1.7	 	a petition is presented in any Pertinent Jurisdiction for the winding up or administration,
or the appointment of a provisional liquidator, of the Borrower or any other Security Party
unless such petition is being contested in good faith and on substantial grounds and is
dismissed or withdrawn within thirty (30) days of the presentation of the petition;
	 
	 	20.1.8	 	the Borrower or any other Security Party or any other member of the Group shall cease or
threaten to cease to carry on the whole or a substantial part of their/its business;
	 
	 	20.1.9	 	the Borrower or any other Security Party or any other member of the Group shall transfer or
dispose of all or a substantial part of their/its assets whether by one or a series of
transactions, related or not;
	 
	 	20.1.10	 	the Subject Documents or any of them shall cease, in whole or in part, to be valid, binding
and enforceable;
	 
	 	20.1.11	 	any governmental or other consent, licence or authority required to make this Agreement
and/or any of the other Finance Documents legal, valid, binding, enforceable and admissible in
evidence or required to enable the Borrower or any other Security Party to perform their/its
respective duties and discharge their/its liabilities hereunder or under the other Finance
Documents is withdrawn or ceases to be in full force and effect unless the Borrower or such
other Security Party procures that such consent, licence or authority is reinstated or
re-issued to the satisfaction of the Agent and/or the Lenders within fifteen (15) calendar
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	 	20.1.12	 	any distress or execution is levied or enforced against a material (in the opinion of the
Majority Lenders) part of the property and assets of the Borrower or any other Security Party
and such distress or execution is not withdrawn or discharged within ten (10) Banking Days;
	 
	 	20.1.13	 	the Borrower or any other Security Party or any other member of the Group shall stop
payment of, or shall be unable to, or shall admit inability to pay their/its debts as they
fall due, or shall enter into any composition or other arrangement with their/its creditors
generally or shall declare a general moratorium on the payment of indebtedness;
	 
	 	20.1.14	 	the fulfilment of any one or more of the obligations covenants and undertakings contained
in any one or more of this Agreement, the other Finance Documents and any other documents
executed pursuant hereto or thereto or the exercise of any of the rights vested in the Lenders
and the Agent hereunder or thereunder becoming either unlawful under any applicable law or
unauthorised by any authority having jurisdiction or otherwise impossible;
	 
	 	20.1.15	 	if Michael Zolotas ceases to be Chief Executive Officer and/or Nicholas Fistes ceases to
be the Chairman of the Borrower and/or if Michael Zolotas and Nicholas Fistes together shall
own directly or indirectly less than 10% of the Borrower’s voting share capital, in each case,
without the Lender’s prior written consent;
	 
	 	20.1.16	 	a material adverse change occurs in the financial condition or operation of any one or more
of the Security Parties or any other member of the Group; or
	 
	 	20.1.17	 	if any Security Party repudiates or evidences an intention to repudiate any one or more of
the Subject Documents or if any Subject Document is rescinded or cancelled or terminated or
amended or varied, without the Agent’s prior written consent; or
	 
	 	20.1.18	 	without limitation to the foregoing provisions of this Clause 20.1, any breach occurs which
is material (in the opinion of the Lender) of the terms, and conditions of the Bonds or a
Fundamental Change occurs pursuant to the Fundamental Change Put Option (as each of those
terms is defined in the Bonds).

	20.2	 	Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and at any time thereafter without prejudice to
any of the rights and remedies of the Agent and/or any Lender under any of the Finance
Documents or otherwise the Agent may, and shall if so requested by the Majority Lenders, take
any one or more of the following actions:

	 	20.2.1	 	by written notice to the Borrower declare the Commitments of the Lenders cancelled,
whereupon the same shall be cancelled;

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	 	20.2.2.	 	by written notice to the Borrower demand the immediate repayment of the Facility, all
interest accrued thereon and all other Indebtedness, whereupon the same shall become
immediately due and payable; and
	 
	 	20.2.3	 	take steps to exercise the rights and remedies conferred upon the Agent and/or the Lenders
by this Agreement and the other Finance Documents and exercisable on or after the occurrence
of an Event of Default.

	20.3	 	All amounts received by the Lenders under or pursuant to any of the Finance Documents after
the happening of any Event of Default shall be applied by the Agent in payment of the
Indebtedness in accordance with the terms of Clause 12.
	 
	21.	 	SET-OFF
	 
	21.1	 	Each of the Lenders and/or the Agent shall have the right, in addition to all rights of set
off, combination, lien or otherwise which it has at law or under any agreement between any of
the Lenders and/or the Agent and the Borrower at any time without demand after the occurrence
of an Event of Default:

	 	21.1.1	 	to set off any amount to the credit of any existing accounts of the Borrower and/or the
Personal Guarantor with any Lender and/or the Agent (whether deposit, loan or any other
account) in or towards satisfaction of all amounts due from the Borrower under this Agreement
and/or the other Finance Documents; and
	 
	 	21.1.2	 	to transfer and apply any amount standing to the credit of any such existing accounts of the
Borrower and/or the Personal Guarantor with any associate or subsidiary of any Lender and/or
the Agent in or towards satisfaction of all amounts due from the Borrower under this Agreement
and/or the other Finance Documents.

	21.2	 	Where such set-off or transfer requires the conversion of one currency into another, such
conversion shall be calculated at the spot rate as conclusively determined by the Agent for
purchasing such currency with the currency in which the relevant amounts are denominated on
the date of actual payment.
	 
	22.	 	FEES
	 
	 	 	The Borrower shall pay to the Agent an arrangement fee (the
“Arrangement Fee”) of Fifteen thousand Dollars ($15,000) on the
Drawdown Date of the Advance first to occur.
	 
	23.	 	EXPENSES
	 
	23.1	 	Whether or not the Facility or any part thereof, is actually drawn down the Borrower shall
reimburse the Lenders and the Agent on demand for all costs, charges and expenses incurred by
the Lenders and the Agent in connection with the preparation, negotiation and conclusion of
this Agreement and the other Finance Documents including fees and expenses of the Lenders’ and
the Agent’s legal advisers.

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	23.2	 	The Borrower shall reimburse the Lenders and the Agent on demand for all charges and expenses
(including legal fees) incurred by the Lenders and the Agent in or in connection with the
exercise of the Lenders’ and the Agent’s rights and powers under this Agreement and the other
Finance Documents (including but not limited to the fees and charges of auditors and lawyers
instructed by the Lenders and/or the Agent) and with the actual, attempted or purported
enforcement of, or preservation of rights under this Agreement and the other Finance
Documents.
	 
	24.	 	INDEMNITY
	 
	 	 	The Borrower hereunder undertakes and agrees to indemnify the Lenders
and the Agent, upon the Agent’s first demand, from and against any
losses, costs or expenses (including legal expenses) which they incur
in consequence of any Event of Default including (but without
limitation) all losses (including loss of profit for the current
Interest Period), premiums and penalties incurred or to be incurred in
liquidating or redeploying deposits made by third parties or funds
acquired or arranged to advance or maintain the Facility or any part
thereof.
	 
	25.	 	STAMP DUTIES
	 
	 	 	The Borrower shall pay any and all stamp, registration and similar
taxes and charges of whatsoever nature which may be payable or
determined to be payable on, or in connection with, the execution,
registration, notarisation, performance or enforcement of this
Agreement or the other Finance Documents. The Borrower shall indemnify
the Lenders and the Agent against any and all liabilities with respect
to or resulting from delay or omission on the part of the Borrower to
pay any such taxes.
	 
	26.	 	DETERMINATIONS
	 
	 	 	Each determination of an Interest Rate or a Default Rate or of any
amount in respect of principal or interest or fees or expenses by the
Lenders and/or the Agent in accordance with this Agreement and every
other determination or certification by the Lenders and/or the Agent
under this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower
in the absence of manifest error.
	 
	27.	 	NO WAIVER
	 
	 	 	No failure to exercise and no delay on the part of the Lenders and/or
the Agent in exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as
a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
right or power preclude any other or future exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right or power. The rights, powers and remedies
herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, powers
or remedies provided by law.
	 
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	 	 	In the event that any term or condition of this Agreement is rendered
or declared illegal, invalid or inoperative in whole or in part by any
statute rule or regulation or any decision of any court or tribunal of
competent jurisdiction then such determination or declaration shall
neither affect the validity of any other term or condition of this
Agreement which (save as aforesaid) will remain in full force and
effect nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such term or
condition under the laws of any other jurisdiction.
	 
	29	 	THE AGENT
	 
	29.1	 	Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints and authorises the Agent to act as its agent under
this Agreement and the other Finance Documents.
	 
	29.2	 	The Agent shall have such powers and discretions:

	 	29.2.1	 	which are expressly delegated to the Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other
Finance Documents;
	 
	 	29.2.2	 	which the Majority Lenders consider appropriate and give to the Agent (generally or in a
particular case) with the Agent’s consent; and
	 
	 	29.2.3	 	which the Agent considers to be reasonably incidental to the discharge and performance of
any of its functions under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents or otherwise
appropriate in the context of those functions, including the exercise of any powers given to
it by the Majority Lenders.

	29.3	 	The relationship between the Agent and each Lender is that of agent and principal only.
Nothing in this Agreement or the other Finance Documents shall constitute the Agent a trustee
or fiduciary for any Lender or any other person and no action taken by the Lenders pursuant
hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Lenders a partnership, association, joint
venture or other entity.
	 
	29.4	 	In performing its functions and duties under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents,
the Agent shall act solely as agent of the Lenders and does not assume and shall not be deemed
to have assumed any responsibility, liability or obligation (whether fiduciary or otherwise)
towards, or relationship of agency or trust with or for, the Borrower or any other Security
Party in any circumstances whatsoever.
	 
	29.5	 	Subject to Clause 29.6 and the other provisions of this Agreement and the other Finance
Documents, the Agent is hereby irrevocably authorised by the Lender in their name and on their
behalf (and shall, if so directed by written notice from the Majority Lenders after the
Lenders shall have consulted for a period of not less than five (5) days, which direction
shall be binding on all the Lenders):

	 	29.5.1	 	to waive, modify, vary or otherwise amend or excuse performance of any provisions of this
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	 	29.5.2	 	to enforce or take or refrain from taking any other action or proceedings with regard to
this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents,

	29.6	 	Except in cases where the Agent is of the opinion that the Lenders would be prejudiced by any
delay in the Agent enforcing or taking action, in which event the Lender may, but shall not be
obliged to, enforce or take action without prior notification to the Lenders, the Agent shall
be obliged to notify the Lenders if it proposes to waive, modify, vary or otherwise amend or
excuse performance of any provision of this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents or
to enforce or take or refrain from taking any action under Clause 20.2 and the Agent shall not
be entitled to proceed with that proposal unless the Majority Lenders shall give notice to the
Agent agreeing to that proposal. The Agent shall be entitled to cancel that proposal if
written notice pursuant to this Clause 29.6 is not received within five (5) days of the
Lenders being so notified by the Agent.
	 
	29.7	 	Unless a contrary intention appears in a Security Document:

	 	29.7.1	 	the Agent shall exercise any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Agent in
accordance with any instructions given to it by the Majority Lenders (or, if so instructed by
the Majority Lenders, refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion
vesting in it as agent);
	 
	 	29.7.2	 	the Agent shall not be liable for any act or omission if its acts or refrains from taking
action in accordance with an instruction of the Majority Lenders;
	 
	 	29.7.3	 	subject to the provisions of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, the Agent
agrees to act with respect to this Agreement and the other Finance Documents in accordance
with the written instructions of the Majority Lenders. Any instructions given by the Majority
Lenders will be binding on all the Lenders;
	 
	 	29.7.4	 	the Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority
Lenders (or if appropriate, the Lenders) until it has received such security as it may require
for any cost, loss or liability (together with any associated VAT) which it may incur in
complying with the instructions;
	 
	 	29.7.5	 	in the absence of instructions from the Majority Lenders, (or, if appropriate, the Lenders)
the Agent may act (or refrain from taking action) as it considers to be in the best interest
of the Lenders; and
	 
	 	29.7.6	 	the Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining that
Lender’s consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Security Document.

	29.8	 	In no event shall the Agent be required to take any action which exposes, or is likely to
expose, the Agent to personal liability or which is contrary to the provisions of:

	 	29.8.1	 	this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents; or

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	 	29.8.2	 	any law, regulation or directive.

	29.9	 	The Agent shall furnish each Lender with copies of:

	 	29.9.1	 	any documents received by it under Clause 19.18 (but the Agent shall not be obliged to
review or check the accuracy or completeness thereof);
	 
	 	29.9.2	 	if requested by any Lender , with copies of all documents received by the Agent under
Clause 18.1;
	 
	 	29.9.3	 	any notice received from the Borrower or any other Security Party referring to this
Agreement, and stating that an Event of Default has occurred or is continuing; and
	 
	 	29.9.4	 	any document which is delivered to the Agent for that Lender by the Borrower or any other
Security Party.

	29.10	 	Each Lender will, promptly after receipt or despatch thereof, forward to the Agent a copy of
any communication:

	 	29.10.1	 	sent by that Lender to the Borrower or any other Security Party; or
	 
	 	29.10.2	 	received by that Lender from the Borrower or any other Security Party and, in each case,
relating to this Agreement or any of the Finance Documents.

	29.11	 	The Agent shall (subject to Clause 14.4) distribute promptly to each Lender its due
proportion of all sums received by the Agent on behalf of the Lenders under this Agreement or
any of the other Finance Documents, subject to the Agent’s right to deduct and withhold from
any such payment any amount which is then (or which will, upon demand by the Agent, become)
due and payable to the Agent from that Lender.
	 
	29.12	 	The Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an
account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Agent if the
Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the
regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by
the Agent for that purpose.
	 
	29.13	 	The Agent may retain for its own use and benefit (and shall not be liable to account to any
Lender for all or any part of) any sums received by it by way of fees (and not payable to any
Lender) or by way of reimbursement of expenses incurred by it.
	 
	29.14	 	Subject to Clause 29.15 the provisions of this Agreement and any of the other Finance
Documents may be waived, and (subject to the written agreement of each of the other parties
thereto, other than the Lender) varied or amended, by the Agent acting on the written
instructions of the Majority Lenders, in each case evidenced by an instrument in writing, and
any such waiver, variation or amendment shall be binding upon all the Lenders.

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	29.15	 	Nothing in Clause 29.14 shall authorise the effecting, without the prior written consent of
the Agent and all the Lenders, of:

	 	29.15.1	 	any change in the Applicable Margin or in the definitions of “Majority Lenders” or “Finance
Documents” or “Security Documents”;
	 
	 	29.15.2	 	any change in the date for, or alteration in the amount (or the basis of determining the
amount) of, any payment of principal, interest, fees, or other amounts payable under this
Agreement;
	 
	 	29.15.3	 	any change in a Lender’s Commitment;
	 
	 	29.15.4	 	any extension of the Commitment Period;
	 
	 	29.15.5	 	any change to Clauses 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 32 and 34;
	 
	 	29.15.6	 	any change to this Clause 29.15;
	 
	 	29.15.7	 	the release of any of the security created by or pursuant to the Security Documents (or any
of them); or
	 
	 	29.15.8	 	any other matter in respect of which the terms of this Agreement or any other of the
Finance Documents expressly requires the agreement of all the Lenders.

	29.16	 	At all times throughout the Security Period the Borrower shall be entitled to rely upon the
advice of the Agent as to the giving of any approvals or consents or the exercise of any
discretions by the Banks or any other act of the Lenders as required by this Agreement and/or
the other Finance Documents or any of them.
	 
	29.17	 	The Agent shall, subject to Clause 29.6, at all times:

	 	29.17.1	 	consult with the Lenders before giving any approvals or consents or exercising any
discretions or performing any other act which may be given or exercised or performed by the
Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents; and
	 
	 	29.17.2	 	keep the Lenders informed of each and every approval or consent given and each exercise of
any such discretion and each performance of any such other act which the Agent may have
performed on behalf of the Lenders as required by this Agreement or any of the other Security
Documents.

	29.18	 	Notwithstanding the provisions of Clauses 29.14 and 29.15, no provision of this Agreement or
of any other of the other Finance Documents which in any way relates to the duties, functions,
powers or responsibilities of the Agent may be amended, waived or suspended without the prior
consent of the Agent.

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	30.	 	RETIREMENT OF THE AGENT
	 
	30.1	 	The Agent may at any time resign its appointment under this Agreement by giving the Security
Parties and the Lenders not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to that effect.
	 
	30.2	 	After the giving by the Agent of a notice of termination the Majority Lenders may in writing
appoint a successor.
	 
	30.3	 	If no such successor is appointed within the period specified in Clause 30.1, the Agent may
appoint as its successor any reputable bank or financial institution.
	 
	30.4	 	Upon the acceptance by a successor to the Agent of its appointment, which acceptance shall be
in such form as the Majority Lenders shall approve:

	 	30.4.1	 	that successor shall become bound by all the obligations of the Agent and become entitled to
all the rights, privileges, powers, authorities and discretions of the Agent under this
Agreement and the other Finance Documents;
	 
	 	30.4.2	 	the obligations of the Agent under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall
terminate but without prejudice to any liabilities which the Agent may have incurred prior to
that termination;
	 
	 	30.4.3	 	the Agent shall be discharged from any further liability or obligations under this Agreement
and the other Finance Documents; and
	 
	 	30.4.4	 	the provisions of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents shall continue in effect
for the benefit of the Agent in respect of any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or
any event occurring before the termination of its obligations pursuant to this Clause 30.

	31.	 	LIMITS OF THE AGENT’S OBLIGATIONS
	 
	31.1	 	The Agent shall not be obliged to ascertain or enquire:

	 	31.1.1	 	either initially or on a continuing basis, as to the credit or financial condition or
affairs of the Borrower, any other Security Party or any other person;
	 
	 	31.1.2	 	as to the performance or observance by the Borrower or any other Security Party of any of
the terms and conditions of this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents or any other
agreement; or
	 
	 	31.1.3	 	whether any Event of Default has occurred, and until it shall have actual knowledge or
express notice to the contrary, the Agent shall be entitled to assume that no Event of Default
has occurred.

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	31.2	 	Neither the Agent nor any of its respective officers, employees or agents shall be
responsible to any other Lenders for:

	 	31.2.1	 	any failure or delay in performance, or breach by the Borrower, of their respective
obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents or any other agreement
or any failure or delay in performance, or breach by any of the other Security Parties, of
their respective obligations under any of the Security Documents or any other agreement; or
	 
	 	31.2.2	 	any recitals, statements, representations or warranties in, or for the legality, validity,
effectiveness, enforceability, admissibility in evidence or sufficiency of, this Agreement or
any of the other Security Documents or any other agreement; or
	 
	 	31.2.3	 	the legality, validity, effectiveness or enforceability of any of the security created, or
purported to be created, pursuant to any of the Security Documents.

	31.3	 	Neither the Agent nor any of its respective officers, employees or agents shall be liable for
any loss, damage or expense suffered or incurred by the Borrower or any other Lender or any
other person in consequence of any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under this
Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents or in connection herewith or therewith unless
caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
	 
	31.4	 	Without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 31.3, none of the other parties to this
Agreement shall take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Agent in
respect of any claim which it may have against the Agent or in respect of any act or omission
(including, without limitation, negligence or wilful misconduct) by that officer, employee or
agent in relation to this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents.
	 
	31.5	 	Each Lender:

	 	31.5.1	 	severally represents and warrants to the Agent that it has made its own independent
investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the Borrower and the other Security
Parties in connection with the entry by that Lender into this Agreement , and in that respect
has not relied on any information provided to it by the Agent; and
	 
	 	31.5.2	 	undertakes that it will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the
creditworthiness of the Borrower and the other Security Parties and will not rely on any
information provided to it by the Agent.

	31.6	 	The Lenders agree (which agreement shall survive payment of all sums due under this
Agreement) to indemnify the Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower) rateably
in the case of the Lenders, according to their respective Contributions (or, if no part of
the Facility has been advanced, their respective Commitments) from and against any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,

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	 	 	expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on,
incurred by or asserted against the Agent in performing its functions or duties under this
Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents, or in connection with any action taken or
omitted to be taken by the Agent in enforcing or preserving or attempting to enforce or
preserve the rights of the Lenders under this Agreement or any of the other Finance
Documents or any other documents or security.
	 
	31.7	 	The Agent may:

	 	31.7.1	 	engage and pay for the advice and services of any lawyers, accountants or other experts
whose advice or services may to the Agent seem necessary or desirable and the Agent shall be
entitled to rely on the advice and opinions of such lawyers, accountants and other experts and
shall not be liable to any of the other parties hereto for any of the consequences of any such
reliance;
	 
	 	31.7.2	 	perform all or any of its functions and duties hereunder or under the Finance Documents
through employees or agents or any office or branch of the Agent from time to time selected by
it and notified to the other parties hereto;
	 
	 	31.7.3	 	rely on any communication or document believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have
been communicated or signed by the person by whom it purports to be communicated or signed and
shall not be liable to any of the other parties hereto for any of the consequences of such
reliance; and
	 
	 	31.7.4	 	without liability to account, make loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in
any kind of banking or trust business with the Borrower or the other Security Parties as
though the Agent was not an Agent.

	31.8	 	If it is also a Lender, the Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement
as any other Lender and may exercise those rights and powers as though it were not an Agent.
	 
	32.	 	SHARING OF PAYMENTS
	 
	32.1	 	This Clause 32 applies if any Lender (the “Sharing Lender”) at any time receives or recovers
(whether by way of voluntary or involuntary payment, by virtue of the exercise of its legal
rights including but not limited to the right of set-off, counterclaim or otherwise howsoever)
the whole or any part of any amounts due to it from the Borrowers (or any of them) under this
Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents otherwise than by distribution from the Agent
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
	 
	32.2	 	Subject to Clauses 32.3 and 32.4

	 	32.2.1	 	the Sharing Lender shall forthwith pay to the Agent the full amount or (as the case may be)
an amount equal to the equivalent of the full amount so received or recovered;

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	 	32.2.2	 	as between the Borrower and the Sharing Lender, the Borrower shall remain or again become
indebted to such Sharing Lender under this Agreement in the amount so paid as if it had not
been received or recovered as aforesaid; and
	 
	 	32.2.3	 	the Agent shall treat the amount so paid as if it were a payment by the Borrower on account
of amounts due from the Borrower under this Agreement or any of the other Security Documents
for distribution to the Sharing Lender and such of the other Lenders in the proportions in
which the Sharing Lender and the other Lenders would have been entitled to receive such amount
had it been paid by the Borrower to the Agent hereunder or under such Security Documents.

	32.3	 	Any payment and adjustment made pursuant to Clause 32.2 shall be subject to the condition
that, if the amount (or any part thereof) so paid by the Sharing Lender to the Agent
subsequently falls to be repaid by the Sharing Lender to the Borrower or any other person,
then each of the Lenders who has received any part thereof from the Agent shall repay the
amount received by it to the Sharing Lender, together with such amount (if any) as is
necessary to reimburse the Sharing Lender the appropriate portion of any interest it has been
obliged to pay when repaying such amount as aforesaid, and the relevant adjustments pursuant
to Clause 32.2 shall be cancelled.
	 
	32.4	 	A Sharing Lender which has commenced or joined in an action or proceeding in any court to
recover sums due to it under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents, and
pursuant to a judgment obtained therein or a settlement or compromise of that action or
proceeding shall have received any amount, shall not be required to share any proportion of
that amount with a Lender which has the legal right to, but does not, join such action or
proceeding or commence and diligently prosecute a separate action or proceeding to enforce its
rights under this Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents in the same or another
court.
	 
	32.5	 	Each Lender shall promptly give notice to the Agent of:

	 	32.5.1	 	the institution by that Lender of a legal action or proceedings against the Borrower under
this Agreement or under any of the other Finance Documents or in connection therewith as soon
as practicable thereafter (and, in any event, within 5 Banking Days); and
	 
	 	32.5.2	 	the receipt or recovery by that Lender of any amount due and payable by the Borrower under
this Agreement or under any of the other Security Documents which is received or recovered
otherwise than through the Agent.

	 	 	Upon receipt of any such notice the Agent will as soon as practicable thereafter notify the
other Lenders.
	 
	33.	 	TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPATION, CHANGE OF LENDING BRANCH

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	33.1	 	This Agreement shall bind and be to the benefit of the Borrower, the Lenders and the Agent
and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
	 
	33.2	 	The Borrower may not assign any of its rights, powers, duties or liabilities hereunder
without the prior written consent of the Lenders and/or the Agent which they shall have full
power to withhold.
	 
	33.3	 	Any Lender (the “Transferor Lender”) may, without prior notice or the consent of the Borrower
or any other Security Party, at any time assign, transfer all or part of the Facility and its
rights and powers and/or obligations under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents to
any other bank or other financial institution (the “Transferee Lender”). The Lenders and the
Agent shall notify the Borrower of any such assignment or transfer as soon as practicable.
That transfer shall be effected by the delivery by the Transferor Lender to the Agent of a
Transfer Certificate executed by the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender. Any such
transfer shall not be effective unless it is effected by a Transfer Certificate.
	 
	33.4	 	A Lender may at any time and from time to time change its lending office in respect of the
whole or any part of its participation in the Facility. Such Lender shall notify the Borrower
of any such change in the lending office as soon as is practicable.
	 
	33.5	 	The Agent shall as soon as practicable but not later than the fifth (5th) Banking
Day after receipt by it of a Transfer Certificate:

	 	33.5.1	 	sign the Transfer Certificate on behalf of the Security Parties , itself and each of the
other Lenders; and
	 
	 	33.5.2	 	give notice to the Security Parties and the Lender of receipt, and attaching a copy, duly
signed by it, of that Transfer Certificate.

	33.6	 	The Borrower and each Lender irrevocably authorise the Agent to sign any Transfer Certificate
on its behalf.
	 
	33.7	 	A Transfer Certificate shall be effective on the later of:

	 	33.7.1	 	the date specified in that Transfer Certificate; and
	 
	 	33.7.2	 	the date of receipt by the Security Parties and the Lenders of the notice given by the Agent
pursuant to Clause 33.5.2.

	33.8	 	A Transfer Certificate shall have effect in accordance with the following:

	 	33.8.1	 	to the extent that in that Transfer Certificate the Transferor Lender seeks to transfer its
rights and/or its obligations under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, each
Security Party and the Transferor Lender shall each be released from further obligations to
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	 	 	 	Documents and their respective rights
against each other shall be cancelled (such rights and obligations being referred to in this
Clause 33.8.1 as “discharged rights and obligations”);
	 
	 	33.8.2	 	each Security Party, the Transferee Lender and the other Lenders shall each assume
obligations towards each other and/or acquire rights against each other which differ from the
discharged rights and obligations only insofar as the Transferee Lender has assumed and/or
acquired the same in place of the Transferor Lender; and
	 
	 	33.8.3	 	the Transferee Lender and the other Lenders shall acquire the same rights and assume the
same obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had the Transferee
Lender been an original party to this Agreement as a Lender with the rights and/or obligations
acquired or assumed by it as a result of that transfer.

	33.9	 	If any Lender transfers or assigns, transfers or in any other manner grants participation in
respect of all or any part of its rights, powers duties and liabilities hereunder pursuant to
this Clause 33 the Borrower undertakes immediately on being requested to do so by the Agent
and at the cost of such Lender to enter into and procure that the other parties to the Finance
Documents shall enter into, such documents as may be necessary or desirable to transfer to the
relevant assignee, transferee or participant all or the relevant part of such Lender’s
interest in the Finance Documents and all relevant references in this Agreement and the
Finance Documents to such Lender shall thereafter be construed as a reference to such Lender
and/or such assignee, transferee or participant (as the case may be) to the extent of their
respective interests.
	 
	33.10	 	Each Lender may disclose to a potential assignee, transferee of participant or to any other
person who may propose entering into contractual relations with such Lender in relation to
this Agreement such information about the Borrower and the other Security Parties as such
Lender shall consider appropriate.
	 
	34.	 	NON-IMMUNITY
	 
	34.1	 	Neither the Borrower nor any other Security Party has any right of immunity from set-off,
suit or execution, attachment or other legal process under the laws of the United Kingdom, or
the Republic of Greece or the Republic of Cyprus or Bermuda or the Republic of the Marshall
Islands.
	 
	34.2	 	The exercise by the Borrower of its rights and performance and discharge of its duties and
liabilities hereunder will constitute commercial acts done and performed for private and
commercial purposes.
	 
	34.3	 	To the extent that the Borrower may in any jurisdiction in which proceedings may at any time
be taken for the enforcement of this Agreement and/or any of the other Finance Documents claim
for themselves or their assets immunity from suit, judgment, execution, 

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	 	 	attachment (whether,
before judgment or otherwise) or other legal process, and to the extent that in any such
jurisdiction there may be attributed to themselves or their assets any such immunity (whether
or not claimed), the Borrower hereby irrevocably agrees not to claim and hereby irrevocably
waives any such immunity to the full extent permitted by the laws of such jurisdiction.
	 
	35.	 	NOTICES
	 
	35.1	 	Unless otherwise specifically provided, any notice under or in connection with any Finance
Document shall be given by letter or fax; and references in the Finance Documents to written
notices, notices in writing and notices signed by particular persons shall be construed
accordingly.
	 
	35.2	 	A notice shall be sent:

	 	 	 	 	 

	(a)

	 	in the case of the Borrower:
	 	c/o NEWLEAD SHIPPING S.A.
	 

	 	 	 	83 Akti Miaouli & 1-7, Flessa
	 

	 	 	 	185 38 Piraeus
	 

	 	 	 	Greece
	 

	 	 	 	Fax No.: +30 213 0148609
	 
	(b)

	 	in the case of the Agent at:
	 	24B Kifissias Avenue
	 

	 	 	 	151 25 Maroussi
	 

	 	 	 	Attiki, Greece
	 

	 	 	 	Fax No: +30 210 6896358
	 
	(c)	 	in the case of a Lender, at the address set out beneath its name in the Schedule 1,

		 	or to such other address as the relevant party may notify the other in writing.
	 
	35.3	 	Subject to Clauses 35.4 and 35.5:

	 	(a)	 	a notice which is delivered personally or posted shall be deemed to be
served, and shall take effect, at the time when it is delivered;
	 
	 	(b)	 	a notice which is sent by fax shall be deemed to be served, and shall take
effect, two (2) hours after its transmission is completed.

	35.4	 	However, if under Clause 35.3 a notice would be deemed to be served:

	 	(a)	 	on a day which is not a Banking Day in the place of receipt; or
	 
	 	(b)	 	on such a Banking Day, but after 5 p.m. local time;

	 	 	the notice shall (subject to Clause 35.5) be deemed to be served, and shall take effect, at
9 a.m. on the next day which is such a Banking Day.

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	35.5	 	Clauses 35.3 and 35.4 do not apply if the recipient of a notice notifies the sender within
one (1) hour after the time at which the notice would otherwise be deemed to be served that
the notice has been received in a form, which is illegible in a material respect.
	 
	35.6	 	A notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall not be invalid by reason that
the manner of serving it does not comply with the requirements of this Agreement or, where
appropriate, any other Finance Document under which it is served if the failure to serve it in
accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or other Finance Document, as the case may
be, has not caused any party to suffer any significant loss or prejudice.
	 
	35.7	 	Any notice under or in connection with a Finance Document shall be in English.
	 
	35.8	 	In this Clause “notice” includes any demand, consent, authorisation, approval, instruction,
waiver or other communication.
	 
	36	 	SUPPLEMENTAL
	 
	36.1	 	The rights and remedies which the Finance Documents give to the Lenders and/or the Agent are:

	 	(a)	 	cumulative;
	 
	 	(b)	 	may be exercised as often as appears expedient; and
	 
	 	(c)	 	shall not, unless a Finance Document explicitly and specifically states so,
be taken to exclude or limit any right or remedy conferred by any law.

	36.2	 	If any provision of a Finance Document is or subsequently becomes void, unenforceable or
illegal, that shall not affect the validity, enforceability or legality of the other
provisions of that Finance Document or of the provisions of any other Finance Document.
	 
	36.3	 	A Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts.
	 
	36.4	 	A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of
Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
	 
	36.5	 	This Agreement supersedes the terms and conditions contained in any correspondence relating
to the subject matter of this Agreement exchanged between the Lenders and/or the Agent and the
Borrower or their representatives prior to the date of this Agreement including, without
limitation, the Commitment Letter.
	 
	37.	 	LAW AND JURISDICTION
	 
	37.1	 	This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations connected with it shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, English law.

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	37.2	 	Subject to Clause 37.3, the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any
disputes, which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and any non-contractual
obligations connected with it.
	 
	37.3	 	Clause 37.2 is for the exclusive benefit of the Lender, which reserves the right:

	 	(a)	 	to commence proceedings in relation to any matter which arises out of or in
connection with this Agreement in the courts of the Republic of Greece and/or any
country other than England or Greece and which have or claim jurisdiction to that
matter; and
	 
	 	(b)	 	to commence such proceedings in the courts of any such country or countries
concurrently with or in addition to proceedings in England or Greece or without
commencing proceedings in England or Greece.

	 	 	The Borrower shall not commence any proceedings in any country other than England in
relation to a matter, which arises out of or in connection with this Agreement and any
non-contractual obligations connected with it.
	 
	37.4	 	The Borrower irrevocably appoints HFW Nominees Limited, presently at Friary Court, 65
Crutched Friars, London EC3N 2AE, England, to act as its agent to receive and accept on
their/its behalf any process or other document relating to any proceedings in the English
courts which are connected with this Agreement and any non-contractual obligations connected
with it.
	 
	37.5	 	The Borrower irrevocably designates and appoints Mr. Peter Kallifidas , an Attorney-at-law
with offices at 83 Akti Miaouli, 185 38 Piraeus, Greece, as agent for the service of process
in Greece (“antiklitos”) and agree to consider any legal process or any demand or notice made
served by or on behalf of the Lenders and/or the Agent on the said agent as being made to the
Borrower. The designation of such an authorized agent (“antiklitos”) shall remain irrevocable
until all Indebtedness shall have been paid in full in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement and the other Finance Documents.
	 
	37.6	 	Nothing in this Clause 37 shall exclude or limit any right which the Lenders and/or the Agent
may have (whether under the law of any country, an international convention or otherwise) with
regard to the bringing of proceedings, the service of process, the recognition or enforcement
of a judgment or any similar or related matter in any jurisdiction.
	 
	37.7	 	In this Clause 37, “proceedings” means proceedings of any kind, including an application for
a provisional or protective measure or enforcement court order (diatagi pliromis).
	 
	38.	 	THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER FINANCE DOCUMENTS
	 
	 	 	In case of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and
any of the other Finance Documents the provisions of this Agreement
shall prevail.

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AS WITNESS the hands of the duly authorised representatives of the parties hereto the day and year
first above written.

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EXECUTION PAGE

	 	 	 	 	    	 	 

	THE LENDERS
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SIGNED
by Chaelis M.

	 	 	)	 	/s/ Chaelis M.	 
	and
by Stavros Yagos

	 	 	)	 	 	 
	for and on behalf of

	 	 	)	 	 	 
	MARFIN EGNATIA BANK Societe Anonyme

	 	 	)	 	/s/ Stavros Yagos	 
	in the presence of:

	 	 	)	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	/s/
Vasiliki Katsouli
Attorney-at-law
V&P Law Firm

15 Filikis Eterias Square

106 73 Athens, Greece
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	THE BORROWER
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SIGNED
by Panagiotis-Peter Kallifidas

	 	 	)	 	 	 
	for and on behalf of

	 	 	)	 	 	 
	NEWLEAD HOLDINGS LTD.

	 	 	)	 	/s/ Panagiotis-Peter Kallifidas	 
	in the presence of:

	 	 	)	 	 	 
	 
	/s/
Vasiliki Katsouli
Attorney-at-law
V&P Law Firm

15 Filikis Eterias Square

106 73 Athens, Greece
	 	 	 	 	 	 

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SCHEDULE 1

LENDERS AND COMMITMENTS

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Commitment
	Lender	 	Lending Office	 	$
	 
	Marfin Egnatia Bank Societe
	 	91 Akti Miaouli
	 	$23,000,000
	Anonyme
	 	185 38 Piraeus	 	 
	 
	 	Greece	 	 
	 
	 	Fax Nr.: +30 210 6896358	 	 

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SCHEDULE 2

FORM OF NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN

	 	 	 

	TO:

	 	MARFIN EGNATIA BANK Societe Anonyme
	 

	 	24B Kifissias Avenue
	 

	 	151 25 Maroussi
	 

	 	Attiki, Greece

Date: [•] 2010

Dear Sirs,

Financial Agreement dated [•] as novated, amended and restated on [•]

	1.	 	We refer to the financial agreement dated [•] 2010 as novated, amended and restated
(the “Financial Agreement”) and made between ourselves, as Borrower and yourselves as Lender,
in connection with a reducing revolving credit facility of up to Twenty Three million Dollars
($23,000,000).
	 
	 	 	Terms defined in the Financial Agreement have their defined meanings when used in this
Notice of Drawdown.
	 
	2.	 	We request to borrow [an] Advance[s] as follows:

	 	(a)	 	Amount: $ [•];
	 
	 	(b)	 	Drawdown Date: [•] 20[•];
	 
	 	(c)	 	Duration of the first Interest Period shall be [•] months; and
	 
	 	(d)	 	Payment instructions: account in the name of [•] and numbered [•]
with [•] of [•].

	3.	 	We represent and warrant that:

	 	(a)	 	the representations and warranties in Clause 16 of the Financial Agreement
and in the other Finance Documents would remain true and not misleading if repeated on
the date of this notice with reference to the circumstances now existing;
	 
	 	(b)	 	no Event of Default has occurred or will result from the borrowing of the
above Advance[s].

	4.	 	This notice cannot be revoked without your prior written consent.

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Yours faithfully,

For and on behalf of

NEWLEAD HOLDINGS LTD.

	 	 	 	 	 
	
 	 	 
	Attorney-in-Fact 	 	 
	 	 	 

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SCHEDULE 3

FORM OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Date: [•] 2010

Financial Agreement dated [•] 2010 as novated, amended and restated on [•] 2010 (the

“Financial Agreement”)

We the undersigned Borrower declare that in connection with the above Financial Agreement we
received [an] Advance[s] in the amount of [•] Dollars ($[•]) value [•].

Capitalised terms used herein shall have the respective meanings specified in the Financial
Agreement.

Yours faithfully,

For and on behalf of

NEWLEAD HOLDINGS LTD.

	 	 	 	 	 
	
 	 	 
	Attorney-in-Fact 	 	 
	 	 	 

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SCHEDULE 4

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

[Lenders are advised not to employ Transfer Certificates or otherwise to assign or transfer
interests in the Agreement without first ensuring that the transaction complies with all applicable
laws and regulations, including the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and regulations made
thereunder and similar statutes which may be in force in other jurisdictions.]

To: Marfin Egnatia Bank Societe Anonyme as agent on its own behalf and for and on behalf of the
Borrower and Lenders defined in the Financial Agreement referred to below:

Attention: [•]

	1.	 	This Transfer Certificate relates to a financial agreement (the “Financial Agreement”) dated
[•] as novated, amended and restated on [•] and made between (1) Newlead Holdings
Ltd. of the Marshall Islands as borrower (the “Borrower”), (2) the banks and financial
institutions defined therein as lenders (the “Lenders”), (3) Marfin Egnatia Bank Societe
Anonyme as agent (as the same may from time to time be amended or varied).
	 
	2.	 	Terms defined in the Financial Agreement shall, unless otherwise defined herein, have the
same meanings when used in this Transfer Certificate.
	 
	3.	 	In this Certificate:
	 
	 	 	“Relevant Party” means each Security Party and each Lender;
	 
	 	 	“Transferor Lender” means [full name] of [lending office]; and
	 
	 	 	“Transferee Lender” means [full name] of [lending office].
	 
	4.	 	The Transferor Lender as beneficial owner hereby transfers to the Transferee Lender
absolutely in accordance with Clause 33 of the Financial Agreement all its rights and benefit
(present, future or contingent) under the Financial Agreement and the other Finance Documents
to the extent of [•] per cent. ([•]%) of the Transferor Lender’s Contribution
outstanding, details of which are set out below:

	 	 	 	 	 
	Transferor Lender’s Contribution	 	Amount to be Transferred
	 
	 
	 

	5.	 	By virtue of this Transfer Certificate and Clause 33 of the Financial Agreement the
Transferor Lender is discharged [entirely from its Commitment][from [•] per cent
([•]%) of its Commitment].

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	6.	 	The Transferee Lender hereby requests the Agent and the Lenders to accept the executed copies
of this Transfer Certificate as being delivered pursuant to and for the purposes of Clause 33
of the Financial Agreement so as to take effect in accordance with the terms thereof on
[•].
	 
	7.	 	The Transferee Lender:
	 
	7.1	 	confirms that it has received copies of the Financial Agreement and the other Finance
Documents together with such other documents and information as it has required in connection
with the transaction contemplated thereby;
	 
	7.2	 	confirms that it has not relied and will not hereafter rely on the Transferor Lender, any
other Lender, the Agent to check or enquire on its behalf into the legality, validity,
effectiveness, adequacy, accuracy or completeness of the Financial Agreement, any of the other
Security Documents or any such other documents or information;
	 
	7.3	 	agrees that it has not relied and will not rely on the Transferor Lender, any other Lender,
the Agent to assess or keep under review on its behalf the financial condition,
creditworthiness, condition, affairs, status or nature of the Borrower or any other party to
the Financial Agreement or any of the other Finance Documents (save as otherwise expressly
provided therein);
	 
	7.4	 	warrants to the Transferee Lender and each Relevant Party that it has power and authority to
become a party to the Financial Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorise
execution of this Transfer Certificate and to obtain all necessary approvals and consents to
the assumption of its obligations under the Financial Agreement and the other Security
Documents;
	 
	7.5	 	if not already a Lender, appoints the Agent to act as its agent as provided in the Financial
Agreement and the other Security Documents and agrees to be bound by the terms thereof; and
	 
	7.6	 	confirms the accuracy of the administrative details set out in the Schedule to this Transfer
Certificate.
	 
	8.	 	The Transferor Lender:
	 
	8.1	 	warrants to the Transferee Lender and each Relevant Party that it has full power to enter
into this Transfer Certificate and has taken all corporate action necessary to authorise it to
do so; and
	 
	8.2	 	undertakes with the Transferee Lender that it will, at its own expense, execute any documents
which the Transferee Lender reasonably requests for perfecting in any relevant jurisdiction
the Transferee Lender’s title under this Transfer Certificate or for a similar purpose.

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	9.	 	The Transferee Lender hereby undertakes with the Transferor Lender and each Relevant Party
that it will perform all those obligations which by the terms of the Financial Agreement will
be assumed by it after this Transfer Certificate takes effect.
	 
	10.	 	If this Transfer Certificate takes effect during an Interest Period, the Agent shall make all
payments which would have become due to the Transferor Lender under the Financial Agreement
during that Interest Period if no such transfer had been effected to the Transferor Lender and
the Transferee Lender according to the percentages of the Transferor Lender’s Contribution and
Commitment transferred and retained pursuant to Clauses 4 and 5 of this Transfer Certificate,
and the Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender shall be responsible for paying to each
other pro rata all amounts (if any) due to them from each other for that Interest Period. On
and from the commencement of the immediately succeeding Interest Period, the Agent shall make
all payments due under the Financial Agreement for the account of the Transferor Lender to the
Transferor Lender and shall make all payments due under the Financial Agreement for the
account of the Transferee Lender to the Transferee Lender. This provision is for
administrative convenience only and shall not affect the rights of the Transferor Lender and
the Transferee Lender under the Financial Agreement.
	 
	11.	 	None of the Transferor Lender, any other Lender or the Agent:
	 
	11.1	 	makes any representation or warranty nor assumes any responsibility with respect to the
legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Financial Agreement or
any of the other Security Documents or any other document relating thereto;
	 
	11.2	 	assumes any responsibility for the financial condition of the Borrower or any other party to
the Financial Agreement or any of the other Security Documents or any other document relating
thereto or for the performance and observance thereof by (save as otherwise expressly provided
therein) and any and all such conditions and warranties, whether expressed or implied by law
or otherwise, are hereby excluded (except as aforesaid).
	 
	12.	 	The Transferor Lender and the Transferee Lender undertake that they will on demand fully
indemnify the Agent in respect of any claim, proceeding, liability or expense which relates to
or results from this Transfer Certificate or any matter connected with or arising out of it
unless caused by the Agent’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct, as the case may be.
	 
	13.	 	The agreements and undertaking of the Transferee Lender in this Transfer Certificate are
given to and for the benefit of and made with each of the Relevant Parties.
	 
	14.	 	This Transfer Certificate shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English
law.
	 
	 	 	Transferor Lender
	 
	 	 	By: [•]
	 
	 	 	Dated: [•]

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	 	 	Transferee Lender
	 
	 	 	By: [•]
	 
	 	 	Dated:
	 
	 	 	Agent (for and on behalf of itself and for every other Relevant Party)
	 
	 	 	By: [•]
	 
	 	 	Dated: [•]

	Note:  	 	The execution of this Transfer Certificate alone may not transfer a proportionate share of
the Transferor Lender’s interest in the security constituted by the Security Documents in the
Transferor Lender’s or Transferee Lender’s jurisdiction. It is the responsibility of each
individual Lender to ascertain whether any other documents are required to perfect a transfer
of such a share in the Transferor Lender’s interest in such security in any such jurisdiction,
and, if so, to seek appropriate advice and arrange for execution of the same.

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SCHEDULE

ADMINISTRATION DETAILS OF TRANSFEREE LENDER

Name of Transferee Lender:

Lending Office:

Contact Person

(Loan Administration Department):

Telephone:

Telex:

Fax:

Contact Person

(Credit Administration Department):

Telephone:

Telex:

Fax:

Account for Payments:

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