SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2015-12-23

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<a name="s2362F78FFF3BBA95FA2AD026E4DFF596"></a><div></div><br><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 10.1</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:32px;text-align:right;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">EXECUTION VERSION</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">This FOURTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT (this &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Amendment</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;) is dated as of December&#160;18, 2015 and is by and among BLACKHAWK NETWORK HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Borrower</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;), the financial institutions signatory hereto as lenders, and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Administrative Agent</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;).</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Unless otherwise indicated, all capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings provided such terms in the Credit Agreement referred to below, and when used herein each term defined in </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Annex I</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#32;hereto has the same meaning herein as provided therein.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">W I T N E S S E T H</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#32;:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">WHEREAS, the Borrower, the financial institutions party thereto (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Lenders</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;) and the Administrative Agent are parties to a certain Credit Agreement dated as of March&#160;28, 2014, as amended by a First Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of September&#160;24, 2014, a Second Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of October 23, 2014 and a Third Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of June 19, 2015 (as so amended, the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Credit Agreement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#8221;); and</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the undersigned Lenders wish to amend the Credit Agreement on the terms and conditions set forth herein; </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above, the terms and conditions contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;"><font style="padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;padding-right:48px;">1.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">Amendments to Credit Agreement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">. Upon the Fourth Amendment Effective Date (as defined below), the Credit Agreement is hereby amended as follows:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">(a)</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">The Credit Agreement (excluding the existing Exhibits and Schedules thereto) is amended to delete the bold, stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:line-through;">strieken-text</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">) and to add the bold, double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;">double-underlined text</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">) as set forth on Annex I hereto;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">(b)</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160