SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2017-11-06

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<div><a name="s9F70B21F61E7B821212482BCA1A7CA40"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 10.1</font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:right;padding-left:96px;text-indent:96px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">EXECUTION VERSION</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">AMENDMENT NO. 1</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Dated as of November 2, 2017</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">to</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Dated as of May 16, 2017</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">THIS AMENDMENT NO. 1 (this &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;">Amendment</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;) is made as of November 2, 2017 by and among Belden Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;">Company</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;), the Foreign Borrowers party hereto (collectively with the Company, the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;">Borrowers</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;), the Loan Guarantors party hereto (collectively with the Borrowers, the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;">Loan Parties</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;), the financial institutions listed on the signature pages hereof and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;">Administrative Agent</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;), under that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 16, 2017 by and among the Company, the Foreign Borrowers and other Loan Parties from time to time party thereto, the Lenders from time to time party thereto and the Administrative Agent (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;">Credit Agreement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8221;). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">WHEREAS, the Borrowers have requested that the Required Lenders and the Administrative Agent agree to certain amendments to the Credit Agreement;</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Lenders party hereto and the Administrative Agent have so agreed 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:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">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 Borrowers, the Lenders party hereto and the Administrative Agent hereby agree to enter into this Amendment.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-left:0px;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:96px;"><font style="padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;padding-right:48px;">1.</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;">Amendments to the Credit Agreement</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">. Effective as of the date of satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:underline;">Section 2</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#32;below, the parties hereto agree that 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:11pt;">Section 1.01 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to add the following new defined term thereto in the appropriate alphabetical location: