SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2022-07-29

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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i15396144e7e8421a9ce6d97ce29a9bea_1"></div><div style="min-height:35.28pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:3.9pt;padding-right:5.4pt;text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Execution Version</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:9.45pt;padding-left:116.55pt;padding-right:116.55pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">AMENDMENT NO. 9 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.2pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:5pt;padding-right:5.35pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72.1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">AMENDMENT NO. 9 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of April 7, 2022 (this &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Amendment</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;), between AVANTOR FUNDING, INC., a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Borrower</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as administrative agent and collateral agent (in such capacity and including any permitted successor or assign, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Administrative Agent</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) for the Lenders (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below).</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.4pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:116.5pt;padding-right:116.5pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">W I T N E</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">S S E T H</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.05pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-top:4.55pt;padding-left:5pt;padding-right:5.15pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72.1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">WHEREAS, Holdings, the Borrower, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and certain other parties entered into a Credit Agreement dated as of November 21, 2017 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Credit Agreement, dated as of November 27, 2018, as amended by Amendment No. 2 to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 18, 2019, as amended by Amendment No. 3 to Credit Agreement, dated as of January 24, 2020, as amended by Amendment No. 4 to Credit Agreement, dated as of July 14, 2020, as amended by Amendment No. 5 to Credit Agreement, dated as of November 6, 2020, as amended by Amendment No. 6 to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 10, 2021, as amended by Amendment No. 7 to Credit Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2021, as amended by Amendment No. 8 to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2021 and as further amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified through the date hereof, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Credit Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;&#59; capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given such terms in the Credit Agreement (as amended by this Amendment))&#59;</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.25pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:5pt;padding-right:5.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72.1pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">WHEREAS, Section 10.01 of the Credit Agreement permits the Credit Agreement to be amended solely with the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower without the need to obtain the consent of any other Lender if such amendment is delivered in order (A) to correct or cure ambiguities, errors, omissions or defects or (B) to effect administrative changes of a technical or immaterial nature, and in each case of clauses (A) and (B), such amendment shall become effective without any further action or the consent of any other party to any Loan Document if the same is not objected to in writing by the Required Lenders within five (5) Business Days following receipt of notice thereof.</font></div><div style="margin-top:0.5pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:5pt;padding-right:5.2pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:72.