UNITED STATES
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Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
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Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement |
On April 26, 2022, Bloomin’ Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC, as co-borrowers (each, a “Borrower” and together, the “Borrowers”), the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, certain lenders and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”), entered into the First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and Incremental Amendment (the “First Amendment”). The First Amendment amends the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated April 16, 2021 (as previously amended and as further amended by the First Amendment, the “Credit Agreement”), by and among the Borrowers, the lenders party thereto, the Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto.
The First Amendment: (i) provides an increase in the Company’s revolving credit facility from $800.0 million to $1.0 billion; (ii) transitions from the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) as the benchmark rate for purposes of calculating interest under the Credit Agreement; (iii) provides for the repayment of each outstanding revolving credit loan and the reborrowing of such loans as either a Base Rate loan or an Adjusted Term SOFR loan; (iv) provides for the full repayment of the outstanding term loan A facility utilizing borrowings from the revolving credit facility and waives the notice and reimbursement requirements associated with the voluntary prepayment; and (v) includes clerical and conforming changes, including the removal of certain provisions related to mandatory prepayment of term loan facilities from annual excess cash flow. The total indebtedness of the Company remained unchanged as a result of the First Amendment.
Pursuant to the First Amendment, the Company may elect an interest rate at each reset period based on the Base Rate or Adjusted Term SOFR, plus an applicable spread. The Base Rate option is the highest of: (i) the prime rate of Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, (ii) the federal funds effective rate plus 0.5 of 1.0% or (iii) Adjusted Term SOFR with a one-month interest period plus 1.0% (the “Base Rate”). The Adjusted Term SOFR option is the 30, 90 or 180-day SOFR, plus a term SOFR adjustment of 0.10%, subject to a 0% floor (the “Adjusted Term SOFR”). As a result of the transition to SOFR, the interest rates under the Credit Agreement will be 150 to 250 and 50 to 150 basis points above the Adjusted Term SOFR and Base Rate, respectively.
The foregoing description of the First Amendment does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and Incremental Amendment attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.02 | Results of Operations and Financial Condition |
On April 29, 2022, the Company issued a press release reporting its financial results for the thirteen weeks ended March 27, 2022. A copy of the release is attached as Exhibit 99.1.
The information in Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any other filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.
Item 2.03 | Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant |
The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit Number |
Description | |
10.1 | ||
99.1 | ||
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
BLOOMIN’ BRANDS, INC. | ||||||
(Registrant) | ||||||
Date: April 29, 2022 | By: | /s/ Christopher Meyer | ||||
Christopher Meyer | ||||||
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION VERSION
FIRST AMENDMENT TO SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT AND INCREMENTAL AMENDMENT
FIRST AMENDMENT TO SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT AND INCREMENTAL AMENDMENT (this Amendment), dated as of April 26, 2022, among OSI RESTAURANT PARTNERS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (OSI), BLOOMIN BRANDS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the Company and, together with OSI, the Borrowers), the Subsidiary Guarantors (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below) party hereto, the Lenders, each of the Incremental Revolving Credit Lenders (as defined below) party hereto and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as administrative agent (the Administrative Agent). Unless otherwise indicated, all capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings provided such terms in the Credit Agreement referred to below.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the lenders party thereto (the Lenders), the Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto have entered into that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 16, 2021 (as previously amended, as amended hereby and as further amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement and the Credit Agreement prior to giving effect to this Amendment being referred to as the Existing Credit Agreement);
WHEREAS, the Company has requested a Revolving Commitment Increase in an aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000, in accordance with Section 2.15(a) of the Credit Agreement (the Revolving Commitment Increase);
WHEREAS, $192,500,000 of the Revolving Commitment Increase will be used by the Borrowers to repay in full the outstanding Initial Term Loan and to pay fees and expenses in connection with this Amendment;
WHEREAS, subject to the terms of this Amendment, certain of the Revolving Credit Lenders party hereto (each an Incremental Revolving Credit Lender) are severally willing to provide a portion of the Revolving Commitment Increase;
WHEREAS, the Borrowers have also requested certain amendments to certain terms of the Existing Credit Agreement as provided herein, and the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders have agreed to such requests, subject to the terms and conditions of this Amendment;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, it is agreed as follows:
SECTION 1. Amendments. Effective as of the First Amendment Effective Date (as defined below) and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in reliance upon representations and warranties set forth herein:
(a) the body of the Existing Credit Agreement (excluding the Schedules and Exhibits
thereto) is hereby amended to (i) delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text), (ii) add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example:
double-underlined text) and (iii) move the green
double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined
text), in each case, as set forth in the Credit Agreement attached hereto as Annex A;
(b) Schedule 2.01 (Commitments) to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety in the form attached hereto as Annex B; and
(c) Exhibit A (Committed Loan Notice) to the Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety in the form attached hereto as Annex C.
SECTION 2. Revolving Commitment Increase and Repayment of Outstanding Revolving Credit Loans.
(a) The Administrative Agent and each Incremental Revolving Credit Lender hereby agrees that this Amendment constitutes an Incremental Loan Request pursuant to Section 2.15(a) of the Credit Agreement.
(b) Each Incremental Revolving Credit Lender agrees that, effective as of the First Amendment Effective Date, its respective Revolving Credit Commitment shall be as set forth on Schedule 2.01 attached hereto as Annex B.
(c) On and as of the First Amendment Effective Date, each Incremental Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to be a Incremental Revolving Credit Lender as defined in the Credit Agreement with a Revolving Credit Commitment as defined in the Credit Agreement.
(d) On the First Amendment Effective Date, the Borrowers shall repay each outstanding Revolving Credit Loan and reborrow such Loan as either a SOFR Loan or a Base Rate Loan. The Lenders hereby waive the requirements set forth in Section 3.05 of the Credit Agreement with respect to reimbursement for any loss or expense resulting from such voluntary prepayment occurring on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period.
SECTION 3. Repayment of Initial Term Loan. In connection with this Amendment, the Borrowers shall use the net cash proceeds from the Revolving Commitment Increase (and cash on hand, if necessary) to repay in full the Initial Term Loan on the First Amendment Effective Date (the Term Loan Repayment). The Lenders hereby (a) waive the requirements set forth in Section 2.05(a) of the Credit Agreement with respect to any prior notice or dollar multiples of any voluntary prepayment pursuant to this Section 3 and (b) solely as to each such Lender, waive the requirements set forth in Section 3.05 of the Credit Agreement with respect to reimbursement for any loss or expense resulting from such voluntary prepayment occurring on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period.
SECTION 4. Acknowledgement and Confirmation. Each of the Loan Parties party hereto hereby agrees that with respect to each Loan Document to which it is a party, after giving effect to the Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereunder:
(a) all of its obligations, liabilities and indebtedness under such Loan Document, including guarantee obligations, shall, except as expressly set forth herein or in the Credit Agreement, remain in full force and effect on a continuous basis; and
(b) all of the Liens and security interests created and arising under such Loan Document remain in full force and effect on a continuous basis, and the perfected status and priority to the extent provided for in Section 5.19 of the Credit Agreement of each such Lien and security interest continues in full force and effect on a continuous basis, unimpaired, uninterrupted and undischarged as collateral security for the Obligations, to the extent provided in such Loan Documents.
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SECTION 5. Conditions of Effectiveness of this Amendment. This Amendment shall become effective on the date when the following conditions shall have been satisfied or waived (such date, the First Amendment Effective Date):
(a) The Administrative Agents receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or facsimiles (followed by originals to be delivered as soon as practicable) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party (if applicable), each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its legal counsel:
(i) counterparts of this Amendment, duly executed by the Borrowers, the Subsidiary Guarantors existing as of the First Amendment Effective Date, the Administrative Agent, the Incremental Revolving Credit Lenders and the Lenders;
(ii) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrowers certifying that attached thereto is a true, correct and complete copy of resolutions duly adopted by the board of directors (or other governing body) of each Loan Party authorizing and approving the transactions contemplated hereunder and the execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment; and
(iii) an opinion from Baker & Hostetler LLP, New York counsel to the Loan Parties.
(b) Substantially concurrently with the Revolving Commitment Increase, the Borrowers shall make the Term Loan Repayment.
(c) The Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with the Financial Covenant after giving effect to the Revolving Commitment Increase.
(d) Payment of all fees and reasonable expenses of the Administrative Agent and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, and in the case of expenses, to the extent invoiced at least three (3) Business Days prior to the First Amendment Effective Date (except as otherwise reasonably agreed to by the Borrowers), required to be paid on the First Amendment Effective Date.
(e) Payment of all fees to the Lenders required to be paid on the First Amendment Effective Date.
(f) The representations and warranties in Section 7 of this Amendment shall be true and correct as of the First Amendment Effective Date.
For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 5, each Lender that has signed this Amendment shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed First Amendment Effective Date specifying its objection thereto.
SECTION 6. Costs and Expenses. Each Borrower hereby reconfirms its obligations pursuant to Section 10.04 of the Credit Agreement to pay and reimburse the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms thereof.
SECTION 7. Representations and Warranties. To induce the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders to enter into this Amendment, each Loan Party represents and warrants to the
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Administrative Agent and the other Lenders on and as of the First Amendment Effective Date that, in each case:
(a) the representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in Article V of the Credit Agreement and in each other Loan Document are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the First Amendment Effective Date with the same effect as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates; and
(b) no Default or Event of Default exists and is continuing.
SECTION 8. Reference to and Effect on the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents.
(a) On and after the First Amendment Effective Date, each reference in the Credit Agreement to this Agreement, herein, hereto, hereof and hereunder or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the Notes and each of the other Loan Documents to the Credit Agreement, thereunder, thereof or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement, as amended by this Amendment.
(b) The Credit Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, as specifically amended by this Amendment, are and shall continue to be in full force and effect and are hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed and nothing herein can or may be construed as a novation thereof.
(c) The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of any Lender or the Administrative Agent under any of the Loan Documents, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of any of the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Collateral Documents in effect immediately prior to the date hereof and all of the Collateral described therein in existence immediately prior to the date hereof do and shall continue to secure the payment of all Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents, in each case, as amended by this Amendment.
(d) This Amendment is (i) an Incremental Amendment in accordance with Section 2.15(a) of the Credit Agreement and (ii) a Loan Document and is subject to the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 9. Governing Law; Jurisdiction and Waiver of Right to Trial By Jury. THIS AMENDMENT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 10.15 AND 10.16 OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT RELATING TO GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION AND WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY, THE PROVISIONS OF WHICH ARE BY THIS REFERENCE INCORPORATED HEREIN IN FULL.
SECTION 10. Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which counterparts when executed and delivered shall be an original, but all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery by facsimile or electronic transmission of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Amendment. This Amendment may be executed by Electronic Signatures or in the form of an Electronic Record pursuant to, and in accordance with, the provisions of Section 10.11 of the Credit Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused their duly authorized officers to execute and deliver this Amendment as of the date first above written.
OSI RESTAURANT PARTNERS, LLC | ||
By: |
/s/ Tian Zhang | |
Name: |
Tian Zhang | |
Title: |
Assistant Secretary | |
BLOOMIN BRANDS, INC. | ||
By: |
/s/ Tian Zhang | |
Name: |
Tian Zhang | |
Title: |
Assistant Secretary | |
OSI HOLDCO, INC. | ||
OSI HOLDCO I, INC. | ||
OSI HOLDCO II, INC. | ||
BONEFISH GRILL, LLC | ||
CARRABBAS ITALIAN GRILL, LLC | ||
OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE OF FLORIDA, LLC | ||
OS MANAGEMENT, INC. | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
NEW PRIVATE RESTAURANT PROPERTIES, LLC | ||
BONEFISH DESIGNATED PARTNER, LLC | ||
CARRABBAS DESIGNATED PARTNER, LLC | ||
OUTBACK DESIGNATED PARTNER, LLC | ||
PRIVATE RESTAURANT MASTER LESSEE, LLC | ||
BLOOMIN BRANDS GIFT CARD SERVICES, LLC | ||
OS REALTY, LLC | ||
BONEFISH KANSAS LLC | ||
CARRABBAS KANSAS LLC | ||
OUTBACK KANSAS LLC | ||
BONEFISH BEVERAGES, LLC | ||
BONEFISH HOLDINGS, LLC | ||
CIGI BEVERAGES OF TEXAS, LLC | ||
CIGI HOLDINGS, LLC | ||
OBTEX HOLDINGS, LLC | ||
OUTBACK BEVERAGES OF TEXAS, LLC | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Secretary | |
OUTBACK ALABAMA, INC. | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Vice President and Secretary |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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DOORSIDE, LLC | ||
By: OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC | ||
Its: Sole Member | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary | ||
BFG NEBRASKA, INC. | ||
BFG OKLAHOMA, INC. | ||
CIGI OKLAHOMA, INC. | ||
OSF NEBRASKA, INC. | ||
OSF OKLAHOMA, INC. | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
President and Secretary | |
BONEFISH BRANDYWINE, LLC | ||
By: Bonefish Grill, LLC | ||
Its: Sole Member | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary | ||
BONEFISH OF BEL AIR LLC | ||
By: Bonefish Grill, LLC | ||
Its: Managing Member | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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CARRABBAS ITALIAN GRILL OF HOWARD | ||
COUNTY, INC. | ||
FREDERICK OUTBACK, INC. | ||
By: |
/s/ Nicole Novella | |
Name: |
Nicole Novella | |
Title: |
President, Treasurer and Secretary | |
CARRABBAS OF BOWIE, LLC | ||
By: Carrabbas Italian Grill, LLC | ||
Its: Managing Member | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary | ||
CARRABBAS OF GERMANTOWN, INC. | ||
CARRABBAS OF WALDORF, INC. | ||
By: Carrabbas Italian Grill, LLC | ||
Its: Sole Stockholder | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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OS RESTAURANT SERVICES, LLC | ||
By: Outback Steakhouse of Florida, LLC | ||
Its: Sole Member | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary | ||
OUTBACK OF LAUREL, LLC | ||
By: Outback Steakhouse of Florida, LLC | ||
Its: Manager | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary | ||
OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE OF WEST VIRGINIA, INC. | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer | |
OUTBACK OF ASPEN HILL, INC. | ||
OUTBACK OF GERMANTOWN, INC. | ||
By: |
/s/ Jamie Marshall | |
Name: |
Jamie Marshall | |
Title: |
President, Treasurer and Secretary |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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BONEFISH/ASHEVILLE, LIMITED | ||
PARTNERSHIP | ||
BONEFISH/CAROLINAS, LIMITED | ||
PARTNERSHIP | ||
BONEFISH/COLUMBUS-I, LIMITED | ||
PARTNERSHIP | ||
BONEFISH/CRESCENT SPRINGS, LIMITED | ||
PARTNERSHIP | ||
BONEFISH/GREENSBORO, LIMITED | ||
PARTNERSHIP | ||
BONEFISH/HYDE PARK, LIMITED | ||
PARTNERSHIP | ||
By: Bonefish Grill, LLC | ||
Its: General Partner | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary | ||
CARRABBAS/BIRMINGHAM 280, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP: | ||
By: Carrabbas Italian Grill, LLC and | ||
Carrabbas Designated Partner, LLC | ||
Its: General Partners | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary of | ||
Carrabbas Italian Grill, LLC and Secretary | ||
of Carrabbas Designated Partner, LLC | ||
CARRABBAS/DC-I, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | ||
By: Carrabbas Italian Grill, LLC | ||
Its: General Partner | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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OUTBACK/STONE-II, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | ||
By: Outback Steakhouse of Florida, LLC | ||
Its: General Partner | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary | ||
OSF/BFG OF DEPTFORD PARTNERSHIP | ||
OSF/BFG OF LAWRENCEVILLE PARTNERSHIP | ||
By: Outback Steakhouse of Florida, LLC and Bonefish | ||
Grill, LLC | ||
Its: Partners | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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OSF/CIGI OF EVESHAM PARTNERSHIP | ||
OUTBACK/CARRABBAS PARTNERSHIP | ||
By: Outback Steakhouse of Florida, LLC and Carrabbas | ||
Italian Grill, LLC | ||
Its: Partners | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary | ||
CIGI/BFG OF EAST BRUNSWICK | ||
PARTNERSHIP | ||
By: Carrabbas Italian Grill, LLC and | ||
Bonefish Grill, LLC | ||
Its: Partners | ||
By: |
/s/ Kelly Lefferts | |
Name: |
Kelly Lefferts | |
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief | |
Legal Officer and Secretary |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL | ||
ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent, Swing Line | ||
Lender, Collateral Agent, an L/C Issuer, a Lender and an | ||
Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Denise Crouch | |
Name: Denise Crouch | ||
Title: Vice President |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as an L/C Issuer, a | ||
Lender and an Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ J. Casey Cosgrove | |
Name: J. Casey Cosgrove | ||
Title: Managing Director |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK | ||
BRANCH, as an L/C Issuer, a Lender and an | ||
Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Van Brandenburg | |
Name: Van Brandenburg | ||
Title: Managing Director | ||
By: |
/s/ Jennifer Smith | |
Name: Jennifer Smith | ||
Title: Executive Director |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as an L/C Issuer, | ||
a Lender and an Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Jeffrey C. Miller | |
Name: Jeffrey C. Miller | ||
Title: Managing Director |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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REGIONS BANK, as a Lender and an Incremental | ||
Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Cheryl L. Shelhart | |
Name: Cheryl L. Shelhart | ||
Title: Director |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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TRUIST BANK, as a Lender and an Incremental | ||
Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Steve Curran | |
Name: Steve Curran | ||
Title: Director |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, | ||
as a Lender and an Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Rosa Pritsch | |
Name: Rosa Pritsch | ||
Title: Director |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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CAPITAL ONE, N.A., as a Lender and an Incremental | ||
Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Mauro Maris | |
Name: Mauro Maris | ||
Title: Vice President |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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FIFTH THIRD BANK, NATIONAL | ||
ASSOCIATION, as a Lender and an Incremental | ||
Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ John A. Marian | |
Name: John A. Marian | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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TD BANK, N.A., as a Lender and an Incremental | ||
Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Daniel Tulloch | |
Name: Daniel Tulloch | ||
Title: Managing Director |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a | ||
Lender and an Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Sean P. Walters | |
Name: Sean P. Walters | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
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FIRST HORIZON BANK, as a Lender and an | ||
Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Michael A. Klinko | |
Name: Michael A. Klinko | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
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RAYMOND JAMES BANK, N.A., as a Lender and an | ||
Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Cory Castillo | |
Name: Cory Castillo | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
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VALLEY NATIONAL BANK, as a Lender and an | ||
Incremental Revolving Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Benjamin Powers | |
Name: Benjamin Powers | ||
Title: VP |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO D/B/A FIRSTBANK | ||
FLORIDA, as a Lender and an Incremental Revolving | ||
Credit Lender | ||
By: |
/s/ Kevin P. Flynn | |
Name: Kevin P. Flynn | ||
Title: SVP, Corporate Banking Director | ||
By: |
/s/ Sergio H. Gonzalez | |
Name: Sergio H. Gonzalez | ||
Title: VP, Corporate Banking |
Bloomin Brands, Inc.
First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
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Annex A
[amended Credit Agreement attached]
EXECUTION VERSION
ANNEX A AMENDED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Published CUSIP Number: 67105DAU8
Revolving Credit CUSIP Number: 67105DAV6
Term Loan CUSIP Number: 67105DAW4
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT[1 ]
Dated as of April 16, 2021
among
OSI RESTAURANT PARTNERS, LLC
and
BLOOMIN BRANDS, INC.,
as Borrowers,
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent,
Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer,
THE OTHER LENDERS PARTY HERETO,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Co-Syndication Agents,
and
REGIONS BANK,
TRUIST BANK,
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION,
CAPITAL ONE, N.A.
FIFTH THIRD BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
TD BANK, N.A.
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Co-Documentation Agents
WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC,
BofA SECURITIES, INC.,
COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
REGIONS CAPITAL MARKETS, a division of REGIONS BANK
and
TRUIST SECURITIES, INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
Ref: CID# 000010817
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Conformed for First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of April 26, 2022 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS |
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Section 1.01 |
Defined Terms | 1 | ||||
Section 1.02 |
Other Interpretive Provisions | |||||
Section 1.03 |
Accounting Terms | |||||
Section 1.04 |
Rounding | |||||
Section 1.05 |
References to Agreements, Laws, Etc | |||||
Section 1.06 |
Times of Day | |||||
Section 1.07 |
Timing of Payment of Performance | |||||
Section 1.08 |
Currency Equivalents Generally | |||||
Section 1.09 |
Change of Currency | |||||
Section 1.10 |
Cumulative Growth Amount Transactions | |||||
Section 1.11 |
Pro Forma and Other Calculations | |||||
Section 1.12 |
Limited Condition Acquisitions | |||||
Section 1.13 |
Rates | |||||
Section 1.14 |
Divisions | |||||
ARTICLE II THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS |
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Section 2.01 |
The Loans | |||||
Section 2.02 |
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans | |||||
Section 2.03 |
Letters of Credit | |||||
Section 2.04 |
Swing Line Loans | |||||
Section 2.05 |
Prepayments | |||||
Section 2.06 |
Termination or Reduction of Commitments | |||||
Section 2.07 |
Repayment of Loans | |||||
Section 2.08 |
Interest | |||||
Section 2.09 |
Fees | |||||
Section 2.10 |
Computation of Interest and Fees | |||||
Section 2.11 |
Evidence of Indebtedness | |||||
Section 2.12 |
Payments Generally | |||||
Section 2.13 |
Sharing of Payments | |||||
Section 2.14 |
Extension of Term Loans; Extension of Revolving Credit Loans | |||||
Section 2.15 |
Incremental Borrowings | |||||
Section 2.16 |
Refinancing Amendments | |||||
Section 2.17 |
Defaulting Lenders | |||||
ARTICLE III TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY |
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Section 3.01 |
Taxes | |||||
Section 3.02 |
Illegality | |||||
Section 3.03 |
Inability to Determine Rates | |||||
Section 3.04 |
Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on |
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Section 3.05 |
Funding Losses | |||||
Section 3.06 |
Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation | |||||
Section 3.07 |
Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances | |||||
Section 3.08 |
Survival |
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ARTICLE IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS |
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Section 4.01 |
Conditions of Initial Credit Extension | |||||
Section 4.02 |
Conditions to All Credit Extensions | |||||
ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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Section 5.01 |
Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws | |||||
Section 5.02 |
Authorization; No Contravention | |||||
Section 5.03 |
Governmental Authorization; Other Consents | |||||
Section 5.04 |
Binding Effect | |||||
Section 5.05 |
Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect | |||||
Section 5.06 |
Litigation | |||||
Section 5.07 |
No Default | |||||
Section 5.08 |
Ownership of Property; Liens | |||||
Section 5.09 |
Environmental Compliance | |||||
Section 5.10 |
Taxes | |||||
Section 5.11 |
ERISA Compliance | |||||
Section 5.12 |
Subsidiaries; Equity Interests | |||||
Section 5.13 |
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act | |||||
Section 5.14 |
Disclosure | |||||
Section 5.15 |
Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc | |||||
Section 5.16 |
Solvency | |||||
Section 5.17 |
Subordination of Junior Financing | |||||
Section 5.18 |
Labor Matters | |||||
Section 5.19 |
Perfection, Etc | |||||
Section 5.20 |
Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions | |||||
ARTICLE VI AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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Section 6.01 |
Financial Statements | |||||
Section 6.02 |
Certificates; Other Information | |||||
Section 6.03 |
Notices | |||||
Section 6.04 |
Payment of Taxes | |||||
Section 6.05 |
Preservation of Existence, Etc | |||||
Section 6.06 |
Maintenance of Properties | |||||
Section 6.07 |
Maintenance of Insurance | |||||
Section 6.08 |
Compliance with Laws | |||||
Section 6.09 |
Books and Records | |||||
Section 6.10 |
Inspection Rights | |||||
Section 6.11 |
Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security | |||||
Section 6.12 |
Compliance with Environmental Laws | |||||
Section 6.13 |
Further Assurances | |||||
Section 6.14 |
Use of Proceeds | |||||
Section 6.15 |
Compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws, Beneficial Ownership Regulation, Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions | |||||
ARTICLE VII NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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Section 7.01 |
Liens | |||||
Section 7.02 |
Investments | |||||
Section 7.03 |
Indebtedness | |||||
Section 7.04 |
Fundamental Changes | |||||
Section 7.05 |
Dispositions | |||||
Section 7.06 |
Restricted Payments | |||||
Section 7.07 |
Change in Nature of Business |
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Section 7.08 |
Transactions with Affiliates | |||||
Section 7.09 |
Burdensome Agreements | |||||
Section 7.10 |
Financial Covenant | |||||
Section 7.11 |
Accounting Changes | |||||
Section 7.12 |
Prepayments, Etc | |||||
Section 7.13 |
Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Laws | |||||
Section 7.14 |
Capital Expenditures | |||||
ARTICLE VIII EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES |
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Section 8.01 |
Events of Default | |||||
Section 8.02 |
Remedies Upon Event of Default | |||||
Section 8.03 |
Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries | |||||
Section 8.04 |
Application of Funds | |||||
ARTICLE IX ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS |
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Section 9.01 |
Appointment and Authorization of Agents | |||||
Section 9.02 |
Delegation of Duties | |||||
Section 9.03 |
Liability of Agents | |||||
Section 9.04 |
Reliance by Agents | |||||
Section 9.05 |
Notice of Default | |||||
Section 9.06 |
Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents | |||||
Section 9.07 |
Indemnification of Agents | |||||
Section 9.08 |
Agents in their Individual Capacities | |||||
Section 9.09 |
Successor Agents | |||||
Section 9.10 |
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim | |||||
Section 9.11 |
Collateral and Guaranty Matters | |||||
Section 9.12 |
Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers | |||||
Section 9.13 |
Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents | |||||
Section 9.14 |
Lender Representation | |||||
Section 9.15 |
Erroneous Payments | |||||
ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section 10.01 |
Amendments, Etc | |||||
Section 10.02 |
Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies | |||||
Section 10.03 |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies | |||||
Section 10.04 |
Attorney Costs, Expenses and Taxes | |||||
Section 10.05 |
Indemnification by the Borrowers | |||||
Section 10.06 |
Payments Set Aside | |||||
Section 10.07 |
Successors and Assigns | |||||
Section 10.08 |
Confidentiality | |||||
Section 10.09 |
Setoff | |||||
Section 10.10 |
Interest Rate Limitation | |||||
Section 10.11 |
Counterparts; Electronic Execution | |||||
Section 10.12 |
Integration | |||||
Section 10.13 |
Survival of Representations and Warranties | |||||
Section 10.14 |
Severability | |||||
Section 10.15 |
GOVERNING LAW | |||||
Section 10.16 |
WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY | |||||
Section 10.17 |
Binding Effect | |||||
Section 10.18 |
Lender Action | |||||
Section 10.19 |
USA PATRIOT Act; Anti-Money Laundering Laws |
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Section 10.20 |
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility | |||||
Section 10.21 |
Intercreditor Agreement | |||||
Section 10.22 |
Company as Agent for the Borrowers | |||||
Section 10.23 |
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions | |||||
Section 10.24 |
Amendment and Restatement; No Novation | |||||
Section 10.25 |
Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs |
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SCHEDULES |
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1.01A |
Excluded Assets | |
1.01B |
Excluded Real Property | |
1.01C |
Existing Letters of Credit | |
1.01D |
Foreign Subsidiaries | |
1.01E |
Certain Restaurant L.P.s | |
2.01 |
Commitments | |
5.06 |
Certain Litigation | |
5.12 |
Subsidiaries and Other Equity Interests | |
7.01(b) |
Existing Liens | |
7.02(f) |
Existing Investments | |
7.03(b) |
Existing Indebtedness | |
7.08 |
Transactions with Affiliates | |
7.09 |
Existing Restrictions | |
10.02 |
Administrative Agents Office, Certain Addresses for Notices |
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EXHIBITS
Form of | ||
A |
Committed Loan Notice | |
B |
Swing Line Loan Notice | |
C-1 |
Term Note | |
C-2 |
Revolving Credit Note | |
C-3 |
Swing Line Note | |
D |
Compliance Certificate | |
E |
Assignment and Assumption Agreement | |
F |
Guaranty | |
G |
Security Agreement | |
H |
Intercompany Note | |
I |
First Lien Intercreditor Agreement | |
J-1 |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate | |
J-2 |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate | |
J-3 |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate | |
J-4 |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate |
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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT is entered into as of April 16, 2021, among OSI RESTAURANT PARTNERS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (OSI), BLOOMIN BRANDS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the Company and, together with OSI, the Borrowers), WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer and each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the Lenders and individually, a Lender).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
The Borrowers, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent and collateral agent, and the lenders from time to time party thereto, entered into that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2017 (as amended prior to the date hereof, the Existing Credit Agreement).
The Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend, and the L/C Issuers have indicated their willingness to issue (or continue hereunder) Letters of Credit, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
It is the intent of the parties hereto that this Agreement not constitute a novation of the obligations and liabilities of the parties under the Existing Credit Agreement and that this Agreement amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto hereby agree to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
2025 Convertible Notes means the 5.00% convertible senior, unsecured notes of the Company due 2025.
2029 Senior Notes means the 5.125% Senior Notes due 2029, issued by the Borrowers.
Act has the meaning specified in Section 10.19.
Additional Lender has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
Additional Refinancing Lender means, at any time, any bank, financial institution or other institutional lender or investor that, in any case, is not an existing Lender and that agrees to provide any portion of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment in accordance with Section 2.16, provided that each Additional Refinancing Lender shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, to the extent that any such consent would be required from the Administrative Agent under Section 10.07(b)(i)(B) for an assignment of Loans to such Additional Refinancing Lender and in the case of Other Revolving Credit Commitments with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the Swing Line Lender and each L/C Issuer, solely to the extent such consent would be required for any assignment to such Lender.
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Adjusted Term SOFR means, for purposes of any calculation, the rate per annum equal to (a) Term SOFR for such calculation plus (b) the Term SOFR Adjustment; provided that if Adjusted Term SOFR as so determined shall ever be less than the Floor, then Adjusted Term SOFR shall be deemed to be the Floor.
Administrative Agent means Wells Fargo, in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term Administrative Agent as used herein and in the other Loan Documents shall include the Collateral Agent.
Administrative Agents Office means the Administrative Agents address as set forth on Schedule 10.02, or such other address as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Borrowers and the Lenders.
Administrative Questionnaire means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
Affected Financial Institution means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
Affiliate means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. Control means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Controlling and Controlled have meanings correlative thereto.
Agent-Related Distress Event means, with respect to the Administrative Agent or any Person that directly or indirectly Controls the Administrative Agent (each, a Distressed Agent-Related Person), a voluntary or involuntary case with respect to such Distressed Agent-Related Person under any Debtor Relief Law, or a custodian, conservator, receiver or similar official is appointed for such Distressed Agent-Related Person or any substantial part of such Distressed Agent-Related Persons assets, or such Distressed Agent-Related Person makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or is otherwise adjudicated as, or determined by any Governmental Authority (having regulatory authority over such Distressed Agent-Related Person) to be, insolvent or bankrupt; provided that an Agent-Related Distress Event shall not be deemed to have occurred solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interests in the Administrative Agent or any Person that directly or indirectly Controls the Administrative Agent by a Governmental Authority or an instrumentality thereof.
Agent-Related Persons means each Agent and each Joint Lead Arranger, together with its respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of such Person and its Affiliates.
Agents means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Co-Syndication Agents, the Co-Documentation Agents and the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any).
Aggregate Commitments means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
Agreement means this Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.
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AICPA has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(a).
All-In Yield
means, as to any Indebtedness, the yield thereof, whether in the form of interest rate margins, original issue discount, upfront fees, a Eurocurrency Rate or Base
Ratean interest rate floor or otherwise;
provided that original issue discount and upfront fees shall be equated to interest rate assuming a 4-year life to maturity (or, if less, the stated life to maturity at the time of its incurrence of the
applicable Indebtedness), and the amount of any upfront fees for purposes of the calculation of the All-In Yield shall be the weighted average of all such fees paid to the applicable Lenders; and
provided, further, that All-In Yield shall not include arrangement, structuring, commitment, underwriting or other similar fees.
Announcements has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 1.13.
Anti-Corruption Laws means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by virtue of such Person being organized or operating in such jurisdiction.
Anti-Money Laundering Laws means any and all laws, statutes, regulations or obligatory government orders, decrees, ordinances or rules applicable to the Company or its Subsidiaries related to terrorism financing or money laundering, including any applicable provision of the Act and The Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act (also known as the Bank Secrecy Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 5311-5330 and 12U.S.C. §§ 1818(s), 1820(b) and 1951-1959).
Applicable Rate means a percentage per annum equal to:
(a) with respect to unused Revolving Credit Commitments and the commitment fee therefor, (i) until delivery of financial statements for the fiscal quarter of the Company ending September 26, 2021, 0.40%, and (ii) thereafter, the percentages per annum set forth in the table below applicable to commitment fees, based upon the Total Net Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(b),
(b) with respect to Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Letter of Credit fees,
(i) until delivery of financial statements for the fiscal quarter of the Company ending September 26, 2021, (A) for Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans, 2.50%, (B) for Base Rate Loans, 1.50% and (C) for
Letter of Credit fees, 2.50%, and (ii) thereafter, the following percentages per annum applicable to Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans or Letter of Credit fees, as the case may be, based upon the Total Net Leverage Ratio as set forth in the
most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(b):
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Pricing Level |
Total Net Leverage Ratio |
Adjusted Term SOFR for Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Letter of Credit Fees |
Base Rate for Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans |
Commitment Fee for unused Revolving Credit Commitments |
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Greater than or equal to 3.75:1.00 |
2.50 | % | 1.50 | % | 0.400 | % | |||||||
2 |
Less than 3.75:1.00 but greater than or equal to 3.00:1.00 |
2.25 | % | 1.25 | % | 0.350 | % | |||||||
3 |
Less than 3.00:1.00 but greater than or equal to 2.25:1.00 |
2.00 | % | 1.00 | % | 0.300 | % | |||||||
4 |
Less than 2.25:1.00 but greater than or equal to 1.50:1.00 |
1.75 | % | 0.75 | % | 0.250 | % | |||||||
5 |
Less than 1.50:1.00 |
1.50 | % | 0.50 | % | 0.250 | % |
Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b); provided that at the option of the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, the highest Pricing Level shall apply (x) as of the first Business Day after the date on which a Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered but was not delivered, and shall continue to so apply to and including the date on which such Compliance Certificate is so delivered (and thereafter the Pricing Level otherwise determined in accordance with this definition shall apply) and (y) as of the first Business Day after an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) shall have occurred and be continuing, and shall continue to so apply to but excluding the date on which such Event of Default is cured or waived (and thereafter the Pricing Level otherwise determined in accordance with this definition shall apply).
Appropriate Lender means, at any time, (a) with respect to Loans of any Class, the Lenders of such Class, (b) with respect to Letters of Credit, (i) the relevant L/C Issuers and (ii) the relevant Revolving Credit Lenders and (c) with respect to the Swing Line Facility, (i) the Swing Line Lender and (ii) the Revolving Credit Lenders.
Approved Bank has the meaning specified in clause (c) of the definition of Cash Equivalents.
Approved Fund means any Fund that is administered, advised or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers, advises or manages a Lender.
Assignees has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(b).
Assignment and Assumption Agreement means an Assignment and Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit E.
Attorney Costs means and includes all reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or other external legal counsel.
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Attributable Indebtedness means, on any date, in respect of any Finance Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.
Audited Financial Statements means the audited consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of December 27, 2020, December 29, 2019 and December 30, 2018, and the related audited consolidated statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows for the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal years ended December 27, 2020, December 29, 2019 and December 30, 2018, respectively, as any of the foregoing may have been restated prior to the date hereof.
Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).
Available Incremental Amount has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(d)(iv).
Available Tenor means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current
Benchmark, as applicable, (a) if the
then-currentsuch Benchmark is a term rate, any
tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period
pursuant to this Agreement or (b) otherwise, any
payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest
Period pursuant to this Agreement (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference
to such Benchmark, in each case, as of such date and
not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of Interest Period pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(iv).
Auto-Renewal Letter of
Credit has the meaning specified
in Section 2.03(b)(iii).
Available Incremental
Amount has the meaning specified
in Section 2.15(d)(iv).
Bail-In Action means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
Bail-In Legislation means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
Base Rate means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the
Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate and (c) the Eurocurrency Rate for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Dollars
withAdjusted Term SOFR for a one-month Interest Period
commencingtenor in
effect on such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1.00%. The prime rate is a rate set by the Administrative Agent based
upon various factors including the Administrative Agents costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced
rate. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the prime rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Eurocurrency RateAdjusted Term SOFR shall be effective as of the opening of business on
the day of such change in the prime rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Eurocurrency RateAdjusted Term SOFR, respectively.
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Base Rate Loan means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
Benchmark means, initially, USD LIBORthe Term SOFR
Reference Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event, or an Early
Opt-in Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have has occurred with respect to USD
LIBORthe Term SOFR Reference Rate or the
then-current Benchmark, then Benchmark means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(i).
Benchmark Replacement means,
for any Available Tenor,(a) with respect to
any Benchmark Transition Event or Early Opt-in
Election, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:
(1) the sum of:
(A) Term SOFR and (B) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(2) the sum of: (A) Daily Simple SOFR
and (B) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(3) the sum of: (A) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Company as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenora)
the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Company giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or
then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement forto the then-current Benchmark for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit
facilities at such time and
(B) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; or
(b) with respect to any Term SOFR Transition Event, the
sum of (i) Term SOFR and (ii) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
b
) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
provided that, (i) in the case of clause (a)(1), if the Administrative Agent decides
that Term SOFR is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then Term SOFR will be deemed unable to be determined for purposes of this definition and (ii) in the case of clause (a)(1) or clause (b) of this definition, the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement
is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. If theif such Benchmark Replacement as so determined pursuant to clause (a)(1), (a)(2) or (a)(3) or clause
(b) of this definition would be less than the Floor,
thesuch
Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
Benchmark Replacement Adjustment means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current
Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any
applicable Interest Period and Available Tenor for
any setting of such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement:
(1) for purposes of clauses (a)(1) and (a)(2) of the
definition of Benchmark
Replacement, the first alternative set forth in
the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:(a) , the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the
replacement of such Available Tenor of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement;
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(b) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for
such Interest Period that would apply to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon an index cessation event with respect to such Available Tenor of such Benchmark;
(2) for purposes of
clause (a)(3) of the definition of Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Company giving due consideration to (ia) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for
calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Available Tenor of such
Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body on
the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date or (iib) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a
spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Available Tenor of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities;
and
(3) for purposes of clause (b) of the definition of Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining
such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the
replacement of such Available Tenor of USD LIBOR with a SOFR-based rate;
provided that, (x) in the case of clause (1) above, such adjustment is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment from
time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion and (y) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate, more than one tenor of such Benchmark is available as of the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and the
applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement that will replace such Benchmark in accordance with Section 3.03(b)(i) will not be a term rate, the Available Tenor of such Benchmark for purposes of this definition of Benchmark Replacement Adjustment shall be deemed to be, with
respect to each Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement having a payment period for interest calculated with reference thereto, the Available Tenor that has approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustments) as such payment period.
Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical,
administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of Base Rate, the definition of Business Day, the definition of Interest Period, timing and frequency of determining rates and making
payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of
breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect
the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any
portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of
such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other
manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).
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Benchmark Replacement Date means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(a) in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of Benchmark Transition Event, the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(b) in the case of clause (c) of the definition of Benchmark Transition Event, the first date ofon which such Benchmark
(or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be
non-representative; provided that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the publicmost
recent statement or publication of information referenced
therein;(c) in
the case of a Term SOFR Transition Event, the date that is thirty
(30) days after the Administrative Agent has
provided the Term SOFR Notice to the Lenders and the Company pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(i)(B); orsuch clause
(c) and
even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.
(d) in the case of an Early Opt-in Election, the sixth
(6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. (New York
City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election from Lenders
comprising the Required Lenders.
For the avoidance of
doubt, (i) if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the
Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (ii) the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1a) or
(2b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the
calculation thereof).
Benchmark Transition Event means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
(a) a public statement or
publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such
Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or
indefinitely,;
provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(b) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the
administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the FRB, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a
resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states
that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely,; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
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(c) a public statement or publication of information
by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longernot, or as of a
specified future date will not be, representative.
For the avoidance of doubt, a Benchmark Transition Event will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
Benchmark Transition Start Date means, in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (a) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (b) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than 90 days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).
Benchmark Unavailability
Period means the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date pursuant to clauses (a) or (b) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the
then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with
Section 3.03(b)(i) and
(y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.03(b)(i).
Beneficial Ownership Certification means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
Beneficial Ownership Regulation means 31 CFR § 1010.230.
Benefit Plan means any of (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan as defined in Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such employee benefit plan or plan.
Borrowers has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
Borrowing means a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Swing Line Borrowing or a Term Borrowing, as the context may require.
Business Day means any day other thanthat
(a) is
not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York is closed and (b) is
not a day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed
in,in the state where the Administrative
Agents Office is located and if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, any fundings, disbursements, settlements
and payments in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any
such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means any such day
on which dealings in deposits in Dollars are conducted by and between banks in the relevant interbank eurodollar
marketare closed.
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Capital Expenditures means, for any period, the aggregate of (a) all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by the Company and its Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be included as capital expenditures on the consolidated statement of cash flow of the Company and its Subsidiaries and (b) the value of all assets under Finance Leases incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries during such period.
Cash Collateral has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(g).
Cash Collateral Account means a blocked account at the Administrative Agent (or another commercial bank selected in compliance with Section 9.09) in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent, and otherwise established in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Cash Collateralize has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(g).
Cash Equivalents means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by the Company or any Subsidiary:
(a) Dollars or, in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, such local currencies held by it from time to time in the ordinary course of business;
(b) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States, having average maturities of not more than 24 months from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof;
(c) time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) is a Lender or (ii) (A) is organized under the Laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or any member nation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or is the principal banking Subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the Laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or any member nation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, and (B) has combined capital and surplus of at least $250,000,000 (any such bank in the foregoing clauses (i) or (ii) being an Approved Bank), in each case with average maturities of not more than 12 months from the date of acquisition thereof;
(d) commercial paper and variable or fixed rate notes issued by an Approved Bank (or by the parent company thereof) or any variable or fixed rate note issued by, or guaranteed by, a corporation rated A-2 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or P-2 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moodys, in each case with average maturities of not more than 24 months from the date of acquisition thereof;
(e) repurchase agreements entered into by any Person with a bank or trust company (including any of the Lenders) or recognized securities dealer, in each case, having capital and surplus in excess of $250,000,000 for direct obligations issued by or fully guaranteed or insured by the government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States, in which such Person shall have a perfected first priority security interest (subject to no other Liens) and having, on the date of purchase thereof, a fair market value of at least 100% of the amount of the repurchase obligations;
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(f) securities with average maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States, by any political subdivision, taxing authority agency or instrumentality of any such state, commonwealth or territory or by any foreign government having an investment grade rating from either S&P or Moodys (or the equivalent thereof);
(g) Investments with average maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition in money market funds rated AAA- (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or Aaa3 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moodys;
(h) Indebtedness or preferred stock issued by Persons with a rating of A or higher from S&P or A2 or higher from Moodys with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition, in each case in Dollars or another currency permitted above in this definition;
(i) in the case of Foreign Subsidiaries only, instruments equivalent to those referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above or clause (j) below in each case denominated in any foreign currency comparable in credit quality and tenor to those referred to in such clauses above and customarily used by corporations for cash management purposes in any jurisdiction outside the United States to the extent reasonably required in connection with any business conducted by any Foreign Subsidiary organized in such jurisdiction; or
(j) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, in money market investment programs which are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 or which are administered by financial institutions having capital of at least $250,000,000, and, in either case, the portfolios of which are limited such that substantially all of such investments are of the character, quality and maturity described in clauses (a) through (g) of this definition.
Cash Management Banks means any Person that (a) is an Agent, Joint Lead Arranger, Lender or any Affiliate of such Agent, Joint Lead Arranger or Lender at any time that such Person initially provides any Cash Management Services to the Company or any Subsidiary, whether or not such Person subsequently ceases to be an Agent, Joint Lead Arranger, Lender or Affiliate of such Agent, Joint Lead Arranger or Lender or (b) at the time it becomes a Lender (including on the Closing Date), is already providing Cash Management Services to the Company or any Subsidiary.
Cash Management Obligations means obligations owed by the Company or any Subsidiary to any Cash Management Bank in respect of any Cash Management Services.
Cash Management Services means any agreement or arrangement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit card processing, credit or debit card, purchase card, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.
Casualty Event means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Company or any Subsidiary of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of any equipment, fixed assets or real property (including any improvements thereon) to replace or repair such equipment, fixed assets or real property.
CERCLA means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as subsequently amended.
CERCLIS means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Information System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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CFC means a controlled foreign corporation within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code.
Change of Control means the earliest to occur of:
(a) (1) any Person or (2) Persons constituting a group (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such Person and its Subsidiaries, and any Person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan), becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 of the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of Equity Interests representing more than forty percent (40%) of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Company;
(b) any Change of Control (or any comparable term) in any document pertaining to (i) any Permitted Pari Passu Secured Refinancing Debt, any Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt, any Incremental Equivalent Debt, any Junior Financing, in each case with an aggregate outstanding principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount or (ii) any Disqualified Equity Interests with an aggregate liquidation preference in excess of the Threshold Amount; or
(c) OSI ceases to be a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company (or any successor under Section 7.04(a)).
Class (a) when used with respect to Lenders, refers to whether such Lenders have Loans or Commitments with respect to a particular Class of Loans or Commitments, (b) when used with respect to Commitments, refers to whether such Commitments are Term Commitments, Incremental Term Commitments, Commitments in respect of a Class of Loans to be made pursuant to a given Extension Series, Other Term Loan Commitments of a given Refinancing Series, Revolving Credit Commitments, or Other Revolving Credit Commitments, in each case not designated part of another existing Class and (c) when used with respect to Loans or a Borrowing, refers to whether such Loans, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Extended Term Loans, Other Term Loans made pursuant to a given Refinancing Series, Revolving Credit Loans, Loans made pursuant to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments or Other Revolving Credit Loans in each case not designated part of another existing Class. Commitments (and, in each case, the Loans made pursuant to such Commitments) that have different terms and conditions shall be construed to be in different Classes. Commitments (and, in each case, the Loans made pursuant to such Commitments) that have the same terms and conditions shall be construed to be in the same Class.
Closing Date means April 16, 2021.
Code means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and rules and regulations related thereto.
Co-Documentation Agents means each of Regions Bank, Truist Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Capital One, N.A., Fifth Third Bank, National Association, TD Bank, N.A. and U.S. Bank National Association.
Collateral means all the Collateral as defined in any Collateral Document and shall include the Mortgaged Properties.
Collateral Agent means the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as collateral agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor collateral agent.
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Collateral and Guarantee Requirement means, at any time, the requirement that:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 4.01, Section 6.11 or Section 6.13 at such time, duly executed by each Loan Party thereto;
(b) all Obligations shall have been unconditionally guaranteed by each Borrower (in the case of Obligations under clauses (b) and (c) of the first sentence of the definition thereof) and each Subsidiary that is a Domestic Subsidiary and not an Excluded Subsidiary;
(c) all guarantees issued or to be issued in respect of a Junior Financing (i) shall be subordinated to the Guarantees to the same extent that such Junior Financing is subordinated to the Obligations and (ii) shall provide for their automatic release upon a release of the corresponding Guarantee;
(d) the Obligations and the Guarantees shall have been secured by a first-priority perfected security interest in 100% of the Equity Interests of each Subsidiary that is a Domestic Subsidiary (other than any Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company and any Liquor License Subsidiary);
(e) except to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder or under any Collateral Document, the Obligations and the Guarantees shall have been secured by a security interest in, and mortgages on, substantially all tangible and intangible assets (other than Equity Interests, subject to the requirements and limitations set forth in clause (d) above) of each Borrower and each other Guarantor (including accounts receivable, inventory, equipment, investment property, contract rights, domestic intellectual property, other general intangibles, owned Material Real Property and proceeds of the foregoing), in each case, with the priority required by the Collateral Documents;
(f) none of the Collateral shall be subject to any Liens other than Liens permitted by Section 7.01; and
(g) the Collateral Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to any Material Real Property required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.11 (the Mortgaged Properties) duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such property, (ii) a policy or policies of title insurance issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a valid Lien on the property described therein, free of any other Liens except as expressly permitted by Section 7.01 together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, (iii) such existing surveys, existing abstracts, existing appraisals and other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgaged Property, provided that nothing in this clause (iii) shall require any Borrower to update existing surveys or order new surveys with respect to any Mortgaged Property and (iv) standard flood hazard determination forms and if any Material Real Property is located in a special flood hazard area, (x) notices to (and confirmations of receipt by) the Company as to the existence of a special flood hazard and, if applicable, the unavailability of flood hazard insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program and (y) evidence of applicable flood insurance, if available, in each case in such form, on such terms and in such amounts as required by The National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994, the Federal Flood Disaster Protection Act and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or as otherwise required by the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
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The foregoing definition shall not require, and the Loan Documents shall not contain any requirements as to, the creation or perfection of pledges of or security interests in, Mortgages on, or the obtaining of title insurance or surveys with respect to, any Excluded Assets. The Collateral Agent may grant extensions of time for the perfection of security interests in or the obtaining of title insurance with respect to particular assets (including extensions beyond the Closing Date for the perfection of security interests in the assets of the Loan Parties on such date) where it reasonably determines, in consultation with the Company, that perfection cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Collateral Documents.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, there shall be no requirement for (and no Default or Event of Default under the Loan Documents shall arise out of the lack of) (A) actions required by the Laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction in order to create any security interests in any assets or to perfect such security interests (including any intellectual property registered in any non-U.S. jurisdiction) (it being understood that there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements governed under the Laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction) and (B) perfecting security interests by entering into agreements with third parties (including control or similar agreements) in respect of cash and Cash Equivalents, deposit or securities accounts (other than the Cash Collateral Account) or uncertificated securities of Persons other than Wholly Owned Subsidiaries directly owned by any Borrower or any Guarantor.
In addition, any Borrower may cause any Domestic Subsidiary that is not otherwise required to be a Guarantor to Guarantee the Obligations and otherwise satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, in which case such Domestic Subsidiary shall be treated as a Guarantor under this Agreement and every other Loan Document for all purposes.
Collateral Documents means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Mortgages, each of the mortgages, Security Agreement Supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 6.11 or Section 6.13, the Guaranty and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create or affirm a Lien or Guarantee in favor of the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
Commitment means a Term Commitment, an Incremental Term Commitment, an Extended Term Loan Commitment of a given Extension Series, an Other Term Loan Commitment, a Revolving Credit Commitment, an Extended Revolving Credit Commitment of a given Extension Series or Other Revolving Credit Commitment, as the context may require.
Committed Loan Notice means a notice of (a) a Term Borrowing, (b) a Revolving Credit Borrowing, (c)
a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (d) a continuation of Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which, if in writing,
shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
Commodity Exchange Act means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
Company has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
Compensation Period has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(c)(ii).
Compliance Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
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Conforming Changes means, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of Base Rate, the definition of Business Day, the definition of U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the definition of Interest Period or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of interest period), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of Section 3.05 and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents)
Consolidated Cash Balance means all cash on hand of the Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries maintained in deposit accounts, excluding store cash, cash in transit between stores (including credit card receipts in transit from the Companys credit card processing company) and deposit accounts and cash receipts from sales in the process of inter-account transfers, in each case in the ordinary course operations of the Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries and not outstanding for more than two Business Days after receipt thereof.
Consolidated EBITDA means, for any period, the Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus:
(a) without duplication and (in each case, other than with respect to clause (a)(xi) below) to the extent already deducted (and not added back) in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period:
(i) total interest expense and, to the extent not reflected in such total interest expense, any losses on hedging obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, net of interest income and gains on such hedging obligations, or other derivative instruments and costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities, and any financing fees (including commitment, underwriting, funding, rollover and similar fees and commissions, discounts, yields and other fees, charges and amounts incurred in connection with the issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness and all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers acceptance financing and net costs under Swap Contracts) and annual agency, unused line, facility or similar fees paid under definitive documentation related to Indebtedness,
(ii) provision for Income Taxes of the Company and its Subsidiaries paid or accrued during such period,
(iii) depreciation and amortization, including amortization of deferred financing fees and debt discounts,
(iv) Non-Cash Charges,
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(v) unusual or non-recurring losses, charges or expenses (including without limitation, relating to the Transaction) and any charges, losses or expenses related to signing, retention or completion bonuses or recruiting costs, costs and expenses relating to any registration statement, or registered exchange offer in respect of any Indebtedness permitted hereunder, and, to the extent related to Permitted Acquisitions, integration and systems establishment costs; provided that such integration and systems establishment costs are certified as such in a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered to the Administrative Agent,
(vi) severance, relocation costs, curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans, catch-up or transition expenses for Partner Equity Plans to the extent relating to employee services rendered in prior periods, and pre-opening, opening, closing and consolidation costs and expenses with respect to any facilities and restaurants,
(vii) cash restructuring charges or reserves (including restructuring costs related to acquisitions after the Closing Date); provided that such adjustments are certified as restructuring charges or reserves in a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered to the Administrative Agent,
(viii) any costs or expenses (excluding Non-Cash Charges) incurred by the Company or a Subsidiary pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent that such costs or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Company or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Equity Interests),
(ix) to the extent (1) covered by insurance under which the insurer has been properly notified and has affirmed or consented to coverage in writing, expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption, and (2) actually reimbursed in cash, expenses incurred to the extent covered by indemnification provisions in any agreement in connection with the Transaction or a Permitted Acquisition,
(x) cash receipts (or reduced cash expenditures) to the extent of non-cash gains relating to such income that were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (b)(ii) below for any prior period,
(xi) the amount of run rate net cost savings, synergies and operating expense reductions (without duplication of any amounts added back pursuant to Section 1.11(c) in connection with a Specified Transaction) projected by the Company in good faith to result from actions taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies had been realized on the first day of the period for which Consolidated EBITDA is being determined and if such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies were realized during the entirety of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided, that such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable (it is understood and agreed that run-rate means the full recurring benefit for a period that is associated with any action taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken); provided, further, that the aggregate amount of cost savings, synergies and operating expense reductions added back pursuant to this clause (xi) and Section 1.11(c)
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in any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters shall not exceed an amount equal to 5% of Consolidated EBITDA for such period (calculated before giving effect to this clause (xi) and Section 1.11(c)), and
(xii) the amount of any minority interest consisting of Subsidiary income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary deducted (and not added back) in such period in calculating Consolidated Net Income except to the extent of cash dividends declared or paid on Equity Interests of such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiaries held by third parties, less
(b) without duplication and to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period:
(i) unusual or non-recurring gains,
(ii) non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period, excluding any non-cash gains that represent the reversal of an accrual or reserve for any anticipated cash charges in any prior period (other than any such accrual or reserve that has been added back to Consolidated Net Income in calculating Consolidated EBITDA in accordance with this definition),
(iii) rent expense paid in cash during such period over and above rent expense as determined in accordance with GAAP for such period, and
(iv) any non-cash gains with respect to cash actually received in a prior period unless such cash did not increase Consolidated EBITDA in a prior period,
in each case, as determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP; provided that, to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income,
(A) there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA currency translation gains and losses related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including the net loss or gain resulting from Swap Contracts for currency exchange risk),
(B) there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA rent expense as determined in accordance with GAAP not actually paid in cash during such period (net of rent expense paid in cash during such period over and above rent expense as determined in accordance with GAAP for such period), and
(C) there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA any net after-tax income (loss) from the early extinguishment of Indebtedness or hedging obligations or other derivative instruments.
For the purpose of the definition of Consolidated EBITDA, Non-Cash Charges means (a) any impairment charge or asset write-off or write-down related to intangible assets, long-lived assets and other assets (including licenses or other approvals for the sale of alcoholic beverages), and investments in debt and equity securities pursuant to GAAP, (b) stock-based awards compensation expense including, but not limited to, non-cash charges, expenses or write-downs arising from stock options, restricted stock or other equity incentive programs, and (c) other non-cash charges, expenses or write-downs (provided that if any non-cash charges, expenses and write-downs referred to in this paragraph represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, (1) the Company may determine not to add back such non-
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cash charge in the current period and (2) to the extent the Company does decide to add back such non-cash charge, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period).
Consolidated Net Income means, for any period, the net income (loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, excluding, without duplication, (a) extraordinary items for such period, (b) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, (c) Transaction Expenses, (d) any fees and expenses incurred during such period, or any amortization thereof for such period, in connection with any acquisition, investment, asset disposition, issuance or repayment of debt, issuance of equity securities, refinancing transaction or amendment or other modification of any debt instrument (in each case, including any such transaction consummated prior to the Closing Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed), (e) any income (loss) for such period attributable to the early extinguishment of Indebtedness, (f) accruals and reserves that are established within twelve months after the Closing Date that are so required to be established as a result of the Transaction in accordance with GAAP, (g) any unrealized net gains and losses resulting from Obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements, (h) any after-tax gains or losses on disposal of disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations and any after-tax effect of gains and losses (less all fees and expenses related thereto) attributable to asset dispositions other than in the ordinary course of business and (i) any net income (loss) for such period of any Person that is not a Subsidiary, or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting, provided that Consolidated Net Income shall be increased by the amount of dividends or distributions that are actually paid in cash (or converted into cash) to the Company or a Subsidiary in respect of such net income in such period. There shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income for any period the purchase accounting effects of adjustments, including to property, equipment, inventory and software and other intangible assets (including favorable and unfavorable leases and contracts) and deferred revenue in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Company and its Subsidiaries), as a result of any acquisition consummated prior to or after the Closing Date (including any Permitted Acquisitions), or the amortization, write-off or write-down of any amounts thereof.
Consolidated Senior Secured Net Debt means, as of any date of determination, (a) any Indebtedness described in clause (a) of Consolidated Total Debt outstanding on such date that is secured by a Lien on any asset or property of any Borrower or any Subsidiary minus (b) the aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents (in each case, free and clear of all Liens, other than nonconsensual Liens permitted by Section 7.01 and Liens permitted by Sections 7.01(a), 7.01(l), 7.01(aa), 7.01(bb) and clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 7.01(t)) included in the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of such date; provided that for purposes of determining the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of Section 2.15(d)(iv) and Section 7.03(s) only, any cash proceeds of any Incremental Facility or Incremental Equivalent Debt will not be considered cash or Cash Equivalents under clause (b) hereof and the full amount of any Revolving Commitment Increases or Incremental Equivalent Debt shall be deemed to be Indebtedness outstanding on such date.
Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Senior Secured Net Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of the Company for such Test Period.
Consolidated Total Debt means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, in an amount that would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared as of such date on a consolidated basis in accordance with
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GAAP (but excluding the effects of any discounting of Indebtedness resulting from the application of purchase accounting in connection with any Permitted Acquisition), consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money, obligations in respect of Finance Leases, debt obligations evidenced by promissory notes or similar instruments, unreimbursed drawings in respect of letters of credit (or similar facilities) and Guarantees of the foregoing, minus (b) the aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents (in each case, free and clear of all Liens, other than nonconsensual Liens permitted by Section 7.01 and Liens permitted by Sections 7.01(a), 7.01(l), 7.01(aa), 7.01(bb) and clauses (i) and (ii) of Section 7.01(t)) included in the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of such date; provided that for purposes of determining the Total Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of Section 7.03(s) only, any cash proceeds of any Incremental Facility or Incremental Equivalent Debt will not be considered cash or Cash Equivalents under clause (b) hereof and the full amount of any Revolving Commitment Increases or Incremental Equivalent Debt shall be deemed to be Indebtedness outstanding on such date.
Consolidated Working Capital means, at any date, the
excess of (a) the sum of all amounts (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption total current assets (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the
Company and its Subsidiaries at such date over (b) the sum of all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption total current liabilities (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the
Company and its Subsidiaries on such date, including deferred revenue but excluding, without duplication, (i) the current portion of any Funded Debt, (ii) all Indebtedness consisting of Loans and L/C Obligations to the extent otherwise
included therein, (iii) the current portion of accrued interest and (iv) the current portion of current and deferred income taxes.
Contract Consideration has the meaning specified in the
definition of Excess Cash Flow.
Contractual Obligation means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
Control has the meaning specified in the definition of Affiliate.
Corresponding Tenor with respect to any Available Tenor
means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.
Co-Syndication Agents means each of Bank of America, N.A., Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., New York Branch and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Covenant Relief Period means the period beginning on May 4, 2020 and ending on the date the Company has provided the Compliance Certificate for the Test Period ending September 26, 2021
showing compliance with the Financial Covenant.
Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness means any (a) Permitted Pari Passu Secured Refinancing Debt, (b) Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt or (c) other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, in each case, issued, incurred or otherwise obtained (including by means of the extension or renewal of existing Indebtedness) in exchange for, or to extend, renew, replace, repurchase, retire or refinance, in whole or part, existing Loans or Commitments hereunder, or any then-existing Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (Refinanced Debt); provided that (i) such exchanging, extending, renewing, replacing, repurchasing, retiring or refinancing Indebtedness is in an original aggregate principal amount not greater than the aggregate principal amount of the Refinanced Debt except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium (including tender premium) and penalties thereon plus reasonable
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upfront fees and original issue discount on such exchanging, extending, renewing, replacing, repurchasing, retiring or refinancing Indebtedness, plus other reasonable and customary fees and expenses in connection with such exchange, modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement, repurchase, retirement or extension, (ii) (I) such Indebtedness (other than Revolving Credit Commitments) has a final maturity no earlier than the Maturity Date of, and a Weighted Average Life to Maturity no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Refinanced Debt as originally in effect prior to any amortization or prepayments thereto and (II) such Indebtedness if consisting of Revolving Credit Commitments, have a maturity no earlier than, and do not have any commitment reductions that are not applicable to, the Refinanced Debt, (iii) the terms and conditions of such Indebtedness (except as otherwise provided in clause (ii) above and with respect to pricing, premiums and optional prepayment or redemption terms) reflect market terms and conditions at the time of issuance (but in no event shall any such Indebtedness have covenants and defaults materially more restrictive (taken as a whole) than those set forth in this Agreement (except for covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence of such Indebtedness)), (iv) such Refinanced Debt shall be repaid, repurchased, retired, defeased or satisfied and discharged, and all accrued interest, fees, premiums (if any) and penalties in connection therewith shall be paid, on the date such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is issued, incurred or obtained and (v) to the extent the Refinanced Debt is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Refinanced Debt.
Credit Extension means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
Cumulative Growth Amount shall mean, on any date of determination, the sum of, without duplication,
(a) (i) $50,000,000 plus (ii) 50% of the aggregate amount of Consolidated Net Income (or, if the Consolidated Net Income is a loss, minus 100% of the amount of the loss) accrued on a cumulative basis during the period, taken as one accounting period, beginning on March 31, 2014 and ending on the last day of the Companys most recently completed fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been provided pursuant to this Agreement, plus
(b) the amount of Net Cash Proceeds from the sale of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Excluded Contributions and issuances of Disqualified Equity Interests) after the Closing Date to the extent that such Net Cash Proceeds shall have been actually received by the Borrowers on or prior to such date of determination and to the extent not used to make payments under Section 7.03(i) or make Restricted Payments pursuant to Section 7.06(f), plus
(c) an amount equal to the aggregate Returns (not to exceed the original amount of such Investment) in respect of any Investment made since the Closing Date pursuant to Section 7.02(m) to the extent that such Returns did not increase Consolidated Net Income, plus
(d) the aggregate amount of Specified Proceeds actually received by the Borrower on or prior to such date of determination, minus
(e) the sum at the time of determination of (i) the aggregate amount of Investments made since the Closing Date pursuant to Section 7.02(m) and (ii) the aggregate amount of prepayments, redemptions or repurchases made since the Closing Date pursuant to Section 7.12(a)(v).
Daily Simple SOFR means, for any day, SOFR, with the
conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for
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this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining Daily Simple SOFR for syndicated business loans; provided, that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such
convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.
Debtor Relief Laws means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
Default means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.
Default Rate means an interest rate equal to (a) the Base Rate plus (b) the
Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (c) 2.0% per annum; provided that with respect to a Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the
interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2.0% per annum, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
Defaulting Lender means, subject to Section 2.17(b), any Lender that, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, (a) has failed to perform any of its funding obligations hereunder, including in respect of its Loans, participations in L/C Obligations or participations in Swing Line Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within one (1) Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, unless the subject of a good faith dispute or subsequently cured, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one (1) Business Day of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute or subsequently cured, (c) has notified the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations hereunder or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (d) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will comply with its funding obligations hereunder or (e) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or a custodian appointed for it, (iii) taken any action in furtherance of, or indicated its consent to, approved of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or (iv) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority.
Designated Non-Cash Consideration means the Fair Market Value of non-cash consideration received by the Company or a Subsidiary in connection with a Disposition pursuant to Section 7.05(k) that is designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer, setting forth the basis of such valuation (which amount will be reduced by the Fair Market Value of the portion of the non-cash consideration converted to cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days following the consummation of the applicable Disposition).
Disposition or Dispose means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction and any sale of Equity Interests) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith; provided that Disposition and Dispose shall not be deemed to include any issuance by the Company of any of its Equity Interests to another Person.
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Disqualified Equity Interests means any Equity Interest which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments and the termination of all outstanding Letters of Credit (unless the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations related thereto has been Cash Collateralized, back-stopped by a letter of credit reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer or deemed reissued under another agreement reasonably acceptable to the applicable L/C Issuer)), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests and other than as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments and the termination of all outstanding Letters of Credit (unless the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations related thereto has been Cash Collateralized, back-stopped by a letter of credit reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer or deemed reissued under another agreement reasonably acceptable to the applicable L/C Issuer)), in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of the issuance of such Equity Interests.
Disqualified Institutions means any banks, financial institutions or other Persons separately identified by the Borrowers to the Joint Lead Arrangers in writing prior to the Closing Date.
Dollar and $ mean lawful money of the United States.
Domestic Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that is organized under the Laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
Early Opt-in Election
means, if the then-current Benchmark is USD LIBOR, the occurrence of:
(a) a notification
by the Administrative Agent to (or the request by the Company to the Administrative Agent to notify) each of the other parties hereto that at least five currently outstanding Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a
result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for
review), and
(b) the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Company to trigger a fallback from USD LIBOR and the provision by the Administrative Agent
of written notice of such election to the Lenders.
EEA Financial Institution means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
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EEA Member Country means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
EEA Resolution Authority means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country.
Electronic Record has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 15 U.S.C. 7006.
Electronic Signature has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 15 U.S.C. 7006.
Eligible Assignee means any Assignee permitted by and consented to in accordance with Section 10.07(b).
Employment Participation Subsidiary means a limited partnership or other entity that is a Subsidiary (i) which contracts to provide services to one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company which operate one or more restaurants, (ii) which engages in no other material business activities and has no material assets other than those related to clause (i) above and (iii) in which restaurant employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries have an equity ownership interest.
Environmental Laws means any and all Federal, state, local and foreign statutes, Laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution, the protection of the environment, natural resources, or, to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials, human health or to the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.
Environmental Liability means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
Environmental Permit means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.
Equity Interests means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities after the conversion thereof).
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ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
ERISA Affiliate means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is under common control with any Loan Party within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA.
ERISA Event means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent or in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan, the treatment of a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan amendment as a termination under Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate; or (g) the failure of any Pension Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standard required for any plan year or part thereof under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA or a waiver of such standard or extension of any amortization period is sought or granted under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA.
Erroneous Payment has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 9.15(a).
Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 9.15(d).
Erroneous Payment Impacted Class has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 9.15(d).
Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 9.15(d).
EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor thereto), as in effect from time to time.
Eurocurrency Rate means, subject to the implementation
of a Benchmark Replacement in accordance with Section 3.03(b), with respect to any Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans for any Interest Period, (a) the rate per annum published by the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited, a United Kingdom company (or such other
comparable or successor quoting source as may, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, replace such page for the purpose of quoting such rates) as the London interbank offered rate for deposits in U.S. Dollars for a period equal to
such Interest Period, at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the date that is two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period;
provided that to the extent that an interest
rate is not ascertainable pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this definition, the Eurocurrency Rate shall be the interest rate per annum reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent to be the average of the rates per annum at
which deposits in U.S. Dollars are offered for such relevant Interest Period to major banks in the London interbank market in London, England by the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the date that is two
(2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period, divided by (b) a percentage equal to 100% minus the then stated maximum rate of all reserve requirements (including, without limitation, any marginal, emergency,
supplemental, special or other reserves required by applicable
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law) applicable to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System in respect of eurocurrency funding or
liabilities as defined in Regulation D (or any successor category of liabilities under Regulation D). Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) in no event shall the Eurocurrency Rate (including any Benchmark Replacement with respect thereto) be less
than zero and (y) unless otherwise specified in any amendment to this Agreement entered into in accordance with
Section 3.03(b), in the event that a
Benchmark Replacement with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate is implemented then all references herein to the Eurocurrency Rate shall be deemed references to such Benchmark Replacement.
Eurocurrency Rate Loan means a Loan that bears interest
at a rate based on the Eurocurrency Rate.
Event of Default means any of the events specified in Section 8.01; provided that any requirement for passage of time, giving of notice, or any other condition, has been satisfied.
Excess Cash Flow means, for any period, an amount equal to the excess of:
(a)
the sum, without duplication, of:
(i) Consolidated Net Income,
(ii)
depreciation, amortization and other non-cash charges and expenses incurred during such period, to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,
(iii)
decreases in Consolidated Working Capital for such period (other than any such decreases arising from acquisitions and non-ordinary course Dispositions by the Company and its Subsidiaries completed during such period),
(iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash loss on Dispositions by the Company and its Subsidiaries during such period (other than
Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,
(v) an
amount equal to all cash received for such period on account of any net non-cash gain or income from Investments deducted in a previous period pursuant to clause (b)(iv)(B) below in this definition,
(vi) an amount equal to all cash income and gains included in clauses (a) and (e) of the definition of Consolidated Net Income,
(vii) rent expense as determined in accordance with GAAP during such period over and above rent expense paid in cash during such period,
and
(viii) an amount deducted as tax expense in determining Consolidated Net Income to the extent in excess of cash taxes paid in such period,
over
(b) the sum, without duplication, of:
(i) an
amount equal to all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income and cash losses, charges and expenses included in clauses (a), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (h) of the definition of Consolidated Net Income,
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(ii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause
(xi) below in prior fiscal years, the amount of
Capital Expenditures made in cash or accrued during such period, except to the extent that such Capital Expenditures were financed with the proceeds of Indebtedness (other than Revolving Credit Loans and loans under any other revolving credit line
or similar facility) of the Company or any Subsidiary,
(iii)
the aggregate amount of all principal payments of Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries (including (A) the principal component of payments in respect of Finance Leases and (B) the amount of any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans pursuant
to Section 2.05(b)(ii) to the extent required due to a Disposition that resulted in an increase to Consolidated Net Income and not in excess of the amount of such increase but excluding
(X) all other prepayments of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05, and (Y) all prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans) made during such period (other than in respect of any revolving credit facility to the extent
there is not an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder) to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash (other than to the extent made in reliance on Section 7.12(a)(v)),
(iv) an amount equal to the sum of (A) the aggregate net non-cash gain on Dispositions by the Company and
its Subsidiaries during such period (other than Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income and (B) the aggregate net non-cash gain or income from Investments to the
extent included in arriving at Consolidated Net Income,
(v) increases in Consolidated Working Capital for such
period (other than any such increases arising from acquisitions and non-ordinary course Dispositions by the Company and its Subsidiaries during such period),
(vi) cash payments by the Company and its Subsidiaries
during such period in respect of long-term liabilities of the Company and its Subsidiaries other than Indebtedness,
(vii)
without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause (xi) below in prior fiscal years, the amount of Investments and acquisitions made during such period pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(a) or 7.02(m)) to the extent that such Investments and acquisitions were financed with Internally Generated Cash,
(viii)
the amount of Restricted Payments paid during such period pursuant to Sections 7.06(f) and (h), in each case to the extent such Restricted Payments were
financed with Internally Generated Cash,
(ix) the aggregate amount of expenditures actually made by the Company and its Subsidiaries in cash during such period (including expenditures for the payment of financing fees)
to the extent that such expenditures were not expensed during such period,
(x) the aggregate amount of any premium, make-whole or
penalty payments actually paid in cash by the Company and its Subsidiaries during such period that are required to be made in connection with any prepayment of Indebtedness,
(xi)
without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in prior periods, the aggregate consideration required to be paid in cash by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to binding contracts (the Contract Consideration) entered into
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prior to or during such period relating to Permitted Acquisitions or Capital Expenditures to be consummated or
made during the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company following the end of such period, provided that to the extent the aggregate amount of Internally Generated Cash
actually utilized to finance such Permitted Acquisitions or Capital Expenditures during such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters is less than the Contract Consideration, the amount of such shortfall shall be added to the calculation of Excess
Cash Flow at the end of such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters,
(xii) the amount of cash taxes paid and, without
duplication, cash distributions for payment of taxes, in such period to the extent they exceed the amount of tax expense deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period,
(xiii)
the aggregate amount of all mandatory principal repayments of Term Loans made during such period pursuant to Section
2.07(a),
(xiv) cash expenditures made in respect of Swap Contracts
to the extent not reflected in the computation of Consolidated Net Income for such period, and
(xv) rent expense paid in cash during such period over
and above rent expense as determined in accordance with GAAP for such period.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Excluded Assets means (i) any fee-owned real property (other than Material Real Property) and any leasehold rights and leasehold interests in real property (it being understood that the Loan Documents shall not contain any requirements as to landlord waivers, estoppels and collateral access letters), (ii) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title to the extent that a security interest therein cannot be perfected by the filing of a UCC-1 financing statement, (iii) commercial tort claims where the amount of damages claimed by the applicable Loan Party is less than $5,000,000, (iv) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations to the extent that the Collateral Agent may not validly possess a security interest therein under applicable Laws (including, without limitation, rules and regulations of any Governmental Authority or agency) or the pledge or creation of a security interest in which would require governmental consent, approval, license or authorization, other than to the extent such prohibition, limitation or restriction is ineffective under the UCC or other applicable Laws, (v) any particular asset or right under contract, if the pledge thereof or the security interest therein (A) is prohibited by applicable Law other than to the extent such prohibition is rendered ineffective under the UCC or other applicable Laws or (B) to the extent and for as long as it would violate the terms of any written agreement, license, lease or similar arrangement with respect to such asset or would require consent, approval, license or authorization (in each case, after giving effect to the relevant provisions of the UCC or other applicable Laws) or would give rise to a termination right (in favor of a Person other than any Borrower or any Subsidiary) pursuant to any change of control or other similar provision under such written agreement, license or lease (except to the extent such provision is overridden by the UCC or other applicable Laws), in each case, (a) excluding any such written agreement that relates to Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness or Incremental Equivalent Debt and (b) only to the extent that such limitation on such pledge or security interest is otherwise permitted under Section 7.09, (vi) (A) Equity Interests in any Employment Participation Subsidiary (except to the extent a perfected security interest in such Subsidiary can be obtained by filing of a UCC-1 financing statement), (B) Margin Stock, (C) Equity Interests of any Person listed on Schedule 1.01A, (D) Equity Interests in any non-Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, but only to the extent that, and for so long as, (x) the Organization Documents or other agreements with respect to the Equity Interests of such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiaries with other equity holders (other than any such agreement where
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all of the equity holders party thereto are Loan Parties or Subsidiaries thereof) do not permit or restrict the pledge of such Equity Interests, or (y) the pledge of such Equity Interests (including any exercise of remedies) would result in a change of control, repurchase obligation or other adverse consequence to any of the Loan Parties or such Subsidiary (other than the loss of such Equity Interests as a result of any such exercise of remedies), (E) Equity Interests of Foreign Subsidiary Holding Companies, (F) Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary, and (G) Equity Interests of Liquor License Subsidiaries, (vii) any lease, license or agreement or any property subject to a purchase money security interest, finance lease obligation or similar arrangement, in each case to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement or purchase money or similar arrangement or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than any Borrower or any Subsidiary) after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the UCC or other applicable Laws, other than proceeds and receivables thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC or other applicable Laws notwithstanding such prohibition, (viii) any intellectual property registered under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, (ix) any assets if the creation or perfection of pledges of, or security interests in, such assets would result in material adverse tax consequences to any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as reasonably determined by the Borrowers in consultation with the Administrative Agent, (x) letter of credit rights where the maximum amount of any such letter of credit is less than $5,000,000, except to the extent constituting a support obligation for other Collateral as to which perfection of the security interest in such other Collateral is accomplished solely by the filing of a UCC financing statement, (xi) any intent-to-use trademark application prior to the filing of a Statement of Use or Amendment to Allege Use with respect thereto, to the extent, if any, that, and solely during the period, if any, in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark application under applicable federal Law, (xii) particular assets if and for so long as, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers (as set forth in a written agreement between the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers), the cost of obtaining a security interest in such assets exceeds the practical benefits to the Lenders afforded thereby and (xiii) Excluded Real Property; provided, however, that Excluded Assets shall not include any proceeds, substitutions or replacements of any Excluded Assets referred to in preceding clauses (i) through (xiii) (unless such proceeds, substitutions or replacements would independently constitute Excluded Assets referred to in such clauses (i) through (xiii)).
Excluded Concept Subsidiaries means any Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiaries in the Borrowers Flemings concept (which, for the avoidance of doubt, also shall include each such Subsidiary that is the general partner of each Employment Participation Subsidiary associated with such concepts); provided, that if the portion of revenues attributable to Excluded Concept Subsidiaries (taken as a group) exceeds 10% of the consolidated revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries for any Test Period, then the Borrowers shall designate certain domestic Wholly Owned Excluded Concept Subsidiaries to become Guarantors (including, in any event, any Subsidiary that is the general partner of each Employment Participation Subsidiary associated with such Excluded Concept Subsidiaries designated to become Guarantors), which shall cease to be Excluded Concept Subsidiaries, such that the portion of revenues attributable to the remaining Wholly Owned domestic Excluded Concept Subsidiaries (after giving effect to such designated domestic Wholly Owned Subsidiaries ceasing to be Excluded Concept Subsidiaries) no longer exceeds 10% of the consolidated revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such Test Period; provided that no Excluded Concept Subsidiary shall be an obligor or guarantor of (i) any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (ii) any Incremental Equivalent Debt or (iii) any Junior Financing, in the case of preceding clause (iii) with an aggregate principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount.
Excluded Contribution means the amount of capital contributions to the Company (and promptly contributed to OSI) or Net Cash Proceeds from the sale or issuance of Qualified Equity Interests of the Company (and promptly contributed to OSI), in each case after the Closing Date and designated by the Company to the Administrative Agent as an Excluded Contribution on or promptly after the date such capital contributions are made or such Equity Interests are sold or issued.
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Excluded Real Property means any fee-owned real property and any leasehold rights and leasehold interests in real property set forth on Schedule 1.01B, which property shall continue to constitute Excluded Real Property notwithstanding any subsequent transfer of any such property to any other Loan Party or to a newly formed entity that is required to become a Loan Party hereunder, in all cases, it being the understanding and intent of the parties hereto that any property constituting Excluded Real Property on the Closing Date shall continue to constitute Excluded Real Property for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents notwithstanding any such transfer or requirement.
Excluded Subsidiary means (a) any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, (b) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by applicable Law or Contractual Obligation existing on the Closing Date (or, in the case of any Subsidiary acquired after the Closing Date, any Contractual Obligation in existence at the time of the acquisition of such Subsidiary but not entered into in contemplation thereof) from guaranteeing the Obligations, (c) any Domestic Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary of (i) a Foreign Subsidiary that is a CFC or (ii) a Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company, (d) any Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company, (e) any Subsidiary prohibited from guaranteeing the Obligations under the terms of Indebtedness assumed pursuant to Section 7.03(g)(A); provided that each such Subsidiary shall cease to be an Excluded Subsidiary under this clause (e) if such Indebtedness is repaid, (f) any Immaterial Subsidiary, (g) any Employment Participation Subsidiary, (h) any Excluded Concept Subsidiary, (i) any special purposes securitization vehicle (or similar entity), (j) any not-for-profit Subsidiary, (k) any Liquor License Subsidiary and (l) any other Subsidiary with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent (confirmed in writing by notice to the Borrowers), the cost or other consequences (including any adverse Tax consequences) of providing a Guarantee shall be excessive in view of the practical benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom. For the avoidance of doubt, and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Borrower in its sole discretion may cause any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor to Guarantee the Obligations by causing such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Guaranty Supplement and a Security Agreement Supplement, and any such Subsidiary shall be a Guarantor, Loan Party and Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder for all purposes until such time, if any, as such Subsidiary shall be released from the Guaranty. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Subsidiary that is an obligor or guarantor of any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness or any Incremental Equivalent Debt shall not be an Excluded Subsidiary.
Excluded Swap Obligation means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantors failure for any reason to constitute an eligible contract participant as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guarantee of such Guarantor or the grant of such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a Master Agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.
Excluded Taxes means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income or net profits (however denominated), franchise (and similar) Taxes, any net-worth (and similar) Taxes (in lieu of net income Taxes) and branch profits Taxes, imposed by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the Laws of which such Recipient is organized or maintains its principal office or applicable Lending Office, (b) Taxes imposed by reason of any past, current or future connection between
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the Recipient and a jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) other than solely as a result of entering into any Loan Document and receiving payments thereunder or enforcing any Loan Document, (c) any withholding Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction in which any Borrower is formed or organized on amounts paid or payable to or for the account of such Recipient pursuant to any Law in effect on the date on which (i) such Recipient becomes a party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Company under Section 3.07) or (ii) such Lender changes its Lending Office, except in each such case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.01, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lenders assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its Lending Office, (d) Taxes attributable to such Recipients failure to comply with Section 3.01(g), (e) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA and (f) any U.S. federal backup withholding Taxes imposed under Section 3406 of the Code.
Existing Credit Agreement has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements.
Existing Letters of Credit means the letters of credit outstanding on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 1.01C.
Existing Revolver Tranche has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).
Existing Term Loan Tranche has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
Expiring Credit Commitment has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(g).
Extended Revolving Credit Commitments has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).
Extended Revolving Credit Loans has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).
Extended Term Loan Commitments has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
Extended Term Loans has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
Extending Revolving Credit Lender has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(c).
Extending Term Lender has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(c).
Extension means the establishment of an Extension Series by amending a Loan pursuant to Section 2.14 and the applicable Extension Amendment.
Extension Amendment has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(d).
Extension Election has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(c).
Extension Request means any Term Loan Extension Request or Revolver Extension Request, as the case may be.
Extension Series means any Term Loan Extension Series or Revolver Extension Series, as the case may be.
Facility or Facilities means the Term Facility, a given Class of Incremental Term Loans, a given Extension Series of Extended Term Loans, a given Refinancing Series of Other Term Loans, the Revolving Credit Facility, a given Extension Series of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments or any Other Revolving Credit Loan (or Commitment) as the context may require.
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Fair Market Value means, with respect to any asset or liability, the fair market value of such asset or liability as determined by the Borrowers in good faith.
FATCA means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and, for the avoidance of doubt, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code or otherwise pursuant to any of the foregoing.
FCA has the meaning assigned thereto in Section
1.13.
Federal Funds Rate means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average of the quotation for such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the Administrative Agent.
Finance Lease Obligation means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Finance Lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Finance Leases means all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP (except for temporary treatment of construction-related expenditures under Accounting Standards Codification Topic 842 which will ultimately be treated as operating leases upon a sale-leaseback transaction), recorded on the balance sheet as finance leases; provided that for all purposes hereunder the amount of obligations under any Finance Lease shall be the amount thereof accounted for as a liability in accordance with GAAP.
Financial Covenant has the meaning specified in Section 7.10.
First Amendment Effective Date means April 26, 2022.
First Lien Intercreditor Agreement means an intercreditor agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit I hereto (which agreement in such form or with immaterial changes thereto the Administrative Agent is authorized to enter into) together with any material changes thereto in light of prevailing market conditions, which material changes shall be posted to the Lenders not less than five (5) Business Days before execution thereof and, if the Required Lenders shall not have objected to such changes within five (5) Business Days after posting, then the Required Lenders shall be deemed to have agreed that the Administrative Agents entry into such intercreditor agreement (with such changes) is reasonable and to have consented to such intercreditor agreement (with such changes) and to the Administrative Agents execution thereof.
Floor means the
benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to USD LIBOR.a rate of interest equal to 0.00%.
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Foreign Casualty Event has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).
Foreign Disposition has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).
Foreign Lender means a Lender that is not a U.S. Person.
Foreign Subsidiary means any direct or indirect Subsidiary which (a) is not a Domestic Subsidiary or (b) is set forth on Schedule 1.01D.
Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company means any Domestic Subsidiary, substantially all of whose assets consist of (i) the Equity Interests and/or Indebtedness of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries, (ii) other assets used exclusively in the business of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries and/or (iii) the Equity Interests and/or Indebtedness of one or more Domestic Subsidiaries, substantially all of whose assets consist of the types described in clauses (i)-(iii).
FRB means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States or any successor thereto.
Fund means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course.
Funded Debt means all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries for borrowed money that matures more than one (1) year from the date of its creation or matures within one (1) year from such date that is renewable or extendable, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one (1) year from such date or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to extend credit during a period of more than one (1) year from such date, including Indebtedness in respect of the Loans.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that if the Company notifies the Administrative Agent that the Company requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring or effective after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof (including through conforming changes made consistent with IFRS) on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrowers that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof (including through conforming changes made consistent with IFRS), then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant contained herein (including, without limitation, the Financial Covenant), any lease that is treated as an operating lease for purposes of GAAP as of the Closing Date shall not be treated as Indebtedness and shall continue to be treated as an operating lease (and any future lease that would be treated as an operating lease for purposes of GAAP as of the Closing Date shall be similarly treated).
Governmental Authority means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.
Granting Lender has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).
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Guarantee means, as to any Person, without duplication, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation payable or performable by another Person (the primary obligor) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Closing Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term Guarantee as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
Guarantors means each Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.
Guaranty means, collectively, (a) the Second Amended and Restated Guaranty Agreement made by the Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit F (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time) and (b) each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.11. For avoidance of doubt, and notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Borrower in its sole discretion may cause any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor to Guarantee the Obligations by causing such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Guaranty Supplement and a Security Agreement Supplement and comply with the other provisions of Section 6.11, and any such Subsidiary shall be a Guarantor, Loan Party and Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder for all purposes until such time, if any, as such Subsidiary shall be released from the Guaranty.
Guaranty Supplement has the meaning specified in the Guaranty.
Hazardous Materials means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
Hedge Bank means any Person that (a) is an Agent, a Joint Lead Arranger, a Lender or an Affiliate of an Agent, a Joint Lead Arranger or a Lender, in each case at the time such Person enters into a Swap Contract, in its capacity as a party thereto (and whether or not such Person subsequently ceases to be an Agent, Joint Lead Arranger, Lender or Affiliate of an Agent, Joint Lead Arranger or Lender), and such Persons successors and assigns or (b) at the time it becomes a Lender (including on the Closing Date), is already a party to a Swap Contract.
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Honor Date has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).
IBA has the meaning assigned thereto in
Section
1.13.
Immaterial Subsidiary means any Subsidiary designated in writing by the Company to the Administrative Agent as an Immaterial Subsidiary that is not already a Guarantor and that does not, as of the last day of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Company, have assets with a book value in excess of 2.0% of the consolidated total assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries and did not, as of the four-quarter period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter, have revenues exceeding 2.0% of the consolidated revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided that if (a) such Subsidiary shall have been designated in writing by the Company to the Administrative Agent as an Immaterial Subsidiary, and (b) if (i) the aggregate assets then owned by all Subsidiaries of the Company that would otherwise constitute Immaterial Subsidiaries shall have a value in excess of 5.0% of the consolidated total assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of such fiscal quarter or (ii) the combined revenues of all Subsidiaries of the Company that would otherwise constitute Immaterial Subsidiaries shall exceed 5.0% of the consolidated revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such four-quarter period, the Company shall redesignate one or more of such Subsidiaries to not be Immaterial Subsidiaries within ten (10) Business Days after delivery of the Compliance Certificate for such fiscal quarter such that only those such Subsidiaries as shall then have aggregate assets of less than 5.0% of the consolidated total assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries and combined revenues of less than 5.0% of the consolidated revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall constitute Immaterial Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall (A) any Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary that owns, or otherwise licenses or has the right to use, trademarks and other intellectual property material to the operation of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries (excluding any Excluded Concept Subsidiaries), (B) any general partner of an Employment Participation Subsidiary, (C) OS Restaurant Services (or any successor to the business conducted by it on the Closing Date) or (D) any Subsidiary that is an obligor or guarantor of (i) any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (ii) any Incremental Equivalent Debt or (iii) any Junior Financing, in the case of preceding clause (iii), with an aggregate principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount, in any such case be designated as an Immaterial Subsidiary.
Income Taxes means, with respect to any Person, the foreign, federal, state and local taxes based on income or profits or capital, including, without limitation, state, franchise and similar taxes (such as the Pennsylvania capital tax and Texas margin tax) and withholding taxes of such Person.
Incremental Amendment has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(f).
Incremental Commitments has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
Incremental Equivalent Debt has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(s).
Incremental Facility means any Facility consisting of Incremental Term Loans, Incremental Term Commitments and/or Revolving Commitment Increases.
Incremental Facility Closing Date has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(d).
Incremental Lenders has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
Incremental Loan Request has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
Incremental Revolving Credit Lender has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
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Incremental Term Commitments has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
Incremental Term Lender has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
Incremental Term Loan has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(b).
Indebtedness means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;
(b) the maximum amount (after giving effect to any prior drawings or reductions which may have been reimbursed) of all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person;
(c) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts and accrued expenses payable and deferred gift card revenue in the ordinary course of business, (ii) any earn-out obligation or purchase price adjustment until such obligation is not paid after becoming due and payable and (iii) accruals for payroll and other liabilities accrued in the ordinary course of business);
(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;
(f) all Attributable Indebtedness;
(g) all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests; and
(h) to the extent not otherwise included above, all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, except to the extent such Persons liability for such Indebtedness is otherwise limited and only to the extent such Indebtedness would be included in the calculation of Consolidated Total Debt. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) above shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the Fair Market Value of the property encumbered thereby.
Indemnified Liabilities has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
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Indemnified Taxes means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.
Indemnitees has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
Independent Financial Advisor means an accounting firm, appraisal firm, investment banking firm or consultant of nationally recognized standing that is, in the good faith judgment of the Borrowers, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged and that is independent of the Borrowers and their Affiliates.
Information has the meaning specified in Section 10.08.
Initial Term Loan means the term loan made by the Lenders on the Closing Date to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
Intercompany Note means the Intercompany Note, substantially in the form of Exhibit H.
Interest Payment Date means, (a) as
to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan exceeds three months, the respective
dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swing Line Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and
December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.
Interest
Period means, as to each Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan, the period commencing on the date
such Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan is disbursed or converted to or
continued as a Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan and ending on the date one, two (to the extent available and agreed to by each Lender), three or six months thereafter, or to the extent available and agreed to by each Lender of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, 7 days, as selected by
the applicable Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice; provided that:
(a) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(b) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on
a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and
(c) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under which
such Loan was made.;
and
Internally Generated
Cash means cash funds of the
Company and its Subsidiaries not constituting
(a) proceeds of the issuance of (or
contributions in respect of) Equity Interests,
(b) proceeds of the incurrence of Indebtedness
(other than the incurrence of Revolving Credit Loans or extensions of credit under any other revolving credit or similar facility) or
(c) proceeds of Dispositions and Casualty
Events
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(d) no tenor that has been removed from this definition pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(iv) shall be available for specification in any Committed Loan Notice or notice of conversion/continuation.
Investment means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests or debt or other securities of another Person (including by way of merger or consolidation), (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of Indebtedness of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested (in the case of any non-cash asset invested, taking the Fair Market Value thereof at the time the investment is made), without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment.
IP Collateral means all Intellectual Property Collateral referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other IP Rights that are or are required by the terms hereof or of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
IP Rights has the meaning set forth in Section 5.15.
IRS means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
ISDA Definitions means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.
Joint Lead Arrangers means Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., New York Branch JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Regions Capital Markets, a division of Regions Bank and Truist Securities, Inc., each in its capacity as a Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner under this Agreement.
Junior Financing means, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, any (a) Indebtedness for borrowed money of a Loan Party that is expressly by its terms subordinated to the Obligations in right of payment, (b) unsecured Indebtedness (including the 2025 Convertible Notes and the 2029 Senior Notes) and (c) Indebtedness that is secured on a junior basis to the Obligations.
Junior Financing Documentation means any documentation governing any Junior Financing.
Latest Maturity Date means, at any date of determination, the latest Maturity Date applicable to any Loan or Commitment hereunder at such time, including the latest Maturity Date of any Extended Term Loan, Incremental Term Loan, Other Term Loan, Extended Revolving Credit Commitment or any Other Revolving Credit Commitments, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.
Laws means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
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L/C Advance means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, such Lenders funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Pro Rata Share.
L/C Borrowing means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Revolving Credit Borrowing.
L/C Commitment means, as to any L/C Issuer, the obligation of such L/C Issuer to issue Letters of Credit for the account of any Borrower or one or more of its respective Subsidiaries from time to time in an aggregate amount equal to (a) for each of the initial L/C Issuers, the amount set forth opposite the name of each such initial L/C Issuer on Schedule 2.01 and (b) for any other L/C Issuer becoming an L/C Issuer after the Closing Date, such amount as separately agreed to in a written agreement between the Borrowers and such L/C Issuer (which such agreement shall be promptly delivered to the Administrative Agent upon execution), in each case of clauses (a) and (b) above, any such amount may be changed after the Closing Date in a written agreement between the Borrowers and such L/C Issuer (which such agreement shall be promptly delivered to the Administrative Agent upon execution).
L/C Credit Extension means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the renewal or increase of the amount thereof.
L/C Issuer means (a) Wells Fargo, (b) Bank of America, N.A., (c) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., (d) Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., New York Branch and (e) any other Lender or Affiliate of a Lender that becomes an L/C Issuer in accordance with Section 2.03(k) or 10.07(j), in each case, in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder. Any L/C Issuer may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by one or more Affiliates of such L/C Issuer (and such Affiliate shall be deemed to be an L/C Issuer for all purposes of the Loan Documents).
L/C Obligations means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings.
Lender has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement and, as the context requires, includes an L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender, and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to herein as a Lender.
Lending Office means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lenders Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent.
Letter of Credit means any Existing Letter of Credit or any letter of credit issued hereunder. A Letter of Credit may be a commercial letter of credit or a standby letter of credit.
Letter of Credit Application means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit, which shall be in a form supplied by the relevant L/C Issuer.
Letter of Credit Expiration Date means the day that is five (5) Business Days prior to the scheduled Maturity Date then in effect for the Revolving Credit Facility (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).
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Letter of Credit Sublimit means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $75,000,000 and (b) the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.
Lien means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any Finance Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing); provided that in no event shall an operating lease in and of itself be deemed a Lien.
Limited Condition Acquisition means any Permitted Acquisition that (a) is not prohibited hereunder, (b) is financed in whole or in part with a substantially concurrent incurrence of Incremental Term Loans or other Indebtedness permitted hereunder, and (c) is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third-party financing.
Liquor License Acquisition Agreement means any agreement (including any financing agreement) relating to the acquisition of a Liquor License by a Liquor License Subsidiary.
Liquor License Subsidiary means any Domestic Subsidiary established solely for the purpose of acquiring and holding Liquor Licenses which, except to the extent required by applicable Law, holds no material assets other than Liquor Licenses and with respect to which applicable Law or the terms of a Liquor License Acquisition Agreement prohibit either (x) such Subsidiary from guaranteeing the Obligations or (y) the assets or Equity Interests of such Subsidiary from being pledged as collateral for the Obligations.
Liquor Licenses means any license or permit from the applicable Governmental Authority authorizing the holder thereof to sell alcoholic beverages in accordance with applicable Law.
Loan means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrowers in the form of a Term Loan, a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swing Line Loan.
Loan Documents means, collectively, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) each Guaranty Supplement, (iv) any Refinancing Amendment, Incremental Amendment or Extension Amendment, (v) the Guaranty, (vi) the Collateral Documents, (vii) the Intercompany Note, (viii) each Letter of Credit Application and (ix) after the execution and delivery thereof, each First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and each intercreditor agreement entered into in connection with any Junior Financing.
Loan Parties means, collectively, each Borrower and each Guarantor.
London Banking
Day means any day on which
dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank Eurodollar market.
Margin Stock has the meaning specified in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve system, or any successor thereto.
Master Agreement has the meaning specified in the definition of Swap Contract.
Material Adverse Effect means (a) a material adverse effect on the business, operations, assets, liabilities (actual or contingent) or financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) a material adverse effect on the ability of the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties (taken as a whole) to perform their respective payment obligations under any Loan Document to which any of the Borrowers or any of the other Loan Parties is a party or (c) a material adverse effect on the rights and remedies of the Lenders under any Loan Document.
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Material Real Property means any real property (other than any Excluded Real Property) owned by any Loan Party with a Fair Market Value of $5,000,000 or more.
Maturity Date means (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility and Swing Line Loans, April 16, 2026; (b) with respect to the Initial Term Loan, April 16, 2026, (c) with respect to any Class of Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Extension Request accepted by the respective Lender or Lenders, (d) with respect to any Other Term Loans or Other Revolving Credit Commitments, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Refinancing Amendment and (e) with respect to any Incremental Term Loans, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Incremental Amendment; provided that, in each case, if such day is not a Business Day, the applicable Maturity Date shall be the Business Day immediately succeeding such day.
Maximum Rate has the meaning specified in Section 10.10.
Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
Mortgage means, collectively, the deeds of trust, trust deeds, hypothecs and mortgages made by the Loan Parties in favor or for the benefit of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties substantially in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (taking account of relevant local Law matters), and any other mortgages executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.11.
Mortgage Policies has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(b)(B).
Mortgaged Properties has the meaning specified in paragraph (g) of the definition of Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.
Multiemployer Plan means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
Net Cash Proceeds means:
(a) with respect to the Disposition of any asset by the Company or any Subsidiary or any Casualty Event, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received and, with respect to any Casualty Event, any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event actually received by or paid to or for the account of the Company or any Subsidiary) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest, breakage costs and other amounts on any Indebtedness that is secured by the asset subject to such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than in the case of a Foreign Subsidiary) and that is required to be repaid (and is timely repaid) in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than Indebtedness under, or that is secured by, the Loan Documents, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness or Incremental Equivalent Debt), (B) the out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including attorneys fees, accountants fees, investment banking fees, survey costs, title insurance premiums, and related search and recording charges, transfer Taxes, deed or mortgage recording taxes, other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees)
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actually incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event, (C) Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be actually payable in connection therewith (including Taxes imposed on the actual or deemed distribution or repatriation of any such Net Cash Proceeds), (D) in the case of any Disposition or Casualty Event by a non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary, the pro rata portion of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof (calculated without regard to this clause (D)) attributable to minority interests and not available for distribution to or for the account of a Borrower or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary as a result thereof, and (E) any reserve for adjustment in respect of (x) the sale price of such asset or assets established in accordance with GAAP and (y) any liabilities associated with such asset or assets and retained by the Company or any Subsidiary after such sale or other disposition thereof, including pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction and it being understood that Net Cash Proceeds shall include any cash or Cash Equivalents (i) received upon the Disposition of any non-cash consideration received by the Company or any Subsidiary in any such Disposition and (ii) upon the reversal (without the satisfaction of any applicable liabilities in cash in a corresponding amount) of any reserve described in preceding clause (E) or, if such liabilities have not been satisfied in cash and such reserve is not reversed within three hundred and sixty-five (365) days after such Disposition or Casualty Event, the amount of such reserve; provided that (x) no net cash proceeds calculated in accordance with the foregoing realized in a single transaction or series of related transactions shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds unless such net cash proceeds shall exceed $5,000,000 and (y) no such net cash proceeds shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a) in any fiscal year until the aggregate amount of all such net cash proceeds in such fiscal year shall exceed $20,000,000 (and thereafter only net cash proceeds in excess of such amount shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a)); and
(b) with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by the Company or any Subsidiary or issuance of Equity Interests, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of the cash received in connection with such incurrence or issuance over (ii) all Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof (including Taxes imposed on the actual or deemed distribution or repatriation of any such Net Cash Proceeds), fees (including, the investment banking fees, underwriting fees and discounts), commissions, costs and other out-of-pocket expenses and other customary expenses, in each case incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary in connection with such incurrence or issuance.
Non-Cash Charges has the meaning specified in the definition of the term Consolidated EBITDA.
Non-Consenting Lenders has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(d).
Non-Defaulting Lender means, at any time, a Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender.
Non-Expiring Credit Commitment has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(g).
Non-Loan Party means any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party.
Nonrenewal Notice Date has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).
Note means a Term Note, a Revolving Credit Note or a Swing Line Note, as the context may require.
NPL means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
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Obligations means all (a) advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries arising under any Loan Document (including the Guaranty) or otherwise with respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising, (b) obligations (other than any Excluded Swap Obligations) of any Loan Party and its Subsidiaries arising under any Secured Hedge Agreement and (c) Cash Management Obligations, in each of clauses (a), (b) and (c) including interest, fees and expenses that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or Subsidiary of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest, fees or expenses are allowed claims in such proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents (and of their Subsidiaries to the extent they have obligations under the Loan Documents) include (i) the obligation (including guarantee obligations) to pay principal, premium, interest, Letter of Credit commissions, reimbursement obligations, charges, expenses, fees, Attorney Costs, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries under any Loan Document and (ii) the obligation of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary.
Organization Documents means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and, if applicable, any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.
OS Restaurant Services means OS Restaurant Services, LLC, a Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary.
OSI has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
Other Applicable Indebtedness has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(ii).
Other Revolving Credit Commitments means one or more Classes of Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
Other Revolving Credit Loans means one or more Classes of Revolving Credit Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
Other Taxes means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, excise, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under any Loan Document, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except, for the avoidance of doubt, any Excluded Taxes.
Other Term Loan Commitments means one or more Classes of Term Commitments hereunder to fund Other Term Loans of the applicable Refinancing Series hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
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Other Term Loans means one or more Classes of Term Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
Outstanding Amount means (a) with respect to the Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans (including any refinancing of outstanding unpaid drawings under Letters of Credit or L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the outstanding amount thereof on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes thereto as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements of outstanding unpaid drawings under any Letters of Credit (including any refinancing of outstanding unpaid drawings under Letters of Credit or L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) or any reductions in the maximum amount available for drawing under Letters of Credit taking effect on such date.
Participant has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(e).
Participant Register has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(e).
Payment Recipient has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 9.15(a).
PBGC means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
PCAOB has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(a).
Pension Plan means any employee pension benefit plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made or has been obligated to make contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five (5) plan years.
Permitted Acquisition has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(i).
Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction means any call or capped call option (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) on the Companys common stock purchased by the Company in connection with the issuance of any Permitted Convertible Notes; provided that the purchase price for such Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction, less the proceeds received by the Company from the sale of any related Permitted Warrant Transaction, does not exceed the net proceeds received by the Company from the sale of such Permitted Convertible Notes issued in connection with the Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction.
Permitted Convertible Notes means the 2025 Convertible Notes and any other unsecured Indebtedness of the Loan Parties that (a) is convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of common stock of the Company (or other securities or property following a merger event, reclassification or other change of the common stock of the Company), cash or a combination thereof (such amount of cash determined by reference to the price of the Companys common stock or such other securities or property), and cash in lieu of fractional shares of common stock of the Company and (b) is permitted to be incurred under this Agreement.
Permitted Convertible Notes Call Transaction means any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction and any Permitted Warrant Transaction.
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Permitted Liens means any Lien permitted to be outstanding pursuant to Section 7.01.
Permitted Pari Passu Secured Refinancing Debt means any secured Indebtedness incurred by any Borrower in the form of one or more series of senior secured loans or notes; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis (but without regard to the control of remedies) with the Obligations and is not secured by any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary other than the Collateral and the security agreements relating to such Indebtedness are substantially the same as or more favorable to the Loan Parties than the Collateral Documents (with such differences as are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), (ii) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Person other than a Guarantor, (iii) a Senior Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to or otherwise subject to the provisions of a First Lien Intercreditor Agreement; provided further that if such Indebtedness is the initial Permitted Pari Passu Secured Refinancing Debt incurred by such Borrower, then such Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Senior Representative for such Indebtedness shall have executed and delivered a First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and (iv) in the case of any notes, such Indebtedness does not mature or have scheduled amortization or payments of principal (other than customary offers to repurchase upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and a customary acceleration right after an event of default) prior to the date that is the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred or issued.
Permitted Ratio Debt means any unsecured or subordinated unsecured Indebtedness incurred by the Company and any Subsidiary, so long as the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with the Financial Covenant; provided, such Indebtedness (i) will not mature prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of the issuance of such Indebtedness, (ii) will not have mandatory prepayment or mandatory amortization, redemption, sinking fund or similar prepayments (other than asset sale and change of control mandatory offers to repurchase customary for high-yield debt securities) prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of the issuance of such Indebtedness and (iii) that is incurred by Subsidiaries that are Non-Loan Parties, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such incurrence, the aggregate amount of Indebtedness of Non-Loan Parties incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(x) and then outstanding shall not exceed the greater of (x) $55,000,000 and (y) 2.0% of Total Assets.
Permitted Refinancing means, with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension or replacement of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided that (a) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, extended or replaced except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension or replacement and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, (b) other than with respect to a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(e), such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension or replacement has a final maturity equal to or later than the final maturity of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, extended or replaced (or, if earlier, the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date), and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, extended or replaced (as originally in effect prior to any amortization or prepayments thereof), (c) other than with respect to a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(e), at the time thereof, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (d) (i) to the extent such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, extended or replaced is subordinated in right of payment to the
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Obligations (or the Liens securing such Indebtedness were originally contractually subordinated to the Liens securing the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents), such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension or replacement is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations (or the Liens securing such Indebtedness shall be subordinated to the Liens securing the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents) on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, extended or replaced, (ii) other than with respect to a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(e), the terms and conditions (including, if applicable, as to collateral but excluding as to subordination, interest rate and redemption premium) of any such modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, extended or replaced Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are not materially less favorable to the Loan Parties or the Lenders than the terms and conditions of this Agreement; provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrowers have determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrowers within such five (5) Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees) and (iii) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, extension or replacement is incurred by the Person who is the obligor of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, extended or replaced and is guaranteed only by those Persons that are guarantors of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, extended or replaced.
Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt means unsecured Indebtedness incurred by any Borrower in the form of one or more series of senior unsecured notes or loans; provided that such Indebtedness (i) in the case of any notes, does not mature or have scheduled amortization payments of principal or payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligations (except customary asset sale, event of loss or change of control provisions that provide for the prior repayment in full of the Loans and the other Obligations), in each case prior to the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred and (ii) is not at any time guaranteed by any Person other than a Guarantor.
Permitted Warrant Transaction means any call option, warrant or right to purchase (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) on the Companys common stock sold by the Company substantially concurrently with any purchase by the Company of a related Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction.
Person means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
Plan means any employee benefit plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established or contributed to by any Loan Party or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.
Principal L/C Issuer means Wells Fargo and any L/C Issuer that has issued Letters of Credit having an aggregate Outstanding Amount in excess of $500,000.
Pro Forma Basis, Pro Forma Compliance and Pro Forma Effect mean, with respect to compliance with any test or covenant or calculation of any ratio hereunder, the determination or calculation of such test, covenant or ratio (including in connection with Specified Transactions) in accordance with Section 1.11.
Pro Rata Share means, with respect to each Lender at any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the amount of the
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Commitment and, if applicable and without duplication, Term Loans of such Lender under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the Aggregate Commitments of all Lenders under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time and, if applicable and without duplication, Term Loans of all Lenders under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time; provided that, in the case of a Revolving Credit Facility, if such Commitment has been terminated, then the Pro Rata Share of each Lender shall be determined based on the Pro Rata Share of such Lender immediately prior to such termination and after giving effect to any subsequent assignments made pursuant to the terms hereof.
Projections has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(c).
PTE means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
Qualified Equity Interests means any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.
Recipient means (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) any Lender, (c) any L/C Issuer and (d) the Swing Line Lender.
Reference Time with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means
(1) if such Benchmark is USD LIBOR, 11:00 a.m.
(London time) on the day that is two (2) London
Banking Days preceding the date of such setting, and
(2) if such Benchmark is not USD LIBOR, the time
determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
Refinanced Debt has the meaning specified in the definition of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness.
Refinancing Amendment means an amendment to this Agreement executed by each of (a) the Borrowers, (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) each Additional Refinancing Lender and (d) each Lender that agrees to provide any portion of Other Term Loans, Other Term Loan Commitments, Other Revolving Credit Commitments or Other Revolving Credit Loans incurred pursuant thereto, in accordance with Section 2.16.
Refinancing Series means all Other Term Loans or Other Term Loan Commitments that are established pursuant to the same Refinancing Amendment (or any subsequent Refinancing Amendment to the extent such Refinancing Amendment expressly provides that the Other Term Loans or Other Term Loan Commitments provided for therein are intended to be a part of any previously established Refinancing Series) and that provide for the same All-In Yield and amortization schedule.
Register has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(d).
Regulation D shall mean Regulation D of the FRB as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing reserve requirements.
Relevant Governmental Body means the FRB or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the FRB or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.
Reportable Event means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived.
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Request for Credit Extension means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.
Required Facility Lenders means, as of any date of determination, with respect to one or more Facilities, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of (a) the Total Outstandings under such Facility or Facilities (with the aggregate amount of each Lenders risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans, as applicable, under such Facility or Facilities being deemed held by such Lender for purposes of this definition) and (b) the aggregate unused Commitments under such Facility or Facilities; provided that the unused Commitments of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings under such Facility or Facilities held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of the Required Facility Lenders.
Required Lenders means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Lenders risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed held by such Lender for purposes of this definition), (b) aggregate unused Term Commitments and (c) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments, provided that the unused Commitments of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.
Resolution Authority means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
Responsible Officer means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer or other similar officer of a Loan Party and, as to any document delivered on the Closing Date, any secretary or assistant secretary of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
Restaurant LP means a Domestic Subsidiary which is organized as a limited partnership (or similar entity) (a) in which either a Borrower or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is a general partner and (b) which operates a restaurant that it owns or leases. As of the Closing Date and except as set forth on Schedule 1.01E, all of the Restaurant LPs are Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, and, in the case of the ones that are Domestic Subsidiaries and not Excluded Concept Subsidiaries, are Guarantors.
Restricted Payment means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to any Borrowers stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof).
Returns means, with respect to any Investment, any repayments, interest, returns, profits, distributions, proceeds, fees and similar amounts actually received in cash or Cash Equivalents (or actually converted into cash or Cash Equivalents) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that, with respect to each of Sections 7.02(c), 7.02(i)(B) and 7.02(l), the aggregate amount of repayments, interest, returns, profits, distributions, proceeds, fees and similar amounts constituting Returns shall not exceed the original amount of all Investments made pursuant to each such Section.
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Revolver Extension Request has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).
Revolver Extension Series has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).
Revolving Commitment Increase has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
Revolving Credit
Borrowing means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the
Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01 or under any Incremental Amendment, Extension Amendment or Refinancing Amendment.
Revolving Credit Commitment means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, its obligation to
(a) make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(b), (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations in respect of Letters of Credit and (c) purchase participations in Swing Line Loans, in
an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption Revolving Credit Commitment or in the Assignment and Assumption
Agreement pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement (including Section 2.15 and
Section 10.07(b)). The aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders on the ClosingFirst Amendment Effective Date shall be $800,000,0001,000,000,000
, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Revolving Credit Exposure means, at any time, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Credit Lenders Revolving Credit Loans at such time and its Pro Rata Share of the L/C Obligations and the Swing Line Obligations at such time.
Revolving Credit Facility means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.
Revolving Credit Lender means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment at such time or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated, which has outstanding Revolving Credit Loans or other Revolving Credit Exposure at such time.
Revolving Credit Loan has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).
Revolving Credit Note means, as the context requires, a promissory note of each Borrower payable to any Revolving Credit Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-2 evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender.
S&P means Standard & Poors Financial Services LLC, a part of McGraw-Hill Financial, and any successor thereto.
Same Day Funds means, with respect to disbursements and payments, immediately available funds in Dollars.
Sanctioned Country means, at any time, a country or territory which is the subject or target of any Sanctions.
Sanctioned Person means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the
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Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, the European Union or Her Majestys Treasury of the United Kingdom and (b) any other Person resident, located or organized in a Sanctioned Country or owned or controlled (as determined by applicable law) by any Person that is a Sanctioned Person.
Sanctions means economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the European Union or Her Majestys Treasury of the United Kingdom.
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
Secured Hedge Agreement means any Swap Contract permitted under Article VII that is entered into by and between any Loan Party or any Subsidiary and any Hedge Bank.
Secured Obligations has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
Secured Parties means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, the Supplemental Administrative Agent and each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.01(c).
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Security Agreement means, collectively, the Second Amended and Restated Security Agreement executed by the Loan Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit G (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), together with each other security agreement supplement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.11.
Security Agreement Supplement has the meaning specified in the Security Agreement.
Senior Representative means, with respect to any series of Permitted Pari Passu Secured Refinancing Debt, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.
SOFR means, with
respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum
equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day publishedas administered by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrators Website on the immediately succeeding Business Day.
SOFR Administrator means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
SOFR Administrators Website means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source for the secured
overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to
timeLoan means
any Loan bearing interest at a rate based on Adjusted Term SOFR as provided in Section 2.08(a).
Solvent and Solvency mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities,
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including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Persons ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Persons property would constitute an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
SPC has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).
Specified Default means any Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g).
Specified Proceeds means contributions made to the common equity of the Company in cash.
Specified Transaction means (i) any Permitted Acquisition, (ii) any Disposition that results in a Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of any Borrower, (iii) any Investment constituting an acquisition of assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of, or all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of, another Person, (iv) any Disposition of a business unit, line of business or division of a Borrower or a Subsidiary, in each case whether by merger, consolidation, amalgamation or otherwise or (v) any incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid under any revolving credit facility or line of credit, unless such Indebtedness (x) has been permanently repaid and has not been replaced or (y) the proceeds therefrom are used for other than working capital purposes or general corporate purposes in the ordinary course of business), Restricted Payment, Revolving Commitment Increase or Incremental Term Loan that by the terms of this Agreement requires such test to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis or after giving Pro Forma Effect.
Subsidiary of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
Subsidiary Guarantor means, collectively, the Subsidiaries of each Borrower that are required to guarantee the Obligations pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.
Successor Company has the meaning specified in Section 7.04(d).
Supplemental Administrative Agent has the meaning specified in Section 9.13 and Supplemental Administrative Agents shall have the corresponding meaning.
Swap Contract means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the
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foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a Master Agreement), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
Swap Obligation means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a swap within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Swap Termination Value means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contract has been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contract, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
Swing Line Borrowing means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.
Swing Line Facility means the revolving credit facility made available by the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04.
Swing Line Lender means Wells Fargo, in its capacity as provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.
Swing Line Loan has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).
Swing Line Loan Notice means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
Swing Line Note means a promissory note of each Borrower payable to any Swing Line Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-3, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Swing Line Lender resulting from the Swing Line Loans made by such Swing Line Lender.
Swing Line Obligations means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate principal amount of all Swing Line Loans outstanding.
Swing Line Sublimit means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $50,000,000 and (b) the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments. The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Commitments.
Taxes means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
Term Borrowing means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Type and, in the
case of Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans, having the same Interest Period
made by each of the Term Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01 or under any Incremental Amendment, Extension Amendment or Refinancing Amendment.
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Term Commitments means, as to each Term Lender,
its obligation to make the Initial Term Loan to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount specified opposite such Lenders name in Schedule 2.01 hereto under the
caption Term Commitment or in the Assignment and Assumption Agreement pursuant to which such Term Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to
Section 2.06 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to (i) assignments by or to such Term Lender pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption Agreement, (ii) an Incremental Amendment,
(iii) a Refinancing Amendment or (iv) an Extension. The initial amount of each Term Lenders Commitment is specified in Schedule 2.01 hereto under the caption Term Commitment or, otherwise, in the Assignment and
Assumption Agreement, Incremental Amendment, Refinancing Amendment or Extension Amendment, pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Loans or Commitment, as the case may be. The initial aggregate amount of the Term Commitments as of the First Amendment
Effective Date after giving effect to the Term Loan Repayment (as defined in that certain First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and Incremental Amendment dated as of April 26,
2022 by and among the Loan Parties, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent) is
$200,000,0000
.
Term Facility means any Facility consisting of Term Loans and/or Term Commitments.
Term Lender means, at any time, any Lender that has a Term Commitment or an outstanding Term Loan at such time.
Term Loan means the Initial Term Loan, or any Incremental Term Loan, any Extended Term Loan or any Other Term Loan, as the context may require.
Term Loan Extension Request has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
Term Loan Extension Series has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
Term Loan Increase has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
Term Note means, as the context requires (including with respect to any Incremental Term Loan of the same Class), a promissory note of each Borrower payable to any Term Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1 evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Term Lender resulting from the Term Loans made by such Term Lender.
Term SOFR means,
for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference
Time, the forward-looking term rate based
on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by
the Relevant Governmental Body.
Term SOFR
Notice means a notification by
the Administrative Agent to the Lenders and the Company of the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event.
Term SOFR Transition
Event means the
determination by the Administrative
Agent that (a) Term SOFR has been recommended for use by the Relevant Governmental Body,
(b) the administration of Term SOFR is
administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent and
(c) a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early
Opt-in Election, as applicable, has previously occurred resulting in the replacement of the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.03(b) with a Benchmark Replacement the Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement
component of which is not Term
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(a) for any calculation with respect to a SOFR Loan, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period on the day (such day, the Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on any Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day, and
(b) for any calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any day, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of one month on the day (such day, the Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such day, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on any Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day.
Term SOFR Adjustment means a percentage equal to 0.10% per annum.
Term SOFR Administrator means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).
Term SOFR Reference Rate means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.
Test Period means, for any determination under this Agreement, the four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company then last ended.
Threshold Amount means $50,000,000.
Total Assets means, as of any date of determination, the total assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, as shown on the most recent balance sheet of the Company delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) (and, in the case of any determination relating to any incurrence of Indebtedness or any Investment or other acquisition, on a Pro Forma Basis including any property or assets being acquired in connection therewith); it being understood that, for purposes of determining compliance of a transaction with any restriction set forth in Article VII that is based upon a specified percentage of Total Assets, compliance of such transaction with the applicable restriction shall be determined solely with reference to Total Assets as determined above in this definition as of the date of such transaction.
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Total Net Leverage Ratio means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period; provided that, for purposes of calculating the Total Net Leverage Ratio for the Test Periods beginning on and after March 28, 2021, Consolidated Total Debt shall not include the principal amount of any outstanding 2025 Convertible Notes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of calculating the Total Net Leverage Ratio for the Test Periods ending March 28, 2021, June 27, 2021 and September 26, 2021, Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Periods shall be deemed to be (i) for the Test Period ending March 28, 2021, Consolidated EBITDA for the fiscal quarter ending on such date divided by 34.1%, (ii) for the Test Period ending June 27, 2021, Consolidated EBITDA for the two consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such date divided by 58.5%, and (iii) for the Test Period ending September 26, 2021, Consolidated EBITDA for the three consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such date divided by 77.0%.
Total Outstandings means, at any time, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C Obligations at such time.
Transaction means the borrowings hereunder on the Closing Date, the refinancing of the Existing Credit Agreement, the consummation of any other transactions in connection with the foregoing, and the payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with any of the foregoing, each as in effect on the Closing Date, and the application of proceeds therefrom.
Transaction Expenses means any fees or expenses incurred or paid by any Borrower or any Subsidiary in connection with the Transaction, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
Type means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan.
UK Financial Institution means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
UK Resolution Authority means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
Unaudited Financial Statements means the unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries, as may have been restated prior to the Closing Date, for each fiscal quarter ended after December 27, 2020 and at least forty five (45) days before the Closing Date, prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Uniform Commercial Code and UCC mean the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or the Uniform Commercial Code (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to any item or items of Collateral.
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United States and U.S. mean the United States of America.
Unreimbursed Amount has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).
USD LIBOR means the London interbank offered rate for
DollarsU.S. Government Securities Business Day means
any day except for
(a) a
Saturday,
(b) a
Sunday or
(c) a
day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities; provided, that for
purposes of notice requirements in Sections 2.02(a) and 2.05(a), in each case, such day is also a Business Day.
U.S. Person means any Person that is a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(g).
Weighted Average Life to Maturity means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (i) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (ii) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
Wells Fargo means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and any successor thereto by merger, consolidation or otherwise.
Wholly Owned means, with respect to a Subsidiary of a Person, a Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (a) directors qualifying shares and (b) shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
Withholding Agent means each Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
Write-Down and Conversion Powers means (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
Section 1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions. With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
(a) The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
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(b) (i) The words herein, hereto, hereof and hereunder and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.
(ii) Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.
(iii) The term including is by way of example and not limitation.
(iv) The term documents includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.
(c) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word from means from and including; the words to and until each mean to but excluding; and the word through means to and including.
(d) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(e) For purposes of determining compliance with any Section of Article VII, in the event that any Lien, Investment, Indebtedness, Disposition, Restricted Payment, Affiliate transaction, Contractual Obligation, or prepayment of Indebtedness meets the criteria of one or more of the categories of transactions permitted pursuant to any clause of such Sections, such transaction (or portion thereof) at any time, shall be permitted under one or more of such clauses as determined by the Company in its sole discretion at such time.
Section 1.03 Accounting Terms. All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with GAAP, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant contained herein (including, without limitation, any financial covenant), any lease that is treated as an operating lease for purposes of GAAP as of the Closing Date shall not be treated as Indebtedness and shall continue to be treated as an operating lease (and any future lease that would be treated as an operating lease for purposes of GAAP as of the Closing Date shall be similarly treated). For the avoidance of doubt, and without limitation of the foregoing, 2025 Convertible Notes shall at all times prior to the repurchase, conversion or payment thereof be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof and shall not include any reduction or appreciation in value of the shares and/or cash deliverable upon conversion thereof.
Section 1.04 Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Company pursuant to this Agreement (or required to be satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted under this Agreement) shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).
Section 1.05 References to Agreements, Laws, Etc. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such
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amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are permitted by any Loan Document; and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.
Section 1.06 Times of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
Section 1.07 Timing of Payment of Performance. When the payment of any obligation or the performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment (other than as described in the definition of Interest Period) or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day.
Section 1.08 Currency Equivalents Generally. Any amount specified in this Agreement (other than in Articles II, IX and X) or any of the other Loan Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount to be determined at the rate of exchange quoted by the Reuters World Currency Page for the applicable currency at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such day (or, in the event such rate does not appear on any Reuters World Currency Page, by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and each Borrower, or, in the absence of such agreement, such rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrative Agent in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of such currency are then being conducted, at or about 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on such date for the purchase of Dollars for delivery two (2) Business Days later). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with Sections 7.01, 7.02 and 7.03 with respect to any amount of Indebtedness or Investment in a currency other than Dollars, no Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of exchange occurring after the time such Indebtedness or Investment is incurred; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.08 shall otherwise apply to such Sections, including with respect to determining whether any Indebtedness or Investment may be incurred at any time under such Sections.
Section 1.09 Change of Currency. Each provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify with each Borrowers consent to appropriately reflect a change in currency of any country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to such change in currency.
Section 1.10 Cumulative Growth Amount Transactions. If more than one action occurs on any given date the permissibility of the taking of which is determined hereunder by reference to the amount of the Cumulative Growth Amount immediately prior to the taking of such action, the permissibility of the taking of such action shall be determined independently and in no event may any two or more such actions be treated as occurring simultaneously.
Section 1.11 Pro Forma and Other Calculations. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, financial ratios and tests, including the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by this Section 1.11; provided, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in clauses (b), (c), (d) or (e) of this Section 1.11, when calculating the Total Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of the definition of Applicable Rate and Section 7.10 (other than for the purpose of determining pro forma compliance with Section 7.10), the events described in this Section 1.11 that occurred subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period shall not be given pro forma effect. In addition, whenever a financial ratio or test is to be calculated on a pro forma basis, the reference to Test Period for purposes of calculating such financial ratio or test shall be deemed to be a reference to, and shall be based on, the most recently ended Test Period for which financial
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statements of the Company have been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) (it being understood that for purposes of determining pro forma compliance with Section 7.10, if no Test Period with an applicable level cited in Section 7.10 has passed, the applicable level shall be the level for the first Test Period cited in Section 7.10 with an indicated level).
(b) For purposes of calculating any financial ratio or test (or Total Assets), Specified Transactions (with any incurrence or repayment of any Indebtedness in connection therewith to be subject to clause (d) of this Section 1.11) that have been made (i) during the applicable Test Period or (ii) if applicable as described in clause (a) above, subsequent to such Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Specified Transactions (and any increase or decrease in Consolidated EBITDA and the component financial definitions used therein attributable to any Specified Transaction) had occurred on the first day of the applicable Test Period (or, in the case of Total Assets, on the last day of the applicable Test Period).
(c) Whenever pro forma effect is to be given to a Specified Transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Company and may include, for the avoidance of doubt, the amount of run-rate cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies projected by the Company in good faith to be realized as a result of specified actions taken, committed to be taken or expected to be taken (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies had been realized on the first day of such period and as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies were realized during the entirety of such period and run-rate means the full recurring benefit for a period that is associated with any action taken, committed to be taken or expected to be taken (including any savings expected to result from the elimination of a public targets compliance costs with public company requirements) net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions, and any such adjustments shall be included in the initial pro forma calculations of such financial ratios or tests and during any subsequent Test Period in which the effects thereof are expected to be realized) relating to such Specified Transaction; provided that (A) such amounts are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable in the good faith judgment of the Company, (B) such actions are taken, committed to be taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are expected in good faith to be taken no later than eighteen (18) months after the date of such Specified Transaction, (C) no amounts shall be added to the extent duplicative of any amounts that are otherwise added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA (or any other components thereof), whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, with respect to such period and (D) any increase to Consolidated EBITDA as a result of cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies pursuant to this Section 1.11(c) shall be subject to the limitation set forth in the further proviso of clause (xi) of the definition of Consolidated EBITDA.
(d) In the event that (w) any Borrower or any Subsidiary incurs (including by assumption or guarantees) or repays (including by redemption, repayment, retirement or extinguishment) any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid under any revolving credit facility unless such Indebtedness (a) has been permanently repaid and not replaced or (b) the proceeds therefrom are used for other than working capital purposes or general corporate purposes in the ordinary course of business), (x) any Borrower or any Subsidiary issues, repurchases or redeems Disqualified Equity Interests or (y) any Subsidiary issues, repurchases or redeems preferred stock, (i) during the applicable Test Period or (ii) subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made, then such financial ratio or test shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, or such issuance or redemption of Disqualified Equity Interests or preferred stock, in each case to the extent required, as if the same had occurred on the last day of the applicable Test Period.
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(e) Interest on a Finance Lease
Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of the Company to be the rate of interest implicit in such Finance Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP. Interest on Indebtedness that may
optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a Eurocurrencyan interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be determined to have
been based upon the rate actually chosen, or if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as any Borrower or Subsidiary may designate.
Section 1.12 Limited Condition Acquisitions. In the event that the Company notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that any proposed acquisition is a Limited Condition Acquisition and that the Company wishes to test the conditions to such acquisition and the availability of the Incremental Term Loans that is to be used to finance such acquisition in accordance with this Section 1.12, then, so long as agreed to by the lenders providing such Incremental Term Loan, the following provisions shall apply:
(a) any condition to such acquisition or such Incremental Term Loan that requires that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such acquisition or the incurrence of such Incremental Term Loan, shall be satisfied if (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of the execution of the definitive purchase agreement, merger agreement or other acquisition agreement governing such acquisition and (ii) no Event of Default under any of Sections 8.01(a), 8.01(f) or 8.01(g) shall have occurred and be continuing both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to such acquisition and any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith (including such Incremental Term Loan);
(b) any condition to such acquisition or such Incremental Term Loan that the representations and warranties in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent any such representation and warranty is qualified by materiality or reference to Material Adverse Effect, in which case, such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all respects) at the time of such acquisition or the incurrence of such Incremental Term Loan shall be subject to customary SunGard or other customary applicable certain funds conditionality provisions (including, without limitation, a condition that the representations and warranties under the relevant agreements relating to such Limited Condition Acquisition as are material to the lenders providing such Incremental Term Loan shall be true and correct, but only to the extent that the Company or its applicable Subsidiary has the right to terminate its obligations under such agreement as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties or the failure of those representations and warranties to be true and correct), so long as all representations and warranties in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent any such representation and warranty is qualified by materiality or reference to Material Adverse Effect, in which case, such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all respects) at the time of execution of the definitive purchase agreement, merger agreement or other acquisition agreement governing such acquisition;
(c) any financial ratio test or condition, may upon the written election of the Company delivered to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date of execution of the definitive agreement for such acquisition, be tested either (i) upon the execution of the definitive agreement with respect to such Limited Condition Acquisition or (ii) upon the consummation of the Limited Condition Acquisition and related incurrence of Indebtedness, in each case, after giving effect to the relevant Limited Condition Acquisition and related incurrence of Indebtedness, on a Pro Forma
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Basis; provided that the failure to deliver a notice under this Section 1.12(c) on or prior to the date of execution of the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition shall be deemed an election to test the applicable financial ratio under subclause (ii) of this Section 1.12(c); and
(d) if the Company has made an election with respect to any Limited Condition Acquisition to test a financial ratio test or condition at the time specified in clause (c)(i) of this Section, then, except as provided in the next sentence, in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio or basket on or following the relevant date of execution of the definitive agreement with respect to such Limited Condition Acquisition and prior to the earlier of (i) the date on which such Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated or (ii) the date that the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition, any such ratio or basket shall be required to be satisfied (x) on a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including the incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness) have been consummated and (y) assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including the incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness) have not been consummated. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any calculation of a ratio in connection with determining the Applicable Rate and determining whether or not the Borrower is in compliance with the requirements of Section 7.10 shall, in each case be calculated assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including the incurrence or assumption of Indebtedness) have not been consummated.
The foregoing provisions shall apply with similar effect during the pendency of multiple Limited Condition Acquisitions such that each of the possible scenarios is separately tested. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall there be more than two Limited Condition Acquisitions at any time outstanding.
Section 1.13 Rates. The interest rate on Eurocurrency Rate Loans and Base Rate Loans (when
determined by reference to clause (c) of the
definition of Base Rate) may be determined by reference to Eurocurrency Rate, which is derived from the London interbank offered rate. The London interbank offered rate is intended to represent the rate at which contributing banks may obtain
short-term borrowings from each other in the London interbank market. On March 5, 2021, ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA), the administrator of the London interbank offered rate, and the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA), the regulatory supervisor of IBA, announced in public statements
(the Announcements) that the final publication or representativeness date for the
London interbank offered rate for Dollars for: (a) 1-week and 2-month tenor settings will be December 31, 2021 and (b) overnight, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month and 12-month tenor settings will be June 30, 2023. No successor administrator for IBA was identified in such Announcements. As a
result, it is possible that commencing immediately after such dates, the London interbank offered rate for such tenors may no longer be available or may no longer be deemed a representative reference rate upon which to determine the interest rate on
Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans (when determined by reference to clause (c) of the definition of Base Rate). There is no assurance that the dates set forth in the Announcements will not change or that IBA or the FCA will not take further
action that could impact the availability, composition or characteristics of any London interbank offered rate. Public and private sector industry initiatives have been and continue, as of the date hereof, to be underway to implement new or
alternative reference rates to be used in place of the London interbank offered rate. In the event that the London interbank offered rate or any other then-current Benchmark is no longer available or in certain other circumstances set forth
in Section 3.03(b), such Section 3.03(b) provides a mechanism for determining an alternative rate of
interest. The Administrative
Agent will notify the Company, pursuant
to Section 3.03(b), of any change to the
reference rate upon which the interest rate on Eurocurrency Rate Loans and Base Rate Loans (when determined by reference to clause (c) of the definition of Base Rate) is based. However, the Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any
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for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, (ia) the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of or
any other matter related to the London interbank offered rate or
otherTerm SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, or any component definition thereof
or rates referred to in the definition of
Eurocurrency Ratethereof, or with respect to any alternative, comparable or successor rate
thereto, or replacement rate thereofthereto (including any
then-current Benchmark or any Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference
rate (including any Benchmark Replacement), as it may or may not be adjusted pursuant to Section 3.03(b), will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, Eurocurrency Rate or any other Benchmark, or have the same volume or liquidity as did, the London interbank offered
rateTerm SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (iib) the effect, implementation or composition of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming
ChangesConforming Changes. The Administrative Agent and its Affiliates or other related entities may
engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR, Term SOFR, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto and such
transactions may be adverse to the Borrowers. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted
Term SOFR or Term SOFR, or any other Benchmark, any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrowers, any Lender or any
other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error
or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.
Section 1.14 Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdictions laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.
ARTICLE II
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 2.01 The Loans.
(a) The Term Borrowing. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein,
each Term Lender severally agrees to make to the Borrowers a single loan denominated in Dollars in a principal amount equal to such Term Lenders Term Commitment on the Closing Date. Amounts borrowed under this
Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans, as further provided herein.
(b) The Revolving Credit Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make loans denominated in Dollars to the Borrowers (each such loan, a Revolving Credit Loan) from time to time, on any Business Day from and including the Closing Date until the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Revolving Credit Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment; provided that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Revolving Credit Lender, plus such Revolving Credit Lenders Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding
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Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Revolving Credit Lenders Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Revolving Credit
Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment. Within the limits of each Revolving Credit Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this
Section 2.01(b), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(b). Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans, as further provided herein.
Section 2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of
Loans. (a) Each Term Borrowing, each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans shall be made upon the applicable
Borrowers irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (i) three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the requested date of
any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans or any conversion of Base Rate
Loans to Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans, and (ii) one (1) Business Day
before the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans or conversion of any Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans to Base Rate Loans. Each telephonic notice by the applicable
Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of such Borrower.
Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans shall be in a principal amount of
$1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of
$100,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the applicable Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing, a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of Term Loans or Revolving
Credit Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or
continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans are to
be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, solely with respect to a Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans on the Closing Date, the Borrowers may select an Interest Period that expires on April 30,
2021. If the applicable Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Term
Loans or Revolving Credit Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans. If the applicable Borrower
requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an
Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one (1) month.
(b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Pro Rata Share of the applicable Class of Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the applicable Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of each Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agents Office not later than 1:00 p.m., in each case on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to
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the Borrowers in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrowers on the books of the Administrative Agent with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the applicable Borrower; provided that if, on the date the Committed Loan Notice with respect to such Borrowing is given by the such Borrower, there are Swing Line Loans or L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Borrowing shall be applied, first, to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, second, to the payment in full of any such Swing Line Loans, and third, to the Borrowers as provided above.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan may be continued or converted only
on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan unless the Borrowers pay the amount
due, if any, under Section 3.05 in connection therewith. During the existence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may require that no Loans may be converted to or continued as Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of the
interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans upon determination of such interest
rate. The determination of the Eurocurrency
RateAdjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR by the
Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of any change in the Administrative Agents prime
rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.
(e) After giving effect to all Term Borrowings, all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than ten (10) Interest Periods in effect (or such greater number as may be acceptable to the Administrative Agent).
(f) The failure of any Lender to make the Loan to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Loan on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Loan to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
(g) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing, or in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, prior to 1:00 p.m. on the date of such Borrowing, that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lenders Pro Rata Share or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such Pro Rata Share or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with paragraph (b) above, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrowers on such date a corresponding amount. If the Administrative Agent shall have so made funds available, then, to the extent that such Lender and the Borrowers severally agree to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to the Borrowers until the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of the Borrowers, the interest rate applicable at the time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the foregoing. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with respect to any amounts owing under this
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Section 2.02(g) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. If the Borrowers and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrowers the amount of such interest paid by the Borrowers for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lenders Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrowers shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrowers may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.
Section 2.03 Letters of Credit.
(a) The Letter of Credit Commitment.
(i) On and after the Closing Date, the Existing Letters of Credit for purposes hereof will be deemed to have been issued on the Closing Date under the Revolving Credit Facility. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) each L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from and including the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars on a sight basis for the account of the Borrowers (provided that any Letter of Credit may be for the benefit of any Subsidiary of any Borrower) and to amend or renew Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (2) to honor drafts under the Letters of Credit and (B) the Revolving Credit Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this Section 2.03; provided that no L/C Issuer shall be obligated to make any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, and no Lender shall be obligated to participate in any Letter of Credit if as of the date of such L/C Credit Extension, (x) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Lender would exceed such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment, (y) the L/C Commitment of any L/C Issuer would exceed such L/C Issuers L/C Commitment or (z) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Borrowers ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly each Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed.
(ii) An L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:
(A) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to such L/C Issuer or any directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or direct that such L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder);
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(B) subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance or last renewal, unless the Required Lenders have approved such expiry date;
(C) the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Revolving Credit Lenders have approved such expiry date;
(D) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate any Laws binding upon such L/C Issuer; or
(E) any Revolving Credit Lender is a Defaulting Lender at such time, unless such L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to it and the Borrowers to eliminate such L/C Issuers risk (after giving effect to Section 2.17(a)) with respect to the participation in Letters of Credit by such Defaulting Lender, including by cash collateralizing such Defaulting Lenders Pro Rata Share of the L/C Obligations.
(iii) An L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) such L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.
(b) Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Renewal Letters of Credit.
(i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of any Borrower delivered to an L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the relevant Borrower. Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the relevant L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. at least two (2) Business Days prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be; or, in each case, such later date and time as the relevant L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in its sole discretion. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the relevant L/C Issuer: (a) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (b) the amount thereof; (c) the expiry date thereof; (d) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (e) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (f) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; and (g) such other matters as the relevant L/C Issuer may reasonably request. In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the relevant L/C Issuer (1) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (2) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (3) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (4) such other matters as the relevant L/C Issuer may reasonably request.
(ii) Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the relevant L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application from any
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Borrower and, if not, such L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Upon receipt by the relevant L/C Issuer of confirmation from the Administrative Agent that the requested issuance or amendment is permitted in accordance with the terms hereof, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, such L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the relevant Borrower or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be. Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the relevant L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Lenders Pro Rata Share times the amount of such Letter of Credit.
(iii) If any Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the relevant L/C Issuer shall agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic renewal provisions (each, an Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit); provided that any such Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit must permit the relevant L/C Issuer to prevent any such renewal at least once in each twelve month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the Nonrenewal Notice Date) in each such twelve month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the relevant L/C Issuer, the relevant Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the relevant L/C Issuer for any such renewal. Once an Auto-Renewal Letter of Credit has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the relevant L/C Issuer to permit the renewal of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided that the relevant L/C Issuer shall not permit any such renewal if (A) the relevant L/C Issuer has determined that it would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its renewed form under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of Section 2.03(a)(ii) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is five (5) Business Days before the Nonrenewal Notice Date from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit Lender or the relevant Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied.
(iv) Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the relevant L/C Issuer will also deliver to the relevant Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.
(c) Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.
(i) Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the relevant L/C Issuer shall notify promptly the relevant Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof. Not later than 11:00 a.m. on the second Business Day following any payment by an L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (each such date, an Honor Date), the Borrowers shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing, together with interest on the amount so paid or disbursed by such L/C Issuer, to the extent not reimbursed on the date of such payment of disbursement. If the Borrowers do not reimburse such L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (the Unreimbursed Amount), and the amount of such Appropriate Lenders Pro Rata Share thereof. In such event, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit Borrowing of
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Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Appropriate Lenders and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice). Any notice given by an L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Each Appropriate Lender (including any Appropriate Lender acting as an L/C Issuer) shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agents Office for payments in an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Appropriate Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrowers in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the relevant L/C Issuer.
(iii) With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have incurred from the relevant L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In such event, each Appropriate Lenders payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.
(iv) Until each Appropriate Lender funds its Revolving Credit Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lenders Pro Rata Share of such amount shall be solely for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer.
(v) Each Revolving Credit Lenders obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse an L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the relevant L/C Issuer, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided that each Revolving Credit Lenders obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the Company of a Committed Loan Notice). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
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(vi) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), such L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. A certificate of the relevant L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.03(c)(vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) If, at any time after an L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving Credit Lender such Lenders L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), the Administrative Agent receives for the account of such L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the Borrowers or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lenders L/C Advance was outstanding) in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.
(ii) If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of an L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Appropriate Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its Pro Rata Share thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect.
(e) Obligations Absolute. The obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit issued by it and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;
(ii) the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that any Loan Party may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the relevant L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;
(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or
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any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;
(iv) any payment by the relevant L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by the relevant L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law;
(v) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the Guaranty or any other guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations any Loan Party in respect of such Letter of Credit; or
(vi) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Loan Party;
provided that the foregoing shall not excuse any L/C Issuer from liability to any Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages, claims in respect of which are waived by each Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable Law) suffered by such Borrower that are caused by such L/C Issuers gross negligence or willful misconduct (in each case, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment) when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof.
(f) Role of L/C Issuers. Each Lender and each Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the relevant L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any draft, demand, certificate or other document expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the L/C Issuers, any Agent-Related Person nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of any L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Letter of Credit Application. Each Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude such Borrowers pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuers, any Agent-Related Person, nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of any L/C Issuer, shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (vi) of Section 2.03(e); provided that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, any Borrower may have a claim against an L/C Issuer, and such L/C Issuer may be liable to such Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to special, punitive, indirect, consequential or exemplary damages suffered by such Borrower which such Borrower proves were caused by such L/C Issuers willful misconduct or gross negligence or such L/C Issuers willful or grossly negligent failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a draft, demand, certificate or other
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document strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit (in each case, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment). In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, each L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and no L/C Issuer shall be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.
(g) Cash Collateral. (i) If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing and the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, as applicable, require the Borrowers to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to Section 8.02(c) or (ii) an Event of Default set forth under Section 8.01(f) occurs and is continuing, then the Borrowers shall Cash Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to such Outstanding Amount determined as of the date of such Event of Default), and shall do so not later than 2:00 p.m. on (x) in the case of the immediately preceding clause (i), (1) the Business Day that the Borrowers receive notice thereof, if such notice is received on such day prior to 12:00 Noon, or (2) if clause (1) above does not apply, the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrowers receive such notice and (y) in the case of the immediately preceding clause (ii), the Business Day on which an Event of Default set forth under Section 8.01(f) occurs or, if such day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately succeeding such day. For purposes hereof, Cash Collateralize means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the relevant L/C Issuer and the Lenders, as collateral for the L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances (Cash Collateral) pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the relevant L/C Issuer (which documents are hereby consented to by the Lenders). Derivatives of such term have corresponding meanings. Each Borrower hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuers and the Lenders, a security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein and all proceeds of the foregoing. Cash Collateral shall be maintained in blocked accounts at the Administrative Agent and may be invested in readily available Cash Equivalents. If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that any funds held as Cash Collateral are subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties) or that the total amount of such funds is less than the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, the Borrowers will, forthwith upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay to the Administrative Agent, as additional funds to be deposited and held in the deposit accounts at the Administrative Agent as aforesaid, an amount equal to the excess of (a) such aggregate Outstanding Amount over (b) the total amount of funds, if any, then held as Cash Collateral that the Administrative Agent reasonably determines to be free and clear of any such right and claim. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on deposit as Cash Collateral, such funds shall be applied, to the extent permitted under applicable Law, to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer. To the extent the amount of any Cash Collateral exceeds the then Outstanding Amount of such L/C Obligations and so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the excess shall be refunded to the Borrowers. To the extent any Event of Default giving rise to the requirement to Cash Collateralize any Letter of Credit pursuant to this Section 2.03(g) is cured or otherwise waived by the Required Lenders, then so long as no other Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, all Cash Collateral pledged to Cash Collateralize such Letter of Credit shall be refunded to the Borrowers.
(h) Letter of Credit Fees. The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share, a Letter of Credit fee for each Letter of Credit issued pursuant to this Agreement equal to the Applicable Rate
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times the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (determined without regard to whether any conditions to drawing could then be met). Such Letter of Credit fees shall be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such Letter of Credit fees shall be due and payable in Dollars on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily maximum amount of each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.
(i) Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuers. The relevant Borrower shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer, for its own account, a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by it equal to 0.125% per annum of the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (determined without regard to whether any conditions to drawing could then be met). Such fronting fees shall be (x) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears and (y) due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. In addition, the relevant Borrower shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable within ten (10) Business Days of demand and are nonrefundable.
(j) Conflict with Letter of Credit Application. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary in this Agreement, in the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Letter of Credit Application, the terms hereof shall control.
(k) Addition of an L/C Issuer. A Revolving Credit Lender may become an additional L/C Issuer hereunder pursuant to a written agreement among each Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Revolving Credit Lender. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Credit Lenders of any such additional L/C Issuer.
(l) Provisions Related to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments. If the Letter of Credit Expiration Date in respect of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments occurs prior to the expiry date of any Letter of Credit, then (i) if consented to by the L/C Issuer which issued such Letter of Credit, if one or more other tranches of Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of which the Letter of Credit Expiration Date shall not have so occurred are then in effect, such Letters of Credit for which consent has been obtained shall automatically be deemed to have been issued (including for purposes of the obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders to purchase participations therein and to make Revolving Credit Loans and payments in respect thereof pursuant to Sections 2.03(c) and (d)) under (and ratably participated in by Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to) the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such non-terminating tranches up to an aggregate amount not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of the unutilized Revolving Credit Commitments thereunder at such time (it being understood that no partial face amount of any Letter of Credit may be so reallocated) and (ii) to the extent not reallocated pursuant to immediately preceding clause (i) and unless provisions reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer for the treatment of such Letter of Credit as a letter of credit under a successor credit facility have been agreed upon, the applicable Borrower shall, on or prior to the applicable Maturity Date, cause all such Letters of Credit to be replaced and returned to the applicable L/C Issuer undrawn and marked cancelled or to the extent that the applicable Borrower is unable to so
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replace and return any Letter(s) of Credit, such Letter(s) of Credit shall be secured by a back to back letter of credit reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer or the Borrowers shall Cash Collateralize any such Letter of Credit in accordance with Section 2.03(g). Commencing with the Maturity Date of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments, the sublimit for Letters of Credit shall be agreed solely with the L/C Issuer.
(m) Reporting of Letter of Credit Information and L/C Commitment. At any time that there is an L/C Issuer that is not also the financial institution acting as Administrative Agent, then (a) on the last Business Day of each calendar month, (b) on each date that a Letter of Credit is amended, terminated or otherwise expires, (c) on each date that a Letter of Credit is issued or the expiry date of a Letter of Credit is extended, and (d) upon the request of the Administrative Agent, each L/C Issuer (or, in the case of clauses (b), (c) or (d) of this Section, the applicable L/C Issuer) shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a report setting forth in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent information (including, without limitation, any reimbursement, cash collateral, or termination in respect of Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer) with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer that is outstanding hereunder. In addition, each L/C Issuer shall provide notice to the Administrative Agent of its L/C Commitment, or any change thereto, promptly upon it becoming an L/C Issuer or making any change to its L/C Commitment. No failure on the part of any L/C Issuer to provide such information pursuant to this Section 2.03(m) shall limit the obligations of any Borrower or any Revolving Credit Lender hereunder with respect to its reimbursement and participation obligations hereunder.
Section 2.04 Swing Line Loans.
(a) The Swing Line. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swing Line Lender agrees to make loans (each such loan, a Swing Line Loan) to the Borrowers from time to time on any Business Day from and including the Closing Date until the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit, notwithstanding the fact that such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations of the Lender acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment; provided that (i) after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Lender, plus such Lenders Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Lenders Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect and (ii) notwithstanding the foregoing, the Swing Line Lender shall not be obligated to make any Swing Line Loans at a time when a Revolving Credit Lender is a Defaulting Lender, unless the Swing Line Lender has entered into arrangements reasonably satisfactory to it and the Borrowers to eliminate the Swing Line Lenders risk with respect to the Defaulting Lenders participation in such Swing Line Loans, including by cash collateralizing such Defaulting Lenders Pro Rata Share of the outstanding amount of Swing Line Loans; provided further that, the Borrowers shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04. Each Swing Line Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan. Swing Line Loans shall only be denominated in Dollars. Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such Lenders Pro Rata Share times the amount of such Swing Line Loan.
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(b) Borrowing Procedures. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon the applicable Borrowers irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof, and (ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day. Each such telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a written Swing Line Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Borrower. Promptly after receipt by the Swing Line Lender of any telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice, the Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, the Swing Line Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the contents thereof. Unless the Swing Line Lender has received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any Revolving Credit Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. on the date of the proposed Swing Line Borrowing (A) directing the Swing Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to the applicable Borrower.
(c) Refinancing of Swing Line Loans.
(i) The Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole and absolute discretion may request, on behalf of each Borrower (which hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Revolving Credit Lender make a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such Lenders Pro Rata Share of the amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding. Such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the Borrowers with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds for the account of the Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agents Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in such Committed Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii), each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Borrowers in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the Swing Line Lender.
(ii) If for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced by such a Revolving Credit Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04(c)(i), the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the Swing Line Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by the Swing Line Lender that each of the Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan and each Revolving Credit Lenders payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(i) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.
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(iii) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.04(c) by the time specified in Section 2.04(c)(i), the Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Swing Line Lender at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. A certificate of the Swing Line Lender submitted to any Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (iii) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(iv) Each Revolving Credit Lenders obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided that each Revolving Credit Lenders obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrowers to repay Swing Line Loans, together with interest as provided herein.
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) At any time after any Revolving Credit Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Lender its Pro Rata Share of such payment (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lenders risk participation was funded) in the same funds as those received by the Swing Line Lender.
(ii) If any payment received by the Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by the Swing Line Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Swing Line Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate. The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of the Swing Line Lender.
(e) Interest for Account of Swing Line Lender. The Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the Borrowers for interest on the Swing Line Loans. Until each Revolving Credit Lender funds its Base Rate Loan or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such Lenders Pro Rata Share of any Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Pro Rata Share shall be solely for the account of the Swing Line Lender.
(f) Payments Directly to Swing Line Lender. The Borrowers shall make all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swing Line Loans directly to the Swing Line Lender.
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(g) Provisions Related to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments. If the Maturity Date shall have occurred in respect of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments (the Expiring Credit Commitment) at a time when another tranche or tranches of Revolving Credit Commitments is or are in effect with a longer Maturity Date (each a Non-Expiring Credit Commitment and collectively, the Non-Expiring Credit Commitments), then with respect to each outstanding Swing Line Loan, if consented to by the Swing Line Lender, on the earliest occurring Maturity Date such Swing Line Loan shall be deemed reallocated to the tranche or tranches of the Non-Expiring Credit Commitments on a pro rata basis; provided that (x) to the extent that the amount of such reallocation would cause the aggregate credit exposure to exceed the aggregate amount of such Non-Expiring Credit Commitments, immediately prior to such reallocation (after giving effect to any repayments of Revolving Credit Loans and any reallocation of Letter of Credit participations as contemplated in Section 2.03(l)) the amount of Swing Line Loans to be reallocated equal to such excess shall be repaid and (y) notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Specified Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrowers shall still be obligated to pay Swing Line Loans allocated to the Revolving Credit Lenders holding the Expiring Credit Commitments at the Maturity Date of the Expiring Credit Commitment or if the Loans have been accelerated prior to the maturity date of the Expiring Credit Commitment. Commencing with the Maturity Date of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments, the sublimit for Swing Line Loans shall be agreed solely with the Swing Line Lender.
Section 2.05 Prepayments.
(a) Optional.
(i) Except as otherwise provided below in this
Section 2.05(a), the Borrowers may, upon notice from a Borrower to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part without premium or
penalty; provided that (1) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (A) three
(3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to any date of
prepayment of Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans and (B) on the date of
prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (2) any prepayment of Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole
multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof; and (3) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then
outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment, the Class(es) and Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and in the case of a prepayment of Term Loans, the manner in which the Borrowers elect to have such prepayment
applied to the remaining repayments thereof; provided that in the event such notice fails to specify the manner in which the respective prepayment of Term Loans shall be applied to repayments thereof required pursuant to
Section 2.07(a), such prepayment of Term Loans shall be applied in direct order of maturity to repayments thereof required pursuant to Section 2.07(a). The Administrative Agent will promptly notify
each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lenders Pro Rata Share of such prepayment. If such notice is given by a Borrower, the Borrowers shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified
in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together
with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. Each prepayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their
respective Pro Rata Shares.
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(ii) The Borrowers may, upon notice to the Swing Line Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (1) such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. on the date of the prepayment, and (2) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment. If such notice is given by a Borrower, the Borrowers shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the applicable Borrower may rescind any notice of prepayment under Section 2.05(a)(i) or 2.05(a)(ii) if such prepayment would have resulted from a refinancing in total of a Facility, which refinancing shall not be consummated or shall otherwise be delayed.
(b) Mandatory.
(i)
Within five (5) Business Days after financial statements have been delivered pursuant
to Section 6.01(a) and the related Compliance Certificate has been delivered pursuant to
Section 6.02(b), the Borrowers shall cause to
be prepaid Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount equal to (A) 50% of Excess Cash Flow, if any, for the fiscal year covered by such financial statements (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 25, 2022) minus (B) the sum of (without duplication) (1) all voluntary prepayments of Term Loans during such fiscal year (excluding any voluntary prepayments of Term Loans made during such fiscal year that reduced the
amount required to be prepaid pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) in the prior fiscal year) or after year-end and prior to when such
Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due and (2) all
voluntary prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans during such fiscal year (excluding any voluntary prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans made during such fiscal year that reduced the amount required to be prepaid pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) in the prior fiscal year) or after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due to the extent the Revolving Credit Commitments are permanently
reduced by the amount of such payments, but in the case of each of the immediately preceding clauses (1) and (2), to the extent such prepayments are funded with Internally Generated Cash; provided that no payment of any Term Loans shall be required under this
Section 2.05(b)(i) if the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the fiscal year covered by such financial statements was less than or equal to
3.00:1.00.[Intentionally Omitted].
(ii) (A) If (x) the Company or any Subsidiary Disposes of any property or assets (other than any Disposition of any property or assets permitted by Section 7.05(a), (b), (c), (d) (to the extent constituting a Disposition by any Subsidiary to a Loan Party), (e), (g), (h), (i), (j), (l), (n), (o) or (p)) or (y) any Casualty Event occurs, which in the aggregate results in the realization or receipt by the Company or such Subsidiary of Net Cash Proceeds, the Borrowers shall cause to be prepaid on or prior to the date which is ten (10) Business Days after the date of the realization or receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received; provided that, if at the time that any such prepayment would be required, any Borrower is required to offer to repurchase Permitted Pari Passu Secured Refinancing Debt (or any Indebtedness pursuant to a Permitted Refinancing in respect thereof that is
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secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations) pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing such Indebtedness with such Net Cash Proceeds, (such Permitted Pari Passu Secured Refinancing Debt (or any Indebtedness pursuant to a Permitted Refinancing in respect thereof) required to be offered to be so repurchased, Other Applicable Indebtedness), then the Borrowers may apply such Net Cash Proceeds on a pro rata basis (determined on the basis of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans and Other Applicable Indebtedness at such time; provided, further that the portion of such net proceeds allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount of such net proceeds required to be allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof, and the remaining amount, if any, of such net proceeds shall be allocated to the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof) to the prepayment of the Term Loans and to the repurchase or prepayment of Other Applicable Indebtedness, and the amount of prepayment of the Term Loans that would have otherwise been required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(ii)(A) shall be reduced accordingly; provided, further, that to the extent the holders of Other Applicable Indebtedness decline to have such Indebtedness repurchased or prepaid, the declined amount shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the date of such rejection) be applied to prepay the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof; provided, further that no such prepayment shall be required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(ii) with respect to such portion of such Net Cash Proceeds that such Borrower shall have, on or prior to such date, given written notice to the Administrative Agent of its intent to reinvest in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(ii)(B) but only so long as such Borrower is not otherwise required to pay (or make an offer to pay) any Other Applicable Indebtedness with such Net Cash Proceeds (which notice may only be provided if no Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing); provided, further that no payment of any Term Loans shall be required under this Section 2.05(b)(ii) if, on the date of such Disposition, the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio is less than 3.50:1.00 as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended for which financial statements have been delivered to the Lenders under Section 6.01(a) and (b), after giving effect to any such Disposition on a Pro Forma Basis;
(B) With respect to any Net Cash Proceeds realized or received with respect to any Disposition (other than any Disposition specifically excluded from the application of Section 2.05(b)(ii)(A)) or any Casualty Event, at the option of the applicable Borrower, such Borrower may reinvest all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in assets useful for its business or its Subsidiaries within (x) twelve (12) months following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds or (y) if such Borrower enters into a legally binding commitment to reinvest such Net Cash Proceeds within twelve (12) months following receipt thereof, within the later of (a) one hundred and eighty (180) days following the date of such legally binding commitment and (b) twelve (12) months following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided that (i) so long as an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, such Borrower (x) shall not be permitted to make any such reinvestments (other than pursuant to a legally binding commitment that such Borrower entered into at a time when no Event of Default is continuing) and (y) shall not be required to apply such Net Cash Proceeds which have been previously applied to prepay Revolving Credit Loans to the prepayment of Term Loans until such time as the relevant investment period has expired and no Event of Default is
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continuing and (ii) if any Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested (whether because the applicable reinvestment period has expired or otherwise) at any time after delivery of a notice of reinvestment election, an amount equal to any such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied within five (5) Business Days after such Borrower reasonably determines that such Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested to the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05.
(iii) If the Company or any Subsidiary incurs or issues any Indebtedness (x) not expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to any clause of Section 7.03 or (y) that constitute Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, the Borrowers shall cause to be prepaid Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom on or prior to the date which is five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds.
(iv) If for any reason the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposures at any time exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect, the Borrowers shall promptly prepay or cause to be promptly prepaid Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iv) unless after the prepayment in full of the Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans, such aggregate Outstanding Amount exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect.
(v) If at any time the Consolidated Cash Balance exceeds $225,000,000 for ten
consecutive Business Days, then the Borrowers shall, within five Business Days, prepay the outstanding principal amount of any Revolving Credit Loans in an aggregate amount equal to the lesser of (A) the amount sufficient to reduce such excess
to zero and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Credit Loans then outstanding; provided that no such prepayment shall be required at any time after January 1, 2022 when the Total Net Leverage Ratio is less than or equal
to 4.00 to 1.00, determined as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended for which financial statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent under Section 6.01(a) or (b); provided that, if any such prepayment
would result in the prepayment of a Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan with an Interest Period that ends
not more than five Business Days after the required date of prepayment pursuant to this clause (v), then such prepayment shall not be due until the last date of such Interest Period.
(vi) Each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this
Section 2.05(b) shall be applied ratably between the Initial Term Loans and (unless otherwise agreed by the applicable Incremental Lenders) any Incremental Term Loans as directed by the Borrower, and in the absence of such
direction, to reduce in direct order of maturity the remaining scheduled principal installments of the Initial Term Loans (and, as determined by the Borrowers and the applicable Incremental Lenders, to reduce the remaining scheduled principal
installments of any Incremental Term Loans) required pursuant to Section 2.07(a), and shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares; provided that mandatory prepayments
(other than mandatory prepayments with proceeds of Credit
Agreement Refinancing DebtIndebtedness) may not be directed to a later maturing Class of Term
Loans without at least a pro rata repayment of any related earlier maturing Classes. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loan pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)
shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon.
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(vii) Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Section 2.05, (i) to the extent that any of or all the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition by a Foreign Subsidiary (Foreign Disposition), or the Net Cash Proceeds of any Casualty Event from a Foreign Subsidiary (a Foreign Casualty Event) or
Excess Cash Flow attributable to Foreign Subsidiaries are prohibited or delayed by
applicable local law from being repatriated to the United States, the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this
Section 2.05(b) but may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law will not permit repatriation to the United States (each Borrower hereby agreeing to use
commercially reasonable efforts to cause the applicable Foreign Subsidiary to promptly take all actions reasonably required by the applicable local law to permit such repatriation), and once such repatriation of any of such affected Net Cash
Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow is permitted under the applicable local law, such repatriation will be promptly effected and an amount equal to such repatriated Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow will be promptly (and in any event not later than two (2) Business Days after such repatriation) applied (net of additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) to the repayment of the Term
Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) to the extent provided herein and (ii) to the extent that the Borrowers have determined in good faith that repatriation of any of or all the Net Cash Proceeds of any Foreign
Disposition or any Foreign Casualty Event or Excess Cash Flow attributable to Foreign Subsidiaries would have material adverse tax consequences with respect to such Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow, such Net Cash
Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.05(b) but may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary until such time
as it may repatriate such amount without incurring such material adverse tax consequences (at which time such amount shall be repatriated to the Borrowers and applied to repay the Term Loans).
(c) Funding Losses, Etc. All prepayments under this
Section 2.05 shall be made together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loan on a date prior to the last day of an Interest Period
therefor, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan pursuant to
Section 3.05. Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of Section 2.05(b), so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if any prepayment of Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans is required to be made under
Section 2.05(b) (but excluding prepayments required under clause (iv) and (v) of Section 2.05(b)), prior to the last day of the Interest Period therefor, in lieu of making any payment pursuant
to Section 2.05(b) in respect of any such Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loan prior to the last day of the Interest Period therefor, the
Borrowers may, in their sole discretion, deposit the amount of any such prepayment otherwise required to be made thereunder into a Cash Collateral Account until the last day of such Interest Period, at which time the Administrative Agent shall be
authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from any Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of such Loans in accordance with Section 2.05(b). Upon the occurrence and during
the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent shall also be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from any Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of the outstanding Loans in
accordance with Section 2.05(b) and the Borrowers shall be responsible for any amounts owing in respect of any Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan pursuant to
Section 3.05.
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Section 2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments.
(a) Optional. The Company may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the unused Commitments of any Class, or from time to time permanently reduce the unused Commitments of any Class; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent at least three (3) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $500,000 or any whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof and (iii) if, after giving effect to any reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit exceeds the amount of the Revolving Credit Facility, such sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess. The amount of any such Revolving Credit Commitment reduction shall not be applied to the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit unless otherwise specified by the Company or as otherwise provided in the immediately preceding sentence. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may rescind or postpone any notice of termination of the Commitments if such termination would have resulted from a refinancing in total of a Facility, which refinancing shall not be consummated or otherwise shall be delayed.
(b) Mandatory. The Term Commitment of each Term Lender shall be automatically and permanently reduced to $0 upon the making of such Term Lenders Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.01(a). The Revolving Credit Commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender shall automatically and permanently terminate on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility; provided that (x) the foregoing shall not release any Revolving Credit Lender from any liability it may have for its failure to fund Revolving Credit Loans, L/C Advances or participations in Swing Line Loans that were required to be funded by it on or prior to such Maturity Date and (y) the foregoing will not release any Revolving Credit Lender from any obligation to fund its portion of L/C Advances or participations in Swing Line Loans with respect to Letters of Credit issued or Swing Line Loans made prior to such Maturity Date.
(c) Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of unused portions of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Swing Line Sublimit or the unused Commitments of any Class under this Section 2.06. Upon any reduction of unused Commitments of any Class, the Commitment of each Lender of such Class shall be reduced by such Lenders Pro Rata Share of the amount by which such Commitments are reduced (other than the termination of the Commitment of any Lender as provided in Section 3.07). All commitment fees accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Aggregate Commitments shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.
Section 2.07 Repayment of Loans.
(a) Term Loan.
(i) The Borrowers shall repay to the Administrative
Agent for the ratable account of the Term Lenders
(A) in consecutive quarterly installments on the
last day of each fiscal quarter of the Company, commencing with September 26, 2021, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan as set forth below (which payments shall
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(B) on the Maturity Date for the Term Loans, the
aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans outstanding on such date.
(ii) The amount of any such payment set forth in clause
(i) above shall be adjusted to account for the
addition of any Incremental Term Loans, Extended Term Loans or Other Term Loans to contemplate (A) the reduction in the aggregate principal amount of any Term Loans that were paid down in connection with the incurrence of such Incremental Term Loans, Extended Term
Loans or Other Term Loans, and (B) any increase
to payments to the extent and as required pursuant to the terms of any applicable Incremental Amendment, Extension Amendment or Refinancing
Amendment.
(a) [Intentionally Omitted].
(b) Revolving Credit Loans. The Borrowers shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Appropriate Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all of their Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date.
(c) Swing Line Loans. The Borrowers shall repay their Swing Line Loans on the earlier to occur of (i) the date five (5) Business Days after such Swing Line Loan is made and (ii) the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility.
Section 2.08 Interest. (a) Subject to the provisions of
Section 2.08(b), (i) each Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan shall bear interest on the
outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at
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a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency RateAdjusted Term SOFR for such Interest Period plus the Applicable
Rate; (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable Borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate; and (iii) each Swing Line Loan
shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable Borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for Revolving Credit Loans.
(b) The Borrowers shall pay interest on past due amounts hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws. Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
(d) All computations of interest hereunder shall be made in accordance with Section 2.10.
(e) In connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR.
Section 2.09 Fees. In addition to certain fees described in Sections 2.03(h) and (i):
(a) Commitment Fee. The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share, a commitment fee equal to the Applicable Rate with respect to commitment fees times the actual daily amount by which the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitment exceeds the sum of (A) Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans (for the avoidance of doubt, excluding any Swing Line Loans) and (B) the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations; provided that any commitment fee accrued with respect to any of the Revolving Credit Commitments of a Defaulting Lender during the period prior to the time such Lender became a Defaulting Lender and unpaid at such time shall not be payable by the Borrowers so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender except to the extent that such commitment fee shall otherwise have been due and payable by the Borrowers prior to such time; and provided, further, that no commitment fee shall accrue on any of the Revolving Credit Commitments of a Defaulting Lender so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender. The commitment fee shall accrue at all times from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article IV is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility. The commitment fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, and if there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the actual daily amount shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.
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(b) Other Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Agents such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever (except as expressly agreed between the Borrowers and the applicable Agent).
Section 2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees. All computations
of interest for Base Rate Loans when the Base Rate is determined by the Administrative Agents prime rate shall be made on the basis of a year of three hundred and sixty-five (365) days (or three hundred and sixty six
(366) days, as the case may be) and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a three hundred and sixty (360) day year and actual days elapsed. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the
day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid; provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to
Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one (1) day. In computing interest on any Loan, the first day of an Interest Period applicable to such Loan or, with respect to a Base Rate Loan being converted from a Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan, the date of conversion of such
Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan to such Base Rate Loan, as the case
may be, shall be included, and the expiration date of an Interest Period applicable to such Loan or, with respect to a Base Rate Loan being converted to a
Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan, the date of conversion of such Base
Rate Loan to such Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loan, as the case may be, shall be
excluded. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
Section 2.11 Evidence of Indebtedness. (a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and evidenced by one or more entries in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent, acting solely for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 5f.103-1(c), as agent for each Borrower, in each case in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be prima facie evidence absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrowers and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of each Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, each Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note payable to such Lender, which shall evidence such Lenders Loans in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
(b) In addition to the accounts and records referred to in Section 2.11(a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records and, in the case of the Administrative Agent, entries in the Register in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(d), evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent in the Register and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the Register shall control in the absence of manifest error.
(c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register, and by each Lender in its account or accounts pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and (b), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrowers to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest error; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
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Section 2.12 Payments Generally. (a) All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agents Office in Dollars and in Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Pro Rata Share (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lenders Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. shall in each case be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue.
(b) If any payment to be made by the Borrowers shall come due on a day other than a
Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be; provided that, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or
principal of Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans to be made in the next succeeding
calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.
(c) Unless the Company or any Lender has notified the Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required to be made by it to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that the Borrowers or such Lender, as the case may be, will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrowers or such Lender, as the case may be, has timely made such payment and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon, make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled thereto. If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact made to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds, then:
(i) if the Borrowers failed to make such payment, each Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to the Administrative Agent the portion of such assumed payment that was made available to such Lender in Same Day Funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect; and
(ii) if any Lender failed to make such payment, such Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative Agent the amount thereof in Same Day Funds, together with interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrowers to the date such amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent (the Compensation Period) at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Federal Funds Rate from time to time in effect. When such Lender makes payment to the Administrative Agent (together with all accrued interest thereon), then such payment amount (excluding the amount of any interest which may have accrued and been paid in respect of such late payment) shall constitute such Lenders Loan included in the applicable Borrowing. If such Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agents demand therefor, the Administrative Agent may make a demand therefor upon the Borrowers, and the Borrowers shall pay such amount to the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon for the Compensation Period at a rate
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per annum equal to the rate of interest applicable to the applicable Borrowing. Nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or any Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or any Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this Section 2.12(c) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(d) If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrowers by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall promptly return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(e) The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to fund any such participation on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or purchase its participation.
(f) Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
(g) Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in the order of priority set forth in Section 8.04. If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such Lenders Pro Rata Share of the sum of (a) the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time and (b) the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Loans or other Obligations then owing to such Lender.
(h) The Borrowers shall be jointly and severally liable for the Obligations. The obligations of each Borrower hereunder are independent of the obligations of any other Borrower and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against each Borrower whether or not action is brought against any other Borrower and whether or not any other Borrower be joined in any such action or actions. The Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties may in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, at their election, exercise any right or remedy available to them against any Borrower, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any other Borrower hereunder except to the extent the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, each Borrower waives any defense arising out of any such election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable Law, to impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Borrower against the other Borrower.
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Section 2.13 Sharing of Payments. If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein, any Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it, or the participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans held by it, any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the Loans made by them and/or such subparticipations in the participations in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans held by them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro rata with each of them; provided that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lenders ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lenders required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered, without further interest thereon. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to (A) any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement as in effect from time to time (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender) or (B) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant permitted hereunder. The Borrowers agree that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff, but subject to Section 10.09) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrowers in the amount of such participation. The Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of manifest error) of participations purchased under this Section 2.13 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments. Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased.
Section 2.14 Extension of Term Loans; Extension of Revolving Credit Loans.
(a) Extension of Term Loans. The Borrowers may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of a given Class (each, an Existing Term Loan Tranche) be amended to extend the scheduled Maturity Date(s) with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so amended, Extended Term Loans and the Term Commitments relating thereto, the Extended Term Loan Commitments) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.14. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Company shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders under the applicable Existing Term Loan Tranche) (each, a Term Loan Extension Request) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall (x) be identical as offered to each Lender under such Existing Term Loan Tranche (including as to the proposed interest rates and fees payable, but excluding any arrangement, structuring or other fees payable in connection therewith that are not generally shared with all relevant Lenders) and offered pro rata to each Lender under such Existing Term Loan Tranche and (y) be identical to the Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Tranche from which such Extended Term Loans are intended to be amended, except that: (i) all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may
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be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Tranche, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that at no time shall there be Classes of Term Loans hereunder (including Other Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Extended Term Loans) which have more than three (3) different Maturity Dates (unless otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent); (ii) the All-In Yield with respect to the Extended Term Loans (whether in the form of interest rate margin, upfront fees, original issue discount or otherwise) may be different from the All-In Yield for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Tranche, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; (iii) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Maturity Date that is in effect on the effective date of the Extension Amendment (immediately prior to the establishment of such Extended Term Loans); and (iv) Extended Term Loans may have call protection as may be agreed by the Borrowers and the Lenders thereof; provided that no Extended Term Loans may be optionally prepaid prior to the date on which all Term Loans with an earlier final stated maturity (including Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Tranche from which they were amended) are repaid in full, unless such optional prepayment of principal is accompanied by a pro rata optional prepayment of such other Term Loans; provided, however, that (A) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time a Term Loan Extension Request is delivered to Lenders, (B) in no event shall the Maturity Date of any Extended Term Loans of a given Term Loan Extension Series at the time of establishment thereof be earlier than the then Latest Maturity Date of any other Term Loans hereunder, (C) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Extended Term Loans of a given Term Loan Extension Series at the time of establishment thereof shall be no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Existing Term Loan Tranche (as originally in effect prior to any amortization or prepayments thereto), (D) any such Extended Term Loans (and the Liens securing the same) shall be permitted by the terms of the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement (to the extent any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement is then in effect), (E) all documentation in respect of such Extension Amendment shall be consistent with the foregoing and (F) any Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis or less than a pro rata basis (but not greater than a pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments of principal hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Term Loan Extension Request. Any Extended Term Loans amended pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request shall be designated a series (each, a Term Loan Extension Series) of Extended Term Loans for all purposes of this Agreement; provided that any Extended Term Loans amended from an Existing Term Loan Tranche may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any previously established Term Loan Extension Series with respect to such Existing Term Loan Tranche (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionately increased). Each request for a Term Loan Extension Series of Extended Term Loans proposed to be incurred under this Section 2.14 shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $25,000,000 (it being understood that the actual principal amount thereof provided by the applicable Lenders may be lower than such minimum amount).
(b) Extension of Revolving Credit Commitments. The Borrowers may, at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments (and related Revolving Credit Loans and other related extensions of credit) of a given Class (each, an Existing Revolver Tranche) be amended to extend the scheduled Maturity Date(s) with respect to all or a portion of such Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so amended, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the revolving loans thereunder, Extended Revolving Credit Loans) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.14. In order to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Company shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide
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a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders under the applicable Existing Revolver Tranche) (each, a Revolver Extension Request) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established, which shall (x) be identical as offered to each Lender under such Existing Revolver Tranche (including as to the proposed interest rates and fees payable, but excluding any arrangement, structuring or other fees payable in connection therewith that are not generally shared with all relevant Lenders) and offered pro rata to each Lender under such Existing Revolver Tranche and (y) be identical to the Revolving Credit Commitments under the Existing Revolver Tranche from which such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments are to be amended, except that: (i) the Maturity Date of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to a later date than the Maturity Date of the Revolving Credit Commitments of such Existing Revolver Tranche, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that at no time shall there be Classes of Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder (including Other Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Commitments) which have more than three (3) different Maturity Dates (unless otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent); (ii) the All-In Yield with respect to extensions of credit under the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (whether in the form of interest rate margin, upfront fees or otherwise) may be different than the All-In Yield for extensions of credit under the Revolving Credit Commitments of such Existing Revolver Tranche, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; (iii) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Maturity Date that is in effect on the effective date of the Extension Amendment (immediately prior to the establishment of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments); and (iv) all borrowings under the applicable Revolving Credit Commitments (i.e., the Existing Revolver Tranche and the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of the applicable Revolver Extension Series) and repayments and commitment reductions thereunder shall be made on a pro rata basis (except for (I) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings) and (II) repayments and commitment reductions required upon the Maturity Date of the non-extending Revolving Credit Commitments) and all Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Credit Commitments (subject to the provisions of Sections 2.03(l) and 2.04(g)); provided, further, that (A) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time a Revolver Extension Request is delivered to Lenders, (B) in no event shall the Maturity Date of any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of a given Revolver Extension Series at the time of establishment thereof be earlier than the then Latest Maturity Date of any other Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder, (C) any such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (and the Liens securing the same) shall be permitted by the terms of the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement (to the extent any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement is then in effect) and (D) all documentation in respect of such Extension Amendment shall be consistent with the foregoing. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments amended pursuant to any Revolver Extension Request shall be designated a series (each, a Revolver Extension Series) of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments for all purposes of this Agreement; provided that any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments amended from an Existing Revolver Tranche may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any previously established Revolver Extension Series with respect to such Existing Revolver Tranche. Each Revolver Extension Series of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments incurred under this Section 2.14 shall be in an aggregate amount that is not less than $25,000,000.
(c) Extension Request. The Company shall provide the applicable Extension Request at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which Lenders under the Existing Term Loan Tranche or Existing Revolver Tranche, as applicable, are requested to respond, and shall agree to such procedures, if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent, in
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each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.14. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Tranche amended into Extended Term Loans or any of its Revolving Credit Commitments amended into Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, pursuant to any Extension Request. Any Lender holding a Loan under an Existing Term Loan Tranche wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Tranche subject to such Extension Request amended into Extended Term Loans (each, an Extending Term Lender) and any Revolving Credit Lender wishing to have all or a portion of its Revolving Credit Commitments under the Existing Revolver Tranche subject to such Extension Request amended into Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (each, an Extending Revolving Credit Lender), as applicable, shall notify the Administrative Agent (each, an Extension Election) on or prior to the date specified in such Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Tranche or Revolving Credit Commitments under the Existing Revolver Tranche, as applicable, which it has elected to request be amended into Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable (subject to any minimum denomination requirements imposed by the Administrative Agent). In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans under the Existing Term Loan Tranche or Revolving Credit Commitments under the Existing Revolver Tranche, as applicable, in respect of which applicable Term Lenders or Revolving Credit Lenders, as the case may be, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Request exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, requested to be extended pursuant to the Extension Request, Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, subject to Extension Elections shall be amended to Extended Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, on a pro rata basis (subject to rounding by the Administrative Agent, which shall be conclusive) based on the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, included in each such Extension Election.
(d) Extension Amendment. Extended Term Loans and Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall be established pursuant to one or more amendments (each, an Extension Amendment) to this Agreement among each Borrower, the other Loan Parties, the Administrative Agent and each Extending Term Lender or Extending Revolving Credit Lender, as applicable, providing an Extended Term Loan or Extended Revolving Credit Commitment, as applicable, thereunder, which shall be consistent with the provisions set forth in Sections 2.14(a) or (b) above, respectively (but which shall not require the consent of any other Lender) and otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Commitments to provide Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, shall become effective on the date specified in the applicable Extension Amendment, subject to the satisfaction of each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not require compliance with the Financial Covenant for any Extended Term Loans) and such other conditions as may be specified in the applicable Extension Amendment and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of (i) legal opinions, board resolutions and officers certificates consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date (conformed as appropriate) other than changes to such legal opinions resulting from a change in law, change in fact or change to counsels form of opinion reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (ii) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Collateral Documents as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in order to ensure that the Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, are provided with the benefit of the applicable Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Extension Amendment. Each of the parties hereto hereby (A) agrees that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended pursuant to an Extension Amendment, without the consent of any other Lenders, to the extent (but only to the extent)
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necessary to (i) reflect the existence and terms of the Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, incurred pursuant thereto, (ii) modify the scheduled repayments set forth in Section 2.07 with respect to any Existing Term Loan Tranche subject to an Extension Election to reflect a reduction in the principal amount of the Term Loans thereunder in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Extended Term Loans amended pursuant to the applicable Extension (with such amount to be applied ratably to reduce scheduled repayments of such Term Loans required pursuant to Section 2.07), (iii) modify the prepayments set forth in Section 2.05 to reflect the existence of the Extended Term Loans and the application of prepayments with respect thereto and (iv) effect such other amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.14, and the Required Lenders (by executing and delivering the Extension Amendment and thereby binding themselves and all successors and assigns) hereby expressly and irrevocably, for the benefit of all parties hereto, authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any such Extension Amendment and (B) consent to the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.14 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of interest, fees or premiums in respect of any Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment).
(e) No Prepayment. No conversion or extension of Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.14 shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
Section 2.15 Incremental Borrowings.
(a) Incremental Commitments. The Company may at any time or from time to time after the Closing Date, by notice to the Administrative Agent (an Incremental Loan Request), request (A) one or more new commitments which may be of the same Class as any outstanding Term Loans (a Term Loan Increase) or a new Class of term loans (collectively with any Term Loan Increase, the Incremental Term Commitments) and/or (B) one or more increases in the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments (a Revolving Commitment Increase, and collectively with any Incremental Term Commitments, the Incremental Commitments), whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders.
(b) Incremental Loans. Any Incremental Term Loans effected through the establishment of one or more new Term Loans made on an Incremental Facility Closing Date shall be designated a separate Class of Incremental Term Loans for all purposes of this Agreement. On any Incremental Facility Closing Date on which any Incremental Term Commitments of any Class are effected (including through any Term Loan Increase), subject to the satisfaction of the terms and conditions in this Section 2.15, (i) each Incremental Term Lender of such Class shall make a Loan to the Borrowers (an Incremental Term Loan) in an amount equal to its Incremental Term Commitment of such Class and (ii) each Incremental Term Lender of such Class shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the Incremental Term Commitment of such Class and the Incremental Term Loans of such Class made pursuant thereto. On any Incremental Facility Closing Date on which any Revolving Commitment Increase is effected, subject to the satisfaction of the terms and conditions in this Section 2.15, (i) each Incremental Revolving Credit Lender shall make its Revolving Credit Commitment available to the Borrowers and (ii) each Incremental Revolving Credit Lender shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to its portion of the Revolving Commitment Increase. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Incremental Term Loans may have identical terms to any of the Term Loans and be treated as the same Class as any of such Term Loans.
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(c) Incremental Loan Request. Each Incremental Loan Request from the Company pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the relevant Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Commitment Increase. Incremental Term Loans may be made, and Revolving Commitment Increases may be provided, by any existing Lender (but no existing Lender will have an obligation to make any Incremental Commitment, nor will the Borrowers have any obligation to approach any existing Lenders to provide any Incremental Commitment) or by any other bank or other financial institution or other institutional lenders (any such other bank, other financial institution or other institutional lenders being called an Additional Lender) (each such existing Lender or Additional Lender providing such Commitment or Loan, an Incremental Revolving Credit Lender or Incremental Term Lender, as applicable, and, collectively, the Incremental Lenders); provided that the Administrative Agent, each Swing Line Lender and each L/C Issuer shall have consented (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to such Additional Lenders making such Incremental Term Loans or providing such Revolving Commitment Increase to the extent such consent, if any, would be required under Section 10.07(b) for an assignment of Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, to such Additional Lender.
(d) Effectiveness of Incremental Amendment. The effectiveness of any Incremental Amendment, and the Incremental Commitments thereunder, shall be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof (the Incremental Facility Closing Date) of each of the following conditions, which in the case of an Incremental Term Loan to be used to finance a Limited Condition Acquisition, shall be subject to Section 1.12:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall exist after giving effect to such Incremental Commitments;
(ii) the representations and warranties of each Loan Party set forth in Article V and in each other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Incremental Facility Closing Date with the same effect as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to materiality, Material Adverse Effect or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates;
(iii) each Incremental Term Commitment shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $25,000,000 and shall be in an increment of $1,000,000 (provided that such amount may be less than $25,000,000 if such amount represents all remaining availability under the limit set forth in the next sentence) and each Revolving Commitment Increase shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $10,000,000 and shall be in an increment of $1,000,000 (provided that such amount may be less than $10,000,000 if such amount represents all remaining availability under the limit set forth in the next sentence);
(iv) the aggregate principal amount of the Incremental Term Loans and the Revolving Commitment Increases (together with the aggregate amount of Incremental Equivalent Debt incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(s)) incurred after the Closing Date shall not exceed (A) $425,000,000 in the aggregate pursuant to this clause (A) or (B) at its option, up to an amount of Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Commitment Increases (and Incremental Equivalent Debt) so long as the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio is no more than 3.00:1.00 as of the last day of the Test Period most recently
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ended for which financial statements have been delivered to the Lenders under Section 6.01(a) and (b), after giving effect to any such incurrence on a Pro Forma Basis (but without giving effect to any use of the proceeds thereof to repay or prepay any revolving Indebtedness, including under the Revolving Credit Facility), and, in each case, with respect to any Revolving Commitment Increase, assuming a borrowing of the maximum amount of Loans available thereunder (such amounts under this clause (A) and (B), the Available Incremental Amount);
(v) (A) to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, the receipt by the Administrative Agent of (i) legal opinions, board resolutions and officers certificates consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date (conformed as appropriate) (other than changes to such legal opinions resulting from a change in law, change in fact or change to counsels form of opinion reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) and (ii) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Collateral Documents as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in order to ensure that the Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Commitments, as applicable, are provided with the benefit of the applicable Loan Documents, and (B) to the extent provided in the applicable Incremental Amendment, such other conditions as the Borrowers and the Lenders providing such Incremental Commitments may agree; and
(vi) the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in Pro Forma Compliance with the Financial Covenant after giving effect to such Incremental Commitments.
(e) Required Terms. The terms, provisions and documentation of the Incremental Term Loans and Incremental Term Commitments of any Class shall be as agreed between the Borrowers and the applicable Incremental Lenders providing such Incremental Commitments, and except as otherwise set forth herein, to the extent not identical to the Term Loans, each existing on the Incremental Facility Closing Date, shall be consistent with clauses (i) through (iii) below, as applicable, and otherwise as reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent (but in no event shall any such Incremental Facility have covenants and defaults materially more restrictive (taken as a whole) than those under this Agreement except for covenants and defaults applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of such Incremental Facility Closing Date); provided that in the case of a Term Loan Increase, the terms, provisions and documentation shall be identical (other than with respect to upfront fees, original issue discount or similar fees) to the applicable Term Loans being increased, as existing on the Incremental Facility Closing Date. In any event:
(i) the Incremental Term Loans:
(A) shall rank (I) pari passu in right of payment and (II) pari passu in right of security with the Revolving Credit Loans and the Term Loans,
(B) as of the Incremental Facility Closing Date, shall not have a Maturity Date earlier than the Maturity Date with respect to the Term Loans (prior to giving effect to any extensions thereof occurring after the Maturity Date),
(C) shall have an amortization schedule as determined by the Borrowers and the applicable new Lenders, provided that, as of the Incremental Facility Closing Date, such Incremental Term Loans shall have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity not shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans (as originally in effect prior to any amortization or prepayments thereto) on the date of incurrence of such Incremental Term Loans,
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(D) shall have, subject to clause (e)(iii) below, an Applicable Rate and, subject to clauses (e)(i)(B) and (e)(i)(C) above, amortization determined by the Borrowers and the applicable Incremental Term Lenders,
(E) shall have fees determined by the Borrowers and the applicable Incremental Term Loan arranger(s),
(F) with respect to any Incremental Term Loans structured as term B loans, may include such most favored nation pricing protections and a lower minimum assignment amount than is required under Section 10.07(b)(ii)(A), as determined by the Borrowers and the applicable Lenders,
(G) may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments of principal of Term Loans hereunder, as specified in the applicable Incremental Amendment, including, for the avoidance of doubt, on a less than pro rata basis permitting the Borrowers to repay any earlier maturing Term Loans prior to the repayment of the applicable Incremental Term Loans, and
(H) may not be (x) secured by any assets other than Collateral or (y) guaranteed by any Person other than a Guarantor;
(ii) the terms,
provisions and documentation of any Revolving Commitment Increase shall be identical to the Revolving Credit Commitments being increased, as existing on the Incremental Facility Closing Date; provided that the Borrowers and the applicable new
Lenders may agree to higher interest rates, upfront fees and Eurocurrency
RateAdjusted Term SOFR or Base Rate floors in each
applicable Incremental Amendment if the interest rate margins, upfront fees and Eurocurrency RateAdjusted Term SOFR or Base Rate floors with respect to the existing
Revolving Credit Commitments are increased so as to cause the then applicable interest rate, upfront fees, and Eurocurrency RateAdjusted Term SOFR or Base Rate floors under this Agreement on such
Revolving Credit Commitments to equal the interest rate, upfront fees, and Eurocurrency RateAdjusted Term SOFR or Base Rate floors then applicable to the Revolving
Commitment Increase; and
(iii) the
All-In Yield applicable to the Incremental Term Loans of each Class shall be determined by the Borrowers and the applicable new Lenders and shall be set forth in each applicable Incremental Amendment;
provided, however, that the All-In Yield applicable to any Incremental Term Loans that are structured as term A loans (each, an Incremental Term A Loan) shall not be greater
than the applicable All-In Yield payable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement as amended through the date of such calculation with respect to the Initial Term Loan plus 50 basis points per annum unless,
(x) if the Incremental Amendment provides for a new Class of Incremental Term A Loan, the interest rate (together with, as provided in the proviso below, the
Eurocurrency
RateAdjusted Term SOFR or Base Rate floor) with
respect to the Initial Term Loan is increased so as to cause the then applicable All-In Yield under this Agreement on the Initial Term Loan to equal the All-In Yield
then applicable to the Incremental Term A Loan minus 50 basis points; provided that any increase in All-In Yield to the Incremental Term Loan
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due to the application of a Eurocurrency RateAdjusted Term SOFR or Base Rate floor on any Incremental Term A Loan
shall be effected solely through an increase in (or implementation of, as applicable) any Eurocurrency RateAdjusted Term SOFR or Base Rate floor applicable to the Initial Term
Loan or (y) if the Incremental Amendment provides for a Term Loan Increase to the Initial Term Loan, the Borrowers pay upfront fees to the Lenders with respect to the Initial Term Loan in an aggregate amount so as to cause the then applicable All-In Yield under this Agreement on the Initial Term Loan to equal the All-In Yield then applicable to the Term Loan Increase to the Initial Term Loan minus 50 basis points.
(f) Incremental Amendment. Commitments in respect of Incremental Term Loans shall become Commitments (or in the case of a Revolving Commitment Increase, an increase in such Lenders applicable Revolving Credit Commitment), under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an Incremental Amendment) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed by each Borrower, each Incremental Lender providing such Commitments and the Administrative Agent. The Incremental Amendment may, without the consent of any other Loan Party, Agent or Lender, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.15. The Borrowers will use the proceeds of the Incremental Term Loans and Revolving Commitment Increases for any purpose not prohibited by this Agreement. No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Commitment Increase unless it so agrees.
(g) Reallocation of Revolving Credit Exposure. Upon any Incremental Facility Closing Date on which any Revolving Commitment Increase is effected pursuant to this Section 2.15, (a) each of the Revolving Credit Lenders shall assign to each of the Incremental Revolving Credit Lenders, and each of the Incremental Revolving Credit Lenders shall purchase from each of the Revolving Credit Lenders, at the principal amount thereof, such interests in the Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such Incremental Facility Closing Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such Revolving Credit Loans will be held by existing Revolving Credit Lenders and Incremental Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their Revolving Credit Commitments after giving effect to such Revolving Commitment Increase, (b) each Revolving Commitment Increase shall be deemed for all purposes a Revolving Credit Commitment and each Loan made thereunder shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Revolving Credit Loan and (c) each Incremental Revolving Credit Lender shall become a Lender with respect to such Revolving Commitment Increase and all matters relating thereto. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing and prepayment requirements in Section 2.02 and 2.05(a) of this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.
(h) This Section 2.15 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 10.01 to the contrary.
Section 2.16 Refinancing Amendments. (a) On one or more occasions after the Closing Date, the Borrowers may obtain, from any Lender or any Additional Refinancing Lender, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of all or any portion of any Class of Term Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans (or unused Revolving Credit Commitments) then outstanding under this Agreement (which for purposes of this clause (a) will be deemed to include any then outstanding Extended Term Loans, Other Term Loans or Incremental Term Loans), in the form of Other Term Loans, Other Term Loan Commitments, Other Revolving Credit Commitments or Other Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.16 or
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otherwise, (1) the borrowing and repayment (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Other Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the Maturity Date of the Other Revolving Credit Commitments and (C) repayment of principal made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments (subject to clause (3) below)) of Loans with respect to Other Revolving Credit Commitments after the date of obtaining any Other Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, (2) subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(l) and Section 2.04(g) to the extent dealing with Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit which mature or expire after a Maturity Date when there exist Extended Revolving Credit Commitments with a longer Maturity Date, all Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Commitments in accordance with their percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitments (and except as provided in Section 2.03(l) and Section 2.04(g), without giving effect to changes thereto on an earlier Maturity Date with respect to Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit theretofore incurred or issued), (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Credit Loans with respect to, and termination of, Other Revolving Credit Commitments after the date of obtaining any Other Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, except that the Borrowers shall be permitted to permanently repay and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than a pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later Maturity Date than such Class and (4) assignments and participations of Other Revolving Credit Commitments and Other Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and Revolving Credit Loans.
(b) The effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof of each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not require compliance with Section 7.10 for any incurrence of Other Term Loans) and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of (i) customary legal opinions, board resolutions and officers certificates consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date (conformed as appropriate) other than changes to such legal opinions resulting from a change in law, change in fact or change to counsels form of opinion reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (ii) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Collateral Documents as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in order to ensure that such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is provided with the benefit of the applicable Loan Documents.
(c) Each issuance of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness under Section 2.16(a) shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (x) not less than $25,000,000 and (y) an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.
(d) Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, without the consent of any other Lenders, to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to (i) reflect the existence and terms of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant thereto and (ii) effect such other amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.16, and the Required Lenders hereby expressly authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any such Refinancing Amendment.
Section 2.17 Defaulting Lenders.
(a) Adjustments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law:
(i) Waivers and Amendments. That Defaulting Lenders right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in Section 10.01.
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(ii) Reallocation of Payments. Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of that Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise) shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; third, if so determined by the Administrative Agent or requested by the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, to be held as Cash Collateral for future funding obligations of that Defaulting Lender of any participation in any Swing Line Loan or Letter of Credit; fourth, as the Company may request (so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, to be held in a non-interest bearing deposit account and released in order to (x) satisfy obligations of that Defaulting Lender to fund Loans under this Agreement or (y) Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuers future funding obligations with respect to such Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to the payment of any amounts owing to any Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by such Borrower against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to that Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Borrowings in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share and (y) such Loans or L/C Borrowings were made at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Borrowings owed to, all Non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Borrowings owed to, that Defaulting Lender. Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.17(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(iii) Certain Fees. That Defaulting Lender (x) shall not be entitled to receive any commitment fee pursuant to Section 2.09(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrowers shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender) and (y) shall be limited in its right to receive Letter of Credit fees as provided in Section 2.03(h) to the extent allocable to its Pro Rata Share of the stated amount of Letters of Credit for which it has provided Cash Collateral. With respect to any commitment fee or Letter of Credit fee not required to be paid to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to the foregoing
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clauses (x) or (y), the Borrowers shall (1) pay to each Non-Defaulting Lender that portion of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lenders participation in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans that has been reallocated to such Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (iv) below, (2) pay to the L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, as applicable, the amount of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender to the extent allocable to the L/C Issuers or Swing Line Lenders future funding obligations with respect to any portion of such Defaulting Lenders participation in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans that has not been reallocated to non-Defaulting Lenders or cash collateralized pursuant to this Section 2.17(a), and (3) not be required to pay the remaining amount of any such fee.
(iv) Reallocation of Pro Rata Share to Reduce Fronting Exposure. During any period in which there is a Defaulting Lender, for purposes of computing the amount of the obligation of each Non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.04, the Pro Rata Share of each Non-Defaulting Lenders Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations shall be computed without giving effect to the Commitment of that Defaulting Lender; provided that (i) each such reallocation shall be given effect only if, at the date the applicable Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, no Default has occurred and is continuing; and (ii) the aggregate obligation of each Non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans shall not exceed the positive difference, if any, of (1) the Commitment of that Non-Defaulting Lender minus (2) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Loans of that Non-Defaulting Lender. Subject to Section 10.23, no reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lenders increased exposure following such reallocation.
(v) Cash Collateral, Repayment of Swing Line Loans. If the reallocation described in clause (iv) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrowers shall, without prejudice to any right or remedy available to it hereunder or under law, (x) first, repay Swing Line Loans in an amount equal to the Swing Line Lenders future funding obligations and (y) second, Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuers future funding obligations.
(b) Defaulting Lender Cure. If each Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender and each L/C Issuer agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Revolving Credit Loans of the applicable Facility and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their Pro Rata Share of the applicable Facility (without giving effect to Section 2.17(a)(iv)), whereupon that Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrowers while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lenders having been a Defaulting Lender.
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ARTICLE III
TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
Section 3.01 Taxes. (a) For purposes of this Section 3.01, the term Lender includes each L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender.
(b) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower (the term Borrower under this Article III being deemed to include any Subsidiary for whose account a Letter of Credit is issued) under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Law. If any applicable Law requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Borrowers shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
(c) The Borrowers shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law any Other Taxes imposed on the Borrowers, and shall timely pay or reimburse any Recipient, as the case may be, for any Other Taxes paid or payable by such Recipient upon written demand (accompanied by a certificate complying with the requirements set forth in clause (d) below) therefor.
(d) Each Borrower shall severally indemnify each Recipient, within 10 Business Days after written demand (accompanied by a certificate complying with the requirements set forth below) therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate setting forth in reasonable detail a description of such Indemnified Taxes and the amount of such payment or liability for Indemnified Taxes delivered to the Borrowers by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(e) Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 Business Days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrowers have not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrowers to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lenders failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.07(e) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e).
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(f) As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by the Borrowers to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 3.01, the Borrowers shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(g) (i) any Lender that is a U.S. Person and the Administrative Agent (if such Agent is a U.S. Person) shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Recipient becomes a Recipient under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of any Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 (or any successor form) certifying that such Recipient is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding Tax;
(ii) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time upon the reasonable request of any Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:
(A) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, duly executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor form) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the interest article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor form) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the business profits or other income article of such tax treaty;
(B) duly executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI (or any successor form);
(C) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) or 871(h) of the Code, (x) a duly executed certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a 10 percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a controlled foreign corporation described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate) and (y) duly executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor form); or
(D) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY (or any successor form), accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, a duly executed U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J-2 or Exhibit J-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or successor forms thereof or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a
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partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a duly executed U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit J-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(iii) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time upon the reasonable request of any Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Law to permit the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(iv) if a payment made to a Recipient under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Recipient were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Recipient shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by any Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by any Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Recipient has complied with such Recipients obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (iv), FATCA shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Each Recipient agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(h) If any Recipient determines, in its reasonable discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund or overpayment credit in respect of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 3.01 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund or credit (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund or credit), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund or credit). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (h) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund or credit to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (h), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (h) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund or credit had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts
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with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
(i) Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 3.01(b) with respect to such Lender it will, if requested by any Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to such Lenders overall internal policies of general application and legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate another Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event; provided that such efforts are made on terms that, in the sole judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Lending Office(s) to suffer no economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided, further, that nothing in this Section 3.01(i) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrowers or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.01(b).
Section 3.02 Illegality. If any Lender determines that any Law
has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund
Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans, or to determine or charge interest
rates based upon SOFR, the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR
Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrowers through the Administrative Agent, (an Illegality
Notice),
until such
Lender
notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist, (i) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to
Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans shall be suspended untiland
(ii) if
necessary to avoid such Lender notifiesillegality, the Administrative Agent andshall compute the Borrowers that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer existBase Rate without reference to clause
(c) of
the definition of
Base
Rate. Upon receipt of such noticean Illegality
Notice, the Borrowers shall, if necessary to avoid such
illegality, upon demand from suchany Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if
applicable, convert all
EurocurrencySOFR
Loans to Base Rate Loans of such Lender to (in each case, if necessary to avoid such illegality, the Administrative Agent shall compute the Base Rate without reference
to clause
(c) of
the definition of Base Rate Loans, either),
on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lenderall affected Lenders may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency
RateSOFR Loans to such day, or promptlyimmediately
, if
suchany
Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loans to such day. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrowers
shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted and all amounts due, if any, in connection with such prepayment or conversion under Section 3.05. Each Lender agrees to designate a different Lending
Office if such designation will avoid the need for such
noticeIllegality
Notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.
Section 3.03 Inability to Determine Rates.
(a) Circumstances Affecting Eurocurrency
RateBenchmark Availability. Subject to
clause (b) below, in connection with any request for a Eurocurrency RateSOFR Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof or otherwise, if
for any reason (i) the Administrative Agent shall determine (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that Dollar
deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar market for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Loan,
(ii) the Administrative Agent shall
determine (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that reasonable and adequate means do not exist for