Common Stock, par value $0.50 per share
(including the associated preferred stock purchase rights) |
Y6476W104 | |
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Francelyn Bethel
Teekay Shipping Corporation Bayside House, Bayside Executive Park West Bay Street & Blake Road, P.O. Box AP 59212 Nassau, Bahamas Telephone: (242) 502-8880 |
Mikael Skov
Aktieselskabet Dampskibsselskabet TORM Tuborg Havnevej 18 DK 2900 Hellerup Denmark Telephone: +45 39 17 92 00 |
David S. Matheson, Esq.
Gwyneth E. McAlpine, Esq. Perkins Coie LLP 1120 N.W. Couch Street Tenth Floor Portland, Oregon 97209-4128 Telephone: (503) 727-2000 |
John M. Reiss, Esq.
Oliver C. Brahmst, Esq. White & Case LLP 1155 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 Telephone: (212) 819-8200 |
Transaction Valuation (1) | Amount of Filing Fee (2) | |
$1,814,140,575 | $55,694.12 |
(1) | Estimated for purposes of calculating the filing fee only. The transaction valuation was calculated based on the offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock of OMI Corporation at a purchase price equal to $29.25 per share and 62,021,900 shares issued and outstanding (including 2,415,610 restricted shares and outstanding options with respect to 37,000 shares). | |
(2) | The amount of filing fee, calculated in accordance with Rule 0-11 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is calculated by multiplying the transaction valuation by 0.0000307. |
o | Check the box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing with which the offsetting fee was previously paid. Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the form or schedule and the date of its filing. |
o | Check the box if the filing relates solely to preliminary communications made before the commencement of the tender offer. |
(b)(3) | Credit Agreement, dated May 16, 2007, between HSH Nordbank AG and Teekay.** | |||
(b)(4) | Credit Agreement, dated April 17, 2007, among HSH Nordbank AG, Danske Bank A/S and TORM.** |
TEEKAY SHIPPING CORPORATION.
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TEEKAY ACQUISITION HOLDINGS LLC
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OMAHA, INC.
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Definitions and Interpretation | 1 | ||||
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The Loan and its Purposes | 11 | ||||
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Conditions of Utilisation | 11 | ||||
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Advance | 12 | ||||
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Repayment | 13 | ||||
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Prepayment | 13 | ||||
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Interest | 14 | ||||
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Indemnities | 17 | ||||
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Fees | 20 | ||||
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Security and Application of Moneys | 20 | ||||
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Representations and Warranties | 22 | ||||
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Undertakings and Covenants | 27 | ||||
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Events of Default | 31 | ||||
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Assignment and Sub-Participation | 36 | ||||
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The Agent and the Lenders | 38 | ||||
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Set-Off | 47 | ||||
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Payments | 47 | ||||
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Notices | 49 | ||||
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Partial Invalidity | 51 | ||||
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Remedies and Waivers | 52 |
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Miscellaneous | 52 | ||||
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Law and Jurisdiction | 53 | ||||
SCHEDULE 1: The Lenders and the Commitments | 55 | |||||
SCHEDULE 2: Conditions Precedent and Subsequent | 56 | |||||
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Part I: Conditions precedent to the First Drawdown Date | 56 | ||||
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Part II: Conditions subsequent to the First Drawdown Date | 59 | ||||
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Part III: Conditions precedent to subsequent Drawdown Dates | 60 | ||||
SCHEDULE 3: Calculation of Mandatory Cost | 61 | |||||
SCHEDULE 4: Form of Drawdown Notice | 63 | |||||
SCHEDULE 6: Form of Compliance Certificate | 67 | |||||
SCHEDULE 7: Maximum Amount | 69 |
(1) | TEEKAY ACQUISITION HOLDINGS L.L.C. , a limited liability company formed and existing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands whose registered office is at The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Island, PO Box 1405 Majuro, The Marshall Islands, MH96960 (the Borrower ); and | |
(2) | the banks listed in Schedule 1, each acting through its office at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 1 (together the Lenders and each a Lender ); and | |
(3) | HSH NORDBANK AG , acting as agent and security trustee (in that capacity the Agent ). |
1 | Definitions and Interpretation |
1.1 | In this Agreement: | ||
Affiliate means, in relation to any entity, a Subsidiary of that entity, a Holding Company of that entity or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company. | |||
Assignment means the deed of assignment of the Intercompany Loan referred to in Clause 10.1.1. | |||
Authorisation means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, notarisation or registration. | |||
Bidco means Omaha, Inc., a corporation incorporated and existing under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands with its registered office at The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Island, PO Box 1405 Majuro, The Marshall Islands, MH96960. |
Break Costs means all sums payable by the Borrower from time to time under Clause 8.3. | |||
Business Day means a day on which banks are open for business of a nature contemplated by this Agreement (and not authorised by law to close) in New York, London, Hamburg, Frankfurt and any other financial centre which the Agent may reasonably consider appropriate for the operation of the provisions of this Agreement. | |||
Commitment means, in relation to a Lender, the aggregate amount of the Loan which that Lender agrees to advance to the Borrower as its several liability as indicated against the name of that Lender in Schedule 1 and/or, where the context permits, the amount of the Loan advanced by that Lender and remaining outstanding and Commitments means more than one of them. | |||
Commitment Commission means the commitment commission to be paid by the Borrower to the Agent on behalf of the Lenders pursuant to Clause 9.1. | |||
Compliance Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 6. | |||
Currency of Account means, in relation to any payment to be made to a Finance Party under a Finance Document, the currency in which that payment is required to be made by the terms of that Finance Document. | |||
Default means an Event of Default or any event or circumstance specified in Clause 13.1 which would (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice, the making of any determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of any of the foregoing) be an Event of Default. | |||
Default Rate means interest paid at the rate set out in Clause 7.8. | |||
Dollars , US$ and $ each means available and freely transferable and convertible funds in lawful currency of the United States of America. |
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Drawdown Date means the date on which a Drawing is advanced under Clause 4. | |||
Drawdown Notice means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule 4. | |||
Drawing means any one amount advanced or to be advanced pursuant to a Drawdown Notice or, where the context permits, the amount advanced and for the time being outstanding and Drawings means more than one of them. | |||
Encumbrance means a mortgage, charge, assignment, pledge, lien, or other security interest securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect. | |||
Event of Default means any of the events or circumstances set out in Clause 13.1. | |||
Execution Date means the date on which this Agreement is executed by each of the parties hereto. | |||
Facility means the credit facility made available by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement. | |||
Facility Period means the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date when the whole of the Indebtedness has been repaid in full and the Security Parties have ceased to be under any further actual or contingent liability to the Finance Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents. | |||
Fee Letter means the letter dated on or about the date hereof between the Borrower and the Agent setting out any of the fees referred to in Clause 9. | |||
Final Availability Date means 31 August 2007. | |||
Finance Documents means this Agreement, the Security Documents, any Fee Letter and any other document designated as such by the Agent and the Borrower and Finance Document means any one of them. |
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Finance Parties means the Agent and the Lenders and Finance Party means any one of them. | |||
First Drawdown Date means the date on which the first Drawing is advanced under Clause 4. | |||
Free Liquidity means cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of maturities less than one (1) year to which the Group shall have free, immediate and direct access each as reflected in the Guarantors most recent quarterly management accounts forming part of the Guarantors Accounts. | |||
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America. | |||
Group means the Guarantor and each of its Subsidiaries, other than OPCO, TOO and TGP. | |||
Guarantee means the guarantee and indemnity referred to in Clause 10.1.2. | |||
Guarantor means Teekay Shipping Corporation, a company incorporated under the laws of the Marshall Islands. | |||
Guarantors Accounts means the consolidated financial accounts of the Guarantor to be provided to the Agent pursuant to Clause 12.1.1. | |||
Holding Company means, in relation to any entity, any other entity in respect of which it is a Subsidiary. | |||
Indebtedness means the aggregate from time to time of: the amount of the Loan outstanding; all accrued and unpaid interest on the Loan; and all other sums of any nature (together with all accrued and unpaid interest on any of those sums) which from time to time may be payable by the Borrower to any of the Finance Parties under all or any of the Finance Documents. | |||
Intercompany Loan means the loan in an aggregate amount of up to seven hundred million Dollars to be made in one or more advances by the Borrower to Bidco pursuant to the Intercompany Loan Agreement. |
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Intercompany Loan Agreement means the agreement or agreements made or to be made between the Borrower and Bidco relating to the Intercompany Loan. | |||
Interest Payment Date means each date for the payment of interest in accordance with Clause 7.7. | |||
Interest Period means each period for the payment of interest selected by the Borrower or agreed by the Agent pursuant to Clause 7. | |||
law or Law means any law, statute, treaty, convention, regulation, instrument or other subordinate legislation or other legislative or quasi-legislative rule or measure, or any order or decree of any government, judicial or public or other body or authority, or any directive, code of practice, circular, guidance note or other direction issued by any competent authority or agency (whether or not having the force of law). | |||
LIBOR means: |
(a) | the applicable Screen Rate; or | ||
(b) | (if no Screen Rate is available for any Interest Period) the rate (rounded upwards to four decimal places) as quoted by the Agent to leading banks in the London interbank market, |
at 11.00 a.m. London time two (2) Business Days before the first day of the relevant Interest Period for the offering of deposits in Dollars in an amount comparable to the Loan (or any relevant part of the Loan) and for a period comparable to the relevant Interest Period. | |||
Loan means the aggregate amount advanced or to be advanced by the Lenders to the Borrower under Clause 4 or, where the context permits, the amount advanced and for the time being outstanding. | |||
Majority Lenders means a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate more than sixty six and two thirds per cent (66 2/3%) of the aggregate of all the Commitments. | |||
Mandatory Cost means the percentage rate per annum calculated by the Agent in accordance with Schedule 3. |
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Margin means zero point five zero per cent (0.50%) per annum. | |||
Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect on: |
(a) | the financial condition, assets, prospects or business of any Security Party or on the consolidated financial condition, assets, prospects or business of the Group; | ||
(b) | the ability of any Security Party to perform and comply with its obligations under any Security Document or to avoid any Event of Default; | ||
(c) | the validity, legality or enforceability of any Security Document; or | ||
(d) | the validity, legality or enforceability of any security expressed to be created pursuant to any Security Document or the priority and ranking of any such security, |
provided that, in determining whether any of the forgoing circumstances shall constitute such a material adverse change or material adverse effect for the purposes of this definition, the Finance Parties shall consider such circumstance in the context of (x) the Group taken as a whole and (y) the ability of the Borrower and the Guarantor to perform each of their obligations under the Security Documents. | |||
Maturity Date means the date falling three hundred and sixty four (364) days after the Execution Date. | |||
Material Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of the Guarantor whose assets, as determined in accordance with GAAP and as shown from the most recent financial statements available to the Agent relating to it, as multiplied by the Relevant Percentage in respect of such Subsidiary, equal or exceed 10% of the aggregate value of the assets of the Group as determined in accordance with GAAP and as shown from the most recently available financial statements of the Group, |
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provided that: |
(i) | in respect of any Subsidiary of the Guarantor, only the value of its assets as multiplied by the Relevant Percentage in respect of such Subsidiary shall be taken into account in the computation of the value of the assets of the Group; | ||
(ii) | a statement by the auditors of the Guarantor to the effect that, in their opinion, a Subsidiary of the Guarantor is or is not or was or was not at any particular time a Material Subsidiary shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on each of the parties to this Agreement; and | ||
(iii) | for the avoidance of doubt, none of OPCO, TOO TGP or Petrojarl shall be a Material Subsidiary. |
Maximum Amount shall have the meaning given to it in Clause 2.1. | |||
Necessary Authorisations means all Authorisations of any person including any government or other regulatory authority required by applicable Law to enable it to: |
(a) | lawfully enter into and perform its obligations under the Security Documents to which it is party; | ||
(b) | ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence in England and, if different, its jurisdiction of incorporation, of such Security Documents to which it is party; and | ||
(c) | carry on its business from time to time. |
OPCO means Teekay Offshore Operating L.P. and its Subsidiaries. | |||
Permitted Encumbrance means any Encumbrance which has the prior written approval of the Agent acting on the instructions of all the Lenders. | |||
Petrojarl - means Teekay Petrojarl AS and its Subsidiaries. | |||
Proportionate Share means, at any time, the proportion which a Lenders Commitment (whether or not advanced) then bears to the aggregate Commitments of all the Lenders (whether or not advanced) being on the Execution Date the percentage indicated against the name of that Lender in Schedule 1. |
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Relevant Documents means the Finance Documents and the Intercompany Loan Agreement. | |||
Relevant Percentage means, in respect of any Subsidiary of the Guarantor at any time, the percentage of the equity share capital or the partnership capital, as the case may be, of such Subsidiary which is beneficially owned (free from Encumbrances) by the Guarantor at such time. | |||
Screen Rate means in relation to LIBOR, the British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for the relevant currency and period displayed on the appropriate page of the Reuters page LIBOR 01 (or such other page or pages which replace(s) such page for the purposes of displaying offered rates of leading banks, for deposits in Dollars of amounts equal to the amount of the relevant Drawing for a period equal in length to the relevant Interest Period. | |||
Security Documents means the Assignment, the Guarantee, or (where the context permits) any one or more of them and any other agreement or document which may at any time be executed by any person as security for the payment of all or any part of the Indebtedness and Security Document means any one of them. | |||
Security Parties means at any relevant time, the Borrower, the Guarantor and any other person who may at any time during the Facility Period be liable for, or provide security for, all or any part of the Indebtedness, and Security Party means any one of them. | |||
Subsidiary means a subsidiary undertaking, as defined in section 736 Companies Act 1985 or any analogous definition under any other relevant system of law. | |||
Target means OMI Corporation. | |||
Tax means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same) and Taxation shall be interpreted accordingly. |
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TGP means Teekay LNG Partners L.P. and its Subsidiaries. | |||
TOO means Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. and its Subsidiaries. | |||
Total Debt means the aggregate of:- |
(a) | the amount calculated in accordance with GAAP shown as each of long term debt, short term debt and current portion of long term debt on the latest consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor (but excluding TGP, OPCO and TOO (excluding OPCO to the extent already consolidated into TOO) debt which is non-recourse to the Guarantor), and | ||
(b) | the amount of any liability in respect of any lease or hire purchase contract entered into by the Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries (excluding TGP, OPCO and TOO (excluding OPCO to the extent already consolidated into TOO)) which would, in accordance with GAAP, be treated as a finance or capital lease (excluding any amounts applicable to leases to the extent that the lease obligations are secured by a security deposit which is held on the balance sheet under Restricted Cash ). |
Transfer Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 or any other form agreed between the Agent and the Borrower. | |||
Transfer Date means, in relation to any Transfer Certificate, the date for the making of the Transfer specified in the schedule to such Transfer Certificate. | |||
Trust Property means: |
(a) | all benefits derived by the Agent from Clause 10; and | ||
(b) | all benefits arising under (including, without limitation, all proceeds of the enforcement of) each of the Security Documents, |
with the exception of any benefits arising solely for the benefit of the Agent. |
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1.2 | In this Agreement: |
1.2.1 | words denoting the plural number include the singular and vice versa; | ||
1.2.2 | words denoting persons include corporations, partnerships, associations of persons (whether incorporated or not) or governmental or quasi-governmental bodies or authorities and vice versa; | ||
1.2.3 | references to Recitals, Clauses and Schedules are references to recitals, clauses and schedules to or of this Agreement; | ||
1.2.4 | references to this Agreement include the Recitals and the Schedules; | ||
1.2.5 | the headings and contents page(s) are for the purpose of reference only, have no legal or other significance, and shall be ignored in the interpretation of this Agreement; | ||
1.2.6 | references to any document (including, without limitation, to all or any of the Relevant Documents) are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to that document as amended, supplemented, novated or replaced from time to time; | ||
1.2.7 | references to statutes or provisions of statutes are references to those statutes, or those provisions, as from time to time amended, replaced or re-enacted; | ||
1.2.8 | references to any Finance Party include its successors, transferees and assignees; | ||
1.2.9 | a time of day (unless otherwise specified) is a reference to Central European Time. |
1.3 | Offer letter | ||
This Agreement supersedes the terms and conditions contained in any correspondence relating to the subject matter of this Agreement exchanged between any Finance Party and the Borrower or their representatives prior to the date of this Agreement. |
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2 | The Loan and its Purposes |
2.1 | Amount Subject to the terms of this Agreement, each of the Lenders agrees to make available to the Borrower its Commitment of a Loan in an aggregate amount not exceeding the Maximum Amount, where Maximum Amount , at any relevant moment, shall be calculated by reference to the percentage of the issued share capital in the Target then held (or to be acquired with the proceeds of a Drawing hereunder) by Bidco, by reference to the table set out in Schedule 7. | ||
2.2 | Finance Parties obligations The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several. Failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents does not affect the obligations of any other party to the Finance Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents. | ||
2.3 | Purposes The Borrower shall apply the Loan for the purpose referred to in the Recital. | ||
2.4 | Monitoring No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed under this Agreement. |
3 | Conditions of Utilisation |
3.1 | Conditions precedent Before any Lender shall have any obligation to advance any Drawing under the Facility the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered to or to the order of the Agent all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part I of Schedule 2. | ||
3.2 | Further conditions precedent The Lenders will only be obliged to advance a Drawing if on the date of the Drawdown Notice and on the proposed Drawdown Date: |
3.2.1 | no Default is continuing or would result from the advance of that Drawing; and | ||
3.2.2 | the representations made by the Borrower under Clause 11 are true in all material respects. |
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3.3 | Conditions subsequent The Borrower undertakes to deliver or to cause to be delivered to the Agent on, or as soon as practicable after, the First Drawdown Date the additional documents and other evidence listed in Part II of Schedule 2. | ||
3.4 | Subsequent Drawings Before the Lenders shall have any obligation to advance subsequent Drawings, the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered to or to the order of the Agent all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part III of Schedule 2. | ||
3.5 | No Waiver If the Lenders in their sole discretion agree to advance a Drawing to the Borrower before all of the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1 or Clause 3.4 have been delivered to or to the order of the Agent, the Borrower undertakes to deliver all outstanding documents and evidence to or to the order of the Agent no later than the date specified by the Agent. | ||
The advance of all or any part of the Loan under this Clause 3.5 shall not be taken as a waiver of the Lenders right to require production of all the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1 and/or Clause 3.4 (as the case may be). | |||
3.6 | Form and content All documents and evidence delivered to the Agent under this Clause 3 shall: |
3.6.1 | be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent; and | ||
3.6.2 | if reasonably required by the Agent, be certified, notarised, legalised or attested in a manner acceptable to the Agent. |
4 | Advance |
4.1 | Drawdown Request The Borrower may request a Drawing to be advanced in one amount on any Business Day prior to the Final Availability Date by delivering to the Agent a duly completed Drawdown Notice not more than ten (10) and not fewer than two (2) Business Days before the proposed Drawdown Date. | ||
4.2 | Lenders participation Subject to Clauses 2 and 3, the Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the receipt of a Drawdown Notice, following which each Lender shall advance its Proportionate Share of the relevant Drawing to the Borrower through the Agent on the relevant Drawdown Date. |
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5 | Repayment | |
The Borrower shall on the Maturity Date repay to the Agent as agent for the Lenders all of the Indebtedness. | ||
6 | Prepayment |
6.1 | Illegality If it becomes unlawful in any jurisdiction for a Lender to fund or maintain its Commitment as contemplated by this Agreement or to fund or maintain the Loan: |
6.1.1 | that Lender shall promptly notify the Agent of that event; | ||
6.1.2 | upon the Agent notifying the Borrower, the Commitment of that Lender (to the extent not already advanced) will be immediately cancelled; and | ||
6.1.3 | the Borrower shall repay that Lenders Proportionate Share of any Drawing on the last day of its current Interest Period or, if earlier, the date specified by that Lender in the notice delivered to the Agent and notified by the Agent to the Borrower (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by law) and the Maximum Amount shall be reduced by the amount of that Lenders Commitment in the Loan. Prior to the date on which repayment is required to be made under this Clause 6.1.3 the affected Lender shall negotiate in good faith with the Borrower to find an alternative method or lending base in order to maintain the Facility. |
6.2 | Voluntary prepayment or cancellation of Loan The Borrower may prepay or cancel the whole or any part of the Loan (but, if in part, being an amount that reduces the Loan by a minimum amount of ten million Dollars ($10,000,000) and integral multiples of one million Dollars ($1,000,000) thereafter) provided that it gives the Agent not less than three (3) Business Days prior notice. Any amount prepaid or cancelled shall not be available for further borrowing. | ||
6.3 | Restrictions Any notice of prepayment or cancellation given under this Clause 6 shall be irrevocable and, unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, shall specify the date or dates upon which the relevant prepayment or cancellation is to be made and the amount of that prepayment or cancellation. |
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Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, subject to any Break Costs, without premium or penalty. | |||
If the Agent receives a notice under this Clause 6 it shall promptly forward a copy of that notice to the Borrower or the Lenders, as appropriate. | |||
6.4 | Mandatory Prepayment If any amounts are received during the Facility Period: |
6.4.1 | by the Borrower as dividends from Bidco which exceed (in aggregate) fifty million Dollars ($50,000,000) they shall be used, within five (5) Business Days of receipt, as a mandatory prepayment, in like amounts, of the Loan; or | ||
6.4.2 | (but without double counting) by Bidco as dividends from the Target which exceed (in aggregate) one hundred million Dollars ($100,000,000), an amount equal to fifty per centum (50%) of such excess shall be paid, within thirty (30) days of receipt by Bidco of such dividend payment, as a mandatory repayment of the Loan. |
7 | Interest |
7.1 | Interest Periods The period during which each Drawing shall be outstanding under this Agreement shall be an Interest Period of one, two, three or six months duration, as selected by the Borrower in the Drawdown Notice in respect of the Drawing in question, or such other duration as may be agreed by the Agent (acting on the instructions of all the Lenders). | ||
7.2 | Beginning and end of Interest Periods The first Interest Period in respect of each Drawing shall begin on the Drawdown Date of that Drawing and shall end on the last day of the Interest Period selected in accordance with Clause 7.1. Any subsequent Interest Period selected in respect of each Drawing shall commence on the day following the last day of its previous Interest Period and shall end on the last day of its current Interest Period selected in accordance with Clause 7.1. | ||
7.3 | Interest Periods to meet Maturity Date If an Interest Period for a Drawing would otherwise expire after the Maturity Date, the Interest Period for that Drawing shall expire on the Maturity Date. |
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7.4 | Non-Business Days If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not). | ||
7.5 | Interest rate During each Interest Period interest shall accrue on the relevant Drawing at the rate determined by the Agent to be the aggregate of (a) the Margin, (b) LIBOR and (c) the Mandatory Cost, if applicable. | ||
7.6 | Failure to select Interest Period If the Borrower at any time fails to select or agree an Interest Period in accordance with Clause 7.1, the interest period applicable shall be three (3) months. | ||
7.7 | Accrual and payment of interest Interest shall accrue from day to day, shall be calculated on the basis of a 360 day year and the actual number of days elapsed (or, in any circumstance where market practice differs, in accordance with the prevailing market practice) and shall be paid by the Borrower to the Agent for the account of the Lenders on the last day of each Interest Period and, if the Interest Period is longer than three months, on the dates falling at three monthly intervals after the first day of that Interest Period. | ||
7.8 | Default interest If the Borrower fails to pay any amount payable by it under a Finance Document on its due date, interest shall accrue on the overdue amount from the due date, subject to any applicable grace period, up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at a rate which is two per cent (2%) higher than the rate which would have been payable if the overdue amount had, during the period of non-payment, constituted a Drawing for successive Interest Periods, each selected by the Agent (acting reasonably). Any interest accruing under this Clause 7.8 shall be immediately payable by the Borrower on demand by the Agent. If unpaid, any such interest will be compounded with the overdue amount at the end of each Interest Period applicable to that overdue amount but will remain immediately due and payable. | ||
7.9 | Changes in market circumstances If at any time the Agent determines (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding on the Borrower) that, by reason of changes affecting the London interbank market, adequate and fair means do not exist for determining the rate of interest on a Drawing for any Interest Period: |
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7.9.1 | the Agent shall give notice to the Lenders and the Borrower of the occurrence of such event; and | ||
7.9.2 | the rate of interest on each Lenders Commitment in the relevant Drawing for that Interest Period shall be the rate per annum which is the sum of: |
(a) | the Margin; and | ||
(b) | the rate notified to the Agent by that Lender as soon as practicable, and in any event before interest is due to be paid in respect of that Interest Period, to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to that Lender of funding its Commitment in the relevant Drawing from whatever source it may reasonably select; and | ||
(c) | the Mandatory Cost, if any, applicable to that Lenders Commitment, |
PROVIDED THAT if the resulting rate of interest on any Commitment is not acceptable to the Borrower: |
7.9.3 | the Agent on behalf of the Lenders will negotiate with the Borrower in good faith with a view to modifying this Agreement to provide a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest which is financially a substantial equivalent to the basis provided for in this Agreement; | ||
7.9.4 | any substitute basis agreed pursuant to Clause 7.9.3 shall be binding on all the parties to this Agreement and shall apply to all Commitments in the relevant Drawing; and | ||
7.9.5 | if, within thirty (30) days of the giving of the notice referred to in Clause 7.9.1, the Borrower and the Agent fail to agree in writing on a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest in respect of the relevant Drawing, the relevant Lender shall cease to be obliged to advance its Proportionate Share of that Drawing, but, if it has already been advanced, the Borrower will prepay that Proportionate Share of that Drawing on the last day of the then current Interest Period, and the Loan shall be reduced by the amount of that Lenders Proportionate Share of that Drawing. |
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7.10 | Determinations conclusive The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest under this Clause 7 and each such determination shall (save in the case of manifest error) be final and conclusive. |
8 | Indemnities |
8.1 | Transaction expenses The Borrower will, within fourteen (14) days of the Agents written demand, pay the Agent (for the account of the Finance Parties) the amount of all reasonable out of pocket costs and expenses (including legal fees and Value Added Tax or any similar or replacement tax if applicable) reasonably incurred by the Finance Parties or any of them in connection with: |
8.1.1 | the negotiation, preparation, printing, execution and registration of the Finance Documents (whether or not any Finance Document is actually executed or registered and whether or not a Drawing is advanced); | ||
8.1.2 | any amendment, addendum or supplement to any Finance Document (whether or not completed); and | ||
8.1.3 | any other document which may at any time be reasonably required by a Finance Party to give effect to any Finance Document or which a Finance Party is entitled to call for or obtain under any Finance Document. |
8.2 | Funding costs The Borrower shall indemnify each Finance Party, by payment to the Agent (for the account of that Finance Party) on the Agents written demand, against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by that Finance Party if, for any reason due to a default or other action by the Borrower, a Drawing is not advanced to the Borrower after the relevant Drawdown Notice has been given to the Agent, or is advanced on a date other than that requested in the Drawdown Notice. | ||
8.3 | Break Costs The Borrower shall indemnify each Finance Party, by payment to the Agent (for the account of that Finance Party) on the Agents written demand, against all documented costs, losses, premiums or penalties incurred by that Finance Party as a result of its receiving any prepayment of all or any part of a |
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Drawing (whether pursuant to Clause 6 or otherwise) on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period for that Drawing, or any other payment under or in relation to the Finance Documents on a day other than the due date for payment of the sum in question, including (without limitation) any losses or costs incurred in liquidating or re-employing deposits from third parties acquired to effect or maintain all or any part of a Drawing. | |||
8.4 | Currency indemnity In the event of a Finance Party receiving or recovering any amount payable under a Finance Document in a currency other than the Currency of Account, and if the amount received or recovered is insufficient when converted into the Currency of Account at the date of receipt to satisfy in full the amount due, the Borrower shall, on the Agents written demand, pay to the Agent for the account of the relevant Finance Party such further amount in the Currency of Account as is sufficient to satisfy in full the amount due and that further amount shall be due to the Agent on behalf of the relevant Finance Party as a separate debt under this Agreement. | ||
8.5 | Increased costs (subject to Clause 8.6) If, by reason of the introduction of any law, or any change in any law, or any change in the interpretation or administration of any law, or compliance with any request or requirement from any central bank or any fiscal, monetary or other authority occurring after the date of this Agreement: |
8.5.1 | a Finance Party (or the holding company of a Finance Party) shall be subject to any Tax with respect to payment of all or any part of the Indebtedness (other than Tax on overall net income); or | ||
8.5.2 | the basis of Taxation of payments to a Finance Party in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness shall be changed; or | ||
8.5.3 | any reserve requirements shall be imposed, modified or deemed applicable against assets held by or deposits in or for the account of or loans by any branch of a Finance Party; or | ||
8.5.4 | the manner in which a Finance Party allocates capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement or any ratio (whether cash, capital adequacy, liquidity or otherwise) which a Finance Party is required or requested to maintain shall be affected; or |
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8.5.5 | there is imposed on a Finance Party (or on the holding company of a Finance Party) any other condition in relation to the Indebtedness or the Finance Documents; |
and the result of any of the above shall be to increase the cost to a Finance Party (or to the holding company of a Finance Party) of that Finance Party making or maintaining its Commitment, or to cause a Finance Party to suffer (in its opinion) a material reduction in the rate of return on its overall capital below the level which it reasonably anticipated at the date of this Agreement and which it would have been able to achieve but for its entering into this Agreement and/or performing its obligations under this Agreement, then, subject to Clause 8.6, the Finance Party affected shall notify the Agent and the Borrower shall from time to time pay to the Agent on demand for the account of that Finance Party the amount which shall compensate that Finance Party (or the relevant holding company) for such additional cost or reduced return. A certificate signed by an authorised signatory of that Finance Party setting out the amount of that payment and the basis of its calculation shall be submitted to the Borrower and shall be conclusive evidence of such amount save for manifest error or on any question of law. | |||
8.6 | Exceptions to increased costs Clause 8.5 does not apply to the extent any additional cost or reduced return referred to in that Clause is: |
8.6.1 | compensated for by a payment made under Clause 8.9; or | ||
8.6.2 | compensated for by a payment made under Clause 17.3; or | ||
8.6.3 | compensated for by the payment of the Mandatory Cost; or | ||
8.6.4 | attributable to the wilful breach by the relevant Finance Party (or the holding company of that Finance Party) of any law or regulation. |
8.7 | Events of Default The Borrower shall indemnify each Finance Party from time to time, by payment to the Agent (for the account of that Finance Party) on the Agents written demand, against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by that Finance Party as a consequence of any Event of Default. |
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8.8 | Enforcement costs The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each Finance Party) on the Agents written demand the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by a Finance Party in connection with the enforcement of, or the preservation of any rights under, any Finance Document including (without limitation) any losses, costs and expenses which that Finance Party may from time to time sustain, incur or become liable for by reason of that Finance Party being a lender to the Borrower. No such indemnity will be given where any such loss or cost has occurred due to gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of that Finance Party; however, this shall not affect the right of any other Finance Party to receive such indemnity. | ||
8.9 | Taxes The Borrower shall pay all Taxes to which all or any part of the Indebtedness or any Finance Document may be at any time subject (other than Tax on a Finance Partys overall net income) and shall indemnify the Finance Parties, by payment to the Agent (for the account of the Finance Parties) on the Agents written demand, against all liabilities, costs, claims and expenses resulting from any omission to pay or delay in paying any such Taxes. |
9 | Fees |
9.1 | Commitment fee The Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of the Lenders in proportion to their Commitments) a fee computed at the rate of zero point two zero per cent (0.20%) on the undrawn and uncancelled amount of the Loan from time to time from the date of this Agreement until the Final Availability Date. The accrued commitment fee is payable on the last day of each successive period of three months from the Execution Date and on the Final Availability Date PROVIDED ALWAYS that if no Drawings are made by the Final Availability Date no commitment fee shall be payable. | ||
9.2 | Other fees The Borrower shall pay to the Agent the fees in the amounts and at the times agreed in a Fee Letter. |
10 | Security and Application of Moneys |
10.1 | Security Documents As security for the payment of the Indebtedness, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to the Agent or cause to be executed and |
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delivered to the Agent the following documents in such forms and containing such terms and conditions as the Agent shall require: |
10.1.1 | a first priority deed of assignment of the Intercompany Loan; | ||
10.1.2 | an on demand guarantee and indemnity from the Guarantor; and | ||
10.1.3 | (subject to Clause 10.2) evidence of a negative pledge by Bidco with regard to its shares in the Target. |
10.2 | Bidco negative pledge The Borrower undertakes to use its best efforts to procure the support of Bidcos other shareholder to permit Bidco to give a negative pledge over Bidcos shareholding in the Target. Such negative pledge shall be:- |
10.2.1 | pro rata to the Borrowers shareholding in Bidco; and | ||
10.2.2 | subject to whether such a negative pledge is possible within the arrangements for Bidcos bid for the Target, the covenants and obligations given by the Target to third parties and any relevant legal considerations. |
10.3 | General application of moneys Whilst an Event of Default is continuing unremedied or unwaived the Borrower irrevocably authorises the Agent to apply all sums which it may receive under or in connection with any Security Document, in or towards satisfaction, or by way of retention on account, of the Indebtedness, as follows:- |
(i) | first in payment of all outstanding fees and expenses of the Agent; | ||
(ii) | secondly in or towards payment of all outstanding interest hereunder; | ||
(iii) | thirdly in or towards payment of all outstanding principal hereunder; | ||
(iv) | fourthly in or towards payment of all other Indebtedness hereunder; | ||
(v) | fifthly the balance, if any, shall be remitted to the Borrower or whoever may be entitled thereto. |
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11 | Representations and Warranties | |
The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Finance Parties at the Execution Date and (by reference to the facts and circumstances then pertaining) at the date of each Drawdown Notice, at each Drawdown Date and at each Interest Payment Date as follows (except that the representation and warranty contained at Clause 11.6 shall only be made on the First Drawdown Date and that the representations and warranties contained at Clause 11.2 and 11.20 shall only be made on the Execution Date) :- |
11.1 | Status and Due Authorisation Each of the Security Parties is a corporation or limited liability company duly incorporated or formed under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, organisation or formation (as the case may be) with power to enter into the Security Documents and to exercise its rights and perform its obligations under the Security Documents and all corporate and other action required to authorise its execution of the Security Documents and its performance of its obligations thereunder has been duly taken. | ||
11.2 | No Deductions or Withholding Under the laws of the Security Parties respective jurisdictions of incorporation or formation in force at the date hereof, none of the Security Parties will be required to make any deduction or withholding from any payment it may make under any of the Security Documents. | ||
11.3 | Claims Pari Passu Under the laws of the Security Parties respective jurisdictions of incorporation or formation in force at the date hereof, the Indebtedness will, to the extent that it exceeds the realised value of any security granted in respect of the Indebtedness, rank at least pari passu with all the Security Parties other unsecured indebtedness save that which is preferred solely by any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar laws of general application. | ||
11.4 | No Immunity In any proceedings taken in any of the Security Parties respective jurisdictions of incorporation or formation in relation to any of the Security Documents, none of the Security Parties will be entitled to claim for itself or any of its assets immunity from suit, execution, attachment or other legal process. |
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11.5 | Governing Law and Judgments In any proceedings taken in any of the Security Parties jurisdiction of incorporation or formation in relation to any of the Security Documents in which there is an express choice of the law of a particular country as the governing law thereof, that choice of law and any judgment or (if applicable) arbitral award obtained in that country will be recognised and enforced. | ||
11.6 | Validity and Admissibility in Evidence As at the date hereof, all acts, conditions and things required to be done, fulfilled and performed in order (a) to enable each of the Security Parties lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights under and perform and comply with the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in the Security Documents, (b) to ensure that the obligations expressed to be assumed by each of the Security Parties in the Security Documents are legal, valid and binding and (c) to make the Security Documents admissible in evidence in the jurisdictions of incorporation or formation of each of the Security Parties, have been done, fulfilled and performed. | ||
11.7 | No Filing or Stamp Taxes Under the laws of the Security Parties respective jurisdictions of incorporation or formation in force at the date hereof, it is not necessary that any of the Security Documents be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in its jurisdiction of incorporation or formation (other than the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales or the relevant maritime registry, to the extent applicable) or that any stamp, registration or similar tax be paid on or in relation to any of the Security Documents. | ||
11.8 | Binding Obligations The obligations expressed to be assumed by each of the Security Parties in the Security Documents are legal and valid obligations, binding on each of them in accordance with the terms of the Security Documents and no limit on any of their powers will be exceeded as a result of the borrowings, granting of security or giving of guarantees contemplated by the Security Documents or the performance by any of them of any of their obligations thereunder. | ||
11.9 | No Winding-up Neither the Borrower, the Guarantor nor any Material Subsidiary have taken any corporate, limited liability company or limited partnership action nor have any other steps been taken or legal proceedings been started or (to the best of the Borrowers knowledge and belief) threatened against the Borrower, the Guarantor or any Material Subsidiary for its winding-up, dissolution, administration or reorganisation or for the appointment of a receiver, |
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administrator, administrative receiver, trustee or similar officer of it or of any or all of its assets or revenues which might have a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of the Group taken as a whole. | |||
11.10 | Solvency |
11.10.1 | Neither the Borrower, the Guarantor nor the Group taken as a whole is unable, or admits or has admitted its inability, to pay its debts or has suspended making payments in respect of any of its debts. | ||
11.10.2 | Neither the Borrower, the Guarantor nor any Material Subsidiary by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, has commenced, or intends to commence, negotiations with one or more of its creditors with a view to rescheduling any of its indebtedness. | ||
11.10.3 | The value of the assets of each of the Borrower, the Guarantor and the Group taken as a whole is not less than the liabilities of such entity or the Group taken as a whole (as the case may be) (taking into account contingent and prospective liabilities). | ||
11.10.4 | No moratorium has been, or may, in the reasonably foreseeable future be, declared in respect of any indebtedness of the Borrower, the Guarantor or any Material Subsidiary. |
11.11 | No Material Defaults |
11.11.1 | Without prejudice to Clause 11.11.2, neither the Borrower, the Guarantor nor any Material Subsidiary is in breach of or in default under any agreement to which it is a party or which is binding on it or any of its assets to an extent or in a manner which might have a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of the Group taken as a whole. | ||
11.11.2 | No Event of Default is continuing or might reasonably be expected to result from the advance of any Drawing. |
11.12 | No Material Proceedings No action or administrative proceeding of or before any court, arbitral body or agency which is not covered by adequate insurance or which might have a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of the Group taken as a whole has been started or is reasonably likely to be started. |
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11.13 | Guarantors Accounts All financial statements relating to the Guarantor required to be delivered under Clause 12.1, were each prepared in accordance with GAAP, give (in conjunction with the notes thereto) a true and fair view of (in the case of annual financial statements) or fairly represent (in the case of quarterly accounts) the financial condition of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries at the date as of which they were prepared and the results of their operations during the financial period then ended. | ||
11.14 | No Undisclosed Liabilities As at the date to which the Guarantors Accounts were prepared neither the Borrower, the Guarantor nor any Material Subsidiary had any material liabilities (contingent or otherwise) which were not disclosed thereby (or by the notes thereto) or reserved against therein nor any unrealised or anticipated losses arising from commitments entered into by it which were not so disclosed or reserved against therein. | ||
11.15 | No Obligation to Create Security The execution of the Security Documents by the Security Parties and their exercise of their rights and performance of their obligations thereunder will not result in the existence of nor oblige the Borrower or the Guarantor to create any Encumbrance over all or any of their present or future revenues or assets, other than pursuant to the Security Documents. | ||
11.16 | No Breach The execution of the Security Documents by each of the Security Parties and their exercise of their rights and performance of their obligations under any of the Security Documents do not constitute and will not result in any breach of any agreement or treaty to which any of them is a party. | ||
11.17 | Security Each of the Security Parties is the legal and beneficial owner of all assets and other property which it purports to charge, mortgage, pledge, assign or otherwise secure pursuant to each Security Document and those Security Documents to which it is a party create and give rise to valid and effective security having the ranking expressed in those Security Documents. |
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11.18 | Necessary Authorisations The Necessary Authorisations required by each Security Party are in full force and effect, and each Security Party is in compliance with the material provisions of each such Necessary Authorisation relating to it and, to the best of its knowledge, none of the Necessary Authorisations relating to it are the subject of any pending or threatened proceedings or revocation. | ||
11.19 | Money Laundering Any amount borrowed hereunder, and the performance of the obligations of the Security Parties under the Security Documents, will be for the account of members of the Group and will not involve any breach by any of them of any law or regulatory measure relating to money laundering as defined in Article 1 of the Directive (91/308/EEC) of the Council of the European Communities. | ||
11.20 | Disclosure of material facts The Borrower is not aware of any material facts or circumstances which have not been disclosed to the Agent and which might, if disclosed, have reasonably been expected to adversely affect the decision of a person considering whether or not to make loan facilities of the nature contemplated by this Agreement available to the Borrower. | ||
11.21 | Use of Facility The Facility will be used for the purposes specified in the Recital. | ||
11.22 | Representations Limited The representation and warranties of the Borrower in this Clause 11 are subject to: |
11.22.1 | the principle that equitable remedies are remedies which may be granted or refused at the discretion of the court; | ||
11.22.2 | the limitation of enforcement by laws relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganisation, court schemes, moratoria, administration and other laws generally affecting or limiting the rights of creditors; | ||
11.22.3 | the time barring of claims under any applicable limitation acts; | ||
11.22.4 | the possibility that a court may strike out provisions for a contract as being invalid for reasons of oppression, undue influence or similar; and | ||
11.22.5 | any other reservations or qualifications of law expressed in any legal opinions obtained by the Agent in connection with the Facility. |
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12 | Undertakings and Covenants | |
The undertakings and covenants in this Clause 12 remain in force for the duration of the Facility Period. |
12.1 | General Undertakings |
12.1.1 | Financial statements The Borrower shall procure the supply to the Agent as soon as the same become available, but in any event within one hundred and fifty (150) days after the end of each of its financial years, the audited consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor for that financial year, together with a Compliance Certificate, signed by a duly authorised representative of the Guarantor, setting out computations as to compliance with Clause 12.2 as at the date as at which those financial statements were drawn up. | ||
12.1.2 | Requirements as to financial statements Each set of financial statements delivered by the Guarantor under Clause 12.1.1: |
(a) | shall be certified by an authorised signatory of the Guarantor as fairly representing its financial condition as at the date as at which those financial statements were drawn up; and | ||
(b) | shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP. |
12.1.3 | Interim financial statements The Borrower shall procure the supply to the Agent as soon as the same become available, but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each quarter during each of its financial years, the unaudited consolidated quarterly financial statements of the Guarantor for that quarter together with a Compliance Certificate, signed by a duly authorised representative of the Guarantor, setting out computations as to compliance with Clause 12.2 as at the date such financial statements were drawn up. | ||
12.1.4 | Maintenance of Legal Validity The Borrower shall obtain, comply with the terms of and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect all authorisations, approvals, licences and consents required in or by the laws and regulations of its jurisdiction of formation and all other |
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applicable jurisdictions, to enable it lawfully to enter into and perform its obligations under the Security Documents and to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of the Security Documents in its jurisdiction of incorporation or organisation and all other applicable jurisdictions. | |||
12.1.5 | Notification of Default The Borrower shall promptly, upon becoming aware of the same, inform the Agent in writing of the occurrence of any Event of Default and, upon receipt of a written request to that effect from the Agent, confirm to the Agent that, save as previously notified to the Agent or as notified in such confirmation, no Event of Default has occurred. | ||
12.1.6 | Claims Pari Passu The Borrower shall ensure that at all times the claims of the Finance Parties against it under the Security Documents rank at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured creditors save those whose claims are preferred by any bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, winding-up or other similar laws of general application. | ||
12.1.7 | Negative Pledge The Borrower shall not create, or permit to subsist, any Encumbrance (other than pursuant to the Security Documents) over all or any part of its shareholding in Bidco other than a Permitted Encumbrance. | ||
12.1.8 | Necessary Authorisations Without prejudice to Clause 12.1.12 or any other specific provision of the Security Documents relating to an Authorisation, the Borrower shall (i) obtain, comply with and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect all Necessary Authorisations if a failure to do the same may cause a Material Adverse Effect; and (ii) promptly upon request, supply certified copies to the Agent of all Necessary Authorisations. | ||
12.1.9 | Compliance with Applicable Laws The Borrower shall comply with all applicable laws to which it may be subject if a failure to do the same may have a Material Adverse Effect. |
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12.1.10 | Loans and Guarantees The Borrower shall be permitted to advance the Intercompany Loan, other intercompany borrowings it may borrow on a subordinated and unsecured basis in accordance with clause 12.1.17 and any capital contributions to Bidco, but shall not otherwise make any loans or grant any credit or give any guarantee or indemnity (except pursuant to the Security Documents). | ||
12.1.11 | Further Assurance The Borrower shall at its own expense, promptly take all such action as the Agent may reasonably require for the purpose of perfecting or protecting any Finance Partys rights with respect to the security created or evidenced (or intended to be created or evidenced) by the Security Documents. | ||
12.1.12 | Other information The Borrower will promptly supply to the Agent such information and explanations as the Majority Lenders may from time to time reasonably require in connection with the Borrower, and will procure that the Agent be given the like information and explanations relating to all other Security Parties and Bidco. | ||
12.1.13 | Inspection of records The Borrower will maintain its financial records and accounts in accordance with best practice and make such records and accounts available for inspection on reasonable notice from time to time during business hours by the Agent or its nominee. | ||
12.1.14 | Change of Control The Borrower shall procure that throughout the Facility Period there is no change in the legal or beneficial ownership of |
(a) | the Borrower other than to another entity within the Group; or | ||
(b) | of the fifty per cent (50%) interest in Bidco held by the Borrower |
from that advised to the Agent at the date of this Agreement without the Agents prior written consent. | |||
12.1.15 | Change of business The Borrower will not carry on any other business other than operating as a holding company for the shares in Bidco, financing Bidcos purchase of the share capital of the Target and performing its permitted obligations, including those with regard to the Intercompany Loan. |
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12.1.16 | Know your customer checks If: |
(a) | the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement; | ||
(b) | any change in the status of the Borrower after the date of this Agreement; or | ||
(c) | a proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer, |
obliges the Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of (c) above, any prospective new Lender) to comply with know your customer or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Borrower shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or any Lender supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or any Lender for itself (or, in the case of (c) above, on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Agent or that Lender (or, in the case of (c) above, any prospective new Lender) to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents. | |||
12.1.17 | Intercompany borrowings The Borrower will only borrow from other members of the Group, on a subordinated and unsecured basis. | ||
12.1.18 | Dividends The Borrower will not pay any dividends or make other distributions to its shareholders at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default which remains unremedied or unwaived. | ||
12.1.19 | Transfer of assets The Borrower will not sell or transfer any of its assets other than: |
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(a) | on arms length terms to third parties where the net proceeds of sale are used as a prepayment hereunder; or | ||
(b) | to its Affiliates, which are and remain members of the Group. |
12.2 | Financial covenants of the Guarantor Throughout the Facility Period the Borrower shall procure that the Guarantor shall:- |
12.2.1 | maintain a Free Liquidity (excluding that portion attributable to TGP, OPCO, and TOO (excluding OPCO to the extent already consolidated into TOO)) of not less than fifty million Dollars ($50,000,000); and | ||
12.2.2 | ensure that the aggregate of such Free Liquidity and undrawn committed revolving credit lines available to be drawn by the Guarantor and/or its Subsidiaries (excluding undrawn committed revolving credit lines with less than six (6) months to maturity and excluding that portion attributable to TGP, OPCO and TOO (excluding OPCO to the extent already consolidated into TOO)) will not be less than five per cent (5.0%) of the Total Debt. |
PROVIDED THAT following any change in the applicable accounting policies for the Guarantor from GAAP the Agent (in consultation with the Guarantor) may require an amendment to this Clause 12.2 as the Agent deems logical and necessary having regard to the nature of such changes in policy and the intended substance of this Clause 12.2. |
13 | Events of Default |
13.1 | Events of Default Each of the events or circumstances set out in this Clause 13.1 is an Event of Default. |
13.1.1 | Borrowers Failure to Pay under this Agreement The Borrower fails to pay any amount of principal due from it under this Agreement at the time, in the currency and otherwise in the manner specified herein provided that, if the Borrower can demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agent that all necessary instructions were given to effect such payment and the non-receipt thereof is attributable solely to an error in the banking system, such payment shall instead be deemed to |
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be due, solely for the purposes of this paragraph, within three (3) Business Days of the date on which it actually fell due under this Agreement (if a payment of principal), five (5) Business Days (if a payment of interest) or ten (10) Business Days (if a sum payable on demand); or | |||
13.1.2 | Misrepresentation Any representation or statement made by any Security Party in any Security Document to which it is a party or in any notice or other document, certificate or statement delivered by it pursuant thereto or in connection therewith is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect, where the circumstances causing the same give rise to a Material Adverse Effect; or | ||
13.1.3 | Specific Covenants A Security Party fails duly to perform or comply with any of the obligations expressed to be assumed by or procured by the Borrower under Clauses 12.1.4, 12.1.6, 12.1.7 or 12.1.14; or | ||
13.1.4 | Financial Covenants The Guarantor is in breach of the Guarantors financial covenants set out in Clause 12.2 at any time; or | ||
13.1.5 | Other Obligations A Security Party fails duly to perform or comply with any of the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in any Security Document (other than those referred to in Clause 13.1.3 or Clause 13.1.4) and such failure is not remedied within 30 days after the Agent has given notice thereof to the Borrower; or | ||
13.1.6 | Cross Default Any indebtedness of any Security Party is not paid when due (or within any applicable grace period) or any indebtedness of any Security Party is declared to be or otherwise becomes due and payable prior to its specified maturity where (in either case) the aggregate of all such unpaid or accelerated indebtedness (i) of the Guarantor is equal to or greater than fifty million Dollars ($50,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency; or (ii) of the Borrower is equal to or greater than five million Dollars ($5,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency; or |
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13.1.7 | Cross Acceleration Any indebtedness of a Material Subsidiary in an amount equal to or greater than ten million dollars ($10,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency is demanded prior to its specified maturity by reason of default (howsoever described); or | ||
13.1.8 | Insolvency and Rescheduling A Security Party or a Material Subsidiary is unable to pay its debts as they fall due, commences negotiations with any one or more of its creditors with a view to the general readjustment or rescheduling of its indebtedness or makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors or a composition with its creditors; or | ||
13.1.9 | Winding-up A Security Party or a Material Subsidiary takes any corporate action or other steps are taken or legal proceedings are started for its winding-up, dissolution, administration or re-organisation or for the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, conservator, custodian, trustee or similar officer of it or of any or all of its revenues or assets or any moratorium is declared or sought in respect of any of its indebtedness; or | ||
13.1.10 | Execution or Distress |
(a) | Any Security Party or a Material Subsidiary fails to comply with or pay any sum due from it (within 30 days of such amount falling due) under any final judgment or any final order made or given by any court or other official body of a competent jurisdiction in an aggregate (i) in respect of the Guarantor equal to or greater than fifty million Dollars ($50,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency; or (ii) in respect of the Borrower or a Material Subsidiary equal to or greater than five million Dollars ($5,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency, being a judgment or order against which there is no right of appeal or if a right of appeal exists, where the time limit for making such appeal has expired. |
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(b) | Any execution or distress is levied against, or an encumbrancer takes possession of, the whole or any part of, the property, undertaking or assets of a Security Party or a Material Subsidiary in an aggregate amount (i) in respect of the Guarantor equal to or greater than fifty million Dollars ($50,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency; or (ii) in respect of the Borrower or a Material Subsidiary equal to or greater than five million Dollars ($5,000,000) or its equivalent in any other currency, other than any execution or distress which is being contested in good faith and which is either discharged within 30 days or in respect of which adequate security has been provided within 30 days to the relevant court or other authority to enable the relevant execution or distress to be lifted or released; or |
13.1.11 | Similar Event Any event occurs which, under the laws of any jurisdiction, has a similar or analogous effect to any of those events mentioned in Clauses 13.1.8, 13.1.9 and 13.1.10, or | ||
13.1.12 | Repudiation Any Security Party repudiates any Security Document to which it is a party or does or causes to be done any act or thing evidencing an intention to repudiate any such Security Document; or | ||
13.1.13 | Validity and Admissibility At any time any act, condition or thing required to be done, fulfilled or performed in order: |
(a) | to enable any Security Party lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights under and perform the respective obligations expressed to be assumed by it in the Security Documents; | ||
(b) | to ensure that the obligations expressed to be assumed by each of the Security Parties in the Security Documents are legal, valid and binding; or | ||
(c) | to make the Security Documents admissible in evidence in any applicable jurisdiction |
is not done, fulfilled or performed within 30 days after notification from the Agent to the relevant Security Party requiring the same to be done, fulfilled or performed; or |
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13.1.14 | Illegality At any time it is or becomes unlawful for any Security Party to perform or comply with any or all of its obligations under the Security Documents to which it is a party or any of the obligations of the Borrower hereunder are not or cease to be legal, valid and binding and such illegality is not remedied or mitigated to the satisfaction of the Agent within thirty (30) days after it has given notice thereof to the relevant Security Party; or | ||
13.1.15 | Qualifications of Financial Statements The auditors of the Guarantor qualify their report on any audited consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor in any regard which, in the reasonable opinion of the Agent, has a Material Adverse Effect; or | ||
13.1.16 | Conditions Subsequent if any of the conditions referred to in Clause 3.3 is not satisfied within thirty (30) days or such other time period specified by the Agent in its discretion; or | ||
13.1.17 | Revocation or Modification of consents etc. if any Necessary Authorisation which is now or which at any time during the Facility Period becomes necessary to enable any of the Security Parties to comply with any of their obligations in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents is revoked, withdrawn or withheld, or modified in a manner which the Agent reasonably considers is, or may be, prejudicial to the interests of a Finance Party in a material manner, or if such Necessary Authorisation ceases to remain in full force and effect; or | ||
13.1.18 | Curtailment of Business if the business of any of the Security Parties is wholly or materially curtailed by any intervention by or under authority of any government, or if all or a substantial part of the undertaking, property or assets of any of the Security Parties is seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under authority of any government or any Security Party disposes or threatens to dispose of a substantial part of its business or assets; or | ||
13.1.19 | Reduction of Capital if the Borrower reduces its committed or subscribed capital; or |
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13.1.20 | Notice of Termination if the Guarantor gives notice to the Agent to determine its obligations under the Guarantee; or | ||
13.1.21 | NYSE Listing if the Guarantor shall cease to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. |
13.2 | Acceleration If an Event of Default is continuing unremedied or unwaived the Agent may (with the consent of the Majority Lenders) and shall (at the request of the Majority Lenders) by notice to the Borrower cancel any part of the Loan not then advanced and: |
13.2.1 | declare that the Loan, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under the Finance Documents are immediately due and payable, whereupon they shall become immediately due and payable; and/or | ||
13.2.2 | declare that the Loan is payable on demand, whereupon it shall immediately become payable on demand by the Agent; and/or | ||
13.2.3 | declare the Commitments terminated and the Maximum Amount reduced to zero. |
14 | Assignment and Sub-Participation |
14.1 | Lenders rights A Lender may assign any of its rights under this Agreement or transfer by novation any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to any other branch or Affiliate of that Lender or (subject to the prior written consent of the Borrower, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld but not to be required at any time after an Event of Default which is continuing unremedied or unwaived) to any other bank or financial institution, and may grant sub-participations in all or any part of its Commitment. Any such assignment or transfer shall be in a minimum amount of five million Dollars ($5,000,000) | ||
14.2 | Borrowers co-operation The Borrower will co-operate fully with a Lender in connection with any assignment, transfer or sub-participation by that Lender; will execute and procure the execution of such documents as that Lender may require in that connection; and irrevocably authorises any Finance Party to disclose to any proposed assignee, transferee or sub-participant (whether before or after any |
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assignment, transfer or sub-participation and whether or not any assignment, transfer or sub-participation shall take place) all information relating to the Security Parties, the Loan and the Relevant Documents which any Finance Party may in its discretion consider necessary or desirable (subject to any duties of confidentiality applicable to the Lenders generally). Additionally, (but subject to the same duties of confidentiality), any Lender may disclose the size and term of the Facility and the names of each Security Party to any investor or potential investor in a securitisation (or similar transaction of broadly equivalent economic effect) of that Lenders rights and obligations under the Finance Documents. | |||
14.3 | Rights of assignee Any assignee of a Lender shall (unless limited by the express terms of the assignment) take the full benefit of every provision of the Finance Documents benefiting that Lender PROVIDED THAT an assignment will only be effective on notification by the Agent to that Lender and the assignee that the Agent is satisfied it has complied with all necessary Know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the assignment to the assignee. | ||
14.4 | Transfer Certificates If a Lender wishes to transfer any of its rights and obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement, it may do so by delivering to the Agent a duly completed Transfer Certificate, in which event on the Transfer Date: |
14.4.1 | to the extent that that Lender seeks to transfer its rights and obligations, the Borrower (on the one hand) and that Lender (on the other) shall be released from all further obligations towards the other; | ||
14.4.2 | the Borrower (on the one hand) and the transferee (on the other) shall assume obligations towards the other identical to those released pursuant to Clause 14.4.1; and | ||
14.4.3 | the Agent, each of the Lenders and the transferee shall have the same rights and obligations between themselves as they would have had if the transferee had been an original party to this Agreement as a Lender |
PROVIDED THAT the Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate once: |
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(a) | it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the transfer to the transferee; and | ||
(b) | the transferee has paid to the Agent for its own account a transfer fee of three thousand Dollars. |
The Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after it has executed a Transfer Certificate, send to the Borrower a copy of that Transfer Certificate. | |||
14.5 | Finance Documents Unless otherwise expressly provided in any Finance Document or otherwise expressly agreed between a Lender and any proposed transferee and notified by that Lender to the Agent on or before the relevant Transfer Date, there shall automatically be assigned to the transferee with any transfer of a Lenders rights and obligations under or pursuant to this Agreement the rights of that Lender under or pursuant to the Finance Documents (other than this Agreement) which relate to the portion of that Lenders rights and obligations transferred by the relevant Transfer Certificate. | ||
14.6 | No assignment or transfer by the Borrower The Borrower may not assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents. |
15 | The Agent and the Lenders |
15.1 | Appointment |
15.1.1 | Each Lender appoints the Agent to act as its agent and security trustee under and in connection with the Finance Documents. | ||
15.1.2 | Each Lender authorises the Agent to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions. |
15.2 | Authority Each Lender irrevocably authorises the Agent (subject to Clauses 15.4 and 15.18): |
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15.2.1 | to execute any Finance Document (other than this Agreement) on its behalf; | ||
15.2.2 | to collect, receive, release or pay any money on its behalf; | ||
15.2.3 | acting on the instructions from time to time of the Majority Lenders (save where the terms of any Security Document expressly provide otherwise) to give or withhold any waivers, consents or approvals under or pursuant to any Finance Document; and | ||
15.2.4 | acting on the instructions from time to time of the Majority Lenders (save where the terms of any Security Document expressly provide otherwise) to exercise, or refrain from exercising, any rights, powers, authorities or discretions under or pursuant to any Finance Document. |
The Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities as agent or as security trustee other than those expressly conferred on it by the Finance Documents and shall not be obliged to act on any instructions from the Lenders or the Majority Lenders if to do so would, in the opinion of the Agent, be contrary to any provision of the Finance Documents or to any law, or would expose the Agent to any actual or potential liability to any third party. | |||
15.3 | Trust The Agent agrees and declares, and each of the other Finance Parties acknowledges, that, subject to the terms and conditions of this Clause 15.3, the Agent holds the Trust Property on trust for the Finance Parties absolutely. Each of the other Finance Parties agrees that the obligations, rights and benefits vested in the Agent shall be performed and exercised in accordance with this Clause 15.3. The Agent shall have the benefit of all of the provisions of this Agreement benefiting it in its capacity as Agent for the Finance Parties, and all the powers and discretions conferred on trustees by the Trustee Act 1925 (to the extent not inconsistent with this Agreement). In addition: |
15.3.1 | the Agent and any attorney, agent or delegate of the Agent may indemnify itself or himself out of the Trust Property against all liabilities, costs, fees, damages, charges, losses and expenses sustained or incurred by it or him in relation to the taking or holding of any of the Trust Property or in connection with the exercise or purported exercise of the rights, trusts, |
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powers and discretions vested in the Agent or any other such person by or pursuant to the Security Documents or in respect of anything else done or omitted to be done in any way relating to the Security Documents other than as a result of its gross negligence or wilful misconduct; | |||
15.3.2 | the other Finance Parties acknowledge that the Agent shall be under no obligation to insure any property nor to require any other person to insure any property and shall not be responsible for any loss which may be suffered by any person as a result of the lack or insufficiency of any insurance; and | ||
15.3.3 | the Finance Parties agree that the perpetuity period applicable to the trusts declared by this Agreement shall be the period of eighty years from the date of this Agreement. |
15.4 | Limitations on authority Except with the prior written consent of all the Lenders, the Agent shall not be entitled to: |
15.4.1 | release or vary any security given for the Borrowers obligations under this Agreement; nor | ||
15.4.2 | waive the payment of any sum of money payable by any Security Party under the Finance Documents; nor | ||
15.4.3 | change the meaning of the expressions Majority Lenders , Margin , Commitment Commission or Default Rate ; nor | ||
15.4.4 | exercise, or refrain from exercising, any right, power, authority or discretion, or give or withhold any consent, the exercise or giving of which is, by the terms of this Agreement, expressly reserved to the Lenders; nor | ||
15.4.5 | extend the due date for the payment of any sum of money payable by any Security Party under any Finance Document; nor | ||
15.4.6 | take or refrain from taking any step if the effect of such action or inaction may lead to the increase of the obligations of a Lender under any Finance Document; nor |
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15.4.7 | agree to change the currency in which any sum is payable under any Finance Document (other than in accordance with the terms of the relevant Finance Document); nor | ||
15.4.8 | agree to amend this Clause 15.4. |
15.5 | Liability Neither the Agent nor any of its directors, officers, employees or agents shall be liable to the Lenders for anything done or omitted to be done by the Agent under or in connection with any of the Relevant Documents unless as a result of the Agents gross negligence or wilful misconduct. | |
15.6 | Acknowledgement Each Lender acknowledges that: |
15.6.1 | it has not relied on any representation made by the Agent or any of the Agents directors, officers, employees or agents or by any other person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Agent to induce it to enter into any Finance Document; | ||
15.6.2 | it has made and will continue to make without reliance on the Agent, and based on such documents and other evidence as it considers appropriate, its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the Security Parties in connection with the making and continuation of the Loan; | ||
15.6.3 | it has made its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Security Parties; and | ||
15.6.4 | the Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility at any time to provide it with any credit or other information relating to any Security Party unless that information is received by the Agent pursuant to the express terms of a Finance Document. |
Each Lender agrees that it will not assert nor seek to assert against any director, officer, employee or agent of the Agent or against any other person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Agent any claim which it might have against them in respect of any of the matters referred to in this Clause 15.6. | |||
15.7 | Limitations on responsibility The Agent shall have no responsibility to any Security Party or to any Lender on account of: |
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15.7.1 | the failure of a Lender or of any Security Party to perform any of its obligations under a Finance Document; nor | ||
15.7.2 | the financial condition of any Security Party; nor | ||
15.7.3 | the completeness or accuracy of any statements, representations or warranties made in or pursuant to any Finance Document, or in or pursuant to any document delivered pursuant to or in connection with any Finance Document; nor | ||
15.7.4 | the negotiation, execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, admissibility in evidence or sufficiency of any Finance Document or of any document executed or delivered pursuant to or in connection with any Finance Document. |
15.8 | The Agents rights The Agent may: |
15.8.1 | assume that all representations or warranties made or deemed repeated by any Security Party in or pursuant to any Finance Document are true and complete, unless, in its capacity as the Agent, it has acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; | ||
15.8.2 | assume that no Default has occurred unless, in its capacity as the Agent, it has acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; | ||
15.8.3 | rely on any document or notice believed by it to be genuine; | ||
15.8.4 | rely as to legal or other professional matters on opinions and statements of any legal or other professional advisers selected or approved by it; | ||
15.8.5 | rely as to any factual matters which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of any Security Party on a certificate signed by or on behalf of that Security Party; and | ||
15.8.6 | refrain from exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy unless and until instructed to exercise that right, power, discretion or remedy and as to the manner of its exercise by the Lenders (or, where applicable, by the Majority Lenders) and unless and until the Agent has received from the Lenders any payment which the Agent may require on account of, or any |
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security which the Agent may require for, any costs, claims, expenses (including legal and other professional fees) and liabilities which it considers it may incur or sustain in complying with those instructions. |
15.9 | The Agents duties The Agent shall: |
15.9.1 | if requested in writing to do so by a Lender, make enquiry and advise the Lenders as to the performance or observance of any of the provisions of any Finance Document by any Security Party or as to the existence of an Event of Default; and | ||
15.9.2 | inform the Lenders promptly of any Event of Default of which the Agent has actual knowledge. |
15.10 | No deemed knowledge The Agent shall not be deemed to have actual knowledge of the falsehood or incompleteness of any representation or warranty made or deemed repeated by any Security Party or actual knowledge of the occurrence of any Default unless a Lender or a Security Party shall have given written notice thereof to the Agent in its capacity as the Agent. Any information acquired by the Agent other than specifically in its capacity as the Agent shall not be deemed to be information acquired by the Agent in its capacity as the Agent. | |
15.11 | Other business The Agent may, without any liability to account to the Lenders, generally engage in any kind of banking or trust business with a Security Party or with a Security Partys subsidiaries or associated companies or with a Lender as if it were not the Agent. | |
15.12 | Indemnity The Lenders shall, promptly on the Agents request, reimburse the Agent in their respective Proportionate Shares, for, and keep the Agent fully indemnified in respect of all liabilities, damages, costs and claims sustained or incurred by the Agent in connection with the Finance Documents, or the performance of its duties and obligations, or the exercise of its rights, powers, discretions or remedies under or pursuant to any Finance Document, to the extent not paid by the Security Parties and not arising solely from the Agents gross negligence or wilful misconduct. |
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15.13 | Employment of agents In performing its duties and exercising its rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to the Finance Documents, the Agent shall be entitled to employ and pay agents to do anything which the Agent is empowered to do under or pursuant to the Finance Documents (including the receipt of money and documents and the payment of money) and to act or refrain from taking action in reliance on the opinion of, or advice or information obtained from, any lawyer, banker, broker, accountant, valuer or any other person believed by the Agent in good faith to be competent to give such opinion, advice or information. | |
15.14 | Distribution of payments The Agent shall pay promptly to the order of each Lender that Lenders Proportionate Share of every sum of money received by the Agent pursuant to the Finance Documents (with the exception of any amounts payable pursuant to Clause 9 and/or any Fee Letter and any amounts which, by the terms of the Finance Documents, are paid to the Agent for the account of the Agent alone or specifically for the account of one or more Lenders) and until so paid such amount shall be held by the Agent on trust absolutely for that Lender. | |
15.15 | Reimbursement The Agent shall have no liability to pay any sum to a Lender until it has itself received payment of that sum. If, however, the Agent does pay any sum to a Lender on account of any amount prospectively due to that Lender pursuant to Clause 15.14 before it has itself received payment of that amount, and the Agent does not in fact receive payment within five (5) Business Days after the date on which that payment was required to be made by the terms of the Finance Documents, that Lender will, on demand by the Agent, refund to the Agent an amount equal to the amount received by it, together with an amount sufficient to reimburse the Agent for any amount which the Agent may certify that it has been required to pay by way of interest on money borrowed to fund the amount in question during the period beginning on the date on which that amount was required to be paid by the terms of the Finance Documents and ending on the date on which the Agent receives reimbursement. | |
15.16 | Redistribution of payments Unless otherwise agreed between the Lenders and the Agent, if at any time a Lender receives or recovers by way of set-off, the exercise of any lien or otherwise from any Security Party, an amount greater than that Lenders Proportionate Share of any sum due from that Security Party to the Lenders under the Finance Documents (the amount of the excess being referred to in this Clause 15.16 and in Clause 15.17 as the Excess Amount ) then: |
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15.16.1 | that Lender shall promptly notify the Agent (which shall promptly notify each other Lender); | ||
15.16.2 | that Lender shall pay to the Agent an amount equal to the Excess Amount within ten (10) days of its receipt or recovery of the Excess Amount; and | ||
15.16.3 | the Agent shall treat that payment as if it were a payment by the Security Party in question on account of the sum due from that Security Party to the Lenders and shall account to the Lenders in respect of the Excess Amount in accordance with the provisions of this Clause 15.16. |
However, if a Lender has commenced any legal proceedings to recover sums owing to it under the Finance Documents and, as a result of, or in connection with, those proceedings has received an Excess Amount, the Agent shall not distribute any of that Excess Amount to any other Lender which had been notified of the proceedings and had the legal right to, but did not, join those proceedings or commence and diligently prosecute separate proceedings to enforce its rights in the same or another court. | |||
15.17 | Rescission of Excess Amount If all or any part of any Excess Amount is rescinded or must otherwise be restored to any Security Party or to any other third party, the Lenders which have received any part of that Excess Amount by way of distribution from the Agent pursuant to Clause 15.16 shall repay to the Agent for the account of the Lender which originally received or recovered the Excess Amount, the amount which shall be necessary to ensure that the Lenders share rateably in accordance with their Proportionate Shares in the amount of the receipt or payment retained, together with interest on that amount at a rate equivalent to that (if any) paid by the Lender receiving or recovering the Excess Amount to the person to whom that Lender is liable to make payment in respect of such amount, and Clause 15.16.3 shall apply only to the retained amount. | ||
15.18 | Instructions Where the Agent is authorised or directed to act or refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Lenders or of the Majority Lenders each of the Lenders shall provide the Agent with instructions within three (3) Business Days of the Agents request (which request may be made orally or in writing). If a Lender does not provide the Agent with instructions within that period, that Lender shall be bound by the decision of the Agent. Nothing in this |
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Clause 15.18 shall limit the right of the Agent to take, or refrain from taking, any action without obtaining the instructions of the Lenders or the Majority Lenders if the Agent in its discretion considers it necessary or appropriate to take, or refrain from taking, such action in order to preserve the rights of the Lenders under or in connection with the Finance Documents. In that event, the Agent will notify the Lenders of the action taken by it as soon as reasonably practicable, and the Lenders agree to ratify any action taken by the Agent pursuant to this Clause 15.18. | |||
15.19 | Payments All amounts payable to a Lender under this Clause 15 shall be paid to such account at such bank as that Lender may from time to time direct in writing to the Agent. | ||
15.20 | Know your customer checks Each Lender shall promptly upon the request of the Agent supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself) in order for the Agent to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents. | ||
15.21 | Resignation Subject to a successor being appointed in accordance with this Clause 15.21, the Agent may resign at any time without assigning any reason by giving to the Borrower and the Lenders notice of its intention to do so, in which event the following shall apply: |
15.21.1 | with the consent of the Borrower not to be unreasonably withheld (but such consent not to be required at any time after an Event of Default which is continuing unremedied or unwaived) the Lenders may within thirty (30) days after the date of the notice from the Agent appoint a successor to act as agent or, if they fail to do so with the consent of the Borrower, not to be unreasonably withheld (but such consent not to be required at any time after an Event of Default which is continuing unremedied or unwaived), the Agent may appoint any other bank or financial institution as its successor; |
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15.21.2 | the resignation of the Agent shall take effect simultaneously with the appointment of its successor on written notice of that appointment being given to the Borrower and the Lenders; | ||
15.21.3 | the Agent shall thereupon be discharged from all further obligations as agent but shall remain entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this Clause 15; and | ||
15.21.4 | the successor of the Agent and each of the other parties to this Agreement shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if that successor had been a party to this Agreement. |
15.22 | No fiduciary relationship Except as provided in Clauses 15.3 and 15.14, the Agent shall not have any fiduciary relationship with or be deemed to be a trustee of or for any other person and nothing contained in any Finance Document shall constitute a partnership between any two or more Lenders or between the Agent and any other person. |
16 | Set-Off | |
A Finance Party may set off any matured obligation due from the Borrower under any Finance Document (to the extent beneficially owned by that Finance Party) against any matured obligation owed by that Finance Party to the Borrower, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, that Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off. | ||
17 | Payments |
17.1 | Payments Each amount payable by the Borrower under a Finance Document shall be paid to such account at such bank as the Agent may from time to time direct to the Borrower in the Currency of Account and in such funds as are customary at the time for settlement of transactions in the relevant currency in the place of payment. Payment shall be deemed to have been received by the Agent on the date on which the Agent receives authenticated advice of receipt, unless that advice is received by the Agent on a day other than a Business Day or at a time of day (whether on a Business Day or not) when the Agent in its reasonable discretion considers that it is impossible or impracticable for the Agent to utilise |
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the amount received for value that same day, in which event the payment in question shall be deemed to have been received by the Agent on the Business Day next following the date of receipt of advice by the Agent. | |||
17.2 | No deductions or withholdings Each payment (whether of principal or interest or otherwise) to be made by the Borrower under a Finance Document shall, subject only to Clause 17.3, be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on account of any Taxes or other deductions, withholdings, restrictions, conditions or counterclaims of any nature. | ||
17.3 | Grossing-up If at any time any law requires (or is interpreted to require) the Borrower to make any deduction or withholding from any payment, or to change the rate or manner in which any required deduction or withholding is made, the Borrower will promptly notify the Agent and, simultaneously with making that payment, will pay to the Agent whatever additional amount (after taking into account any additional Taxes on, or deductions or withholdings from, or restrictions or conditions on, that additional amount) is necessary to ensure that, after making the deduction or withholding, the relevant Finance Parties receive a net sum equal to the sum which they would have received had no deduction or withholding been made. | ||
17.4 | Evidence of deductions If at any time the Borrower is required by law to make any deduction or withholding from any payment to be made by it under a Finance Document, the Borrower will pay the amount required to be deducted or withheld to the relevant authority within the time allowed under the applicable law and will, no later than thirty (30) days after making that payment, deliver to the Agent an original receipt issued by the relevant authority, or other evidence reasonably acceptable to the Agent, evidencing the payment to that authority of all amounts required to be deducted or withheld. | ||
17.5 | Rebate If the Borrower pays any additional amount under Clause 17.3, and a Finance Party subsequently receives a refund or allowance from any tax authority which that Finance Party identifies as being referable to that increased amount so paid by the Borrower, that Finance Party shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, pay to the Borrower an amount equal to the amount of the refund or allowance received, if and to the extent that it may do so without prejudicing its right to retain that refund or allowance and without putting itself in any worse financial |
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position than that in which it would have been had the relevant deduction or withholding not been required to have been made. Nothing in this Clause 17.5 shall be interpreted as imposing any obligation on any Finance Party to apply for any refund or allowance nor as restricting in any way the manner in which any Finance Party organises its tax affairs, nor as imposing on any Finance Party any obligation to disclose to the Borrower any information regarding its tax affairs or tax computations. | |||
17.6 | Adjustment of due dates If any payment or transfer of funds to be made under a Finance Document, other than a payment of interest on a Drawing, shall be due on a day which is not a Business Day, that payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month in which event the payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day). Any such variation of time shall be taken into account in computing any interest in respect of that payment. | ||
17.7 | Control Account The Agent shall open and maintain on its books a control account in the name of the Borrower showing the advance of the Loan and the computation and payment of interest and all other sums due under this Agreement. The Borrowers obligations to repay the Loan and to pay interest and all other sums due under this Agreement shall be evidenced by the entries from time to time made in the control account opened and maintained under this Clause 17.7 and those entries will, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding. |
18 | Notices |
18.1 | Communications in writing Any communication to be made under or in connection with this Agreement shall be made in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be made by fax or letter or (subject to Clause 18.6) electronic mail. | ||
18.2 | Addresses The address and fax number (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each party to this Agreement for any communication or document to be made or delivered under or in connection with this Agreement are: |
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18.2.1 | in the case of the Borrower, c/o Teekay Shipping (Canada) Ltd Suite 2000, Bentall 5, 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6C 2K2 (fax no: +1 604 681 3011) marked for the attention of Director Finance; | ||
18.2.2 | in the case of each Lender, those appearing opposite its name in Schedule 1; and | ||
18.2.3 | in the case of the Agent, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz 50, 20095 Hamburg, Germany (fax no: +49 40 3333 34305) marked for the attention of Stefanie Berger/Frauke Hay; |
or any substitute address, fax number, department or officer as any party may notify to the Agent (or the Agent may notify to the other parties, if a change is made by the Agent) by not less than five (5) Business Days notice. | |||
18.3 | Delivery Any communication or document made or delivered by one party to this Agreement to another under or in connection this Agreement will only be effective: |
18.3.1 | if by way of fax, when received in legible form; or | ||
18.3.2 | if by way of letter, when it has been left at the relevant address or five (5) Business Days after being deposited in the post postage prepaid in an envelope addressed to it at that address; or | ||
18.3.3 | if by way of electronic mail, in accordance with Clause 18.6; |
and, if a particular department or officer is specified as part of its address details provided under Clause 18.2, if addressed to that department or officer. | |||
Any communication or document to be made or delivered to the Agent will be effective only when actually received by the Agent. | |||
All notices from or to the Borrower shall be sent through the Agent. | |||
18.4 | Notification of address and fax number Promptly upon receipt of notification of an address, fax number or change of address, pursuant to Clause 18.2 or changing its own address or fax number, the Agent shall notify the other parties to this Agreement. |
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18.5 | English language Any notice given under or in connection with this Agreement must be in English. All other documents provided under or in connection with this Agreement must be: |
18.5.1 | in English; or | ||
18.5.2 | if not in English, and if so required by the Agent, accompanied by a certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation will prevail unless the document is a constitutional, statutory or other official document. |
18.6 | Electronic communication |
(a) | Any communication to be made in connection with this Agreement may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means, if the Borrower and the relevant Finance Party: |
(i) | agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication; | ||
(ii) | notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means; and | ||
(iii) | notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by them. |
(b) | Any electronic communication made between the Borrower and the relevant Finance Party will be effective only when actually received in readable form and acknowledged by the recipient (it being understood that any system generated responses do not constitute an acknowledgement) and in the case of any electronic communication made by the Borrower to a Finance Party only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Finance Party shall specify for this purpose. |
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19 | Partial Invalidity | |
If, at any time, any provision of a Finance Document is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any law of any jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such provision under the law of any other jurisdiction will in any way be affected or impaired. | ||
20 | Remedies and Waivers | |
No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of any Finance Party, any right or remedy under a Finance Document shall operate as a waiver, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law. | ||
21 | Miscellaneous |
21.1 | No oral variations No variation or amendment of a Finance Document shall be valid unless in writing and signed on behalf of all the Finance Parties. | ||
21.2 | Further Assurance If any provision of a Finance Document shall be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part by reason of any present or future law or any decision of any court, or if the documents at any time held by or on behalf of the Finance Parties or any of them are considered by the Lenders for any reason insufficient to carry out the terms of this Agreement, then from time to time the Borrower will promptly, on demand by the Agent, execute or procure the execution of such further documents as in the opinion of the Lenders are necessary to provide adequate security for the repayment of the Indebtedness. | ||
21.3 | Rescission of payments etc. Any discharge, release or reassignment by a Finance Party of any of the security constituted by, or any of the obligations of a Security Party contained in, a Finance Document shall be (and be deemed always to have been) void if any act (including, without limitation, any payment) as a result of which such discharge, release or reassignment was given or made is subsequently wholly or partially rescinded or avoided by operation of any law. | ||
21.4 | Certificates Any certificate or statement signed by an authorised signatory of the Agent purporting to show the amount of the Indebtedness (or any part of the Indebtedness) or any other amount referred to in any Finance Document shall, save for manifest error or on any question of law, be conclusive evidence as against the Borrower of that amount. |
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21.5 | Counterparts This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be original but which shall together constitute the same instrument. | ||
21.6 | Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement. | ||
21.7 | Disclosure of Information The Borrower authorises each Lender to disclose any information and/or document(s) concerning its relationship with such Lender (i) to authorities in any other countries where such Lender or any Affiliate is represented and/or where any Lender or any Affiliate may be requested information by any regulatory authority, when this shall be deemed necessary in order for such Lender or any Affiliate to meet its requirements for the contribution to reduction or prevention of money laundering, terrorism and corruption, and (ii) to any Affiliate of that Lender making it possible to consolidate the clients total commitments and offer the client any other products offered by that Lender or any Affiliate, subject always to the duties of confidentiality on the Lenders set out herein. |
22 | Law and Jurisdiction |
22.1 | Governing law This Agreement shall in all respects be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law. | ||
22.2 | Jurisdiction For the exclusive benefit of the Finance Parties, the parties to this Agreement irrevocably agree that the courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and that any proceedings may be brought in those courts. | ||
22.3 | Alternative jurisdictions Nothing contained in this Clause 22 shall limit the right of the Finance Parties to commence any proceedings against the Borrower in any other court of competent jurisdiction nor shall the commencement of any proceedings against the Borrower in one or more jurisdictions preclude the commencement of any proceedings in any other jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not. |
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22.4 | Waiver of objections The Borrower irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or in the future have to the laying of the venue of any proceedings in any court referred to in this Clause 22, and any claim that those proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient or inappropriate forum, and irrevocably agrees that a judgment in any proceedings commenced in any such court shall be conclusive and binding on it and may be enforced in the courts of any other jurisdiction. | ||
22.5 | Service of process Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, the Borrower: |
22.5.1 | irrevocably appoints Teekay Shipping (UK) Ltd of 2 nd Floor, 86 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6JD England as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with this Agreement; and | ||
22.5.2 | agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the Borrower of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned. |
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The Lenders | The Commitments | The Proportionate Share | ||||||
(US$) | (%) | |||||||
HSH Nordbank AG
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz 50 20095 Hamburg Germany Fax No: +49 40 3333 34305 Attention: Stefanie Berger/Frauke Hay |
700,000,000 | 100 |
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(a) | Constitutional Documents Copies of the constitutional documents of each Security Party together with such other evidence as the Agent may reasonably require that each Security Party is duly formed or incorporated in its country of formation or incorporation and remains in existence with power to enter into, and perform its obligations under, the Relevant Documents to which it is or is to become a party. | ||
(b) | Certificates of good standing A certificate of good standing in respect of each Security Party (if such a certificate can be obtained). | ||
(c) | Board resolutions A copy of a resolution of the board of directors of each Security Party (or its sole member): |
(i) | approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Relevant Documents to which it is a party and ratifying or resolving that it execute those Relevant Documents; and | ||
(ii) | if required authorising a specified person or persons to execute those Relevant Documents (and all documents and notices to be signed and/or despatched under those documents) on its behalf. |
(d) | Officers certificates A certificate of a duly authorised officer or representative of each Security Party certifying that each copy document relating to it specified in this Part I of Schedule 2 is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of this Agreement and setting out the names of the directors and officers of that Security Party (or its sole member) and the proportion of shares held by each shareholder. | ||
(e) | Powers of attorney The notarially attested and legalised (where necessary for registration purposes) power of attorney of each Security Party under which any documents are to be executed or transactions undertaken by that Security Party. |
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(a) | Intercompany Loan Agreement A certified copy of the Intercompany Loan Agreement, together with evidence of the authority of the signatories thereto. | ||
(b) | Security Documents The Security Documents, together with all other documents required by any of them, including, without limitation, all notices of assignment and/or charge and evidence that those notices will be duly acknowledged by the recipients. |
(a) | Drawdown Notice A duly completed Drawdown Notice. | ||
(b) | Process agent Evidence that any process agent referred to in Clause 22.5 and any process agent appointed under any other Finance Document has accepted its appointment. | ||
(c) | Other authorisations A copy of any other consent, licence, approval, authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Agent considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any of the Relevant Documents or for the validity and enforceability of any of the Relevant Documents. | ||
(d) | Fees Evidence that the fees, costs and expenses then due from the Borrower under Clause 8 and Clause 9 have been paid or will be paid by the First Drawdown Date. | ||
(e) | Know your customer documents Such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent in order for the Lenders to comply with all necessary know your customer or similar identification procedures in relation to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents. |
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(f) | Evidence of shareholding in the Target A certificate from the Borrower confirming the level of acceptance of shares in the Target then received by Bidco and evidencing that the proposed Drawing will not exceed the Maximum Amount. |
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1 | Acknowledgements of notices Acknowledgements of all notices of assignment and/or charge given pursuant to the Security Documents. | |
2 | Legal opinions Such of the legal opinions specified in Part I of this Schedule 2 as have not already been provided to the Agent. | |
3 | Companies Act registrations Evidence that the prescribed particulars of the Security Documents have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies of England and Wales within the statutory time limit. | |
4 | Bidco documents Copies of the constitutional documents and shareholders agreement/joint venture agreement for Bidco. |
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1 | Intercompany Loan Agreement Any further documentation relating to the Intercompany Loan Agreement, | |
2 | Drawdown Notice A duly completed Drawdown Notice. | |
3 | Evidence of shareholding in the Target A certificate from the Borrower confirming the level of acceptance of shares in the Target then received by Bidco and evidencing that the proposed Drawing (when aggregated with any previous Drawings) will not exceed the Maximum Amount. |
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1 | The Mandatory Cost is an addition to the interest rate to compensate the Lenders for the cost of compliance with (a) the requirements of the Bank of England and/or the Financial Services Authority (or, in either case, any other authority which replaces all or any of its functions) or (b) the requirements of the European Central Bank. |
(a) | On the first day of each Interest Period (or as soon as possible thereafter) the Agent shall calculate, as a percentage rate, a rate (the Additional Cost Rate" ) for each Lender in accordance with the paragraphs set out below. The Mandatory Cost will be calculated by the Agent as a weighted average of the Lenders Additional Cost Rates (weighted in proportion to the percentage participation of each Lender in the Loan) and will be expressed as a percentage rate per annum. | ||
(b) | The Additional Cost Rate for any Lender lending from an office in the euro-zone will be the percentage notified by that Lender to the Agent to be its reasonable determination of the cost (expressed as a percentage of that Lenders participation in the Loan) of complying with the minimum reserve requirements of the European Central Bank as a result of participating in the Loan from that office. | ||
(c) | The Additional Cost Rate for any Lender lending from an office in the United Kingdom will be calculated by the Agent as follows: |
where F is the charge payable by that Lender to the Financial Services Authority under paragraph 2.02 or 2.03 (as appropriate) of the Fees Regulations or the equivalent provisions in any replacement regulations (with, for this purpose, the figure for the minimum amount in paragraph 2.02b or such equivalent provision deemed to be zero), expressed in pounds per £1 million of the fee base of that Lender. | ||
2 | For the purpose of this Schedule: |
(a) | eligible liabilities and special deposits have the meanings given to them at the time of application of the formula by the Bank of England; | ||
(b) | fee base has the meaning given to it in the Fees Regulations; |
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(c) | Fees Regulations means the regulations governing periodic fees contained in the FSA Supervision Manual or such other law or regulation as may be in force from time to time in respect of the payment of fees for the acceptance of deposits. |
3 | If a Lender does not supply the information required by the Agent to determine its Additional Cost Rate when requested to do so, the applicable Mandatory Cost shall be determined on the basis of the information supplied by the remaining Lenders. | |
4 | If a change in circumstances has rendered, or will render, the formula inappropriate, the Agent shall notify the Borrower of the manner in which the Mandatory Cost will subsequently be calculated. The manner of calculation so notified by the Agent shall, in the absence of manifest error, be binding on the Borrower. |
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To: | HSH Nordbank AG | |
From: | Teekay Acquisition Holdings L.L.C. |
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To: | HSH Nordbank AG |
1 | Terms defined in the Loan Agreement shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, have the same meaning when used in this certificate. The terms Transferor and Transferee are defined in the schedule to this certificate. | |
2 | The Transferor: |
2.1 | confirms that the details in the Schedule under the heading Transferors Commitment accurately summarise its Commitment; and | ||
2.2 | requests the Transferee to accept by way of novation the transfer to the Transferee of the amount of the Transferors Commitment specified in the Schedule by counter-signing and delivering this certificate to the Agent at its address for communications specified in the Loan Agreement. |
3 | The Transferee requests the Agent to accept this certificate as being delivered to the Agent pursuant to and for the purposes of clause 14.4 of the Loan Agreement so as to take effect in accordance with the terms of that clause on the Transfer Date specified in the Schedule. | |
4 | The Agent confirms its acceptance of this certificate for the purposes of clause 14.4 of the Loan Agreement. | |
5 | The Transferee confirms that: |
5.1 | it has received a copy of the Loan Agreement together with all other information which it has required in connection with this transaction; |
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5.2 | it has not relied and will not in the future rely on the Transferor or any other party to the Loan Agreement to check or enquire on its behalf into the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any such information; and | ||
5.3 | it has not relied and will not in the future rely on the Transferor or any other party to the Loan Agreement to keep under review on its behalf the financial condition, creditworthiness, condition, affairs, status or nature of any Security Party. |
6 | Execution of this certificate by the Transferee constitutes its representation and warranty to the Transferor and to all other parties to the Loan Agreement that it has the power to become a party to the Loan Agreement as a Lender on the terms of the Loan Agreement and has taken all steps to authorise execution and delivery of this certificate. | |
7 | The Transferee undertakes with the Transferor and each of the other parties to the Loan Agreement that it will perform in accordance with their terms all those obligations which by the terms of the Loan Agreement will be assumed by it after delivery of this certificate to the Agent and the satisfaction of any conditions subject to which this certificate is expressed to take effect. | |
8 | The Transferor makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document or any document relating to any Finance Document, and assumes no responsibility for the financial condition of any Finance Party or for the performance and observance by any Security Party of any of its obligations under any Finance Document or any document relating to any Finance Document and any conditions and warranties implied by law are expressly excluded. | |
9 | The Transferee acknowledges that nothing in this certificate or in the Loan Agreement shall oblige the Transferor to: |
9.1 | accept a re-transfer from the Transferee of the whole or any part of the rights, benefits and/or obligations transferred pursuant to this certificate; or | ||
9.2 | support any losses directly or indirectly sustained or incurred by the Transferee for any reason including, without limitation, the non-performance by any party to any Finance Document of any obligations under any Finance Document. |
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10 | The address and fax number of the Transferee for the purposes of clause 18 of the Loan Agreement are set out in the Schedule. | |
11 | This certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be original but which shall together constitute the same instrument. | |
12 | This certificate shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law. |
1 | Transferor : | |
2 | Transferee : | |
3 | Transfer Date (not earlier that the fifth Business Day after the date of delivery of the Transfer Certificate to the Agent): | |
4 | Transferors Commitment : | |
5 | Amount transferred : | |
6 | Transferees address and fax number for the purposes of clause 18 of the Loan Agreement : |
[
name of Transferor
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[ name of Transferee ] | |
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By:
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To: | HSH Nordbank AG | |
From: | Teekay Shipping Corporation | |
Date: | [ ] |
1 | Free Liquidity (including under the Agreement but excluding that portion attributable to TGP, OPCO and TOO (excluding OPCO to the extent already consolidated into TOO)) [was at all times equal to or greater than/fell below] $50,000,000. Therefore the condition contained in Clause 12.2.1 of the Agreement [has/has not] been complied with in respect of the Relevant Period. | |
2 | The aggregate of such Free Liquidity and undrawn committed revolving credit lines available to be drawn by us and our Subsidiaries (but excluding undrawn committed revolving credit lines with less than six (6) months to maturity and excluding that portion attributable to TGP, OPCO and TOO (excluding OPCO to the extent already consolidated into TOO)) [was at all times equal to or greater than/fell below] 5.0% of Total Debt. |
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Therefore the condition contained in Clause 12.2.2 of the Agreement [has/has not] been complied with. |
Signed: | ____________________________________ | |
Duly authorised representative of | ||
TEEKAY SHIPPING CORPORATION |
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Ownership in the Target held or
to be immediately acquired by Bidco |
Maximum Amount
(in $) |
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10%
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70,000,000 | |||
15%
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105,000,000 | |||
20%
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140,000,000 | |||
25%
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175,000,000 | |||
30%
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210,000,000 | |||
35%
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245,000,000 | |||
40%
|
280,000,000 | |||
45%
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315,000,000 | |||
50%
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350,000,000 | |||
55%
|
385,000,000 | |||
60%
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420,000,000 | |||
65%
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455,000,000 | |||
70%
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490,000,000 | |||
75%
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525,000,000 | |||
80%
|
560,000,000 | |||
85%
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595,000,000 | |||
90%
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630,000,000 | |||
95%
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665,000,000 | |||
100%
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700,000,000 |
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SIGNED
by Nigel Thomas
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duly authorised for and on behalf
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) | /s/ Nigel Thomas | ||||
of
TEEKAY ACQUISITION HOLDINGS
L.L.C.
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) | Attorney-in-Fact | ||||
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SIGNED
by Melanie Watson
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) | |||||
duly authorised for and on behalf
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) | /s/ Melanie Watson | ||||
of
HSH NORDBANK AG
(as a Lender)
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) | Attorney-in-Fact | ||||
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SIGNED
by Melanie Watson
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) | |||||
duly authorised for and on behalf
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) | /s/ Melanie Watson | ||||
of
HSH NORDBANK AG
(as the Agent)
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) | Attorney-in-Fact |
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Teekay Acquisition Holdings L.L.C.
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Trust Company Complex
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Ajeltake Island
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Ajeltake Road
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Majuro
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Marshall Islands
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1 | You will pay to us an upfront fee of seven hundred thousand Dollars ($700,000) which shall be paid on the Execution Date in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Loan Agreement. |
2 | You will pay to us a further fee of seven hundred thousand Dollars ($700,000) on the First Drawdown Date in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Loan Agreement. |
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USD 700,000,000
Aktieselskabet Dampskibsselskabet TORM
as Borrower
Danske Bank A/S
HSH Nordbank AG
as Lenders and Arrangers
Danske Bank A/S
as Agent
17 April 2007
BACKGROUND
1
DEFINITIONS
1
THE FACILITY
1
CONDITIONS FOR ADVANCE
3
NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN
4
FEES
5
INTEREST
5
REPAYMENT
6
VOLUNTARY PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION
6
MANDATORY PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION
7
OTHER PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS
8
PAYMENT TERMS AND PROCEDURES
11
SECURITY
12
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
12
COVENANTS AND UNDERTAKINGS
15
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
20
THE AGENT
22
CHANGES TO THE PARTIES
23
NOTICES
24
MISCELLANEOUS
26
LAW, JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEABLITITY
26
The Lenders and their Commitments
Definitions
Conditions Precedent
Form of Notice of Drawdown
Form of Compliance Certificate
Form of Transfer Agreement
Form of Agency Agreement
1)
Aktieselskabet Dampskibsselskabet TORM, a Danish company with company registration number CVR
22460218 and registered address at Tuborg Havnevej 18, DK-2900 Hellerup, Denmark, as Borrower;
2)
Danske Bank A/S, Holmens Kanal 2-12, DK-1092 Copenhagen K, Denmark, as Lender and Arranger;
3)
HSH Nordbank AG, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz 50, D-20095 Hamburg, Germany as Lender and Arranger;
and
4)
Danske Bank A/S, Holmens Kanal 2-12, DK-1092 Copenhagen K, Denmark, as Agent.
1.
BACKGROUND
1.1
The Facility
. Danske Bank A/S and HSH Nordbank AG have arranged this USD
700,000,000 term loan facility to the Borrower in order for the Borrower through Bidco to
purchase shares in OMI Corporation. The Facility will be made available by the Lenders in
accordance with their respective Commitments and subject to the terms and conditions set out
in this Agreement.
2.
DEFINITIONS
2.1
Definitions
. Terms defined in
Schedule 2
shall have the meaning set
out therein when used in this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires.
2.2
Interpretation
. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires
a)
words denoting the singular number shall include the plural and vice
versa; and
b)
all references to the Clauses, Schedules and Exhibits are references to
the clauses, schedules and exhibits to this Agreement.
3.
THE FACILITY
3.1
The Facility
. The Lenders will make available to the Borrower a term loan
facility in the amount of up to USD 700,000,000 (in words: seven hundred million United States
dollars), subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
3.2
Reduction of Facility
. In the event that the Borrowers Contribution to Bidco
is less than 50%, the amount of the Facility shall be reduced pro rata. As an example, the
Facility shall be reduced to USD 630.000.000 if the Borrowers contribution of capital or
Bidco Shareholder Loans to Bidco is 45%.
3.3
Purpose
. The Advances under the Facility may only be used by the Borrower as
Bidco Shareholder Loans to Bidco in order for Bidco to finance the Offer to complete the
Acquisition.
3.4
Availability
. Subject to the conditions in Clause 4, Advances will be
available for drawing under the Facility during the Commitment Period, provided that the
Facility will be available in the following amounts depending on Bidcos shareholding in OMI
immediately following the making of an Advance and the Borrower providing a Bidco Shareholder
Loan to Bidco:
Bidco's ownership in OMI
Availability of Facility
(subject to Clause 3.2)
USD 350,000,000
USD 420,000,000
USD 490,000,000
USD 560,000,000
USD 630,000,000
USD 700,000,000
3.5
Lenders Participation
. Each Lender will participate in each Advance in the
proportion between its Commitment and the total of the Lenders Commitments and subject to the
other terms of this Agreement.
3.6
Finance Parties obligations several
. The obligations of each Finance Party
under the Finance Documents are several. Failure by a Finance Party to perform its
obligations, does not affect the obligations of any other Finance Party or the Borrower under
the Finance Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other
Finance Party under the Finance Documents. The Agent shall not in any circumstances be liable
to make available to the Borrower any sum greater than the aggregate of the amounts provided
by the Lenders pursuant to Clause 5.5.
3.7
Force majeure
. A Finance Party can in no circumstances be made liable for
damage or loss due to legal provisions, public measures or the like, actual or imminent war or
similar situations, revolt, civil unrest, lock out, natural catastrophe, Acts of God, computer
breakdowns or acts or omissions by third parties, which are beyond such Finance Partys direct
control, including strike, boycott or blockades, all irrespective of whether such party is a
party to conflicts arising and have given cause to such conflicts and irrespective of whether
conflicts arising affect only such Finance Party or any part of the functions of the Finance
Party in question.
4.
CONDITIONS FOR ADVANCE
4.1
Conditions precedent
. The availability of the Facility shall be subject to
the Agent having received, in form and substance satisfactory to it, all of the documents and
other evidence listed in Part A of
Schedule 3
and that the proposed first Drawdown
Date is no later than 31 July 2007.
4.2
Conditions for the Advances
. Subject to Clause 4.4, the availability of the
Advances shall be subject to the Agent having received in a form and substance satisfactory to
the Agent all of the documents and evidence listed in Part B of
Schedule 3
at the time
of or immediately after the drawdown of such Advance.
4.3
Further conditions precedent
. Subject to Clause 4.4, the obligation of each
Lender to make available its Participation in any Advance is subject to the further conditions
that on the date on which the relevant Notice of Drawdown is given and on the relevant
Drawdown Date:
a)
the representations and warranties of the Borrower under the Finance
Documents are true and accurate with respect to the circumstances existing at that
date and will in all material respects be true and correct immediately after the
drawdown of such Advance; and
b)
no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing or would result from the advancing of the relevant Advance.
4.4
Certain Funds
.
4.4.1
Following satisfaction (or waiver, as the case may be) of the conditions set out in
Part A of
Schedule 3
, notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 4.2 (
Conditions for the
Advances
) or Clause 4.3 (
Further conditions precedent
), the Lenders will be obliged to
participate in each Advance to be made during the Certain Funds Period for the purpose
specified in Clause 3.3 (
Purpose
) unless:
a)
any Certain Funds Default has occurred; or
b)
it is illegal for that Lender to perform any of its obligations or to
fund under the Facility, in which case that Lender must notify the Borrower and the
Agent as soon as it becomes aware of the relevant legal issue and the provisions
relating to Clause 10.3 (
Illegality
) will apply.
4.4.2
During the Certain Funds Period no Lender shall:
a)
exercise any right to suspend or terminate the obligation to make any
Advance available;
b)
exercise any rights under Clause 16.2 (
Action following an Event of
Default
) or any other right of suspension, termination or cancellation or netting
under Clause
unless any event or circumstance set out in Clause 4.4.1 (a) or (b) has occurred. For the
avoidance of doubt, save as expressly stated otherwise, this Clause 4.4 does not
constitute a waiver of the rights of the Finance Parties in respect of any Event of
Default.
4.5
Waiver of conditions precedent
. The conditions to be fulfilled by the
Borrower in this Clause 4 are solely for the benefit of the Lenders and may be waived on their
behalf in whole or in part and with or without conditions by the Agent (after consultation
with the Lenders).
5.
NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN
5.1
Notification to the Agent
. If the Borrower wishes to draw down an Advance,
the Borrower must deliver a Notice of Drawdown to the Agent no later than 10:00 a.m.
Copenhagen time 3 (three) Banking Days prior to the proposed Drawdown Date.
5.2
Additional requirements
. The following requirements shall apply to each
Advance:
a)
Advances may only be made on Banking Days during the Commitment Period;
b)
the principal amount of each Advance shall be a minimum of USD 5,000,000
(in words: five million United States dollars) or the amount of the Available
Facility;
c)
no more than 5 (five) Advances may be outstanding at any one time;
d)
the total outstanding Advances may not exceed the total of the Lenders
Commitments.
5.3
Irrevocability
. Each Notice of Drawdown shall be irrevocable and the Borrower
shall be bound to borrow in accordance therewith.
5.4
Notification to Lenders
. Upon receipt of a Notice of Drawdown, the Agent
shall on the same day and no later than 11:00 a.m. Copenhagen time notify each of the Lenders
of the details of the requested Advance.
5.5
Advance by Lenders
. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
each Lender shall no later than 11.00 a.m. Copenhagen time on the Drawdown Date make available
to the Agent for the account of the Borrower an amount equal to its share in the amount
specified in the Notice of Drawdown.
6.
FEES
6.1
Commitment fee
.
a)
The Borrower shall not pay any commitment fee, if the Facility is
cancelled in full by the Borrower no later than on the 3-month anniversary of the
date of this Agreement.
b)
If the Facility is not so cancelled, the Borrower shall during the
Commitment Period (including the first 3 months) pay to the Agent for the account of
the Lenders a commitment fee at the rate of 0.25% per annum on the daily undrawn and
uncancelled portion of the Facility.
c)
The commitment fee shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last
Banking Day of each calendar quarter (however the first time at the end of the
quarter ending on 30 September 2007) and on the Maturity Date (or the date on which
the Facility is fully cancelled, if such date is earlier).
6.2
Up-front fee
. The Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the account of the
Lenders the following upfront fees calculated on the basis of the total of the Lenders
Commitment:
a)
a fee of 0.05% payable on the date of this Agreement; and
b)
a fee of 0.15% payable on the first Drawdown Date.
6.3
Agency fee
. The Borrower shall pay to the Agent an agency fee to be agreed in
the Fee Letter.
7.
INTEREST
7.1
Payment of interest
. The Borrower shall pay accrued interest on the
outstanding amount of each Advance (or the relevant part thereof) in arrears on each Interest
Payment Date in respect of such Advance (or the relevant part thereof).
7.2
Interest rate
. The rate of interest applicable to each Interest Period shall
be the rate per annum calculated by the Agent as the aggregate of LIBOR and the Margin.
7.3
Selection of Interest Periods
. Interest Periods shall be determined as
follows:
a)
Separate Interest Periods
. The Borrower may draw up to 5 (five)
separate Advances and select separate Interest Periods for each Advance, but not for
part of an Advance.
b)
Selection by the Borrower
. The Borrower may select the duration
of the first Interest Period for an Advance in the Notice of Drawdown for such
Advance. The selection of subsequent Interest Periods for Advances may be made by
fax or pdf-
file attached to an e-mail to the Agent no later than 3 (three) Banking Days prior
to the commencement of such Interest Period.
c)
Duration
. The Interest Periods shall be 1 (one), 2 (two), 3
(three) or 6 (six) months or such other shorter periods as the Borrower and the
Agent may agree. The Borrower may not select more than 3 (three) Interest Periods
with a duration of 1 months during the term of the Facility.
d)
No selection
. If the Borrower fails to select the duration of an
Interest Period, the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of
3 (three) months.
e)
Final Repayment Date
. No Interest Period may extend beyond the
Maturity Date.
f)
Non-Banking Day
. If an Interest Period would otherwise end on a
day, which is not a Banking Day, such Interest Period shall end on the next
succeeding Banking Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the immediately
preceding Banking Day (if there is not).
g)
No corresponding day
. If an Interest Period commences on the last
Banking Day of a calendar month and if there is no corresponding day in the month in
which it is to end, it shall end on the last Banking Day of the relevant calendar
month.
7.4
Notification
. The Agent will notify the Lenders of the Interest Periods and
each rate of interest determined in accordance with this Agreement upon the determination
thereof.
7.5
Default rate
. If the Borrower fails to pay to any Finance Party any part of
the Indebtedness due under the Finance Documents promptly when due, the Borrower shall, from
the date when such part of the Indebtedness fell due, pay interest on the unpaid sum in the
currency in which it fell due up to the date of actual payment, at a rate per annum which is
2.00% (two point zero per cent) point above the rate of interest applicable to the relevant
Advance pursuant to Clause 7.2.
7.6
Calculation of interest
. All sums falling due by way of interest shall be
fixed by the Agent 2 (two) Banking Days prior to the commencement of the relevant Interest
Period and shall be calculated on the basis of a year of 360 (three hundred and sixty) days
and for the actual number of days elapsed.
8.
REPAYMENT
8.1
Repayment
. The Borrower shall repay the Indebtedness in full on the Maturity
Date.
9.
VOLUNTARY PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION
9.1
Voluntary prepayment
. The Borrower may, by giving the Agent not less than 3
(three) Banking Days prior written notice, prepay the whole or part of an Advance, provided
that such prepayment is in a minimum amount of USD 10,000,000 (in words: ten mil-
10.2
Dividend payments
. The Borrower shall prepay the following amounts under the
Facility no later than 10 Banking Days after payment has been made by OMI or Bidco, as the
case may be:
a)
an amount equal to such part of any payment OMI may make to Bidco by way
of dividends or otherwise that corresponds to the Borrowers ownership interest in
Bidco; and
b)
an amount equal to such payment Bidco may make to the Borrower by way of
dividends or otherwise minus payments made under (a) above;
provided that no such prepayment shall be made unless the aggregate of the amounts under
(a) and (b) above exceed USD 25,000,000 during the Commitment Period.
10.3
Illegality
. If any Regulation or the introduction or change of any
Regulation or change in the interpretation or application thereof makes it unlawful for a
Lender to make available or fund or maintain its Commitment or its Participation in the
Advances:
a)
that Lender shall notify the Agent promptly upon becoming aware of that
event; and
b)
upon the Agent notifying the Borrower of such event (i) the Lenders
Commitment will be immediately cancelled; and (ii) the Borrower shall prepay that
Lenders Participation and any Indebtedness relating thereto (in each case, if any)
on the date specified by the Lender in the notice delivered to the Agent (which date
shall be no earlier than the date from which the Lenders making available the
Advances is unlawful under or contrary to the relevant Regulation); and
c)
to the extent possible pursuant to such Regulation (or changed
Regulation) the Agent, the Borrower and the relevant Lender shall prior to such
cancellation or prepayment in good faith negotiate for a period of up to 30 (thirty)
days after notice has been given by the Agent to the Borrower in order to seek to
restructure the Facility to avoid any illegality and any cancellation or prepayment.
10.4
Borrowers right to terminate with OMI
. The Borrower shall prepay the
Facility on the date falling seven Banking Days after the Borrower has a right to terminate
any of the Transaction Documents to which OMI is a party (unless the Lenders consent
otherwise, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld).
10.5
Sale of OMI vessels
. The Borrower shall prepay in accordance with Clause
15.5.
11.
OTHER PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS
11.1
Tax gross-up
. If the Borrower is required to make a Tax deduction or
withholding from any payment under the Finance Documents, the amount of the payment due from
the Borrower shall be increased to such amount which is necessary to ensure that the Finance
Parties receive and retain a net amount which (after making the required Tax de-
duction or withholding) is equal to the payment which would have been received and
retained if no Tax deduction or withholding had been required.
11.2
Tax credit
. If the Borrower makes a payment of any Tax pursuant to Clause
11.1 and the relevant Finance Party obtains a credit against or repayment of such Tax, such
Finance Party shall pay an amount to the Borrower, which that Finance Party determines will
leave it (after that payment) in the same after-tax position as it would have been in had the
Tax not been payable. Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of the Lenders
to arrange their tax affairs in whatever manner it thinks fit. The Borrower shall reimburse
each Lender the costs of obtaining any credit or repayment of any Tax pursuant to this Clause
11.2.
11.3
Increased costs
. The Borrower shall, upon demand from a Lender through the
Agent, pay to the Agent for the account of the relevant Lender an amount equal to any
unforeseen additional or increased cost incurred by that Lender in relation to any amount owed
by the Borrower under this Agreement as a result of any Regulation or any introduction of or
change in any Regulation or any change in the interpretation or application of any Regulation
including without limitation:
a)
any net increase in the cost to a Lender of making, funding or
maintaining the Advances or the Commitments; or
b)
a reduction in any amount payable under any Finance Document; or
c)
any other reduction in the effective return to a Lender under the Finance
Documents in relation to any Advance (except for Taxes and taxes on the overall
income of any Lender, which shall only be reimbursed by the Borrower to the Lenders
if otherwise required pursuant to this Agreement).
In the event that a Lender makes a claim pursuant to this Clause 11.3, the Borrower shall
be entitled to prepay the Participation of such Lender under the Facility in full within
30 days after demand is made by the relevant Lender pursuant to this Clause 11.3. If the
Borrower makes such prepayment, the relevant Lenders Commitment shall be automatically
cancelled in full and the Facility will be reduced by an amount equal to the relevant
Lenders Commitment.
11.4
Currency indemnity
. The Borrower shall indemnify the Finance Parties against
any loss suffered as a result of a judgement or award being awarded or enforced against the
Borrower in any currency other than in the relevant currency in which such amount is
outstanding under the Finance Documents.
11.5
Breakage costs
. The Borrower shall indemnify each of the Lenders on demand
against any Costs which that Lender has sustained or incurred as a consequence of:
a)
any Advance not being advanced following the service of a Notice of
Drawdown in respect thereof (except as a result of the failure of that Lender to
comply with its obligations under this Agreement);
b)
acceleration of the repayment of the Advances or any part thereof
pursuant to Clause 16.2; or
c)
any prepayment or repayment of an Advance or any part thereof otherwise
than on the last day of the Interest Period in respect of such Advance;
including without limitation (i) any Breakage Costs or (ii) in the event of the breaking
of the Lenders funding, any loss, expense, premium or penalty in respect of such
breaking of the Lenders funding or any liquidation of funds borrowed, contracted for or
utilised to fund any Advance, any amount payable under this Agreement or any amount
repaid or prepaid under this Agreement.
11.6
Default
. The Borrower shall, on demand from the Agent, indemnify the Finance
Parties against all Costs suffered, incurred or paid by the Finance Parties as a result of or
in connection with any failure by the Borrower in fulfilling any of its obligations under the
Finance Documents, including without limitation any Event of Default and including without
limitation any Costs of the Finance Parties in enforcing the Finance Documents.
11.7
Claim indemnification
. The Borrower shall, on demand from the Agent,
indemnify the Finance Parties from and against any Costs which may be suffered, incurred or
paid by any of the Finance Parties at any time (whether before or after the repayment of the
Advances) relating to, or arising directly or indirectly from the Borrowers violation of any
Regulations, including without limitation any environmental regulations.
11.8
Transaction and enforcement costs
. The Borrower shall on demand from the
Agent, pay and indemnify the Finance Parties against any Costs suffered, incurred or paid by
the Finance Parties in connection with:
a)
the negotiation, preparation, execution, closing, perfection,
registration and filing of the Finance Documents and all documents and agreements
relating thereto (including costs of legal counsel);
b)
any amendment or variation of or any release, waiver or consent under any
of the Finance Documents;
c)
the preservation, protection or maintenance of, or attempt to pre-serve,
protect or maintain any of the rights of the Finance Parties under the Finance
Documents and/or
d)
any investigation or enforcement (or an attempted enforcement) of any of
the Finance Documents after any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has
occurred.
12.
PAYMENT TERMS AND PROCEDURES
12.1
Payment to the Agent
. All payments by the Borrower to the Finance Parties or
by the Finance Parties to the Borrower under the Finance Documents shall be paid through the
Agent.
12.2
Currency
. All payments of principal, interest and fees to be made by the
Borrower shall be made in USD. All payments of Costs shall be made in the currency in which
the same were incurred. All other payments (if any) shall be made in USD.
12.3
Due date
. All payments to be made by the Borrower or the Lenders hereunder
shall be made for value on the due date in immediately available funds to such account as the
Agent may from time to time designate no later than 11.00 a.m. Copenhagen time.
12.4
Non Banking Day
. If any sum payable by the Borrower under this Agreement
shall be-come due on a day which is not a Banking Day, the due date shall be the next
succeeding Banking Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Banking Day
(if there is not).
12.5
No set-off by the Borrower
. All payments to be made by the Borrower under
the Finance Documents shall be made without set-off or counter claim. For the avoidance of
doubt this provision shall not limit the Borrowers right to enforce any claims, which the
Borrower may have against the Finance Parties, provided that such claims are not set-off or
otherwise enforced against the payments by the Borrower under the Finance Documents.
12.6
Set-off by the Finance Parties
. A Finance Party may set-off any matured
obligations due from the Borrower under the Finance Documents against any matured obligations
owed by that Finance Party to the Borrower, regardless of the place of payment, branch or
currency of either obligation.
12.7
Application of payments
. Unless otherwise provided hereunder, all payments
made by the Borrower for the account of the Finance Parties shall be applied firstly towards
costs, fees and expenses, secondly towards interest, including default interest and thirdly
towards principal.
12.8
Distribution by the Agent
. Payments received by the Agent for the account of
the Lenders shall be distributed to the Lenders according to their respective Participation in
the Advances.
12.9
Redistribution
. If a Finance Party receives a payment from the Borrower in
respect of the Finance Documents (including by way of set-off) or any excess amount through
the Agent, such Finance Party shall promptly pay such amount to the Agent and the amount shall
be redistributed in accordance with this Agreement and any agreement between the Finance
Parties, unless
a)
the receiving Lender has received or recovered an excess amount as a
result of any legal action if the other Finance Parties had an opportunity to
participate in such action but did not; or
b)
the receiving Lender would not, after making any payment pursuant to this
Clause 12.9, have a valid and enforceable claim against the Borrower.
12.10
Evidence of calculations
. The certificate of the Agent as to any
calculation of any interest rate or any amount payable pursuant to the Finance Documents shall
serve as prima facie evidence of any interests and other amounts due under the Finance
Documents in accordance therewith, including in any legal proceedings.
13.
SECURITY
13.1
Security Documents
. The obligations of the Borrower hereunder shall, as long
as any amount is payable or may become payable under this Agreement be secured by a first
priority assignment or pledge by the Borrower of the Bidco Shareholder Loan, duly executed and
perfected and in a form and substance acceptable to the Agent.
13.2
Further assurances
. The Borrower shall execute, register and deliver such
other additional pledge instruments, mortgages, assignments and other security documents in
favour of the Lenders as the Lenders or any of them through the Agent may from time to time
reasonably request in order to better perfect the security listed in Clause 13.1.
14.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
14.1
Status, powers and business of the Borrower
. The Borrower represents and
warrants to the Finance Parties that:
a)
Incorporation
. The Borrower is a limited liability company duly
incorporated and validly existing under the laws of Denmark;
b)
Corporate power and authority
. The Borrower has the power to
enter into and perform the Finance Documents, the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and has taken all necessary actions to
authorise the entering into and performance of the Finance Documents, the
Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby;
c)
Legal, binding and enforceable obligations
. The Finance Documents
and the Transaction Documents to which the Borrower is a party have been duly
executed and constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations for it enforceable
against it in accordance with their terms;
d)
No conflict
. The entering into and performance of the Finance
Documents, the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby do not and will not conflict with (i) any Regulations, (ii) the Borrowers
Articles of
Association or (iii) any agreement or document to which the Borrower is a party, or
which is binding upon the Borrower or any of the Borrowers assets;
e)
No defaults
. No event has occurred which constitutes a default
under and in respect of any material agreement or document (including inter alia the
Finance Documents and the Transaction Documents) to which the Borrower is a party or
by which the Borrower may be bound and no event has occurred which, with the giving
of notice, lapse of time, or determination of materiality may constitute a default
under or in respect of any such material agreement or document and which, in either
case, could or might result in any material adverse change in the Borrowers
business (financial or otherwise);
f)
No litigation
. No action, suit, proceeding, litigation or dispute
against the Borrower is currently taking place or pending or, to the Borrowers
knowledge, threatened nor is there subsisting any judgment or award against the
Borrower, before any court, board of arbitration or other body which, in either
case, could or might result in any material adverse change in the Borrowers
business or condition (financial or otherwise);
g)
Tax compliance
. The Borrower has, to the best of its knowledge
complied with all taxation laws in all relevant jurisdictions and the Borrower has
paid all taxes and other amounts due to governments and other public bodies, and no
material claims are being asserted against the Borrower with respect to such taxes
or other payments to public or governmental bodies which, in either case, could or
might result in any material adverse change in the Borrowers business or condition
(financial or otherwise);
h)
No immunity
. The Borrower is subject to civil and commercial law
with respect to its obligations under the Finance Documents and the Transaction
Documents, and neither the Borrower nor any of its assets enjoy any right of
immunity from set-off, suit or execution in respect of the Borrowers obligations
under the Finance Documents or the Transaction Documents;
i)
No withholding
. All amounts payable by the Borrower under the
Finance Documents may be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on
account of any tax or other duty due to a governmental or other public body;
j)
Solvency
. The Borrower is not insolvent or in liquidation or
administration or subject to any other insolvency procedure, and no receiver,
administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator, trustee or analogous officer has
been appointed in respect of the Borrower or all or any part of its assets;
k)
Ownership of assets
. The Borrower has the power to own its assets
and to carry on its business as it is being conducted;
l)
Bidco
. After the establishment of Bidco:
(i)
Bidco will maintain its corporate or legal existence, subject
to the terms of the Transaction Documents;
(ii)
The Borrower will own 50% of the shares or other ownership
interest in Bidco and the Borrowers right and obligation to contribute
further capital to Bidco is only in the form of Bidco Shareholder Loans;
(iii)
The other 50% of the shares or ownership interest in Bidco
is owned by Teekay (either directly or through a Subsidiary of Teekay) and
Teekay has identical rights and obligations to contribute further capital to
Bidco;
(iv)
Bidco will only conduct business in relation to the
Acquisition, and following the merger between Bidco and OMI, the current
business of OMI or as contemplated by the Transaction Documents; and
(v)
The Transaction Documents to which Bidco will be a party will
been duly executed and constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations for
it enforceable against it in accordance with their terms and the Transaction
Documents will not conflict with (i) any Regulations or (ii) Bidcos
constitutional documents;
m)
Transaction Documents
. As of the date of this Agreement, the
Transaction Documents contain all the material terms of the Acquisition;
n)
No material adverse change
. No material adverse change has
occurred in the ability of the Borrower to meet its obligations under the Finance
Documents since the date of its latest annual report;
o)
Disclosure of material facts
. The Borrower is not aware of any
material facts or circumstances which have not been disclosed to the Agent and which
might, if disclosed, have adversely affected the decision of a person considering
whether or not to make a credit facility of the nature contemplated by this
Agreement available to the Borrower;
p)
Accuracy of information
. All financial information and other
documentation submitted to the Finance Parties by or on behalf of the Borrower in
connection with this Agreement is accurate and correct in all material respects and
not misleading; and
q)
No money laundering
. In relation to the borrowing by the Borrower
of each Advance, the performance and discharge of its obligations and liabilities
under this Agreement or any of the Finance Documents and the transactions and other
arrangements effected or contemplated by this Agreement or any of the Finance
Documents to which the Borrower is a party, the Borrower is acting for its own
account and that the foregoing will not involve or lead to a contravention of any
law, official requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure which has
been implemented to combat money laundering (as defined in Article 1 of the
Directive (91/308/EEC) of the Council of the European Community).
14.2
Repetition
.
a)
The representations and warranties of the Borrower set out in Clause 14.1
shall be deemed to be made on the date hereof, on each Drawdown Date and on each
Interest Payment Date with respect to the facts and circumstances existing on each
such date, as if made on each such date.
b)
However, the representations and warranties in Clauses 14.1 e) (No
defaults), f) (No litigation), g) (Tax compliance), i) (No withholding), j)
(solvency) and n) (No material adverse change) shall not be repeated on each
Interest Payment Dates.
c)
The representations and warranties in Clauses 14.1 q) (No money
laundering) shall be repeated daily as long as any part of the Indebtedness remains
outstanding or the Lenders have any obligations under any of the Finance Documents.
15.
COVENANTS AND UNDERTAKINGS
15.1
Financial covenants
. The following requirements shall apply to the Borrower
at all times as long as any part of the Indebtedness remains outstanding:
a)
Equity ratio
. The Borrowers equity ratio, being the consolidated
book value of the equity of the Borrower divided by the consolidated book value of
the assets of the Borrower, shall be greater than 25%;
b)
Cash and Cash Equivalents
. The Borrower shall on a consolidated
basis have freely available Cash and/or Cash Equivalents of a minimum of USD
25,000,000; and
c)
Equity
. The Borrowers consolidated book equity shall be greater
than DKK 1,250,000,000.
The book value of equity and the book value of assets shall for the purpose of this
Clause 15.1 be determined on the basis of the accounting principles applied in the
Borrowers annual reports from time to time.
15.2
Information
. As long as any part of the Indebtedness remains outstanding,
the Borrower undertakes as follows (at its own cost):
a)
Annual accounts
. The Borrower will, as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 120 (one hundred twenty) days after the end of its
accounting year, supply the Agent with sufficient copies to each of the Lenders of
the Borrowers consolidated and unconsolidated audited annual financial statements
and cash flow reports prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in
Denmark audited by auditors approved by the Agent which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld;
b)
Quarterly accounts
. The Borrower will not later than 60 (sixty)
days after the end of each quarter of each financial year of the Borrower (save for
the last quarter of each financial year) supply the Agent with sufficient copies for
the Lenders of the Borrowers unaudited accounts and financial statements prepared
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in Denmark;
c)
Compliance Certificate
. The Borrower will not later than 60
(sixty) days after the end of each quarter of each financial year of the Borrower,
at the request of the Agent, forward to the Agent a compliance certificate in the
form set out in
Exhibit 2
confirming compliance with the financial covenants
set out in Clause 15.1 and confirming that no breach thereof is reasonably
anticipated;
d)
Further information
. The Borrower will, as soon as possible but
in no event later than two (2) weeks after the Agents request send to the Agent
such other information (financial or otherwise) with respect to itself, Bidco or OMI
as the Agent may from time to time reasonably request;
e)
Communication to creditors
. The Borrower will promptly send to
the Agent copies of all communications generally submitted to its creditors and
copies of communications sent to the Copenhagen Stock Exchange;
f)
Notification of material events
. The Borrower will promptly
notify the Agent of any events which have occurred or will occur which may have a
material impact on the Borrowers condition (financial or otherwise), including in
particular any default or threatening default under any material agreement to which
the Borrower is a party and any action, suit, arbitration or administrative
proceeding pursued or to be pursued before any court, tribunal or governmental or
other authority;
Clause 15.2 a), b), d), e) and f) shall not apply if the Borrowers website,
www.torm.com, is functional, and (i) the required information is available at such
website; and (ii) the Borrower is providing e-mail notifications with such
information to such persons or entities which have registered themselves for such
service on the Borrowers website;
g)
Know your customer
. The Borrower will provide the Finance Parties
with such information in order for the Finance Parties to comply with applicable
know your customer procedures;
h)
The Offer and the Acquisition
. The Borrower will notify the
Lenders:
(i)
of any material changes to the Transaction Documents and the
Acquisition, such notifications to be made prior to any changes being made, if
this is practically and otherwise immediately thereafter;
(ii)
if the Borrower breaches, or if the Borrower becomes aware
that any other party to the Transaction Documents or OMI breaches, any
material obligations under any of the Transaction Documents or any material
agreements to which OMI is a party; and
i)
Notification of Event of Default
. The Borrower will promptly
notify the Agent of any Event of Default or any event which with the giving of
notice, lapse of time or upon determination of materiality may constitute an Event
of Default.
15.3
The Borrowers business
. As long as any part of the Indebtedness remains
outstanding, the Borrower undertakes as follows (at its own cost):
a)
Corporate existence and listing
. The Borrower will maintain its
corporate existence as a Danish company and will maintain its listing on the
Copenhagen Stock Exchange;
b)
Conduct of business
. The Borrower will carry on its business in
accordance with (i) acknowledged, careful and sound practises, and (ii) all
Regulations applicable from time to time, including without limitation environmental
rules and regulations;
c)
Authorisations
. The Borrower will obtain, maintain in full force
and effect, and act in accordance with all authorisations, consents, licences,
registrations or similar permissions required in connection with its performance of,
or the validity or enforceability of the Finance Documents, the Transaction
Documents and/or the transactions contemplated thereby;
d)
Tax compliance
. The Borrower will generally comply with all
taxation laws in all relevant jurisdictions and pay all Taxes and other amounts due
by it to governments and other public bodies and to ensure that no material claims
will be asserted against it with respect to such Taxes or other payments to public
or governmental bodies which, in either case, could or might result in any material
adverse change in the Borrowers business or condition (financial or otherwise);
e)
Arms length
. The Borrower will implement all transactions with
its Affiliates on an arms length basis;
f)
Books, accounts and records
. The Borrower will at all times
maintain its books, accounts and records;
g)
No change of business
. The Borrower will continue to conduct its
business being the ownership, management and operations of ships and not materially
change its business purpose as on the date hereof;
h)
Mergers
. The Borrower will not enter into any merger or
consolidation or other corporate restructuring or effect any material divestment
without the prior written consent of the Majority Lenders, if such merger,
consolidation, restructuring or divestment could or might result in any material
adverse change in the Borrowers business or condition (financial or otherwise);
i)
Transaction Documents and squeeze-out
. The Borrower will ensure
or procure that:
(i)
no changes are made to the Transaction Documents which are
reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect the interests of the
Finance Parties;
(ii)
the Borrower will not give any waivers or consents relating
to material issues in the Transaction Documents without the consent of the
Lenders, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed; and
(iii)
after the first Advance has been made Bidco commences a
statutory squeeze out-procedure in respect of the shares of OMI not owned by
Bidco in order for OMI to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Bidco, provided
that Bidco and OMI may merge with Bidco as the surviving entity as set forth
in the Transaction Documents;
j)
Additional assurances
. The Borrower will provide all such other
information and enter into all such other documentation as the Agent may reasonably
request or require in connection with the protection, preservation and enforcement
of the security created by the Security Documents;
k)
Pari passu
. The Borrower will ensure that the obligations of the
Borrower under this Agreement will rank at all times at least pari passu with all
its other existing or future indebtedness, obligations and liabilities actual or
contingent from time to time (save those as by law rank as preferential); and
l)
Negative pledge
. The Borrower will not create any Security
Interest (and will procure that any Security Interest promptly is removed) on its
shares in Bidco and on Bidcos shares in OMI.
15.4
Bidcos business
. After the establishment of Bidco, and thereafter as long
as any part of the Indebtedness remains outstanding, the Borrower undertakes the procure the
following (at its own cost):
a)
Bidco will maintain its legal existence and, until the merger with OMI,
will be a single purpose vehicle with the only purpose of owning shares in OMI and
effectuating the Acquisition;
b)
the undertakings set forth in Clause 15.3 b) to g) with respect to the
Borrower shall also apply mutatis mutandis with respect to Bidco;
c)
Bidco will not merge or undergo any other reorganisation or restructuring
other than a merger with OMI or otherwise in accordance with the Transaction
Documents and only provided that the Bidco Shareholder Loans remains in full force
or effect unless otherwise agreed with the Lenders; and
d)
the obligations of Bidco under the Bidco Shareholder Loans and the
identical loans provided by Teekay (and/or a Subsidiary of Teekay) will be identical
unsecured obligations which will rank pari passu in between each other.
15.5
Bidco Shareholder Loans
.
a)
The Borrower has assigned the Bidco Shareholder Loans to the Lenders as
security pursuant to Clause 13.1.
b)
In the event that Bidco will sell any vessels (a Vessel) to the
Borrower in accordance with the Transaction Documents, the Borrower shall notify the
Agent prior to such sale taking place specifying the name of the Vessel and the
agreed purchase price as set forth in the Transaction Documents (the Vessel
Purchase Price), together with information of the principal amount of the Bidco
Shareholder Loans before and after completion of the sale.
c)
At the time of completing such sale of the Vessel from Bidco to the
Borrower (or a Subsidiary of the Borrower), the Vessel Purchase Price shall be
set-off against the Bidco Shareholder Loans.
d)
Upon receiving the notice of the sale of the Vessel as set forth in (b)
above (and prior to the sale being completed), the Lenders may select (which
selection shall not be delayed) that either (i) or (ii) shall apply in respect of
the Vessel:
(i)
If after the Borrower (or a wholly Subsidiary of the
Borrower) becoming the owner of the Vessel, the Vessel is sold, mortgaged or a
total loss has occurred in respect of the Vessel, then the proceeds received
in respect of such event shall be applied to prepay the Advances; or
(ii)
On or before the set-off referred to under (c) above occurs,
the Borrower shall prepay the Advances with an amount that equals 1/21 of the
Lenders total Commitments.
16.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
16.1
Events of Default
. An Event of Default shall be deemed to have taken place
if any of the following events occurs (notwithstanding the reason why it has occurred) and the
Agent notifies the Borrower that an Event of Default has occurred:
a)
Failure to pay
. The Borrower fails to pay when due any sum
payable under any of the Finance Documents (or any agreement entered into in
connection with any of the Finance Documents), and such payment has not been made in
full within three (3) Banking Days after the Borrowers receipt of the Agents
notice in respect thereof; or
b)
Breach of representations and warranties
. Any representation or
warranty made by the Borrower in any Finance Document or any certificate or
statement delivered or made thereunder is incorrect or inaccurate in any material
respect, provided, however, that such breach shall not constitute an Event of
Default if:
i)
the breach is capable of remedy; and
ii)
the breach is remedied to the satisfaction of the Agent
within 7 (seven) Banking Days of the earlier of (i) the Borrower becoming
aware of the breach and (ii) a notice from the Agent specifying the breach
was received by the Borrower; or
c)
Security jeopardized
. The security constituted by any of the
Security Documents is imperilled or jeopardized in any way; or
d)
Financial covenants and other obligations or undertakings
. Any of
the requirements set out in Clause 15.1 (financial covenants) are not satisfied at
any time or any other obligation of the Borrower or undertaking made by the Borrower
in any Finance Document, or any certificate or statement delivered under the said
documents is breached, provided, however, that such breach shall not constitute an
Event of Default if:
i)
the breach is capable of remedy; and
ii)
the breach is remedied to the satisfaction of the Agent
within 7 (seven) Banking Days of the earlier of (i) the Borrower becoming
aware of the breach and (ii) a notice from the Agent specifying the breach was
received by the Borrower.
e)
Bankruptcy or insolvency events
. Any action, legal proceeding or
other procedure or step is taken or any negotiation is commenced with a creditor in
relation to:
i)
the bankruptcy, a composition of debts, a suspension of
payments, winding up, a moratorium of any indebtedness, dissolution,
administration or
the insolvency of the Borrower or Bidco (whether voluntary, mandatory or
in any other way); or
ii)
the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrator,
administrative receiver, compulsory manager or other similar officer in
respect of the Borrower; or
f)
Creditors process
. Any expropriation, attachment, sequestration,
distress or execution or any analogous process in any jurisdiction which affects any
asset or assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries having an aggregate value
in excess of USD 15,000,000 and which is not discharged within 30 days, unless in
the opinion of the Agent adequate steps are being taken by the Borrower or the
Subsidiary to dispute or discharge such action and such steps are reasonably likely
to be successful; or
g)
Cross default agreements with Finance Parties
. The Borrower or
any of its Affiliates has defaulted under any agreement entered into by the Borrower
or any of its Affiliates and any of the Finance Parties or any Affiliate thereof
which default has not been remedied within the applicable remedy period under such
agreement or waived by the relevant Finance Party; or
h)
Cross default other agreements
. The Borrower or any of its
Affiliates has committed a material default, or an event of default has occurred,
under:
(i)
any other financial agreement (including any financial
charter parties) to which the Borrower or any of its Affiliates is a party
concerning any kind of financial liability or other obligation in excess of
USD 15,000,000 in aggregate; or
(ii)
any of the Transaction Documents; or
i)
Material adverse change
. There has been a material adverse change
(since the date hereof) in the ability of the Borrower to meet its obligations under
any of the Finance Documents.
16.2
Action following an Event of Default
. Upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default and at any time thereafter, so long as any such Event of Default continues, the Agent
may:
a)
by notice to the Borrower declare the Indebtedness to be either
immediately due and payable or payable by the Borrower upon demand whereupon the
same shall become immediately due and payable or (as the case may be) payable on
demand by the Agent; and/or
b)
by notice to the Borrower declare the Commitment terminated; and/or
c)
take any other action, exercise any other right or pursue any other
remedy conferred upon the Agent and/or the Lenders by this Agreement and/or by all
or any of the Security Documents or by any applicable Regulation or otherwise as a
consequence of such Event of Default; and/or
d)
freely choose and decide whether and if so, what part of, the security
constituted by the Security Documents shall be realized and which of its rights
exercised.
16.3
Close-out netting
. Close-out netting has been agreed between the Borrower
and the Lenders. If an Event of Default occurs and if a Lender or the Agent on behalf of a
Lender gives notice of close-out netting to the Borrower, all present and future obligations
and liabilities (whether actual or contingent and in any other capacity whatsoever) between
that Lender and the Borrower shall be settled through close-out netting (
slutafregning
).
17.
THE AGENT
17.1
Appointment
. The Lenders appoint the Agent to act as their agent in
connection with this Agreement and the Security Documents and the Agent accepts such
appointment.
17.2
Authorisation
. The Lenders authorise the Agent:
a)
to execute any Finance Documents and any other documents which are to be
executed by the Agent on the Lenders behalf (except for this Agreement, which shall
be executed by all Lenders); and
b)
exercise all rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically
given to the Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the Security Documents or
otherwise, together with all such rights, powers and discretions as are reasonably
incidental thereto.
17.3
Relationship
. The relationship between the Agent and the Lenders is that of
principal and agent. The Agent shall not be liable to any person for any breach by any of the
Lenders of any provision of any of the Finance Documents or for any breach of any other person
of the terms of any of the Finance Documents. The Agent and the Lenders will enter into an
agency agreement in the form attached as
Exhibit 4
.
17.4
Delegation
. The Agent may act under the Finance Documents through their
personnel and agents but shall not delegate to any agent any discretion granted to it
hereunder.
17.5
Resignation
. The Agent may resign and appoint one of its ultimately wholly
owned Subsidiaries or an ultimately wholly owned Subsidiary of a Parent of the Agent as
successor by giving notice to the Lenders and the Borrower, provided that such successor has
sufficient skills and expertise in the administrations of comparable loans.
17.6
Removal
. The Majority Lenders may, by giving notice to the Agent and the
Borrower, remove the Agent, provided that the Majority Lenders appoint a new Agent.
(a)
the Borrower and the Existing Lender shall each be released from further
obligations pertaining to such transferred part of the Facility to each other under
this Agreement and their respective rights pertaining to such transferred part of
the Facility against each other shall be cancelled;
(b)
each of the parties to this Agreement and the New Lender shall acquire
the same rights and assume the same obligations among themselves as they would have
acquired and assumed had the New Lender been a party under this Agreement as a
Lender with the rights and/or the obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result
of the Transfer; and
(c)
a proportion of the Existing Lenders rights under the Security
Documents, equal to the proportion of the Existing Lenders rights under this
Agreement being transferred, shall automatically be transferred and assigned to the
New Lender.
18.5
Handling fee
. The New Lender shall, on the date upon which a Transfer takes
effect, pay to the Agent (for its own account) a fee of USD 5,000 except in the event of a
Transfer from a Lender to one of its Affiliates.
18.6
Assurances by the Borrower
. The Borrower undertakes to procure that in
relation to any Transfer, the Borrower shall at the request of the Agent execute such
documents as may be in the discretion of the Agent be necessary to ensure that the New Lender
attains the benefit of the Finance Documents.
18.7
No increase in the Borrowers obligations
. Any transfer made pursuant to
this Clause 18 shall not increase the obligations of the Borrower (including but not limited
to the introduction of withholding tax solely on account of such transfer) under the Finance
Documents.
18.8
No transfer by the Borrower
. The Borrower may not assign or transfer any
part of its rights and/or obligations under the Finance Documents.
18.9
Disclosure of information
. A Finance Party may disclose the Finance
Documents and any confidential information concerning the Borrower to its Affiliates and to
any bank or financial institution with whom it is proposing to enter, or has entered into, any
kind of transfer, participation or other agreement in relation to this Agreement.
19.
NOTICES
19.1
Notices in writing
. Any notices to be submitted in accordance with the
Finance Documents shall be submitted by letter or telefax (and in administrative matters also
by electronic communication, such as e-mail and intralinks) to the following addresses or such
addresses as such party may hereafter notify to the other parties hereto:
a)
If to the Borrower:
Tuborg Havnevej 18
DK-2900 Hellerup
Denmark
Att.: The Chief Financial Officer
Fax: +45 39 17 93 80
E-mail (only in administrative matters): man@torm.dk
b)
If to the Agent:
In administration matters:
Loans and Deposits (3925) Bent Ole Loike
Holmens Kanal 2-12
DK-1092 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Phone No. +45 45 14 56 56
Fax No. +45 45 14 99 78
E-mail r3925syn@danskebank.dk
In credit matters:
Specialised Credits (4754)
Holmens Kanal 2
DK-1090 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Phone No. +45 45 12 74 00
Fax No. +45 45 12 87 22
E-mail specialisedcredits@danskebank.dk
If to the Lenders, to the addresses set out in
Schedule 1
hereto and, in respect
of any New Lender, the address notified by such New Lender to the Borrower and the Agent.
19.2
Effectiveness of notices
. Any notice in respect of the Finance Documents
shall be deemed to be duly made only:
a)
in the case of a letter, whether delivered in course of the post or by
hand or by courier, at the date and time of its actual delivery if delivered within
normal business hours on a working day at the place of receipt, otherwise at the
commencement of normal business on the next such working day; or
b)
in the case of a facsimile transmission, at the time recorded together
with the telephone dialling code of the receiving machine on the message if such
time is within normal business hours on a working day at the place of receipt,
otherwise at the commencement of normal business hours on the next such working day.
19.3
Language
. Any notice given under or in connection with this Agreement must
be in English. All other documents provided under or in connection with this Agreement must be
in English or if not in English, and unless otherwise agreed with the Agent, accompanied by a
certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation (as the case may be)
will prevail unless the document translated is a constitutional, statutory or other official
document.
19.4
Reliance
. The Borrower shall be entitled to rely on the Agent and the
Agents consents, waivers, agreements, confirmations and similar in all matters relating to
the Finance Documents notwithstanding any requirement in the Finance Documents for the Lenders
or Majority Lenders to consent, waive, confirm, agree or similar.
20.
MISCELLANEOUS
20.1
Tombstone
. When it becomes public that the Borrower summit the Offer, the
Finance Parties may publish a tombstone in respect the financing of the Acquisition.
20.2
No implied waivers
. Any Finance Parties omission to claim any event as an
Event of De-fault or to invoke any other rights granted to the Finance Parties hereunder shall
not result in the Finance Parties subsequently at any time not being entitled to claim similar
events as an Event of Default or invoke such rights.
20.3
Discrepancy
. In case of any discrepancy between this Agreement and the
Schedules, the Exhibits or the Security Documents, this Agreement shall prevail.
20.4
Separable provisions
. The provisions of the Finance Documents are several
and if any of the obligations of the Borrower hereunder and thereunder shall be invalid or
unenforceable in any respect in any jurisdiction, this shall not affect the validity or
enforceability of such obligation in any other jurisdiction or the validity or enforceability
of the remaining obligations in that or any other jurisdiction.
20.5
Amendments
. Any amendments to this Agreement and the Security Documents
shall only be binding provided all the parties hereto have approved such amendment in writing,
except when otherwise provided herein.
20.6
Headings
. In this Agreement clause headings are for ease of reference only.
21.
LAW, JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEABLITITY
21.1
Law
. This Agreement shall be governed by Danish law.
21.2
Main jurisdiction
. Save as provided for in Clause 21.3, the City Court in
Copenhagen (Københavns Byret) shall have exclusive jurisdiction with respect to any dispute
arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.
21.3
Alternative jurisdictions
. Clause 21.2 shall, however, not limit the right
of the Finance Parties to initiate proceedings against the Borrower or any of its assets or
any of the
securities constituted by the Security Documents in any competent court of law, bailiff
office or other forum for the purpose of enforcing the Finance Documents.
21.4
Agents right to initiate proceedings
. The parties agree that the Agent has
the right to enforce the Finance Documents and to commence proceedings (including, without
limitations, legal proceedings in any competent court) against the Borrower under the Finance
Documents as agent for and on behalf of each of the other Finance Parties and it shall not be
necessary for any of the other Finance Parties to be joined as an additional party in any such
proceedings for this purpose.
21.5
Enforceability
. This Agreement is enforceable in accordance with Section 478
paragraph 1, number 5 and paragraph 4 of the Danish Administration of Justice Act
(Retsplejelovens § 478, stk. 1, nr. 5 and stk. 4) and similar provisions in any other relevant
jurisdiction.
/s/ Niels Erik Nielsen
/s/ Klaus Kjærulff
Print name: Niels Erik Nielsen
Print name: Klaus Kjærulff
As Lender and Arranger,
Danske Bank A/S:
/s/ Bent V. Christensen
/s/ Flemming Møller
Print name: Bent V. Christensen
Print name: Flemming Møller
As Lender and Arranger,
HSH Nordbank AG:
/s/ Stefan Zinecker
/s/ Steffen Gerjets
Print name: Stefan Zinecker
Print name: Steffen Gerjets
As Agent,
Danske Bank A/S:
/s/ Bent V. Christensen
/s/ Flemming Møller
Print name: Bent V. Christensen
Print name: Flemming Møller
USD 700,000,000
Aktieselskabet Dampskibsselskabet TORM
as Borrower
Danske Bank A/S
HSH Nordbank AG
as Lenders and Arrangers
Danske Bank A/S
as Agent
17 April 2007
ADDRESS FOR NOTICES
COMMITMENT
For credit documentation matters:
USD 350,000,000
Specialised Credits (4754)
2 Holmens Kanal
DK-1090 Copenhagen K
Denmark
e-mail:
specialisedcredits@danskebank.dk
Telephone: +45 45 12 74 00
Telefax: +45 45 12 87 22
Holmens Kanal 2-12
DK-1092 Copenhagen K
Denmark
For administration/operational matters:
Loans & Deposits (3925)
Bent Ole Loike
2-12 Holmens Kanal
DK-1092 Copenhagen K
r3925syn@danskebank.dk
Telephone: +45 45 14 56 56
Telefax:+45 45 14 99 78
Shipping
USD 350,000,000
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz 50
D-20095 Hamburg
Germany
c)
Any Parent of the Relevant Company and any other Subsidiary of such Parent; and
d)
Any Subsidiary of the Relevant Company;
e)
the interest (excluding the Margin) which the Lenders should have received for the period
from the date of receipt of an amount under the Agreement (the Repaid Amount) to the last
day of the current Interest Period in respect of such Repaid Amount had such Repaid Amount
been paid on the last day of that Interest Period
exceeds
f)
the amount which the Lenders would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the Repaid
Amount received on deposit with a leading bank in the London interbank market for a period
starting on the Banking Day following the receipt of the Repaid Amount and ending on the last
day of the current Interest Period in respect of such Repaid Amount;
g)
Clause 16.1(a) (Failure to pay);
h)
Clause 16.1(b) (Breach of representation and warranties), with respect to any representation
made pursuant to:
(i)
Clause 14.1 (a) (Incorporation);
(ii)
Clause 14.1 (b) (Corporate power and authority);
(iii)
Clause 14.1 (c) (Legal, binding and enforceable obligations);
(iv)
Clause 14.1 (d) (No conflict);
(v)
Clause 14.1 (l) (Bidco); and
(vi)
Clause 14.1 (q) (No money laundering)
not being correct in all material respects (in the case of any representation or warranty to
which a materiality test is already applied, in all respects); and
i)
Clause 16.1(c) (Security jeopardized), provided that such imperilment or jeopardy is within
the control of the Borrower;
j)
Clause 16.1(d) (Financial covenants and other obligations or undertakings), with respect to:
(i)
Clause 15.3 (a) (Corporate existence and listing);
(ii)
Clause 15.3 (b) (Conduct of business);
(iii)
Clause 15.3 (c) (Authorisations);
(iv)
Clause 15.3 (e) (Arms length), provided that a breach hereof relates to a material agreement;
(v)
Clause 15.3 (g) (No change of business);
(vi)
Clause 15.3 (h) (Mergers);
(vii)
Clause 15.3 (i) (Transaction Documents and squeeze-out), however only relating
to sub-clause (i); and
(viii)
Clause 15.4 (Bidcos business); however only relating to (a), (b) and (c), however
with the respect to (b), only in relation to Clause 15.3.(b), (c) and (g); and
k)
Clause 16.1(e) (Bankruptcy or insolvency events);
a)
the USD LIBOR as published on Reuter LIBOR 01 for USD (or any equivalent successor page or
such other service as may be elected by the British Bankers Association as the information
vendor for purposes of displaying British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rates) as
the rate per annum at which deposits are being quoted to prime banks in USD for the relevant
Interest Period at the London Interbank Market on or about 11:00 a.m. London time two (2)
Banking Days prior to the commencement of the rele-
vant Interest Period for which the rate shall apply, such rate to be determined by the
Agent; or
b)
if the relevant rate does not appear on such page or service for the purpose of paragraph (a)
or the Agent determines that no rate for the relevant period of time appears on such page or
service, the annual rate of interest which is the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards, if not
already such a multiple, to the nearest one sixteenth of one pct. (1/16%)) of the rates of
interest supplied by the Reference Banks to leading banks in the London Interbank Market in
the ordinary course of business at or about 11:00 a.m. London time two (2) Banking Days prior
to the commencement of the period for which the rate shall apply, such rate to be determined
by the Agent; or
c)
if the rate published on such information system as described in paragraph (a) or quoted in
accordance with paragraph (b), as the case may be, is materially lower than leading Danish
banks and financial institutions costs of obtaining funds on the interbank market, then such
Danish banks and financial institutions cost of obtaining the funds necessary to finance and
maintain the Advance shall apply;
21.6
In respect of the Borrower and the Finance Documents:
l)
the Agreement duly executed by all parties thereto;
m)
the Security Documents, duly perfected;
n)
the Fee Letter;
o)
a copy of the Articles of Association in respect of the Borrower;
p)
a transcript from the Danish Commerce and Companies Agency in respect of
the Borrower;
q)
an extract of a minutes of the Borrowers board of directors authorising
the entering into of the Finance Documents and the Transaction Documents;
r)
the originals of any powers of attorney issued in favour of any person
executing any of the Finance Documents on behalf of the Borrower;
s)
a legal opinion issued by Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard in respect of
Danish law covering inter alia the execution by the Borrower of the Finance
Documents and the Transaction Documents listed in (i) to (iii) in the definition
thereof;
t)
legal opinions from lawyers appointed by the Agent in respect of (i) the
laws governing the Transaction Documents, (ii) Marshall Islands law and (iii) Teekay
covering inter alia the execution by Teekay of the Transactions Documents listed in
(i) to (iii) in the definition thereof; and
u)
a legal opinion issued by Kromann Reumert in respect of Danish law.
21.7
In respect of Bidco and the Acquisition:
v)
a copy of Bidcos constitutional documents;
w)
a copy of each of the executed Transaction Documents (including the terms
for the Bidco Shareholder Loans);
x)
evidence that Teekay has a committed offer in respect of the financing in
relation to the Acquisition;
y)
a copy of the financial and legal due diligence reports made on behalf of
the Borrower; and
z)
evidence that Bidco immediately after the drawdown of an Advance will
acquire title to capital stock of OMI for a purchase price at least equivalent to
the amount of the Advance and that the Borrower is in compliance with Clause 3.4 of
the Agreement.
aa)
Any such documents and evidence as are set forth under Part B, in the event that it is changed; and
bb)
such additional documents, opinions, certificates, authorizations or assurances as the Agent may reasonably request.