UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 18, 2017

The Meet Group, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)



Delaware
 
001-33105
 
86-0879433
(State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(IRS Employer Identification No.)




100 Union Square Drive
New Hope, Pennsylvania
 
 
18938
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (215) 862-1162

Not Applicable
(Former name or former address if changed since last report.)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐


 


Item 1.01      Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Share Purchase Agreement
 
On September 18, 2017, The Meet Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), TMG Holding Germany GmbH, a limited liability company organized under the laws of Germany and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“ Purchaser ”), Bawogo Ventures GmbH & Co. KG, a limited partnership organized under the laws of Germany (“ Seller ”), and the seller guarantors, entered into a Share Purchase Agreement (the “ Purchase Agreement ”). Capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined have the meaning set forth in the Purchase Agreement.
 
At the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement (the “ Closing ”), pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, and upon the terms and subject to the conditions thereof, Purchaser will purchase from Seller all of the outstanding shares of Lovoo GmbH (“ Lovoo ”), a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of Germany (the “ Acquisition ”).
 
Purchase Price
 
The Purchase Price to be paid by Purchaser on the Closing Date, subject to certain adjustments in the Purchase Agreement, is US $65 million in cash.
 
Purchaser will also pay additional contingent consideration, in the form of an earn-out amount of up to US $5 million, payment of which is subject to certain conditions set forth in the Purchase Agreement including the successful achievement of an adjusted EBITDA target by Lovoo following the Closing, which is expected to occur in October 2017.

Representations and Warranties , Covenants
 
Each of the Purchaser and Seller has made customary representations and warranties in the Purchase Agreement, and the Purchaser has agreed to customary covenants regarding the operation of the business of Lovoo and its subsidiary prior to the Closing Date.
 
Conditions to Closing
 
The Closing is subject to certain conditions, including, without limitation, the accuracy of the certain fundamental representations and warranties of Seller and the absence of any Material Adverse Change with respect to Lovoo, and the termination or assignment of all contracts, which exist or are concluded between the Seller or other current or former members of the Seller Group, on the one hand, and the Lovoo Companies, on the other hand (the “ Closing Conditions ”).
 
Termination
 
The Purchase Agreement may be terminated prior to the Closing upon the occurrence or non-occurrence of certain events, including the following:

by Purchaser or Seller if, subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Purchase Agreement, the Closing Conditions have not been met or waived on or before on December 1, 2017;
by Purchaser if there is a Closing Obstacle on the Scheduled Closing Date; and
by Seller if (i) Purchaser refuses to close on the Scheduled Closing Date, (ii) Seller has satisfactorily shown that no Closing Obstacle exists on the Scheduled Closing Date and (iii) the Closing has not taken place within ten days from the Scheduled Closing Date.
 



The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Purchase Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to this report and incorporated herein by reference. The representations, warranties and covenants of the parties contained in the Purchase Agreement have been made solely for the benefit of the parties thereto. In addition, such representations, warranties and covenants (i) have been made only for purposes of the Purchase Agreement, (ii) have been qualified by confidential disclosures made by Lovoo to Purchaser in connection with the Purchase Agreement, (iii) are subject to materiality qualifications contained in the Purchase Agreement which may differ from what may be viewed as material by investors, (iv) were made only as of the date of the Purchase Agreement or such other date as is specified in the Purchase Agreement and (v) have been included in the Purchase Agreement for the purpose of allocating risk between the contracting parties rather than establishing matters as facts. Accordingly, the Purchase Agreement is included with this report only to provide investors with information regarding the terms of the Purchase Agreement, and not to provide investors with any other factual information regarding the parties or their respective businesses. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties or covenants, or any descriptions thereof, as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the parties or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the Purchase Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Company’s public disclosures. Accordingly, you should read the representations and warranties in the Purchase Agreement not in isolation but only in conjunction with the other information about the Company, Purchaser, Seller and Lovoo that is or will be included in reports, statements and other filings that the Company will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”) in connection with its entry into the Purchase Agreement.

Credit Agreement
 
On September 18, 2017, in connection with the Acquisition, the Company entered into an amended and restated credit agreement (the “ Amended and Restated Credit Agreement ”) with the several banks and other financial institutions party thereto (the “ Lenders ”) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (the “ Agent ”), amending and restating that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of March 3, 2017. The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement provides for a $20 million revolving credit facility (the “ Revolving Credit Facility ”) and a $60 million delayed draw term loan facility (the “ Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility ,” and together with the “ Revolving Credit Facility ”, the “ Credit Facilities ”).

The Company intends to use the proceeds under the Credit Facilities to finance the Acquisition and to pay expenses incurred in connection therewith, and to finance the Company’s working capital needs and other general corporate purposes.
 
The commitments of the Lenders in respect of the Credit Facilities and the extension of credit thereunder are conditioned upon satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, including among other things, in connection with the Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility, the consummation of the Acquisition.
 
Amounts under the Revolving Credit Facility may be borrowed, repaid and re-borrowed from time to time until the maturity date of the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement. The Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility is subject to quarterly amortization of principal in an amount equal to $3,750,000 per quarter commencing December 31, 2017 and continuing through maturity. The Credit Facilities are subject to mandatory prepayment of 100% of the net proceeds received from the issuance of indebtedness, subject to certain exceptions for indebtedness permitted by the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, from asset sales, casualty insurance, and condemnation awards or similar recoveries, subject to certain exceptions for reinvestment of such proceeds contained in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, and 50% of the Company’s Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement) for the immediately preceding fiscal year, unless the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement) is less than 0.50 to 1.00. Voluntary prepayments of the Credit Facilities under the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement are permitted at any time without payment of any prepayment fee upon proper notice.




At the Company’s election, loans made under the Credit Facilities will bear interest at either

(i)      a base rate (“ Alternate Base Rate ”) plus an applicable margin, or
 
     (ii)      a London interbank offered rate (“ Adjusted LIBO Rate ”) plus an applicable margin.

The Alternate Base Rate means the highest of

(a) the Agent’s “prime rate,”
 
(b) the federal funds effective rate plus 0.50%, and
 
(c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for an interest period of one month plus 1%.

Any Eurodollar loans made under the Revolving Credit Facility will bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate plus an applicable margin of between 2.25 and 3.25%, based on the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement), and the Alternate Base Rate loans made under the Revolving Credit Facility will bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus an applicable margin of between 1.25 and 2.25%, based on the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement). Any Eurodollar loans made under the Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility will bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate plus an applicable margin of between 2.25 and 3.25%, based on the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement), and the Adjusted Base Rate loans made under the Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility will bear interest at the Adjusted Base Rate plus an applicable margin of between 1.25 and 2.25%, based on the Company’s Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement).
 
The Company’s present and future domestic subsidiaries (the “ Guarantors ”) will guarantee the obligations of the Company and its subsidiaries under the Credit Facilities. The obligations of the Company and its subsidiaries under the Credit Facilities are secured by all of the assets of the Company and the Guarantors, subject to certain exceptions and exclusions as set forth in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and other loan documents.
 
The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement contains certain affirmative and negative covenants that are binding on the Company and its subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, restrictions (subject to specified exceptions and qualifications) on the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to incur indebtedness, to create liens, to merge or consolidate, to make dispositions, to make restricted payments such as dividends, distributions or equity repurchases, to make investments, to prepay other indebtedness, to enter into certain transactions with affiliates, or to enter into any burdensome agreements or to make changes in the nature of the business.
 
In addition, the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement requires the Company to abide by certain financial covenants calculated for the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. Specifically, the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement requires that the Company and its subsidiaries not:

Permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (as defined in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement), for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the last day of any fiscal quarter during the term hereof, to be less than 1.50:1.00.

The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement contains customary events of default (which are in some cases subject to certain exceptions, thresholds, notice requirements and grace periods). The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement also contains certain representations, warranties and conditions, in each case as set forth in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.
 
The foregoing descriptions of the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.



Item 2.03      Creation of Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of Registrant.

(a)
 
The information set forth under “Credit Agreement” in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

Item 7.01      Regulation FD Disclosure.

Investor Communications
 
In connection with entry into the Purchase Agreement, several investor communications were prepared by the Company.
 
The Company issued a press release, dated September 20, 2017, announcing, among other things, the entry into the Purchase Agreement, the text of which is filed herewith and incorporated by reference into this Item 7.01.
 
The text of the Company’s investor presentation materials filed herewith is incorporated by reference into this Item 7.01.
 
The information furnished pursuant to this Item 7.01 shall not be considered “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liability of such section, nor shall it be incorporated by reference into future filings by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, unless the Company expressly sets forth in such future filing that such information is to be considered “filed” or incorporated by reference therein. This information shall not be deemed an admission as to the materiality of such information that is required to be disclosed solely by Regulation FD.
 
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
 
Certain statements in this report are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including the expected completion of the Acquisition and the time frame in which this will occur. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained herein are forward-looking statements. The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “project,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they relate to the Company, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The Company has based these forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about the proposed Acquisition. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements that the conditions to the Closing of the Purchase Agreement may not be satisfied, the potential impact on the business of the Company or Lovoo due to the announcement of the Acquisition, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Purchase Agreement and general economic conditions. Further information on the Company’s risk factors is contained in the Company’s filings with the SEC, including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 and the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017. Any forward-looking statement made by the Company herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause the Company’s actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all of them. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.

Item 8.01      Other Events.

The following risk factors are provided to update the risk factors of the Company previously disclosed in periodic reports filed with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017:
 



Risks Relating to the Proposed Acquisition
 
The pending Acquisition is subject to a number of conditions to our and Seller’s obligations, which, if not fulfilled, may result in termination of the Purchase Agreement.
 
The Purchase Agreement contains a number of customary conditions to complete the Acquisition, including that certain representations and warranties be accurate, that certain covenants be fulfilled and that there are no legal prohibitions against completion of the Acquisition. Some of the conditions to complete the Acquisition are not within either our or Seller’s control and neither company can predict when or if these conditions will be satisfied.
 
If the Acquisition is not consummated by December 1, 2017 either we or Seller may terminate the Purchase Agreement.
 
Either Seller or Purchaser may terminate the Purchase Agreement if the conditions to Closing have not been met or waived on or before on December 1, 2017. However, the right to terminate the Purchase Agreement will not be available to any party whose breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement set forth in the Purchase Agreement has been the cause of, or resulted in, the failure to close the Purchase Agreement prior to December 1, 2017.

Failure to complete the Acquisition could negatively affect our share price and our future business and financial results.
 
We cannot provide assurance that the conditions to Closing the Acquisition will be satisfied in a timely manner or at all. If the Acquisition is not completed, our share price could fall to the extent that our current price reflects an assumption that we will complete the pending Acquisition. Furthermore, if the Acquisition is not completed, our ongoing business may be adversely affected, and we will be subject to several risks, including the following:

having to pay certain costs relating to the proposed Acquisition, such as legal, accounting, financial advisor and filing fees;
our management focused on the Acquisition instead of on pursuing other opportunities that could be beneficial to us without realizing any of the benefits of the Acquisition having been completed;
our failure to retain key employees during the pendency of the Acquisition;
the failure to consummate the Acquisition may result in negative publicity and a negative impression of us in the investment community; and
any disruptions to our business resulting from the announcement of the Acquisition, including any adverse changes in our relationships with our advertisers, partners and employees, may continue or intensify in the event the Acquisition is not consummated.

If the Acquisition is not completed, there can be no assurance these risks will not materialize and will not materially affect our business, financial results and share price.
 
The pendency of the Acquisition could adversely affect the business and operations of The Meet Group.
 
In connection with the pending Acquisition, some of our advertisers may delay or defer decisions, which could negatively affect our revenues, earnings, cash flows and expenses, regardless of whether the Acquisition is completed. Similarly, our current and prospective employees may experience uncertainty about their future roles with the combined company following the Acquisition, which may materially adversely affect our ability to attract or retain key personnel during the pendency of the Acquisition.
 



Risks Relating to the Combined Company
 
If the proposed Acquisition closes, we may be unable to integrate Lovoo’s business with ours successfully and realize the anticipated benefits of the Acquisition.
 
The anticipated benefits we expect from the pending Acquisition are, necessarily, based on projections and assumptions about the combined businesses of the Company and Lovoo, which may not materialize as expected or which may prove to be inaccurate. The value of our common stock following the completion of the pending Acquisition could be adversely affected if we are unable to realize the anticipated benefits from the Acquisition on a timely basis or at all. Achieving the benefits of the pending Acquisition will depend, in part, on our ability to integrate the business and operations of Lovoo successfully and efficiently with our business. The challenges involved in this integration, which will be complex and time-consuming, include the following:

the inability to successfully integrate Lovoo’s business with ours in a manner that permits us to achieve the synergies and other benefits anticipated to result from the Acquisition;
the challenge of integrating complex systems, operating procedures, technology, and other assets of the two companies in a manner that minimizes any adverse impact on advertisers, service providers, employees, and other constituencies;
diversion of the attention of our management and other key employees;
the challenge of integrating the workforces of the two companies while maintaining focus on providing consistent, high quality service and running an efficient operation;
disruption of, or the loss of momentum in, our ongoing business;
liabilities that are significantly larger than we currently anticipate and unforeseen increased expenses or delays associated with the Acquisition, including transition costs to integrate the two businesses that may exceed the costs that we currently anticipate;
maintaining productive and effective employee relationships;
limitations prior to the completion of the Acquisition on the ability of our management and the management of Lovoo to conduct planning regarding the integration of the two companies;
the increased scale of our operations resulting from the Acquisition;
retaining key employees of our company and Lovoo; and
obligations that we may have to counterparties of Lovoo that could arise as a result of the change in control of Lovoo.

If we do not successfully manage these issues and the other challenges inherent in integrating Lovoo, then we may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the Acquisition and our revenue, expenses, operating results and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.




Item 9.01
 
Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
 
 
(d)
 
Exhibits
 
 
 
Exhibit No.
 
Description
2.1
 
Share Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 18, 2017, by and among The Meet Group, Inc., TMG Holding Germany GmbH, Bawogo Ventures GmbH & Co. KG and the Shareholder guarantors set forth therein*
10.1
 
Credit Agreement, dated as of September 18, 2017, with the several banks and other financial institutions party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent
99.1
 
Press Release issued on September 20, 2017
99.2
 
Investor Presentation dated September 20, 2017
 
 
 
*
 
Schedules and other similar attachments have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K, which include the Company Disclosure Schedule (as defined in the Purchase Agreement). The signatory hereby undertakes to furnish supplementally copies of any of the omitted schedules and attachments upon request by the SEC.




SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
THE MEET GROUP, INC.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Date:
September 20, 2017
By: /s/ Geoffrey Cook
 
 
Name: Geoffrey Cook
Title: Chief Executive Officer




EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.
 
Description
 
Share Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 18, 2017, by and among The Meet Group, Inc., TMG Holding Germany GmbH, Bawogo Ventures GmbH & Co. KG and the Shareholder guarantors set forth therein*
 
Credit Agreement, dated as of September 18, 2017, with the several banks and other financial institutions party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent
 
Press Release issued on September 20, 2017
 
Investor Presentation dated September 20, 2017
 
 
 
*
 
Schedules and other similar attachments have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K, which include the Company Disclosure Schedule (as defined in the Purchase Agreement). The signatory hereby undertakes to furnish supplementally copies of any of the omitted schedules and attachments upon request by the SEC.


Exhibit 10.1


EX101JPMCREDITAGREEME_IMAGE1.GIF
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of
September 18, 2017
among
THE MEET GROUP, INC.
The Lenders Party Hereto
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
___________________________
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Joint Bookrunner and Joint Lead Arranger
SILICON VALLEY BANK,
as Joint Bookrunner, Joint Lead Arranger and Syndication Agent
CADENCE BANK, N.A. and KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
Co-Documentation Agents


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
 
Page
 
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1

Section 1.01.
Defined Terms
1

Section 1.02.
Classification of Loans and Borrowings
27

Section 1.03
Terms Generally
27

Section 1.04.
Accounting Terms; GAAP
27

ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
29

Section 2.01.
Revolving Commitments
29

Section 2.02.
Loans and Borrowings
29

Section 2.03.
Requests for Borrowings
30

Section 2.04.
[Section Intentionally Omitted]
31

Section 2.05.
Swingline Loans
31

Section 2.06.
Letters of Credit
32

Section 2.07.
Funding of Borrowings
36

Section 2.08.
Interest Elections
37

Section 2.09.
Termination and Reduction of Commitments
38

Section 2.10.
Repayment and Amortization of Loans; Evidence of Debt
39

Section 2.11.
Prepayment of Loans
40

Section 2.12.
Fees
42

Section 2.13.
Interest
43

Section 2.14.
Alternate Rate of Interest
43

Section 2.15.
Increased Costs
44

Section 2.16.
Break Funding Payments
45

Section 2.17.
Taxes
45

Section 2.18.
Payments Generally; Allocation of Proceeds; Sharing of Set-offs
49

Section 2.19.
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders
51

Section 2.20.
Defaulting Lenders
52

Section 2.21.
Returned Payments
53

Section 2.22.
Banking Services and Swap Agreements
54

ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
54

Section 3.01.
Organization; Powers
54

Section 3.02.
Authorization; Enforceability
54

Section 3.03.
Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts
54



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Section 3.04.
Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change
54

Section 3.05.
Properties, etc.
55

Section 3.06.
Litigation and Environmental Matters
55

Section 3.07.
Compliance with Laws and Agreements; No Default
56

Section 3.08.
Investment Company Status
56

Section 3.09.
Taxes
56

Section 3.10.
ERISA
56

Section 3.11.
Disclosure
56

Section 3.12.
Material Agreements
56

Section 3.13.
Solvency
56

Section 3.14.
Insurance
57

Section 3.15.
Capitalization and Subsidiaries
57

Section 3.16.
Security Interest in Collateral
57

Section 3.17.
Employment Matters
57

Section 3.18.
Federal Reserve Regulations
57

Section 3.19.
Use of Proceeds
57

Section 3.20.
No Burdensome Restrictions
57

Section 3.21.
Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions
57

ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS
58

Section 4.01.
Effective Date
58

Section 4.02.
Each Credit Event
60

ARTICLE V
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
62

Section 5.01.
Financial Statements and Other Information
62

Section 5.02.
Notices of Material Events
64

Section 5.03.
Existence; Conduct of Business
65

Section 5.04.
Payment of Obligations
65

Section 5.05.
Maintenance of Properties
65

Section 5.06.
Books and Records; Inspection Rights
65

Section 5.07.
Compliance with Laws and Material Contractual Obligations
65

Section 5.08.
Use of Proceeds
65

Section 5.09.
Accuracy of Information
66

Section 5.10.
Insurance
66

Section 5.11.
[Intentionally Omitted]
66

Section 5.12.
Casualty and Condemnation
66

Section 5.13.
Depository Banks
66



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Section 5.14.
Additional Collateral; Further Assurances
66

ARTICLE VI
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
67

Section 6.01.
Indebtness
68

Section 6.02.
Liens
69

Section 6.03.
Fundamental Changes
70

Section 6.04.
Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions
71

Section 6.05.
Asset Sales
72

Section 6.06.
Sale and Leaseback Transactions
73

Section 6.07.
Swap Agreements
73

Section 6.08.
Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness
73

Section 6.09.
Transactions with Affiliates
73

Section 6.10.
Restrictive Agreements
74

Section 6.11.
Amendment of Material Documents
74

Section 6.12.
Financial Covenants
75

ARTICLE VII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
75

ARTICLE VIII
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
78

Section 8.01.
Appointment
78

Section 8.02.
Rights as a Lender
78

Section 8.03.
Duties and Obligations
78

Section 8.04.
Reliance
79

Section 8.05.
Actions through Sub-Agents
79

Section 8.06.
Resignation
79

Section 8.07.
Non-Reliance
80

Section 8.08.
Other Agency Titles
81

Section 8.09.
Not Partners or Co-Venturers; Administrative Agent as Representative of the Secured Parties
81

Section 8.10.
Credit Bidding
81

ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
82

Section 9.01.
Notices
82

Section 9.02.
Waivers; Amendments
84

Section 9.03.
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver
86

Section 9.04.
Successors and Assigns
88

Section 9.05.
Survival
92

Section 9.06.
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Electronic Execution
92

Section 9.07.
Severability
92



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Section 9.08.
Right of Setoff
93

Section 9.09.
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process
93

Section 9.10.
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
93

Section 9.11.
Headings
94

Section 9.12.
Confidentiality
94

Section 9.13.
Several Obligations; Nonreliance; Violation of Law
95

Section 9.14.
USA PATRIOT Act
95

Section 9.15.
Disclosure
95

Section 9.16.
Appointment for Perfection
95

Section 9.17.
Interest Rate Limitation
95

Section 9.18.
Marketing Consent
95

Section 9.19.
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions
96

Section 9.20.
Parallel Debt
96

Section 9.21.
Amendment and Restatement of Existing Credit Agreement; No Novation
97

ARTICLE VII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
97

Section 10.01.
Guaranty
97

Section 10.02.
Guaranty of Payment
98

Section 10.03.
No Discharge or Diminishment of Loan Guaranty
98

Section 10.04.
Defenses Waived
98

Section 10.05.
Rights of Subrogation
99

Section 10.06.
Reinstatement; Stay of Acceleration
99

Section 10.07.
Information
99

Section 10.08.
Termination
99

Section 10.09.
Taxes
99

Section 10.10.
Maximum Liability
100

Section 10.11.
Contribution
100

Section 10.12.
Liability Cumulative
101

Section 10.13.
Keepwell
101







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SCHEDULES :
Commitment Schedule
Schedule 3.05 – Properties, etc.
Schedule 3.06 – Disclosed Matters
Schedule 3.14 – Insurance
Schedule 3.15 – Capitalization and Subsidiaries
Schedule 6.01 – Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 6.02 – Existing Liens
Schedule 6.04 – Existing Investments
Schedule 6.10 – Existing Restrictions
EXHIBITS :
Exhibit A –
Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit B –
Borrowing Request
Exhibit C-1 –
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Exhibit C-2 –
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Exhibit C-3 –
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Exhibit C-4 –
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Exhibit D –
Compliance Certificate
Exhibit E –
Joinder Agreement



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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of September 18, 2017 (as it may be amended or modified from time to time, this “ Agreement ”), among THE MEET GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation, as Borrower, the other Loan Parties party hereto, the Lenders party hereto, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
WHEREAS, the Borrower, the other Loan Parties, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent, are parties to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of March 3, 2017 (the “ Existing Credit Agreement ”); and
WHEREAS, in order to continue the existing indebtedness of the Borrower and make certain accommodations as further described herein, the Borrower has requested that the Existing Credit Agreement be amended and restated in its entirety and the Lenders party thereto are willing to do so on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I

Definitions
SECTION 1.01.      Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:
ABR ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.
ABR Borrowing ” or “ ABR Loan ” means a Loan bearing interest based on ABR.
Account ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
Account Debtor ” means any Person obligated on an Account.
Acquisition ” means any transaction, or any series of related transactions, consummated on or after the Effective Date, by which any Loan Party (a) acquires any going business or all or substantially all of the assets of any Person, whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise or (b) directly or indirectly acquires (in one transaction or as the most recent transaction in a series of transactions) at least a majority (in number of votes) of the Equity Interests of a Person which has ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other similar management personnel of a Person (other than Equity Interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) or a majority of the outstanding Equity Interests of a Person.
Adjusted LIBO Rate ” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period or for any ABR Borrowing, in each case denominated in Dollars, (a) an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (i) the LIBO Rate under clause (a) of the definition of LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (ii) the Statutory Reserve Rate; and (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period denominated in an Alternative Currency, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (i) the LIBO Rate under clause (b) of the definition of LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (ii) the Statutory Reserve Rate.
Administrative Agent ” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder.

    
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Administrative Questionnaire ” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
Affiliate ” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the specified Person.
Aggregate Credit Exposure ” means, at any time, the aggregate Credit Exposure of all the Lenders at such time.
Aggregate Revolving Exposure ” means, at any time, the aggregate Revolving Exposure of all the Lenders at such time (with the Swingline Exposure of each Lender calculated assuming that that all of the Lenders have funded their participations in all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time).
Alternate Base Rate ” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB in effect on such day plus ½ of 1%, and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one-month Interest Period on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1%, provided that, the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the LIBO Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day, subject to the interest rate floors set forth therein. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively. If the Alternate Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 2.14 hereof, then the Alternate Base Rate shall be the greater of clause (a) and (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clause (c) above.
Alternative Currency ” means each of Euro and Sterling.
Alternative Currency Equivalent ” means, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in an Alternative Currency as determined by the Administrative Agent at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of an Alternative Currency with Dollars.
Alternative Currency Impacted Interest Period ” has the meaning assigned to such term in in clause (b) of the definition of “LIBO Rate”.
Alternative Currency LIBO Screen Rate ” has the meaning assigned to such term in clause (b) of the definition of “LIBO Rate”.
Anti-Corruption Laws ” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.
Applicable Percentage ” means, at any time with respect to any Lender, a percentage equal to a fraction the numerator of which is such Lender’s Revolving Commitment at such time and the denominator of which is the aggregate Revolving Commitments at such time ( provided that, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon such Lender’s share of the Aggregate Revolving Exposure at such time); provided that, in accordance with Section 2.20, so long as any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment shall be disregarded in the calculations above.
Applicable Rate ” means, for any day, with respect to any Loan, or with respect to the commitment fees payable hereunder, as the case may be, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption

    
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“Revolving Commitment ABR Spread”, “Revolving Commitment Eurodollar Spread” “Delayed Draw Term Loan ABR Spread”, “Delayed Draw Term Loan Eurodollar Spread” or “Commitment Fee Rate”, as the case may be, based upon the Borrower’s Total Leverage Ratio as of the most recent determination date, provided that until the delivery to the Administrative Agent, pursuant to Section 5.01, of the Borrower’s consolidated financial information for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2017, the “Applicable Rate” shall be the applicable rates per annum set forth below in Category 2:

Total Leverage
Ratio

Revolving
Commitment
ABR Spread
Revolving
Commitment
Eurodollar
Spread
Delayed Draw Term Loan
ABR Spread
Delayed Draw Term Loan Eurodollar Spread
Commitment Fee Rate
Category 1
³  1.50 to 1.0

2.25%

3.25%

2.25%

3.25%

0.35%
Category 2
<  1.50 to 1.0 but
³  1.00 to 1.0


1.75%


2.75%


1.75%


2.75%


0.35%
Category 3
<  1.00 to 1.0
1.25%

2.25%
1.25%

2.25%

0.35%

For purposes of the foregoing, (a) the Applicable Rate shall be determined as of the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower, based upon the Borrower’s annual or quarterly consolidated financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 and (b) each change in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Total Leverage Ratio shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the date of delivery to the Lender of such consolidated financial statements indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change, provided that at the option of the Lender if the Borrower fails to deliver the annual or quarterly consolidated financial statements required to be delivered by it pursuant to Section 5.01, the Total Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Category 1 during the period from the expiration of the time for delivery thereof until such consolidated financial statements are delivered.

If at any time the Lender determines that the financial statements upon which the Applicable Rate was determined were incorrect (whether based on a restatement, fraud or otherwise), the Borrower shall be required to retroactively pay any additional amount that the Borrower would have been required to pay if such financial statements had been accurate at the time they were delivered.

Approved Fund ” has the meaning assigned to the term in Section 9.04(b).
Assignment and Assumption ” means an assignment and assumption agreement entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
Availability ” means, at any time, an amount equal to (a) the aggregate Revolving Commitments minus (b) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure (calculated, with respect to any Defaulting Lender, as if such Defaulting Lender had funded its Applicable Percentage of all outstanding Borrowings).
Availability Period ” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the Revolving Credit Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments.
Bail-In Action ” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.

    
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Bail-In Legislation ” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
Banking Services ” means each and any of the following bank services provided to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary by a Lender or any of its Affiliates: (a) credit cards for commercial customers (including, without limitation, “commercial credit cards” and purchasing cards), (b) stored value cards, (c) merchant processing services, and (d) treasury management services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, any direct debit scheme or arrangement, overdrafts and interstate depository network services).
Banking Services Obligations ” means any and all obligations of the Loan Parties or its Subsidiaries, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor) in connection with Banking Services.
Bankruptcy Event ” means, with respect to any Person, when such Person becomes the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment, provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority or instrumentality thereof, unless such ownership interest results in or provides such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the U.S. or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permits such Person (or such Governmental Authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.
Beneficial Owner ” means, with respect to any U.S. federal withholding Tax, the beneficial owner, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, to whom such Tax relates.
Board ” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the U.S.
Borrower ” means The Meet Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
Borrowing ” means (a) Revolving Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, (b) Delayed Draw Term Loans of the same Type made during the Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability Period, and thereafter converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect and (c) a Swingline Loan, which (i) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in Dollars shall be either a Eurodollar Borrowing or an ABR Borrowing and (ii) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency shall be a Eurodollar Borrowing.
Borrowing Request ” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.
Burdensome Restrictions ” means any consensual encumbrance or restriction of the type described in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.10.

    
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Business Day ” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for general business in London.
Capital Expenditures ” means, without duplication, any expenditure or commitment to expend money for any purchase or other acquisition of any asset which would be classified as a fixed or capital asset on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Capital Lease Obligations ” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
Cash Equivalents ” means (a) marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States or any agency or any State thereof having maturities of not more than one (1) year from the date of acquisition; (b) commercial paper maturing no more than one (1) year after its creation and having the highest rating from either Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group or Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.; (c) JPMorgan’s certificates of deposit issued maturing no more than one (1) year after issue; and (d) money market funds at least ninety-five percent (95%) of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (a) through (c) of this definition.
Change in Control ” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the SEC thereunder as in effect on the date hereof), of Equity Interests representing more than 25% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower; (b) occupation at any time of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower by Persons who were neither (i) directors of the Borrower on the date of this Agreement nor (ii) nominated or appointed by the board of directors of the Borrower; or (c) the acquisition of direct or indirect Control of the Borrower by any Person or group; or (d) the Borrower shall cease to own, free and clear of all Liens or other encumbrances, at least 90% of the outstanding voting Equity Interests of each Subsidiary of Borrower on a fully diluted basis.
Change in Law ” means the occurrence after the date of this Agreement (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement) of any of the following: (a) the adoption of or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) compliance by any Lender or the Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 2.15(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline, requirement or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in the implementation thereof, and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the U.S. or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.
Charges ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17.

    
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Class ”, when used in reference to (a) any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, a Delayed Draw Term Loan or Swingline Loans, (b) any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Commitment or a Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment and (c) any Lender, refers to whether such Lender has a Loan or Commitment of a particular Class.
Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
Collateral ” means any and all property owned, leased or operated by a Person covered by the Collateral Documents and any and all other property of any Loan Party, now existing or hereafter acquired, that may at any time be, become or intended to be, subject to a security interest or Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent, on behalf of itself and the Lenders and other Secured Parties, to secure the Secured Obligations.
Collateral Access Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
Collateral Documents ” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the German Collateral Documents and any other agreements, instruments and documents executed in connection with this Agreement that are intended to create, perfect or evidence Liens to secure the Secured Obligations, including, without limitation, all other security agreements, pledge agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, loan agreements, notes, guarantees, subordination agreements, pledges, powers of attorney, consents, assignments, contracts, fee letters, notices, leases, financing statements and all other written matter whether theretofore, now or hereafter executed by any Loan Party and delivered to the Administrative Agent.
Commitment ” means, with respect to each Lender, the sum of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments. The initial amount of each Lender’s Commitment is set forth on the Commitment Schedule , or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as applicable.
Commitment Schedule ” means the Schedule attached hereto identified as such.
Commodity Exchange Act ” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
Communications ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.01(d).
Connection Income Taxes ” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
Control ” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “ Controlling ” and “ Controlled ” have meanings correlative thereto.
Credit Exposure ” means, as to any Lender at any time, the sum of (a) such Lender’s Revolving Exposure at such time plus (b) an amount equal to such Lender’s undrawn portion of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment during the Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability Period and thereafter after giving effect to any Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowing an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of its Delayed Draw Term Loans outstanding at such time.
Credit Party ” means the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender or any other Lender.

    
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Default ” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
Defaulting Lender ” means any Lender that (a) has failed, within two Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund any portion of its Loans, (ii) fund any portion of its participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans or (iii) pay over to any Credit Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Borrower or any Credit Party in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding a Loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after request by a Credit Party, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations (and is financially able to meet such obligations) to fund prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans under this Agreement, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon such Credit Party’s receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to it and the Administrative Agent, or (d) has become the subject of (i) a Bankruptcy Event or (ii) a Bail-In Action.
Delayed Draw Term Loan ” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01(b).
Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability Period ” means the period from the Effective Date through but excluding the date that is ninety (90) days after the Effective Date (or such earlier date on which the aggregate Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments have been reduced to zero).
Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowing ” means a Borrowing during the Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability Period consisting of a Delayed Draw Term Loan.
Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment ” means, with respect to each Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Delayed Draw Term Loans, expressed as an amount representing the maximum principal amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loan to be made by such Lender, as such commitment may be reduced or increased from time to time during the Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability Period pursuant to (a) Section 2.09 and (b) assignments by or to such Lenders pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of each Lender’s Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment is set forth on the Commitment Schedule or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, as applicable. The aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment on the Effective Date is $60,000,000.
Delayed Draw Term Loan Effective Date ” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.02 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02).
Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date ” means the last Business Day during the Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability Period.
Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender ” means a Lender having a Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment or an outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loan.

    
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Disclosed Matters ” means the actions, suits, proceedings and environmental matters disclosed in Schedule 3.06 .
Document ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
Dollar Amount ” means, at any time, (a) with respect to Dollars or an amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to an Alternative Currency or an amount denominated in an Alternative Currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternative Currency.
Dollars ” or “ $ ” refers to lawful money of the U.S.
Dollar Impacted Interest Period ” has the meaning assigned to such term in in clause (a) of the definition of “LIBO Rate”.
Dollar LIBO Screen Rate ” has the meaning assigned to such term in clause (a) of the definition of “LIBO Rate”.
Domestic Subsidiary ” means a Subsidiary organized under the laws of the United States or any state or territory thereof or the District of Columbia.
EBITDA ” means, for any period, Net Income for such period plus (a) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining Net Income for such period, the sum of (i) Interest Expense for such period, (ii) income tax expense for such period, (iii) all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization expense for such period, (iv) any extraordinary non-cash charges for such period, (v) any other non-cash charges for such period (but excluding any non-cash charge in respect of an item that was included in Net Income in a prior period and (vi) any non-recurring fees, cash charges and other cash expenses (including severance costs) made or incurred in connection with the Transactions (and the Lovoo Acquisition) that are paid or otherwise accounted for within 90 days of the consummation of the Transactions (and the Lovoo Acquisition) in an amount not to exceed $500,000, minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in Net Income, any extraordinary gains and any non-cash items of income for such period, all calculated for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
ECP ” means an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1(a)(18) of the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and the applicable rules issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and/or the SEC.
EEA Financial Institution ” means (a) any institution established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
EEA Member Country ” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
EEA Resolution Authority ” means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

    
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Effective Date ” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02).
Electronic Signature ” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.
Electronic System ” means any electronic system, including e-mail, e-fax, Intralinks®, ClearPar®, Debt Domain, Syndtrak and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic system is owned, operated or hosted by the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank and any of its respective Related Parties or any other Person, providing for access to data protected by passcodes or other security system.
EMU ” means Economic and Monetary Union as contemplated in the Treaty on European Union.
EMU Legislation ” means the legislative measures of the European Council (including without limitation European Council regulations) for the introduction of, changeover to or operation of a single or unified European currency (whether known as the Euro or otherwise), being in part the implementation of the third stage of EMU.
Environmental Laws ” means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters.
Environmental Liability ” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of any Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) any violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) any exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
Equipment ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
Equity Interests ” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any of the foregoing.
ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
ERISA Affiliate ” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
ERISA Event ” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30 day notice period is waived); (b) the failure to satisfy the “minimum funding standard” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or

    
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Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition upon the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.
EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule ” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from time to time.
Euro ” means the single currency of Participating Member States of the European Union.
Eurodollar ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate.
Eurodollar Borrowing ” or “ Eurodollar Loan ” means a Loan bearing interest based on the Eurodollar rate.
Event of Default ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII.
Excess Cash Flow ” means, for any fiscal year of the Borrower, the excess, if any, of (a) the sum, without duplication, of (i) Net Income for such fiscal year, (ii) the amount of all non-cash charges (including depreciation and amortization) deducted in determining at such Net Income, (iii) decreases in Working Capital for such fiscal year, and (iv) the aggregate net amount of non-cash loss on the disposition of property by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business), to the extent deducted in arriving at such Net Income minus (b) the sum, without duplication, of (i) the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Net Income, (ii) the aggregate amount actually paid by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in cash during such fiscal year on account of Capital Expenditures (excluding the principal amount of Indebtedness incurred in connection with such expenditures and any such expenditures financed with the proceeds of asset dispositions that have not yet been used to pay down the Loans), (iii) the aggregate amount of all prepayments of Revolving Loans during such fiscal year to the extent of accompanying permanent optional reductions of the Revolving Commitment and, following the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date all optional prepayments of the Delayed Draw Term Loans during such fiscal year, (iv) the aggregate amount of all regularly scheduled principal payments of Long-Term Debt (including the Delayed Draw Term Loans) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries made during such fiscal year (other than in respect of any revolving credit facility, to the extent that there is not an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder), (v) increases in Working Capital for such fiscal year, and (vi) the aggregate net amount of non-cash gain on the disposition of property by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business), to the extent included in arriving at such Net Income.
Excluded Swap Obligation ” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the

    
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Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an ECP at the time the Guarantee of such Guarantor or the grant of such security interest becomes or would become effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.
Excluded Taxes ” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient: (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan, Letter of Credit or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan, Letter of Credit or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 2.19(b)) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.17, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender acquired the applicable interest in a Loan, Letter of Credit or Commitment or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.17(f) and (d) any Taxes imposed under FATCA.
Existing Credit Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
FATCA ” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such Sections of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to such intergovernmental agreement.
Federal Funds Effective Rate ” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions (as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the federal funds effective rate.
Financial Officer ” means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower.
Financial Statements ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.01.
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio ” means, for any period, the ratio of (a) EBITDA minus Unfinanced Capital Expenditures (including capitalized software and taxes paid in cash) minus Restricted Payments permitted pursuant to Section 6.08(a)(iii), to (b) Fixed Charges, all calculated for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

    
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Fixed Charges ” means, for any period, without duplication, cash Interest Expense, plus scheduled principal payments on Indebtedness actually made, plus Capital Lease Obligation payments, all calculated for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
Fixtures ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
Foreign Currency Sublimit ” means $1,000,000 (or the Alternative Currency Equivalent thereof, if applicable).
Foreign Holdco ” means a Subsidiary with no material assets other than Equity Interests (including, for this purpose, any debt or other instrument treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes) in one or more Foreign Subsidiaries or Foreign Holdcos.
Foreign Lender ” means (a) if the Borrower is a U.S. Person, a Lender that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) if the Borrower is not a U.S. Person, a Lender that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes.
Foreign Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary which is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
Funding Account ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.01(h).
GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S.
German Collateral Documents ” mean (a) that certain Share Pledge, dated as of the Effective Date, between Lovoo Holdings and the Administrative Agent, with respect to the Equity Interests of Lovoo and (b) that certain Share Pledge, dated as of the Effective Date, between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, with respect to the Equity Interests of Lovoo Holdings.
Governmental Authority ” means the government of the U.S., any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.
Guarantee ” of or by any Person (the “ guarantor ”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “ primary obligor ”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation; provided that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.
Guaranteed Obligations ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.01.
Guarantors ” means all Loan Guarantors and all non-Loan Parties who have delivered an Obligation Guaranty, and the term “Guarantor” means each or any one of them individually.

    
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Hazardous Materials ” means: (a) any substance, material, or waste that is included within the definitions of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous materials,” “hazardous waste,” “toxic substances,” “toxic materials,” “toxic waste,” or words of similar import in any Environmental Law; (b) those substances listed as hazardous substances by the United States Department of Transportation (or any successor agency) (49 C.F.R. 172.101 and amendments thereto) or by the Environmental Protection Agency (or any successor agency) (40 C.F.R. Part 302 and amendments thereto); and (c) any substance, material, or waste that is petroleum, petroleum-related, or a petroleum by-product, asbestos or asbestos-containing material, polychlorinated biphenyls, flammable, explosive, radioactive, freon gas, radon, or a pesticide, herbicide, or any other agricultural chemical.
Indebtedness ” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid, (d) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (e) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business, but, including earn-outs or similar deferred payments that are not contingent and are actually due and payable), (f) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (g) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (h) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty, (j) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, and (k) obligations, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under (i) any and all Swap Agreements, and (ii) any and all cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any Swap Agreement transaction. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor.
Indemnified Taxes ” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in the foregoing clause (a), Other Taxes.
Indemnitee ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.03(b).
Ineligible Institution ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(b).
Information ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.12.
Interest Election Request ” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.08.
Interest Expense ” means, with reference to any period, total interest expense (including that attributable to Capital Lease Obligations) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances and net costs under Swap Agreements in respect of interest rates, to the extent such net costs are allocable to such period in

    
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accordance with GAAP), calculated for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for such period in accordance with GAAP.
Interest Payment Date ” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline Loan), the first Business Day of each calendar quarter and the Revolving Credit Maturity Date or the Term Maturity Date, as applicable, (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period and the Revolving Credit Maturity Date or the Term Maturity Date, as applicable and (c) with respect to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid and the Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
Interest Period ” means with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, three or six months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect; provided that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (ii) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.
Interpolated Rate ” means, at any time, for any Interest Period, the rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the LIBO Screen Rate) determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the LIBO Screen Rate for the longest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available) that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period and (b) the LIBO Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.
Inventory ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
IRS ” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
Issuing Bank ” means, JPMorgan, in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder. The Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by its Affiliates, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate (it being agreed that the Issuing Bank shall, or shall cause such Affiliate to, comply with the requirements of Section 2.06 with respect to such Letters of Credit). At any time there is more than one Issuing Bank, all singular references to the Issuing Bank shall mean any Issuing Bank, either Issuing Bank, each Issuing Bank, the Issuing Bank that has issued the applicable Letter of Credit, or both (or all) Issuing Banks, as the context may require.
Issuing Bank Sublimit ” means, as of the Effective Date, $1,000,000; provided that the Issuing Bank shall be permitted at any time to increase or reduce its Issuing Bank Sublimit upon providing five (5) days’ prior written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers.
Joinder Agreement ” means a Joinder Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit E .

    
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JPMorgan ” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a national banking association, in its individual capacity, and its successors.
LC Collateral Account ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(j).
LC Disbursement ” means any payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
LC Exposure ” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all standby Letters of Credit outstanding at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements relating to standby Letters of Credit that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrowers at such time. The LC Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the aggregate LC Exposure at such time.
Lenders ” means the Persons listed on the Commitment Schedule and any other Person that shall have become a Lender hereunder pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases to be a Lender hereunder pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank.
Letters of Credit ” means the letters of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement, and the term “ Letter of Credit ” means any one of them or each of them singularly, as the context may require.
LIBO Rate ” means, in the case of any (a) Eurodollar Borrowings denominated in Dollars (i) with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any applicable Interest Period or for any ABR Borrowing, the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for Dollars) for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as shall be selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion (in each case, the “ Dollar LIBO Screen Rate ”) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that, (x) if the LIBO Screen Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement and (y) if the LIBO Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for a period equal in length to such Interest Period (an “ Dollar Impacted Interest Period ”), then the LIBO Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate at such time, subject to Section 2.14 in the event that the Administrative Agent shall conclude that it shall not be possible to determine such Interpolated Rate (which conclusion shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error); provided further , that, if any Interpolated Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement; and (b) Eurodollar Borrowings denominated in an Alternative Currency (i) with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any applicable Interest Period or for any ABR Borrowing, the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for such Alternative Currency) for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as shall be selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion (in each case, the “ Alternative Currency LIBO Screen Rate ”) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that, (x) if the LIBO Screen Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement and (y) if the LIBO Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for a period equal in length to such Interest Period (an “ Alternative Currency Impacted Interest Period ”), then the LIBO Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate at such

    
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time, subject to Section 2.14 in the event that the Administrative Agent shall conclude that it shall not be possible to determine such Interpolated Rate (which conclusion shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error); provided further , that, if any Interpolated Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the above, to the extent that “LIBO Rate” or “Adjusted LIBO Rate” is used in connection with an ABR Borrowing, such rate shall be determined as modified by the definition of Alternate Base Rate.
Lien ” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.
Liquid Assets ” means unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents.
Loan Documents ” means, collectively, this Agreement, each promissory note issued pursuant to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit application, each Collateral Document, the Loan Guaranty, any Obligation Guaranty and each other agreement, instrument, document and certificate identified in Section 4.01 executed and delivered to, or in favor of, the Administrative Agent or any Lender and including each other pledge, power of attorney, consent, assignment, contract, notice, letter of credit agreement, letter of credit applications and any agreements between the Borrower and the Issuing Bank regarding the Issuing Bank’s Issuing Bank Sublimit or the respective rights and obligations between the Borrower and the Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance of Letters of Credit, and each other written matter whether heretofore, now or hereafter executed by or on behalf of any Loan Party, or any employee of any Loan Party, and delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. Any reference in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to a Loan Document shall include all appendices, exhibits or schedules thereto, and all amendments, restatements, supplements or other modifications thereto, and shall refer to this Agreement or such Loan Document as the same may be in effect at any and all times such reference becomes operative.
Loan Guarantor ” means each Loan Party other than the Borrowers’ Foreign Subsidiaries and Foreign Holdcos.
Loan Guaranty ” means Article X of this Agreement.
Loan Parties ” means, collectively, the Borrowers, the Borrowers’ Domestic Subsidiaries and any other Person who becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to a Joinder Agreement and their successors and assigns, and the term “Loan Party” shall mean any one of them or all of them individually, as the context may require.
Loans ” means the loans and advances made by the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement, including Swingline Loans.
Long-Term Debt ” means any Indebtedness that, in accordance with GAAP, constitutes (or, when incurred, constituted) a long-term liability.
Lovoo ” means Lovoo GmbH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) organized under the laws of Germany.
Lovoo Acquisition ” means the Acquisition by Borrower of the outstanding Equity Interests of Lovoo, pursuant to and subject to the terms and conditions of, the Lovoo Acquisition Documents.

    
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Lovoo Acquisition Documents ” means that certain Share purchase agreement regarding all shares in LOVOO GmbH dated as of September 18, 2017, by and among Borrower, Lovoo Holdings and BAWOGO Ventures GmbH & Co. KG, a limited partnership (Kommanditgesellschaft) organized under the laws of Germany, all as defined (and/or referenced) therein, together with all schedules and exhibits thereto, and all disclosure letters, agreements and instruments executed or delivered in connection therewith; all in form and content acceptable to Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion.
Lovoo Holdings ” means TMG Holding Germany GmbH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) organized under the laws of Germany.
Material Adverse Effect ” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, operations or condition, financial or otherwise, of the Borrower or the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the ability of any Loan Party to perform any of its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) the Collateral, or the Administrative Agent’s Liens (on behalf of itself and the other Secured Parties) on the Collateral or the priority of such Liens, or (d) the rights of or benefits available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Lenders under any of the Loan Documents.
Material Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), or obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of the Loan Parties in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $1,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time.
Maximum Rate ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17.
Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.
Multiemployer Plan ” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
Net Income ” means, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) determined for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with the Borrower or any Subsidiary, and (b) the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary) in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary has an ownership interest, except to the extent that any such income is actually received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions.
Net Proceeds ” means, with respect to any event, (a) the cash proceeds received in respect of such event including (i) any cash received in respect of any non-cash proceeds (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise, but excluding any interest payments), but only as and when received, (ii) in the case of a casualty, insurance proceeds and (iii) in the case of a condemnation or similar event, condemnation awards and similar payments, minus (b) the sum of (i) all reasonable fees and out-of-pocket expenses paid to third parties (other than Affiliates) in connection with such event, (ii) in the case of a sale, transfer or other disposition of an asset (including pursuant to a sale and leaseback transaction or a casualty or a condemnation or similar proceeding), the amount of all payments required to be made as a result of such event to repay Indebtedness (other than Loans) secured by such asset or otherwise subject to mandatory prepayment as a result of such event and (iii) the amount of all taxes paid (or reasonably estimated to be payable) and the amount of any reserves established to fund contingent liabilities reasonably estimated to

    
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be payable, in each case during the year that such event occurred or the next succeeding year and that are directly attributable to such event (as determined reasonably and in good faith by a Financial Officer).
Non-Consenting Lender ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.02(d).
NYFRB ” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
NYFRB Rate ” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day(or for any day that is not a Banking Day, for the immediately preceding Banking Day); provided that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” means the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m. on such day received to the Administrative Agent from a Federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it; provided , further , that if any of the aforesaid rates shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.
Obligated Party ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.02.
Obligation Guaranty ” means any Guarantee of all or any portion of the Secured Obligations executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties by a guarantor who is not a Loan Party.
Obligations ” means all unpaid principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans, all LC Exposure, all accrued and unpaid fees and all expenses, reimbursements, indemnities and other obligations and indebtedness (including interest and fees accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), obligations and liabilities of any of the Loan Parties to any of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any indemnified party, individually or collectively, existing on the Effective Date or arising thereafter, direct or indirect, joint or several, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, arising by contract, operation of law or otherwise, arising or incurred under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or in respect of any of the Loans made or reimbursement or other obligations incurred or any of the Letters of Credit or other instruments at any time evidencing any thereof.
OFAC ” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.
Other Connection Taxes ” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Taxes (other than a connection arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, or enforced, any Loan Document), or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan, Letter of Credit, or any Loan Document.
Other Taxes ” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.19).
Overnight Bank Funding Rate ” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurodollar borrowings by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions (as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time)

    
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and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate (from and after such date as the NYFRB shall commence to publish such composite rate).
Parent ” means, with respect to any Lender, any Person as to which such Lender is, directly or indirectly, a subsidiary.
Participant ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(c).
Participant Register ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04(c).
Participating Member States ” means, each country so described in any EMU Legislation.
PBGC ” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.
Permitted Acquisition ” means an Acquisition by any Loan Party in a transaction that satisfies each of the following requirements:
(a)      such Acquisition is not a hostile or contested acquisition;
(b)      the business acquired in connection with such Acquisition is (i) located in the U.S., (ii) organized under applicable U.S. and state laws, and (iii) not engaged, directly or indirectly, in any line of business other than the businesses in which the Loan Parties are engaged on the Effective Date and any business activities that are substantially similar, related, or incidental thereto;
(c)      both before and after giving effect to such Acquisition and the Loans (if any) requested to be made in connection therewith, each of the representations and warranties in the Loan Documents is true and correct and no Default exists, will exist, or would result therefrom;
(d)      as soon as available, but not less than thirty (30) days prior to such Acquisition, the Borrower has provided the Administrative Agent (i) notice of such Acquisition and (ii) a copy of all business and financial information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent including pro forma financial statements, statements of cash flow, and Availability projections;
(e)      the purchase price of such Acquisition, including earn-outs or similar deferred payments in connection therewith, does not exceed $25,000,000 and any cash consideration paid (i) in connection with any single Acquisition shall not exceed $10,000,000 and (ii) for all Acquisitions made during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $20,000,000;
(f)      if such Acquisition is an acquisition of the Equity Interests of a Person, such Acquisition is structured so that the acquired Person shall become a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower and, a Loan Party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;
(g)      if such Acquisition is an acquisition of assets, such Acquisition is structured so that the Borrower or another Loan Party shall acquire such assets;
(h)      if such Acquisition is an acquisition of Equity Interests, such Acquisition will not result in any violation of Regulation U;
(i)      if such Acquisition involves a merger or a consolidation involving the Borrower or any other Loan Party, the Borrower or such Loan Party, as applicable, shall be the surviving entity;

    
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(j)      no Loan Party shall, as a result of or in connection with any such Acquisition, assume or incur any direct or contingent liabilities (whether relating to environmental, tax, litigation, or other matters) that could have a Material Adverse Effect;
(k)      in connection with an Acquisition of the Equity Interests of any Person, all Liens on property of such Person shall be terminated unless the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in their sole discretion consent otherwise, and in connection with an Acquisition of the assets of any Person, all Liens on such assets shall be terminated;
(l)      the Borrower shall certify to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (and provide the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with a pro forma calculation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) that, after giving effect to the completion of such Acquisition, on a Pro Forma Basis and at all times during the 12-month period prior to the consummation of such Acquisition (i) Availability will not be less than $15,000,000 which includes all consideration given in connection with such Acquisition, other than Equity Interests of the Borrower delivered to the seller(s) in such Acquisition, as having been paid in cash at the time of making such Acquisition and (ii) the Borrower will be in compliance with the covenants contained in Section 6.12(a) and (b);
(m)      all actions required to be taken with respect to any newly acquired or formed wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower or a Loan Party, as applicable, required under Section 5.14 shall have been taken; and
(n)      the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent the final executed documentation relating to such Acquisition within 5 days following the consummation thereof.
Permitted Discretion ” means a determination made in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable (from the perspective of a secured lender) business judgment.
Permitted Encumbrances ” means:
(a)      Liens imposed by law for Taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.04;
(b)      carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than thirty (30) days or are being contested in compliance with Section 5.04;
(c)      pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations;
(d)      deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(e)      judgment Liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (k) of Article VII; and
(f)      easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of any Borrower or any Subsidiary;

    
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provided that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness, except with respect to clause (e) above.
Permitted Investments ” means:
(a)      direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the U.S. (or by any agency thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S.), in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof;
(b)      investments in commercial paper maturing within 270 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, the highest credit rating obtainable from S&P or from Moody’s;
(c)      investments in certificates of deposit, bankers’ acceptances and time deposits maturing within 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof issued or guaranteed by or placed with, and money market deposit accounts issued or offered by, any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the U.S. or any state thereof which has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000;
(d)      fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (c) above; and
(e)      money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000.
Person ” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
Plan ” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which any Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
Platform ” means Debt Domain, Intralinks, Syndtrak or a substantially similar electronic transmission system.
Prepayment Event ” means:
(a)      any sale, transfer or other disposition (including pursuant to a sale and leaseback transaction) of any property or asset of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, other than dispositions described in Section 6.05(a); or
(b)      any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of any Loan Party; or
(c)      the incurrence by any Loan Party of any Indebtedness, other than Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01; or

    
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(d)      the issuance by any Loan Party of any Equity Interests, or the receipt by any Loan Party of any capital contribution.
Prime Rate ” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan as its prime rate in effect at its principal offices in New York City. Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.
Pro Forma Basis ” means, for any Acquisition or disposition of all or substantially all of the Equity Interests or assets of a Person, each such transaction shall be deemed to have occurred on and as of the first day of the relevant period.
Projections ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.01(f).
Public-Sider ” means a Lender whose representatives may trade in securities of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries while in possession of the financial statements provided by the Borrower under the terms of this Agreement.
Qualified ECP Guarantor ” means, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Loan Party that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant Loan Guaranty or grant of the relevant security interest becomes or would become effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or such other person as constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Recipient ” means, as applicable, (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) any Lender and (c) the Issuing Bank, or any combination thereof (as the context requires).
Refinance Indebtedness ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.01(f).
Register ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.04.
Related Parties ” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, partners, members, trustees, employees, agents, administrators, managers, representatives and advisors of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.
Release ” means any releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, migrating, disposing, or dumping of any substance into the environment.
Report ” means reports prepared by the Administrative Agent or another Person showing the results of appraisals, field examinations or audits pertaining to the assets of the Loan Parties from information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrowers, after the Administrative Agent has exercised its rights of inspection pursuant to this Agreement, which Reports may be distributed to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent.
Required Lenders ” means, at any time, Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders) having Credit Exposure and unused Commitments representing more than 51% of the sum of the Aggregate Credit Exposure and unused Commitments at such time; provided that, as long as there are only two Lenders, Required Lenders shall mean both Lenders.
Requirement of Law ” means, with respect to any Person, (a) the charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation and bylaws or operating, management or partnership agreement, or other organizational or governing documents of such Person and (b) any statute, law (including common law),

    
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treaty, rule, regulation, code, ordinance, order, decree, writ, judgment, injunction or determination of any arbitrator or court or other Governmental Authority (including Environmental Laws), in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
Restricted Payment ” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest in any Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interests or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests.
Revaluation Date ” shall mean each of the following: (a) each date a Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency is made pursuant to Section 2.01(a); (b) each date a Eurodollar Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency is continued pursuant to Section 2.08; and (c) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders shall specify.
Revolving Commitment ” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate permitted amount of such Lender’s Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to (a) Section 2.09 and (b) assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of each Lender’s Revolving Commitment is set forth on the Commitment Schedule , or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Revolving Commitment, as applicable. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments is $20,000,000.
Revolving Credit Maturity Date ” means September 18, 2020 (if the same is a Business Day, or if not then the immediately next succeeding Business Day), or any earlier date on which the Revolving Commitments are reduced to zero or otherwise terminated pursuant to the terms hereof.
Revolving Exposure ” means, with respect to any Lender, at any time, the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal Dollar Amount (determined as of the most recent Revaluation Date) of such Lender’s Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure and Swingline Exposure at such time.
Revolving Lender ” means, as of any date of determination, a Lender with a Revolving Commitment or, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Revolving Exposure.
Revolving Loan ” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC business.
Sale and Leaseback Transaction ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.06.
Sanctioned Country ” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (at the time of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).
Sanctioned Person ” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state, Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or other relevant sanctions authority, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b).

    
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Sanctions ” means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or other relevant sanctions authority.
SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission of the U.S.
Secured Obligations ” means all Obligations, together with all (i) Banking Services Obligations and (ii) Swap Agreement Obligations owing to one or more Lenders or their respective Affiliates; provided , however , that the definition of “Secured Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Guarantor for purposes of determining any obligations of any Guarantor.
Secured Parties ” means (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) the Lenders, (c) each Issuing Bank, (d) each provider of Banking Services, to the extent the Banking Services Obligations in respect thereof constitute Secured Obligations, (e) each counterparty to any Swap Agreement, to the extent the obligations thereunder constitute Secured Obligations, (f) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document, and (g) the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.
Security Agreement ” means that certain Amended and Restated Pledge and Security Agreement (including any and all supplements thereto), dated as of the date hereof, among the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, and any other pledge or security agreement entered into, after the date of this Agreement by any other Loan Party (as required by this Agreement or any other Loan Document) or any other Person for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Spot Rate ” shall mean, with respect to an Alternative Currency, the rate quoted on the Bloomberg Benchmark Currency Rates page as the spot rate for the purchase of such Alternative Currency with Dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date that is two Business Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made.
Statement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18(g).
Statutory Reserve Rate ” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentage (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) established by the Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject with respect to the Adjusted LIBO Rate, for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D of the Board. Eurodollar Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D of the Board or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
Sterling ” mean the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

    
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Subordinated Indebtedness ” of a Person means any Indebtedness of such Person, the payment of which is subordinated to payment of the Secured Obligations to the written satisfaction of the Administrative Agent.
subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity, the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held.
Subsidiary ” means any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Borrower or a Loan Party, as applicable.
Swap Agreement ” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, spot, future, credit default or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.
Swap Agreement Obligations ” means any and all obligations of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under (a) any Swap Agreement permitted hereunder with a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, and (b) any cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any Swap Agreement transaction permitted hereunder with a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender.
Swap Obligation ” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act or any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.
Swingline Commitment ” means, the commitment of the Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.05 of this Agreement in an aggregate amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed $1,000,000.
Swingline Exposure ” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall be the sum of (a) its Applicable Percentage of the total Swingline Exposure at such time other than with respect to any Swingline Loans made by such Revolving Lender in its capacity as the Swingline Lender and (b) the principal amount of all Swingline Loans made by such Revolving Lender in its capacity as the Swingline Lender outstanding at such time (less the amount of participations funded by the other Lenders in such Swingline Loans).
Swingline Lender ” means JPMorgan, in its capacity as lender of Swingline Loans hereunder. Any consent required of the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to be required of the Swingline Lender and any consent given by JPMorgan in its capacity as Administrative Agent or Issuing Bank shall be deemed given by JPMorgan in its capacity as Swingline Lender as well.

    
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Swingline Loan ” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.05 .
Tagged ” means IFWE, Inc. a Delaware corporation.
Tagged Letter of Credit ” means that certain letter of credit issued by Comerica Bank, in the face amount of $500,000, and bearing an expiry date of October 31, 2017.
Taxes ” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), value added taxes, or any other goods and services, use or sales taxes, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
Term Maturity Date ” means September 18, 2020.
Total Indebtedness ” means, at any date, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at such date, in accordance with GAAP.
Total Leverage Ratio ” means, on any date, the ratio of (a) Total Indebtedness on such date to (b) EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ended on or most recently prior to such date.
Transactions ” means the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrowers of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the borrowing of Loans and other credit extensions, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder.
Type ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate, or the Alternate Base Rate.
UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York or in any other state, the laws of which are required to be applied in connection with the issue of perfection of security interests.
Unfinanced Capital Expenditures ” means, for any period, Capital Expenditures made during such period which are not financed from the proceeds of any Indebtedness (other than the Revolving Loans; it being understood and agreed that, to the extent any Capital Expenditures are financed with Revolving Loans, such Capital Expenditures shall be deemed Unfinanced Capital Expenditures).
Unliquidated Obligations ” means, at any time, any Secured Obligations (or portion thereof) that are contingent in nature or unliquidated at such time, including any Secured Obligation that is: (i) an obligation to reimburse a bank for drawings not yet made under a letter of credit issued by it; (ii) any other obligation (including any guarantee) that is contingent in nature at such time; or (iii) an obligation to provide collateral to secure any of the foregoing types of obligations.
U.S. ” means the United States of America.
U.S. Person ” means a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.17(f)(ii)(B)(3).

    
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USA PATRIOT Act ” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.
Withdrawal Liability ” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
Working Capital ” means, at any date, the excess of current assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries other than cash or cash equivalents on such date over current liabilities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on such date other than Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit, all determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
Write-Down and Conversion Powers ” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
SECTION 1.02.      Classification of Loans and Borrowings . For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class ( e.g. , a “Revolving Loan”) or by Type ( e.g. , a “Eurodollar Loan”) or by Class and Type ( e.g. , a “Eurodollar Revolving Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Class ( e.g. , a “Revolving Borrowing”) or by Type ( e.g. , a “Eurodollar Borrowing”) or by Class and Type ( e.g. , a “Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing”).
SECTION 1.03.      Terms Generally . The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “law” shall be construed as referring to all statutes, rules, regulations, codes and other laws (including official rulings and interpretations thereunder having the force of law or with which affected Persons customarily comply) and all judgments, orders and decrees of all Governmental Authorities. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, restatements, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any definition of or reference to any statute, rule or regulation shall be construed as referring thereto as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (including by succession of comparable successor laws), (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to any restrictions on assignments set forth herein) and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any other Governmental Authority that shall have succeeded to any or all functions thereof, (d) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (e) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, (f) any reference in any definition to the phrase “at any time” or “for any period” shall refer to the same time or period for all calculations or determinations within such definition, and (g) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
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effect from time to time; provided that, if after the date hereof there occurs any change in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of any provision hereof and the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrowers request an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of such change in GAAP or in the application thereof (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.
SECTION 1.05.     Rounding . Any financial ratios required to be maintained by any Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).
SECTION 1.06.     Status of Obligations . In the event that any Borrower or any other Loan Party shall at any time issue or have outstanding any Subordinated Indebtedness, such Borrower shall take or cause such other Loan Party to take all such actions as shall be necessary to cause the Secured Obligations to constitute senior indebtedness (however denominated) in respect of such Subordinated Indebtedness and to enable the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to have and exercise any payment blockage or other remedies available or potentially available to holders of senior indebtedness under the terms of such Subordinated Indebtedness. Without limiting the foregoing, the Secured Obligations are hereby designated as “senior indebtedness” and as “designated senior indebtedness” and words of similar import under and in respect of any indenture or other agreement or instrument under which such Subordinated Indebtedness is outstanding and are further given all such other designations as shall be required under the terms of any such Subordinated Indebtedness in order that the Lenders may have and exercise any payment blockage or other remedies available or potentially available to holders of senior indebtedness under the terms of such Subordinated Indebtedness.
SECTION 1.07.     Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents .
(a)      The Administrative Agent shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Revaluation Date to be used for calculating the Dollar Amounts of extensions of credit and amounts outstanding hereunder denominated in Alternative Currencies. Such Spot Rates shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the applicable currencies until the next Revaluation Date to occur. Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by the Borrower hereunder or calculating financial covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be such Dollar Amount as so determined by the Administrative Agent.
(b)      Wherever in this Agreement, in connection with any extension of credit, any conversion, continuation or prepayment of a Loan or any renewal of a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars, but such extension of credit or Borrowing is denominated in an Alternative Currency, such amount shall be the Alternative Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest 1,000 units of such Alternative Currency), as determined by the Administrative Agent.
(c)      Determinations by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 1.07 shall be conclusive absent demonstrable error.

    
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SECTION 1.08.     Computation of Dollar Amounts . References herein to minimum Dollar Amounts and integral multiples stated in Dollars, where they shall also be applicable to an Alternative Currency, shall be deemed to refer to approximate Alternative Currency Equivalents. Wherever in this Agreement an amount, such as a minimum or maximum limitation on Indebtedness permitted to be incurred or Investments permitted to be made hereunder, is expressed in Dollars, it shall be deemed to refer to the Dollar Amount thereof.
ARTICLE II

The Credits
SECTION 2.01.      (a) Revolving Commitments . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally (and not jointly) agrees to make Revolving Loans to the Borrower in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency as requested by the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (i) such Lender’s Revolving Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeding the aggregate Revolving Commitments or (iii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure of all Revolving Loans consisting of Eurodollar Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency exceeding the Foreign Currency Sublimit. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrowers may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans.
(b) Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowings . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, including without limitation Section 4.02, each Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender severally (and not jointly) agrees to make a Delayed Draw Term Loan in Dollars to the Borrower, in one advance on the Delayed Draw Term Loan Effective Date, in a principal amount not to exceed such Lender’s Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment. All undrawn Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments shall be cancelled on the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(b) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Delayed Draw Term Loans may be ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans, as further provided herein.
SECTION 2.02.      Loans and Borrowings .
(a)      Each Loan (other than a Swingline Loan) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Class and Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments of the applicable Class. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required. Any Swingline Loan shall be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.05 .
(b)      Subject to Section 2.14, each Revolving Borrowing and Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith, provided that all Revolving Borrowings and Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowings made on the Effective Date must be made as ABR Borrowings but may be converted into Eurodollar Borrowings in accordance with Section 2.08. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan. Revolving Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency shall consist solely of Eurodollar Loans. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan (and in the case of an Affiliate, the provisions of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17 shall apply to such Affiliate to the same extent as to such Lender); provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrowers to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

    
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(c)      At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing denominated in Dollars, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000. Eurodollar Borrowings denominated in an Alternative Currency shall be in an aggregate Alternative Currency Equivalent that is an integral multiple of $250,000 and not less than $500,000. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000; provided that an ABR Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Revolving Commitments or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.06(e). Each Swingline Loan shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000. Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of 6 Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding.
(d)      Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrowers shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Revolving Credit Maturity Date or the Term Maturity Date, as applicable.
SECTION 2.03.      Requests for Borrowings . To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request either in writing (delivered by hand or fax) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B and signed by the Borrower or by telephone or through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Administrative Agent, (a) in the case of a Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., Eastern time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing, (b) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing denominated in Dollars, not later than 10:00 a.m., Eastern time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing, (c) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency, not later than 9:00 a.m., Eastern time, four Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (d) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than noon, Eastern time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of an ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.06(e) may be given not later than 9:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery, fax or a communication through Electronic System to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.01:
(i)      Whether such Borrowing is to be a Revolving Loan Borrowing or a Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowing;
(ii)      the Class of Borrowing, the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing, and a breakdown of the separate wires comprising such Borrowing;
(iii)      name of the applicable Borrower(s);
(iv)      the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(v)      whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
(vi)      the applicable currency in which such Revolving Loan is to be funded (such currency shall either be Dollars or an Alternative Currency); and
(vii)      in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period.”

    
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If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the applicable Borrower(s) shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04.      [Section Intentionally Omitted]
SECTION 2.05.      Swingline Loans.
(a)      Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, from time to time during the Availability Period, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding the Swingline Lender’s Swingline Commitment, (ii) the Swingline Lender’s Revolving Exposure exceeding its Revolving Commitment, or (iii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposures exceeding the aggregate Revolving Commitments; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make a Swingline Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans. To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (confirmed by fax) or through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Administrative Agent, not later than noon Eastern time, on the day of a proposed Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and amount of the requested Swingline Loan. The Administrative Agent will promptly advise the Swingline Lender of any such notice received from the Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means of a credit to the Funding Account(s) (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.06(e), by remittance to the Issuing Bank, and in the case of repayment of another Loan or fees or expenses as provided by Section 2.18(c), by remittance to the Administrative Agent to be distributed to the Lenders) by 2:00 p.m. Eastern time, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.
(b)      The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent require the Revolving Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which the Revolving Lenders will participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Revolving Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, promptly upon receipt of such notice from the Administrative Agent (and in any event, if such notice is received by 11:00 a.m., Eastern     time, on a Business Day no later than 4:00 p.m., Eastern time on such Business Day and if received after 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, “on a Business Day” shall mean no later than 9:00 a.m. Eastern time on the immediately succeeding Business Day), to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Revolving Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Revolving Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.07 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.07 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Swingline Lender the

    
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amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrowers (or other party on behalf of the Borrowers) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or to the Administrative Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrowers for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Borrowers of any default in the payment thereof.
SECTION 2.06.      Letters of Credit .
(a)      General . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower, on behalf of a Borrower, may request the issuance of Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars as the applicant thereof for the support of the obligations of any Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period, and the Issuing Bank may, but shall have no obligation, to issue such requested Letters of Credit pursuant to this Agreement. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrowers to, or entered into by the Borrowers with, the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control. Each Borrower unconditionally and irrevocably agrees that, in connection with any Letter of Credit issued for the support of any Subsidiary’s obligations as provided in the first sentence of this paragraph, such Borrower will be fully responsible for the reimbursement of LC Disbursements in accordance with the terms hereof, the payment of interest thereon and the payment of fees due under Section 2.12(b) to the same extent as if it were the sole account party in respect of such Letter of Credit (each Borrower hereby irrevocably waiving any defenses that might otherwise be available to it as a guarantor or surety of the obligations of such Subsidiary that is an account party in respect of any such Letter of Credit). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Issuing Bank shall have no obligation hereunder to issue, and shall not issue, any Letter of Credit (i) the proceeds of which would be made available to any Person (A) to fund any activity or business of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of any Sanctions or (B) in any manner that would result in a violation of any Sanctions by any party to this Agreement, (ii) if any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the Issuing Bank from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Requirement of Law relating to the Issuing Bank or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the Issuing Bank shall prohibit, or request that the Issuing Bank refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the Issuing Bank with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the Issuing Bank is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Effective Date, or shall impose upon the Issuing Bank any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Effective Date and which the Issuing Bank in good faith deems material to it, or (iii) if the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the Issuing Bank applicable to letters of credit generally; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in the implementation thereof, and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or

    
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any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed not to be in effect on the Effective Date for purposes of clause (ii) above, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.
(b)      Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions . To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or fax (or transmit through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Issuing Bank) to the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (reasonably in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, but in any event no less than three Business Days) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof, and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the Issuing Bank, the applicable Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on the Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrowers shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the LC Exposure shall not exceed $1,000,000, (ii) no Revolving Lender’s Revolving Exposure shall exceed its Revolving Commitment and (iii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure shall not exceed the lesser of the aggregate Revolving Commitments. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary contained herein, no Issuing Bank shall be obligated to issue or modify any Letter of Credit if, immediately after giving effect thereto, the outstanding LC Exposure in respect of all Letters of Credit issued by such Person and its Affiliates would exceed such Issuing Bank’s Issuing Bank Sublimit. Without limiting the foregoing and without affecting the limitations contained herein, it is understood and agreed that the Borrower may from time to time request that an Issuing Bank issue Letters of Credit in excess of its individual Issuing Bank Sublimit in effect at the time of such request, and each Issuing Bank agrees to consider any such request in good faith. Any Letter of Credit so issued by an Issuing Bank in excess of its individual Issuing Bank Sublimit then in effect shall nonetheless constitute a Letter of Credit for all purposes of this Agreement, and shall not affect the Issuing Bank Sublimit of any other Issuing Bank, subject to the limitations on the aggregate LC Exposure set forth in clause (i) of this Section 2.06(b).
(c)      Expiration Date . Each Letter of Credit shall expire (or be subject to termination or non-renewal by notice from the Issuing Bank to the beneficiary thereof) at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, including, without limitation, any automatic renewal provision, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
(d)      Participations . By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Bank or the Revolving Lenders, the Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Revolving Lender, and each Revolving Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Bank, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrowers on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment

    
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required to be refunded to the Borrowers for any reason. Each Revolving Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.
(e)      Reimbursement . If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrowers shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice of such LC Disbursement, if such notice is received prior to 9:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is received after 9:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the day of receipt; provided that, if such LC Disbursement is greater than or equal to $1,000,000, the Borrowers may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.05 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing or a Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrowers’ obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan. If the Borrowers fail to make such payment when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrowers in respect thereof, and such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Revolving Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrowers, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.07 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.07 shall apply, mutatis mutandis , to the payment obligations of the Revolving Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrowers pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and the Issuing Bank, as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrowers of their obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.
(f)      Obligations Absolute . The Borrowers’ joint and several obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein or herein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) any payment by the Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrowers’ obligations hereunder. None of the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Lenders or the Issuing Bank, or any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit, or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing

    
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thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrowers to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by any Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.
(g)      Disbursement Procedures . The Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. The Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by fax) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrowers of their obligation to reimburse the Issuing Bank and the Revolving Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement.
(h)      Interim Interest . If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrowers shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrowers reimburse such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans and such interest shall be due and payable on the date when such reimbursement is due; provided that, if the Borrowers fail to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section, then Section 2.13 (c) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for the account of the Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section to reimburse the Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment.
(i)      Replacement of the Issuing Bank . The Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Lenders of any such replacement of the Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrowers shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.12(b). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of the Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit then outstanding and issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.

    
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(i)      Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Issuing Bank, the Issuing Bank may resign as an Issuing Bank at any time upon thirty days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Lenders, in which case, such Issuing Bank shall be replaced in accordance with Section 2.06(i) above.
(j)      Cash Collateralization . If any Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 25% of the aggregate LC Exposure) demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrowers shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Revolving Lenders (the “ LC Collateral Account ”), an amount in cash equal to 105% of the amount of the LC Exposure as of such date plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to any Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of Article VII. The Borrowers also shall deposit cash collateral in accordance with this paragraph as and to the extent required by Section 2.11(b) or 2.20. Each such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over the LC Collateral Account and the Borrowers hereby grant the Administrative Agent a security interest in the LC Collateral Account and all moneys or other assets on deposit therein or credited thereto. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrowers’ risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrowers for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Revolving Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 25% of the aggregate LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other Secured Obligations. If the Borrowers are required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of a Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrowers within three (3) Business Days after all such Default have been cured or waived as confirmed in writing by the Administrative Agent.
(k)      LC Exposure Determination . For all purposes of this Agreement, the amount of a Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at the time of determination.
SECTION 2.07.      Funding of Borrowings .
(a)      Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by such Lender hereunder on the proposed date thereof solely by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., Eastern time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders in an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage; provided that Delayed Draw Term Loans shall be made as provided in Sections 2.01(b) and 2.02(b) and Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.05. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the funds so received in the aforesaid account of the Administrative Agent to the Funding Account(s); provided that ABR Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.06(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Bank.

    
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(b)      Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the applicable Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrowers severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the applicable Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of the Borrowers, the interest rate applicable to ABR Revolving Loans. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.
SECTION 2.08.      Interest Elections .
(a)      Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section provided, that only a Eurodollar Loan denominated in Dollars may be converted to an ABR Borrowing. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Swingline Borrowings, which may not be converted or continued.
(b)      To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone or through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Administrative Agent, by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrowers were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery, Electronic System or fax to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower.
(c)      Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request (including requests submitted through Electronic System) shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i)      the name of the applicable Borrower and the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);
(ii)      the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;

    
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(iii)      whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and
(iv)      if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.
If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrowers shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
(d)      Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the applicable Class of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e)      If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if a Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as a Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
SECTION 2.09.      Termination and Reduction of Commitments .
(a)      Unless previously terminated, (i) the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments shall terminate at 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date and (ii) all the Revolving Commitments shall terminate on the Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
(b)      The Borrowers may at any time terminate the Revolving Commitments upon (i) the payment in full of all outstanding Revolving Loans and LC Disbursements, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, (ii) the cancellation and return of all outstanding Letters of Credit (or alternatively, with respect to each such Letter of Credit, the furnishing to the Administrative Agent of a cash deposit (or at the discretion of the Administrative Agent a backup standby letter of credit satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank) in an amount equal to 105% of the LC Exposure as of such date), (iii) the payment in full of the accrued and unpaid fees, and (iv) the payment in full of all reimbursable expenses and other Obligations together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon.
(c)      The Borrowers may from time to time reduce the Revolving Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Revolving Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000 and (ii) the Borrowers shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans in accordance with Section 2.11, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure would exceed the aggregate Revolving Commitments.
(d)      The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Revolving Commitments under paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section at least three (3) Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state

    
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that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Revolving Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Revolving Commitments.
SECTION 2.10.      Repayment and Amortization of Loans; Evidence of Debt .
(a)      The Borrowers hereby unconditionally promise to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan in Dollars or, as applicable, in the Alternative Currency in which such Revolving Loan was made pursuant to Section 2.01, on the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, and (ii) to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Credit Maturity Date and the fifth Business Day after such Swingline Loan is made; provided that on each date that a Revolving Loan is made, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then outstanding and the proceeds of any such Revolving Loan shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to repay any Swingline Loans outstanding.
(b)      The Borrowers hereby unconditionally promise to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender on each date set forth below, in each case following the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date, the aggregate principal amount set forth opposite such date (as adjusted from time to time pursuant to Section 2.11(e) or 2.18(b)):
Date
Amount
December 31, 2017
$3,750,000
March 31, 2018
$3,750,000
June 30, 2018
$3,750,000
September 30, 2018
$3,750,000
December 31, 2018
$3,750,000
March 31, 2019
$3,750,000
June 30, 2019
$3,750,000
September 30, 2019
$3,750,000
December 31, 2019
$3,750,000
March 31, 2020
$3,750,000
June 30, 2020
$3,750,000
Term Maturity Date
The entire unpaid
principal amount of
all Delayed Draw Term Loans

; provided if any date set forth above is not a Business Day, then payment shall be due and payable on the Business Day immediately preceding such date. To the extent not previously paid, all unpaid Delayed Draw Term Loans shall be paid in full in cash by the Borrowers on the Term Maturity Date.
(c)      Prior to any repayment of any Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowings of any Class under this Section, the Borrowers shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings of the applicable Class to be repaid and shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by fax) of such selection not later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, three (3) Business Days before the scheduled date of such repayment. Each repayment of a Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the

    
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repaid Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowing. Repayments of Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowings shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the amounts repaid.
(d)      Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the Indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.
(e)      The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, if any, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrowers to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof.
(f)      The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (d) or (e) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrowers to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(g)      Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrowers shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in a form approved by the Administrative Agent. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form.
SECTION 2.11.      Prepayment of Loans .
(a)      The Borrowers shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Section and, if applicable, payment of any break funding expenses under Section 2.16.
(b)      In the event and on such occasion that (i) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeds the aggregate Revolving Commitments or (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure of all Revolving Loans consisting of Eurodollar Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency exceeds the Foreign Currency Sublimit, the Borrowers shall prepay the Revolving Loans, and/or LC Exposure and/or Swingline Loans (or, if no such Borrowings are outstanding, deposit cash collateral in the LC Collateral Account in an aggregate amount equal to such excess, in accordance with Section 2.06(j)).
(c)      Commencing with the fiscal year end 2017, no later than the date that is ten days after the earlier of (i) the date on which the Borrower’s annual audited financial statements for the immediately preceding fiscal year are delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 or (ii) the date on which such annual audited financial statements were required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01, the Borrower shall prepay the Obligations as set forth in Section 2.11(e) below in an amount equal to (A) fifty percent (50%) of the Borrower’s Excess Cash Flow for the immediately preceding fiscal year as set forth in paragraph (e) below, or (B) zero percent (0%) of the Borrower’s Excess Cash Flow for the immediately preceding fiscal year as set forth in paragraph (e) below if the Borrower’s Total Leverage Ratio is less than 0.50 to 1.00. Each Excess Cash Flow prepayment shall be accompanied by a certificate signed by a Financial Officer certifying the

    
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manner in which Excess Cash Flow and the resulting prepayment were calculated, which certificate shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(d)      In the event and on each occasion that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary in respect of any Prepayment Event, the Borrowers shall, immediately after such Net Proceeds are received by any Loan Party or Subsidiary, prepay the Obligations and cash collateralize the LC Exposure as set forth in Section 2.11(e) below in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such Net Proceeds, provided that, in the case of any event described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition of the term “Prepayment Event”, if the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer to the effect that the Loan Parties intend to apply the Net Proceeds from such event (or a portion thereof specified in such certificate), within 180 days after receipt of such Net Proceeds, to acquire (or replace or rebuild) real property, equipment or other tangible assets (excluding inventory) to be used in the business of the Loan Parties, and certifying that no Default has occurred and is continuing, then no prepayment shall be required pursuant to this paragraph in respect of the Net Proceeds specified in such certificate, provided that to the extent of any such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied by the end of such 180 day period, a prepayment shall be required at such time in an amount equal to such Net Proceeds that have not been so applied.
(e)      All prepayments required to be made pursuant to Sections 2.11(c) and (d) shall be applied, first to prepay any protective advances or overadvances that may be outstanding and second solely following the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date, to prepay the Delayed Draw Term Loans (and in the event Delayed Draw Term Loans of more than one Class shall be outstanding at the time, shall be allocated among the Delayed Draw Term Loans pro rata based on the aggregate principal amounts of outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loans of each such Class) as so allocated, and shall be applied to reduce the subsequent scheduled repayments of Delayed Draw Term Loans of each Class to be made pursuant to Section 2.10 in inverse order of maturity and third to prepay the Revolving Loans (including the Swingline Loans) without a corresponding reduction in the Revolving Commitments and fourth to cash collateralize outstanding LC Exposure; provided that all prepayments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.11(d) with respect to Net Proceeds arising from any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding, to the extent they arise from casualties or losses to cash or Inventory shall be applied, first , to prepay the Revolving Loans (including the Swingline Loans) with a corresponding reduction in the Revolving Commitments and second , to cash collateralize outstanding LC Exposure, and third , solely following the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date, to prepay the Delayed Draw Term Loans (allocated and applied to subsequent scheduled repayments as set forth above).
(f)      The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by fax) or through Electronic System, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Administrative Agent, of any prepayment under this Section: (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., Eastern time, three (3) Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 10:00 a.m., Eastern time, one (1) Business Day before the date of prepayment or (iii) or (iii) in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, not later than 11:00 a.m., Eastern time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Revolving Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.09, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.09. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Revolving Borrowing or Delayed Draw Term Loan shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing

    
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of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02, except as necessary to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory prepayment. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by (i) accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.13 and (ii) break funding payments pursuant to Section 2.16.
SECTION 2.12.      Fees .
(a)      The Borrowers agree to pay to the Administrative Agent:
(i)      a commitment fee for the account of each Revolving Lender, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate on the daily amount of the undrawn portion of the Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments terminate; it being understood that the LC Exposure of a Lender shall be included and the Swingline Exposure of a Lender shall be excluded in the drawn portion of the Revolving Commitment of such Lender for purposes of calculating the commitment fee.
(ii)      a commitment fee for the account of each Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate on the daily amount of the undrawn portion of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including the date that is thirty (30) days after the Effective Date to but excluding the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date.
Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and, as applicable, on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate and the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof. All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(b)      The Borrowers agree to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Rate used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Revolving Loans on the daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s Revolving Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate or rates per annum separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Issuing Bank on the daily amount of the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination of the Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure, as well as the Issuing Bank’s standard fees and commissions with respect to the issuance, amendment, cancellation, negotiation, transfer, presentment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within ten (10) days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

    
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(c)      The Borrowers agree to pay to the Joint Lead Arrangers, for their respective accounts, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrowers and the Joint Lead Arrangers.
(d)      All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of commitment fees and participation fees, to the Lenders entitled thereto. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.13.      Interest .
(a)      The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.
(b)      The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate.
(c)      Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may, at their option, by notice to the Borrower (which notice may be revoked at the option of the Required Lenders notwithstanding any provision of Section 9.02 requiring the consent of “each Lender affected thereby” for reductions in interest rates), declare that (i) all Loans shall bear interest at 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loans as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount outstanding hereunder, such amount shall accrue at 2% plus the rate applicable to such fee or other obligation as provided hereunder.
(d)      Accrued interest on each Loan (for ABR Loans, accrued through the last day of the prior calendar month) shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Revolving Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.
(e)      All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate, Adjusted LIBO Rate or LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.14.      Alternate Rate of Interest . If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:
(a)      the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining (including, without limitation, by means of an Interpolated Rate) the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period; or

    
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(b)      the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for the applicable Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders through Electronic System as provided in Section 9.01 as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective, and any such Eurodollar Borrowing shall be repaid on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto, and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing denominated in Dollars, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing, and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing denominated in an Alternative Currency, such Borrowing shall be revoked.
SECTION 2.15.      Increased Costs . If any Change in Law shall:
(i)      impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, liquidity or similar requirement (including any compulsory loan requirement, insurance charge or other assessment) against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate) or the Issuing Bank; or
(ii)      impose on any Lender or the Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein; or
(iii)      subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or such other Recipient of making, continuing, converting into or maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender, the Issuing Bank or such other Recipient of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender, the Issuing Bank or such other Recipient hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrowers will pay to such Lender, the Issuing Bank or such other Recipient, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender, the Issuing Bank or such other Recipient, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b)      If any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time the Borrowers will pay to such Lender or

    
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the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c)      A certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.
(d)      Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 270 days prior to the date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 270-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
SECTION 2.16.      Break Funding Payments . In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default or as a result of any prepayment pursuant to Section 2.11), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Eurodollar Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.09(d) and is revoked in accordance therewith), or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19 or 9.02(d), then, in any such event, the Borrowers shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Eurodollar Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Eurodollar Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for Dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.17.      Taxes .
(a)      Withholding Taxes; Gross-Up; Payments Free of Taxes . Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a withholding agent, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax,

    
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then the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.17), the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
(b)      Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties . The Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for, Other Taxes.
(c)      Evidence of Payment . As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 2.17, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment, or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(d)      Indemnification by the Loan Parties . The Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(e)      Indemnification by the Lenders . Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 9.04(c) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to such Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e).
(f)      Status of Lenders .
(i)      Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable

    
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the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.17(f)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii)      Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any Borrower is a U.S. Person,
(A)      any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), an executed IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;
(B)      any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:
(1)      in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the U.S. is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, an executed IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;
(2)      in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming that its extension of credit will generate U.S. effectively connected income, an executed IRS Form W-8ECI;
(3)      in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of a Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “ U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ”) and (y) an executed IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable; or
(4)      to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the Beneficial Owner, an executed IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, IRS Form W-8BEN, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2 or Exhibit C-3 , IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each Beneficial Owner, as applicable; provided that

    
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if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(C)      any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D)      if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(g)      Treatment of Certain Refunds . If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 2.17 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.17), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section 2.17 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (g) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (g), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (g) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This paragraph (g) shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to

    
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make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
(h)      Survival . Each party’s obligations under this Section 2.17 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Loan Document.
(i)      Defined Terms . For purposes of this Section 2.17, the term “Lender” includes the Issuing Bank and the term “applicable law” includes FATCA.
SECTION 2.18.      Payments Generally; Allocation of Proceeds; Sharing of Set-offs .
(a)      The Borrowers shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Sections 2.15, 2.16 or 2.17, or otherwise) prior to 2:00 p.m., Eastern time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set off or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at its offices at 10 South Dearborn, Floor L2, Suite 1L1-0480, Chicago, IL 60603-2300, except payments to be made directly to the Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. Unless otherwise provided for herein, if any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made in Dollars.
(b)      Any proceeds of Collateral received by the Administrative Agent (i) not constituting either (A) a specific payment of principal, interest, fees or other sum payable under the Loan Documents (which shall be applied as specified by the Borrowers), or (B) a mandatory prepayment (which shall be applied in accordance with Section 2.11) or (ii) after an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent so elects or the Required Lenders so direct, shall be applied ratably first , to pay any fees, indemnities, or expense reimbursements including amounts then due to the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank from the Borrowers (other than in connection with Banking Services Obligations or Swap Agreement Obligations), second , to pay any fees or expense reimbursements then due to the Lenders from the Borrowers (other than in connection with Banking Services Obligations or Swap Agreement Obligations), third , to pay interest then due and payable on the Loans ratably, fourth , to prepay principal on the Loans and unreimbursed LC Disbursements and to pay any amounts owing with respect to Swap Agreement Obligations up to and including the amount most recently provided to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.22, ratably (with amounts allocated to the Delayed Draw Term Loans of any Class applied to reduce the subsequent scheduled repayments of the Delayed Draw Term Loans of such Class to be made pursuant to Section 2.10 in inverse order of maturity), fifth , to pay an amount to the Administrative Agent equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the aggregate LC Exposure, to be held as cash collateral for such Obligations, and sixth , to the payment of any amounts owing in respect of Banking Services Obligations up to and including the amount most recently provided to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.22, and seventh , to the payment of any other Secured Obligation due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender from the Borrowers or any other Loan Party. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, unless so directed by the Borrower, or unless a Default is in

    
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existence, neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall apply any payment which it receives to any Eurodollar Loan of a Class, except (i) on the expiration date of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or (ii) in the event, and only to the extent, that there are no outstanding ABR Loans of the same Class and, in any such event, the Borrowers shall pay the break funding payment required in accordance with Section 2.16. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have the continuing and exclusive right to apply and reverse and reapply any and all such proceeds and payments to any portion of the Secured Obligations.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Secured Obligations arising under Banking Services Obligations or Swap Agreement Obligations shall be excluded from the application described above and paid in clause seventh if the Administrative Agent has not received written notice thereof, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may have reasonably requested from the applicable provider of such Banking Services or Swap Agreements.
(c)      At the election of the Administrative Agent, all payments of principal, interest, LC Disbursements, fees, premiums, reimbursable expenses (including, without limitation, all reimbursement for fees, costs and expenses pursuant to Section 9.03), and other sums payable under the Loan Documents, may be paid from the proceeds of Borrowings made hereunder, whether made following a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.03 or a deemed request as provided in this Section or may be deducted from any deposit account of the Borrowers maintained with the Administrative Agent. The Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorize (i) the Administrative Agent to make a Borrowing for the purpose of paying each payment of principal, interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder or any other amount due under the Loan Documents and agree that all such amounts charged shall constitute Loans (including Swingline Loans), and that all such Borrowings shall be deemed to have been requested pursuant to Sections 2.03 or 2.05, as applicable, and (ii) the Administrative Agent to charge any deposit account of any Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent for each payment of principal, interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder or any other amount due under the Loan Documents.
(d)      If, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other similarly situated Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by all such Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrowers or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). Each Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such participation.

    
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(e)      Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrowers will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrowers have made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrowers have not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
(f)      If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it hereunder, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations hereunder until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid and/or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender hereunder. Application of amounts pursuant to (i) and (ii) above shall be made in such order as may be determined by the Administrative Agent in its Permitted Discretion.
(g)      The Administrative Agent may from time to time provide the Borrowers with account statements or invoices with respect to any of the Secured Obligations (the “Statements”). The Administrative Agent is under no duty or obligation to provide Statements, which, if provided, will be solely for the Borrowers’ convenience. Statements may contain estimates of the amounts owed during the relevant billing period, whether of principal, interest, fees or other Secured Obligations. If the Borrowers pay the full amount indicated on a Statement on or before the due date indicated on such Statement, the Borrowers shall not be in default of payment with respect to the billing period indicated on such Statement; provided , that acceptance by the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, of any payment that is less than the total amount actually due at that time (including but not limited to any past due amounts) shall not constitute a waiver of the Administrative Agent’s or the Lenders’ right to receive payment in full at another time.
SECTION 2.19.      Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders .
(a)      If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Sections 2.15 or 2.17, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b)      If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender) pursuant to Section 2.17, or if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the Borrowers may, at their sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Sections 2.15 or 2.17) and obligations under this Agreement and other Loan Documents to an assignee that

    
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shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Borrowers shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and in circumstances where its consent would be required under Section 9.04, the Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and funded participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.15 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
SECTION 2.20.      Defaulting Lenders .
Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:
(a)      fees shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the Revolving Commitment of such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.12(a);
(b)      such Defaulting Lender shall not have the right to vote on any issue on which voting is required (other than to the extent expressly provided in Section 9.02(b)) and the Commitment and Revolving Exposure and, if applicable, Delayed Draw Term Commitment and Delayed Draw Term Loans of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document; provided that, except as otherwise provided in Section 9.02, this clause (b) shall not apply to the vote of a Defaulting Lender in the case of an amendment, waiver or other modification requiring the consent of such Lender or each Lender directly affected thereby;
(c)      if any Swingline Exposure or LC Exposure exists at the time such Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender then:
(i)      all or any part of the Swingline Exposure or LC Exposure of such Defaulting Lender (other than the portion of such Swingline Exposure referred to in clause (b) of the definition of such term) shall be reallocated among the non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages but only (x) to the extent that the conditions set forth in Section 4.03 are satisfied at the time of such reallocation (and, unless any Borrower shall have otherwise notified the Administrative Agent at such time, such Borrower shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that such conditions are satisfied at such time) and (y) to the extent that such reallocation does not, as to any non-Defaulting Lender, cause such non-Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Exposure to exceed its Revolving Commitment;
(ii)      if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrowers shall within one (1) Business Day following notice by the Administrative Agent (x) first, prepay such Swingline Exposure and (y) second, cash collateralize, for the benefit of the Issuing Bank, the Borrowers’ obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.06(j) for so long as such LC Exposure is outstanding;

    
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(iii)      if the Borrowers cash collateralize any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure pursuant to clause (ii) above, the Borrowers shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.12(b) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure during the period such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure is cash collateralized;
(iv)      if the LC Exposure of the non-Defaulting Lenders is reallocated pursuant to clause (i) above, then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Sections 2.12(a) and 2.12(b) shall be adjusted in accordance with such non-Defaulting Lenders’ Applicable Percentages; and
(v)      if all or any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure is neither reallocated nor cash collateralized pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Issuing Bank or any other Lender hereunder, all letter of credit fees payable under Section 2.12(b) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure shall be payable to the Issuing Bank until and to the extent that such LC Exposure is reallocated and/or cash collateralized; and
(d)      so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, amend, renew, extend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the related exposure and such Defaulting Lender’s then outstanding LC Exposure will be 100% covered by the Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral will be provided by the Borrowers in accordance with Section 2.20(c), and Swingline Exposure related to any such newly made Swingline Loan or LC Exposure related to any newly issued or increased Letter of Credit shall be allocated among non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.20(c)(i) (and such Defaulting Lender shall not participate therein).
If (i) a Bankruptcy Event or a Bail-In Action with respect to the Parent of any Lender shall occur following the date hereof and for so long as such event shall continue or (ii) the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank has a good faith belief that any Lender has defaulted in fulfilling its obligations under one or more other agreements in which such Lender commits to extend credit, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, shall have entered into arrangements with the Borrowers or such Lender, satisfactory to the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to defease any risk to it in respect of such Lender hereunder.
In the event that each of the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the Swingline Exposure and LC Exposure of the Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Revolving Commitment and on the date of such readjustment such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Loans of the other Lenders (other than Swingline Loans) as the Administrative Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage.
SECTION 2.21.      Returned Payments . If, after receipt of any payment which is applied to the payment of all or any part of the Obligations (including a payment effected through exercise of a right of setoff), the Administrative Agent or any Lender is for any reason compelled to surrender such payment or proceeds to any Person because such payment or application of proceeds is invalidated, declared fraudulent, set aside, determined to be void or voidable as a preference, impermissible setoff, or a diversion of trust funds, or for any other reason (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent or such Lender in its discretion), then the Obligations or part thereof intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued and this Agreement shall continue in full force as if such payment or proceeds had not been received by the Administrative Agent or such Lender. The provisions of this Section 2.21 shall be and remain

    
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effective notwithstanding any contrary action which may have been taken by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in reliance upon such payment or application of proceeds. The provisions of this Section 2.21 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.22.      Banking Services and Swap Agreements . Each Lender or Affiliate thereof providing Banking Services for, or having Swap Agreements with, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of a Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, promptly after entering into such Banking Services or Swap Agreements, written notice setting forth the aggregate amount of all Banking Services Obligations and Swap Agreement Obligations of such Loan Party or Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof to such Lender or Affiliate (whether matured or unmatured, absolute or contingent). In furtherance of that requirement, each such Lender or Affiliate thereof shall furnish the Administrative Agent, from time to time after a significant change therein or upon a request therefor, a summary of the amounts due or to become due in respect of such Banking Services Obligations and Swap Agreement Obligations. The most recent information provided to the Administrative Agent shall be used in determining which tier of the waterfall, contained in Section 2.18(b), such Banking Services Obligations and/or Swap Agreement Obligations will be placed.
ARTICLE III

Representations and Warranties

Each Loan Party represents and warrants to the Lenders that (and where applicable, agrees):
SECTION 3.01.      Organization; Powers . Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and , except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.
SECTION 3.02.      Authorization; Enforceability . The Transactions are within each Loan Party’s organizational powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary organizational actions and, if required, actions by equity holders. Each Loan Document to which each Loan Party is a party has been duly executed and delivered by such Loan Party and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
SECTION 3.03.      Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts . The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect and except for filings necessary to perfect Liens created pursuant to the Loan Documents, (b) will not violate any Requirement of Law applicable to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon any Loan Party or any Subsidiary or the assets of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, except Liens created pursuant to the Loan Documents.
SECTION 3.04.      Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change .

    
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(a)      The Company has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows (i) as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, reported on by RSM US LLP, independent public accountants, and (ii) as of and for the fiscal month and the portion of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017, certified by its Financial Officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments, all of which, when taken as a whole, would not be materially adverse, and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above.
(b)      No event, change or condition has occurred that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect, since December 31, 2016.
SECTION 3.05.      Properties, etc .
(a)      As of the date of this Agreement, Schedule 3.05 sets forth the address of each parcel of real property that is owned or leased by any Loan Party. Each of such leases and subleases is valid and enforceable in accordance with its terms and is in full force and effect, and no default by any party to any such lease or sublease exists. Each of the Loan Parties and each Subsidiary has good and indefeasible title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all of its real and personal property, free of all Liens other than those permitted by Section 6.02.
(b)      Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property necessary to its business as currently conducted, a correct and complete list of which, as of the date of this Agreement, is set forth on Schedule 3.05 , and the use thereof by each Loan Party and each Subsidiary does not infringe in any material respect upon the rights of any other Person, and each Loan Party’s and each Subsidiary’ rights thereto are not subject to any licensing agreement or similar arrangement.
SECTION 3.06.      Litigation and Environmental Matters .
(a)      There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened against or affecting any Loan Party or any Subsidiary (i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters set forth on Schedule 3.06 ) or (ii) that involve any Loan Document or the Transactions.
(b)      Except for the Disclosed Matters, (i) no Loan Party or any Subsidiary has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability and (ii) and except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, no Loan Party or any Subsidiary (A) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law (B) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (C) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (D) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability.
(c)      Since the date of this Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the Disclosed Matters that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in, or materially increased the likelihood of, a Material Adverse Effect.

    
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SECTION 3.07.      Compliance with Laws and Agreements; No Default . Except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, each Loan Party and each Subsidiary is in compliance with (i) all Requirements of Law applicable to it or its property and (ii) all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property. No Default has occurred and is continuing.
SECTION 3.08.      Investment Company Status . No Loan Party or any Subsidiary is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.
SECTION 3.09.      Taxes . Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves. No tax liens have been filed and no claims are being asserted with respect to any such taxes.
SECTION 3.10.      ERISA . No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed the fair market value of the assets of such Plan.
SECTION 3.11.      Disclosure . The Loan Parties have disclosed to the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which any Loan Party or any Subsidiary is subject, and all other matters known to it, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Loan Parties represent only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time delivered and, if such projected financial information was delivered prior to the Effective Date, as of the Effective Date.
SECTION 3.12.      Material Agreements . No Loan Party is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or conditions contained in any material definitive agreement filed or incorporated by reference as an Exhibit 10 to Borrower’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 or quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2016, June 30, 2016 or September 30, 2016 to which it is a party.
SECTION 3.13.      Solvency . Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions to occur on the Effective Date, (i) the fair value of the assets of each Loan Party, at a fair valuation, will exceed its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise; (ii) the present fair saleable value of the property of each Loan Party will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of its debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured; (iii) each Loan Party will be able to pay its debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured; and (iv) no Loan Party will have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted and is proposed to be conducted after the Effective Date.

    
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SECTION 3.14.      Insurance . Schedule 3.14 sets forth a description of all insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries as of the Effective Date. As of the Effective Date, all premiums in respect of such insurance have been paid. The Loan Parties believe that the insurance maintained by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries is adequate and is customary for companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations.
SECTION 3.15.      Capitalization and Subsidiaries . Schedule 3.15 sets forth (a) a correct and complete list of the name and relationship to the Company of each Subsidiary, (b) a true and complete listing of each class of each of the Company’s authorized Equity Interests, of which all of such issued Equity Interests are validly issued, outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable, and owned beneficially and of record by the Persons identified on Schedule 3.15 , and (c) the type of entity of the Company and each Subsidiary. All of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests owned by any Loan Party have been (to the extent such concepts are relevant with respect to such ownership interests) duly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non assessable.
SECTION 3.16.      Security Interest in Collateral . The provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents create legal and valid Liens on all the Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and such Liens constitute perfected and continuing Liens on the Collateral, securing the Secured Obligations, enforceable against the applicable Loan Party and all third parties, and having priority over all other Liens on the Collateral except in the case of (a) Permitted Encumbrances, to the extent any such Permitted Encumbrances would have priority over the Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent pursuant to any applicable law and (b) Liens perfected only by possession (including possession of any certificate of title), to the extent the Administrative Agent has not obtained or does not maintain possession of such Collateral.
SECTION 3.17.      Employment Matters . As of the Effective Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened. The hours worked by and payments made to employees of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable federal, state, local or foreign law dealing with such matters. All payments due from any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, or for which any claim may be made against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary.
SECTION 3.18.      Federal Reserve Regulations . No part of the proceeds of any Loan or Letter of Credit has been used or will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations T, U and X.
SECTION 3.19.      Use of Proceeds . The proceeds of the Loans have been used and will be used, whether directly or indirectly as set forth in Section 5.08.
SECTION 3.20.      No Burdensome Restrictions . No Loan Party is subject to any Burdensome Restrictions except Burdensome Restrictions permitted under Section 6.10.
SECTION 3.21.      Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions . Each Loan Party has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by such Loan Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and such Loan Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees and, to the knowledge of such Loan Party, its directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects. None of (a) any Loan Party, any Subsidiary

    
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or any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b) to the knowledge of any such Loan Party or Subsidiary, any agent of such Loan Party or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. No Borrowing or Letter of Credit, use of proceeds, Transaction or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents will violate Anti-Corruption Laws or applicable Sanctions.
ARTICLE IV

Conditions
SECTION 4.01.      Effective Date . The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02):
(a)      Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and Loan Documents . The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received (i) from each party hereto either (A) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (B) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include fax or other electronic transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement and (ii) duly executed copies of the Loan Documents (other than the German Collateral Documents) and such other certificates, documents, instruments and agreements as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including any promissory notes requested by a Lender pursuant to Section 2.10 payable to the order of each such requesting Lender and a written opinion of the Loan Parties’ counsel, addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
(b)      Financial Statements and Projections . The Lenders shall have received (i) audited consolidated financial statements of Borrower for the December 31, 2015 and 2016 fiscal years, (ii) audited consolidated financial statements of Lovoo for the December 31, 2015 and 2016 fiscal years, (iii) unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of Borrower for each fiscal month and quarter ended after the date of the latest applicable financial statements delivered pursuant to clause (i) of this paragraph as to which such financial statements are available, and such financial statements shall not, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, reflect any material adverse change in the consolidated financial condition of Borrower, as reflected in the audited, consolidated financial statements described in clause (i) of this paragraph and (iv) the Borrower’s projected consolidated income statement, balance sheet and cash flows for each fiscal year through 2021.
(c)      Closing Certificates; Certified Certificate of Incorporation; Good Standing Certificates . The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a certificate of each Loan Party, dated the Effective Date and executed by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary, which shall (A) certify the resolutions of its Board of Directors, members or other body authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (B) identify by name and title and bear the signatures of the officers of such Loan Party authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of a Borrower, its Financial Officers, and (C) contain appropriate attachments, including the charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation of each Loan Party certified by the relevant authority of the jurisdiction of organization of such Loan Party and a true and correct copy of its bylaws or operating, management or partnership agreement, or other organizational or governing documents, and (ii) a long form good standing certificate for each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization.

    
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(d)      No Default Certificate . The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, signed by the chief financial officer of Borrower and each other Loan Party, dated as of the Effective Date (i) stating that no Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) stating that the representations and warranties contained in the Loan Documents are true and correct as of such date, and (iii) certifying as to any other factual matters as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.
(e)      Fees . The Lenders, Joint Lead Arrangers and the Administrative Agent shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all expenses required to be reimbursed for which invoices have been presented (including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel), on or before the Effective Date. All such amounts will be paid with proceeds of Loans made on the Effective Date and will be reflected in the funding instructions given by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent on or before the Effective Date.
(f)      Lien Searches . The Administrative Agent shall have received the results of a recent lien search in the jurisdiction of organization of each Loan Party and each jurisdiction where assets of the Loan Parties are located, and such search shall reveal no Liens on any of the assets of the Loan Parties except for liens permitted by Section 6.02 or discharged on or prior to the Effective Date pursuant to a payoff letter or other documentation satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(g)      Collateral Access and Control Agreements . To the extent not received in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall have received each of (i) a Collateral Access Agreement required to be provided pursuant to Section 4.13 of the Security Agreement and (ii) a deposit account control agreement required to be provided pursuant to Section 4.14 of the Security Agreement.
(h)      Solvency . The Administrative Agent shall have received a solvency certificate signed by a Financial Officer of the Company dated the Effective Date.
(i)      Government and Third Party Consents . All governmental and material third-party approvals necessary in connection with the Transactions and the continuing operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including shareholder approvals, if any) shall have been obtained on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and shall be in full force and effect.
(j)      Pledged Equity Interests; Stock Powers; Pledged Notes . To the extent not received in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall have received (i) the certificates representing the Equity Interests pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement, together with an undated stock power for each such certificate executed in blank by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor thereof and (ii) each promissory note (if any) pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement endorsed (without recourse) in blank (or accompanied by an executed transfer form in blank) by the pledgor thereof.
(k)      Filings, Registrations and Recordings . Each document (including any Uniform Commercial Code financing statement) required by the Collateral Documents or under law or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded in order to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a perfected Lien on the Collateral described therein, prior and superior in right to any other Person (other than with respect to Liens expressly permitted by Section 6.02), shall be in proper form for filing, registration or recordation.
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and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and otherwise in compliance with the terms of Section 5.10 of this Agreement and Section 4.12 of the Security Agreement.
(m)      No Actions . There shall exist no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries pending or threatened before any Governmental Authority or arbitrator that (i) could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, purports to affect the the Transactions or any portion thereof or the ability of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to perform their respective obligations under the Loan Documents, or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the Transactions.
(n)      USA PATRIOT Act, Etc . The Administrative Agent and Lenders shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including USA PATRIOT Act, and a properly completed and signed IRS Form W-8 or W-9, as applicable, for each Loan Party.
(o)      Existing Credit Agreement . All Indebtedness outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been refinanced, or shall be refinanced substantially simultaneously with the initial Borrowing.
(p)      No Revolving Exposure . The Revolving Commitment shall be undrawn on the Effective Date.
(q)      Other Documents . The Administrative Agent shall have received such other documents as the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, any Lender or their respective counsel may have reasonably requested.
The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers, the Lenders and the Issuing Bank of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective unless each of the foregoing conditions is satisfied (or waived pursuant to Section 9.02) at or prior to 2:00 p.m., Eastern time, on September 30, 2017 (and, in the event such conditions are not so satisfied or waived, the Commitments shall terminate at such time).
SECTION 4.02.      Delayed Draw Term Loan Effective Date . The obligations of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders to make Delayed Draw Term Loans during the Delayed Draw Term Loan Availability Period shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02):
(a)      Lovoo Acquisition . (x) The Lovoo Acquisition shall have been, or shall be, substantially contemporaneously with the Delayed Draw Term Loan Effective Date, consummated in accordance with applicable law; the terms of the Lovoo Acquisition Documents will be in form and content reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders; all conditions precedent to the consummation of the Lovoo Acquisition in the Lovoo Acquisition Documents shall have been satisfied or waived, without giving effect to any amendments thereto or any waivers or consents that are materially adverse to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, in each case without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent ; and (y) the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of Lovoo shall have duly approved of the Lovoo Acquisition and Lovoo shall not have (i) announced that it will oppose the Lovoo Acquisition or (ii) commenced any action which alleges that the Lovoo Acquisition will violate applicable law.

    
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(b)      Pro Forma Opening Statements; Updated Projections . The Administrative Agent shall have received a pro forma consolidated balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement (“ Pro Forma Opening Statements ”) giving effect to the Lovoo Acquisition and projections (“ Updated Projections ”) updating the projections (“ Earlier Projections ”) previously provided to the Administrative Agent, together with such information as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to confirm the tax, legal, and business assumptions made in such Pro Forma Opening Statements and Updated Projections ; the Pro Forma Opening Statements and Updated Projections must demonstrate, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, together with all other information then available to the Administrative Agent, that the ability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to repay their debts and satisfy their respective other obligations as and when due and to comply with the financial covenants acceptable to the Administrative Agent has not changed in any material respect from the Earlier Projections.
(c)      Loan Documents . The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received (i) from each party hereto duly executed copies of the German Collateral Documents and such other certificates, documents, instruments and agreements as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request in connection therewith.
(d)      Payoff Letter . The Administrative Agent shall have received satisfactory payoff letters for all existing Indebtedness required to be repaid in connection with the Lovoo Acquisition and which confirms that all Liens upon any of the property of Lovoo and its subsidiaries will be terminated concurrently with such payment and all letters of credit issued or guaranteed as part of such Indebtedness shall have been cash collateralized or supported by a Letter of Credit.
(e)      Minimum Liquidity . Immediately following the closing of the Lovoo Acquisition, the Borrowers shall have a minimum Liquid Assets of not less than $10,000,000.
(f)      Government and Third Party Consents . All governmental and material third-party approvals necessary in connection with the Lovoo Acquisition, the Transactions and the continuing operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including shareholder approvals, if any) shall have been obtained on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and shall be in full force and effect, and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken or threatened by any competent authority that would restrain, prevent or otherwise impose adverse conditions on the Lovoo Acquisition or the Transactions.
(g)      No Actions . There shall exist no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries pending or threatened before any Governmental Authority or arbitrator that (i) could be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, purports to affect the Lovoo Acquisition, the Transactions or any portion thereof or the ability of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to perform their respective obligations under the Loan Documents, or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the Lovoo Acquisition or the Transactions.
(h)      Pro Forma Compliance . After giving effect to the Lovoo Acquisition, the Borrower will be in compliance, on a Pro Forma Basis, with the covenants contained in Sections 6.12(a) and (b).
SECTION 4.03.      Each Credit Event . The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing, and of the Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
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of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable (it being understood and agreed that any representation or warranty which by its terms is made as of a specified date shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects only as of such specified date, and that any representation or warranty which is subject to any materiality qualifier shall be required to be true and correct in all respects).
(b)      At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(c)      After giving effect to any Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit, Availability shall not be less than zero.
(d)      No event shall have occurred and no condition shall exist which has or could be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(e)      Borrower shall have delivered a Borrowing Request to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 2.03.
Each Borrowing and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrowers on the date thereof as to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this Section.
Notwithstanding the failure to satisfy the conditions precedent set forth in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this Section, unless otherwise directed by the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, but shall have no obligation to, continue to make Loans and an Issuing Bank may, but shall have no obligation to, issue, amend, renew or extend, or cause to be issued, amended, renewed or extended, any Letter of Credit for the ratable account and risk of Lenders from time to time if the Administrative Agent believes that making such Loans or issuing, amending, renewing or extending, or causing the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of, any such Letter of Credit is in the best interests of the Lenders.
ARTICLE V

Affirmative Covenants
Until the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or terminated, in each case without any pending draw, and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each Loan Party executing this Agreement covenants and agrees, jointly and severally with all of the other Loan Parties, with the Lenders that:
SECTION 5.01.      Financial Statements and Other Information . The Borrowers will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, including their Public-Siders:
(a)      within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by independent public accountants acceptable to the Required Lenders (without a “going concern” or like qualification, commentary or exception, and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries

    
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on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, accompanied by any management letter prepared by said accountants;
(b)      within forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;
(c)      [intentionally omitted];
(d)      The Company represents and warrants that it, its controlling Person and any Subsidiary, in each case, if any, either (i) has no registered or publicly traded securities outstanding, or (ii) files its financial statements with the SEC and/or makes its financial statements available to potential holders of its 144A securities, and, accordingly, the Company hereby (i) authorizes the Administrative Agent to make the financial statements to be provided under Section 5.01(a) and (b) above (collectively or individually, as the context requires, the “ Financial Statements ”), along with the Loan Documents, available to Public-Siders and (ii) agree that at the time such Financial Statements are provided hereunder, they shall already have been made available to holders of its securities. The Company will not request that any other material be posted to Public-Siders without expressly representing and warranting to the Administrative Agent in writing that such materials do not constitute material non-public information within the meaning of the federal securities laws or that the Company has no outstanding publicly traded securities, including 144A securities. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Company request that the Administrative Agent make available to Public-Siders budgets or any certificates, reports or calculations with respect to the Borrowers’ compliance with the covenants contained herein.
(e)      concurrently with any delivery of the Financial Statements, a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower in substantially the form of Exhibit D (i) certifying, in the case of the Financial Statements delivered under clause (b) or (c) above, as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes, (ii) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred and, if a Default has occurred, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (iii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with Sections 6.12(a) and (b) and (iv) stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof has occurred since the date of the audited financial statements referred to in Section 3.04 and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the Financial Statements accompanying such certificate;
(f)      concurrently with any delivery of Financial Statements under clause (a) above, a certificate of the accounting firm that reported on such Financial Statements stating whether they obtained knowledge during the course of their examination of such Financial Statements of any Default (which certificate may be limited to the extent required by accounting rules or guidelines);
(g)      as soon as available, but in any event no later than 45 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the plan and forecast (including a projected consolidated and consolidating balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement) of the Borrower for each month of the then-current fiscal year (the “Projections”) in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

    
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(h)      as soon as possible and in any event within ten (10) days after the end of each quarter, a detailed listing of all intercompany loans, if any, made by the Borrower to any Affiliate during such quarter;
(i)      promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary with the SEC, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any or all of the functions of the SEC, or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by the Borrower to its shareholders generally, as the case may be;
(j)      promptly following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, material changes in ownership of Equity Interests, business affairs and financial condition of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of this Agreement, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request; and
(k)      promptly after any request therefor by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, copies of (i) any documents described in Section 101(k)(1) of ERISA that the Company or any ERISA Affiliate may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan and (ii) any notices described in Section 101(l)(1) of ERISA that the Company or any ERISA Affiliate may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan; provided that if the Company or any ERISA Affiliate has not requested such documents or notices from the administrator or sponsor of the applicable Multiemployer Plan, the Company or the applicable ERISA Affiliate shall promptly make a request for such documents and notices from such administrator or sponsor and shall provide copies of such documents and notices promptly after receipt thereof.
SECTION 5.02.      Notices of Material Events . The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt (but in any event within any time period that may be specified below) written notice of the following:
(a)      the occurrence of any Default;
(b)      receipt of any notice of any investigation by a Governmental Authority or any litigation or proceeding commenced or threatened against any Loan Party or any Subsidiary that (i) seeks damages in excess of $250,000, (ii) seeks injunctive relief, (iii) is asserted or instituted against any Plan, its fiduciaries or its assets, (iv) alleges criminal misconduct by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, (v) alleges the violation of, or seeks to impose remedies under, any Environmental Law or related Requirement of Law, or seeks to impose Environmental Liability, (vi) asserts liability on the part of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary in excess of $250,000 in respect of any tax, fee, assessment, or other governmental charge, or (vii) involves any product recall;
(c)      the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $250,000;
(d)      within two (2) Business Days after the occurrence thereof, any Loan Party entering into a Swap Agreement or an amendment to a Swap Agreement, together with copies of all agreements evidencing such Swap Agreement or amendment; and
(e)      any other development that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.
Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.

    
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SECTION 5.03.      Existence; Conduct of Business . Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, (a) do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, qualifications, licenses, permits, franchises, governmental authorizations, intellectual property rights, licenses and permits material to the conduct of its business, and maintain all requisite authority to conduct its business in each jurisdiction in which its business is conducted; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 6.03 and (b) carry on and conduct its business in substantially the same manner and in substantially the same fields of enterprise as it is presently conducted.
SECTION 5.04.      Payment of Obligations . Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, pay or discharge all Material Indebtedness and all other material liabilities and obligations, including Taxes, before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (b) such Loan Party has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP and (c) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; provided , however , that each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, remit withholding taxes and other payroll taxes to appropriate Governmental Authorities as and when claimed to be due, notwithstanding the foregoing exceptions.
SECTION 5.05.      Maintenance of Properties . Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted.
SECTION 5.06.      Books and Records; Inspection Rights . Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, (a) keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities and (b) permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender (including employees of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any consultants, accountants, lawyers, agents and appraisers retained by the Administrative Agent), upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties, conduct at the Loan Party’s premises field examinations of the Loan Party’s assets, liabilities, books and records, including examining and making extracts from its books and records, environmental assessment reports and Phase I or Phase II studies, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested. The Loan Parties acknowledge that the Administrative Agent, after exercising its rights of inspection, may prepare and distribute to the Lenders certain Reports pertaining to the Loan Parties’ assets for internal use by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
SECTION 5.07.      Compliance with Laws and Material Contractual Obligations . Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, (i) comply with each Requirement of Law applicable to it or its property (including without limitation Environmental Laws) and (ii) perform in all material respects its obligations under material agreements to which it is a party. Each Loan Party will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by such Loan Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.
SECTION 5.08.      Use of Proceeds .
(a)      The proceeds of the Delayed Draw Term Loan will be used to finance the Lovoo Acquisition and to pay expenses incurred in connection therewith, and the Revolving Loans and the Letters of Credit will be used only for working capital and general corporate purposes of the Borrower. No part of the proceeds of any Loan and no Letter of Credit will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose

    
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that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations T, U and X. Letters of Credit will be issued only to support purposes approved by the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank.
(b)      The Borrowers will not request any Borrowing or Letter of Credit, and no Borrower shall use, and each Borrower shall procure that its Subsidiaries and its or their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, the proceeds of any Borrowing or Letter of Credit (a) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (b) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country to the extent that such activities, businesses or transaction would be prohibited by Sanctions if conducted by a corporation incorporated in the United States or the European Union, or (c) in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.
SECTION 5.09.      Accuracy of Information . The Loan Parties will ensure that any information, including financial statements or other documents, furnished to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof or waiver hereunder or thereunder contains no material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and the furnishing of such information shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Borrowers on the date thereof as to the matters specified in this Section 5.09; provided that, with respect to the Projections, the Loan Parties will cause the Projections to be prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.
SECTION 5.10.      Insurance . Each Loan Party will, and will cause each Subsidiary to, maintain with financially sound and reputable carriers having a financial strength rating of at least A- by A.M. Best Company (a) insurance in such amounts (with no greater risk retention) and against such risks (including loss or damage by fire and loss in transit; theft, burglary, pilferage, larceny, embezzlement, and other criminal activities; business interruption; and general liability) and such other hazards, as is customarily maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations and (b) all insurance required pursuant to the Collateral Documents. The Borrowers will furnish to the Lenders, upon request of the Administrative Agent, but no less frequently than annually, information in reasonable detail as to the insurance so maintained.
SECTION 5.11.      [Intentionally Omitted ].
SECTION 5.12.      Casualty and Condemnation . The Borrowers (a) will furnish to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders prompt written notice of any casualty or other insured damage to any material portion of the Collateral or the commencement of any action or proceeding for the taking of any material portion of the Collateral or interest therein under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding and (b) will ensure that the Net Proceeds of any such event (whether in the form of insurance proceeds, condemnation awards or otherwise) are collected and applied in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement and the Collateral Documents.
SECTION 5.13.      Depository Banks . Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary will maintain the Administrative Agent as its principal depository bank, including for the maintenance of operating, administrative, cash management, collection activity, and other deposit accounts for the conduct of its business.
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(a)      Subject to applicable Requirements of Law, each Loan Party will cause each of its Domestic Subsidiaries formed or acquired after the date of this Agreement to become a Loan Party by executing a Joinder Agreement. Upon execution and delivery thereof, each such Person (i) shall automatically become a Loan Guarantor hereunder and thereupon shall have all of the rights, benefits, duties, and obligations in such capacity under the Loan Documents and (ii) will grant Liens to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, in any property of such Loan Party which constitutes Collateral, including any parcel of real property located in the U.S. owned by any Loan Party.
(b)      Each Loan Party will cause (i) 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each of its Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Foreign Holdcos) and (ii) 65% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) and 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests not entitled to vote (within the meaning of Treas. Reg. Section 1.956-2(c)(2)) in each Foreign Subsidiary and Foreign Holdco directly owned by a Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary (other than any Foreign Holdco) to be subject at all times to a first priority, perfected Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Loan Documents or other security documents as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request. Upon a request of the Administrative Agent, subject to applicable Requirements of Law, each Loan Party will cause its non-Loan Party parent or Subsidiaries, as applicable, including Foreign Subsidiaries and Foreign Holdcos that are not “controlled foreign corporations” as defined in Section 957 of the Code, to deliver an Obligation Guaranty in form and substance reasonable satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(c)      Without limiting the foregoing, each Loan Party will, and will cause each Domestic Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Holdco) to, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to the Administrative Agent such documents, agreements and instruments, and will take or cause to be taken such further actions (including the filing and recording of financing statements, fixture filings, mortgages, deeds of trust and other documents and such other actions or deliveries of the type required by Section 4.01, as applicable), which may be required by any Requirement of Law or which the Administrative Agent may, from time to time, reasonably request to carry out the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to ensure perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the Collateral Documents, all at the expense of the Loan Parties.
(d)      If any material assets (including any real property or improvements thereto or any interest therein) are acquired by any Loan Party after the Effective Date (other than assets constituting Collateral under the Security Agreement that become subject to the Lien under the Security Agreement upon acquisition thereof), the Borrower will (i) notify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders thereof, and, if requested by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, cause such assets to be subjected to a Lien securing the Secured Obligations and (ii) take, and cause each applicable Loan Party to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to grant and perfect such Liens, including actions described in paragraph (c) of this Section, all at the expense of the Loan Parties.
ARTICLE VI

Negative Covenants
Until the Commitments shall have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees, expenses and other amounts payable under any Loan Document shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or terminated, in each case without any pending draw, and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each Loan Party executing this

    
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Agreement covenants and agrees, jointly and severally with all of the other Loan Parties, with the Lenders that:
SECTION 6.01.      Indebtedness . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:
(a)      Indebtedness with respect to the Tagged Letter of Credit;
(b)      Indebtedness with respect to the existing American Express credit card facility of Borrower, not to exceed $800,000 at any time outstanding;
(c)      the Secured Obligations;
(d)      Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.01 and any extensions, renewals, refinancings and replacements of any such Indebtedness in accordance with clause (f) hereof;
(e)      Indebtedness of any Borrower to any Subsidiary and of any Subsidiary to any Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to any Borrower or any other Loan Party shall be subject to Section 6.04 and (ii) Indebtedness of any Loan Party to any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be subordinated to the Secured Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(f)      Guarantees by any Borrower of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary and by any Subsidiary of Indebtedness of any Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is permitted by this Section 6.01, (ii) Guarantees by any Borrower or other Loan Party of Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be subject to Section 6.04 and (iii) Guarantees permitted under this clause (d) shall be subordinated to the Secured Obligations on the same terms as the Indebtedness so Guaranteed is subordinated to the Secured Obligations;
(g)      Indebtedness of any Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets (whether or not constituting purchase money Indebtedness), including Capital Lease Obligations and any Indebtedness assumed in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets prior to the acquisition thereof, and extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness in accordance with clause (h) below; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (g) together with any Refinance Indebtedness in respect thereof permitted by clause (h) below, shall not exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(h)      Indebtedness which represents extensions, renewals, refinancing or replacements (such Indebtedness being so extended, renewed, refinanced or replaced being referred to herein as the “ Refinance Indebtedness ”) of any of the Indebtedness described in clauses (d) and (g) hereof (such Indebtedness being referred to herein as the “ Original Indebtedness ”); provided that (i) such Refinance Indebtedness does not increase the principal amount or interest rate of the Original Indebtedness, (ii) any Liens securing such Refinance Indebtedness are not extended to any additional property of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary, (iii) no Loan Party or any Subsidiary that is not originally obligated with respect to repayment of such Original Indebtedness is required to become obligated with respect to such Refinance Indebtedness, (iv) such Refinance Indebtedness does not result in a shortening of the average weighted maturity of such Original Indebtedness, (v) the terms of such Refinance Indebtedness are not less favorable

    
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to the obligor thereunder than the original terms of such Original Indebtedness and (vi) if such Original Indebtedness was subordinated in right of payment to the Secured Obligations, then the terms and conditions of such Refinance Indebtedness must include subordination terms and conditions that are at least as favorable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as those that were applicable to such Original Indebtedness;
(i)      Indebtedness owed to any Person providing workers’ compensation, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance, pursuant to reimbursement or indemnification obligations to such Person, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(j)      Indebtedness of any Loan Party in respect of performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds and similar obligations, in each case provided in the ordinary course of business;
(k)      Subordinated Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $1,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(l)      Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the date hereof; provided that (i) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (l) together with any Refinance Indebtedness in respect thereof permitted by clause (h) above, shall not exceed $500,000 at any time outstanding;
(m)      Indebtedness of any Loan Party in respect of any earn-outs or similar deferred payments in connection any Permitted Acquisition (other than the Lovoo Acquisition) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding; and
(n)      other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $1,000,000 at any time outstanding.
SECTION 6.02.      Liens . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including Accounts) or rights in respect of any thereof, except:
(a)      Liens created pursuant to any Loan Document;
(b)      Permitted Encumbrances;
(c)      any Lien on any property or asset of any Borrower or any Subsidiary existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.02 ; provided that (i) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of such Borrower or Subsidiary or any other Borrower or Subsidiary and (ii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date hereof and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof;
(d)      Liens on fixed or capital assets acquired, constructed or improved by any Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Liens secure Indebtedness permitted by clause (e) of Section 6.01, (ii) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement, (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed 50% of the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such fixed or capital assets and (iv) such Liens shall not apply to any other property or assets of any Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(e)      any Lien existing on any property or asset (other than Accounts and Inventory) prior to the acquisition thereof by any Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on any property or asset (other than

    
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Accounts and Inventory) of any Person that becomes a Loan Party after the date hereof prior to the time such Person becomes a Loan Party; provided that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Loan Party, as the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Loan Party and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Loan Party, as the case may be, and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof;
(f)      Liens of a collecting bank arising in the ordinary course of business under Section 4 208 of the UCC in effect in the relevant jurisdiction covering only the items being collected upon;
(g)      Liens arising out of Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by Section 6.06;
(h)      Liens granted by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in favor of a Borrower or another Loan Party in respect of Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary;
(i)      Liens arising from UCC financing statement filings solely as a precautionary measure in connection with operating leases or consignment of goods;
(j)      Liens on cash collateral to secure Tagged’s reimbursement obligation under the Tagged Letter of Credit; and
(k)      Other Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section 6.02 so long as neither (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness and other obligations secured thereby nor (ii) the aggregate fair market value (determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) of the assets subject thereto exceeds $250,000 at any time outstanding.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the Liens permitted pursuant to this Section 6.02 may at any time attach to any Loan Party’s Accounts, other than those permitted under clause (a) of the definition of Permitted Encumbrances and clause (a) above.
SECTION 6.03.      Fundamental Changes .
(a)      No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) any Subsidiary of any Borrower may merge into a Borrower in a transaction in which a Borrower is the surviving entity, (ii) any Loan Party (other than any Borrower) may merge into any other Loan Party in a transaction in which the surviving entity is a Loan Party, and (iii) any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrowers determine in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrowers and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders; provided that any such merger involving a Person that is not a wholly owned Subsidiary immediately prior to such merger shall not be permitted unless also permitted by Section 6.04.
(b)      No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, engage in any business other than businesses of the type conducted by the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries on the date hereof and businesses reasonably related thereto.
(c)      No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to change its fiscal year or any fiscal quarter from the basis in effect on the Effective Date.

    
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(d)      No Loan Party will change the accounting basis upon which its financial statements are prepared.
(e)      No Loan Party will change the tax filing elections it has made under the Code.
SECTION 6.04.      Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, form any subsidiary after the Effective Date, or purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a Loan Party and a wholly owned Subsidiary prior to such merger) any Equity Interests, evidences of indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit (whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise), except:
(a)      in connection with Permitted Acquisitions;
(b)      Permitted Investments, subject to control agreements in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties or otherwise subject to a perfected security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties;
(c)      investments in existence on the date hereof and described in Schedule 6.04 ;
(d)      investments by the Borrowers and the Subsidiaries in Equity Interests in their respective Subsidiaries, provided that (i) any such Equity Interests held by a Loan Party shall be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement (subject to the limitations applicable to Equity Interests of a Foreign Subsidiary and a Foreign Holdco referred to in Section 5.14) and (ii) the aggregate amount of investments by Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with outstanding intercompany loans permitted under Section 6.04(e) and outstanding Guarantees permitted under Section 6.04(f)) shall not exceed $250,000 at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);
(e)      loans or advances made by any Loan Party to any Subsidiary and made by any Subsidiary to a Loan Party or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) any such loans and advances made by a Loan Party shall be evidenced by a promissory note pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement and (ii) the amount of such loans and advances made by Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with outstanding investments permitted under Section 6.04(d) and outstanding Guarantees permitted under Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed $250,000 at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);
(f)      Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01, provided that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties that is Guaranteed by any Loan Party (together with outstanding investments permitted under clause (ii) to the proviso to Section 6.04(d) and outstanding intercompany loans permitted under clause (ii) to the proviso to Section 6.04(e)) shall not exceed $250,000 at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);
(g)      loans or advances made by a Loan Party to its employees on an arms-length basis in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices for travel and entertainment expenses, relocation costs and similar purposes up to a maximum of $250,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding;

    
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(h)      notes payable, or stock or other securities issued by Account Debtors to a Loan Party pursuant to negotiated agreements with respect to settlement of such Account Debtor’s Accounts in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practices;
(i)      investments in the form of Swap Agreements permitted by Section 6.07;
(j)      investments of any Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of a Borrower or consolidates or merges with a Borrower or any of such party’s Subsidiary (including in connection with a permitted acquisition), so long as such investments were not made in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary or of such merger;
(k)      investments received in connection with the disposition of assets permitted by Section 6.05;
(l)      investments constituting deposits described in clauses (d) and (e) of the definition of the term “Permitted Encumbrances”; and
(m)      in connection with the Lovoo Acquisition.
SECTION 6.05.      Asset Sales . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it, nor will any Borrower permit any Subsidiary to issue any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary (other than to another Borrower or another Subsidiary in compliance with Section 6.04), except:
(a)      sales, transfers and dispositions of (i) Inventory in the ordinary course of business and (ii) used, obsolete, worn out or surplus Equipment or property in the ordinary course of business;
(b)      sales, transfers and dispositions of assets to any Borrower or any Subsidiary, provided that any such sales, transfers or dispositions involving a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be made in compliance with Section 6.09;
(c)      sales, transfers and dispositions of Accounts (excluding sales or dispositions in a factoring arrangement) in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof;
(d)      sales, transfers and dispositions consisting of Permitted Investments;
(e)      Sale and Leaseback Transactions permitted by Section 6.06;
(f)      dispositions resulting from any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of any Borrower or any Subsidiary; and
(g)      sales, transfers and other dispositions of assets (other than Equity Interests in a Subsidiary unless all Equity Interests in such Subsidiary are sold) that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section, provided that the aggregate fair market value of all assets sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in reliance upon this paragraph (g) shall not exceed $250,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrowers;
provided that all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted under this Section 6.05 (other than those permitted by paragraphs (b), (d) and (f) above) shall be made for fair value and for at least 75% cash consideration.

    
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SECTION 6.06.      Sale and Leaseback Transactions . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, whereby it shall sell or transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or transferred (a “Sale and Leaseback Transaction”), except for any such sale of any fixed or capital assets by any Borrower or any Subsidiary that is made for cash consideration in an amount not less than the fair value of such fixed or capital asset and is consummated within 90 days after such Borrower or such Subsidiary acquires or completes the construction of such fixed or capital asset.
SECTION 6.07.      Swap Agreements . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, enter into any Swap Agreement, except (a) Swap Agreements entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which any Borrower or any Subsidiary has actual exposure (other than those in respect of Equity Interests of any Borrower or any Subsidiary), and (b) Swap Agreements entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from floating to fixed rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of any Borrower or any Subsidiary.
SECTION 6.08.      Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness .
(a)      No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except (i) the Borrowers may declare and pay dividends with respect to its common stock payable solely in additional shares of its common stock, and, with respect to its preferred stock, payable solely in additional shares of such preferred stock or in shares of its common stock, (ii) Subsidiaries may declare and pay dividends ratably with respect to their Equity Interests and (iii) Borrower may repurchase shares of its common stock for an aggregate consideration of not more than $10,000,000 per fiscal year for so long as (A) Borrower has Liquid Assets of at least $15,000,000 after giving effect to any such repurchase and (B) after giving effect to any such repurchase, on a Pro Forma Basis, the Borrower will be in compliance with the covenants contained in Sections 6.12(a) and (b).
(b)      No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, make or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness, or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Indebtedness, except:
(i)      payment of Indebtedness created under the Loan Documents;
(ii)      payment of regularly scheduled interest and principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01, other than payments in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness prohibited by the subordination provisions thereof;
(iii)      refinancings of Indebtedness to the extent permitted by Section 6.01; and
(iv)      payment of secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness to the extent such sale or transfer is permitted by the terms of Section 6.05.
SECTION 6.09.      Transactions with Affiliates . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates,

    
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except (a) transactions that (i) are in the ordinary course of business and (ii) are at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to such Loan Party or such Subsidiary than could be obtained on an arm’s-length basis from unrelated third parties, (b) transactions between or among the Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate, (c) any investment permitted by Sections 6.04(c) or 6.04(d), (d) any Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01(c), (e) any Restricted Payment permitted by Section 6.08, (f) loans or advances to employees permitted under Section 6.04(f), (g) the payment of reasonable fees to directors of any Borrower or any Subsidiary who are not employees of such Borrower or any Subsidiary, and compensation and employee benefit arrangements paid to, and indemnities provided for the benefit of, directors, officers or employees of the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and (h) any issuances of securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment agreements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by a Borrower’s board of directors.
SECTION 6.10.      Restrictive Agreements . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of such Loan Party or any Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its property or assets, or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to any Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to any Borrower or any other Subsidiary or to Guarantee Indebtedness of any Borrower or any other Subsidiary; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by any Requirement of Law or by any Loan Document, (ii) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions existing on the date hereof identified on Schedule 6.10 (but shall apply to any extension or renewal of, or any amendment or modification expanding the scope of, any such restriction or condition), (iii) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary pending such sale, provided such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary that is to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder, (iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement if such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness and (v) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to customary provisions in leases restricting the assignment thereof.
SECTION 6.11.      Amendment of Material Documents . No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, amend, modify or waive any of its rights under (a) any agreement relating to any Subordinated Indebtedness, (b) its charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation and bylaws or operating, management or partnership agreement, or other organizational or governing documents or (c) any other material agreement to which any Loan Party or any Subsidiary is a party, with respect to clauses (a), (b) and (c), to the extent any such amendment, modification or waiver would be adverse to the Lenders.

    
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SECTION 6.12.      Financial Covenants .
(a)      Total Leverage Ratio . The Borrower will not permit the Total Leverage Ratio, on the last day of any fiscal quarter ending during any period set forth below, to be greater than the ratio set forth below opposite such period:
Period
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Effective Date through June 30, 2018                2.50:1.00
July 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018            2.00:1.00
All times thereafter                        1.50:1.00
(b)      Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio . The Borrower will not permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the last day of any fiscal quarter during the term hereof, to be less than 1.50:1.00.
ARTICLE VII

Events of Default
If any of the following events (“ Events of Default ”) shall occur:
(a)      the Borrowers shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;
(b)      the Borrowers shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause (a) of this Article) payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable and such failure shall continue unremedied for three Business Days;
(c)      any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary in, or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof or waiver hereunder or thereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof or waiver hereunder or thereunder, shall prove to have been materially incorrect when made or deemed made, provided, that any representation or warranty which is subject to any materiality qualifier shall be required to be correct without giving effect to materiality;
(d)      any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02(a), 5.03 (with respect to a Loan Party’s existence) or 5.08 or in Article VI;
(e)      any Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (d)), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of (i) 10 days after the earlier of any Loan Party’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the Administrative Agent (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender) if such breach relates to terms or provisions of Section 5.01, 5.02 (other than Section 5.02(a)), 5.03 through

    
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5.07, 5.10, 5.11 or 5.13 of this Agreement or (ii) 30 days after the earlier of any Loan Party’s knowledge of such breach or notice thereof from the Administrative Agent (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender) if such breach relates to terms or provisions of any other Section of this Agreement;
(f)      any Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable;
(g)      any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause any Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity; provided that this clause (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness to the extent such sale or transfer is permitted by the terms of Section 6.05;
(h)      an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of a Loan Party or Subsidiary or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for any Loan Party or any Subsidiary or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 45 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;
(i)      any Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (h) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for such Loan Party or Subsidiary of any Loan Party or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;
(j)      any Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall become unable, admit in writing its inability, or publicly declare its intention not to, or fail generally, to pay its debts as they become due;
(k)      one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $500,000 shall be rendered against any Loan Party, any Subsidiary or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment or any Loan Party or any Subsidiary shall fail within thirty (30) days to discharge one or more non-monetary judgments or orders which, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, which judgments or orders, in any such case, are not stayed on appeal and being appropriately contested in good faith by proper proceedings diligently pursued;
(l)      an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, in the opinion of the Required Lenders, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

    
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(m)      a Change in Control shall occur;
(n)      the occurrence of any “default”, as defined in any Loan Document (other than this Agreement), or the breach of any of the terms or provisions of any Loan Document (other than this Agreement), which default or breach continues beyond any period of grace therein provided;
(o)      the Loan Guaranty or any Obligation Guaranty shall fail to remain in full force or effect or any action shall be taken to discontinue or to assert the invalidity or unenforceability of the Loan Guaranty or any Obligation Guaranty, or any Loan Guarantor shall fail to comply with any of the terms or provisions of the Loan Guaranty or any Obligation Guaranty to which it is a party, or any Loan Guarantor shall deny that it has any further liability under the Loan Guaranty or any Obligation Guaranty to which it is a party, or shall give notice to such effect, including, but not limited to notice of termination delivered pursuant to Section 10.08 or any notice of termination delivered pursuant to the terms of any Obligation Guaranty;
(p)      except as permitted by the terms of any Collateral Document, (i) any Collateral Document shall for any reason fail to create a valid security interest in any Collateral purported to be covered thereby, or (ii) any Lien securing any Secured Obligation shall cease to be a perfected, first priority Lien;
(q)      any Collateral Document shall fail to remain in full force or effect or any action shall be taken to discontinue or to assert the invalidity or unenforceability of any Collateral Document;
(r)      any material provision of any Loan Document for any reason ceases to be valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms (except as the result of any action or inaction by the Administrative Agent or any Lender); or
(s)      any Loan Party is criminally indicted or convicted under any law that may reasonably be expected to lead to a forfeiture of any property of such Loan Party;
then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrowers described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, whereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, but ratably as among the Classes of Loans and the Loans of each Class at the time outstanding, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), whereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrowers accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, in each case without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers; and in the case of any event with respect to the Borrowers described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrowers accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, in each case without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrowers. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, increase the rate of interest applicable to the Loans and other Obligations as set forth in this Agreement and exercise any rights and remedies provided to the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents or at law or equity, including all remedies provided under the UCC.

    
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ARTICLE VIII

The Administrative Agent
SECTION 8.01.      Appointment . Each of the Lenders , on behalf of itself and any of its Affiliates that are Secured Parties and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf, including execution of the other Loan Documents, and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. In addition, to the extent required under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the U.S., each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby grants to the Administrative Agent any required powers of attorney to execute any Collateral Document governed by the laws of such jurisdiction on such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s behalf. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (including the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank), and the Loan Parties shall not have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions. It is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” as used herein or in any other Loan Documents (or any similar term) with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law. Instead, such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties.
SECTION 8.02.      Rights as a Lender . The bank serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and such bank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with any Loan Party or any Subsidiary or any Affiliate thereof as if it were not the Administrative Agent hereunder.
SECTION 8.03.      Duties and Obligations . The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (b) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02), and, (c) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or in connection with any Loan Document, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, (v) the creation, perfection or priority of Liens on the Collateral or the

    
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existence of the Collateral, or (vi) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 8.04.      Reliance . The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrowers), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
SECTION 8.05.      Actions through Sub-Agents . The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 8.06.      Resignation . Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent as provided in this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrowers, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank, appoint a successor Administrative Agent which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by its successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor, unless otherwise agreed by the Borrowers and such successor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its intent to resign, the retiring Administrative Agent may give notice of the effectiveness of its resignation to the Lenders, the Issuing Banks and the Borrowers, whereupon, on the date of effectiveness of such resignation stated in such notice, (a) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, provided that, solely for purposes of maintaining any security interest granted to the Administrative Agent under any Collateral Document for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to be vested with such security interest as collateral agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and, in the case of any Collateral in the possession of the Administrative Agent, shall continue to hold such Collateral, in each case until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed and accepts such appointment in accordance with this paragraph (it being understood and agreed that the retiring Administrative Agent shall have no duly or obligation to take any further action under any Collateral Document, including any action required to maintain the perfection of any such security interest), and (b) the Required Lenders shall succeed to and become vested

    
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with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, provided that (i) all payments required to be made hereunder or under any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Person other than the Administrative Agent shall be made directly to such Person and (ii) all notices and other communications required or contemplated to be given or made to the Administrative Agent shall also directly be given or made to each Lender and each Issuing Bank. Following the effectiveness of the Administrative Agent’s resignation from its capacity as such, the provisions of this Article, Section 2.17(d) and Section 9.03, as well as any exculpatory, reimbursement and indemnification provisions set forth in any other Loan Document, shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as Administrative Agent and in respect of the matters referred to in the proviso under clause (a) above.
SECTION 8.07.      Non-Reliance .
(a)      Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that the extensions of credit made hereunder are commercial loans and letters of credit and not investments in a business enterprise or securities. Each Lender further represents that it is engaged in making, acquiring or holding commercial loans in the ordinary course of its business and has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement as a Lender, and to make, acquire or hold Loans hereunder. Each Lender shall, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information (which may contain material, non-public information within the meaning of the U.S. securities laws concerning the Borrowers and their Affiliates) as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document, any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder and in deciding whether or to the extent to which it will continue as a Lender or assign or otherwise transfer its rights, interests and obligations hereunder.
(b)      Each Lender hereby agrees that (i) it has requested a copy of each Report prepared by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent; (ii) the Administrative Agent (A) makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the completeness or accuracy of any Report or any of the information contained therein or any inaccuracy or omission contained in or relating to a Report and (B) shall not be liable for any information contained in any Report; (iii) the Reports are not comprehensive audits or examinations, and that any Person performing any field examination will inspect only specific information regarding the Loan Parties and will rely significantly upon the Loan Parties’ books and records, as well as on representations of the Loan Parties’ personnel and that the Administrative Agent undertakes no obligation to update, correct or supplement the Reports; (iv) it will keep all Reports confidential and strictly for its internal use, not share the Report with any Loan Party or any other Person except as otherwise permitted pursuant to this Agreement; and (v) without limiting the generality of any other indemnification provision contained in this Agreement, (A) it will hold the Administrative Agent and any such other Person preparing a Report harmless from any action the indemnifying Lender may take or conclusion the indemnifying Lender may reach or draw from any Report in connection with any extension of credit that the indemnifying Lender has made or may make to the Borrower, or the indemnifying Lender’s participation in, or the indemnifying Lender’s purchase of, a Loan or Loans; and (B) it will pay and protect, and indemnify, defend, and hold the Administrative Agent and any such other Person preparing a Report harmless from and against, the claims, actions, proceedings, damages, costs, expenses, and other amounts (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Administrative Agent or any such other Person as the direct or indirect result of any third parties who might obtain all or part of any Report through the indemnifying Lender.

    
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SECTION 8.08.      Other Agency Titles . The Joint Bookrunners, Joint Lead Arrangers, Syndication Agent and Co-Documentation Agents shall not have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than those applicable to all Lenders as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of such Lenders shall have or be deemed to have a fiduciary relationship with any Lender. Each Lender hereby makes the same acknowledgments with respect to the relevant Lenders in their respective capacities as Joint Bookrunners, Joint Lead Arrangers, Syndication Agent and Co-Documentation Agents, as applicable, as it makes with respect to the Administrative Agent in the preceding paragraph.
SECTION 8.09.      Not Partners or Co-Venturers; Administrative Agent as Representative of the Secured Parties . The Lenders are not partners or co-venturers, and no Lender shall be liable for the acts or omissions of, or (except as otherwise set forth herein in case of the Administrative Agent) authorized to act for, any other Lender. The Administrative Agent shall have the exclusive right on behalf of the Lenders to enforce the payment of the principal of and interest on any Loan after the date such principal or interest has become due and payable pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
(a)      In its capacity, the Administrative Agent is a “representative” of the Secured Parties within the meaning of the term “secured party” as defined in the UCC. Each Lender authorizes the Administrative Agent to enter into each of the Collateral Documents to which it is a party and to take all action contemplated by such documents. Each Lender agrees that no Secured Party (other than the Administrative Agent) shall have the right individually to seek to realize upon the security granted by any Collateral Document, it being understood and agreed that such rights and remedies may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties upon the terms of the Collateral Documents. In the event that any Collateral is hereafter pledged by any Person as collateral security for the Secured Obligations, the Administrative Agent is hereby authorized, and hereby granted a power of attorney, to execute and deliver on behalf of the Secured Parties any Loan Documents necessary or appropriate to grant and perfect a Lien on such Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties.
SECTION 8.10.      Credit Bidding . The Secured Parties hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at the direction of the Required Lenders, to credit bid all or any portion of the Obligations (including by accepting some or all of the Collateral in satisfaction of some or all of the Obligations pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise) and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the Collateral (a) at any sale thereof conducted under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, including under Sections 363, 1123 or 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code, or any similar laws in any other jurisdictions to which a Credit Party is subject, or (b) at any other sale, foreclosure or acceptance of collateral in lieu of debt conducted by (or with the consent or at the direction of) the Administrative Agent (whether by judicial action or otherwise) in accordance with any applicable law. In connection with any such credit bid and purchase, the Obligations owed to the Secured Parties shall be entitled to be, and shall be, credit bid by the Administrative Agent at the direction of the Required Lenders on a ratable basis (with Obligations with respect to contingent or unliquidated claims receiving contingent interests in the acquired assets on a ratable basis that shall vest upon the liquidation of such claims in an amount proportional to the liquidated portion of the contingent claim amount used in allocating the contingent interests) for the asset or assets so purchased (or for the equity interests or debt instruments of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles that are issued in connection with such purchase). In connection with any such bid (i) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to form one or more acquisition vehicles and to assign any successful credit bid to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles (ii) each of the Secured Parties’ ratable interests in the Obligations which were credit bid shall be deemed without any further action under this Agreement to be assigned to such vehicle or vehicles for the purpose of closing such sale, (iii) the Administrative shall be authorized to adopt documents providing for the governance of the acquisition vehicle

    
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or vehicles ( provided that any actions by the Administrative Agent with respect to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, including any disposition of the assets or equity interests thereof, shall be governed, directly or indirectly, by, and the governing documents shall provide for, control by the vote of the Required Lenders or their permitted assignees under the terms of this Agreement or the governing documents of the applicable acquisition vehicle or vehicles, as the case may be, irrespective of the termination of this Agreement and without giving effect to the limitations on actions by the Required Lenders contained in Section 9.02 of this Agreement), (iv) the Administrative Agent on behalf of such acquisition vehicle or vehicles shall be authorized to issue to each of the Secured Parties, ratably on account of the relevant Obligations which were credit bid, interests, whether as equity, partnership, limited partnership interests or membership interests, in any such acquisition vehicle and/or debt instruments issued by such acquisition vehicle, all without the need for any Secured Party or acquisition vehicle to take any further action, and (v) to the extent that Obligations that are assigned to an acquisition vehicle are not used to acquire Collateral for any reason, such Obligations shall automatically be reassigned to the Secured Parties pro rata and the equity interests and/or debt instruments issued by any acquisition vehicle on account of such Obligations shall automatically be cancelled, without the need for any Secured Party or any acquisition vehicle to take any further action. Notwithstanding that the ratable portion of the Obligations of each Secured Party are deemed assigned to the acquisition vehicle or vehicles as set forth in clause (ii) above, each Secured Party shall execute such documents and provide such information regarding the Secured Party (and/or any designee of the Secured Party which will receive interests in or debt instruments issued by such acquisition vehicle) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in connection with the formation of any acquisition vehicle, the formulation or submission of any credit bid or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such credit bid.
ARTICLE IX

Miscellaneous
SECTION 9.01.      Notices .
(a)      Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone or Electronic Systems (and subject in each case to paragraph (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by fax, as follows:
(i)      if to any Loan Party, to it in care of the Borrower at:
The Meet Group, Inc.
100 Union Square Drive
New Hope, PA 18938
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Fax No: (215) 933-6882

With a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

The Meet Group, Inc.
100 Union Square Drive
New Hope, PA 18938
Attention: General Counsel
Fax No: (215) 933-6882


    
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(ii)      if to the Administrative Agent or JPMorgan in its capacity as the Swingline Lender, or an Issuing Bank, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. at:
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Middle Market Servicing
10 South Dearborn, Floor L2
Suite IL1-0480
Chicago, IL, 60603-2300
Attention: Commercial Bank Letter of Credit Servicing Team
With a copy to:
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
MM Technology Banking
270 Park Ave, 42 nd Floor
New York, NY 10017
Attention: Will Horstman
Fax No: (703) 665-0278
(iii)      if to any other Lender or Issuing Bank, to it at its address or fax number set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.
All such notices and other communications (i) sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail shall be deemed to have been given when received, (ii) sent by fax shall be deemed to have been given when sent, provided that if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day of the recipient, or (iii) delivered through Electronic Systems to the extent provided in paragraph (b) below shall be effective as provided in such paragraph.
(b)      Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by Electronic Systems pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II or to compliance and no Default certificates delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(d) unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender. Each of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (on behalf of the Loan Parties) may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by Electronic Systems pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise proscribes, all such notices and other communications (i) sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), provided that if not given during the normal business hours of the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient, at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i), of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor; provided that, for both clauses (i) and (ii) above, if such notice, e-mail or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day of the recipient.
(c)      Any party hereto may change its address, facsimile number or e-mail address for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.

    
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(d)      Electronic Systems .
(i)      Each Loan Party agrees that the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make Communications (as defined below) available to the Issuing Bank and the other Lenders by posting the Communications on Debt Domain, Intralinks, Syndtrak, ClearPar or a substantially similar Electronic System.
(ii)      Any Electronic System used by the Administrative Agent is provided “as is” and “as available.” The Agent Parties (as defined below) do not warrant the adequacy of such Electronic Systems and expressly disclaim liability for errors or omissions in the Communications. No warranty of any kind, express, implied or statutory, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third-party rights or freedom from viruses or other code defects, is made by any Agent Party in connection with the Communications or any Electronic System. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to any Borrower or the other Loan Parties, any Lender, the Issuing Bank or any other Person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of any Borrower’s or any Loan Party’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of communications through an Electronic System. “ Communications ” means, collectively, any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material provided by or on behalf of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan Document or the transactions contemplated therein which is distributed by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Issuing Bank by means of electronic communications pursuant to this Section, including through an Electronic System.
SECTION 9.02.      Waivers; Amendments .
(a)      No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders hereunder and under any other Loan Document are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Issuing Bank may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.
(b)      Neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document nor any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or modified except (i) in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrowers and the Required Lenders or (ii) in the case of any other Loan Document, pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and the Loan Party or Loan Parties that are parties thereto, with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (A) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender (including any such Lender that is a Defaulting Lender), (B) reduce or forgive the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce or forgive any interest or fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender (including any such Lender that is a Defaulting Lender) directly affected thereby, (C) postpone any scheduled date of payment of the

    
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principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement, or any date for the payment of any interest, fees or other Obligations payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender (including any such Lender that is a Defaulting Lender) directly affected thereby, (D) change Section 2.18(b) or (d) in a manner that would alter the manner in which payments are shared, without the written consent of each Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender), (E) change any of the provisions of this Section or the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision of any Loan Document specifying the number or percentage of Lenders (or Lenders of any Class) required to waive, amend or modify any rights thereunder or make any determination or grant any consent thereunder, without the written consent of each Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender) directly affected thereby, (F) change Section 2.20, without the consent of each Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender), (G) release any Loan Guarantor from its obligation under its Loan Guaranty or Obligation Guaranty (except as otherwise permitted herein or in the other Loan Documents), without the written consent of each Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender), or (H) except as provided in clause (c) of this Section or in any Collateral Document, release all or substantially all of the Collateral without the written consent of each Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender); provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be (it being understood that any amendment to Section 2.20 shall require the consent of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank); provided further that no such agreement shall amend or modify the provisions of Section 2.07 or any letter of credit application and any bilateral agreement between the Borrower and the Issuing Bank regarding the Issuing Bank’s Issuing Bank Sublimit or the respective rights and obligations between the Borrower and the Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance of Letters of Credit without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, respectively. The Administrative Agent may also amend the Commitment Schedule to reflect assignments entered into pursuant to Section 9.04. Any amendment, waiver or other modification of this Agreement or any other Loan Document that by its terms affects the rights or duties under this Agreement of the Lenders of one or more Classes (but not the Lenders of any other Class), may be effected by an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrowers and the requisite number or percentage in interest of each affected Class of Lenders that would be required to consent thereto under this Section if such Class of Lenders were the only Class of Lenders hereunder at the time.
(c)      The Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its sole discretion, to release any Liens granted to the Administrative Agent by the Loan Parties on any Collateral (i) upon the termination of all of the Commitments, payment and satisfaction in full in cash of all Secured Obligations (other than Unliquidated Obligations), and the cash collateralization of all Unliquidated Obligations in a manner satisfactory to each affected Lender, (ii) constituting property being sold or disposed of if the Loan Party disposing of such property certifies to the Administrative Agent that the sale or disposition is made in compliance with the terms of this Agreement (and the Administrative Agent may rely conclusively on any such certificate, without further inquiry), and to the extent that the property being sold or disposed of constitutes 100% of the Equity Interests of a Subsidiary, the Administrative Agent is authorized to release any Loan Guaranty or Obligation Guaranty provided by such Subsidiary, (iii) constituting property leased to a Loan Party under a lease which has expired or been terminated in a transaction permitted under this Agreement, or (iv) as required to effect any sale or other disposition of such Collateral in connection with any exercise of remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Article VII. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, the Administrative Agent will not release any Liens on Collateral without the prior written authorization of the Required Lenders; provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion, release its Liens on Collateral valued in the aggregate not in excess of $500,000 during any calendar year without the prior written authorization of the Required Lenders (it being agreed that the Administrative Agent may rely conclusively on one or more certificates of the Borrower as to the

    
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value of any Collateral to be so released, without further inquiry). Any such release shall not in any manner discharge, affect, or impair the Obligations or any Liens (other than those expressly being released) upon (or obligations of the Loan Parties in respect of) all interests retained by the Loan Parties, including the proceeds of any sale, all of which shall continue to constitute part of the Collateral. Any execution and delivery by the Administrative Agent of documents in connection with any such release shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent.
(d)      If, in connection with any proposed amendment, waiver or consent requiring the consent of “each Lender” or “each Lender affected thereby,” the consent of the Required Lenders is obtained, but the consent of other necessary Lenders is not obtained (any such Lender whose consent is necessary but has not been obtained being referred to herein as a “ Non-Consenting Lender ”), then the Borrowers may elect to replace a Non-Consenting Lender as a Lender party to this Agreement, provided that, concurrently with such replacement, (i) another bank or other entity which is reasonably satisfactory to the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank shall agree, as of such date, to purchase for cash the Loans and other Obligations due to the Non-Consenting Lender pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption and to become a Lender for all purposes under this Agreement and to assume all obligations of the Non-Consenting Lender to be terminated as of such date and to comply with the requirements of clause (b) of Section 9.04, and (ii) the Borrowers shall pay to such Non-Consenting Lender in same day funds on the day of such replacement (1) all interest, fees and other amounts then accrued but unpaid to such Non-Consenting Lender by the Borrowers hereunder to and including the date of termination, including without limitation payments due to such Non-Consenting Lender under Sections 2.15 and 2.17, and (2) an amount, if any, equal to the payment which would have been due to such Lender on the day of such replacement under Section 2.16 had the Loans of such Non-Consenting Lender been prepaid on such date rather than sold to the replacement Lender.
(e)      Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein the Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the Borrower only, amend, modify or supplement this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect or inconsistency.
SECTION 9.03.      Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver .
(a)      The Loan Parties, jointly and severally, shall pay all (i) reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent, in connection with the syndication and distribution (including, without limitation, via the internet or through an Electronic System) of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and administration of the Loan Documents and any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions of the Loan Documents (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender, in connection with the enforcement, collection or protection of its rights in connection with the Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit. Expenses being reimbursed by the Loan Parties under this Section include, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with:
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(B)      field examinations and the preparation of Reports based on the fees charged by a third party retained by the Administrative Agent or the internally allocated fees for each Person employed by the Administrative Agent with respect to each field examination;
(C)      background checks regarding senior management and/or key investors, as deemed necessary or appropriate in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent;
(D)      Taxes, fees and other charges for (i) lien and title searches and (ii) filing financing statements and continuations, and other actions to perfect, protect, and continue the Administrative Agent’s Liens;
(E)      sums paid or incurred to take any action required of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents that such Loan Party fails to pay or take; and
(F)      forwarding loan proceeds, collecting checks and other items of payment, and establishing and maintaining the accounts and lock boxes, and costs and expenses of preserving and protecting the Collateral.
All of the foregoing fees, costs and expenses may be charged to the Borrowers as Revolving Loans or to another deposit account, all as described in Section 2.18(c).
(b)      The Loan Parties, jointly and severally, shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “ Indemnitee ”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, penalties, incremental taxes, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of the Loan Documents or any agreement or instrument contemplated thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by a Loan Party or a Subsidiary, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to a Loan Party or a Subsidiary, (iv) the failure of a Loan Party to deliver to the Administrative Agent the required receipts or other required documentary evidence with respect to a payment made by such Loan Party for Taxes pursuant to Section 2.17, or (v) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether or not such claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party or their respective equity holders, Affiliates, creditors or any other third Person and whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, penalties, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. This Section 9.03(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses or damages arising from any non-Tax claim.
(c)      To the extent that any Loan Party fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank (or any Related Party of any of the foregoing) under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank (or any Related Party of any

    
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of the foregoing), as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount (it being understood that the Borrowers’ failure to pay any such amount shall not relieve the Borrowers of any default in the payment thereof); provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, penalty, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank in its capacity as such.
(d)      To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Loan Party shall assert, and each Loan Party hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, (i) for any damages arising from the use by others of information or other materials obtained through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems (including the Internet), or (ii) on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof; provided that, nothing in this paragraph (d) shall relieve any Loan Party of any obligation it may have to indemnify an Indemnitee against special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages asserted against such Indemnitee by a third party.
(e)      All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than 3 days after written demand therefor.
SECTION 9.04.      Successors and Assigns .
(a)      The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) no Borrower may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by a Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b)      Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more Persons (other than an Ineligible Institution) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment, participations in Letters of Credit and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of:
(A)      the Borrower, provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received notice thereof, and provided further that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other assignee;

    
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(B)      the Administrative Agent, provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Delayed Draw Term Loan to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund;
(C)      the Issuing Bank, provided that no consent of the Issuing Bank shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Delayed Draw Term Loan; and
(D)      the Swingline Lender, provided that no consent of the Swingline Lender shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Delayed Draw Term Loan.
(ii)      Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A)      except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, or an Approved Fund, or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 or, in the case of a Delayed Draw Term Loan, $1,000,000, unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(B)      each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, provided that this clause shall not be construed to prohibit the assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of one Class of Commitments or Loans;
(C)      the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent (x) an Assignment and Assumption or (y) to the extent applicable, an agreement incorporating an Assignment and Assumption by reference pursuant to a Platform as to which the Administrative Agent and the parties to the Assignment and Assumption are participants, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; and
(D)      the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire in which the assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public information about the Company, the other Loan Parties and their Related Parties or their respective securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including federal and state securities laws.
For the purposes of this Section 9.04(b), the terms “Approved Fund” and “Ineligible Institution” have the following meanings:
Approved Fund ” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

    
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Ineligible Institution ” means a (a) natural person, (b) a Defaulting Lender, (c) company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural person or relative(s) thereof; provided that, such company, investment vehicle or trust shall not constitute an Ineligible Institution if it (i) has not been established for the primary purpose of acquiring any Loans or Commitments, (ii) is managed by a professional advisor, who is not such natural person or a relative thereof, having significant experience in the business of making or purchasing commercial loans, and (iii) has assets greater than $25,000,000 and a significant part of its activities consist of making or purchasing commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business; provided that upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, any Person (other than a Lender) shall be an Ineligible Institution if after giving effect to any proposed assignment to such Person, such Person would hold more than 25% of the then outstanding Aggregate Credit Exposure or Commitments, as the case may be or (d) a Loan Party or a Subsidiary or other Affiliate of a Loan Party.
(iii)      Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 9.04 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section.
(iv)      The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of (and stated interest on) the Loans and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrowers, the Issuing Bank and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v)      Upon its receipt of (x) a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee or (y) to the extent applicable, an agreement incorporating an Assignment and Assumption by reference pursuant to a Platform as to which the Administrative Agent and the parties to the Assignment and Assumption are participants, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register; provided that if either the assigning Lender or the assignee shall have failed to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.05, 2.06(d) or (e), 2.07(b), 2.18(d) or 9.03(c), the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information therein in the Register unless and until such payment shall have been made in full,

    
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together with all accrued interest thereon. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.
(c)      Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Bank, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “ Participant ”) other than an Ineligible Institution in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged; (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations; and (iii) the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant. The Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Sections 2.17(f) and (g) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 2.17(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender and the information and documentation required under Section 2.17(g) will be delivered to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 2.18 and 2.19 as if it were an assignee under paragraph (b) of this Section; and (B) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 2.15 or 2.17 with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation.
Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Borrowers’ request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrowers to effectuate the provisions of Section 2.19(b) with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.08 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.18(d) as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (the “ Participant Register ”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans, Letters of Credit or its other obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan, Letter of Credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.
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any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
SECTION 9.05.      Survival . All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in the Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof.
SECTION 9.06.      Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Electronic Execution . This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to (i) fees payable to the Administrative Agent and (ii) increases or reductions of the Issuing Bank Sublimit of the Issuing Bank constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
(a)      Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of the actual executed signature page shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that nothing herein shall require the Administrative Agent to accept electronic signatures in any form or format without its prior written consent.
SECTION 9.07.      Severability . Any provision of any Loan Document held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions thereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

    
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SECTION 9.08.      Right of Setoff . If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of any Loan Party against any of and all the Secured Obligations held by such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under the Loan Documents and although such obligations may be unmatured. The applicable Lender shall notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of such set-off or application, provided that any failure to give or any delay in giving such notice shall not affect the validity of any such set-off or application under this Section. The rights of each Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may have.
SECTION 9.09.      Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process .
(a)      The Loan Documents (other than those containing a contrary express choice of law provision) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, but giving effect to federal laws applicable to national banks.
(b)      Each Loan Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of any U.S. federal or New York state court sitting in New York, New York in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Documents, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such state court or, to the extent permitted by law, in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any Loan Party or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(c)      Each Loan Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
(d)      Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.
SECTION 9.10.      WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL . EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE OR OTHER AGENT (INCLUDING ANY ATTORNEY) OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B)

    
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ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
SECTION 9.11.      Headings . Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
SECTION 9.12.      Confidentiality . Each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any Governmental Authority (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by any Requirement of Law or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (x) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (y) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Loan Parties and their obligations, (g) with the consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Borrower. For the purposes of this Section, “ Information ” means all information received from the Borrower relating to the Borrower or its business, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower and other than information pertaining to this Agreement provided by arrangers to data service providers, including league table providers, that serve the lending industry; provided that, in the case of information received from the Borrower after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
EACH LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT INFORMATION (AS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION 9.12) FURNISHED TO IT PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY INCLUDE MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION CONCERNING THE BORROWER, THE OTHER LOAN PARTIES AND THEIR RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES, AND CONFIRMS THAT IT HAS DEVELOPED COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES REGARDING THE USE OF MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION AND THAT IT WILL HANDLE SUCH MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
ALL INFORMATION, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR WAIVERS AND AMENDMENTS, FURNISHED BY THE BORROWER OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PURSUANT TO, OR IN THE COURSE OF ADMINISTERING, THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE SYNDICATE-LEVEL INFORMATION, WHICH MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE BORROWER, THE LOAN PARTIES AND THEIR RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES. ACCORDINGLY, EACH LENDER REPRESENTS TO THE

    
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BORROWER AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT THAT IT HAS IDENTIFIED IN ITS ADMINISTRATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE A CREDIT CONTACT WHO MAY RECEIVE INFORMATION THAT MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
SECTION 9.13.      Several Obligations; Nonreliance; Violation of Law . The respective obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several and not joint and the failure of any Lender to make any Loan or perform any of its obligations hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender from any of its obligations hereunder. Each Lender hereby represents that it is not relying on or looking to any margin stock (as defined in Regulation U of the Board) for the repayment of the Borrowings provided for herein. Anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, neither the Issuing Bank nor any Lender shall be obligated to extend credit to the Borrower in violation of any Requirement of Law.
SECTION 9.14.      USA PATRIOT Act . Each Lender that is subject to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act hereby notifies each Loan Party that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies such Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender to identify such Loan Party in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act.
SECTION 9.15.      Disclosure . Each Loan Party, each Lender and the Issuing Bank hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Administrative Agent and/or its Affiliates from time to time may hold investments in, make other loans to or have other relationships with, any of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates.
SECTION 9.16.      Appointment for Perfection . Each Lender hereby appoints each other Lender as its agent for the purpose of perfecting Liens, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties, in assets which, in accordance with Article 9 of the UCC or any other applicable law can be perfected only by possession or control. Should any Lender (other than the Administrative Agent) obtain possession or control of any such Collateral, such Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent thereof, and, promptly upon the Administrative Agent’s request therefor shall deliver such Collateral to the Administrative Agent or otherwise deal with such Collateral in accordance with the Administrative Agent’s instructions.
SECTION 9.17.      Interest Rate Limitation . Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the “ Charges ”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “ Maximum Rate ”) which may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.
SECTION 9.18.      Marketing Consent . The Borrower hereby authorizes JPMorgan and its affiliates, at their respective sole expense, but without any prior approval by the Borrower, to publish such tombstones and give such other publicity to this Agreement as each may from time to time determine in its sole discretion. The foregoing authorization shall remain in effect unless the Borrower notifies JPMorgan in writing that such authorization is revoked.

    
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SECTION 9.19.      Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a)      the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and
(b)      the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:
(i)      a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
(ii)      a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent entity, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
(iii)      the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.
SECTION 9.20.      Parallel Debt .
(a)      Notwithstanding any other provision in any Loan Document to the contrary, each Loan Party hereby undertakes, by way of an abstract acknowledgement of debt and as an independent payment obligation, to pay to the Administrative Agent, as a creditor in his own right and not as a representative of other Secured Parties, all and any amounts which are owed by such Loan Party under or in connection with the Loan Documents to the Secured Parties from time to time (“Parallel Debt”, abstraktes Schuldanerkenntnis) as and when any of such amounts fall due for payment under the relevant Loan Document provided that this shall not at any time result in a Loan Party incurring an aggregate obligation to the Secured Parties which is greater than its obligations (excluding obligations under this Section 9.20 (Parallel Debt)) to the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents.
(b)      The Administrative Agent shall have an independent right to demand payment of the Parallel Debt.
(c)      Any amount due and payable by a Loan Party to the Administrative Agent under this Section 9.20 shall be decreased to the extent that the other Secured Parties have received (and are able to retain) payment in full under the other provisions of the Loan Documents and any amount due and payable by a Loan Party to the other Secured Parties shall be decreased to the extent that the Administrative Agent has received (and is able to retain) payment in full of the Parallel Debt.
(d)      The rights of the Secured Parties (other than the Administrative Agent) to receive payment of amounts payable by the Borrower under the Loan Documents are several and are separate and independent from, and without prejudice to, the rights of the Administrative Agent to receive payment under this Section 9.20 (Parallel Debt).

    
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(e)      Notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment under the Loan Documents shall be made to the relevant Secured Party as set out in the respective Loan Document, unless expressly stated otherwise in that Loan Document or unless the relevant Secured Party directs such payment to be made to the Administrative Agent.
(f)      The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to transfer his rights and obligations under this Section 9.20 (Parallel Debt) to any successor Administrative Agent. The a Loan Parties and Secured Parties hereby agree to such transfer. Further, the consent of any Loan Party or Secured Party shall not be necessary to such transfer.
SECTION 9.21.      Amendment and Restatement of Existing Credit Agreement; No Novation . The parties to this Agreement agree that, upon (a) the execution and delivery by each of the parties hereto of this Agreement and (b) satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Sections 4.01 and 4.03, the terms and provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement shall be and hereby are amended, superseded and restated in their entirety by the terms and provisions of this Agreement. This Agreement is not intended to and shall not constitute a novation or termination of the Obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement. On the Effective Date, the credit facilities described in the Existing Credit Agreement, shall be amended, supplemented, modified and restated in their entirety by the facilities described herein, and all loans and other obligations of the Borrower outstanding as of such date under the Existing Credit Agreement (to the extent not repaid on the Effective Date), shall be deemed to be loans and obligations outstanding under the corresponding facilities described herein, without any further action by any Person, except that the Administrative Agent shall make such reallocations of commitments and transfers of funds as are necessary in order that the outstanding balance of such Loans, together with any Loans funded on the Effective Date, reflect the respective Commitments of the Lenders hereunder and the Borrower hereby agrees to compensate each Lender for any and all losses, costs and expenses incurred by such Lender in connection with such reallocations and transfers, in each case on the terms and in the manner set forth in Section 2.16.
ARTICLE X

Loan Guaranty
SECTION 10.01.      Guaranty . Each Loan Guarantor (other than those that have delivered a separate Guaranty) hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for, and, as a primary obligor and not merely as surety, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Secured Parties, the prompt payment when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, and at all times thereafter, of the Secured Obligations and all costs and expenses, including, without limitation, all court costs and reasonable attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees (including allocated costs of in-house counsel and paralegals) and expenses paid or incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders in endeavoring to collect all or any part of the Secured Obligations from, or in prosecuting any action against, the Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other guarantor of all or any part of the Secured Obligations (such costs and expenses, together with the Secured Obligations, collectively the “ Guaranteed Obligations ”); provided , however , that the definition of “Guaranteed Obligations” shall not create any guarantee by any Loan Guarantor of (or grant of security interest by any Loan Guarantor to support, as applicable) any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Loan Guarantor for purposes of determining any obligations of any Loan Guarantor). Each Loan Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed in whole or in part without notice to or further assent from it, and that it remains bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any such extension or renewal. All terms of this Loan Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or on behalf of any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any Lender that extended any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations.

    
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SECTION 10.02.      Guaranty of Payment . This Loan Guaranty is a guaranty of payment and not of collection. Each Loan Guarantor waives any right to require the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender to sue the Borrower, any Loan Guarantor, any other guarantor of, or any other Person obligated for all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations (each, an “ Obligated Party ”), or otherwise to enforce its payment against any collateral securing all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations.
SECTION 10.03.      No Discharge or Diminishment of Loan Guaranty . Except as otherwise provided for herein, the obligations of each Loan Guarantor hereunder are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations), including: (i) any claim of waiver, release, extension, renewal, settlement, surrender, alteration, or compromise of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, by operation of law or otherwise; (ii) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of the Borrower or any other Obligated Party liable for any of the Guaranteed Obligations; (iii) any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting any Obligated Party, or their assets or any resulting release or discharge of any obligation of any Obligated Party; or (iv) the existence of any claim, setoff or other rights which any Loan Guarantor may have at any time against any Obligated Party, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, any Lender, or any other Person, whether in connection herewith or in any unrelated transactions.
(a)      The obligations of each Loan Guarantor hereunder are not subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability of any of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise, or any provision of applicable law or regulation purporting to prohibit payment by any Obligated Party, of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof.
(b)      Further, the obligations of any Loan Guarantor hereunder are not discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by: (i) the failure of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy with respect to all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations; (ii) any waiver or modification of or supplement to any provision of any agreement relating to the Guaranteed Obligations; (iii) any release, non-perfection, or invalidity of any indirect or direct security for the obligations of the Borrower for all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations or any obligations of any other Obligated Party liable for any of the Guaranteed Obligations; (iv) any action or failure to act by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender with respect to any collateral securing any part of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (v) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the payment or performance of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any other circumstance, act, omission or delay that might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of such Loan Guarantor or that would otherwise operate as a discharge of any Loan Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations).
SECTION 10.04.      Defenses Waived . To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Loan Guarantor hereby waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the Borrower or any Loan Guarantor or the unenforceability of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any Borrower, any Loan Guarantor or any other Obligated Party, other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guaranteed Obligations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Loan Guarantor irrevocably waives acceptance hereof, presentment, demand, protest and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any notice not provided for herein, as well as any requirement that at any time any action be taken by any Person against any Obligated Party, or any other Person. Each Loan Guarantor confirms that it is not a surety under any state law and shall not raise any such law as a defense to its obligations hereunder. The Administrative Agent may, at its election, foreclose on any Collateral held by it by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such

    
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Collateral in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise act or fail to act with respect to any collateral securing all or a part of the Guaranteed Obligations, compromise or adjust any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, make any other accommodation with any Obligated Party or exercise any other right or remedy available to it against any Obligated Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of such Loan Guarantor under this Loan Guaranty, except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations have been fully and indefeasibly paid in cash. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Loan Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election even though that election may operate, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of any Loan Guarantor against any Obligated Party or any security.
SECTION 10.05.      Rights of Subrogation . No Loan Guarantor will assert any right, claim or cause of action, including, without limitation, a claim of subrogation, contribution or indemnification that it has against any Obligated Party, or any collateral, until the Loan Parties and the Loan Guarantors have fully performed all their obligations to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders.
SECTION 10.06.      Reinstatement; Stay of Acceleration . If at any time any payment of any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations (including a payment effected through exercise of a right of setoff) is rescinded, or must otherwise be restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower or otherwise (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by a Secured Party in its discretion), each Loan Guarantor’s obligations under this Loan Guaranty with respect to that payment shall be reinstated at such time as though the payment had not been made and whether or not the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders are in possession of this Loan Guaranty. If acceleration of the time for payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower, all such amounts otherwise subject to acceleration under the terms of any agreement relating to the Guaranteed Obligations shall nonetheless be payable by the Loan Guarantors forthwith on demand by the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 10.07.      Information . Each Loan Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Borrower’s financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that each Loan Guarantor assumes and incurs under this Loan Guaranty, and agrees that none of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender shall have any duty to advise any Loan Guarantor of information known to it regarding those circumstances or risks.
SECTION 10.08.      Termination . Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank may continue to make loans or extend credit to the Borrower based on this Loan Guaranty until five (5) days after it receives written notice of termination from any Loan Guarantor. Notwithstanding receipt of any such notice, each Loan Guarantor will continue to be liable to the Lenders for any Guaranteed Obligations created, assumed or committed to prior to the fifth day after receipt of the notice, and all subsequent renewals, extensions, modifications and amendments with respect to, or substitutions for, all or any part of such Guaranteed Obligations. Nothing in this Section 10.08 shall be deemed to constitute a waiver of, or eliminate, limit, reduce or otherwise impair any rights or remedies the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have in respect of, any Default or Event of Default that shall exist under Article VII hereof as a result of any such notice of termination.
SECTION 10.09.      Taxes . Each payment of the Guaranteed Obligations will be made by each Loan Guarantor without withholding for any Taxes, unless such withholding is required by law. If any Loan Guarantor determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it is so required to withhold Taxes, then such Loan Guarantor may so withhold and shall timely pay the full amount of withheld Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. If such Taxes are Indemnified

    
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Taxes, then the amount payable by such Loan Guarantor shall be increased as necessary so that, net of such withholding (including such withholding applicable to additional amounts payable under this Section), the Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank (as the case may be) receives the amount it would have received had no such withholding been made.
SECTION 10.10.      Maximum Liability . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Loan Guaranty, the amount guaranteed by each Loan Guarantor hereunder shall be limited to the extent, if any, required so that its obligations hereunder shall not be subject to avoidance under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code or under any applicable state Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or similar statute or common law. In determining the limitations, if any, on the amount of any Loan Guarantor’s obligations hereunder pursuant to the preceding sentence, it is the intention of the parties hereto that any rights of subrogation, indemnification or contribution which such Loan Guarantor may have under this Loan Guaranty, any other agreement or applicable law shall be taken into account.
SECTION 10.11.      Contribution .
(a)      To the extent that any Loan Guarantor shall make a payment under this Loan Guaranty (a “ Guarantor Payment ”) which, taking into account all other Guarantor Payments then previously or concurrently made by any other Loan Guarantor, exceeds the amount which otherwise would have been paid by or attributable to such Loan Guarantor if each Loan Guarantor had paid the aggregate Guaranteed Obligations satisfied by such Guarantor Payment in the same proportion as such Loan Guarantor’s “Allocable Amount” (as defined below) (as determined immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment) bore to the aggregate Allocable Amounts of each of the Loan Guarantors as determined immediately prior to the making of such Guarantor Payment, then, following indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Guarantor Payment and the Guaranteed Obligations (other than Unliquidated Obligations that have not yet arisen), and all Commitments and Letters of Credit have terminated or expired or, in the case of all Letters of Credit, are fully collateralized on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, and this Agreement, the Swap Agreement Obligations and the Banking Services Obligations have terminated, such Loan Guarantor shall be entitled to receive contribution and indemnification payments from, and be reimbursed by, each other Loan Guarantor for the amount of such excess, pro rata based upon their respective Allocable Amounts in effect immediately prior to such Guarantor Payment.
(b)      As of any date of determination, the “Allocable Amount” of any Loan Guarantor shall be equal to the excess of the fair saleable value of the property of such Loan Guarantor over the total liabilities of such Loan Guarantor (including the maximum amount reasonably expected to become due in respect of contingent liabilities, calculated, without duplication, assuming each other Loan Guarantor that is also liable for such contingent liability pays its ratable share thereof), giving effect to all payments made by other Loan Guarantors as of such date in a manner to maximize the amount of such contributions.
(c)      This Section 10.11 is intended only to define the relative rights of the Loan Guarantors, and nothing set forth in this Section 10.11 is intended to or shall impair the obligations of the Loan Guarantors, jointly and severally, to pay any amounts as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Loan Guaranty.
(d)      The parties hereto acknowledge that the rights of contribution and indemnification hereunder shall constitute assets of the Loan Guarantor or Loan Guarantors to which such contribution and indemnification is owing.
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Obligations in cash (other than Unliquidated Obligations that have not yet arisen) and the termination or expiry (or, in the case of all Letters of Credit, full cash collateralization), on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, of the Commitments and all Letters of Credit issued hereunder and the termination of this Agreement, the Swap Agreement Obligations and the Banking Services Obligations.
SECTION 10.12.      Liability Cumulative . The liability of each Loan Party as a Loan Guarantor under this Article X is in addition to and shall be cumulative with all liabilities of each Loan Party to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or in respect of any obligations or liabilities of the other Loan Parties, without any limitation as to amount, unless the instrument or agreement evidencing or creating such other liability specifically provides to the contrary.
SECTION 10.13.      Keepwell . Each Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby jointly and severally absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by each other Guarantor to honor all of its obligations under this Guarantee in respect of a Swap Obligation ( provided , however , that each Qualified ECP Guarantor shall only be liable under this Section 10.13 for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this Section 10.13 or otherwise under this Loan Guaranty voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). Except as otherwise provided herein, the obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section 10.13 shall remain in full force and effect until the termination of all Swap Obligations. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends that this Section 10.13 constitute, and this Section 10.13 shall be deemed to constitute, a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Loan Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

THE MEET GROUP, INC., as Borrower

By: /s/ Geoff Cook
Name: Geoff Cook
Title: Chief Executive Officer


SKOUT, LLC, as a Loan Guarantor

By: /s/ Geoff Cook
Name: Geoff Cook
Title: Chief Executive Officer


IFWE, INC., as a Loan Guarantor

By: /s/ Geoff Cook
Name: Geoff Cook
Title: Chief Executive Officer


COLLECTED LABS LLC, as a Loan Guarantor

By: /s/ Geoff Cook
Name: Geoff Cook
Title: Chief Executive Officer


STIG, LLC, as a Loan Guarantor

By: /s/ Geoff Cook
Name: Geoff Cook
Title: Chief Executive Officer


HI5 INC., as a Loan Guarantor

By: /s/ Geoff Cook
Name: Geoff Cook
Title: Chief Executive Officer

    
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., individually, and as Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and Issuing Bank

By:   /s/ William Horstman
Name: William Horstman
Title: Authorized Officer


JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Lender

By:   /s/ William Horstman
Name: William Horstman
Title: Authorized Officer



    
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SILICON VALLEY BANK, as a Lender

By: /s/ Michael Shuhy
Name: Michael Shuhy
Title: Director

    
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CADENCE BANK, N.A.

By: /s/ Steve Prichett
Name: Steve Prichett
Title: EVP

    
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KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

By: Robert Bauer
Name: Robert Bauer
Title: Enterprise Banker



    
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Exhibit 2.1
















Share purchase agreement

regarding all shares in LOVOO GmbH




[as recorded by a German public notary
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 18 September 2017]


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Clause        Page


Clause
 
Page
1.
Corporate status
2

2.
Sale and purchase of the Shares
2

3.
Settlement of External Debt, Intercompany Debt and Shareholder Debt
3

4.
Payment on Virtual Shares
6

5.
Purchase Price
7

6.
Earn-out
10

7.
Closing
13

8.
Closing Statement
17

9.
Seller Guarantees
20

10.
Remedies for breach of Seller Guarantees
36

11.
Purchaser Guarantees
42

12.
Specific Indemnity
43

13.
Tax indemnity
44

14.
Further Limitations on Seller's liability
48

15.
Seller Guarantors Contingent Liability (Ausfallhaftung)
49

16.
Purchaser Guarantee
50

17.
Further obligations of the Seller
50

18.
Non-competition; Non-solicitation
54

19.
Confidentiality and press releases
56

20.
Costs
57

21.
Assignability
57

22.
Notices
57

23.
Miscellaneous
58

24.
Definitions and Rules of Interpretation
59



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Share purchase agreement relating to all shares in LOVOO GmbH
Parties:
(1)
BAWOGO Ventures GmbH & Co. KG , a limited partnership ( Kommanditgesellschaft ) organized under the laws of Germany, with business address at Prager Str. 10, 01069 Dresden, Federal Republic of Germany, registered with the commercial register of the lower court ( Amtsgericht ) of Dresden, Germany, under registration no. HRA 8851 (the Seller )

(2)
Lindentor 299. V V GmbH (to be renamed TMG Holding Germany GmbH), a limited liability company ( Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung ) organized under the laws of Germany, with business address at Gontardstrasse 11, 4 th Floor, 10178 Berlin, Germany, registered with the commercial register of the lower court ( Amtsgericht ) of Charlottenburg, Germany, under registration no. HRB 186988 B (the Purchaser )

(3)
The Seller’s guarantors (as listed in Exhibit A ) (the Seller Guarantors )

(4)
The Meet Group, Inc. , a business corporation organized under the laws of Delaware, USA, with business address at 100 Union Square Drive, New Hope, PA 18938, USA (the Purchaser Guarantor )

(the Seller, the Purchaser, the Seller Guarantors and the Purchaser Guarantor are collectively referred to as the Parties and individually as a Party )

Words and expressions used in this Agreement shall be interpreted in accordance with Clause 24 and Exhibit B .

Whereas

(A)
The Seller is the sole legal and beneficial shareholder of LOVOO GmbH.

(B)
LOVOO GmbH is engaged in the business of development, building and operation of online dating platforms and mobile applications for dating as further described in Exhibit C (the Lovoo Business Operations ).

(C)
The Purchaser is the wholly-owned German holding company of the Purchaser Guarantor.

(D)
The Seller intends to sell to the Purchaser the shares it holds in LOVOO GmbH. The Purchaser intends to purchase these shares.

(E)
The Seller Guarantors are the indirect equity owners of LOVOO GmbH and are Parties to this Agreement for purposes of, inter alia , securing the fulfilment of certain obligations of the Seller under this Agreement.

It is agreed:

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1.
Corporate status
1.1
LOVOO GmbH
1.1.1
LOVOO GmbH (hereinafter the Company ) is a limited liability company ( Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung ) incorporated under the laws of Germany, with business address at Prager Str. 10, 01069 Dresden, Federal Republic of Germany, having its registered seat in Dresden, Germany and registered in the commercial register ( Handelsregister ) of the lower court ( Amtsgericht ) of Dresden under registration no. HRB 31175.
1.1.2
The registered share capital ( Stammkapital ) of the Company amounts to EUR 25,000 and is divided into the following shares, all of which are held by the Seller:
(a)
four shares with a par value ( Nennbetrag ) of EUR 5,000 each (consecutive no. 1 to 4 pursuant the shareholder list on file with the commercial register of the Company dated December 8, 2016); and
(b)
four shares with a par value ( Nennbetrag ) of EUR 1,250 each (consecutive no. 5 to 8 pursuant to the shareholder list on file with the commercial register of the Company dated December 8, 2016.
In this Agreement, all shares which the Seller holds in the Company are collectively referred to as the Shares , regardless of whether the number, nominal amounts and consecutive numbering of the shares or the registered share capital of the Company correspond to the aforementioned details.
1.1.3
In the shareholder list dated December 8, 2016 on file with the commercial register for the Company, the Seller is recorded as the holder of the Shares. No objection ( Widerspruch ) has been lodged against the shareholder list.
1.2
Subsidiary
1.2.1
The Company holds all shares of stock in LOVOO, Inc., a stock corporation organized under the laws of California, USA, with business address at 720 University Ave Ste 100, Palo Alto, A 94301, USA (the Subsidiary ). The stock capital of the Subsidiary amounts to USD 100.00 and is divided into 100,000 shares of stock at a par value of USD 0.001 (the Subsidiary Shares ), all of which are held by the Company.
1.2.2
The Subsidiary and the Company are also collectively referred to as Lovoo Companies or Lovoo Group .
2.
Sale and purchase of the Shares
2.1
Sale and purchase of the Shares
The Seller hereby sells the Shares to the Purchaser upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and the Purchaser hereby purchases and accepts such sale of the Shares.

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The sale and purchase of the Shares hereunder shall include all claims and other rights pertaining to the Shares, including, without limitation, the right to receive dividends which have not yet been distributed prior to the date of this Agreement.
2.2
Effective Date
The Effective Date for purposes of calculating the Purchase Price shall be 12 midnight CET (24.00 CET) on the Closing Date.
2.3
Separate assignment
Title to the Shares shall pass not by means of this Agreement, but rather by way of a separate assignment agreement to be formally recorded ( beurkundet ) by a civil law notary in accordance with Clause 7.5.1(h) on the Closing Date.
2.4
Consent of the Company and the Seller
Waiving all requirements as to notice and form, the Seller hereby convenes an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting ( Gesellschafterversammlung ) of the Company and approves the transfer and assignment of the Shares by the Seller to Purchaser as set forth in Section 2.1 and 2.3.  The Seller and the Company hereby waive any rights they may have in relation to the transfer and assignment of the Shares as set forth in Section 2.1 and 2.3 and all other transactions contemplated by this Agreement ( Transactions ).  By way of precaution, Company has declared its approval of the Transactions by declaration, a copy of which is attached to this deed as Exhibit 2.4 a . The meeting of partners of the Seller (including the general partner and all limited partners ( Kommanditisten ) of the Seller) have already consented to the sale and assignment of the Shares and all other transactions contemplated by this Agreement. A copy of the partners' resolution of the Seller is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.4 b .
3.
Settlement of External Debt, Intercompany Debt and Shareholder Debt
3.1
Settlement of External Debt Financing of the Company
3.1.1
The Company as borrower is party to a EUR 20,000,000 loan agreement with Larmant LLC as lender (the External Loan Agreement ). As of the Signing Date, the outstanding balance of the principal amount under the External Loan Agreement amounts to EUR 17,000,000 and the outstanding interest amounts to EUR 510,000,00 (as of September 30, 2017).
3.1.2
The debt under the External Loan Agreement is secured by certain security interests granted by the Company as set forth in further detail in Schedule 3.1.2 (the External Debt Collateral ).
3.1.3
The Purchaser is aware and acknowledges that it has to provide financing to the Company latest on the Closing Date in order to allow the Company to pay to Larmant LLC the existing debt (including accrued interests and any other payment obligations) under the External Loan Agreement outstanding at the Closing Date (the Loan Repayment

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Amount ). The Parties agree that the Purchaser will, at the Closing Date, pay the Loan Repayment Amount (via the Paying Agent) to Larmant LLC on behalf of the Company. The Loan Repayment Amount shall be deducted from the Purchase Price as an item constituting Financial Debt pursuant to Clause 5.1(b).
3.1.4
The Seller shall deliver to the Purchaser no later than five (5) Banking Days prior to the Scheduled Closing Date a customary pay-off and release agreement (the Release Agreement ) reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser and fully executed by the Company and Larmant LLC in respect of the Loan Repayment Amount and the External Debt Collateral.
The Release Agreement shall pursuant to its terms and conditions provide for the irrevocable and unconditional release and/or re-transfer at Closing of the security interests constituting the External Debt Collateral to the Company. The effectiveness of the Release Agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the effectiveness of the release and/or re-transfer of the security interests constituting the External Debt Collateral to the Company) shall only be subject to the payment of the Loan Repayment Amount to Larmant LLC and other reasonable balanced provisions that the applicable parties (including the Purchaser, acting reasonably) will mutually agree on.
3.1.5
The Seller shall ensure that the Purchaser is kept informed and shall fully cooperate in good faith, and shall procure that the Company will fully cooperate in good faith, with the Purchaser, which shall itself fully cooperate in good faith with the Seller, in the Seller coordinating with Larmant LLC for the purpose of (A) the determination of the Loan Repayment Amount, (B) the agreement on the Release Agreement and (C) the delivery of any confirmations required for the release of the External Debt Collateral.
3.1.6
As soon as practicable after the date hereof, the Seller shall grant and procure that any Lovoo Company grants to the Purchaser, its providers of debt finance and its and their respective advisors reasonable access to all information and management as well as any other assistance and cooperation that is reasonably requested by the Purchaser in connection with the syndication of the debt financing of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement, and any rating required in respect of such financing arrangement. This shall, in particular, include (i) furnishing the Purchaser and providers of debt finance as promptly as practicable with all documents and information to the extent available and reasonably requested by the Purchaser and its providers of debt finance to know-your-client process reasonably required in regard of the Lovoo Companies or the Lovoo Business Operations and such other assistance as may reasonably be requested by the Purchaser in connection with the syndication of the debt financing (including assisting with the preparation of any information memorandum), (ii) upon reasonable advance notice and at reasonable times, causing relevant members of management to participate in a reasonable number of meetings and presentations regarding the Lovoo Companies or the Lovoo Business Operations (including with potential syndicate lenders and rating agencies) and (iii) facilitating the structuring and preparation of a collateral package in connection with the debt financing, provided, however, that nothing in this Clause 3.1.6

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shall require any cooperation to the extent that it would unreasonably interfere with the Lovoo Business Operations.
3.2
Settlement of Intercompany Loan between the Company and the Seller
The Company as lender has entered into a EUR 3,800,000 loan agreement dated December 8, 2016 with the Seller as borrower (the Intercompany Loan Agreement ). As of the Signing Date, the outstanding principal amount under the Intercompany Loan Agreement amounts to EUR 3,800,000 and the outstanding accrued interest amounts to EUR 98,800,00 (as of September 18, 2017). The Seller shall notify to the Purchaser not later than (5) Banking Days prior to the Scheduled Closing Date the outstanding debt (including accrued interest) payable under the Intercompany Loan Agreement at Closing (such amount being payable at Closing hereinafter the Intercompany Debt ). The Parties agree that the Purchaser will at Closing pay the Intercompany Debt (via the Paying Agent) to the Company on behalf of the Seller in accordance with Clauses 7.5.1(i) and 7.5.1(j) in order to fully repay the outstanding debt under the Intercompany Loan Agreement to the Company.
3.3
Settlement of further Company Loans between the Company and its indirect shareholders
The Company as lender has entered into the following loan agreements with certain of its indirect shareholders as borrower (the Company Loan Agreements ):
Borrower
Original pay-out date of the respective loan
Outstanding
Loan Amount

Bak Venture GmbH
15 December 2016
EUR 55,000.00
Björn Bak Holding GmbH
8 December 2016
EUR 300,000.00
Björn Bak Holding GmbH
15 December 2016
EUR 55,000.00
David Wolter Holding GmbH
15 December 2016
EUR 55,000.00
Innoshare GmbH
8 December 2016
EUR 300,000.00
Innoshare GmbH
15 December 2016
EUR 55,000.00
TOTAL AMOUNT:
 
EUR 820,000.00

As of the Signing Date, the sum of the outstanding principal amounts under the Company Loan Agreements amounts to EUR 820,000 and the sum of the outstanding accrued interest amounts to EUR 21,783.34 (as of September 18, 2017). The Seller shall notify to the Purchaser not later than (5) Banking Days prior to the Scheduled Closing Date the respective outstanding debt (including accrued interest) payable under each of the Company Loan Agreements at Closing (such amount being payable at Closing hereinafter the Shareholder Debt ). The Parties agree that the Purchaser will at Closing pay the Shareholder Debt (via the Paying Agent) to the Company on behalf of the respective indirect shareholders of the Company in accordance with 7.5.1(i) and 7.5.1

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(j) in order to fully repay the outstanding debt under the Company Loan Agreements to the Company.

3.4
No other loan agreements

No Lovoo Company is currently party, as lender, borrower, guarantor, or in any other function/capacity to any loan agreement or credit facility other than the External Loan Agreement, the Intercompany Loan Agreement and the Company Loan Agreements.

4.
Payment on Virtual Shares and Certain Bonus Commitments
4.1.1
The Company provides for certain virtual share option plans with certain of its employees, and in connection with the Closing certain payments to the holders of participating virtual shares arising under the respective virtual share option plans will become due for payment by the Company.
4.1.2
On the Closing Date, the payments set forth on Schedule 4.1.2 (in sum, the Virtual Share Plan 1 Amount ) will become due for payment by the Company to the holders of participating virtual shares as set forth on said Schedule arising under the virtual share option plan dated 2 June 2013 (as amended) (the Virtual Share Plan 1 ) (less any applicable payroll, income tax, or other withholding taxes). The Seller shall update the respective payment amounts set forth Schedule 4.1.2 as necessary to make them current as of the Closing Date.
4.1.3
On the Closing Date, the payments set forth on Schedule 4.1.3 (in sum, the Virtual Share Plan 2 Amount ) will become due for payment by the Company to the holders of participating virtual shares as set forth on said Schedule arising under the virtual share option plan dated 17 February 2017 (as amended) (the Virtual Share Plan 2 , together with the Virtual Share Plan 1, the Virtual Share Plans ) (less any applicable payroll, income tax, or other withholding taxes). The Seller shall update the respective payment amounts set forth Schedule 4.1.3 as necessary to make them current as of the Closing Date.
4.1.4
On the Closing Date, the payments set forth on Schedule 4.1.4 (in sum, the Bonus Commitments Amount ) will become due for payment by the Company to the beneficiaries as set forth on said Schedule arising under the bonus commitments (the Bonus Commitments ) (less any applicable payroll, income tax, or other withholding taxes). The Seller shall update the respective payment amounts set forth Schedule 4.1.4 as necessary to make them current as of the Closing Date.
4.1.5
The Parties agree that the Purchaser will at Closing pay to the Company (via the Paying Agent) (i) the sum of Virtual Share Plan Amount 1 and the Virtual Share Plan Amount 2 (the Virtual Share Amount) in accordance with Clause 7.5.1(i) in order to enable the Company to fulfill its payment obligations under the Virtual Share Plan 1 and Virtual Share Plan 2 and (ii) the Bonus Commitments Amount in accordance with Clause 7.5.1(i) in order to enable the Company to fulfill its payment obligations under Bonus

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Commitment. The Virtual Share Amount and the Bonus Commitment Amount shall each be deducted from the Purchase Price as an item constituting Financial Debt pursuant to Clause 5.1(b).
4.1.6
On the Closing Date, the Seller will ensure that the Company effects the payments due to the holders of participating virtual company shares under the Virtual Share Plan 1 and Virtual Share Plan 2 as well as the payment due to the beneficiaries under the Bonus Commitments.
5.
Purchase Price
5.1
Purchase Price
The purchase price for the Shares (the Purchase Price ) shall be the amount which is equal to:
(a)
USD 65,000,000 (in words: sixty-five million U.S. Dollars) plus a lump sum payment of USD 400,000 (in words: four hundred thousand U.S. Dollars) for interest accruing thereon as from the Signing Date through the Closing Date (the Enterprise Value )
(b)
less the aggregate of the Financial Debt,
(c)
plus the aggregate of the Cash,
(d)
less any possible shortfall or plus any possible surplus in Working Capital; the shortfall to be deducted is the amount by which the Working Capital falls short of USD 2,500,000. The surplus amount to be added is the amount by which the Working Capital exceeds USD 2,500,000,
in each case of (b) through (d) as of the Effective Date.
The items described in (b) through (d) shall each be set at the amounts with which they are shown in the Effective Date Accounts (and then be converted into USD in accordance with Clause 5.4.1).
5.2
Estimated Purchase Price
5.2.1
As of the date of this Agreement, the Parties assess the Financial Debt, the Cash and the Net Working Capital per the Scheduled Closing Date each at the values set forth in Schedule 5.2.1 and, based thereon, estimate the Purchase Price at USD 59,448,690.55 (the Estimated Purchase Price ) as per the Scheduled Closing Date.
5.2.2
The Estimated Purchase Price shall, subject to the Escrow Amount pursuant to Clause 5.5.1, form the basis for the consideration to be paid by the Purchaser to the Seller at the Closing Date pursuant to Clause 7.5.1(j).

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5.3
Purchase Price Adjustment
5.3.1
In the event that the final Purchase Price determined pursuant to Clause 8 (i) exceeds or (ii) falls short of the Estimated Purchase Price, subject in each case to the Escrow Amount pursuant to Clause 5.5.1, then the difference (the Purchase Price Adjustment ) must be paid within ten (10) Banking Days after the final Purchase Price determined pursuant to Clause 8 has become binding, in the event of (i) by the Purchaser and in the event of (ii) by the Seller to the respective other Party.
5.3.2
Before the preliminary calculations become binding in accordance with Clause 8, the Parties must make advance payments on the Purchase Price Adjustment within ten (10) Banking Days, as soon as and to the extent that their obligation to pay a Purchase Price Adjustment is undisputed. To the extent the Seller fails to pay such undisputed amount within such period, the Purchaser and the Seller shall jointly instruct the Escrow Agent to pay such amount from Escrow Amount 1 to the Purchaser.
5.4
Payment terms and Currency Exchange Rate
5.4.1
Any payments under or in connection with this Agreement shall be made in USD. If at any time it is necessary to convert any amounts expressed in EUR (or in another currency) into USD, the exchange rate to be used shall be the exchange rate quoted by The Wall Street Journal one (1) Banking Day prior to the date conversion is required.
5.4.2
Payments by the Purchaser to the Seller based on this Agreement must, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, be paid by the Purchaser in USD via bank transfer, free of charges and fees, in cleared and immediately available funds, with same day value to the following account of the Seller set forth on Schedule 5.4.2 ( Seller’s Account ).
5.4.3
Payments by the Seller to the Purchaser based on this Agreement must, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, be paid by the Seller in USD via bank transfer, free of charges and fees, in cleared and immediately available funds, with same day value to the following account of the Purchaser set forth on Schedule 5.4.3 ( Purchaser’s Account ).
5.4.4
Payments to the Company based on this Agreement must, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, be paid in USD via bank transfer, free of charges and fees, in cleared and immediately available funds, with same day value to the following account of the Company set forth on Schedule 5.4.4 ( Company’s Account ).
5.5
Escrow Amount
5.5.1
The Purchaser shall withhold the Escrow Amount from the Payment of the Estimated Purchase Price and the payment of the final Purchase Price (as determined in accordance with Clause 8). At the Closing, in accordance with the Escrow Agreement, the Purchaser shall deposit or cause to be deposited the Escrow Amount with the Escrow Agent. The Escrow Amount 1 shall serve as a source of funding to secure any claims of Purchaser under this Agreement and the transactions contemplated therein (including, in particular, any claims under Clause 5.3 and for indemnification of claims for all Seller Guarantees

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(including any Fundamental Seller Guarantees) as well as and for specific indemnification in accordance with Clause 12 and 13). The Escrow Amount 2 shall serve as an additional security for indemnification of claims for Fundamental Seller Guarantees and for specific indemnification in accordance with Clause 12 and 13. The Escrow Amount, as may be increased from time to time by interest accruing thereon if applicable and as reduced from time to time by any amounts paid out to the Purchaser from the Escrow Amount (the Escrow Fund ), will be maintained by the Escrow Agent, whereby the Escrow Amount 1 shall be maintained until the Escrow Release Date 1 and the Escrow Amount 2 shall be maintained until the Escrow Release Date 2. Any time there is a claim of the Purchaser covered by the Escrow Amount 2, such claim of the Purchaser shall in the first instance be debited against the Escrow Amount 2, and (only after there are no more funds available under the Escrow Amount 2) in the second instance against the Escrow Amount 1. The costs of the Escrow Agent and the maintenance of the Escrow Fund shall be borne by the Purchaser.
5.5.2
The Purchaser is not obligated to instruct the Escrow Agent to pay the Escrow Fund to the Seller on the Escrow Release Date 1 / the Escrow Release Date 2 (as applicable) if and to the extent to which it has notified the Seller prior to the Escrow Release Date 1 / the Escrow Release Date 2 (as applicable) by written Notice (which Notice, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be governed by this Agreement, and not the Escrow Agreement) that it is asserting a claim against the Seller under this Agreement and such claim remains unresolved for any reason (including it is being disputed by the Seller).
5.5.3
If the competent arbitration tribunal (in accordance with Clause 23.2) decides without further recourse that the Purchaser is not entitled to the claim notified by it, then the Purchaser and the Seller shall jointly instruct the Escrow Agent to pay the corresponding amount from the Escrow Fund to the Seller, unless, the Purchaser can refuse to make such payment under reference to Clause 5.5.2 for any other claim it provides notice of.
5.5.4
If the Seller acknowledges the claim notified by the Purchaser or if the competent arbitration tribunal (in accordance with Clause 23.2) decides without further recourse that the Purchaser is entitled to the claim notified by it, then the Purchaser and the Seller shall jointly instruct the Escrow Agent to pay the amount of Purchaser’s claim to Purchaser.
5.6
Paying Agent
Prior to the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall or shall cause the Purchaser Guarantor to designate JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to act as agent ( Paying Agent ) for the payment of the payment to be effected as of the Closing with respect to the Shares held by the Seller as of immediately prior to the Closing Date as well as certain third party payments, and shall prior to the Closing Date enter or cause the Purchaser Guarantor to enter into an agreement with the Paying Agent in a form reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser ( Paying Agency Agreement ). The costs of the Paying Agent’s services under and in connection with this Agreement shall be borne by the Purchaser.

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6.
Earn-out
6.1
Earn-out Trigger
The Seller shall be entitled to an additional consideration of up to USD 5,000,000 (in words: five million U.S. Dollars) (the Earn-out ) as further specified in Clause 6.2, provided that the Company achieves the Earn-out Hurdle . Adjusted EBITDA shall mean the earnings of Company before interest, taxes, stock compensation, depreciations and amortization as of 31 December 2017 and as adjusted for any measures taken by the Purchaser or the Company after Closing not contemplated pursuant to any business planning relating to the Company prior to Closing by the Company or the Seller, or which would not otherwise occur but for this Agreement and the transactions contemplated therein and their anticipation by the Company, including salary and wage raises such as retention and other bonuses.
6.2
Earn-out Entitlement
The Seller’s entitlement to the Earn-out, provided that the Earn-out Hurdle has been achieved, shall be as set forth on Schedule 6.1 .
6.3
Determination of Earn-out Amount
The Parties agree that (i) whether or not the Earn-out Hurdle has been achieved and, if applicable, (ii) the amount payable as Earn-Out, shall be determined as follows:
(a)
Purchaser shall use best efforts to cause Company to prepare and deliver to Seller latest by March 31, 2018 (i) a final draft version of the Company’s financial statements as of December 31, 2017 (including a balance sheet and profit and loss accounts) ( Proposed Financial Statements 2017 ) along with (ii) a written computation by Company of its achievement of (or failure to achieve) the Earn-out Hurdle and, if applicable, the amount payable as Earn-Out ( Proposed Earn-Out Hurdle Achievement Notice ). The Proposed Financial Statements 2017 shall be prepared in accordance with IFRS in a manner consistent with past custom and practice at the Company.
(b)
Purchaser shall, and shall cause Company to, provide Seller (and Seller’s and the respective directors, officers, employees, representatives, advisors, auditors and counsel ( Seller’s Representatives ) with reasonable access during normal business hours upon reasonable advance notice to Company’s books, records and other information (and where requested by Seller copies thereof), assets, premises, directors, officers, employees, representatives, advisors, auditors and counsel (such access to include access to the working papers of Company and where requested by Seller copies thereof) relating to the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-Out Hurdle Achievement Notice) for purposes of Seller’s review of the contents of the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice as well as for purposes of the Accounting Expert proceedings pursuant to (d) below. Purchaser

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shall, and shall cause Company to, comprehensively cooperate with Seller’s Representatives as reasonably requested by Seller for purposes of such review.
(c)
Within one (1) month following the delivery by Company to Seller of the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-Out Hurdle Achievement Notice in accordance with (a) above, Seller shall deliver to Purchaser a written notice either approving of or objecting to the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice ( Seller Earn-out Review Notice ). The Seller Earn-Out Review Notice shall state in reasonable detail a description of Seller’s objections, if any, against the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-Out Hurdle Achievement Notice, together with any proposed revisions. A failure by Seller to deliver the Seller Earn-out Review Notice to Purchaser within the required time period will be deemed an approval of and agreement with the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice. The Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice so deemed to be agreed upon between Seller and Purchaser shall finally, conclusively and bindingly constitute final determination of the achievement (or failure to achieve the) Earn-out Hurdle.
(d)
In the event that the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice and/or underlying computations are disputed by Seller, Seller and Purchaser shall negotiate in good faith to resolve any differences during one (1) month. In the event that Seller and Purchaser agree on the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-Out Hurdle Achievement Notice, the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice in the form agreed upon will be final, conclusive, and binding and final determination of the achievement (or failure to achieve the) Earn-out Hurdle. In the event that the dispute is not resolved within one (1) month after Purchaser’s receipt of the Seller Earn-out Review Notice, the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice, the Seller Earn-Out Review Notice, the related work papers of Company, if any, and any other relevant information which either Party wishes to submit (collectively Earn-out Determination Materials ) shall be submitted to the Independent Accountant (as such term is defined in Clause 8.3.1 below, which shall apply mutatis mutandis regarding the determination of the Independent Accountant). The Independent Accountant shall review the Earn-out Determination Materials and shall determine the required contents of the Company’s financial statements as of December 2017 and for final determination of the achievement (or failure to achieve the) Earn-out Hurdle in order to determine whether or not the Earn-out Hurdle has been achieved as well as, if applicable, the amount payable as Earn-Out. The Independent Accountant shall act as an expert ( Schiedsgutachter ) within the meaning of Section 317 of the German Civil Code (BGB) and not as an arbitrator ( Schiedsrichter ). The Independent Accountant shall give Seller and Purchaser adequate opportunity

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to present their views in writing and at least one oral hearing to be held in the presence of Seller and Purchaser and Seller’s Representatives as well as Company and its auditor. The Independent Accountant (i) shall not review any matters not identified by Seller as being in dispute in the Seller Earn-out Review Notice and (ii) may not assign a value to any item greater than the greatest value for such items claimed by either Party or less than the smallest value for such items claimed by either Party, and its determination may not be outside the range comprised of (i) Company’s underlying computations for the Proposed Financial Statements 2017 and the Proposed Earn-out Achievement Notice on the one hand and (ii) the Seller Earn-out Review Notice and its underlying computations on the other hand. The Independent Accountant will make its determination in accordance with IFRS in a manner consistent with past custom and practice at Company and otherwise applicable best practice, and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. Absent manifest error, the Accounting Expert’s decision on the Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice will be final, conclusive, and binding and will be deemed to constitute agreement between Seller and Purchaser for final determination of the achievement (or failure to achieve) of the Earn-out Hurdle. For the avoidance of doubt, the Accounting Expert’s decision on the Earn-out Hurdle Achievement Notice shall have no effect on the preparation of the Group Companies audited financial statements as of December 31, 2017. The Independent Accountant’s fees and expenses will be borne by Seller and Purchaser in accordance with sections 91 et seq. of the German Code of Civil Procedure ( Zivilprozessordnung , ZPO ), and the Independent Accountant shall be authorized and instructed to also decide about the allocations of fees and costs pursuant to such provisions. Clause 8.3.2(i) shall apply mutatis mutandis . The Independent Accountant shall be instructed to notify the Seller and the Purchaser in writing of its determinations within one (1) month following the receipt of the Earn-Out Determination Materials. All of the Independent Accountant’s determinations shall be in writing and will be delivered to each of Seller and Purchaser.
6.4
Payment of Earn-Out
6.4.1
The Earn-out, if any, shall become payable on the later of March 31, 2018 or ten (10) Banking Days after it has been finally and conclusively determined in accordance with the foregoing provisions (the Earn-out Due Date ).
6.4.2
The Purchaser is not obligated to pay the Earn-out to the Seller pursuant to Clauses 6.2 and 6.4.1,
(a)
if and to the extent to which it has notified the Seller prior to the Earn-out Due Date by written Notice that it is asserting a claim against the Seller under this Agreement, and
(b)
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accordance with Clause 23.2) within a deadline of two (2) months after receipt of the notice pursuant to paragraph (a) above by the Seller.
6.4.3
If the competent arbitration tribunal (in accordance with Clause 23.2) decides without further recourse that the Purchaser is not entitled to the claim notified by it, then the Purchaser shall pay the Earn-out entitlement pursuant to Clause 6.2 to the Seller within ten (10) Banking Days, unless, the Purchaser can refuse to make such payment under reference to Clause 6.4.2 for any other claim it provides notice of.
6.4.4
If the Seller acknowledges the claim notified by the Purchaser in writing or if the competent arbitration tribunal (in accordance with Clause 23.2) decides without further recourse that the Purchaser is entitled to the claim notified by it, then the Seller’s entitlement to the Earn-Out shall be reduced by the amount of the Purchaser’s claim.
7.
Closing
7.1
Closing Date; Scheduled Closing Date
7.1.1
The Parties shall perform the closing actions set forth in Clause 7.5 (collectively referred to as the Closing ) on the later of (i) thirty (30) days after the Signing Date (and if such day is not a Banking Day, on the next Banking Day), and (ii) three Banking Days after the last of the Closing Conditions as specified in Clause 7.2 has occurred, or such other date as mutually agreed by the Parties. The day on which the Closing is supposed to take place shall be referred to as the Scheduled Closing Date . The day on which the Closing actually takes place shall be referred to as the Closing Date .
7.1.2
The Closing shall take place at the offices of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, starting at 9.00 CET, unless the Parties agree on a different location and/or different time.
7.2
Closing Conditions
7.2.1
The Parties are not obligated to carry out the Closing until the conditions to Closing set forth in Clause 7.2.2 (the Closing Conditions ) have been satisfied.
7.2.2
The Company shall have obtained the termination or assignment of all Related Party Agreements set forth on Schedule 9.18.1 except as specifically noted in said Schedule.
7.2.3
The Seller and the Purchaser shall use their best efforts to ensure that the Closing Conditions are satisfied as soon as possible.
7.2.4
As soon as the Seller or the Purchaser learns of the satisfaction of a Closing Condition, it must without undue delay inform the other Party thereof in writing.
7.3
Closing Obstacles
7.3.1
The Purchaser may refuse to carry out the Closing if one or more of the following obstacles to closing (each of them a Closing Obstacle ) has occurred and persists on the Scheduled Closing Date:

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(a)
on or after the Signing Date, changes, circumstances or events occur or become known which – individually or in connection with other changes, circumstances or events, even if these occurred prior to the Signing Date – have a material adverse effect on the net assets, financial condition or results of operation, business operations, business reputation, employee relations, customer or supplier relations or otherwise the business prospects of any Lovoo Company or cause such effects to be expected, except to the extent resulting from (i) changes in general economic conditions, (ii) changes affecting the industry in which the relevant Group Company operates, (iii) acts of war or terrorism, (iv) any act or omission taken at the express, written request of Purchaser, and (v) compliance with the terms of, or the taking of any action or inactions required by, this Agreement (provided that in the case of clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) such event, change, or effect does not affect the Group Companies in a substantially disproportionate manner as compared to other participants in the industry in which the Group Companies operate), and further provided that the expected adverse economic effect on the Lovoo Companies is reasonably expected to exceed USD 6,500,000 (US Dollar six million five hundred thousand) (Material Adverse Change). A Material Adverse Change is deemed to have occurred, in case that material criminal or material compliance investigations are initiated against any of the Lovoo Companies or its founders or managing directors or employees in connection with their work for a Lovoo Company by regulatory authorities or a fine exceeding an amount of USD 1,000,000 (US Dollar one million) or a material other sanction with a reasonably expected comparable impact has been ordered against a Lovoo Company, for breaches of Regulatory Requirements; or
(b)
an objection ( Widerspruch ) has been lodged against the list of shareholders recorded in the commercial register of the Company; or
(c)
any Seller Guarantee under Clause 9.2.1, Clause 9.2.2 or Clause 9.2.5 sentences 3 and 4 has been breached; or
(d)
more than 30% of the Key Employees (as noted on Schedule 7.3(d) ) have indicated in writing their intention not to continue or to enter into employment or consulting relationship with Company following the Closing Date, unless such indication is the result of an active communication or conduct of the Purchaser or Purchaser Guarantor on or after the Signing Date and prior to the Closing Date, including, without limitation, communication relating to contemplated acts or measures in the human resources area (e.g. relating to salary decreases); for purposes of clarification, the mere fact that the Company is contemplated to be transferred to the Purchaser shall not constitute such communication or conduct; or
(e)
any Person starts or has started litigation challenging this Agreement and/or any transactions contemplated under this Agreement.

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7.3.2
The Parties shall inform one another promptly ( unverzüglich ) if they learn of a circumstance which could constitute a Closing Obstacle.
7.3.3
The Purchaser is entitled to refuse to carry out the Closing under Clause 7.3.1 as soon as it can credibly show that there is a Closing Obstacle. If there is a Closing Obstacle and the Purchaser nevertheless proceeds with the Closing, the Closing shall not be regarded as a waiver of any potential claims of the Purchaser resulting from the respective Closing Obstacle.
7.4
Right of rescission
7.4.1
Each of the Seller and the Purchaser is entitled to rescind ( zurücktreten von ) this Agreement if any of the Closing Conditions has not occurred or been waived on or before 01 December 2017; provided that Seller may not rescind this Agreement by such date if the Closing Conditions set forth in Clause 7.2.2 have not occurred. The Closing Conditions in Clause 7.2.2 can be waived unilaterally by the Purchaser.
7.4.2
The Purchaser may rescind ( zurücktreten von ) this Agreement if there is a Closing Obstacle on the Scheduled Closing Date. The Seller may withdraw from this Agreement if, (i) the Purchaser refused to carry out the Closing pursuant to Clause 7.3.3 in spite of the fact that all of the Closing Conditions have occurred, (ii) the Seller has satisfactorily shown that there is no Closing Obstacle, and (iii) the Closing has not taken place within ten days from the Scheduled Closing Date.
7.4.3
No right of rescission ( Rücktrittsrecht ) shall exist if the withdrawing Party has in breach of its contractual duties hindered the satisfaction of the relevant Closing Condition, or brought about the relevant Closing Obstacle by violating this Agreement.
7.4.4
Any rescission of ( Rücktritt von ) this Agreement must be effected by written notice to the respective other Party, with a copy to the acting notary. The representative of the Seller Guarantors shall be informed about the rescission of this Agreement in writing pursuant to Clause 22.4.2.
7.4.5
In the event of any rescission pursuant to this Clause 7.4, all obligations between the Parties, with the exception of the obligations under Clauses 7.4 (Right of rescission), Clause 15 (Seller Guarantors), 16 (Purchaser Guarantor), 19 (Confidentiality and Press Releases), 20 (Costs), 22 (Notices) and 23 (Miscellaneous) (together the Surviving Provisions ), shall lapse. In such event, neither Party shall have any claim under this Agreement against the other Party, except for any rights and liabilities which have accrued before rescission or under any of the Surviving Provisions.
7.5
Closing
7.5.1
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(a)
The Seller shall deliver to the Purchaser a declaration substantially in the form appended hereto as Schedule 7.5.1(a) , in which the Seller shall confirm that no Closing Obstacle has occurred prior to and/or exists as at the Closing Date.
(b)
the Seller shall deliver to the Purchaser a written declaration of each of the Persons listed in Schedule 7.5.1(b)(i) pursuant to the form as set forth in Schedule 7.5.1(b)(ii) , by means of which each such Person resigns from his/her office as managing director of the Company by not later than effective on the Closing Date and without severance compensation and confirms that he/she does not have any claims against the Lovoo Companies.
(c)
the Seller shall deliver to the Purchaser a written declaration of each of the Persons listed in Schedule 7.5.1(c)(i) pursuant to the form set forth in Schedule 7.5.1(c)(ii) , by means of which each such Person declares termination of his/her employment with the Company by not later than effective on the Closing Date and without severance compensation and confirms that he/she does not have any claims against the Lovoo Companies.
(d)
the Seller shall deliver fully executed versions of the employment documents of which draft versions are attached as Schedule 7.5.1(d)(i) which have been duly executed by each Person (being currently a consultant) listed in Schedule 7.5.1(d)(ii) .
(e)
the Seller shall deliver executed documentation regarding the termination of the agreements/transactions concluded between the Company and certain related parties listed in Schedule 7.5.1(e) reflecting that those agreements/transactions have been terminated by not later than effective on the Closing Date and without any compensation to be paid by the Company in this respect.
(f)
[omitted]
(g)
the Seller as current sole shareholder of the Company and the Purchaser as its future sole shareholder shall execute a joint comprehensive declaration of full discharge of all currently and past incumbent managing directors of the Company in such capacity and waiver of claims against the managing directors for the term of their office pursuant to the form set forth in Schedule 7.5.1(g) , whereby it is clarified that such discharge and waiver shall in no way affect any claims of the Purchaser against such managing director (i) in his capacity as Seller Guarantor under this Agreement (it being understood and agreed that the acts for which said Seller Guarantor has been discharged and waived in his individual capacity as managing director of the Company may nevertheless give rise to liability in his capacity as a Seller Guarantor, and that accordingly said discharge and waiver is not general), or (ii) based on fraudulent acts or intentional wrongdoing of the relevant person committed against the Purchaser or the Company, as the case may be.

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(h)
the Seller shall assign the Shares to the Purchaser by means of a separate, notarial share assignment agreement in accordance with Schedule 7.5.1(h) subject to the condition precedent of payment of the Closing Price by the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 7.5.1(j).
(i)
the Purchaser shall pay (via the Paying Agent) (i) the Intercompany Debt on behalf of the Seller to the Company, (ii) the Shareholder Debt on behalf of the respective indirect shareholders of the Company to the Company, (iii) the Loan Repayment Amount to the Company, (iv) the Virtual Share Amount to the Company, and (v) the Bonus Commitments Amount to the Company;
(j)
the Purchaser shall pay the Estimated Purchase Price less the Intercompany Debt, less the Shareholder Debt and less the Escrow Amount (the Closing Price ) to the Seller's Account;
(k)
without undue delay ( unverzüglich ) after the payment of the Closing Price has been credited to the Seller's Account, the Seller shall issue a written receipt to the Purchaser;
(l)
the Seller shall deliver executed legal documentation regarding the termination of the Virtual Share Plans reflecting that the Virtual Share Plans have been terminated by not later than effective on the Closing Date and without any compensation to be paid by the Company in this respect (other than the Virtual Share Amount).
7.5.2
If one of the Parties breaches any of the duties specified in Clause 7.5.1, the other Party may initially set a grace period of ten (10) days by written notice specifying the breach; following the unsuccessful expiration of the ten (10) days grace period, the Party that set the grace period may rescind ( zurücktreten von ) this Agreement. Clauses 7.4.4 and 7.4.5 shall apply mutatis mutandis .
7.5.3
Immediately after the completion of the Closing, the Seller and the Purchaser shall execute a closing memorandum substantially in the form as attached as Schedule 7.5.3 confirming the satisfaction or waiver (as the case may be) of the Closing Conditions and the completion of the closing actions set forth in Clause 7.5.1.
8.
Closing Statement
8.1
Effective Date Accounts and Accounting Principles
8.1.1
The Purchaser shall, or shall procure that the Company shall, after Closing prepare interim consolidated financial statements (balance sheet, profit and loss statement) of the Company (and including the Subsidiary) as of the Effective Date (the Effective Date Accounts ) in accordance with IFRS and past custom and practice at the Company.
8.1.2
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rules and consistently exercising all options to capitalize or to include items on the liabilities side, in accordance with IFRS.
8.1.3
The principles set forth in Clause 8.1.2 shall be referred to collectively as the Accounting Principles .
8.2
Closing Statement
8.2.1
Based on the Effective Date Accounts, the Purchaser shall prepare a draft statement (the Closing Statement ) showing the Financial Debt, the Cash and the Working Capital of the Company as of the Closing Date as well as the resulting calculation of the Purchase Price. The Closing Statement shall be in the form set out in Schedule 5.2.1 . The Purchaser shall deliver the draft Closing Statement together with the Effective Date Accounts to the Seller within forty-five (45) days after Closing.
8.2.2
At the written request of the Seller and after receipt of the Closing Statement in accordance with Clause 8.2.1, the Purchaser shall procure that the Company provides the Seller’s representative access at all reasonable times to the Company’s books and records relating to the Effective Date Accounts and the Closing Statement, provided that such access shall be in a manner that does not interfere with the normal business operations of the Company. The Seller shall notify the Purchaser in writing (a Closing Statement Notice ) within thirty (30) days after receipt of the Closing Statement whether or not it accepts the draft Closing Statement for the purposes of this Agreement. If the Seller does not accept the Closing Statement, the Closing Statement Notice shall set out in detail the Purchaser’s reasons for such non-acceptance and specify the adjustments which, in the Seller’s opinion, should be made to the draft Closing Statement in order for it to comply with the requirements of this Agreement. Except for the matters specifically set out in the Closing Statement Notice, the Seller shall be deemed to have agreed to the draft Closing Statement in full.
8.2.3
If the Seller serves a Closing Statement Notice in accordance with Clause 8.2.2, stating in the Closing Statement Notice that the Seller does not accept the Closing Statement, the Seller and the Purchaser shall use all reasonable efforts to meet and discuss the objections of the Seller and to agree the adjustments (if any) required to be made to the draft Closing Statement, in each case within fifteen (15) days after receipt by the Seller of the Closing Statement Notice.
8.2.4
If the Seller is satisfied with the draft Closing Statement (either as originally submitted or after adjustments agreed between the Seller and the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 8.2.3) or if the Seller fails to give a valid Closing Statement Notice within the thirty (30) days period referred to in Clause 8.2.2, then the draft Closing Statement (incorporating any agreed adjustments) shall constitute the Closing Statement for the purposes of this Agreement and hence determine the final Purchase Price.

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8.3
Expert Proceedings
8.3.1
If the Seller and the Purchaser do not reach agreement within fifteen (15) days after receipt by the Purchaser of the Closing Statement Notice, then the matters in dispute may be referred (on the application of either the Seller or the Purchaser) for determination by (i) KPMG or, if that firm is unable or unwilling to act, (ii) by such other independent firm of chartered accountants of international standing as the Seller and the Purchaser shall agree or, failing agreement within fifteen (15) days of the Seller and the Purchaser or upon becoming aware of such other firm being unable or unwilling to act, (iii) by such other independent firm of chartered accountants of international standing appointed by the chairman of the management board of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany ( Vorsitzender des Vorstands des Instituts der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e. V. ) in Düsseldorf (the accounting firm so appointed pursuant to this Clause 8.3.1 (hereinafter the Independent Accountant ). The Independent Accountant shall act as expert ( Schiedsgutachter ) and be requested to make its decision within thirty (30) days (or such later date as the Seller, the Purchaser and the Independent Accountant agree in writing) of confirmation and acknowledgement by the Independent Accountant of its appointment. The following provisions shall apply once the Independent Accountant has been appointed:
(a)
the Seller and Purchaser shall each prepare a written statement within fifteen (15) days after the Independent Accountant’s appointment on the matters in dispute which (together with the relevant supporting documents) shall be submitted to the Independent Accountant for determination and copied at the same time to the other;
(b)
following delivery of their respective submissions, the Purchaser and the Seller shall each have the opportunity to comment once only on the other’s submission by written comment delivered to the Independent Accountant not later than fifteen (15) days after receipt of the other’s submission and, thereafter, neither the Seller nor the Purchaser shall be entitled to make further statements or submissions except insofar as the Independent Accountant so requests (in which case it shall, on each occasion, give the other Party (unless otherwise directed) fifteen (15) days to respond to any statements or submission so made);
(c)
in giving its determination, the Independent Accountant shall state what adjustments (if any) are necessary, solely for the purposes of this Agreement, to the draft Closing Statement in respect of the matters in dispute in order to comply with the requirements of this Agreement and to determine finally the Closing Statement and hence the Purchase Price;
(d)
the Independent Accountant shall act as an expert (and not as an arbitrator) in making its determination which shall, in the absence of manifest error, be final and binding on the Parties and, without prejudice to any other rights which they may respectively have under this Agreement, the Parties expressly waive, to the extent permitted by law, any rights of recourse they may otherwise have to

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challenge it. The Parties agree that the failure of the Independent Accountant to strictly conform to any deadline or time period contained herein shall not render the determination of the Independent Accountant invalid and shall not be the basis for seeking to overturn any determination rendered by the Independent Accountant.
8.3.2
The Seller and the Purchaser agree to (i) execute, if requested by the Independent Accountant, a reasonable engagement letter in customary form, with each Party to pay one-half of any requested retainer, and (ii) reasonably cooperate with the Independent Accountant so as to enable it to make its determination as quickly and accurately as practicable.
8.3.3
The Seller and the Purchaser shall each be responsible for their own costs in connection with the preparation, review and agreement or determination of the Closing Statement. The fees and expenses of the Independent Accountant shall be paid by the Seller, on the one hand, and the Purchaser, on the other hand, based on the percentage that the amount actually contested, but not awarded to the Seller or Purchaser, respectively, bears to the aggregate amount of actually contested by the Seller and the Purchaser as reflected in the submissions to the Independent Accountant.
8.3.4
When the Closing Statement has been agreed or determined in accordance with the preceding paragraphs, then the amounts shown in the Closing Statement as Cash, Financial Debt and Working Capital shall be final and binding for the purposes of this Agreement.
9.
Seller Guarantees
9.1
Form and scope of Seller Guarantees
Except as provided in a correspondingly numbered disclosure schedule attached to this Agreement as Schedule 9.1 ( Company Disclosure Schedule ), the Seller hereby guarantees to the Purchaser, by way of independent promises of guarantee ( selbständige Garantieversprechen ) within the meaning of section 311 para. 1 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch — BGB ) and subject to the requirements and limitations provided in Clause 10 below and otherwise in this Agreement, that the statements made in Clause 9.2 through Clause 9.19 (collectively referred to as Seller Guarantees or individually a Seller Guarantee ) are correct as of the date this Agreement is formally recorded by a civil law notary ( Signing Date ) and on the Closing Date, unless another relevant point in time has been stipulated therein. The Parties are in agreement that the Seller Guarantees represent neither agreements on quality ( Beschaffenheitsvereinbarungen ) within the meaning of section 434 para. 1 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB ) nor quality guarantees concerning the object of the purchase ( Garantien für die Beschaffenheit der Sache ) within the meaning of sections 443, 444 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB ).

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9.2
Corporate status; authority of the Seller
9.2.1
The information given in Preamble (A), Preamble (B) and Clauses 1.1 to 1.2 and 3.4 is correct and complete. The capital contributions ( Einlagen ) payable with respect to the Shares and, to the extent required by applicable law, the Subsidiary Shares (collectively referred to as the Lovoo Group Shares ) have been paid in full and were not repaid, either openly or concealed. These capital contributions were not reduced or drained by losses. There is no obligation to make additional capital contributions ( Nachschusspflicht ). Any non-cash contributions have been made at values not exceeding the fair market value of such contribution.
9.2.2
The Seller is entitled without restriction to dispose of the Shares and – indirectly – the Subsidiary Shares. Upon the Closing of this Agreement, the Purchaser will acquire the Shares without restrictions and free and clear of any liens, encumbrances, pending assignments or any other rights of third parties. The Lovoo Group Shares are validly existing and are free and clear of any and all third party rights and claims. There are no options, preemptive rights, shareholder agreements, trust agreements, sub-participations or similar agreements (except for the Employee Incentive Arrangements disclosed in Schedule 9.10.9) existing with respect to the Lovoo Group Shares or with respect to the Lovoo Companies.
9.2.3
The Lovoo Companies have not entered into any agreements regarding silent partnerships, domination or profit and loss pooling agreements ( Beherrschungs- oder Gewinnabführungsverträge ), other affiliation agreements ( Unternehmensverträge) within the meaning of sections 291 et seq. of the German Stock Company Act ( Aktiengesetz – AktG ) or comparable agreements such as management of operations agreements (Betriebsführungsverträge) . They are also under no obligation to enter into any such agreements.
9.2.4
The Lovoo Companies do not hold either directly or indirectly (nor through an escrow agent ( Treuhänder )) any shares, partnership interests, memberships or equity interests (including silent partnerships and sub-participations) in other companies or enterprises, nor are they obligated to acquire any such shares, partnership interests, memberships or equity interests. No Lovoo Company is obligated to form any company, partnership or enterprise. No Lovoo Company is party to any joint venture, consortium or any other undisclosed partnership ( Innengesellschaft ), nor is any Lovoo Company obligated to acquire any such party status.
9.2.5
As at the Signing Date, no insolvency, reorganization or similar proceedings in Germany or abroad have been applied for or instituted against the assets of the Seller, any Seller Guarantors or any Lovoo Company. As at the Signing Date, no compulsory judicial enforcement proceedings or any similar measures have been applied for or instituted against all or some of assets of the Seller, any Seller Guarantor or any Lovoo Company. There are no circumstances which would justify the institution of such proceedings or any actions seeking to void or challenge this Agreement under insolvency or similar laws. None of the Seller, the Seller Guarantors or the Lovoo Companies is over-indebted

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( ist überschuldet ) within the meaning of section 19 of the German Insolvency Code ( Insolvenzordnung – InsO ) or is unable to pay its debts as they fall due ( zahlungsunfähig ) within the meaning of section 17 of the German Insolvency Code ( Insolvenzordnung – InsO ), nor is an over-indebtedness or illiquidity imminent. Neither the Seller nor any of the Seller Guarantors nor any of the Lovoo Companies has ceased or suspended its payments ( Zahlungen eingestellt ) nor entered into or offered any debt settlement agreements or similar arrangements with creditors.
9.2.6
By entering into and performing this Agreement, neither the Seller nor any of the Seller Guarantors nor the Lovoo Companies are infringing any third party rights or breaching any other kind of obligation, including those arising under (i) Legal Requirements or (ii) Legally Binding Transaction.
9.2.7
This Agreement establishes binding and enforceable obligations of the Seller and the Seller Guarantors. Neither the Seller nor any of the Seller Guarantors is obligated to obtain consents from any third parties (including governmental authorities or other sovereign entities) to enter into or perform this Agreement or to notify any such third party of the conclusion or performance of this Agreement, provided that the Purchaser has carried out its own analysis, based on information provided by the Company, as to whether any merger control filings are required in relation to the transactions contemplated hereby in any jurisdiction, and that it shall in no event constitute a violation of the foregoing Seller Guarantee if said analysis turns out to be inaccurate, unless this was caused by incorrect information provided by the Company. The conclusion or performance of the Agreement will not (i) create any claims or other rights of any kind against the Lovoo Companies, or (ii) cause any legal relationships of the Lovoo Companies to be revoked, terminated, amended or impaired in any other way for legal reasons.
9.3
Financial Statements
9.3.1
The Seller has submitted to the Purchaser the financial statements (balance sheet and profit and loss accounts) ( Bilanz und Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung ) of the Company for its fiscal years ending on (i) December 31, 2015 (the Financial Statements 2015 ) and (ii) December 31, 2016 (the Financial Statements 2016 ), including the related audit report and auditors’ unqualified opinion confirming accordance with German GAAP and IDW (as regards the Financial Statements 2015) and accordance with International Standards of Auditing (ISAs) (as regards the Financial Statements 2016). The Financial Statements 2015 and the Financial Statements 2016 are hereinafter jointly referred to as the Financial Statements .
9.3.2
The Financial Statements 2015 were prepared in accordance with German GAAP, and the Financial Statements 2016 were prepared in accordance with IFRS and the generally accepted principles of accounting under IFRS, in each case consistent with past practice and custom at the Company (however regarding the Financial Statements 2016 taking into account adjustments required in the course of the change to IFRS). Specifically, subject to the Financial Statements 2016 taking into account adjustments required in the

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course of the change to IFRS, all accounting and valuation principles, methods and rules were retained and all options to capitalize or to include items on the liabilities side were consistently applied.
9.3.3
The Financial Statements present a true and fair view of the net assets ( Vermögenslage ), financial condition ( Finanzlage ) and results of operation ( Ertragslage ) of the Company and the Subsidiary, in each case as of the relevant balance sheet date.
9.3.4
The books and records (including, without limitation, accounting and tax records) of the Lovoo Companies are correct and complete and are duly kept in compliance with the applicable Legal Requirements and reflect all transactions that are required to be reflected therein pursuant to any applicable law and accounting principles. Such books and records are in the unrestricted possession of the Lovoo Companies.
9.3.5
The interim consolidated accounts of the Company as of and for the period ending on June 30, 2017 which are attached as Schedule 9.3.5 (the Interim Accounts ) have been prepared in all material respects in accordance with IFRS and the generally accepted principles of accounting under IFRS consistent with past practices, taking into due account, however, the preliminary purpose for which such Interim Accounts are customarily set up, and except for any deviations arising from the nature of such accounts as set forth in Schedule 9.3.5 .
9.3.6
The Lovoo Companies are the sole and unrestricted legal or beneficial owner of all (fixed and current) assets which are reflected in the Interim Accounts (except for assets which have been disposed of in the ordinary course of business since the relevant balance sheet date). Such assets are free and clear of any liens, encumbrances or rights of third parties.
9.3.7
Each of the Lovoo Companies has good title to, or valid leasehold interests or licenses in, and has fully available, all assets (whether real, personal, tangible or intangible) required by it in order to carry on its respective businesses as currently conducted and contemplated to be conducted under the respective business planning.
9.3.8
As at the Signing Date, the material tangible assets owned, leased or otherwise used by the Lovoo Companies are in good condition (except for ordinary wear and tear) and have been properly and regularly repaired and maintained.
9.4
Real Property, Leases
9.4.1
The Lovoo Companies do not own any real property or hold part-ownership ( Teileigentum ) or co-ownership interests ( Miteigentum ) in real property. The Lovoo Companies do not hold any other rights equivalent to real property ( grundstücksgleiche Rechte ) (including heritable building rights ( Erbbaurecht )).
9.4.2
Schedule 9.4.2 contains a correct and complete list of all lease agreements regarding real property (the Lease Agreements ), which a Lovoo Company has concluded as tenant/lessee, including the agreed leased floor space ( Mietfläche ), the rent due, the agreed term of the respective tenancy and any renewal options, the nature of the indexation as

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well as any notices of termination that were already served or announced or are expected as of the Signing Date.
9.4.3
All Lease Agreements have been validly concluded. No ancillary agreements have been made with the respective parties to those contracts. As at the Signing Date, each party to the Lease Agreements has duly performed its duties under the Lease Agreements. None of the Lease Agreements have been terminated by the Company or, as at the Signing Date, by the respective counterparty, or ended by way of notice of termination by the Company or, as at the Singing Date, by the respective counterparty or otherwise or have been substantially amended within the last twelve (12) months before the Signing Date. As at the Signing Date, all leased business premises are in sound and useable condition and will allow the Lovoo Companies to continue the Lovoo Business Operations in the same manner and scope as they are currently conducted.
9.5
Permits and approvals; Data Protection and Privacy
9.5.1
The Lovoo Companies have obtained all of the necessary public and private permits, consents and approvals of any kind for running the Lovoo Business Operations. The Lovoo Business Operations are and have been operated or managed in accordance with these approvals at any time. None of the public permits that are related to the Lovoo Business Operations have been revoked, rescinded, amended or restricted, either in whole or in part, and as at the Signing Date, there is no existing indication that such approvals will be revoked, rescinded, amended or restricted, either in whole or in part.
9.5.2
Schedule 9.5.2 contains an exhaustive list and copies of the written confirmations

(i) of the relevant national regulator(s) within the EU/EEA (including, but not limited to, the German Federal Network Agency ( Bundesnetzagentur )) or elsewhere that the Lovoo Companies are currently registered and in good standing as a public electronic communications provider and (ii) of the relevant data protection authority/authorities within the EU/EEA (including, but not limited to, the relevant German data protection authorities ( Datenschutzbehörden )) or elsewhere that the Lovoo Companies are currently registered and in good standing as a data controller - both to the extent required by a Legal Requirement. All such registrations are complete, correct, valid and fully in force. None of the Lovoo Companies is required to register as a public electronic communications provider or as a data controller or in any other form or function beyond the registrations made in Schedule 9.5.2 . As at the Signing Date, none of the Lovoo Companies has notified, or been required to notify, any person or regulator of any information security breach involving personal data.
9.5.3
The Lovoo Companies maintain policies and procedures regarding data security and the protection of personal data that are in material compliance with all Legal Requirements in any relevant jurisdiction (including, in particular, Germany, the EU/EEA and the U.S.A.) and have acquired, collected, and used all User Data pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, a valid and enforceable Privacy Policy (which is at least as protective as those common in the industry in Germany) and in material compliance

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with all applicable Legal Requirements, including without limitation with respect to obtaining adequate user consents. None of the Lovoo Companies has obtained, collected or used any User Data, or possessed any data in violation or breach of any Lovoo Company Privacy Policy, consents or any applicable Legal Requirement. None of the Lovoo Companies has been or is object of an investigation, nor of a formal/informal audit, nor of any court action nor of any unresolved data access request by a data subject or by any other third party. There hasn’t been any inquiry by any regulatory body. None of the Lovoo Companies has received any written claim or reminder of an actual or alleged privacy/data protection violation by a data subject or a third party. In particular, there have been no data protection incidents, no credible complaints by any customers of any of the Lovoo Companies, and no investigation or orders by any data protection authorities in relation to the collection, processing or use of any personal data by the Lovoo Companies or any of their suppliers.
9.5.4
The Lovoo Companies are in full compliance and have fully complied at all times with their Anti-Spam & Anti-Fake Compliance Regulation dated August 31, 2016 and their Privacy/Data Protection Policy posted on the Company’s website/mobile applications (as applicable) and are in material compliance and have materially complied at all times with all applicable Legal Requirements pertaining to privacy and data protection, in particular under the Telecommunications Act, the Federal and State Data Protection Acts and the Telemedia Act, for personal data, data security, and protection against spyware. The Privacy Policy and the individual consents of all Users, in particular but not limited to those individual consents covering the processing of location data of a User, are valid, not withdrawn and in full force and effect. No personal data of Users have been sent or otherwise made available to anyone outside of the EU/EEA, unless explicitly disclosed in Schedule 9.5.4 (including a specification of the legal basis for each such data transfer (e.g. the relevant EU Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework)). Neither the execution, nor the delivery or performance of this Agreement will result in any violation of the Privacy Policy and/or Legal Requirement pertaining to User Data.
9.5.5
To the Seller’s Knowledge, any suppliers and other third parties to whom any personal data is transferred by any of the Lovoo Companies are bound by proper commissioned data processing arrangements ( Auftragsdatenverarbeitung ) and/or, as required, by the relevant EU Standard Contractual Clauses (and/or, if applicable, the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework). Except of the data processors ( Auftragsdatenverarbeiter ) disclosed in Schedule 9.5.5 , none of the relevant data processors uses any sub-processors ( Unter-Auftragsdatenverarbeiter ) as defined by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or agents, as defined in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework.
9.5.6
To the Seller’s Knowledge, the Company maintains policies and procedures regarding user-generated content made available on any websites or through other media owned or controlled by the Company that enable them to qualify for “safe harbor” and other immunities from infringement liability under applicable German and EU laws and regulations.

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9.6
Intellectual Property Rights; Know-how
9.6.1
Schedule 9.6.1 contains a list of all Intellectual Property Rights, the sole and unencumbered holder of which is a Lovoo Company or to which one or more Lovoo Company/ies has or collectively have exclusive and perpetual rights of use that are not limited either geographically or in terms of content (the Own Intellectual Property Rights ). The aforementioned Schedule also includes the dates on which any Own Intellectual Property Rights that have a limited term of protection will expire at the earliest. The Lovoo Companies have taken all actions required in order to maintain the Own Intellectual Property Rights. There are no licenses or other rights of use held by third parties relating to the Own Intellectual Property Rights. The Lovoo Companies are also under no obligation to grant any such rights of use.
9.6.2
Schedule 9.6.2(a) contains a list of all material licenses to, and other rights of use in, Intellectual Property Rights, which were granted to a Lovoo Company and which are not part of the Own Intellectual Property Rights defined in Clause 9.6.1 (the Lovoo Licenses ). Schedule 9.6.2(a) also contains information about the licensor, type, scope, duration, any limitations and other material terms of use as well as any license fees or royalties owed by the Lovoo Company in question. Unless otherwise disclosed in Schedule 9.6.2(b) , there are no material sub-licenses or other material rights of use held by third parties with respect to the subject matter of the Lovoo Licenses, and the relevant Lovoo Companies are also under no obligation to grant such rights of use. To the Seller’s Knowledge, any contract, under which a third party granted a Lovoo License, is valid and enforceable. For a period of twelve (12) months from the Signing Date, no agreement granting a Lovoo License may be terminated with notice by the respective licensor for reason of the conclusion or performance of this Agreement, and such termination specifically cannot be based on the conclusion or performance of this Agreement. To the Seller’s Knowledge, there are no facts or circumstances that serve as a basis for terminating a Lovoo License prior to the end of the foregoing period either for good cause or for some other reason, and as at the Signing Date, no such facts or circumstances are foreseeable. The Lovoo Companies have duly used, and are currently duly using, the Lovoo Licenses. The Own Intellectual Property Rights and the Lovoo Licenses are hereinafter collectively referred to as the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights .
9.6.3
All Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights are valid and enforceable. With the exception of the license fees set forth in Schedule 9.6.2(a) , none of the Lovoo Companies owes payment or indemnity duties to third parties with respect to the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights. Any and all payments required to maintain, care for, protect and enforce the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights have been timely and duly made, all necessary and related applications for renewal have been timely and duly filed, all other measures required for these purposes have been timely and duly taken, and all use obligations and other duties with respect to the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights have been timely and duly performed. To the Seller's Knowledge, no third party has infringed, or is currently infringing, Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights.

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9.6.4
Intellectual Property Rights other than the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights were not and have not been used by the Lovoo Companies and are also not required in order to continue the Lovoo Business Operations in the same manner and scope as before and in accordance with current future planning. The Lovoo Companies have not in the past infringed and are not currently infringing any Intellectual Property Rights.
9.6.5
The Lovoo Companies are entitled without restriction to exercise control over the Know-how that they require in order to continue the Lovoo Business Operations in the same manner and scope as they are currently conducted. The Lovoo Companies have at all times treated the Know-how which relates to the Lovoo Business Operations (the Lovoo Know-how ), as a business secret and have effectively protected such Know-how from its disclosure to third parties. No licenses or other rights of use to the Lovoo Know-how were granted to any third parties. To the Seller's Knowledge, no third party has obtained or used Lovoo Know-how in violation of the law or is currently using such Know-how in violation of the law.
9.6.6
As at the Signing Date, neither the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights nor the Lovoo Know-how are or have been the subject of any judicial or regulatory proceedings. To the Seller’s Knowledge, there are also no facts or circumstances which would justify the institution of such proceedings. The use of the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights and of the Lovoo Know-how by the Lovoo Companies does not violate any Legal Requirements or Legally Binding Transactions or Intellectual Property Rights or any other third party rights. As at the Signing Date, third parties have not enforced or claimed any rights (i) with respect to the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights or the Lovoo Know-how or (ii) based on the use of the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights or the Lovoo Know-how by the Lovoo Companies or (iii) based on any alleged infringement of other Intellectual Property Rights, licenses or other rights of use by the Lovoo Companies, nor has any such enforcement been announced. To the Seller’s Knowledge, there are also no facts or circumstances, which could justify any such enforcement.
9.6.7
The Lovoo Companies have in each case exclusive and unrestrictive rights to all inventions and developments, which were made by its officers, managing directors, board members, employees, freelance workers, service providers, subcontractors and other third parties (as well as their respective managing directors and employees) and which arose in connection with a job at or the work for the respective Lovoo Company; provided, however, that such rights may not be exclusive if duly licensed from unaffiliated third parties, they are immaterial and by their nature normally non-exclusive, such as rights relating to marketing campaigns. The Lovoo Companies have exercised all rights under the German Act on Employee Inventions ( Arbeitnehmererfindungsgesetz ) and similar laws in other jurisdictions and fulfilled any obligations under such laws. Neither any member of the Seller Group nor any of the Lovoo Companies’ officers, managing directors, board members, employees, freelance workers, service providers, subcontractors have any rights or claims against the Lovoo Companies with respect to any Intellectual Property Right pertaining to the Lovoo Companies.

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9.6.8
To the Seller’s Knowledge, the Lovoo Companies have taken all measures required to protect the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights and the Lovoo Know-how (including through confidentiality obligations in the employment contracts) that are as protective as those common in the industry. No Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights and Lovoo Know-how (where the value of such Intellectual Property Rights is contingent upon maintaining the confidentiality thereof) relating to and of material importance for the Lovoo Business Operations has been disclosed or permitted to be disclosed to any third party (except in the ordinary course of business under a binding confidentiality agreement and/or as required by law, court or administrative order or to any person bound to professional confidentiality), and the Lovoo Companies have not undertaken to disclose to any third party any Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights and Lovoo Know-how. To the Seller’s Knowledge, no such confidentiality agreement relating to the protection of Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights and the Lovoo Know-how has been breached by the other party thereto.
9.7
Information Technology
9.7.1
All of the computer hardware and software, all communication systems and networks as well as other information technology which are used or required by the Lovoo Companies in order to continue running the Lovoo Business Operations in the same manner and scope as currently conducted (the Lovoo Information Technology ), are either owned by the Lovoo Companies or have been validly leased for a term of at least twelve (12) months from the Signing Date or were acquired or otherwise obtained for non-temporary use under license. No proprietary source codes or algorithms of software which are owned by the Lovoo Companies or to which the Lovoo Companies have exclusive rights of use, were disclosed or otherwise made available to third parties.
9.7.2
Schedule 9.7.2 contains a list of all material agreements related to the Lovoo Information Technology with the content that they have on the Signing Date (the Lovoo IT Contracts ). To the Seller’s Knowledge, the Lovoo IT Contracts are valid and fully enforceable. The Lovoo Companies have fully and duly performed all obligations under the Lovoo IT Contracts. For a period of twelve (12) months from the Signing Date, none of the Lovoo IT Contracts may be terminated with notice by the respective other contracting party, and specifically not on the basis of the conclusion or performance of this Agreement. None of the Lovoo IT Contracts will end automatically prior to the expiration of the aforementioned period. To the Seller’s Knowledge, there are no facts or circumstances that could serve as a basis for terminating one of the Lovoo IT Contracts prior to the end of the foregoing period either for cause or for some other reason, and no such facts or circumstances are foreseeable.
9.7.3
The Lovoo Information Technology has the performance capability required for the respective Lovoo Business Operations. Except for services for which valid and binding service agreements are in place, as at the Signing Date, no support from third parties is necessary to enable the Lovoo Business Information Technology to fulfill such requirements. To the Seller’s Knowledge, as at the Signing Date, there were neither failures in the Lovoo Information Technology nor data losses that had or have an adverse

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effect on Lovoo Business Operations, nor does the Lovoo Information Technology have any material defects which could have those types of effects. Unless otherwise disclosed in Schedule 9.7.3 , no material hacking attacks, security breaches (including, in particular, any security breaches relating to any personal data processed or controlled by any of the Lovoo Companies), intrusions, breakdowns or performance reductions have occurred in the past three years and none of the Lovoo Companies have been under an obligation to notify customers or other contract partners of any such failures in the Lovoo Business Information Technology. To the Seller’s Knowledge, the Lovoo Companies have taken all measures considered customary in the industry in order to prevent unauthorized access to the Lovoo Information Technology or the data of the Lovoo Companies or to avoid any impairment of the Lovoo Information Technology or data of the Lovoo Companies due to computer viruses or similar programs. The Lovoo Companies routinely produce a sufficient number of backup copies of the software, data and databases that they use and store such backup copies outside of their business premises and protect them from third party access.
9.7.4
The Lovoo Companies have and had all rights required to operate and maintain all current and former mobile applications (the Lovoo Apps ) and current and former websites of the Lovoo Companies (the Lovoo Websites ), including the right to possess and use users’ IP addresses.
9.7.5
The Lovoo Companies are not party to any source code escrow agreement or other agreement or arrangement requiring the disclosure or deposit of source code of any software developed by or on behalf of the Lovoo Companies and no source code to any such software has ever been disclosed, delivered, licensed, or otherwise released to any third party pursuant to an escrow arrangement or otherwise.
9.7.6
The software pertaining to the Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights does not constitute, contain and is not lined to or otherwise dependent on any open source, public source of “freeware” software ( Publicly Available Software ) that is licensed to any Lovoo Company under a license that requires as a condition of use, modification or distribution that any software incorporated into, derived from, or distributed with such Publicly Available Software (a) be licensed, disclosed or distributed in source code form, (b) be redistributed at no charge or a nominal charge, or (c) be as whole subject to the terms of such license, with the exception of the Publicly Available Software.
9.7.7
To the Seller’s Knowledge, the Lovoo Apps are in full compliance with any relevant policies, procedures or requirements of Google Play Store, Apple App Store or any other material contractual partner of the Lovoo Companies.
9.8
Largest customers and suppliers
As at the Signing Date, there is no written indication that (i) the five largest Lovoo Companies’ customers and suppliers as measured by the business volume for fiscal year 2016 and/or (ii) those suppliers of individual goods and services which the relevant Lovoo Companies cannot at any time replace with an alternative source or without

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incurring financial or other costs exceeding USD 50,000 (US Dollar fifty thousand) will materially reduce the scope of their business with the Lovoo Companies.
9.9
Material Agreements
9.9.1
Schedule 9.9.1 contains a list of all agreements which have not yet been fully performed by both parties as at the Signing Date (including incidental, conditional or future duties) and which were expressly or implicitly concluded by a Lovoo Company, whether in writing, oral or in another form, and which fall within at least one of the following listed categories (hereinafter collectively referred to as the Material Agreements and individually as a Material Agreement ), in each case containing correct information about the contracting parties, the amount of the payment obligations, the contractual term and the notice periods for termination:
(a)
agreements relating to the acquisition or sale of interests/shares in other companies or businesses;
(b)
loan agreements, account agreements or other credit agreements, which the Lovoo Companies have concluded and/or acceded either as lender, borrower, guarantor or in any other function/capacity (with the exception of any customary payment deferrals agreed to in the ordinary course of business), as well as factoring agreements;
(c)
guarantees, payment guarantees ( Bürgschaften ), assumptions of debt, collateral promises ( Schuldbeitritte ), letters of credit, letters of comfort and similar legal instruments issued by the Lovoo Companies;
(d)
joint venture agreements, consortium agreements, cooperation and similar contracts with third parties;
(e)
agreements which limit a Lovoo Company in its business activity or proscribe it from engaging in such business activity or which prevent a Lovoo Company from competing with another market participant or which limit it in that endeavor (including any exclusive supply contracts which a Lovoo Company has executed either as a buyer or a seller);
(f)
settlement agreements;
(g)
hosting agreements;
(h)
third party payment processing agreements;
(i)
supply and operational agreements necessary for the Lovoo Business Operations;
(j)
agreements that were entered into or obligations that were incurred outside the ordinary course of business;
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(l)
other agreements or commitments, (i) which impose annual payments in the individual case on the Lovoo Companies of at least USD 50,000 (fifty thousand) per year, (ii) which may be terminated by the relevant Lovoo Company with a notice period of at least twelve (12) months, (iii) which are necessary to run the Lovoo Business Operations, or (iv) which are otherwise of material importance for a Lovoo Company or the Purchaser.
9.9.2
None of the Lovoo Companies and, as at the Signing Date, none of their respective contracting parties have intentionally breached or, to the Seller’s Knowledge, are currently in breach of a duty under a Material Agreement.
9.9.3
To the Seller’s Knowledge, the Material Agreements are valid and fully enforceable. As at the Signing Date, none of the Lovoo Companies has received any written notice of termination in relation to any Material Contract. To the Seller’s Knowledge, there are no facts or circumstances that serve as a basis for terminating a Material Agreement prior to the end of the contract term period either for good cause or for some other reason.
9.10
Employment matters
9.10.1
Schedule 9.10.1 contains an anonymized list which is complete and correct with respect to all information as of the Signing Date of all officers, managing directors, board members and employees (including members of the senior management ( leitende Angestellte ), apprentices and part-time employees) of the Lovoo Companies, in each case with information about the contracting party on the side of the Lovoo Companies, position and job, date of birth, employment start date, gender, gross annual salary, gross annual compensation benefits (including all bonuses and other similar incentives), deferred compensation claims ( Entgeltumwandlung ), claims for payment in lieu of vacation, weekly working hours, and the term or period of notice for termination of employment. Employees who enjoy special legal protection against dismissal are identified, specifying the legal justification for such protection (e.g., maternity or post-birth parental leave ( Elternzeit ), severe disability).
9.10.2
Schedule 9.10.2 contains a complete and accurate list of the individual employment or service agreements with all officers, managing directors, freelancers and management team members of the Lovoo Companies and also with those other employees of the Lovoo Companies, whose gross annual remuneration (including all bonuses and similar incentives) exceeds USD 85,000 (eighty-five thousand) (each a Key Employee ), in each case in the version valid on the Signing Date.
9.10.3
The Lovoo Companies have duly and fully performed all payment and other obligations owed to their workers and employees when those obligations became due.
9.10.4
As at the Signing Date, no Key Employee has terminated his or her engagement, and as at the Signing Date, to the Seller’s Knowledge, there is no written indication that any Key Employee intends to terminate or otherwise end his or her engagement with that company. No Lovoo Company is or has been, nor, to the Seller’s Knowledge, is any Key Employee as at the Signing Date, in material breach of the terms of employment.

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All reductions in force by any Lovoo Company have been conducted in accordance with any Legal Requirements (in particular, all required notices have been delivered and all required actions have been taken by the Lovoo Companies in this respect).
9.10.5
As at the Signing Date, no strikes, walkouts or other labor dispute actions have occurred or were threatened at the Lovoo Companies.
9.10.6
No Lovoo Company has a works council ( Betriebsrat ). No Lovoo Company is a member of an employer vocational association ( Arbeitgeberverband ).
9.10.7
No pension commitments (whether vested or non-vested) or schemes of any kind (including retirement and early-retirement payments, disablement pensions, pensions for surviving dependents to any current or former directors, officers or employees) exist for former or current directors, officers or employees of the Lovoo Companies or their respective dependents (the Pensions Schemes ). All Pensions Schemes comply with applicable Legal Requirement and have been operated in accordance with their terms, and all contributions and other payments thereunder have been timely paid. Any pension or other obligations of the Lovoo Company under the Pension Schemes have been fully accrued for in the Financial Statements 2016 up to the maximum amount permitted.
9.10.8
Schedule 9.10.8 contains a complete and accurate list of
(a)
all profit or revenue sharing arrangements, employee participation schemes, stock options and similar arrangements or schemes (the Employee Incentive Arrangements ); and
(b)
all collective bargaining agreements (including company-specific collective bargaining agreements) to which the Lovoo Companies are subject (also by virtue of a decree of universal application ( Allgemeinverbindlichkeitserklärung ), as well as shop agreements ( Betriebsvereinbarungen ) and implied contracts based on established plant practices ( betriebliche Übungen ).
9.10.9
Other than disclosed in Schedule 9.10.9 , no payments obligations or other liabilities are triggered by the consummation of this Agreement under the Employee Incentive Arrangement.
9.10.10
There are no social plans ( Sozialpläne ) or conciliation of interests ( Interessensausgleich ) or similar arrangements to which a Lovoo Company is a party or by which a Lovoo Company is bound.
9.10.11
The foreign employees of the Lovoo Companies have obtained any required residence and/or working permits (if applicable) in relation to their work for the Lovoo Companies in Germany.
9.11
Bank accounts; Powers of Attorney
9.11.1
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access to any bank accounts of the Lovoo Companies and of all of the authorized signatories for those accounts.
9.11.2
No persons, companies or other third parties are authorized to represent the Lovoo Companies, unless this information is set forth in an applicable commercial register or similar.
9.12
Insurance policies
9.12.1
Schedule 9.12.1 contains a true and complete list of all insurance policies which were taken out by, or are for the benefit of, the Lovoo Companies with respect to their assets, their business operations, their officers, managing directors, board members or employees. These insurance policies include all mandatory insurance policies, and to the Seller’s Knowledge also cover all risks which companies of similar size in a similar industry would customarily cover by insurance and specifically in the same scope with respect to insured risks and coverage amounts. All insurance premiums due thereon have been paid in full when due and the Lovoo Companies are in compliance with all terms and conditions of the insurance policies. As at the Signing Date, no notice of cancellation or termination of any insurance policy has been received by any of the Lovoo Companies.
9.12.2
As at the Signing Date, there has been no insurance claim made by any Lovoo Company. As at the Signing Date, there are and were no claims by any Lovoo Company pending under any such policies as to which coverage has been questioned, denied or disputed by the insurer. As at the Signing Date, the Lovoo Companies have not received notice from any insurer that the insurance premiums under any policy will be substantially increased (other than normal increases in the ordinary course) or the insurance coverage be materially modified.
9.13
Legal Disputes
There are no, and have not been any, disputes or other judicial, arbitral or regulatory proceedings or investigations (collectively Legal Disputes ) (i) as at the Signing Date nor (ii) as at the Closing Date that involve any charges relating to fraud, user data, user privacy, or this Agreement (including without limitation its conclusion or performance), and in the case of either (i) or (ii) in which any Lovoo Company or any of its officers, directors, board members, employees or representatives in connection with their involvement at the Lovoo Companies, or in which any member of the Seller Group are either directly or indirectly involved, or which could, in some other manner, lead to a liability or other obligation (including by way of a third party recourse) on the part of the Lovoo Companies, nor are there any Legal Disputes pending, instituted, threatened or imminent against or planned by a Lovoo Company or any of its officers, directors, board members, employees or representatives, and, to the Seller’s Knowledge, there are no facts which are likely to result in any Legal Disputes. The Lovoo Companies are not subject to any judgment, order or decree that imposes any restriction on the conduct the Lovoo Business Operations.

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9.14
Compliance with laws
Except as disclosed in Schedule 9.14.1 , the Lovoo Business Operations are and have been managed and conducted, in all material respects, in accordance with any and all applicable Legal Requirements. Neither the Lovoo Business Operations nor any services or other work provided by any of the Lovoo Companies violates or has violated any Legal Requirements in any material respect. None of the Lovoo Companies has received at any time or expects to receive a notice from a governmental authority of a material violation of any applicable Legal Requirements. The Seller has made available all relevant files relating to all past investigations in relation to the Lovoo Companies and/or any of its officers, directors, board members, employees or representatives to the Purchaser.
9.14.1
As at the Signing Date, there have been no complaints, investigations, court, administrative or other proceedings by any customers, competitors or consumer protection agencies in relation to the standard terms and conditions or other customer-facing documents used by the Lovoo Companies, or in relation to the implementation of the requirements, under any other consumer protection laws by the Lovoo Companies, including without limitation the requirements imposed by distance selling law.
9.14.2
To the Seller’s Knowledge, none of the Lovoo Companies nor any of its officers, directors, board members, employees or representatives have granted, promised or raised the prospect of an unlawful advantage or benefit or otherwise engaged in unlawful business practices in connection with the Lovoo Business Operations, nor has any Lovoo Company or any such person been granted, promised, or given the prospect of such an unlawful advantage or benefit in connection with the Lovoo Business Operations.
9.15
Conduct of business
9.15.1
Since the beginning of the current fiscal year through the Closing Date, the Lovoo Business Operations have been and will be conducted exclusively in the ordinary course of business, in accordance with the standard of care of a prudent merchant ( Sorgfalt eines ordentlichen Kaufmanns ). In particular, to the Seller’s Knowledge, since the beginning of the current fiscal year through the Signing Date, none of the actions or events referred to in Clause 17.1.1 has occurred such that those actions or events have materially and detrimentally impacted or would reasonably be expected to materially and detrimentally impact the Lovoo Business Operations; provided that for purposes of this Clause 9.15.1, the monetary thresholds set forth in each of Clause 17.1.1(a) and 17.1.1(e) shall be USD 250,000 (two hundred fifty thousand).
9.15.2
Since January 1, 2017, no Material Adverse Change has occurred.
9.15.3
Since January 1, 2017, no Lovoo Company has distributed, either openly or in concealment, any profits nor resolved any open or hidden profit distributions.

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9.16
No brokerage fees etc .
9.16.1
No officer, managing director, board member or member of senior management (leitender Angestellter) or employee of a Lovoo Company was granted, promised, or otherwise given the prospect of, a payment or other non-cash benefit in connection with the initiation, conclusion or performance of this Agreement (except under the Virtual Share Plans).
9.16.2
No Lovoo Company is obligated to pay any brokerage, finder's fees, advisor's fees, bonuses, extra compensation, or to make any severance payments to third parties (including any officers, managing directors, board members or employees of the Lovoo Companies) or to make other payments or provide non-cash benefits in connection with the initiation, conclusion and performance in this Agreement, except for the payments governed under this Agreement.
9.17
Taxes
9.17.1
All returns, statements, reports and forms of the Lovoo Companies in any jurisdiction with respect to Taxes (within the meaning of Clause 13.1) have been, or will be prior to or on the Closing Date, in accordance with all Legal Requirements, duly (in particular completely and correctly) prepared and duly and timely filed. All information or filings required to be supplied or to be made to any Tax Authority has been, or will be prior to or on the Closing Date, duly and timely supplied. All Taxes due and payable by any Lovoo Company on such returns or any other legal grounds prior to or on the Closing Date, have been or will be timely and fully paid. There are no tax-related investigations (suspending the expiration of the term for the tax assessment), audits, actions, proceedings, claims or assessments pending, proposed or threatened against or with respect to any of the Lovoo Companies. None of the Lovoo Companies has received any tax ruling or entered into any written and legally binding agreement or is currently under negotiations to enter into any such agreement with any Tax Authority which would affect the tax situation of any of the Lovoo Companies in any period ending after the Closing Date.
9.17.2
No Lovoo Company
(a)
is part of a Tax group ( Organschaft ); or
(b)
has extraordinarily written down any asset for Tax purposes at or prior to the Closing Date which can be the reason for a taxable write-up ( Wertaufholung ) at date following December 31, 2016 and there are no circumstances which would give rise to a taxable write-up; or
(c)
is liable for any Tax obligations, which is the primary obligation of another entity, including pursuant to Section 75 of the German General Tax Act ( Abgabenordnung ) or comparable provisions (of whatever kind, including, without limitation, federal and local) in other jurisdictions, and no Lovoo Company is or may become liable for any such Tax.

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9.17.3
No blocking, holding and maintenance periods ( Halte- Behaltens- oder Sperrfristen ) under German Tax Law (e.g. Section 6 para. 5 sentence 4 German Income Tax Act ( Einkommenssteuergesetz ) or any other applicable Tax law of whatever kind, including, without limitation, federal and local) exist at the level of the Company.
9.18
Related Party Agreements
9.18.1
Schedule 9.18.1 contains a list of all agreements, which exist or are concluded between the Seller or other current or former members of the Seller Group, on the one hand, and the Lovoo Companies, on the other hand (the Related Party Agreements ). The Related Party Agreements have been concluded on arm’s length terms. No party to any Related Party Agreement has been or is currently in breach of the contractual duties owed by it.
9.18.2
No member of the Seller Group has any claims against a Lovoo Company.
9.19
No Subsidies
No Lovoo Company has received any governmental grants or subsidies.
9.20
Seller Guarantees given “as at the Signing Date”
With respect to each Seller Guarantee qualified by the word “ as at the Signing Date ” the Seller undertakes to use reasonable best efforts to make sure that such Seller Guarantee is also true at the Closing Date, and that it will be true at the Closing Date except to the extent that the relevant fact which is not true at the Closing Date is out of Seller’s control.
10.
Remedies for breach of Seller Guarantees
10.1
Restitution in kind; damages
10.1.1
In the event that a Seller Guarantee is breached, the Seller shall, at its expense, place the Purchaser, or at the Purchaser's choice, the relevant Lovoo Company, in such position as the Purchaser would have been in, if such breach had not occurred (restitution in kind – Naturalrestitution ). If the breach results from the existence of a liability, then the Purchaser's right to request restitution in kind shall include the right to full indemnification from such liability.
10.1.2
To the extent that restitution in kind is impossible or insufficient, within the meaning of Section 251 para. 1 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, BGB ) or inefficient within the meaning of Section 251 para. 2 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, BGB ), the Seller shall pay, upon the Purchaser’s request, monetary damages ( Schadenersatz in Geld ) to the Purchaser or, at the election of the Purchaser, to the relevant Lovoo Company. If restitution in kind is fully impossible, then such monetary damages shall replace the remedy of restitution in kind. Otherwise, such damages shall be owed as a supplement to the restitution in kind.

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10.1.3
If and to the extent that the Seller fails to provide the requested restitution in kind within twenty (20) Banking Days after the Purchaser informed it of the breach of a Seller Guarantee, the Purchaser, in its absolute discretion, in whole or in part and in lieu of its right to demand restitution in kind, shall have the right to request the payment of monetary damages to itself or, at the election of the Purchaser, to the relevant Lovoo Company in such amount as would be necessary to achieve the same effect as a restitution in kind.
10.1.4
The Purchaser's claims under this Clause 10 are collectively referred to as Guarantee Claims or individually as Guarantee Claim .
10.1.5
The Guarantee Claims shall not comprise compensation for (a) any internal administration and overhead costs at the level of the Purchaser or the Company; (b) any indirect damages ( mittelbare Schäden ) incurred by the Purchaser which are not reasonably foreseeable; (c) lost profits; (d) damages/losses to good will, (e) earnings or other multiples on the basis of which the Purchase Price or a component thereof has been calculated or agreed and (f) lost opportunities ( entgangene Geschäftschancen ). Any benefits actually received and realized by Purchaser in connection with or as result of a Guarantee Claim (including avoided losses, tax benefits and savings) shall be deducted for the purpose of computing the Losses ( Vorteilsausgleich ) in accordance with Section 252 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, BGB ).
10.2
Exclusion of statutory purchaser’s rights
The remedies for a breach of a Seller Guarantee provided for in this Agreement shall be the exclusive remedies available to the Purchaser and the Lovoo Companies if a Seller Guarantee is breached. This applies, above all (but not exclusively), to claims for breach of a pre-contractual duty pursuant to section 311 para. 2 and 3 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch - BGB ) ( culpa in contrahendo ), claims based on a breach of duty in an obligation relationship ( Verletzung einer Pflicht aus dem Schuldverhältnis ), claims for reduction of the purchase price ( Minderung ), rights to rescission ( Rücktritt ), and liability in tort ( Delikt ), unless the claim in question is based on a willful act ( vorsätzliche Handlung ) or fraudulent misrepresentation ( arglistige Täuschung ) of the Seller.
10.3
Notification of Guarantee Claims
10.3.1
The Purchaser shall give the Seller written notice of the alleged breach of the Seller Guarantee with such notice stating the relevant facts constituting the alleged breach and, to the extent possible, the amount of expected damage resulting therefrom, within three (3) weeks after discovery of the relevant facts by the Purchaser constituting the alleged breach of the Seller Guarantee, provided, however, that any non-fulfilment of the aforementioned notice period shall not prejudice a Guarantee Claim except to the extent that such failure or delay harmed the Seller.
10.3.2
To the extent required by the Purchaser to assess any alleged breach of a Seller Guarantee and the resulting damage that occurs prior to the Scheduled Closing Date, the Seller shall provide, and shall cause the Company to provide, to the Purchaser and its

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professional advisors access during normal business hours to the relevant books, records, assets, premises, management and employees.
10.4
De Minimis, Basket, Liability Cap
10.4.1
The Seller shall be liable for breach of a Seller Guarantee other than a Fundamental Guarantee only if and to the extent that:
(a)
the amount of the Guarantee Claims resulting from an individual breach exceeds an amount of USD 65,000.00 (in words: sixty-five thousand U.S. Dollars) (the De Minimis Amount ) (provided that Guarantee Claims of the same or similar source and nature shall be aggregated); and
(b)
the aggregate amounts of all Guarantee Claims resulting from all individual breaches of a Seller Guarantee exceed an amount of USD 650,000 (in words: six-hundred fifty thousand U.S. Dollars) (the Basket ); provided, however, that if such aggregate amount of Guarantee Claims exceeds the Basket the Purchaser shall be entitled to the full amount of the Guarantee Claims (including the first USD 1.00).
10.4.2
The aggregate liability of the Seller under Guarantee Claims (except for Fundamental Guarantees, as such term is defined below) shall be capped at an aggregate amount of USD 6,500,000 (the Liability Cap 1 ). The aggregate liability of the Seller under all Guarantee Claims (except for Guarantee Claims arising from the Seller Guarantees under Clause 9.2) and under the specific indemnification in accordance with Clause 12 and 13 shall be capped at an aggregate amount of USD 10,500,000 plus the amount of any Earn-out (the Liability Cap 2 ). For the avoidance of doubt, the Liability Cap 1 and the Liability Cap 2 shall both not apply to Guarantee Claims arising from the Seller Guarantees under Clause 9.2. Furthermore, the De Minimis Amount and the Basket shall not apply to Guarantee Claims arising from the Seller Guarantees under Clauses 9.2, 9.13 (but only to the extent a relevant Legal Dispute relates to a violation of criminal and/or regulatory laws), 9.14 and 9.17 (the Fundamental Guarantees ) against the Seller and under the specific indemnification in accordance with Clause 12 and 13. All of the foregoing limitations of Seller’s liability shall not apply to any claims under this Agreement based on intentional infliction of harm, fraud or willful misconduct. For the avoidance of doubt, any liability of the Seller’s Guarantors under this Agreement shall remain unaffected by the foregoing limitations of liability.
10.4.3
All Guarantee Claims, except for those based on a breach of Fundamental Guarantees, shall be with recourse only against the Escrow Amount 1.
10.5
Further Limitations
10.5.1
The Seller shall not be liable for breach of a Seller Guarantee if and to the extent that:
(a)
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(b)
the matter underlying the breach of a Seller Guarantee has been taken into account in the Financial Statements as a specific write-off ( Abschreibung ), specific value adjustment ( Wertberichtigung ), specific liability ( Verbindlichkeit ) or specific provision ( Rückstellung );
(c)
the amounts of such Guarantee Claims have been recovered by the Purchaser and/or the Company from a third party, including under an existing insurance policy (provided that nothing herein shall require the Purchaser to litigate or otherwise appeal any denial of third-party coverage with respect to such Guarantee Claim; provided further that the Purchaser shall, if requested in writing by the Seller and to the extent reasonably possible and without cost, liability or adverse effect to the Purchaser, assign to the Seller any third-party claims relating to the Guarantee Claim that the Purchaser elects not to pursue);
(d)
the Purchaser had actual knowledge ( positive Kenntnis ) (and, for the avoidance of doubt, negligent or grossly negligent absence of knowledge shall be irrelevant) of the relevant facts and circumstances underlying said Guarantee Claim; provided, however, that such exclusion of claims shall not apply if the Seller had actual knowledge ( positive Kenntnis ) (and, for the avoidance of doubt, negligent or grossly negligent absence of knowledge shall be irrelevant) that the facts and circumstances underlying such Guarantee Claim constituted a breach of a Guarantee;
(e)
the relevant facts and circumstances underlying said Guarantee Claim have been fairly disclosed ( Fairly Disclosed ) to the Purchaser in (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Company Disclosure Schedule, or (iii) in the documents contained in the Intralinks data room “Project Blossom” (the Data Room ) as of August 31, 2017. The Data Room has been stored in its entirely on one (1) USB stick and handed over to the Purchaser’s counsel for verification, and the Purchaser’s counsel then handed over the verified copy to the acting notary for it to be held by him in custody until six (6) years after the Signing Date and then handed over to the Company. For the purpose of this Agreement, unless otherwise noted, the term Fairly Disclosed requires that on the Signing Date the disclosure enabled or would have reasonably enabled an objective third party having industry knowledge with support by professional advisors to make an informed assessment of the nature of the matter and its significance, with the Seller acknowledging that it has restricted the Purchaser’s access to certain contents of the Data Room by way of restrictions and/or limitations placed on accessing, viewing, printing, downloading and copying documents. Regardless of the Purchaser’s Knowledge, nothing shall be considered Fairly Disclosed to the extent that it contradicts or is otherwise inconsistent with any affirmative statement or omission contained in (x) Clause 9.2, or (y) any Seller Guarantees (other than in Clause 9.2) with respect to any Guarantee Claims exceeding, in the aggregate inclusive of all such Guarantee Claims, USD 1,000,000 (it being understood and agreed that the Sellers would not be liable for the first USD 1,000,000 of said Guarantee Claims even if additional Guarantee Claims of that

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sort occurred). In addition to the foregoing limitations, (a) documents listed on Schedule 10.5.1(d) shall not be considered Fairly Disclosed regardless of being contained in the Data Room, (b) documents referenced in documents contained in the Data Room shall not be considered Fairly Disclosed unless said referenced documents are also contained in the Data Room, (c) documents contained in the Data Room but not listed on the Intralinks index shall not be considered Fairly Disclosed, (d) documents in the Data Room named, titled or labeled inaccurately or misleadingly shall not be considered Fairly Disclosed, (e) information contained by passing reference or in documents in which an objective third party would not expect to look for said information shall not be considered Fairly Disclosed, and (f) documents located in an area, folder or subfolder in the Data Room (based on the headings of such area, folder or subfolder in the Data Room) other than where an objective third party would reasonably expect it to be located shall not be considered Fairly Disclosed, it being understood, in each case with respect to each of the forgoing subsections (a) through (f), that the relevant matter underlying the Guarantee Claim which is not disclosed to a sufficient extent so as to allow the Purchaser an informed assessment of the matter in a document shall not be considered Fairly Disclosed;
(f)
the Guarantee Claims result from or are increased by the passing of, or any change in, any law statute, ordinance, rule or regulation after the Closing Date; or
(g)
the Guarantee Claims result from a failure of the Purchaser or, after the Closing Date, any Lovoo Company to mitigate damages pursuant to section 254 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB ).
10.5.2
Section 377 of the German Commercial Code ( Handelsgesetzbuch - HGB ) and section 442 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB ) shall not apply.
10.5.3
No loss suffered by the Purchaser or the Company as a result of a breach of this Agreement shall be counted more than once (e.g. if a breach has resulted in losses of the Company and in losses of the Purchaser in the form of a corresponding reduction of the value of the Shares held by the Purchaser). The Purchaser shall not be entitled to recover from the Seller more than once in respect of the same damage suffered. In particular, without limitation, the foregoing shall apply where one and the same set of facts ( Sachverhalt ) qualifies under more than one provision entitling the Purchaser to a claim or remedy under or in connection with this Agreement.
10.6
Third party claims giving rise to breach of Seller Guarantee
10.6.1
In case the Purchaser receives a written notice that a claim or demand has been asserted or threatened by a third party for which the Seller may be liable under this Agreement, the Purchaser shall notify the Seller of such claim or demand and of the related facts within Purchaser’s knowledge within a reasonable time (in no event to exceed 10 Banking Days) after receiving such written notice, provided, however, that the Purchaser’s failure or delay to provide such notice shall not affect the Seller’s indemnification obligations hereunder except to the extent that such failure or delay harmed the Seller. Subject to

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Clause 10.6.4 below, Purchaser shall have the right to conduct and control, through counsel of its own choosing any third-party claim, action, or suit asserted against Purchaser or the Company ( Third Party Claim ) and shall keep the Seller informed of the status of the Third Party Claim. If there is a conflict or a reasonably likely potential conflict between the positions of the Purchaser and the Seller in conducting the defense of a Third Party Claim, Seller shall be entitled to participate in the defense of such Third Party Claim, but without prejudicing the right of the Purchaser to conduct and control the defense against the Third Party Claim subject to Clause 10.6.4 below.
10.6.2
The Purchaser shall grant, and cause the Company to grant, the Seller the opportunity to review and assess the matter and to receive copies of all relevant orders ( Bescheide ) of any governmental authority, subject to any privileged communications of the Purchaser, and, to (i) attend conferences, meetings, and proceedings relating to the Third Party Claim and (ii) offer comments on, participate in, and review any reports and all relevant audits or other measures.
10.6.3
The Purchaser shall ensure that the Seller is provided with all materials and any information reasonably relevant to the Third Party Claim.
10.6.4
Subject to the prior written confirmation by the Seller to the Purchaser to fully indemnify the Purchaser against the relevant Third Party Claim, the Seller is entitled to take over the defence against a Third Party Claim by written notice to the Purchaser at any time at its sole discretion, provided that said Third Party Claim (i) does not involve any alleged violation of criminal and/or regulatory laws, (ii) may be resolved by the payment of money without requiring the Company or the Purchaser to take any action or refrain from taking any action, and (iii) is for an amount of money less than the available relevant Escrow Amount, taking into account all other outstanding Third Party Claims. In that case, the Seller may in particular take any measures (or cause the Purchaser or the Company to take such measures) that in its opinion are necessary to dispute, defend, acknowledge or settle such Third Party Claim in the name and on behalf of the Purchaser or the Company. The Purchaser shall provide, and shall procure that the Company provides, the Seller, its professional advisors and accountants with all relevant information, documents and assistance. The Seller shall keep the Purchaser informed of the status of the defense to a reasonable extent, and shall comply with any reasonable requests by the Purchaser with respect to the necessary or useful defense measures for avoiding a material adverse effect on the business of the Purchaser or the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, the Seller may not settle or consensually resolve any Third Party Claim without the Purchaser’s written consent if said settlement or consensual resolution (i) does not fully release the Company and the Purchaser from all liability with respect to said Third Party Claim, (ii) requires the Company or the Purchaser to take any action or refrain from taking any action, or (iii) causes the Company or the Purchaser to admit liability or wrongdoing.
10.6.5
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be unreasonably withheld or delayed. No settlement, adjustment, or compromise of any Third Party Claim shall be determinative for the existence of a Guarantee Claim or the amounts of damage relating to such Guarantee Claim. In the event that the Seller consents in writing to any settlement, adjustment, or compromise of any Third Party Claim, subject to the other limitations contained in this Agreement, the Seller shall have no further power or authority to object to the amount of any Guarantee Claim by the Purchaser for restitution of damages with respect to such settlement adjustment or compromise.
10.6.6
The costs and expenses incurred in relation to the defense against the Third Party Claim shall be borne as follows: All costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the Purchaser or the Company (other than internal costs such as labor or overhead costs) shall, to the extent the Third Party Claim constitutes a claim for which the Seller is, subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, liable, be borne by the Seller, subject to the Purchaser having complied with its obligations under this Clause 10.6. All costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the Seller (other than internal costs such as labor or overhead costs) shall, to the extent the Third Party Claim does not constitute a claim for which the Seller is, subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, liable, be borne by the Purchaser, provided, however, that in case the Seller has taken over the defence against a Third Party Claim pursuant to Clause 10.6.4, the Seller shall fully indemnify the Purchaser with respect to such Third Party Claim as of the point of time of the taking over of such defence. In respect of all other costs and expenses incurred by the Seller or the Purchaser, the Seller and the Purchaser shall each bear their own costs and expenses.
11.
Purchaser Guarantees
11.1
Form and scope of Purchaser Guarantees
The Purchaser hereby guarantees to the Seller, by way of independent promises of guarantee ( selbständige Garantieversprechen ) within the meaning of section 311 para. 1 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch — BGB ) and subject to the requirements and limitations provided in in this Agreement, that the statements made in Clause 11.2 to Clause 11.4 (collectively referred to as Purchaser Guarantees or individually a Purchaser Guarantee ) are correct as of the Signing Date and on the Closing Date, unless another relevant point in time has been stipulated therein.
11.2
Organization; Standing and Power
The Purchaser is a limited liability company ( Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung ) organized under the laws of Germany and registered with the commercial register of the lower court ( Amtsgericht ) of Charlottenburg, Germany, under registration no. HRB 186988 B.
11.3
Authority
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and delivery by the Purchaser of this Agreement and the performance of Purchaser’s obligations under this Agreement have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Purchaser.
11.4
No Violations; Consents and Approvals
The execution and delivery of this Agreement do not, and the consummation of this Agreement will not, conflict with or result in any violation under (a) any provision of the articles of association of Purchaser, or (b) any loan or credit agreement, note, bond, mortgage, indenture, contract, lease, or other agreement or instrument, permit, concession, franchise, license, judgment, order, decree, statute, law, ordinance, rule, or regulation applicable to Purchaser, other than, in the case of clause (b), any such violation that would not individually or in the aggregate, prevent Purchaser from consummating the Transactions. No consent by a governmental authority is required by or with respect to Purchaser in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by Purchaser or the consummation by Purchaser of this Agreement.
12.
Specific Indemnity
12.1
Indemnity
The Seller shall comprehensively indemnify and hold harmless ( Freistellung ) the Purchaser and/or, at the Purchaser’s discretion, the Company from and against any and all losses, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses of any kind and basis (including those arising out of any demand, assessment, settlement, judgment or compromise relating to any actual or threatened legal proceedings) resulting from, under or in connection with any (i) any criminal ( Straf- (or equivalent)) or regulatory defense ( Ordnungswidrigkeits - (or equivalent)) or action, suit, investigation or other legal proceedings (including proceedings pending before any court or other governmental authority) initiated by a governmental authority of competent jurisdiction against the Lovoo Companies, its founders, managing directors, consultants, freelancers, or any employee of the Lovoo Companies, or other individuals in connection with their involvement or employment at the Lovoo Companies, and/or (ii) any fine and/or other sanction for a violation of any Legal Requirement as part of such legal proceedings imposed or ordered against the Lovoo Companies, and/or (iii) any other actual claims, including without limitation private actions under civil law, (and the defense against such claims) or proceedings which are based on or relate to a violation of any Legal Requirement, including, without limitation, from and against any and all losses, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses of any kind and basis resulting from, under or in connection with any such fines or sanctions which are imposed or ordered by any governmental authority or damages which are awarded to any person against the Lovoo Companies; provided, however, that for the avoidance of doubt, the Seller shall not be required to indemnify the Purchaser or the Company with respect to actions taken by the Purchaser or the Company after the completion of the Closing.

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12.2
Notification and Third Party Claims
Clauses 10.3, 10.5.3 and 10.6 shall apply mutatis mutandis to indemnity claims made by the Purchaser under Clause 12.1, unless and to the extent otherwise set forth therein.
13.
Tax indemnity
13.1
Definitions
For the purposes of this Agreement, Tax or Taxes shall mean any taxes within the meaning of section 3 of the German Tax Code ( Abgabenordnung - AO ) ( Steuern und steuerliche Nebenleistungen ) or under the laws of other jurisdictions (including, without limitation, income tax, wage withholding tax, corporate tax, stamp and withholding tax, value added tax, real estate transfer tax, customs duties, and other taxes) and all ancillary charges, duties and levies, interest and fines related to taxes or charges, duties and levies of any kind under public law including social security contributions imposed by any relevant governmental authority or other public body (including in the U.S.) (herein referred to as the Tax Authority ) or owed due to Legal Requirements. For the purposes of this Agreement, Taxes shall further include any payments made as party liable for Taxes and payments to any other party pursuant to a tax sharing or indemnity arrangement, as well as any interest and any penalties, additions to tax or additional amounts under applicable law or imposed by a Tax Authority.
Within the meaning of this Agreement, Tax Return(s) are any and all returns, applications, preliminary filings which must be filed with or provided to the Tax Authorities in connection with Taxes.
13.2
Indemnification
The Seller shall indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser and/or, at the Purchaser’s discretion, any of the Lovoo Companies from and against any Taxes unpaid which have been or will be imposed on any of the Lovoo Companies attributable to, based on an “as-if assessment”, the period up to and including or resulting from action taken on or prior to the Closing Date. Clause 10.5.3 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Clause 13.2.
The Seller’s payment obligations pursuant to this Clause 13.2 shall become due five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which the respective Lovoo Company will have to pay the respective Taxes but not earlier than ten (10) Business Days after the Purchaser has notified the Seller of the respective claim under this Clause 13.2 and provided a copy of the underlying Tax assessment or a comparable document. If subsequently the Tax for which the payment has been made by the Seller is reduced again by way of Tax assessment or otherwise lowered the difference between the higher payment and the lower Tax liability shall be reimbursed by the Purchaser to the Seller, including all interest related thereto received by the respective Lovoo Company; Clause 13.4.2 shall apply mutatis mutandis .

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13.3
Exclusion and limitation of Tax indemnification
The Purchaser shall not have a claim under Clause 13.2 and the Seller shall not be obliged to indemnify the Purchaser or any of the Lovoo Companies in respect of Taxes mentioned thereat, if and to the extent
13.3.1
the aggregate amount of such Taxes does not exceed the aggregate amount of Taxes taken into account as deduction amount for the Purchase Price; or
13.3.2
the Purchaser or any Lovoo Company holds a claim against any third party, in respect of such Taxes. In case the Purchaser or the Lovoo Companies, despite all economically reasonable efforts, are unable to enforce the claim against the third party within reasonable time, a claim can be brought against the Seller under Clause 13.2 provided the Purchaser or the relevant Lovoo Company assigns all claims it might have against a third party in such respect to the Seller; or
13.3.3
such Taxes result from any change in the accounting and taxation principles or practices (unless required by law or by its application by the Tax Authorities) of any Lovoo Company introduced after the Closing Date with retroactive effect to any assessment periods ( Veranlagungszeiträume ) or portions thereof up to and including the Closing Date; or
13.3.4
such Taxes result from actions, transactions or measures performed or implemented on or after the Closing Date or relating to periods starting on or after the Closing Date with retroactive effect to any assessment periods ( Veranlagungszeiträume ) up to the Closing Date; or
13.3.5
such Taxes do correspond to or can be offset against Tax reductions ( Steuerminderungen ), Tax refunds or other Tax savings or Tax related advantages and arising within a period of five (5) years after the Closing Date, in each case relating to circumstances which result in claims for Tax indemnification under Clause 13.2, including but not limited to refunds of withholding Taxes or the reduction of payment obligations vis-à-vis third parties, reciprocal effects ( Umkehreffekte ) resulting e.g. from the lengthening of depreciation periods, higher depreciation allowances or the reduction or non-recognition of provisions or from the transfer of Tax relevant items into another Tax assessment period or the transfer of Tax items from one Group Company to another Group Company, in each case occurring at or after the Closing Date (together Tax Saving ). Such Tax Saving shall reduce the claims for any Tax indemnification under Clause 13.2, whereby any future Tax Saving shall be discounted at a rate of five (5)% p.a. over the anticipated period of time during which the Tax Benefit is expected to materialize; Clause 10.5.3 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Clause 13.3.5 to the benefit of the Purchaser with respect to Clause 13.4.1; or
13.3.6
the Purchaser has not fully complied with its obligations under Clauses 13.5 through 13.7 ( Mitwirkungsrechte ), except if and to the extent that the Purchaser demonstrates that such non-compliance has not materially impaired the chances to achieve a reduction of any Tax assessment or Tax claim by the Tax Authorities (including because a remedy

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against a Tax assessment is still available in connection with the non-compliance in which relevant facts or arguments can still validly be introduced to a Tax proceeding before an authority or court).
13.4
Tax Refunds
13.4.1
After Closing, the Purchaser undertakes to compensate the Seller for any Tax refunds and comparable amounts (including without being limited to repayments, refunds, offset or other reduction of Taxes) obtained by any Lovoo Company relating to periods ending on or before the Closing Date, in each case, together with any interest thereon which has actually been refunded by the Tax Authorities under applicable Tax laws. Clause 10.5.3 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Clause 13.4.1 to the benefit of the Purchaser with respect to Clause 13.3.5.
13.4.2
The Purchaser is obligated to notify the Seller of any Tax refunds in the meaning of Clause 13.4.1 without undue delay. Any amounts payable to the Seller under Clause 13.4.1 shall become due and payable five (5) Business Days following the date of receipt of such Tax refund by the Company.
13.5
Tax Returns
13.5.1
The Seller shall have the right to review and comment on any tax returns to be filed by the Company for assessment periods which end prior to or on the Closing Date, except for such tax returns which already have been filed with the competent Tax Authority (the Relevant Tax Return ). The Relevant Tax Returns have to be prepared in compliance with the applicable Tax laws and on a basis consistent with those prepared for prior tax assessment periods, unless applicable Tax laws require the deviation. The Purchaser shall (i) provide or procure that the Lovoo Companies provide the Seller with the respective draft Relevant Tax Returns for review and approval (which may not be unreasonably withheld) and (ii) grant access or procure that the Lovoo Companies grant access to the books and records to the extent relating to the Relevant Tax returns to Seller and the counsel of the Seller’s choice in due course, each (i) and (ii) not later than twenty (20) Business Days prior to the due date of the Relevant Tax Return. The consent of the Seller pursuant to this Clause 13.5.1 shall be deemed to be granted if the Seller fails to deliver written notice of its consent or instructions within ten (10) Business Days after the date of the receipt of the respective drafts of the Relevant Tax Returns unless the Seller has not been granted access to the books and records or not received copies of relevant documents upon its request and at its cost in due course. In the event that the Tax Returns are filed without reflecting the comments of the Seller, claims of the Purchaser under Clause 13.2 shall be excluded only if and to the extent the Seller can prove that additional Taxes or other disadvantages result therefrom. This does not apply to the extent the Purchaser can prove that a filing or an amendment differing from the Seller’s comments or instructions under this Clause 13.5.1 is required by mandatory law.
13.5.2
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relating to assessment periods ending on or prior to the Closing Date without prior written consent of the Seller. Sentences 2 and 3 of Clause 13.5.1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this Clause 13.5.2.
13.6
Tax Assessments and Tax Audits
13.6.1
The Purchaser shall procure that the Seller is informed without undue delay, at the latest however within five (5) Business Days after receipt, of all Tax assessments ( Steuerbescheide ) including, for the avoidance of doubt, self-assessments ( Steueranmeldungen und –voranmeldungen ) and announcements of Tax audits ( Betriebsprüfungen ) or subsequent administrative or judicial procedures which may give rise to a claim of the Purchaser under Clause 13.2.
13.6.2
The Parties shall use all reasonable efforts in order to ensure that Tax audits or similar proceedings relating to tax assessment periods ( Veranlagungszeiträume ) up to the Closing Date can be completed as soon as possible and that Tax audits are initiated as soon as possible.
13.6.3
The Purchaser shall procure that the Seller is provided with all relevant documents and other information available to the Purchaser and/or the Company which are required to enable the Seller to evaluate the Tax assessments or Tax audits and the potential liability of the Seller under this Clause 13 in connection therewith.
13.6.4
If and to the extent that tax audits of the Company relate to Taxes for which the Seller may be liable under Clause 13.2, the Seller shall at his request be given the opportunity to instruct – to the extent legally permissible and taking into account the reasonable and legitimate business interests of the respective Lovoo Company– at his own expense, counsels, accountants or auditors in relation to such tax audits and to participate in meetings with Tax Authorities in relation to such tax audits.
13.6.5
The Purchaser shall procure with regard to Tax audits that,
(a)
the Tax auditor shall address questions and statements in writing (unless otherwise agreed upon by the Purchaser and the Seller in advance and in writing); and
(b)
such questions and statements are forwarded to the Seller without undue delay and that the Seller shall have the opportunity to comment on these questions and statements; and
(c)
the Seller – at the Seller’s own expense – is given the opportunity to participate in any meetings with the Tax auditor.
13.7
Defense
13.7.1
The Purchaser shall take, and shall procure that the Lovoo Companies take, at the Seller’s expense, such action as the Seller reasonably requests by written notice to the Purchaser to avoid, dispute, resist, appeal or otherwise defend against any claim for Taxes for which

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Seller may be liable under Clause 13.2. . The Purchaser shall, and shall procure that the Lovoo Companies do, (i) keep the Seller informed of the status of the defense, and (ii) comply with any reasonable requests and instructions of the Seller.
13.7.2
With respect to Taxes which may give raise to a claim of the Purchaser under Clause 13.2 no concession shall be made by the Purchaser or the Lovoo Companies, and no claim for Taxes shall be acknowledged or settled, without prior written consent of the Seller, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The consent of the Seller pursuant to this Clause 13.7.2 shall be deemed to be granted, if the Seller fails to deliver written notice of his consent within fifteen (15) Business Days after the Purchaser and/or the respective Lovoo Company has informed the Seller of such planned acknowledgment or settlement in writing.
14.
Further Limitations on Seller's liability
14.1
Sole Recourse
The Escrow Fund shall be the exclusive source of recourse for all claims of the Purchaser against the Seller under this Agreement,
(a)
except that any claims for breaches of Fundamental Guarantees under Clause 9.2, intentional breaches of this Agreement, and claims under Clauses 12 and 13 may be first taken from the Earn-out (to the extent the Earn-out Hurdle has been achieved and the Earn-out has not been yet paid), and
(b)
except for claims of the Purchaser resulting from (i) a breach of Fundamental Guarantees set forth in Clause 9.2 or (ii) intentional breaches of this Agreement, or (iii) any claims of the Purchaser against the Seller Guarantors pursuant to Clause 15.1.
14.2
Time limits
14.2.1
The Purchaser's claims under Clauses 9 through 13 and Clause 17 shall be time-barred two (2) years from the Effective Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence,
(a)
the Purchaser's Guarantee Claims under the Fundamental Guarantees shall be time-barred five (5) years after the Closing Date;
(b)
the Purchaser’s claims under Clause 12 (Specific Indemnity) shall be time-barred five (5) years after the Closing Date;
(c)
the Purchaser's claims under Clause 13 (Tax Indemnity) shall be time-barred six (6) months after the date of the final, non-appealable assessment concerning such Tax has expired.
14.2.2
Claims of Seller under Clause 13 shall become time-barred in accordance with Clause 14.2.1(c), but in any case not earlier than six months after the Seller has been notified by Purchaser about their claim in substance and volume.

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14.2.3
The limitation ( Verjährung ) of claims under this Agreement shall be suspended ( gehemmt ) in accordance with section 203 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB ) as soon as the Purchaser notifies the Seller in writing that it intends to bring a claim against the Seller. A suspension of the limitation period based on other statutory provisions shall continue to apply.
14.3
Seller payments
Payments by the Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clauses 10 through 13 to the Purchaser shall constitute a reduction of the Purchase Price or, where a payment is made directly to a Lovoo Company, a capital contribution ( Einlage ) of the Purchaser to the respective recipient.
15.
Seller Guarantors Contingent Liability ( Ausfallhaftung )
15.1
Guarantee
Each of the Seller Guarantors hereby guarantees to the Purchaser by way of an independent promise of guaranty pursuant to section 311 para. 1 of the German Civil Code the fulfillment of claims of the Purchaser which are based on (i) a breach of Fundamental Guarantees set forth in Clause 9.2 or (ii) intentional breaches of this Agreement by the relevant Seller Guarantor, provided, however, that if a Seller Guarantor had actual knowledge ( positive Kenntnis ) of an intentional breach of this Agreement by another Seller Guarantor, the respective Seller Guarantor shall be deemed to have intentionally breached this Agreement by himself.
15.2
Limitation of Guarantee
15.2.1
The Purchaser shall only be entitled to make claims against the Seller Guarantors under Clause 15.1, if the Escrow Fund is (i) fully exhausted, i.e. reduced to USD 0 (zero), pursuant to Clause 5.5.4, or (ii) fully released to the Seller on the Escrow Release Date 1 / the Escrow Release Date 2 (as applicable).
15.2.2
The obligations of each Seller Guarantor under the guarantee pursuant to Clause 15.1 shall be capped at the amount of the pro-rata participation of each Seller Guarantor in the Purchase Price. The pro-rata participation of each Seller Guarantor in the Purchase Price is set forth in Schedule 15.2.2 .
15.2.3
The obligation of the Seller Guarantors under Clause 15.1 shall be several and not jointly ( teilschuldnerisch ).
15.3
Certain Undertakings of the Seller Guarantors
Each of the Seller Guarantors shall be bound directly by the undertakings set forth in Clauses 17.3 sentence 2 and Clauses 18.1 through 18.3 as provided for in this Agreement.

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16.
Purchaser Guarantee
16.1.1
The Purchaser Guarantor hereby guarantees to the Seller by way of an independent promise of guaranty pursuant to section 311 para. 1 of the German Civil Code the fulfillment of any claims of the Seller under this Agreement.
16.1.2
The Parties hereby agree and confirm that the Purchaser Guarantor shall be entitled to pursue and enforce any claims and rights of the Purchaser under and/or in connection with this Agreement in its own name and on its own behalf.
17.
Further obligations of the Seller
17.1
Conduct until Closing
17.1.1
The Seller undertakes to ensure that the Lovoo Companies will conduct their business operations solely in the ordinary course of business and in accordance with the standard of care of a prudent merchant ( Sorgfalt eines ordentlichen Kaufmanns ) (and, in particular, ensure that from the Signing Date until and including the Closing Date the Lovoo Companies will maintain all their data and electronic records). Above all, no Lovoo Company shall
(a)
subject to Clause 17.1.1(b) below — incur a liability (including any conditional, deferred or deferrable liabilities) which in the individual case exceeds the amount of USD 100,000 (one hundred thousand), with the exception of current liabilities arising from the purchase of goods and services in the ordinary course of business and in substantially the same business manner as before;
(b)
take out loans or credits or other financing liabilities or assume a liability for third parties' debts;
(c)
pledge, assign, create a security interest in, or otherwise encumber, any tangible or intangible assets (regardless of whether such assets can or cannot be recognized on the balance sheet), except in the ordinary course of business and in substantially the same business manner as before;
(d)
sell, lease, transfer, or purchase any tangible or intangible assets (regardless of whether such assets can or cannot be recognized on the balance sheet), or undertake to do any of the foregoing, except for the sale or purchase of inventories which is done in the ordinary course of business and in substantially the same business manner as before;
(e)
waive or otherwise settle any liabilities exceeding USD 100,000 (one hundred thousand);
(f)
make, with respect to any officer, managing director, board member, employee, advisor, sales representative or distributor, any changes regarding salaries or other (also performance-based) remuneration or other contractual terms or pay any bonuses or other extraordinary compensation or make any severance

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payments or otherwise commit (even conditionally) to make such payments or grant a loan to any such persons;
(g)
increase or reduce its share capital or issue or transfer shares or agree to take such actions or grant or sell any subscription rights, options or other rights to receive shares or otherwise agree to take such actions;
(h)
take any action ( Handlungen ) which would constitute Leakage or enter into any agreement with a member of the Seller Group.
(i)
form, purchase or sell a company, partnership or enterprise or an open or silent interest ( (stille Beteiligung ) in a company or partnership or enter into an obligation to do any of the foregoing;
(j)
start a new business line or open branch offices, abandon any existing lines of business or close any business establishments ( Betriebsstätten );
(k)
sell a business which is under its operation or any divisions thereof or undertake any reorganization or restructuring pursuant to the German Transformation Act ( Umwandlungsgesetz ), conclude any affiliation agreements as defined in sec. 291 et seq. of the AktG or adopt shareholder resolutions that amend the articles of association;
(l)
take any action ( Handlungen ), or fail to take any action due ( Unterlassungen ) that would lead to an increase in Cash, unless it is done in the ordinary course of business and in substantially the same manner as before; in particular, each Lovoo Company shall collect any outstanding debt or sell receivables or enter into any such agreements solely in a manner that is consistent with its prior business practices in terms of time and scope;
(m)
build up and maintain its inventories in a manner or to an extent inconsistent with its prior business practices;
(n)
modify its research and development, manufacturing, purchasing, sales, marketing or pension policies;
(o)
amend or change (i) its terms of service or (ii) any data privacy policies, procedures or practices or (iii) make, revoke or modify any registrations with any regulators, governmental authorities (including any data protection authority) and/or agencies relating to the Lovoo Business Operations;
(p)
enter into any company-wide collective bargaining agreement ( Haustarifvertrag );
(q)
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(r)
amend or change its practices, policies or procedures relating to its products or services;
(s)
cancel, terminate or materially amend or modify or materially violate any Material Agreement.
17.1.2
From the Signing Date until and including the Closing Date, the Seller is under an obligation not to act in a manner which (i) impairs, jeopardizes or hinders the Closing, or (ii) results in a breach of a Seller Guarantee, or (iii) causes a Material Adverse Change.
17.1.3
From the Signing Date until and including the Closing Date, the Seller is under an obligation to inform the Purchaser in writing without undue delay after learning of any facts or circumstances which could impair, jeopardize or hinder the Closing or could constitute a breach of a Seller Guarantee or could lead to Material Adverse Change. To the extent legally possible, the Seller must direct the Lovoo Companies to notify the Purchaser themselves in accordance with sentence 1 of this Clause 17.1.3.
17.1.4
Following the Signing Date, the Seller shall use reasonable best efforts to procure an expeditious dissolution of the Subsidiary prior to Closing.
17.1.5
The Seller undertakes to ensure that until the Closing Date the Lovoo Companies will have terminated all current engagements with their financial and legal advisors and that the financial and legal advisors of the Lovoo Companies will have provided the Lovoo Companies with any invoices relating to their services provided for the Lovoo Companies until and including the Closing Date.
17.2
Contracts between the Seller Group and the Lovoo Companies
The Seller shall take the action necessary to ensure that with the exception of the contracts listed in Schedule 17.2 all contracts, which have been concluded between the Seller or other members of the Seller Group, on the one hand, and the Lovoo Companies, on the other hand, are terminated with effect as of the Closing Date without producing any costs or obligations for or disruption for the business of the Lovoo Companies. From and after the Signing Date, the Seller will use its best efforts to have the contracts listed in Schedule 17.2 assigned to the Company on terms acceptable to the Purchaser and the Seller will pay all costs, fees, rents and other expenses related to such assignment and from and after the Closing Date the Seller will reimburse the Company for any service fees (including without limitation the 10% rent charge) related to the sublease; if the Seller fails to make any such payments on a timely and current basis, then the Purchaser may have such amounts (including without limitation any late fees or other penalties) released upon written notice from the Escrow Amount 2.
17.3
Company name and trademarks
The Purchaser, the Lovoo Companies and their respective legal successors are entitled, but not obligated vis-à-vis the Seller, to continue using indefinitely the trade names, trademarks, logos and business designations of the Lovoo Companies, including all the derivations thereof (collectively referred as the Lovoo Marks ). Starting on the Closing

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Date, the Seller and the Seller Guarantors shall not, in any way, use or distribute into the stream of commerce the Lovoo Marks or any other designations or company names that could be confused with the Lovoo Marks.
17.4
Transition
The Seller shall take the action necessary to ensure that the Lovoo Companies and the Lovoo Business Operations duly pass to the Purchaser upon the Closing of this Agreement, and that namely all information be made available which the Purchaser and the organizational bodies of the Lovoo Companies require to seamlessly continue the Lovoo Business Operations.
17.5
Insurance coverage
The Seller shall ensure that the Lovoo Companies and their business operations remain insured until the Closing Date in substantially the same manner as they are insured on the Signing Date and that all premiums due under such insurance policies are duly and timely paid. Furthermore, the Seller shall ensure that – to the extent legally possible under the relevant insurance contract and not already covered by the relevant insurance contract – until the Closing Date the Lovoo Companies buy any customary “tail policies” available under their existing insurance policies with customary tail periods.
17.6
Conduct of the Seller following Closing
17.6.1
The Seller agrees not to adopt any shareholders' resolutions of the Company after the assignment of the Shares pursuant to Clause 7.5.1(g) becomes effective, unless such resolutions were requested by the Purchaser in writing.
17.6.2
The Seller hereby irrevocably authorizes the Purchaser to adopt the following shareholders' resolutions of the Company after the assignment of the Shares under Clause 7.5.1(g) becomes effective and before the Purchaser is deemed to be the holder of the Shares in relation to the Company pursuant to section 16 para. 1 sentence 1 of the German Act on Limited Liability Companies ( Gesetz betreffend die Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung – GmbHG ) (as the case may be, in addition to the shareholders' resolutions adopted by the Purchaser pursuant to section 16 para., 1 sentence 2 of the German Act on Limited Liability Companies ( Gesetz betreffend die Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung – GmbHG )):
(a)
dismissal of all or some of the managing directors of the Company as well as any change in their power of representation;
(b)
appointment of new managing directors of the Company;
(c)
amendments to the articles of association including any change to the registered company name, registered office, fiscal year, rules on representation and management as well as the shareholders' meeting, contributions to capital reserve accounts, but not any resolutions related to increasing the registered share capital;

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(d)
conclusion of any domination or profit transfer agreements as well as other affiliation agreements;
(e)
any and all other shareholders' resolutions, provided that the Purchaser gives the Seller security to cover any possible claims which the Seller may have as a shareholder based on those shareholders' resolutions.
17.6.3
The Seller shall be obligated to surrender to the Purchaser without undue delay any payments (e.g. distributions of profits) received from the Company based on its status as shareholder after the assignment of the Lovoo Shares pursuant to Clause 7.5.1(g) becomes effective.
17.7
Damages
The Seller agrees to compensate the Purchaser or, at its election, the Lovoo Companies for any damages in accordance with sections 249 through 252 of the German Civil Code ( Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch – BGB ), which the Purchaser or the Lovoo Companies incur from or in connection with a breach of the obligations under this Clause 17.
18.
Non-competition; Non-solicitation
18.1
Non-competition
18.1.1
The Seller and each of the Seller Guarantors agree that for a period of two (2) years from the Closing Date and in the Restricted Territory,
(a)
they shall not engage in any activity which would compete either directly or indirectly with the Lovoo Business Operations as they exist on the Signing Date or on the Closing Date; and
(b)
they shall not form, acquire or invest either directly or indirectly in any manner in any company or other enterprise which competes either directly or indirectly with the Lovoo Business Operations as they exist on the Signing Date or on the Closing Date.
The non-compete covenant shall not extend to the purchase of up to five (5) per cent of shares in any publicly listed companies, provided that it is impossible for the Seller or the Seller Guarantors to exert any influence on the management bodies of such companies.
18.1.2
If an obligation under Clause 18.1.1 is breached, then the Purchaser may demand in writing upon setting a reasonable grace period that the Seller or the relevant Seller Guarantor(s) cease and desist from committing such breach. After the grace period set forth in sentence 1 above has expired, the Seller or the relevant Seller Guarantor(s) shall pay a contractual penalty ( Vertragsstrafe ) in the amount of USD 50,000 to the Purchaser (or, at the Purchaser's option, the Lovoo Companies) for each subsequent incident involving a breach. In the event of a continuing breach, the contractual penalty is to be paid again for each month commenced in which the breach persists. A formal notice of

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default ( Abmahnung ), as set forth in sentence 1, shall not be necessary, if the Seller or the relevant Seller Guarantor(s) seriously and definitively refuse to stop breaching conduct.
18.1.3
If an obligation under Clause 18.1.1 is breached, then the Purchaser may also demand that the Seller or the relevant Seller Guarantor(s) place it (or, at the election of the Purchaser, a Lovoo Company designated by the Purchaser) in such position as it would have been in had the activity that breached Clause 18.1.1 been carried out for its account. In particular, any benefit or advantage which the Seller or the relevant Seller Guarantor(s) or another member of the Seller Group concerned may gain from the prohibited activity must be passed on to the Purchaser (or the Lovoo Company concerned). The right to recover more extensive damages which the Purchaser, a Lovoo Company or other members of the Purchaser's group of companies sustains as a result of the breaching conduct, is reserved.
18.2
Non-solicitation
The Seller and each of the Seller Guarantors agree that for a period of two (2) years from the Closing Date, they shall not solicit or entice away from the Purchaser or any Lovoo Company any persons who have worked as an officer, managing director, board member or member of senior management ( leitender Angestellter ) for the Lovoo Companies at any time during the two (2) years prior to the Closing Date. Neither the Seller nor any Seller Guarantor shall offer, directly or indirectly, to or execute with such persons any employment, service or consultancy agreements. In the event that the foregoing duties are breached, Clauses 18.1.2 and 18.1.3 shall apply mutatis mutandis . For purposes of clarification, the foregoing shall neither restrict the Seller nor the Seller Guarantors from (a) hiring, soliciting or otherwise working with any such officer, director or employee who (i) responds to any general solicitation of employment (as described in sub-section (b) below), (ii) has been terminated by the Company prior to commencement of employment discussions between the Seller or the relevant Seller Guarantor, as the case may be, and such officer, director or employee, (iii) contacts the Seller or a Seller Guarantor solely on his or her own initiative and without direct or indirect solicitation by the Seller or the relevant Seller Guarantor, as the case may be; or (b) conducting general solicitations for employees or independent contractors (which solicitations are not specifically targeted at the Company’s employees) through the use of media advertisements, professional search firms or otherwise.
18.3
Confidentiality with respect to the Lovoo Business
The Seller and the Seller Guarantors shall treat any and all information concerning the Lovoo Companies and the Lovoo Business Operations as strictly confidential, shall effectively protect such information from access by third parties and shall not use such confidential information for their own purposes or for the purposes of any third party.

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19.
Confidentiality and press releases
19.1
Confidentiality with respect to this Agreement and the Parties
The Parties mutually agree to treat as strictly confidential, and to prevent the disclosure to any third parties of, the contents of this Agreement, the circumstances concerning its negotiation, its execution and its consummation as well as any and all information which they have obtained and which relates to the other Party or that Party's Affiliates (with the exception of the Lovoo Group in relation to which only Clause 18.3 shall apply). The foregoing duties shall not apply to any facts which are in the public domain, which have entered the public domain without a violation of this obligation or the disclosure of which is required by law or by the applicable securities laws or capital markets rules or advisable to disclose under such rules pursuant to legal counsel or which are otherwise requested by governmental authorities to be disclosed.
19.2
Passing on of information
The Seller may disclose any information that is protected under Clauses 19.1 to other members of the Seller Group and to third parties, if and to the extent that such disclosure is required in order to perform this Agreement and the transactions stipulated herein. The Purchaser may disclose any information that is protected under Clause 19.1 to its Affiliates and to third parties, if and to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to perform this agreement and the transactions stipulated herein or otherwise required to protect the Purchaser's fair interest ( berechtigte Interessen ). Before disclosing any information, the Parties shall obtain from the recipients of the information a written undertaking by which such recipients commit to confidentiality according to Clause 19.1.
19.3
Press releases
Prior to issuing any press release or making any similar voluntary announcement with respect to this Agreement, its formation or its performance, the Seller and the Purchaser shall agree on the form and content of such press release or similar announcement. Prior to the Closing Date, if a public announcement is required by law or under the applicable capital markets rules, then the Purchaser shall be free to make the announcement under this Agreement; in this case, only the minimum information required will be published, unless Seller and Purchaser agree otherwise. Neither the Seller nor any member of the Seller Group shall issue any press release, grant any media interview, or issue any public statement regarding the Company, the Purchaser, or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Purchaser.

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20.
Costs
20.1
Advisor costs
Each Party shall bear its own costs and expenses in connection with the preparation, conclusion and performance of this agreement, including any professional fees, charges and expenses of its respective advisors.
20.2
Other costs; fees
The costs of the notarization of this Agreement and the fees charged by the competent antitrust authorities shall be borne by the Purchaser.
21.
Assignability
21.1
No assignment or transfer without consent
No rights and obligations under this Agreement may be assigned or transferred to third parties, either in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of the other Party.
21.2
Assignment by the Purchaser  
The Purchaser is entitled, however, to assign the rights under this agreement to the financing banks for purposes of financing the transaction stipulated in this Agreement. In the event of such an assignment, the Purchaser shall ensure the performance of the assignee's duties under this Agreement.
21.3
Enforcement of claims after transfer of shares in Lovoo Companies to third parties
If a Lovoo Company or a legal successor of a Lovoo Company incurs damage and its shares have been transferred by the Purchaser or another Lovoo Company to a third party, and if the Purchaser would have had a claim against the Seller under this Agreement based on such damage in the event that it or the selling Lovoo Company were still the owner of the sold shares, then the Purchaser shall be entitled in its own name to enforce against the Seller a claim for the damages suffered by the third party or by the sold Lovoo Company or its legal successor. The Seller shall be obligated to make all the necessary filings in any judicial proceedings in order to allow the Purchaser to enforce the damages pursuant to sentence 1 hereof.
22.
Notices
22.1
Form of Notices
All legally binding statements and other notices in connection with this Agreement (collectively the Notices ) shall be made in English and in writing unless a formal notarization or another specific form is required by mandatory law. The written form requirement shall be satisfied through transmission by email of a pdf-copy of a Notice which is signed on behalf of the relevant Party or an exchange of letters (but not through any other form of telecommunication transmission). For the avoidance of doubt, all

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communication under or in connection with this Agreement, whether or not in the form of Notices, shall be in English.
22.2
Notices to the Seller
Any Notices to be delivered to the Seller hereunder shall be addressed as set forth on Schedule 22.2 .
22.3
Notices to the Purchaser and the Purchaser Guarantor
Any Notices to be delivered to the Purchaser and/or the Purchaser Guarantor hereunder shall be addressed set forth on Schedule 22.3 .
22.4
Notices to the Seller Guarantors
22.4.1
Any Notices to be delivered to any of the Seller Guarantors hereunder shall be addressed the relevant Seller Guarantor as is set forth in Schedule 22.4.1 .
22.4.2
In case a Notice is to be delivered to all Seller Guarantors, then a Notice to BAK Venture GmbH as the representative of all Seller Guarantors shall be sufficient.
22.5
Change of address
The Parties shall without undue delay give written Notice to the other Party of any changes in the addresses set forth in Clauses 22.2 through 22.4 above. In the absence of such communication, the addresses stated above shall remain in place.
22.6
Notices to advisors
22.6.1
The receipt of Notices or any copies thereof in connection with this Agreement by the Parties’ advisors shall not constitute the receipt, or serve as a substitute for the receipt of, such Notice by the Parties themselves.
22.6.2
Whether or not the advisor to a Party or the acting notary received the Notice for its/his/her information is irrelevant for purposes of determining the receipt of the Notice by that Party, even if the Agreement specifically provides that Notice should be given to the respective advisor or executing notary for information purposes.
23.
Miscellaneous
23.1
Governing law
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany without reference to the choice of law principles thereof.
23.1
Arbitration proceedings
All disputes arising in connection with this Agreement or its validity shall be finally settled in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the German Institution of Arbitration ( DIS ) without recourse to the ordinary courts of law. The number of arbitrators is three.

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The place of arbitration is Frankfurt am Main. The language of the arbitral proceedings is English.
23.2
Amendments to this Agreement
Any amendment of, supplement to or termination ( Aufhebung ) of, this Agreement, including any modification of this clause, shall be valid only if made in writing, unless more stringent form requirements (e.g. notarization) must be satisfied under applicable law. A consent of the Seller Guarantors to any amendment of or supplement to this Agreement shall only be required, if the legal position of the Seller Guarantors under this Agreement is adversely affected.
23.3
Severability
Should any provision of this Agreement be or become invalid, ineffective or unenforceable as a whole or in part, the validity, effectiveness and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby. Any such invalid, ineffective or unenforceable provision shall be deemed replaced by such, valid, effective and enforceable provision as comes closest to the economic intent and the purpose of such invalid, ineffective or unenforceable provision as regards subject-matter, amount, time, place and extent. It is the express intention of the Parties to maintain the validity of the remaining provisions in any event and to exclude the applicability of section 139 BGB. The aforesaid shall apply mutatis mutandis to any gap in this Agreement.
23.4
No Third Party Beneficiaries
Except as expressly stipulated in this Agreement, this Agreement shall not grant any right or remedy to any Persons who are not a Party to this Agreement.
24.
Definitions and Rules of Interpretation
24.1
Definitions
In addition to the terms defined in the body of this Agreement, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings given to them in Exhibit B . Capitalized terms defined in the body of this Agreement are listed in Exhibit A with reference to the location of the definitions of such terms in the body of this Agreement.
24.2
Rules of Interpretation
24.2.1
The headings and sub-headings of the clauses, sub-clauses, Exhibits and Schedules in this Agreement are for convenience and reference purposes only.
24.2.2
The considerations set forth in the preamble as well as any Exhibits or Schedules to this Agreement shall form an integral part thereof and references to this Agreement shall include the considerations and any schedules.

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24.2.3
Any reference in this Agreement to any gender shall include all genders, and words importing the singular number only shall include the plural and vice versa, unless explicitly specified otherwise.
24.2.4
The words include includes and including when used in this Agreement will be treated in each case as followed by the words without limitation .
24.2.5
This Agreement is drafted in the English language. In this Agreement German terms and legal concepts are expressed in English terms and not in their original German terms. Where indicated in italics, German original terms of these English terms have been given. Such terms and expressions of law and of legal concepts as used in this Agreement have the meaning attributed to them under the laws of Germany and this Agreement should be read and interpreted accordingly.


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Exhibit A: Seller Guarantors
1)
Mr. Benjamin Bak , a private individual, born on 2 March 1987, resident in Dresden, Germany
2)
Mr. Björn Bak , a private individual, born on 10 January 1983, resident in Dresden, Germany
3)
Mr. Alexander Friede , a private individual, born on 27 April 1978, resident in Dresden, Germany
4)
Mr. David Wolter , a private individual, born on 6 January 1983, resident in Dresden, Germany
5)
Mr. André Kröhnert , a private individual, born on 19 April 1984, resident in Dresden, Germany
6)
Mr. Florian Braunschweig , a private individual, born 16 May 1984, resident in Dresden, Germany
7)
Mr. Tobias Börner , a private individual, born on 26 August 1986, resident in Dresden, Germany
8)
BAK Venture GmbH , a German limited liability company, having its office address at Prager Str. 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany, registered with the commercial register at the local court of Dresden under the registration number HRB 32544
9)
Björn Bak Holding GmbH , a German limited liability company, having its office address at An der Kreuzkirche 6, 01067 Dresden, Germany, registered with the commercial register at the local court of Dresden under the registration number HRB 31400
10)
David Wolter Holding GmbH , a German limited liability company, having its office address at Prager Str. 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany, registered with the commercial register at the local court of Dresden under the registration number HRB 32985
11)
Innoshare GmbH , a German limited liability company, having its office address at Prager Str. 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany registered with the commercial register at the local court of Dresden under the registration number HRB 33398

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Exhibit B: Definitions
Affiliate means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such specified Person.
Agreement means this share purchase agreement.
Apple App Store means Apple Inc.’s “App Store” which is a digital distribution platform, developed and maintained by Apple Inc. for mobile applications.
Banking Day means a day on which banks are open for business in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays).
Basket shall have the meaning given in Clause 10.3.1.
Bonus Commitments shall have the meaning given in Clause 4.1.4.
Bonus Commitments Amount shall have the meaning given in Clause 4.1.4.
Cash means, in relation to the Lovoo Companies, the aggregate of its cash (whether in hand or credited to any account with any banking, financial, acceptance credit, lending or other similar institution or organisation) and its cash equivalents, including all interests accrued thereon. For the avoidance of doubt, any cash injected into the Company at Closing (i) pursuant to Clause 3.2 for the settlement of the Intercompany Debt and (ii) pursuant to Clause 3.3 for the settlement of the Shareholder Debt shall not constitute Cash as defined herein and thus not be added to the Enterprise Value for the calculation of the Purchase Price pursuant to Clause 5.1(c).
Change of Control Rights means any termination rights, claw back rights, contract adjustment rights, consent rights or other contractual rights of the relevant contractual partner triggered by the conclusion and/or performance of this Agreement.
Clause means a clause in this Agreement.
Closing has the meaning given in Clause 7.1.1.
Closing Conditions has the meaning given in Clause 7.2.1.
Closing Date has the meaning given in Clause 7.1.1.
Closing Obstacle has the meaning given in Clause 7.3.1.
Closing Price has the meaning given in Clause 7.5.1(j).
Closing Statement has the meaning given in Clause 8.2.1.
Closing Statement Notice has the meaning given in Clause 8.2.2.

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Company has the meaning given in Clause 1.1.1.
Company’s Account has the meaning given in Clause 5.4.4.
Company Loan Agreements has the meaning given in Clause 3.3.
Consolidated Financial Statements has the meaning given in Clause 9.3.1.
De Minimis Amount shall have the meaning given in Clause 10.3.1.
Earn-out has the meaning given in Clause 6.1.
Earn-out Due Date has the meaning given in Clause 6.4.1.
Earn-out Hurdle has the meaning given in Schedule 6.1 .
EEA means the European Economic Area.
Effective Date has the meaning given in Clause 2.2.
Effective Date Accounts has the meaning given in Clause 8.1.1.
Employee Incentive Arrangements has the meaning given in Clause 9.10.8(a).
Enterprise Value has the meaning given to it in Clause 5.1.
Escrow Agent means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a national banking association located in the United States.
Escrow Agreement means an Escrow Agreement in the form set forth on Exhibit E hereto, among the Purchaser, the Seller and the Escrow Agent.
Escrow Amount means (a) the Escrow Amount 1 plus (b) the Escrow Amount 2 (c) any other amounts contributed from time to time.
Escrow Amount 1 means $6,500,000.00 (in words: US Dollar six million five hundred thousand).
Escrow Amount 2 means $4,000,000.00 (in words: US Dollar four million).
Escrow Disbursement Amount is defined in Section 10.5.
Escrow Fund means the escrow fund established pursuant to the Escrow Agreement and as further described herein.
Escrow Release Date 1 means 11:59 pm New York time on the date that is the two year anniversary of the Closing Date.
Escrow Release Date 2 means 11:59 pm New York time on the date that is the three year anniversary of the Closing Date.
Estimated Purchase Price has the meaning given to it in Clause 5.2.

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EU means the European Union.
EU Standard Contractual Clauses mean any of the standard contractual clauses for data transfers out of the EU (also known as model contacts for the transfer of personal data to third countries), as approved by the EU Commission and posted on its website at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/transfer/index_en.htm .
EU-US Privacy Shield Framework means the EU-U.S. PRIVACY SHIELD FRAMEWORK PRINCIPLES ISSUED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE that the European Commission deemed adequate to enable data transfers under EU law on July 12, 2016 (as posted on the website https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework ).
EUR shall mean Euros.
Exhibit means an exhibit to this Agreement.
External Debt Collateral has the meaning given in Clause 3.1.2.
External Loan Agreement has the meaning given in Clause 3.1.1.
Federal Data Protection Act means the German Federal Act on Data Protection ( Bundesdatenschutzgesetz - BDSG ) (Act of 14 January 2003, as amended from time time).
Federal and State Data Protection Acts means jointly the Federal Data Protection Act and any German state data protection laws as amended from time to time.
Financial Debt means, without duplication, the principal amount of, accrued and unpaid interest on, and other payment obligations (including any prepayment premiums payable as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement) in each case, consisting of: (i) indebtedness for borrowed money (including, inter alia, the Loan Repayment Amount) or indebtedness issued in substitution or exchange for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or services (but excluding any current trade payables arising in the ordinary course of business), (ii) indebtedness evidenced by any note, bond, debenture or other debt security, (iii) any obligation in respect of interest under any existing interest rate swap or hedge agreement, (iv) any other obligation upon which interest charges are customarily paid, (v) all obligations under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired, (vi) all (long-term and short term) capital lease obligations, (vii) letters of credit and letters of guaranty, (viii) obligations under any bankers’ acceptances, (ix) any obligations of the Lovoo Companies under Employee Incentive Arrangements triggered by the transactions contemplated in this Agreement, the Bonus Commitments or any other transaction bonus or (cash or non-cash benefit) becoming payable or due in connection with the transactions contemplated in this Agreement, (x) any transaction costs incurred by any Lovoo Company in connection with this Agreement, (xi) any obligations of the Lovoo Companies owed towards a member of the Seller Group (including any transaction bonuses, but except for salary payments in the ordinary course of business), (xii) any brokerage, finder's fees, advisor's fees, (xiii) any payment obligations or disadvantages triggered by Change of Control

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Rights, and (xiv) guarantees by the Company (or its Subsidiary) of indebtedness of others of the type described in clauses (i) through (xiii).
Financial Statements has the meaning given in Clause 9.3.1.
Financial Statements 2015 has the meaning given in Clause 9.3.1.
Financial Statements 2016 has the meaning given in Clause 9.3.1.
Fundamental Guarantees has the meaning given in Clause 10.4.2.
German Act on Employee Inventions means the German ( Gesetz über Arbeitnehmererfindungen) of July 31, 2009 (BGBl. I S. 2521) as amended from time to time.
Google Play Store means the “Google Play” store which is a digital distribution platform, developed and maintained by Google for mobile applications
Guarantee Claims has the meaning given in Clause 10.1.4.
IFRS means International Financial Reporting Standards.
Independent Accountant has the meaning given in Clause 8.3.1.
Intellectual Property means algorithms, application programming interfaces, mobile applications apparatus, data, data collections and databases, diagrams, formulae, inventions (whether or not patentable) and improvements, trade secrets, designs, algorithms, research and development, logos, marks and other source or business identifiers (including brand names, corporate names, product names, logos, domain names, slogans, and social media pages, accounts and handles) and all the goodwill associated with the foregoing, methods, network configurations and architectures, processes, proprietary information, protocols, schematics, specifications, software, software code (in any form, including source code and executable or object code), subroutines, techniques, user interfaces, URLs, , web sites, blogs, online communication accounts and names (including Facebook and Twitter accounts), works of authorship and other forms of technology (whether or not embodied in any tangible form and including all tangible embodiments of the foregoing, such as instruction manuals, laboratory notebooks, prototypes, samples, studies and summaries), including all registrations, applications, renewals and extensions of any of the foregoing.
Intellectual Property Rights means all rights of the following types, which may exist or be created under the laws of any jurisdiction in the world: (a) rights associated with works of authorship, including exclusive exploitation rights, copyrights and moral rights; (b) trademark rights and similar rights; (c) trade secret rights and similar rights; (d) patent and industrial property rights and similar rights; (e) other rights in Intellectual Property; and (f) rights in or relating to registrations, renewals, extensions, reversions, combinations, divisions and reissues of, and applications for, any of the rights referred to in clauses “(a)” through “(e)” above.
Intercompany Debt has the meaning given in Clause 3.2.

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Intercompany Loan Agreement has the meaning given in Clause 3.2,
Interim Accounts has the meaning given in Clause 9.3.5.
Key Employee has the meaning given in Clause 9.10.2.
Know-how shall mean all information (including information comprised in or derived from formulae, designs, specifications, lists, technical descriptions and drawings), irrespective of whether and in what manner it has been memorialized, which relates to the business operation of a company (including procurement, research and development, production, information technology, quality management, marketing, logistics, sales and distribution and customer relations) and which is generally not known to the public.
Knowledge shall mean the actual knowledge ( positive Kenntnis ) of the Relevant Individuals of relevant facts and circumstances as well as the grossly negligent absence of knowledge ( grob fahrlässige Unkenntnis ) of the Relevant Individuals of relevant facts and circumstances; provided, however, with respect to any Guaranty or other statement qualified by Knowledge that may call for a legal conclusion, then each Relevant Individual shall be deemed to have consulted with legal counsel with respect thereto and lack of legal counsel shall not constitute a defense. Relevant Individuals are the individuals listed in Exhibit D for each of the Seller and the Purchaser, respectively.
Leakage shall mean any value transfer, whether in cash or in kind, from the Company to or for the benefit of any member of the Seller Group. Leakage includes, in particular, the amount of (i) any dividend, or distribution declared, paid or made by a Lovoo Company, (ii) any payments made or agreed to be made by any Lovoo Company in respect of any share capital or other securities of any Lovoo Company being issued, redeemed, purchased or repaid, or any other return of capital, (iii) any advisory, management transaction, service or other charges or fees paid or reimbursed by a Lovoo Company, (iv) the waiver by any Lovoo Company of any amount owed to that Lovoo Company, (v) any assumption of or fulfilment by any Lovoo Company of liabilities, (vi) any encumbrance created over assets of a Lovoo Company; (vii) any sale of assets or transaction by a Lovoo Company or (viii) any agreement, commitment or promise to any of the transactions referred to in (i) through (vii) above, in each case to or for the benefit of any member of the Seller Group.
Lease Agreements has the meaning given in Clause 9.4.2.
Legal Disputes has the meaning given in Clause 9.13.
Legal Requirements means all statutes, ordinances, articles of association, administrative regulations, judgments, settlements, resolutions, policies, decisions, permits or other (individual regulatory) decisions or other rules issued by a supranational, international, national, regional or local body, establishment, government authority or any court, tribunal or other sovereign entity or an arbitration tribunal (collectively referred to as Legal Requirements) or (ii) contracts or other contractual obligations (collectively referred to as Legally Binding Transactions.
Legally Binding Transactions means all contracts or other contractual obligations.

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Liability Cap 1 has the meaning given in Clause 10.4.2.
Liability Cap 2 has the meaning given in Clause 10.4.2.
Loan Repayment Amount has the meaning given in Clause 3.1.3.
Lovoo Apps has the meaning given in Clause 9.7.4.
Lovoo Business Operations has the meaning given in Preamble (B).
Lovoo Companies or Lovoo Group has the meaning given in Clause 1.2.2.
Lovoo Group Shares has the meaning given in Clause 9.2.1.
Lovoo Information Technology has the meaning given in Clause 9.7.1.
Lovoo Intellectual Property Rights has the meaning given in Clause 9.6.2.
Lovoo IT Contracts has the meaning given in Clause 9.7.2.
Lovoo Know-how has the meaning given in Clause 9.6.5.
Lovoo Marks has the meaning given in Clause 17.3.
Lovoo Websites has the meaning given in Clause 9.7.4.
Material Adverse Change has the meaning given in Clause 7.3.1(a).
Material Agreements has the meaning given in Clause 9.9.1.
Notice has the meaning given in Clause 22.1.
Own Intellectual Property Rights has the meaning given in Clause 9.6.1.
Party has the meaning given in the Preamble.
Paying Agency Agreement means a Paying Agency Agreement in the form set forth on Exhibit F hereto, among the Purchaser Guarantor and JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA as paying agent.
Related Party Agreements has the meaning given in Clause 9.18.1.
Pension Scheme has the meaning given in Clause 9.10.7.
Person means any individual or legal entity (including corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company) .
Personal Data shall have the meaning of section 3 para. 1 of the Federal Data Protection Act.
Preamble means the preamble of this Agreement.

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Privacy Policy shall mean each external or internal, past or present privacy policy or data protection of the Seller, including any policy relating to (a) the privacy of users of any Lovoo App and/or Lovoo Website; and (b) the collection, storage, disclosure, and transfer of any User Data or Personal Data; and (c) any employee information.
Publicly Available Software has the meaning given in Clause 9.7.6.
Purchase Price has the meaning given in Clause 5.1.
Purchase Price Adjustment has the meaning given in Clause 5.3.1.
Purchaser has the meaning given in Preamble (2).
Purchaser’s Account has the meaning given in Clause 5.4.3.
Purchaser Guarantees shall have the meaning given in Clause 11.1.
Purchaser Guarantor shall have the meaning given in Preamble (4).
Recital means a recital of this Agreement.
Release Agreement has the meaning given in Clause 3.1.4.
Relevant Individual(s) has the meaning given in Clause 9.19.
Relevant Tax Return shall have the meaning given in Clause 13.5.1.
Restricted Territory means any country where the Lovoo Companies have registered users of the Lovoo Apps as of the Closing Date as well as any other country in which the Lovoo Companies had registered users of the Lovoo Apps in the period of one year prior to the Closing Date .
Schedule means a schedule to this Agreement.
Scheduled Closing Date has the meaning given in Clause 7.1.1.
Seller has the meaning given in Preamble (1).
Seller Group means the Seller and its Affiliates from time to time (excluding the Lovoo Companies), the Seller Guarantors any related (natural or legal) person within the meaning of section 138 of the German Insolvency Act ( Insolvenzordnung ) of the Seller, its Affiliates and the Seller Guarantors.
Seller Guarantees has the meaning given in Clause 9.1.
Seller Guarantors are the individuals and legal entities set forth in Exhibit A who are each a Party to this Agreement.
Seller’s Account has the meaning given in Clause 5.4.1.

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Seller's Knowledge has the meaning given in Clause 9.19.
Shares have the meaning given in Clause 1.1.2.
Shareholder Debt has the meaning given in Clause 3.3.
Signing Date has the meaning given in Clause 9.1.
Subsidiary has the meaning given in Clause 1.2.1.
Subsidiary Shares has the meaning given in Clause 1.2.1.
Surviving Provisions has the meaning given in Clause 7.4.5.
Tax(es) has the meaning given in Clause 13.1.
Tax Authority has the meaning given in Clause 13.1.
Tax Return(s) has the meaning given in Clause 13.1.
Tax Saving has the meaning given in Clause 13.3.5.
Telecommunications Act means the German Act on Telecommunication ( Telekommunikationsgesetz - TKG ) (Act of June 22, 2004, as amended from time time).
Telemedia Act means the German Act on Telemedia ( Telemediengesetz - TMG ) (Act of February 26, 2007, as amended from time time).
USD shall mean U.S Dollars.
User Data shall mean any Personal Data collected by or on behalf of the Seller from users of the Lovoo Apps or Lovoo Websites for operations and maintenance of the Seller’s business.
User means any user of the Lovoo Apps or Lovoo Websites who is not acting in the course of his/her work for Seller or for the Lovoo Apps or Lovoo Websites.
Virtual Share Amount has the meaning given in Clause 4.1.4.
Virtual Share Plan 1 has the meaning given in Clause 4.1.2.
Virtual Share Plan 1 Amount has the meaning given in Clause 4.1.2.
Virtual Share Plan 2 has the meaning given in Clause 4.1.3.
Virtual Share Plan 2 Amount has the meaning given in Clause 4.1.3
Working Capital means the aggregate amount of inventories plus trade receivables less trade payables.

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Exhibit C: Lovoo Business Operations


The Company provides an online dating platform for young people specifically designed as an application for smartphones. The platform enables strangers to find and introduce themselves to new personal connections nearby, with the goal of developing romantic relationships.


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Exhibit D: Knowledge

Seller Knowledge

Mr. Benjamin Bak
Mr. Björn Bak
Mr. Alexander Friede
Mr. David Wolter
Mr. André Kröhnert
Mr. Florian Braunschweig
Mr. Tobias Börner

Purchaser Knowledge

Mr. Frederic Beckley
Mr. James Bugden
Mr. David Clark
Mr. Geoffrey Cook
Ms. Alexis Peskin



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Exhibit 99.1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


MEET Investor Contact:
The Blueshirt Group
Allise Furlani or Brinlea Johnson
212-331-8433
IR@Themeetgroup.com

MEET Press Contact:
Brandyn Bissinger
267-446-7010
bbissinger@themeetgroup.com


The Meet Group to Acquire LOVOO

Acquisition Projected to Increase The Meet Group’s Audience to more than 15 Million Mobile Monthly Active Users
LOVOO expected to be The Meet Group’s Single Most Trafficked App
Expected to Diversify The Meet Group’s Mobile Revenue, More Than Doubling International, Subscription, and In-App Purchasing Revenue
Expected to be Accretive to Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share in 2018 and Beyond
Funded with Existing Cash and an Increase of the Company’s Existing Debt Facility


NEW HOPE, Pa., September 20, 2017 - The Meet Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a public market leader in the mobile meeting space, today announced it has executed a definitive agreement to acquire LOVOO, a social dating app , for $70 million in cash, inclusive of a $5 million contingent earn-out. This acquisition furthers The Meet Group’s strategy to innovate, acquire, and build the largest mobile portfolio of brands for meeting new people. The LOVOO acquisition is expected to expand The Meet Group’s global footprint, increase the company’s scale and profitability, and diversify its business model by adding expertise in subscription and in-app purchasing.

LOVOO is a social and mobile technology company based in Germany:

The #1 Dating App in German speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) in terms of app store downloads. Top 3 in Southern Europe (Italy, Spain and France)
Trailing twelve-month revenue of €27.2 million or $32.4 million based on current exchange rates
Diversified revenue streams: Subscriptions 48%; In-app Purchases 24%; Ads 28%
Expected to represent The Meet Group’s largest single app in terms of traffic
Approximately 5 million monthly active users (MAU) and 1.9 million daily active users (DAU)
47,000 new global registrations per day
97 Full-time employees - Dresden and Berlin







Key highlights of the expected scale of The Meet Group plus LOVOO include:

Projected Mobile MAU of 15.8 million, an increase of 48% from The Meet Group’s 10.7 million average in Q2 2017
Projected Mobile DAU of 4.6 million, an increase of 71% from The Meet Group’s 2.7 million average in Q2 2017
Projected Mobile chats sent per day of 74.6 million, an increase of 19.9% from The Meet Group’s 62.2 million average in Q2 2017
Projected Mobile new users per day of 193,000, an increase of 32% from The Meet Group’s 146,000 per day average in Q2 2017

Financial impact of acquisition:

Expected to provide significantly increased scale in user base and revenues
Expected to diversify the Company’s revenue mix, increasing international mobile revenue by 169% and increasing mobile non-advertising revenue by 168% in Q2 on pro-forma combined basis
Expect acquisition to be accretive to the Company’s non-GAAP EPS in 2018 and beyond
Expect transaction to be financed with existing cash on hand and a non-dilutive increase to $80 million of the Company’s existing debt facility, with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Silicon Valley Bank acting as co-lead agents

Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group, said, “We are very excited to expand our global footprint and add LOVOO to our portfolio of apps. LOVOO is our third strategic acquisition in the last 12 months and will represent our largest single app in terms of traffic. We are focused on accelerating growth across our portfolio of brands through innovating our livestreaming video product and sharing best practices in monetization and engagement across the portfolio.”

The Company expects that LOVOO will remain a separate brand and standalone mobile application following the closing of the acquisition, and that LOVOO’s headquarters will remain in Dresden, Germany. The Company has extended offers to all of LOVOO’s 97 full time employees. LOVOO’s Co-Founder and CEO Benjamin Bak has agreed to assist with the transition for six months after closing. Effective upon closing, Florian Braunschweig, current COO and Co-Founder, has agreed to take over leadership of LOVOO as the new General Manager and Managing Director. The rest of the LOVOO management team is expected to remain in place.

David Clark, Chief Financial Officer of The Meet Group, added, “We expect the acquisition to close in October 2017, to be accretive to non-GAAP EPS and to generate additional free cash flow for The Meet Group in 2018 and beyond. This acquisition is expected to help further diversify our revenue streams with 48% of LOVOO’s revenue coming from subscriptions and 24% from in-app purchasing.”

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is serving as legal counsel to The Meet Group.


Webcast and Conference Call Details

Management will host a webcast and conference call today, September 20, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time to discuss the acquisition. To access the call dial 888-461-2021 (US and Canada) (+1 719-325-2111 outside the United States and Canada) and when prompted provide the participant passcode 4996344 to the operator. In addition, a webcast of the conference call will be available live on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at www.themeetgroup.com and a replay of the webcast will be available for 90 days.






About The Meet Group

The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) is a fast-growing portfolio of mobile apps designed to meet the universal need for human connection. Using innovative products and sophisticated data science, The Meet Group keeps its approximately 2.7 million mobile daily active users engaged and originates untold numbers of casual chats, friendships, dates, and marriages. The Meet Group offers advertisers the opportunity to reach customers on a global scale with hundreds of millions of daily mobile ad impressions. The Meet Group utilizes high user density, economies of scale, and leading monetization strategies with the goal of maximizing adjusted EBITDA. The Company’s apps - currently MeetMe®, Skout®, Tagged®, and Hi5® - let users in more than 100 countries chat, share photos, stream live video, and discuss topics of interest, and are available on iPhone, iPad, and Android in multiple languages. For more information, please visit http://www.themeetgroup.com .

About LOVOO

Founded in 2012,  LOVOO  is a leading European dating app and the largest German-speaking dating app by downloads. The privately held company is based in Dresden and Berlin, Germany, and is available in 15 languages to its 1.9 million mobile daily active users. LOVOO changes people's lives by changing how they meet through innovative location-based algorithms and app radar features helping people find successful matches. Learn more about LOVOO by visiting  LOVOO.com , downloading the app on iPhone or Android, subscribing to the LOVOO  blog , or following LOVOO on  Twitter  and  Facebook .

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including whether the acquisition of LOVOO furthers the Company’s strategy to innovate, acquire and build the largest mobile portfolio of brands for meeting new people; whether the acquisition of LOVOO will expand the Company’s global footprint, increase the Company’s scale and profitability, and diversify the business model by adding expertise in subscription and in-app purchasing; whether LOVOO will be The Meet Group’s largest app in terms of traffic and its single most trafficked app; whether Lovoo will diversify The Meet Group’s mobile revenue and more than double its international, subscription and in-app purchasing revenue; whether the combined company will achieve the Company’s expected scale with regard to MAU, DAU, mobile chats sent per day and new mobile users per day; whether the acquisition of LOVOO will significantly increase the Company’s user base and revenues, diversify the revenue mix, be accretive to non-GAAP earnings per share in 2018 and beyond; whether the acquisition will be funded with existing cash on hand and an increase in the Company’s existing debt facility; whether LOVOO will remain a separate brand and standalone mobile application following the closing of the acquisition; whether Florian Braunschweig will take over leadership of LOVOO effective at the Closing; whether the LOVOO management team will remain in place after the closing; whether LOVOO headquarters will remain in Dresden, Germany; whether and when the acquisition of LOVOO will close; and whether the acquisition will generate free cash flow for the Company in 2018 and beyond. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained herein are forward-looking statements. The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “project,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements include the risk that our applications will not function easily or otherwise as anticipated, the risk that we will not launch additional features and upgrades as anticipated, the risk that unanticipated events affect the functionality of our applications with popular mobile operating systems, any changes in such operating systems that degrade our mobile applications’ functionality and other unexpected issues





which could adversely affect usage on mobile devices. Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 filed with the SEC on March 9, 2017 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017 filed with the SEC on May 10, 2017. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.

Regulation G - Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company defines mobile traffic and engagement metrics (including MAU, DAU, chats per day, and new users per day) to include mobile app traffic for all properties and mobile web traffic for MeetMe and Skout.

This press release includes a discussion of Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations which is a non-GAAP financial measure. For completed fiscal periods, reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided in the Investors section of our corporate website, www.meetmecorp.com.

The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as earnings (or loss) from operations before interest expense, benefit or provision for income taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, warrant obligations, non-recurring acquisition, restructuring or other expenses, gain or loss on cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment, gain on sale of asset, bad debt expense outside the normal range, and goodwill and long-lived asset impairment charges. The Company excludes stock based compensation because it is non­cash in nature.


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LOVOO Acquisition September 20, 2017


 
2 LOVOO Acquisition Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements   Certain statements in this presentation are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding whether we will meet our expected financial projections and guidance, the expected financial and operating performance of The Meet Group following completion of the acquisition of Lovoo, the expected synergies from the combined company; whether Lovoo will be accretive to the Company's non-GAAP EPS in 2018 and beyond; whether and when we will close the acquisition of Lovoo and how we will finance the transaction; whether the acquisition of Lovoo represents an opportunity to extend livestreaming leadership; whether Lovoo’s strength in subscription and in-app purchases will help diversify our revenue model; whether mobile app MAU for the combined company will be 15.8 million; whether DAU for the combined company will be 4.6 million; whether Lovoo will achieve revenue and/or Adjusted EBITA margins in the future consistent with past results; whether Lovoo will more than double our current international mobile revenue, subscription mobile revenue and in-app purchasing mobile revenue, and whether we will achieve the expected percentages that each of those revenue streams will constitute of our overall revenue; whether our investments in video are easily portable to the European market; whether Lovoo will be our largest app in terms of traffic; whether the acquisition of Lovoo presents operating leverage opportunities through lower technology costs and other cost savings opportunities; whether Lovoo management’s expertise in subscription an in-app purchases compliments our advertising best practices and whether we will be able to share that expertise and improve our entire app ecosystem; whether after the closing of the Lovoo acquisition we will be one of the largest video platforms in Europe; whether and when we will launch video to the Lovoo user base; whether the launch of video in the Lovoo app will present a substantial monetization opportunity with no increase to planned marketing spend; whether and when we will launch cash-out, guest broadcaster and other video features; whether we will continue similar advertising spending levels and focus at Lovoo; whether Benjamin Bak will remain as a consultant to assist with our transition and integration; whether Florian Braunschweig will join The Meet Group Europe as a managing director and GM; whether the remainder of the Lovoo team will remain in place at Lovoo and whether the acquisition of Lovoo will deliver strong shareholder value. The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements include the risk that our applications will not function easily or otherwise as anticipated, the risk that we will not launch additional features and upgrades as anticipated, the risk that unanticipated events affect the functionality of our applications with popular mobile operating systems, any changes in such operating systems that degrade our mobile applications’ functionality and other unexpected issues which could adversely affect usage on mobile devices. Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 filed with the SEC on March 9, 2017 and the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017 filed with the SEC on May 10, 2017. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.   Regulation G – Non-GAAP Measures The Company defines mobile traffic and engagement metrics (including MAU, DAU, chats per day, and new users per day) to include mobile app traffic for all properties and mobile web traffic for MeetMe and Skout. This presentation includes a discussion of Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations which is a non-GAAP financial measure. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided in the Investors section of our corporate website, www.meetmecorp.com. The Company defines mobile traffic and engagement metrics (including MAU, DAU, chats per day, and new users per day) to include mobile app traffic for all properties and mobile web traffic for MeetMe and Skout. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as earnings (or loss) from continuing operations before interest expense, change in warrant liability, benefit or provision income taxes, depreciation and amortization, non-cash stock­based compensation, non-recurring acquisition and restructuring expenses, gain or loss on cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment, gain on sale of asset, bad debt expense outside the normal range, and the goodwill impairment charges. The Company excludes stock based compensation because it is non­cash in nature.


 
3 The Meet Group to Acquire LOVOO Mobile Daily (DAU) and Monthly (MAU) Active Users for proforma Q2 2017 for The Meet Group and LOVOO combined from internal sources. Meeting the Universal Need for Human Connection 4.6M Mobile Daily Active Users 15.8M Mobile Monthly Active Users Diversified Revenue Strong ProfitabilityGlobal strength Livestreaming Leader


 
4 • TMG to acquire LOVOO for $70 million cash; $5 million of which is contingent upon achievement of an earnout target • Q2 2017 trailing twelve-month revenue of €27.2 million, or $32.4 million based on current exchange rate • Financed from balance sheet and cash flows and a non-dilutive increase in an existing debt facility • Expected to be accretive to the Company’s non-GAAP EPS in 2018 and beyond • Leading European dating app - #1 by downloads in German speaking countries: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria combined2 • Expected to be largest app by traffic in the TMG portfolio with 1.9 million DAU1 • Opportunity to extend livestreaming leadership • Strength in subscriptions and in-app purchases projected to diversify TMG revenue model • Closing targeted for October 2017 1 - Q2 2017 LOVOO internal sources 2 - Q2 2017 country download statistics for iOS and Android according to AppAnnie The Meet Group to Acquire LOVOO


 
5 About LOVOO 1 - Q2 2017 country download statistics for iOS and Android according to AppAnnie 2 - Q2 2017 LOVOO internal sources Popular European Dating App • #1 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (DACH countries combined)1 • Top 3 in France, Spain, Italy (Southern Europe)1 Sizable audience • 1.92 million DAU; 5.02 million MAU Diversified revenue streams • 48%2 subscriptions; 24%2 in-app purchases; 28%2 advertising 47,0002 new registered mobile app users added each day Dresden and Berlin based team • 97 full-time employees


 
61 - Q2 2017 LOVOO internal sources Familiar Product / Diversified Revenue Familiar Products Diversified Revenue 72%1 of LOVOO’s revenue is from non-ad sources


 
7 LOVOO’s European Strength Increases TMG Results - DACH represents Germany, Austria and Switzerland combined. S. Europe represents Italy, Spain and France combined. ROW represents all countries other than DACH and S. Europe. - LOVOO % of DAU and % of Revenue from internal LOVOO sources for Q2 2017. - Proforma % of DAU and Mobile Revenue includes internal LOVOO information plus Q2 2017 Meet Group results for DAU and mobile revenue by country.


 
8 Strategic Positioning 1 – Q2 2017 LOVOO revenue from internal sources. 2 – Proforma % Mobile Revenue includes internal LOVOO information plus Q2 2017 Meet Group results for mobile revenue by type. 3 – Comparison of unique users across all TMG individually and combined for last 30 days. Familiar Product and Users: • Well aligned with existing TMG apps • Strong engagement and retention • Less than 5% overlap among user bases3 Revenue Diversification: • LOVOO Q2 revenue: 48% subscriptions; 24% in-app purchases; 28% advertising1 • Proforma Q2 with LOVOO revenue: 19% Subscription; 11% in-app purchases; 70% ads2 Sizable Video Opportunity: • TMG investments in video easily portable to European market • No clear European video leader today Clear Strategy to Drive Operating Leverage: • Lower technology costs through standardization / shared platform • Cost saving opportunities – German engineering costs markedly lower that US


 
9 Transaction Details Structure: • $65 million cash at close • $5 million cash based on LOVOO achieving a 2017 Adjusted EBITDA target • Target close in October 2017 Sources of Cash Consideration: • Cash on hand and cash from operations • Newly signed increase to $80 million of the Company’s credit facility with JPMorgan and Silicon Valley as co-leads Projected Financial Impact: • Expected to be accretive to the Company’s non-GAAP EPS in 2018 and beyond • Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA multiples comparable to previous acquisitions


 
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