Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

$125,000,000
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

Dated as of October 24, 2017

among

CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
CRA INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED,
CRA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, and
CRA INTERNATIONAL (NETHERLANDS) B.V.
as the Borrowers,

CITIZENS BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent,

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent,

and

THE OTHER LENDERS PARTY HERETO

CITIZENS BANK, N.A.
and
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

This AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT is entered into as of October 24, 2017, among CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC. , a Massachusetts corporation (the “ Company ”), CRA INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED , a private limited company incorporated in the United Kingdom (registered number 04007726) (the “ UK Borrower ”), CRA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED , a company organized under the laws of Ontario (the “ Canadian Borrower ”), CRA INTERNATIONAL (NETHERLANDS) B.V. , a private company with limited liability organized and existing under the laws of the Netherlands, registered with the trade register of the Chamber of Commerce under number 3426111 (the “ Dutch Borrower ”, and together with the UK Borrower and the Canadian Borrower, each a “ Designated Borrower ”, and collectively the “ Designated Borrowers ”; the Designated Borrowers together with the Company, each a “ Borrower ” and collectively, the “ Borrowers ”), CITIZENS BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, including any successor thereto, the “ Administrative Agent ”), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. , as Syndication Agent, and each Lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “ Lenders ” and individually, a “ Lender ”).

WITNESSETH :

WHEREAS, the Company and the UK Borrower are parties to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of April 24, 2013, by and among the Company, the UK Borrower, Citizens Bank, N.A. (formerly known as RBS Citizens, N.A.), as administrative agent, Bank of America, N.A. as syndication agent, and the lenders from time to time party thereto (the “ Existing Credit Agreement ”);

WHEREAS, the parties hereto (including Citizens Bank, N.A.) have agreed to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement in the form of this Agreement (as defined herein);

WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Lenders extend credit to the Borrowers in the form of Revolving Loans in an aggregate principal at any time outstanding not in excess of the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Company has requested the Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of the Swingline Sublimit, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Company has requested the Issuing Banks to issue letters of credit, in an aggregate face amount at any time outstanding not in excess of the Letter of Credit Sublimit to support payment obligations incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Borrowers have requested that the aggregate Revolving Commitments of the Lenders include (a) a sublimit for Revolving Loans to the Designated Borrowers in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of the Designated Borrower Sublimit, and (b) a sublimit for Revolving Loans to the Borrowers in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding in Alternate Currency (as hereinafter defined) not in excess of the Alternate Currency Sublimit;

WHEREAS, as of the Closing Date, there are no outstanding Loans under the Existing Credit Agreement, and, upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, the letters of credit outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement will be deemed to be Existing Letters of Credit under this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the proceeds of the Loans and the issuances of Letters of Credit will be used, on or after the Closing Date and prior to the expiration of the Availability Period (a) for working capital and general corporate purposes (including Permitted Acquisitions) of the Company and its Subsidiaries from time to time permitted under this Agreement, and (b) to pay fees and expenses in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby; and

WHEREAS, each Lender is willing to agree (severally and not jointly) to make the Loans and provide financial accommodations to the Borrowers, and each Issuing Bank is willing to issue Letters of Credit, in each case, subject to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

ARTICLE I.

Definitions and Accounting Terms

Section 1.01.   Defined Terms .  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

“ Additional Lender ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(c).

“ Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA ” means, with respect to the Company for any fiscal period, an amount equal to the sum of (without duplication):

(a)                                  Adjusted Consolidated Net Income of the Company during such period; and

(b)                                  to the extent such Adjusted Consolidated Net Income has been reduced thereby:

(i)                                      all taxes on or measured by income of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than the Excluded Subsidiary) paid or accrued in accordance with GAAP for such period net of income tax credits for such period;

(ii)                                   Interest Expense of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than the Excluded Subsidiary) for such period;

(iii)                                depreciation and amortization expense of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than the Excluded Subsidiary) for such period;

(iv)                               to the extent the amount thereof is approved in writing by the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be reasonably withheld) and the aggregate amount thereof does not exceed 15% of the Consideration for a Permitted Acquisition, reasonable transaction expenses which are incurred and not capitalized in connection with a Permitted Acquisition; provided such transaction expenses were incurred within one year of the consummation of the Permitted Acquisition;

(v)                                  non-cash write-downs, losses, expenses and charges (including impairment of goodwill, write-downs of intangibles, amortization of compensation in the form of Equity Interests and non-cash losses associated with adjustments to contingent consideration payments);

(vi)                               extraordinary and non-recurring losses of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than the Excluded Subsidiary) for such period; and

(vii)                            to the extent documentation has been provided therefor to the Administrative Agent in detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, non-cash expenses resulting from the forgiveness of loans made by the Company or any Subsidiary (other than the Excluded Subsidiary) of the Company to employees or consultants of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries deducted in the calculation of Adjusted Consolidated Net Income for such period;

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(c)                                   less , to the extent such Adjusted Consolidated Net Income has been increased thereby, without duplication, all non-cash items (including non-cash gains associated with adjustments to contingent consideration payments) increasing Adjusted Consolidated Net Income for such period, and all extraordinary and non-recurring gains of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than the Excluded Subsidiary) for such period;

all as determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary) in accordance with GAAP.  For the purposes of calculating Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA for any Test Period in connection with any determination of the Total Leverage Ratio or Interest Coverage Ratio, (i) if at any time during such period the Company or any such Subsidiary shall have made any Specified Disposition, the Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA (if positive) attributable to the property that is the subject of such Specified Disposition for such Test Period or increased by an amount equal to the Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA (if negative) attributable thereto for such Test Period and (ii) if during such Test Period the Company or any such Subsidiary shall have made a Specified Acquisition, Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA for the portion of such Test Period prior to the date of such Specified Acquisition shall be calculated after giving effect thereto on a Pro Forma Basis as if such Specified Acquisition occurred on the first day of such Test Period.  As used in this definition, “ Specified Acquisition ” means any acquisition of property or series of related acquisitions of property that constitutes assets comprising all or substantially all of an operating unit of a business or constitutes all or substantially all of the common Equity Interests of a Person and involves the payment of consideration by the Company and its Subsidiaries in excess of $1,000,000; and “ Specified Disposition ” means any Disposition of property or series of related Dispositions of property that constitutes a division or operating unit of a business or a line of business or a Disposition of all or substantially all of the Equity Interests or assets of a Person and which yields gross proceeds to the Company and its Subsidiaries in excess of $1,000,000.  For the avoidance of doubt, “Specified Acquisition” shall not include lateral hires of individuals and consultants who are compensated with loans under Section 7.02(b) which are forgivable.

“ Adjusted Consolidated Net Income ” means, with respect to the Company, for any period, the aggregate net income (or loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other than the Excluded Subsidiary) for such period on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided there shall be excluded therefrom: (a) the net income (but not loss) of any such Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of such income to the Company or otherwise is restricted by a contract, operation of law or otherwise; and (b) the net income of any other Person, except to the extent of cash dividends or distributions actually paid in cash to the Company or its Subsidiaries (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary) with respect to whom such Adjusted Consolidated Net Income calculation is being determined.

“ Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate ” means, with respect to any Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by the Statutory Reserve Rate.  The Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate will be adjusted automatically as to all Borrowings of Eurocurrency Rate Loans then outstanding as of the effective date of any change in the Statutory Reserve Rate.

“ Administrative Agent ” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

“ Administrative Agent’s Office ” means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 11.02 with respect to such currency, or such other address or account with respect to such currency as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Borrowers and the Lenders.

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“ Administrative Questionnaire ” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

“ Affiliate ” means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.  “ Control ” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.  “ Controlling ” and “ Controlled ” have meanings correlative thereto.  For the avoidance of doubt, none of the Arrangers, the Agents or their respective lending affiliates shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries of the Company.

“ Agent Parties ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.02(d).

“ Agent-Related Persons ” means the Agents, together with their respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents, attorney-in-fact, partners, trustees and advisors of such Persons and of such Persons’ Affiliates.

“ Agents ” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any) and the Arrangers.

“ Aggregate Commitments ” means the Revolving Commitments of all the Lenders.

“ Aggregate Revolving Exposure ” means, at any time, the aggregate Revolving Exposure of all the Lenders.

“ Agreement ” means this Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

“ Alternate Currency ” means each of the following currencies:  Euros, Sterling, Canadian Dollars, and Swiss Francs, together with each other currency (other than Dollars) that is approved in accordance with Section 1.09; provided that for each such other Alternate Currency that is so approved, such requested currency is an Eligible Currency.

“ Alternate Currency Equivalent ” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Alternate Currency as determined by the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Value Date) for the purchase of such Alternate Currency with Dollars.

“ Alternate Currency LC Sublimit ” means an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of $2,000,000.  The Alternate Currency LC Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Letter of Credit Sublimit.

“ Alternate Currency Sublimit ” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Aggregate Commitments and $35,000,000.  The Alternate Currency Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments.

“ Annual Financial Statements ” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the Company and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, including the notes thereto.

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“ Applicable Rate ” means, with respect to any Base Rate Loan, Eurocurrency Rate Loan or the Unused Line Fee, (a) from the Closing Date until the Business Day after a Compliance Certificate is delivered for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2018, (i) 1.25% per annum, with respect to Revolving Loans which are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (ii) 0.25% per annum, with respect to Revolving Loans which are Base Rate Loans, and (iii) 0.200% per annum, with respect to the Unused Line Fee, and (b) thereafter, the following percentages per annum set forth below under the caption “Eurocurrency Rate”, “Base Rate”, or “Unused Line Fee”, as the case may be, based upon the Total Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a):

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Total Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a); provided , however , that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then Pricing Level 1 shall apply in respect of the Credit Facility and the Unused Line Fee, in each case as of the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered and in each case shall remain in effect until the first Business Day following the date on which such Compliance Certificate is delivered.

“ Applicable Time ” means, with respect to any borrowings and payments in any Alternate Currency, the local time in the place of settlement for such Alternate Currency as may be determined by the Administrative Agent to be necessary for timely settlement on the relevant date in accordance with normal banking procedures in the place of payment.

“ Approved Fund ” means, with respect to any Lender, any Fund that is administered, advised or managed by (a) such Lender, (b) an Affiliate of such Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers, advises or manages such Lender.

“ Arrangers ” means Citizens and Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners under this Agreement.

“ Assignment and Assumption ” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit D or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

“ Attributable Indebtedness ” means, on any date, (a) in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP and (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation of any Person, the capitalized or principal amount of the remaining lease payments under the relevant lease that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease or other agreement were accounted for as a Capitalized Lease.

“ Availability Period ” means the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the earliest of (i) the Maturity Date, (ii) the date of termination of the Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 2.04, and (iii) the date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and of the obligation of each Issuing Bank to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.

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“ Available Revolving Commitment ” means, at any time, the Aggregate Commitments minus the Aggregate Revolving Exposure (calculated, with respect to any Defaulting Lender, as if such Defaulting Lender had funded its Pro Rata Share of all outstanding Borrowings under the Credit Facility).

“ 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.

“ 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.

“ 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 Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1% and (c) the sum of (i) the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate in effect on such day for a one-month Interest Period commencing on such day (subject to the interest rate floor set forth therein) plus (ii) 1.00%, in each instance as of such date of determination.  Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in any of the foregoing will become effective on the effective date of such change in the Federal Funds Rate, the Prime Rate or the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate for an Interest Period of one (1) month; provided that if the Base Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.  If for any reason the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error) (A) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Rate, for any reason, including the inability or failure of the Administrative Agent to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms above or (B) that the Prime Rate or the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate no longer accurately reflects an accurate determination of the prevailing Prime Rate or the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate, the Administrative Agent may select a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the basis for the Base Rate, until the circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist.

“ Base Rate Loan ” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.  All Base Rate Loans are only available to the Company and shall be denominated in Dollars.

“ Benefit Plan ” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.

“ BIA ” means the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), as amended.

“ Borrower ” and “ Borrowers ” each has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

“ Borrower DTTP Filing ” means an HM Revenue & Customs’ Form DTTP2 duly completed and filed by the relevant Borrower, which:

(a)                                  where it relates to a Treaty Lender that is an original Lender, contains the scheme reference number and jurisdiction of tax residence of that Lender, and

(i)                                      where the Borrower is an original Borrower, is filed with HM Revenue & Customs within 30 days of the date of this Agreement; or

(ii)                                   where the Borrower is an additional Borrower, is filed with HM Revenue & Customs within 30 days of the date on which that Borrower becomes an additional Borrower; or

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(b)                                  where it relates to a Treaty Lender that is a new lender, contains the scheme reference number and jurisdiction of tax residence stated in respect of that Lender in the relevant Assignment and Assumption or Incremental Amendment, and

(i)                                      where the Borrower is a Borrower as at the relevant Transfer Date, is filed with HM Revenue & Customs within 30 days of that Transfer Date; or

(ii)                                   where the Borrower is not a Borrower as at the relevant Transfer Date, is filed with HM Revenue & Customs within 30 days of the date on which that Borrower becomes an additional Borrower.

“ Borrower Materials ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“ Borrowing ” means a borrowing of a Swingline Loan or a borrowing consisting of Revolving Loans of the same Type made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period.

“ Business Day ” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the jurisdiction where the Administrative Agent’s Office with respect to Obligations denominated in Dollars is located and:

(a)                                  if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Dollars, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Dollars in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Dollars to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Banking Day;

(b)                                  if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Euro, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Euro in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means a TARGET Day;

(c)                                   if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, means any such day on which dealings in deposits in the relevant currency are conducted by and between banks in the London or other applicable offshore interbank market for such currency; and

(d)                                  if such day relates to any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in a currency other than Dollars or Euro in respect of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, or any other dealings in any currency other than Dollars or Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan (other than any interest rate settings), means any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such currency.

“ Canadian Benefit Plan ” means any material plan, fund, program, or policy, whether funded or unfunded, insured or uninsured, providing employee benefits, including such medical, hospital care, dental, sickness, accident, disability, life insurance, retirement or savings benefits, under which any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party has any liability with respect to any employee or former employee, but excluding any Canadian Pension Plans.

“ Canadian Borrower ” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

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“ Canadian Defined Benefit Plan ” means a Canadian Pension Plan, which contains a “defined benefit provision,” as defined in subsection 147.1(1) of the Canadian Tax Act.

“ Canadian Dollar ” and “ CAD ” means the lawful currency of Canada.

“ Canadian MEPP ” means a multi-employer pension plan as defined under the applicable Canadian pension Laws, to which any Loan Party’s or Subsidiary’s only financial obligation is to pay employer contributions in accordance with a collective bargaining agreement, and which is not maintained, sponsored or administered by a Loan Party or Subsidiary.

“ Canadian Pension Plans ” means any plan, program or arrangement that is a pension plan that is required to be registered under any applicable Canadian federal or provincial pension Laws, whether or not registered under any such Laws, which is, or has been, maintained or contributed to by, or to which there is or may be an obligation to contribute by, a Loan Party or Subsidiary operating in Canada in respect of any Person’s employment in Canada with such Loan Party or Subsidiary, other than any Canadian MEPP or plans established by statute, which shall include the Canada Pension Plan maintained by the government of Canada and the Quebec Pension Plan maintained by the government of the Province of Quebec.

“ Canadian Tax Act ” means the Income Tax Act (Canada) and the regulations thereunder, as amended.

“ Capitalized Lease Obligation ” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Capitalized Lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) prepared in accordance with GAAP.

“ Capitalized Leases ” means all leases that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases; provided that for all purposes hereunder (except as otherwise expressly provided), the amount of obligations attributable to any Capitalized Lease shall be the amount thereof accounted for as a liability in accordance with GAAP; provided, further , that for purposes of this Agreement, the determination of whether a lease is required to be accounted for as a Capitalized Lease on the balance sheet of such Person shall be made by reference to GAAP as in effect on the Closing Date and without giving effect to ASC 842 upon its effectiveness after the Closing Date.

“ Cash Collateralize ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.13(j)(iii).

“ Cash Equivalents ” means any of the following types of property, to the extent owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries:

(a)                                  cash, denominated in Dollars, each Alternate Currency, Japanese Yen, or, to the extent required in connection with the ordinary course operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, other foreign currencies,

(b)                                  readily marketable obligations issued or directly and unconditionally guaranteed or insured as to interest and principal by (i) the United States of America or any state, agency or instrumentality thereof, or (ii) any foreign government, the securities of which foreign government are rated at least A by S&P or A by Moody’s, and in each case having maturities of not more than twelve (12) months from the date of acquisition,

(c)                                   certificates of deposit with maturities of twelve (12) months or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding twelve (12) months and overnight bank deposits, in each case, with any bank or financial institution organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or by any financial institution organized in any foreign country recognized by the

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United States, in each case having capital and surplus in excess of $250,000,000 (or the Dollar Equivalent thereof),

(d)                                  repurchase obligations with a term of not more than thirty (30) days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (b) above entered into with any bank or financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (c) above,

(e)                                   commercial paper issued by any Lender or the parent corporation of any Lender, and commercial paper of any corporation incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the laws of the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan or Switzerland and not an Affiliate of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries carrying a rating of at least A-1 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least P-1 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s (or, in the case of an issuer incorporated under the laws of one of the foreign countries specified above, carrying an equivalent rating), and in each case maturing within three hundred sixty-four (364) days after the date of acquisition, and

(f)                                    U.S. money market funds rated in the highest rating category by either Moody’s or S&P or, in the case of money market funds located in the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan or Switzerland, any comparable foreign rating agency.

“ Cash Management Bank ” means any Person that is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender providing Cash Management Services to the Borrowers and other Loan Parties.

“ Cash Management Obligations ” means obligations owed by the Borrowers or any other Loan Parties to any Cash Management Bank in respect of or in connection with any Cash Management Services and designated by the Cash Management Bank and the Company in writing to the Administrative Agent as “Cash Management Obligations”; provided the Company, the Administrative Agent and the Bank of America in its capacity as a Cash Management Bank acknowledge that the existing and future Cash Management Services provided by Bank of America, N.A. in its capacity as a Cash Management Bank to any of the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries and not in violation of Section 6.13, shall constitute Cash Management Obligations owed to Bank of America, N.A. without further notice required hereunder so long as Bank of America, N.A. remains a Cash Management Bank.

“ Cash Management Services ” means any agreement or arrangement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, p-cards or purchasing cards, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.

“ CCAA ” means the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), as amended.

“ CDOR Rate ” means, with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Revolving Loan denominated in Canadian Dollars, a rate per annum equal to the average of the annual yield rates applicable to Canadian Dollar banker’s acceptances at or about 10:00 a.m. (Toronto, Ontario time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period as reported on the “CDOR page” (or any display substituted therefor) of Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service (or such other page or commercially available source displaying Canadian interbank bid rates for Canadian Dollar bankers’ acceptances as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) for a term equivalent to such Interest Period (or if such Interest Period is not equal to a number of months, for a term equivalent to the number of months closest to such Interest Period).

“ Change in Law ” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following:  (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty (excluding the taking effect after the date of this Agreement of a law, rule, regulation or treaty adopted prior to the date of this Agreement), (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of

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any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection with, and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or 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 to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

“ Change of Control ” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events:

(i)                                      the acquisition of, or, if earlier, the shareholder or director approval of the acquisition of, ownership or voting control, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, on or after the Closing Date, by any Person or group (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the SEC under the 1934 Act, as then in effect), of 50% or more of the Equity Interests or Voting Power of the Company;

(ii)                                   the Company shall fail to own and control, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Equity Interests and Voting Power of each Subsidiary (or, in the case of any Subsidiary that is a non-wholly owned Subsidiary as of the Closing Date, not less than the percentage and Voting Power of the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary owned and controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company as of the Closing Date), except pursuant to Investments, Dispositions and other transactions permitted under this Agreement; or

(iii)                                during any period of 12 consecutive months, the occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors (or similar governing body) of the Company by Persons who were neither (A) nominated by members of the board of directors of the Company, at the beginning of such period, nor (B) appointed by directors so nominated.

“ Citizens ” means Citizens Bank, N.A., and its successors and assigns.

“ Closing Date ” means the first date on which all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 11.01.

“ Code ” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

“ Collateral ” means (a) the “Collateral” (or any substantially equivalent term), as defined in each Securities Pledge Agreement, and (b) any other property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, upon which a Lien securing the Obligations is granted or purported to be granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders under the Loan Documents.

“ Commitment ” means, as to each Lender, such Lender’s Revolving Commitment.  The initial aggregate amount of the Commitments is $125,000,000.

“ Commodity Exchange Act ” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq .), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

“ Company ” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

“ Compliance Certificate ” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C and which certificate shall in any event be a certificate of a Responsible Officer (a) certifying as to the financial statements delivered therewith, (b) certifying as to whether a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or had occurred at any time during the period covered by such certificate, and, if applicable, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, and (c) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations of (i) the Interest Coverage Ratio, and (ii) the Total Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most recent Test Period then ended.

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“ 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.

“ Consideration ” means, in connection with an acquisition, the aggregate consideration paid, including cash, the issuance of securities or notes, the assumption or incurring of liabilities (direct or contingent), the payment of consulting fees (excluding any fees payable to any investment banker in connection with such acquisition) or fees for a covenant not to compete and any other consideration paid.

“ Consolidated Total Debt ” means the sum (without duplication) of all Indebtedness of the Company and of its Subsidiaries (but excluding the Excluded Subsidiary), all as determined on a consolidated basis.

“ Contractual Obligation ” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

“ Contribution Notice ” means a contribution notice issued by the Pensions Regulator under Section 38 or Section 47 of the United Kingdom Pensions Act 2004.

“ Control ” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Affiliate”.

“ CRA Security ” means CRA Security Corporation, a Massachusetts securities corporation.

“ Credit Agreement Currency ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.20.

“ Credit Facility ” means the credit facility constituting the Revolving Commitment.

“ Default ” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

“ Default Rate ” means an interest rate equal to (a) the Base Rate plus (b) the Applicable Rate applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (c) 2.0% per annum; provided that (i) with respect to the outstanding principal amount of any Base Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2.0% per annum, and (ii) with respect to the outstanding principal amount of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate and any Mandatory Cost) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2.0% per annum; in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

“ Defaulting Lender ” means, subject to Section 2.15(b), any Lender that, as determined by the Administrative Agent, (a) has failed to perform any of its funding obligations hereunder, including in respect of its Loans or participations in respect of Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans, within three Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder (unless such obligation is the subject of a good faith dispute), (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Lender that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations hereunder or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will comply with its funding obligations, or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Insolvency Law, (ii) had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or a custodian appointed for it, (iii) taken any action in furtherance of, or indicated its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or (iv) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that

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Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender.

“ Designated Borrower ” and “ Designated Borrowers ” have the respective meanings specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

“ Designated Borrower Sublimit ” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the Aggregate Commitments and (b) $35,000,000.  The Designated Borrower Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments.

“ Disposition ” or “ Dispose ” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction and any sale or issuance of Equity Interests in a Subsidiary) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith.

“ Disqualified Equity Interests ” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition specified in any such terms, (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (in either case, other than at the option of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or solely for Qualified Equity Interests (together with cash payments in lieu of fractional shares)), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests (together with cash payments in lieu of fractional shares)), in whole or in part, (c) provides for required scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is 180 days after the Maturity Date of the Loans at the time of issuance; provided that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of employees of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees or otherwise, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because they may be required to be repurchased by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or otherwise.

“ Dollar ” and “ $ ” mean lawful money of the United States.

“ Dollar Equivalent ” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any Alternate Currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Value Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternate Currency.

“ Domestic Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the Laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.

“ Dormant Subsidiary ” means each of CRA Security Corporation, CRA International Holdings LLC, CRA International (Saudi Arabia) LLC.

“ Dutch Borrower ” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.

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“ EEA Financial Institution ” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

“ 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.

“ Eligible Assignee ” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 11.07(b)(ii) and (iv) (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 11.07(b)(ii)).

“ Eligible Currency ” means any lawful currency other than the currencies specifically identified in the definition of “Alternate Currency” that is readily available, freely transferable and convertible into Dollars in the international interbank market available to the Lenders in such market and as to which a Dollar Equivalent may be readily calculated. If, after the designation by the Administrative Agent of any such currency as an Alternate Currency, any change in currency controls or exchange regulations or any change in the national or international financial, political or economic conditions are imposed in the country in which such currency is issued, result in, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent (in the case of any Loans or Letters of Credit to be denominated in an Eligible Currency), (a) such currency no longer being readily available, freely transferable and convertible into Dollars, (b) a Dollar Equivalent is no longer readily calculable with respect to such currency, (c) providing such currency is impracticable for the Lenders, or (d) no longer a currency in which the Lenders are willing to make such credit extensions (each of (a), (b), (c) and (d) a “ Disqualifying Event ”), then the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Company, and such country’s currency shall no longer be an Alternate Currency until such time as the Disqualifying Event(s) no longer exist. Within, five (5) Business Days after receipt of such notice from the Administrative Agent, any applicable Borrower shall repay any Loans in such currency to which the Disqualifying Event(s) apply or convert such Loans into the Dollar Equivalent of Loans in Dollars, subject to the other terms contained herein.

“ EMU Legislation ” means the legislative measures of the European Council for the introduction of, changeover to or operation of a single or unified European currency.

“ Environmental Laws ” means any and all Federal, provincial, territorial, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.

“ Environmental Liability ” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities) of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment, or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed by or imposed on any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to any of the foregoing.

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“ Equity Interests ” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities).

“ ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time.

“ ERISA Affiliate ” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that together with any Loan Party is treated as a single employer within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA.  Any former ERISA Affiliate of a Loan Party shall continue to be considered an ERISA Affiliate of such Loan Party with respect to the period such entity was an ERISA Affiliate of such Loan Party and with respect to liabilities arising during such period and with respect to which such former ERISA Affiliate could reasonably be expected to be liable under the Code or ERISA, but in no event for more than six years after such period if no such liability has been asserted against the former ERISA Affiliate or any Loan Party; provided, however, that if liability is asserted against such ERISA Affiliate prior to the expiration of the six year period, the former ERISA Affiliate shall continue to be an ERISA Affiliate of the Loan Party(ies) after the expiration of the six year period.

“ ERISA Event ” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as a termination under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from a Multiemployer Plan, written notification of any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or written notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent or is in “critical,” “endangered,” or “critical and declining” status within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA; (d) the filing under Section, 4041(c) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan, the treatment of a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan amendment as a termination under Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan, other than for the payment of PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates, (f) the application for a minimum funding waiver under Section 302(c) of ERISA with respect to a Pension Plan, (g) the imposition of a lien under Section 303(k) of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan or (h) the failure to make by its due date a required contribution under Section 412(m) of the Code (or Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan or the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (i) the assertion of a claim (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Plan, or the assets thereof, or against any Loan Party or any of its ERISA Affiliates in connection with any such Plan that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or (j) the occurrence of a non-exempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA) which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

“ 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 ” and “ € ” mean the single currency of the Participating Member States.

“ Eurocurrency Rate ” means, with respect to any Revolving Loan relative to any Interest Period (a) other than a Revolving Loan denominated in Canadian Dollars, the offered rate for deposits of U.S. Dollars for a term coextensive with the designated Interest Period that the ICE Benchmark Administration

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(the “ LIBO Rate ”) (or any successor administrator of LIBO Rates) fixes as its LIBO Rate as of 11:00 a.m. London time on the day that is two (2) London Banking Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period and (b) denominated in Canadian Dollars, the CDOR Rate; provided , in each case, that if such rate is less than zero, it shall be deemed equal to be zero.  With respect to (a) above, if such day is not a London Banking Day, the Eurocurrency Rate shall be determined on the next preceding day which is a London Banking Day.  With respect to (a) above, if for any reason the Administrative Agent cannot determine such offered rate fixed by the ICE Benchmark Administration (or any successor administrator of LIBO Rates), the Administrative Agent may, in its sole but reasonable discretion, use an alternative method to select a rate calculated by the Administrative Agent to reflect its cost of funds; provided that to the extent a comparable, successor or alternative rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in connection herewith, such approved rate shall be selected in accordance with, and applied in a manner consistent with, general market practice; and provided , further that to the extent the application of such rate in accordance with general market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such approved rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.

“ Eurocurrency Rate Loan ” means a Revolving Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Eurocurrency Rate.  Eurocurrency Rate Loans may be denominated in Dollars or in an Alternate Currency.  All Loans denominated in an Alternate Currency or made to the Dutch Borrower must be Eurocurrency Rate Loans.

“ Event of Default ” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.

“ Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

“ Excluded Group Member Subsidiary ” means in respect of any Group Member, any Subsidiary of such Group Member, at any date of determination, (a) that is a “controlled foreign corporation” as defined in Section 957 of the Code, (b) that is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of a “controlled foreign corporation” as defined in Section 957 of the Code, or (c) substantially all of the assets of which are equity interests in one or more “controlled foreign corporations” as defined in Section 957 of the Code.

“ Excluded Subsidiary ” means GNU123 Liquidating Corp. (formerly known as NeuCo, Inc.), a Delaware corporation.

“ 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 or for the account of a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income, profits, gains or net worth (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes and any Taxes similar to any of the foregoing, 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) U.S. federal, UK (except where the Recipient is a Qualifying Lender) and Dutch withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Recipient with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Recipient acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Company under Section 3.07) or (ii) such Recipient changes its Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Article III , amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Recipient’s assignor immediately before such Recipient became a party hereto or to such Recipient immediately before it changed its Lending Office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Sections 3.01(f)(i) and (ii), (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA and (e) any Canadian withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to a Recipient as a result of such Recipient (i) not dealing at arm’s length (within the meaning of the Canadian Tax Act) with a Loan Party, or (ii) being a “specified non-resident shareholder”

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of a Loan Party or a non-resident person not dealing at arm’s length with a “specified shareholder” of a Loan Party (in each case within the meaning of the Canadian Tax Act) (other than where the non-arm’s length relationship arises, or where the Recipient is a “specified non-resident shareholder”, or does not deal at arm’s length with a “specified shareholder”, as a result of the Recipient having become a party to, received or perfected a security interest under or received or enforced any rights under, a Loan Document).

“ Existing Letters of Credit ” means those certain letters of credit set forth on Schedule 1.01(a) .

“ Existing Credit Agreement ” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Agreement.

“ FATCA ” means the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, as codified in Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date hereof (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, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code, and any intergovernmental agreements entered into in connection with the foregoing and any fiscal or regulatory legislation or official rules adopted pursuant to any such intergovernmental agreement.

“ Federal Funds Rate ” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum (expressed as a decimal, rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next higher 1/100 of 1%) equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Citizens on such day on such transactions as reasonably determined by Administrative Agent.

“ Fee Letter ” means the Fee Letter, dated September 27, 2017, between the Company and Citizens.

“ Finance Party ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(j)(i).

“ Financial Support Direction ” means a financial support direction issued by the Pensions Regulator under Section 43 of the United Kingdom Pensions Act 2004.

“ Foreign Lender ” means, with respect to any Borrower (a) if such Borrower is a U.S. Person, a Lender that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) if such 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.  For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

“ Foreign Subsidiary ” means any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

“ FRB ” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

“ Fronting Exposure ” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, (a) with respect to any Issuing Bank, such Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the relevant outstanding LC Exposure other than LC Exposure as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) with respect to the Swingline Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Pro Rata Share of Swingline Loans other than Swingline

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Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.

“ Fund ” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course.

“ Funding Account ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 4.01(e).

“ GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis as from time to time in effect, including the statements and interpretations of the United States Financial Accounting Standards Board.

“ Governmental Approvals ” means authorizations, consents, approvals, waivers, exemptions, variances, franchises, permissions, permits and licenses of, and filings and declarations with, any Governmental Authority.

“ Governmental Authority ” means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of 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 (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

“ Group Member ” means any Borrower and any of its direct or indirect Subsidiaries.

“ Guarantee ” means, as to any Person, without duplication (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or monetary other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations entered into in connection with any acquisition or disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness).  The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith.  The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

“ Guaranteed Obligations ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 10.01.

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“ Guarantor ” means the Loan Guarantor and any other Person who hereafter executes and delivers to the Administrative Agent a payment guarantee of any and all Obligations in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

“ Hazardous Materials ” means any gasoline or petrol (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) or petroleum products, polychlorinated biphenyls, urea-formaldehyde insulation, asbestos, pollutants, contaminants, radioactivity, and any other substances defined as hazardous or toxic under any Environmental Law, that is regulated pursuant to or is a basis for liability under any Environmental Law.

“ Hedge Bank ” means any Person that is a party to a Swap Contract with a Loan Party and, at the time it enters into such Swap Contract, is (or was) an Agent, a Lender or an Affiliate of any of them, each in its capacity as a party thereto.

“ Immaterial Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary designated as such by the Company by notice to the Administrative Agent; provided that all Immaterial Subsidiaries may not, at any date, together with their respective subsidiaries, account for more than 5% of the total assets determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, 5% of the Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA or 5% of the consolidated revenues, in each case of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters immediately preceding such date.

“ Increasing Lenders ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

“ Incremental Amendment ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(e).

“ Incremental Revolving Commitments ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

“ Indebtedness ” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:

(a)                                  all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;

(b)                                  the maximum amount (after giving effect to any prior drawings or reductions that may have been reimbursed) of all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person;

(c)                                   net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;

(d)                                  all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts and accrued expenses payable in the ordinary course of business, (ii) any deferred purchase price payment obligations, purchase price adjustments, contingent consideration payments, earn-out and similar obligations arising under any document pertaining to a merger, acquisition, Disposition or similar transaction, or to any hiring of any employee or consultant until such obligation is not paid after becoming due and payable, and (iii) accruals for payroll and other liabilities accrued in the ordinary course of business);

(e)                                   all Attributable Indebtedness of such Person;

(f)                                    the aggregate amount of mandatory payment obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests (in each case other than obligations payable in Qualified Equity Interests), valued at the greater of the voluntary liquidation preference or the involuntary liquidation preference thereof, plus accrued and unpaid dividends, in each of the foregoing cases payable prior to 180 days after the Maturity Date of the Loans;

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(g)                                   all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing; and

(h)                                  all reimbursement obligations with respect to outstanding letters of credit (to the extent drawn); and

(i)                                      all obligations of any Person of the kind described in the foregoing clauses (a) through (g) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse.

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, except to the extent such Person’s liability for such Indebtedness is made non-recourse to such Person.  The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date.  The amount of any Synthetic Lease Obligation or capital lease as of any date shall be the Attributable Indebtedness relating thereto on such date.

“ Indemnified Liabilities ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.05.

“ Indemnified Taxes ” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made to or for the account of a Recipient on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a) above, Other Taxes.

“ Indemnitees ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.05.

“ Information ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.08(b).

“ Insolvency Laws ” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, the BIA, the CCAA, the WRLU and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, general assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, administration, insolvency, reorganization (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise), or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally, including the Dutch Bankruptcy Code ( Fallissementswet ) and Chapter 3.5.5 of the Dutch Financial Markets Supervisions Act ( Wet op het financieel toezicht ).

“ Intellectual Property ” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14.

“ Interest Coverage Ratio ” means, for any period, the ratio of (a) Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA to (b) Interest Expense, all calculated for the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary) on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“ Interest Expense ” means, with respect to the Company for any period, the aggregate of the interest expense of the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary) for such period, on a consolidated basis, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and including, without duplication, (a) all accretion of original issue discount and amortization of premium on Indebtedness; (b) the interest component of Indebtedness constituting Capitalized Leases paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued during such period; (c) net cash costs under all Swap Contracts (including amortization of fees); (d) without duplication, any periodic commitment fees and other fees payable to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Banks or the Lenders pursuant to the Loan Documents; and (e) without duplication, any periodic fees paid by such Person to creditors, which fees shall be related to or arising out of any Indebtedness owed to creditors.

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“ Interest Payment Date ” means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each calendar quarter and the Maturity Date.

“ Interest Period ” means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurocurrency Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Loan Notice; provided that:

(a)                                  any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;

(b)                                  any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and

(c)                                   no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.

“ Investment ” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition (including without limitation by merger or otherwise) of Equity Interests or debt or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of Indebtedness of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions, including without limitation by merger or otherwise) of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person.

“ Investment Policy ” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(j).

“ IRS ” means Internal Revenue Service of the United States.

“ Issuing Banks ” means Citizens, in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit, and Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit, and their respective successors in such capacities, as provided in Section 2.13, together with any other Lender reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent as Issuing Bank.  Each Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates, or a domestic or foreign branch, of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate or domestic or foreign branch with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.

“ Judgment Currency ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.20.

“ Laws ” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, provincial, territorial, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities and executive orders, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority.

“ LC Disbursement ” means a payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.

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“ LC Exposure ” means, at any time, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements relating to Letters of Credit that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Company.  The LC Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Pro Rata Share of the aggregate LC Exposure.

“ LC Fronting Fee ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(b).

“ LC Participation Fee ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(b).

“ Lender ” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to herein as a “Lender”; provided that any Lender may make any credit extension hereunder to any Borrower by causing any domestic or foreign branch or affiliate of such Lender to make such credit extension (notwithstanding this proviso, the lender of record shall remain such Lender).  For avoidance of doubt, each Additional Lender is a Lender to the extent any such Person has executed and delivered an Incremental Amendment, and to the extent such Incremental Amendment shall have become effective in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.  As of the Closing Date, Schedule 2.01 sets forth the name of each Lender.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lender” includes the Swingline Lender.

“ Lending Office ” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, which office may include any Affiliate of such Person or any domestic or foreign branch of such Person or such Affiliate, provided that the lender of record shall remain such Lender.

“ Letter of Credit ” means any standby letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement and shall include the Existing Letters of Credit.  All Letters of Credit may be issued in Dollars or, subject to the Alternate Currency LC Sublimit, in an Alternate Currency.

“ Letter of Credit Notice ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.13(b).

“ Letter of Credit Sublimit ” means an amount equal to $15,000,000.  The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments.

“ Lien ” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, collateral assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, preference, priority or other security interest or similar preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement in the nature of a security interest, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any Capitalized Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing); provided that in no event shall an operating lease in and of itself be deemed a Lien.

“ Loan ” means an extension of credit by a Lender to a Borrower under Article II in the form of a Revolving Loan or a Swingline Loan.

“ Loan Documents ” means, collectively, (a) this Agreement, (b) the Notes, (c) any Incremental Amendment, (d) each Securities Pledge Agreement, and (e) all other agreements, instruments and documents now or hereafter executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent and/or any Lender by any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, in each case as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“ Loan Guarantor ” means the Company in its capacity as a guarantor pursuant to Article X hereof.

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“ Loan Guaranty ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 10.01.

“ Loan Notice ” means a notice of (a) a Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A .

“ Loan Parties ” means, collectively, each Borrower and each Guarantor.

“ London Banking Day ” means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.

“ Mandatory Cost ” means, with respect to any period, the percentage rate per annum determined in accordance with Schedule 1.01(b) .

“ Margin Stock ” has the meaning set forth in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, or any successor thereto.

“ Master Agreement ” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Swap Contract”.

“ Material Adverse Effect ” means any event or condition having a material adverse effect on:  (a) the business, assets, financial condition, operations or properties of (i) the Company, (ii) the Borrowers taken together, or (iii) the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary) taken as a whole, (b) the ability of any Loan Party to perform its obligations in all material respects under the Loan Documents, (c) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or Lenders to enforce or collect the amounts due under the Loan Documents or to realize upon any material Collateral, (d) the enforceability or validity of any of the Loan Documents or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated therein, or (e) the attachment, perfection or priority of any material portion of the Liens intended to be created thereby,

“ Material Indebtedness ” of any Person means Indebtedness of such Person having an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or more.

“ Maturity Date ” means the date which is the fifth anniversary of the date of this Agreement, provided , that if such day is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the first Business Day thereafter.

“ Maximum Rate ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.10.

“ Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

“ Multiemployer Plan ” means any multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA and subject to Title IV of ERISA, to which any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.

“ Non-Consenting Lender ” means any Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (i) requires the approval of all of the affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 11.01 and (ii) has been approved by the Required Lenders.

“ Note ” means a promissory note of each of the Borrowers payable to any Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the applicable Borrower to such Lender resulting from the Loans made by such Lender.

“ Obligated Party ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 10.02.

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“ Obligations ” means all (a) advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document (including principal, interest, fees, costs and expenses and indemnity reimbursement amounts) or otherwise with respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party of any proceeding under any Insolvency Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding, (b) obligations of any Loan Party arising under any Secured Hedge Agreement with a Hedge Bank, and (c) Cash Management Obligations.

“ Organization Documents ” means (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement, or, in respect of a limited liability company incorporated in the Netherlands, its deed of incorporation and, if amended, its articles of association; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.

“ 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 Tax (other than connections arising solely 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 or 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 3.07).

“ Overnight Rate ” means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Rate and (ii) an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent, an Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as applicable, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in an Alternate Currency, the rate of interest per annum at which overnight deposits in the applicable Alternate Currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such day by a branch or Affiliate of Citizens in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency to major banks in such interbank market.

“ Parallel Liability ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.23.

“ Participant ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.07(d).

“ Participant Register ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.07(f).

“ Participating Member State ” means each state so described in any EMU Legislation.

“ PBGC ” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

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“ Pension Plan ” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates or to which any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates contributes or contributed or had an obligation to contribute, in the preceding five plan years.

“ Pensions Regulator ” means the body corporate called the Pensions Regulator established under Part I of the United Kingdom Pensions Act 2004.

“ Permitted Acquisition ” means any transaction or series of related transactions resulting in the acquisition by the Company, or by any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary), whether by purchase, merger or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the assets of, all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of, or all or substantially all of a business line or unit or a division of, any Person, provided ,

(i)                                      immediately prior to, and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, including without limitation under Section 7.02(f);

(ii)                                   all transactions in connection therewith shall be consummated, in all material respects, in accordance with all applicable Laws;

(iii)                                such acquisition was not preceded by an unsolicited tender offer for such Equity Interests or, proxy contest, and was approved, or recommended, by the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) of the target thereof;

(iv)                               in the case of the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests, all of the Equity Interests (except for any such Equity Interests in the nature of directors’ qualifying shares required pursuant to applicable Law) acquired by the Company or such wholly-owned Subsidiary or issued by such Person or any newly formed wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company or any wholly-owned Subsidiary thereof (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary) in connection with such acquisition shall be owned 100% by the Company or such wholly-owned Subsidiary;

(v)                                  the Company and its Subsidiaries shall (i) be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.13 on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such acquisition, (ii) have a Total Leverage Ratio, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, which does not exceed 1/4 “turn” less than the required Total Leverage Ratio under Section 7.13(b), in the cases of each of clauses (i) and (ii) above, as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(b), and (iii) have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Compliance Certificate evidencing in reasonable detail compliance with such financial covenants described in this clause (v);

(vi)                               the Company shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to Administrative Agent (i) at least ten days’ (or such shorter period as may be acceptable to the Administrative Agent) prior written notice of any proposed acquisition in which the aggregate Consideration therefor is $15,000,000 or more, and (ii) prompt written notice following the consummation of any acquisition in which the aggregate Consideration therefor is less than $15,000,000. Any such notice shall include a reasonably detailed description of such acquisition. Furthermore, (A) at least two Business Days prior to (1) any proposed acquisition in which the aggregate Consideration therefor is $25,000,000 or more, the Company shall have delivered copies of all letters of intent, drafts of material agreements relating thereto, all material due diligence reports relating thereto, if available, and all such other information and documents that the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, and (2) any proposed acquisition in which the

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aggregate Consideration therefor is $15,000,000 or more but less than $25,000,000, the Company shall have delivered copies of all agreements, information, reports and documentation related thereto that the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, and (B) promptly following consummation of any acquisition in which the aggregate Consideration therefor is less than $5,000,000, the Company shall have delivered copies of all agreements, information, reports and documentation related thereto that the Administrative Agent may reasonably request; and

(vii)                            any Persons or assets or division as acquired in accordance herewith shall be in substantially the same business or lines of business in which the Company and its Subsidiaries are permitted to be engaged hereunder.

“ Permitted Lien ” means any Lien permitted by Section 7.01.

“ Permitted Refinancing ” means, with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided that the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium (including tender premiums) thereon, plus reasonable original issue discount and upfront fees plus other fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, (b) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended, and (c) at the time thereof, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

“ Person ” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.

“ Plan ” means any material “employee benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established or maintained by any Loan Party or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any of their respective ERISA Affiliates.

“ Platform ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“ Prime Rate ” means, at any time, the rate of interest per annum announced by Citizens from time to time as its prime rate, or its equivalent for U.S. Dollar loans to borrowers located in the United States, for such day (whether or not the lowest rate offered by Citizens and with any change in such rate announced by Citizens taking effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change).

“ Pro Forma Basis ” and “ Pro Forma Effect ” mean, with respect to any financial calculation or compliance with any test or covenant hereunder, performing such calculation, or compliance with such test or covenant, as applicable, after giving effect to (a) the Transactions, (b) any Investment, (c) any asset sale, (d) any payment of principal or interest in respect Indebtedness, or (e) any incurrence of Indebtedness, using, for purposes of determining such compliance, the historical financial statements of all entities or assets so acquired or sold (if available) and the consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and deeming any Indebtedness or other liabilities to be incurred or repaid in connection therewith, as though consummated and incurred or repaid at the beginning of such period (and assuming that such Indebtedness to be incurred bears interest during any portion of the applicable measurement period prior to the relevant acquisition at the weighted average of the interest rates applicable to outstanding incurred Loans during such period).

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“ Pro Rata Share ” means, with respect to each Lender at any time a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the amount of the Commitments and, if applicable and without duplication, Loans or Revolving Exposure of such Lender under the Credit Facility at such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the Aggregate Commitments and, if applicable and without duplication, Loans or Revolving Exposure under the Credit Facility at such time.

“ Projections ” shall have the meaning specified in Section 5.05(c).

“ PTE ” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.

“ Public Lender ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

“ Qualified Equity Interests ” means any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.

“ Qualifying Lender ” means a Lender which is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under the Loan Documents and is:

(i)                                      a Lender:

(a)                                  which is a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the Income Tax Act 2007) making an advance under the Loan Documents and is within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance or would be within such charge as respects such payment apart from section 18A of the Corporation Tax Act 2009; or

(b)                                  in respect of an advance made under a Loan Document by a person that was a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the Income Tax Act 2007) at the time that that advance was made and within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance; or

(ii)                                   a Treaty Lender.

“ Recipient ” means (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) any Lender and (c) any Issuing Bank, as applicable.

“ Register ” has the meaning specified in Section 11.07(c).

“ Relevant Jurisdiction ” means, in relation to the UK Borrower, (a) its jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, and (b) any jurisdiction where it conducts its business.

“ Relevant Party ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(j)(ii).

“ Reportable Event ” means, with respect to any Pension Plan, any of the events set forth in Section 4043 (c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived.

“ Required Lenders ” means, on any date of determination, Lenders who collectively hold more than 50% (or, if there are three or fewer lenders, at least two non-affiliated Lenders having more than 50%) of the Revolving Exposure and unfunded Commitments hereunder, or if the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, Lenders who collectively hold more than 50% (or, if there are three or fewer lenders, at least two non-affiliated Lenders having more than 50%) of the aggregate Revolving Exposure under the Credit Facility; provided , however , that if at any time (irrespective of the number of

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Lenders party to the Credit Agreement) a Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender, the Revolving Exposure and unfunded commitments under the Credit Facility of such Defaulting Lender shall be excluded from the determination of Required Lenders.

“ Responsible Officer ” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer or other similar officer or Person performing similar functions of a Loan Party, or, in respect of a Loan Party incorporated in the Netherlands, an authorized representative.  Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party and in no event in such person’s individual capacity.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Responsible Officer” shall refer to a Responsible Officer of the Company.

“ Restricted Payment ” means the declaration or payment of any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to the Company’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof).

“ Revolving Borrowing ” means a Borrowing comprised of Revolving Loans.

“ Revolving Commitment ” means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment hereunder 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 possible aggregate amount of such Lender’s Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.04 and assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 11.07 and increased pursuant to Section 2.14.  The initial amount of each Lender’s Revolving Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01 , 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 $125,000,000.

“ Revolving Exposure ” means with respect to any Lender at any time, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding Revolving Loans of such Lender, plus the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate amount at such time of such Lender’s LC Exposure, plus the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate amount at such time of such Lender’s Swingline Exposure.

“ Revolving Loan ” means a revolving loan made by the Lenders to a Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01.

“ S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.

“ Same Day Funds ” means (a) with respect to disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available funds, and (b) with respect to disbursements and payments in an Alternate Currency, same day or other funds as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to be customary in the place of disbursement or payment for the settlement of international banking transactions in the relevant Alternate Currency.

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“ Sanctioned Country ” means any country, territory or region which is itself the subject or target of any comprehensive Sanctions (at the date of this Agreement, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria).

“ Sanctioned Person ” means (a) any Person or group listed in any Sanctions related list of designated Persons maintained by OFAC, including the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, or the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any EU member state, (b) any Person subject to any law that would prohibit all or substantially all financial or other transactions with that Person or would require that assets of that Person that come into the possession of a third-party be blocked (c) any legal entity organized or domiciled in a Sanctioned Country, (d) any agency, political subdivision or instrumentality of the government of a Sanctioned Country, (e) any natural person ordinarily resident in a Sanctioned Country, or (f) any Person 50% or more owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate by any of the above.

“ Sanctions ” means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes or restriction imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by OFAC or the U.S. Department of State or (b) 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.

“ SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

“ Secured Hedge Agreement ” means any Swap Contract permitted hereunder that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank which is designated in writing by the Hedge Bank and the Company to the Administrative Agent as a “Secured Hedge Agreement”, provided that any such Hedge Bank which is not an Agent or a Lender has delivered a letter to the Administrative Agent (which is reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent) pursuant to which such Hedge Bank (a) appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent under each Securities Pledge Agreement and (b) agrees to be bound by Article IX, Section 11.15 and 11.16 as if it were a Lender, and Section 8.03.

“ Securities Pledge Agreements ” means, collectively, (i) that certain Securities Pledge Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G , and (ii) those certain securities pledge agreements (or equivalent documentation under local law) required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 4.01, 6.15 and/or 6.19 hereof; as any of the foregoing may be supplemented by supplement or joinder thereto delivered pursuant to Section 6.15.

“ Settlement Time ” means, with respect to any borrowings and payments in any Alternate Currency, the local time in the place of settlement for such Alternate Currency as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to be necessary for timely settlement on the relevant date in accordance with customary banking procedures in the place of payment.

“ Single Employer Plan ” means any Plan which is covered by Title IV of ERISA, but which is not a Multiemployer Plan.

“ Solvent ” and “ Solvency ” mean, at a point in time, that (a) the fair salable value of the assets of a Person (treating, in the case of any group of Persons taken together on a consolidated basis, such group as a Person, as appropriate throughout this definition), on a going concern basis, is greater than the total amount of liabilities (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured and unliquidated liabilities) of the Person; (b) the fair salable value of the assets of the Person, on a going concern basis, is not less than the amount that will be required to pay its probable liabilities (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured and unliquidated liabilities) as they become absolute and matured; (c) the Person is not engaged in a business or a transaction, and is not about to be engaged in a business or a transaction, for which its

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properties would constitute an unreasonably small capital; (d) the Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities (including contingent, subordinated, unmatured and unliquidated liabilities) beyond its ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature in the ordinary course of business; and (e) in the case of a Person incorporated in the United Kingdom, such Person (i) is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the ordinary course of business and (ii) shall not have declared or have had declared that it is unable to pay its debts as they fall due, and (iii) shall not have declared or have had declared that the value of its assets is less than the amount of its liabilities, taking into account its contingent and prospective liabilities; provided that the amount of contingent liabilities are to be computed as the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at that point in time, can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

“ Spot Rate ” for a currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank, as applicable, to be the rate quoted by the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank, as applicable, as the spot rate for the purchase by the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank, as applicable, of such currency with another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two (2) Business Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made; provided that the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank if the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate for any such currency.

“ 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 percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the FRB to which the Administrative Agent is subject with respect to the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate, for Eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the FRB).  Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D and as long as the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by the Administrative Agent or any such Lender.  Eurocurrency Rate 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 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 ” and “ £ ” mean the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

“ Subsidiary ” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, charitable foundations) of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person.  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.

“ Supplemental Administrative Agent ” and “ Supplemental Administrative Agents ” have the meanings specified in Section 9.11(a).

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“ Supplier ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(j)(ii).

“ Swap Contract ” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “ Master Agreement ”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.

“ Swap Termination Value ” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender), or, if no such quotation is available, as determined by the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion, based upon the terms of the of the relevant Swap Contract(s).

“ Swingline Exposure ” shall mean at any time the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding Swingline Loans.  The Swingline Exposure of any Lender at any time shall equal its Pro Rata Share of the aggregate Swingline Exposure at such time.

“Swingline Lender ” means Citizens in its capacity as provider of Swingline Loans, through itself or one of its designated Affiliates or branch offices, provided that the lender of record shall remain Citizens, or any successor swingline lender hereunder.

“ Swingline Loan ” shall mean any loan made by the Swingline Lender pursuant to Section 2.12.  All Swingline Loans shall be denominated in Dollars.

“ Swingline Sublimit ” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $5,000,000, and (b) the Aggregate Commitments.  The Swingline Sublimit is a part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments.

“ Syndication Agent ” means Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent under this Agreement.

“ Swiss Franc ” means the lawful currency of Switzerland.

“ Synthetic Lease Obligations ” means monetary obligation of a Person at any time of determination under (i) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (ii) an agreement for the use or possession of property, in each case, creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which could be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment) (other than operating leases arising as a result of Sale and Leaseback transactions).

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“ TARGET2 ” means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer payment system which utilizes a single shared platform and which was launched on November 19, 2007.

“ TARGET Day ” means any day on which TARGET2 (or, if such payment system ceases to be operative, such other payment system, if any, determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement) is open for the settlement of payments in Euro.

“ Taxes ” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges in the nature of taxes imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

“ Test Period ” in effect at any time means the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended on or prior to such time (taken as one accounting period) in respect of which financial statements for each quarter or fiscal year in such period have been or are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.01(f) or Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable, without giving effect to any grace period applicable thereto (or, prior to the date that the first such financial statements are required be so delivered, solely for purposes of determining compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.13 on a Pro Forma Basis in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or Section 7.06(d), the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters).

“ Total Leverage Ratio ” means, as to the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary) on a consolidated basis as of the date of its determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt as of such date, to (b) Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA of the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding the Excluded Subsidiary) for the most recently ended Test Period for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b).

“ Transactions ” means, collectively (a) the execution and delivery and performance of the Loan Documents and the making of the initial Loans hereunder, (b) the repayment in full of all amounts due or outstanding under or in respect of, and the termination of, the Existing Credit Agreement, and (c) the payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with any of the foregoing.

“ Transfer Date ” means, in relation to an assignment or a transfer, the later of:

(a)                                  the proposed Transfer Date specified in the relevant Assignment and Assumption or Incremental Amendment; and

(b)                                  the date on which the Administrative Agent executes the relevant Assignment and Assumption or Incremental Amendment.

“ Treaty Lender ” means a Lender which:

(a)                                  is treated as a resident (as defined in the appropriate double taxation agreement) in a jurisdiction with which the United Kingdom has a double taxation agreement giving residents of that jurisdiction full exemption from United Kingdom taxation on interest; and

(b)                                  does not carry on a business in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment with which that Lender’s participation in the Loan is effectively connected.

“ Type ” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.

“ UK Borrower ” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.

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“ UK Charged Company ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(m).

“ Uniform Commercial Code ” means the Uniform Commercial Code or any successor provision thereof as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or the Uniform Commercial Code or any successor provision thereof (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to any item or items of Collateral.

“ United States ” and “ U.S. ” mean the United States of America.

“ Unused Line Fee ” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(a).

“ U.S. Lender ” means any Administrative Agent or Recipient that is a U.S. Person.

“ U.S. Person ” means any Person that is a “United States Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

“ U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(f)(ii)(B)(3).

“ USA PATRIOT Act ” means The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. No. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), as amended or modified from time to time.

“ Value Date ” means (a) with respect to any Loan, each of the following:  (i) each date of a Borrowing of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternate Currency, (ii) each date of a continuation of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternate Currency pursuant to Section 2.02, and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent shall determine or the Required Lenders shall require; and (b) with respect to any Letter of Credit, each of the following:  (i) each date of issuance, amendment and/or extension of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternate Currency, (ii) each date of any payment by an Issuing Bank under any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternate Currency, and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank shall determine or the Required Lenders shall require.

“ VAT ” means (a) any tax imposed in compliance with the Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112); and (b) any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax referred to in clause (a), or imposed elsewhere.

“ VAT Recipient ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(j)(ii).

“ Voting Power ” means, with respect to any Person, the exclusive ability to control, through the ownership of shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or otherwise, the election of members of the board of directors or other similar governing body of such Person, and the holding of a designated percentage of Voting Power of a Person means the ownership of shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other interests of such Person sufficient to control exclusively the election of that percentage of the members of the board of directors or other similar governing body of such Person.

“ Weighted Average Life to Maturity ” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing:  (a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment by (b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness; provided that for purposes of determining the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any refinanced term loan debt or any Indebtedness that is being

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modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended (the “ Applicable Indebtedness ”), the effects of any prepayments made on such Applicable Indebtedness prior to the date of the applicable modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension shall be disregarded.

“ wholly owned ” means, with respect to a Subsidiary of a Person, a Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (x) director’s qualifying shares and (y) nominal shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly owned Subsidiaries of such Person.

“ WRLU ” means the Winding-Up and Restructuring Act (Canada), as amended.

“ Withdrawal Liability ” means the liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such term is defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

“ Withholding Agent ” means any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, as applicable.

Section 1.02.                           Other Interpretive Provisions .  With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:

(a)                                  The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.

(b)                                  (i) The words “herein,” “hereto,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.

(ii)                                   References in this Agreement to an Exhibit, Schedule, Article, Section, clause or sub-clause refer (A) to the appropriate Exhibit or Schedule to, or Article, Section, clause or sub-clause in this Agreement or (B) to the extent such references are not present in this Agreement, to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.

(iii)                                The term “including” is by way of example and not limitation.

(iv)                               The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.

(c)                                   In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including;” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding,” and the word “through” means “to and including”.  In the event that performance of any obligation is due on a day that is not a Business Day, then, except as expressly provided herein, the time for such performance shall be extended to the next Business Day.

(d)                                  Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

“ 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 1.03.                           Accounting Terms .  All accounting and financial terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including

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financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein, provided that if the Company notifies the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that the Company wishes to amend any covenant in Article VII to eliminate the effect of any change in GAAP that occurs after the Closing Date on the operation of such covenant (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Company that the Required Lenders wish to amend Article VII for such purpose), then compliance with such covenant shall be determined on the basis of GAAP in effect immediately before the relevant change in GAAP became effective, until either such notice is withdrawn or such covenant is amended in a manner satisfactory to the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders; and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agree to enter into negotiations to amend any such covenant immediately upon receipt from any party entitled to send such notice.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) all financial statements delivered hereunder shall be prepared, and all financial covenants contained herein shall be calculated, without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any similar accounting principle) permitting a Person to value its financial liabilities at the fair value thereof, (ii) in the event of any accounting change resulting from the effectiveness of ASC 842 after the Closing Date or that otherwise requires all leases to be treated as Capitalized Leases, (A) all financial statements delivered hereunder shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP, giving effect to such accounting change, (B) the covenants set forth in Section 7.13 (and all related definitions) shall be calculated without giving effect to such accounting change, and (C) the Company shall provide reconciliations, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, reflecting such calculation together with each Compliance Certificate.

Section 1.04.                           Rounding .  Except as provided in the definition of “Pro Rata Share”, any financial ratios required to be satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted under this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).

Section 1.05.                           References to Agreements, Laws, Etc .  Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are not prohibited by any Loan Document; and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.

Section 1.06.                           Times of Day .  Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).

Section 1.07.                           Currency Exchange Matters .

(a)                                  The Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank, as applicable, shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Value Date to be used for calculating Dollar Equivalent amounts of Borrowings and Revolving Exposure denominated in Alternate Currencies.  Such Spot Rates shall become effective as of such Value Date and shall be the Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the applicable currencies until the next occurring Value Date.  Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Loan Parties hereunder or calculating financial covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank, as applicable.

(b)                                  Wherever in this Agreement in connection with a Borrowing, conversion, continuation or prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or the issuance, amendment or extension of a Letter of Credit,

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an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars, but such Borrowing, Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit is denominated in an Alternate Currency, such amount shall be the relevant Alternate Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest unit of such Alternate Currency, with 0.5 of a unit being rounded upward), as determined by the Administrative Agent or an Issuing Bank, as applicable.

Section 1.08.                           Change in Currency .

(a)                                  Each obligation of a Borrower to make a payment denominated in the national currency unit of any member state of the European Union that adopts the Euro as its lawful currency after the date hereof shall be redenominated into Euro at the time of such adoption.  If, in relation to the currency of any such member state, the basis of accrual of interest expressed in this Agreement in respect of that currency shall be inconsistent with any convention or practice in the London interbank market for the basis of accrual of interest in respect of the Euro, such expressed basis shall be replaced by such convention or practice with effect from the date on which such member state adopts the Euro as its lawful currency; provided that if any Borrowing in the currency of such member state is outstanding immediately prior to such date, such replacement shall take effect, with respect to such Borrowing, at the end of the then current Interest Period.

(b)                                  Each provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be appropriate to reflect the adoption of the Euro by any member state of the European Union and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the Euro.

(c)                                   Each provision of this Agreement also shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be appropriate to reflect a change in currency of any other country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the change in currency.

Section 1.09.                           Additional Alternate Currencies .

(a)                                  The Company may from time to time request that Eurocurrency Rate Loans be made and/or Letters of Credit be issued in a currency other than those specifically listed in the definition of “Alternate Currency”; provided that such requested currency is an Eligible Currency.  In the case of any such request with respect to the making of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, and in the case of any such request with respect to the issuance of Letters of Credit, such request shall be subject to the approval of the applicable Issuing Bank.

(b)                                  Any such request shall be made to the Lender not later than 11:00 a.m., 10 Business Days prior to the date of the desired Borrowing or Letter of Credit issuance (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any such request pertaining to a Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank, in its or their sole discretion).  In the case of any such request pertaining to Eurodollar Rate Loans, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender thereof; and in the case of any such request pertaining to Letters of Credit, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the applicable Issuing Bank thereof.  Each Lender (in the case of any such request pertaining to Eurodollar Rate Loans) or the applicable Issuing Bank (in the case of a request pertaining to Letters of Credit) shall notify the Administrative Agent, not later than 11:00 a.m., five Business Days after receipt of such request whether it consents, in its sole discretion, to the making of Eurodollar Rate Loans or the issuance of Letters of Credit, as the case may be, in such requested currency.

(c)                                   If the Administrative Agent and all of the Lenders consent to making Eurocurrency Rate Loans, or the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank consent to issuing Letters of Credit, in such requested currency and the Administrative Agent and such Lenders and/or Issuing Banks

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reasonably determine that an appropriate interest rate is available to be used for such requested currency, the Lender shall so notify the Company and may amend the definition of Eurocurrency Rate to the extent necessary to add the applicable Eurocurrency Rate for such currency and (ii) to the extent the definition of Eurocurrency Rate reflects the appropriate interest rate for such currency or has been amended to reflect the appropriate rate for such currency, such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternate Currency for purposes of any Borrowings of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or the issuance of Letters of Credit, as applicable.

ARTICLE II.

The Commitments and Borrowings

Section 2.01.                           The Loans .  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make to any Borrower at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period, Revolving Loans denominated in Dollars or in one or more Alternate Currencies 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 sum of the Aggregate Commitments, (iii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure in connection with all Loans made to the Designated Borrowers exceeding the Designated Borrower Sublimit, or (iv) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure in connection with all Loans denominated in Alternate Currencies exceeding the Alternate Currency Sublimit.  Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01 and repaid or prepaid may be reborrowed, on the terms and subject to the conditions herein.  Revolving Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

Section 2.02.                           Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans .

(a)                                  Each Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon the Company’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone.  Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. (i) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, (ii) four (4) Business Days prior to the requested date of Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternate Currencies or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternate Currencies, and (iii) on or before 12:00 noon on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loan.  Each telephonic notice by the Company pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company.  Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof.  Each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $250,000 or a whole multiple of $50,000 in excess thereof.  Each Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether such request is for a Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or the Type of Loans to which existing Loans are to be converted, (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto, (vi) the currency of the Loans to be borrowed, and (vii) the applicable Borrower for the request.  If the Company fails to specify a currency in a Loan Notice requesting a Borrowing, then the Loans so requested shall be made in Dollars.  If the Company fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Loan Notice, then the applicable Loans shall be made as Base Rate Loans.  If the Company requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Loan Notice, but fails to specify

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an Interest Period (or the Company fails to timely deliver a notice of conversion or continuation prior to the expiration of an Interest Period), it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one (1) month; provided , however , that in the case of a failure to timely request a continuation of Loans denominated in an Alternate Currency, such Loans shall be continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans in their original currency with an Interest Period of one (1) month.  No Loan may be converted into or continued as a Loan denominated in a different currency, but instead must be repaid in the original currency of such Loan and reborrowed in the other currency.  Any Swingline Loans shall be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.12.

(b)                                  Following receipt of a Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount and currency of its Pro Rata Share of the Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Company, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation of Loans denominated in a currency other than Dollars, in each case as described in Section 2.02(a).  In the case of each Borrowing, each Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office for the applicable currency not later than 1:00 p.m., in the case of any Loan denominated in Dollars, and not later than the Settlement Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of any Loan in an Alternate Currency, in each case on the Business Day specified in the applicable Loan Notice.  Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is on the Closing Date, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the applicable Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the applicable Borrower on the books of the Administrative Agent with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Company.

(c)                                   Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may require by notice to the Borrowers that no Loans may be converted to or continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans (whether in Dollars or in any Alternate Currency) and that all of the outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loans be converted immediately to Base Rate Loans and any or all of the then outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in an Alternate Currency be prepaid, or redenominated into Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof, on the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto.

(d)                                  The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate.  The determination of the Eurocurrency Rate by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest or demonstrable error.  At any time when Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of any change in the Administrative Agent’s Prime Rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.

(e)                                   After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than six Interest Periods in effect unless otherwise agreed between the Company and the Administrative Agent.

(f)                                    The failure of any Lender to make the Loan to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Loan on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Loan to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.

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(g)                                   Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such Pro Rata Share available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with paragraph (b) above, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount.  If the Administrative Agent shall have so made funds available, then, to the extent that such Lender shall not have made such portion available to the Administrative Agent, each of such Lender and the Borrower severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to the applicable Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of the applicable Borrower, the interest rate applicable at the time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Overnight Rate plus any administrative, processing, or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the foregoing.  A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.02(g) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest or demonstrable error.  If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.  Any payment by the applicable Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim such Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.

Section 2.03.                           Prepayments .

(a)                                  Optional .  Each Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Loans made to such Borrower in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (1) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 pm (New York, New York time) (A) three (3) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, (B) four (4) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternate Currencies, and (C) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (2) any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding; (3) any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternate Currencies shall be in a minimum principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding; and (4) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $250,000 or a whole multiple of $50,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding.  Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment, whether such Loan to be prepaid is a Revolving Loan or a Swingline Loan, and the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid, and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such prepayment.  Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05.  Each prepayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(a) shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares.  Voluntary prepayments of outstanding Revolving Loans by a Borrower shall be applied pro rata to the outstanding Revolving Loans of such Borrower and shall not result in a permanent reduction in the Revolving Commitments.

(b)                                  Mandatory .  (i) If the Aggregate Revolving Exposure outstanding exceeds an amount equal to 100% (or in the case of any such excess determined by the Administrative Agent to have resulted solely from foreign currency fluctuations, 102%) of the Aggregate Commitments, the applicable Borrower will immediately prepay the Revolving Loans made to it hereunder without any prepayment premium or penalty (but subject to the payment of all amounts for which such Borrower is liable under Section 3.05 or similar costs) and/or the Company shall Cash Collateralize the LC Exposure in an

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aggregate amount sufficient to reduce such Aggregate Revolving Exposure as of such date of payment to an amount not to exceed 100% of the Aggregate Commitments; provided , however , that, subject to the provisions of Section 2.13(j)(ii), the Company shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the LC Exposure pursuant to this Section 2.03(b) unless after the prepayment in full of the Loans, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeds the Aggregate Commitments.  The Administrative Agent may, at any time and from time to time after the initial deposit of such Cash Collateral, request that additional Cash Collateral be provided in order to protect against the results of further exchange rate fluctuations.

(ii)                                   If the outstanding Revolving Loans to the Designated Borrowers exceed the Designated Borrower Sublimit, the Designated Borrowers will immediately prepay such Revolving Loans hereunder without any prepayment premium or penalty (but subject to the payment of all amounts for which such Borrower is liable under Section 3.05 or similar costs) to the extent necessary to eliminate such excess.

(iii)                                If the Administrative Agent notifies the Company at any time that the aggregate outstanding Revolving Loans denominated in Alternate Currencies at such time exceeds an amount equal to 102% of the Alternate Currency Sublimit then in effect, then the applicable Borrower shall immediately prepay Loans made to it in an aggregate amount sufficient to reduce the aggregate outstanding Loans as of such date of payment to an amount not to exceed 100% of the Alternate Currency Sublimit then in effect.

(iv)                               (A) Each prepayment of Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(b) shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares of such prepayment and (B) unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Required Lenders shall require otherwise, prepayments of outstanding Revolving Loans shall not result in a permanent reduction in the Revolving Commitments.

(c)                                   Interest, Funding Losses, etc .  All prepayments under this Section 2.03 shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a date prior to the last day of an Interest Period therefor, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan pursuant to Section 3.05.

Section 2.04.                           Termination or Reduction of Revolving Commitments .  The Borrowers may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the unused Commitments, or from time to time permanently reduce the unused Commitments, in each case without premium or penalty; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent at least five days prior to the date of termination or reduction and (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or any multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the entire amount thereof.  If after giving effect to any reduction or termination of Commitments under this Section 2.04, the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Alternate Currency Sublimit, the Designated Borrower Sublimit, the Swingline Sublimit or the Alternate Currency LC Sublimit exceeds the Aggregate Commitments at such time, the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Alternate Currency Sublimit, the Designated Borrower Sublimit, the Swingline Sublimit or the Alternate Currency LC Sublimit, as the case may be, shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess.  The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Swingline Sublimit, the Alternate Currency Sublimit, the Designated Borrower Sublimit, the Alternate Currency LC Sublimit or the Aggregate Commitments under this Section 2.04.  The amount of any such reduction of the Aggregate Commitments shall not be applied to the Alternate Currency Sublimit unless otherwise specified by the Company.  Upon any reduction of the Aggregate Commitments, the Commitment of each Lender shall be reduced by such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such reduction amount.  All fees in respect of the Credit Facility accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Credit Facility shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.

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Section 2.05.                           Repayment of Loans .  (i) On the Maturity Date, each Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of each Lender, the then unpaid principal amount (together with accrued and unpaid interest and other amounts) of each Revolving Loan made to such Borrower, and (ii) the Company shall repay to the Swingline Lender, the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the last day of a calendar month (or, if such date is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day) and is at least three Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made.

Section 2.06.                           Interest .

(a)                                  Subject to the provisions of Section 2.06(b), (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate plus (in the case of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan of any Lender which is lent from a Lending Office in the United Kingdom or a Participating Member State) the Mandatory Cost, (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable Borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate, and (iii) each Swingline Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable Borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.

(i)                                      If any amount (other than principal or interest of any Loan) payable by any Borrower under any Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of the Person to whom such amount is owed, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(ii)                                   While any Event of Default exists, upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Borrowers shall pay interest on the principal amount of their respective Loans and all other outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(b)                                  If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of the Company or for any other reason, the Company or the Lenders reasonably determine that (i) the Total Leverage Ratio as calculated by the Company as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Total Leverage Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, each Borrower shall immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders or Issuing Banks, as the case may be, promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank), an amount equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period with respect to their respective Loans and other Obligations hereunder.  This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuing Bank, as the case may be, under this Section 2.06, 2.07(b) or 2.13(h) or under Article VIII .

(c)                                   Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein.  Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Insolvency Law.

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Section 2.07.                           Fees .

(a)                                  The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Lenders an unused line fee in Dollars (an “ Unused Line Fee ”) equal to the Applicable Rate from time to time for the Unused Line Fee multiplied by the difference between the Revolving Commitment and the average daily outstanding Revolving Loans (other than the Swingline Loans) and LC Exposure during the immediately preceding quarter.  Accrued Unused Line Fees shall be payable in arrears (A) on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December of each year, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof, and (B) on the date on which such Revolving Commitment terminates.  Unused Line 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).  For purposes of computing Unused Line Fees, a Revolving Commitment of a Lender shall be deemed to be used to the extent of the outstanding Revolving Loans and LC Exposure of such Lender (and the Swingline Exposure of such Lender shall be disregarded for such purpose).

(b)                                  The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Lenders (including the Issuing Banks), a fee in Dollars with respect to each Letter of Credit calculated at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Rate from time to time for Eurocurrency Rate Loans multiplied by the Dollar Equivalent of the daily maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (the “ LC Participation Fee ”).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, while any Event of Default exists, all LC Participation Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.  In addition, the Company shall pay in Dollars to the Issuing Banks a fronting fee (the “ LC Fronting Fee ”) with respect to each Letter of Credit at the rate specified in the Fee Letter computed based upon the Dollar Equivalent of the daily maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit and at the times specified in the Fee Letter, and the customary negotiation, processing, arranging, amendment, cancellation and transfer fees of the Issuing Banks in Dollars.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any LC Participation Fees and LC Fronting Fees otherwise payable for the account of a Defaulting Lender with respect to any Letter of Credit as to which such Defaulting Lender has not provided Cash Collateral satisfactory to the Issuing Banks pursuant to Section 2.13 shall be payable, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, to the other Lenders in accordance with the upward adjustments in their respective Pro Rata Shares allocable to such Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 2.15(a)(iv), with the balance of such fee, if any, payable to such Issuing Bank for its own account.

(c)                                   The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers in Dollars such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified.  Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.

(d)                                  All fees shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds in Dollars, to the Administrative Agent for distribution, if and as appropriate, among the Lenders, except that the Company shall pay (i) the LC Fronting Fees directly to the Issuing Bank, and (ii) the fees provided under Section 2.07(c) directly to the Administrative Agent or the Arrangers, as the case may be.  Once paid, none of the Fees shall be refundable under any circumstances.

Section 2.08.                           Computation of Interest and Fees .  All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 days or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual number of days elapsed.  All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360 day year and actual number of days elapsed or, in the case of interest in respect of Loans denominated in Alternate Currencies as to which market practice differs from the foregoing, in accordance with such market practice.  Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid; provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.10(a), bear interest for one day.  Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest or demonstrable error.  For the purposes

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of the Interest Act (Canada) and disclosure thereunder, whenever any interest or any fee to be paid hereunder or in connection herewith is to be calculated on the basis of a 360-day, 365-day or 366-day year, the yearly rate of interest to which the rate used in such calculation is equivalent is the rate so used multiplied by the actual number of days in the calendar year in which the same is to be ascertained and divided by 360, 365 or 366, as applicable. The rates of interest under this Agreement are nominal rates, and not effective rates or yields. The principle of deemed reinvestment of interest does not apply to any interest calculation under this Agreement.

Section 2.09.                           Evidence of Indebtedness .

(a)                                  The Borrowings made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and evidenced by one or more entries in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent, acting solely for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 5f.103-l(c), as a non-fiduciary agent for the Borrower, in each case in the ordinary course of business.  The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be prima facie evidence absent manifest or demonstrable error of the amount of the Borrowings made by the Lenders to any Borrower and the interest and payments thereon.  Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of any Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Loans made to such Borrower or any other of its other Obligations.  In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest or demonstrable error.  Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note payable to such Lender or its registered assigns, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans to such Borrower in addition to such accounts or records.  Each Lender that requests a Note shall attach schedules to its Note and shall endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

(b)                                  Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to Section 2.09(a), and by each Lender in its account or accounts pursuant to Section 2.09(a), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the applicable Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest or demonstrable error; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of each Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

Section 2.10.                           Payments Generally .

(a)                                  All payments to be made by each Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein and except with respect to principal of and interest on Loans denominated in an Alternate Currency, all payments by each Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office for payment and in Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein.  Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by each Borrower hereunder with respect to principal and interest on Loans denominated in an Alternate Currency shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in such Alternate Currency and in Same Day Funds not later than the Settlement Time specified by the Administrative Agent on the dates specified herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent may require that any payments due under this Agreement be made in the United States.  If, for any reason, any Borrower is prohibited by any Law from making any required payment

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hereunder in an Alternate Currency, such Borrower shall make such payment in Dollars in the Dollar Equivalent of the Alternate Currency payment amount.  The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Pro Rata Share (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office.  All payments received by the Administrative Agent shall in each case be deemed received on the Business Day so received (or on the next succeeding Business Day (i) if received after 2:00 p.m. New York, New York time, in the case of payments in Dollars, or (ii) if received after the Settlement Time specified by the Administrative Agent, in the case of payments in an Alternate Currency) and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue, but in each case will be credited to the account of such Borrower on the following Business Day.

(b)                                  If any payment to be made by a Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.

(c)                                   Unless the Borrowers have notified the Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required to be made by a Borrower to the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of any Lender, that such Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has timely made such payment and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon, make available a corresponding amount to such Lender.  If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact made to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds, then such Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to the Administrative Agent the portion of such assumed payment that was made available to such Lender in Same Day Funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect.

(d)                                  If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Borrowing set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.

(e)                                   The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans are several and not joint.  The failure of any Lender to make any Loan on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or purchase its participation.

(f)                                    Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

(g)                                   Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in the order of priority set forth in Section 8.03.  If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such of the outstanding Loans or other Obligations then owing to such Lender.

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Section 2.11.                           Sharing of Payments, etc .  If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein, any Lender shall obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on account of the Loans made by it (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the Loans made by them as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment of principal of or interest on such Loans, pro rata with each of them; provided that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 11.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered, without further interest thereon.  For avoidance of doubt, the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to (A) any payment made by a Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement as in effect from time to time or (B) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant permitted hereunder.  The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff, but subject to Section 11.09) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such participation.  The Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of manifest or demonstrable error) of participations purchased under this Section 2.11 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments.  Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this Section 2.11 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased.

Section 2.12.                           Swingline Loans .

(a)                                  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans denominated in Dollars to the Company from time to time during the Availability Period, 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 Sublimit or (ii) the sum of the Aggregate Revolving Exposures exceeding the Aggregate 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 Company 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 facsimile), not later than noon, New York 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 Company.  The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Company by means of a credit to the Funding Account (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.13(e), by remittance to an Issuing Bank) by 2:00 p.m., New York time, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.

(b)                                  The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m., New York time, on any Business Day require the 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 Lenders will participate.  Promptly upon receipt of such

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notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such Swingline Loan or Loans.  Each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such Swingline Loan or Loans.  Each 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 Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.  Each Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.02 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.02 shall apply, mutatis mutandis , to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Lenders.  The Administrative Agent shall notify the Company 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 Company (or other party on behalf of the Company) 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 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 Company for any reason.  The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Company of any default in the payment thereof.

Section 2.13.                           Letters of Credit .

(a)                                  General .  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company may request the issuance of Letters of Credit on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries denominated in Dollars or in one or more Alternate Currencies in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Banks, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period.  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 Company to, or entered into by the Company with, an Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.  All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued pursuant to this Agreement, and from and after the Closing Date shall be subject to, and governed by, the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

(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 Company shall deliver by hand or facsimile (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by an Issuing Bank) to an Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (prior to 2:00 pm, New York time, at least three Business Days prior to the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Bank (each, a “ Letter of Credit Notice ”) 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 and currency 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 an Issuing Bank, the Company also shall submit a letter of credit application on such 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 Company shall be

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deemed to represent and warrant that, solely with respect to clauses (i) and (ii) below), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the LC Exposure shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (ii) the Aggregate Revolving Exposures shall not exceed the Aggregate Commitments, (iii) the Dollar Equivalent amount of LC Exposure with respect to Letters of Credit issued in Alternate Currencies shall not exceed the Alternate Currency LC Sublimit, and (iv) no default of any Lender’s obligations to fund under Section 2.13(d) exists and no Lender is at that time a Defaulting Lender, unless such Issuing Bank has entered into arrangements, including the delivery of Cash Collateral, satisfactory to such Issuing Bank (in its sole discretion) with the Company or such Lender to eliminate such Issuing Bank’s actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.15(a)(iv)) with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other LC Exposure as to which such Issuing Bank has actual or potential Fronting Exposure, as it may elect in its sole discretion.

(c)                                   Expiration Date .  Each Letter of Credit shall expire 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, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is 30 days prior to the 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 any Issuing Bank or the Lenders, each Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Lender, and each Lender hereby acquires from each Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit.  In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent in Dollars, for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of each LC Disbursement made by an Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Company on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Company for any reason.  Each 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 any Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit denominated in Dollars, the Company shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement (i) not later than 2:00 p.m., New York time, on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if the Company shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to 9:00 a.m., New York time, on such date, or, (ii) if such notice has not been received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 2:00 p.m., New York time, on the Business Day immediately following the day that the Company receives such notice; provided that the Company may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.01 that such payment be financed with a Revolving Loan which is a Base Rate Loan or a Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Company’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting Revolving Loan which is a Base Rate Loan or Swingline Loan.  In the case any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternate Currency, the Company shall reimburse the applicable Issuing Bank in such Alternate Currency, unless (A) such Issuing Bank (at its option) shall have specified in such notice that it will require reimbursement in Dollars, or (B) in the absence of any such requirement for reimbursement in Dollars, the Company shall have notified such Issuing Bank promptly following receipt of the notice of drawing that the Company will reimburse such Issuing Bank in Dollars.  In the case of any such reimbursement in Dollars of a drawing under a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternate Currency, the Issuing Bank shall notify the Company of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of the drawing promptly

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following the determination thereof.  Not later than the Settlement Time on the date of any payment by such Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in an Alternate Currency, the Company shall reimburse such Issuing Bank through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing and in the applicable currency.  In the event that (A) a drawing denominated in an Alternate Currency is to be reimbursed in Dollars pursuant to the second sentence in this Section 2.13(e) and (B) the Dollar amount paid by the Company, whether on or after the Settlement Date, shall not be adequate on the date of that payment to purchase, in accordance with customary banking procedures, a sum denominated in the Alternate Currency equal to the drawing, the Company agrees, as a separate and independent obligation, to indemnify each Issuing Bank for the loss resulting from its inability on that date to purchase the Alternate Currency in the full amount of the drawing.  If the Company fails to make any of the foregoing of such payments when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Company in respect thereof and such Lender’s Pro Rata Share thereof expressed in Dollars or in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternate Currency.  Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Pro Rata Share of the payment then due from the Company in Dollars, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.02 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.02 shall apply, mutatis mutandis , to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Lenders.  Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Company pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Banks or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Banks, then to such Lenders and the Issuing Banks as their interests may appear.  Any payment made by a Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Banks for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of Revolving Loans which are Base Rate Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Company of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.

(f)                                    Obligations Absolute .  The Company’s 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) payment by the Issuing Banks 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, (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 Company’s obligations hereunder or (v) any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of the relevant Alternate Currency to the Company or any Subsidiary or in the relevant currency markets generally.  Neither the Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor the Issuing Banks, nor any of such Person’s Affiliates nor the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors and representatives of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates, 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 thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Banks; provided that nothing in this clause (f) shall be construed to excuse the Issuing Banks from liability to the Company to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Company to the extent permitted by applicable Law) suffered by the Company that are caused by the Issuing Banks’ failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. 

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The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Banks (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), the Issuing Banks 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 Banks may, in their 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 .  Each Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit.  Such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Company by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of such demand for payment and whether such 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 Company of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank and the Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement.