Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

FIRST AMENDMENT TO

CREDIT AGREEMENT

This FIRST AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of January 27, 2022 (this “First Amendment”) amends that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of November 5, 2021 (the “Existing Credit Agreement” and, as amended by this First Amendment, the “Amended Credit Agreement”), among INOTIV, INC., an Indiana corporation (the “Borrower”), the Subsidiary Guarantors party thereto, the Lenders party thereto, JEFFERIES FINANCE LLC, as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Amended Credit Agreement.

RECITALS:

WHEREAS, as contemplated by Section 2.19 of the Existing Credit Agreement, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders provide New Term Loan Commitments by entering into an Incremental Loan Amendment, executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each lender providing such New Term Loan Commitments, in each case, subject to the express terms and conditions of the Existing Credit Agreement;

WHEREAS, (i) as set forth in this First Amendment, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, certain Persons party hereto have agreed to provide New Term Loan Commitments to be funded on the First Amendment Effective Date (as defined below) in an aggregate principal amount of $40,000,000 (each such Person, a “2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender”) and (ii) as set forth in this First Amendment, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, certain Persons party hereto have agreed to provide, Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments in an aggregate principal amount of $35,000,000 (each such Person, a “2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender”) in accordance with Section 2.19 of the Existing Credit Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Borrower intends to use the proceeds of the 2022 Incremental Term Loans to pay a portion of the consideration and other amounts owing in connection with the acquisition (the “Orient Acquisition”) of Orient BioResource Center, Inc., a Texas corporation as set forth in that certain Stock Purchase Agreement, dated on or about the date hereof (the “Orient Acquisition Agreement”), by and among Envigo Global Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, Inotiv, Inc., an Indiana corporation, and Orient Bio, Inc., a corporation formed in the Republic of Korea, and to pay all or a portion of the related fees and expenses (including any upfront fees and original issue discount) related thereto;

WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing, the Administrative Agent, the 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lenders, the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders and the Borrower desire to memorialize such amendments by amending the Existing Credit Agreement in accordance with Sections 11.02 and 2.19 thereof in the form of this First Amendment, such amendments to become effective on the First Amendment Effective Date;

WHEREAS, this First Amendment is an Incremental Loan Amendment under and as defined in Section 2.19 of the Amended Credit Agreement;

WHEREAS, prior to the effectiveness of this First Amendment, on the date hereof, the aggregate amount of undrawn Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments is $0; and

WHEREAS, the Borrower has appointed Jefferies Finance LLC (acting through any of its Affiliates as it deems appropriate, in such capacity, the “Amendment Lead Arranger”) to arrange the 2022 Incremental Term Loans and the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

Section 1. Amendments to Credit Agreement. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 3 hereof, the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same as the following example: stricken text) and to add the underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: underlined text) as set forth in the pages of the Amended Credit Agreement attached as Exhibit A hereto.

Section 2. Joinder. Each 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender and each 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender acknowledges and agrees that, from and after the First Amendment Effective Date, such 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender or such 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender commits to provide its 2022 Incremental Term Loan Commitment or its 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, as applicable, as set forth on its signature page attached hereto (or such lesser amount as determined by the Amendment Lead Arranger in consultation with the Borrower) on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein. Each 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender shall be a “Term Loan Lender“ and a “Lender” under, and for all purposes of, the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and shall be subject to and bound by the terms thereof, and shall perform all the obligations of and shall have all the rights of a Lender thereunder.

Section 3. Conditions to Effectiveness. The effectiveness of the amendments to the Existing Credit Agreement set forth in Exhibit A to this First Amendment, the effectiveness of the 2022 Incremental Term Loan Commitments and the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and the funding of the 2022 Incremental Term Loan Commitments are each subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent (the date of such satisfaction, the “First Amendment Effective Date”):

(a)            the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors party hereto, the 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lenders, the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have executed and delivered counterparts of this First Amendment;

(b)            the Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent all other costs, fees and expenses that are due and payable on or before the First Amendment Effective Date (including all accrued unpaid interest on the Term Loans) in accordance with the terms of the Existing Credit Agreement, and a closing fee equal to 2.00% of the aggregate amount of the commitments made by the 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lenders and the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders (or original issue discount in lieu thereof), which amounts shall be due and payable on the First Amendment Effective Date;

(c)            each of the representations and warranties contained in Section 6 of this First Amendment shall be true and correct in all material respects (provided that, any representation and warranty that is qualified by “materiality,” “material adverse effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects (after giving effect to any such qualification therein)) on and as of the First Amendment Effective Date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects (or if any such representation and warranty is qualified by “materiality,” “material adverse effect” or similar language, shall be true and correct in all respects (after giving effect to any such qualification therein)) on and as of such earlier date);

(d)            at the time of and immediately after giving effect to this First Amendment and the making of the 2022 Incremental Term Loans on the First Amendment Effective Date and the use of proceeds thereof, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under the Amended Credit Agreement;

(e)            the Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Request from the Borrower meeting the requirements of Section 2.03 of the Amended Credit Agreement; provided that the Interest Period of the 2022 Incremental Term Loans shall be the same Interest Period as the Initial Term Loans;

(f)             the Administrative Agent shall have received a solvency certificate in the form of Exhibit H to the Existing Credit Agreement dated as of the First Amendment Effective Date and signed by a Financial Officer of the Borrower;

(g)            the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate dated the First Amendment Effective Date and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, confirming compliance with the conditions set forth in clauses (c), (d) and (f) above;

(h)            the Administrative Agent shall have received each of the following, each (where applicable) dated the First Amendment Effective Date (and each in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent):

(i)             all requisite Governmental Authorities and third parties shall have approved or consented to the Orient Acquisition and the other transactions contemplated hereby to the extent required (the “Orient Acquisition Transactions”), all applicable appeal periods shall have expired and there shall not be any pending or threatened litigation, governmental, administrative or judicial action that could reasonably be expected to restrain, prevent or impose burdensome conditions on the Orient Acquisition Transactions;

(j)             the Administrative Agent, the 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lenders and the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders shall have received, at least three days prior to the First Amendment Effective Date, all documentation and other information about the Borrower and the other Loan Parties required under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, that has been reasonably requested in writing at least three days prior to the First Amendment Effective Date;

(k)            the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Beneficial Ownership Certification to the extent reasonably requested by any 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender or 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender in writing at least three (3) Business Days prior to the First Amendment Effective Date;

(l)             substantially concurrently with the funding of the 2022 Incremental Term Loans on the First Amendment Effective Date, the Orient Acquisition shall be, or have been, consummated in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the Orient Acquisition Agreement; and

(m)           the Administrative Agent shall have received a Note executed by the Borrower in favor of each 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender and each 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender that has requested a Note at least three Business Days in advance of the First Amendment Effective.

Section 5. Costs and Expenses. Without limiting the obligations of the Borrower under the Amended Credit Agreement, the Borrower agrees to pay or reimburse all of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation and execution of this First Amendment and the other instruments and documents to be delivered hereunder in accordance with the terms of Section 11.03 of the Amended Credit Agreement, including all reasonable and documented fees, disbursements and other charges of Latham & Watkins LLP, counsel for the Administrative Agent.

Section 6. Representations and Warranties. The Borrower hereby represents and warrants, on and as of the date hereof, the First Amendment Effective Date and the First Amendment Effective Date, that:

(a)            Each of the representations and warranties made by the Borrower set forth in Article III of the Amended Credit Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects (provided that, any representation and warranty that is qualified by “materiality,” “material adverse effect” or similar language shall be true and correct in all respects (after giving effect to any such qualification therein)) on and as of the First Amendment Effective Date with the same effect as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects (or if any such representation and warranty is qualified by “materiality,” “material adverse effect” or similar language, shall be true and correct in all respects (after giving effect to any such qualification therein)) on and as of such earlier date).

(b)            The transactions contemplated by this First Amendment and the Amended Credit Agreement are within the Borrower's powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action on the part of the Borrower. This First Amendment has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

(c)            The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this First Amendment or the Amended Credit Agreement will not (i) require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except (A) such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect or (B) consents, approvals, registrations, filings, permits or actions the failure of which to obtain or perform could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) violate the Organizational Documents of the Borrower, (iii) violate or result in a default or require any consent or approval under (x) any indenture, agreement, or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or its Property or to which the Borrower or its Property is subject, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower, except for violations, defaults or the creation of such rights that could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (y) any Organizational Document, (iv) violate any material Legal Requirement in any material respect or (v) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any Property of any Company, other than the Liens created by the Security Documents.

(d)            (i) $34,365,000 of the aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Incremental Term Loans and the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments is being incurred pursuant to clause (i) of the definition of “Maximum Incremental Facilities Amount” and Section 2.19 of the Existing Credit Agreement and (ii) $40,635,000 of the aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Incremental Term Loans and the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments is being incurred pursuant to clause (ii) of the definition of “Maximum Incremental Facilities Amount” and Section 2.19 of the Existing Credit Agreement.

Section 7. Reference to and Effect on the Existing Credit Agreement.

(a)            On and after the effectiveness of this First Amendment, each reference in the Existing Credit Agreement to “this Agreement,” “hereunder,” “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Existing Credit Agreement shall mean and be a reference to the Amended Credit Agreement.

(b)            The Existing Credit Agreement as specifically amended by this First Amendment is and shall continue to be in full force and effect and is hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed. This First Amendment shall be a “Loan Document” for purposes of the definition thereof in the Existing Credit Agreement.

(c)            On and after the effectiveness of this First Amendment, (i) the 2022 Incremental Term Loans shall be deemed to be “Loans”, “New Term Loans” and “Term Loans”, (ii) each 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender shall be deemed to be a “Lender” and a “Term Loan Lender”, (iii) each 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender shall be deemed a “Lender”, a “Term Loan Lender” and a “Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender”, (iv) the 2022 Incremental Term Loan Commitments shall be deemed to be “New Term Loan Commitments” and “Term Loan Commitments”, (v) the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments shall be deemed “Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments”, (v) the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loans shall be deemed “Delayed Draw Term Loans” and (vi) this First Amendment shall be deemed to be an “Incremental Loan Amendment” and a “Loan Document”, in each case for all purposes of the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

(d)            Each of the parties hereto agrees that the Administrative Agent may, in consultation with the Borrower, take any and all action as may be reasonably necessary to ensure that, upon the making of the 2022 Incremental Term Loans on the First Amendment Effective Date, all such Incremental Term Loans are included in each Borrowing of outstanding Term Loans on a pro rata basis. The 2022 Incremental Term Loans are an increase under an existing tranche of Term Loans (as contemplated by Section 2.19 of the Existing Credit Agreement) and shall be deemed to be “Term Loans” for all purposes of the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, constituting the same Class of Term Loans with, and having terms identical to, those applicable to the Term Loans funded prior to the First Amendment Effective Date (and shall be fully fungible with the existing Term Loans). The 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loans are an increase under an existing tranche of Delayed Draw Term Loans (as contemplated by Section 2.19 of the Existing Credit Agreement) and shall be deemed to be “Delayed Draw Term Loans” for all purposes of the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, constituting the same Class of Delayed Draw Term Loans with, and having terms identical to, those applicable to the Delayed Draw Term Loans made prior to the First Amendment Effective Date (and shall be fully fungible with the existing Delayed Draw Term Loans when drawn).

(e)            The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this First Amendment shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of any Lender or the Agent under any of the Loan Documents, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of any of the Loan Documents.

Section 8. Acknowledgement.

(a)            Each Loan Party hereby confirms that each Loan Document to which it is a party or otherwise bound and all Collateral encumbered thereby will continue to guarantee or secure, as the case may be, to the fullest extent possible in accordance with the Loan Documents the payment and performance of all Obligations and Secured Obligations under each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party (in each case as such terms are defined in the applicable Loan Document).

(b)            Each Loan Party acknowledges and agrees that any of the Loan Documents to which it is a party or otherwise bound shall continue in full force and effect and that all of its obligations thereunder shall be valid and enforceable and shall not be impaired or limited by the execution or effectiveness of this First Amendment.

(c)            Each Loan Party hereby acknowledges that it has reviewed the terms and provisions of this First Amendment and consents to the amendment of the Existing Credit Agreement effected pursuant to this First Amendment and acknowledges and agrees that each 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender and each 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender (and, in each case, any assignee thereof) is a “Lender” and a “Secured Party” for all purposes under the Loan Documents to which the Borrower or such Guarantor is a party.

(d)            Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that (i) notwithstanding the conditions to effectiveness set forth in this First Amendment, such Guarantor is not required by the terms of the Existing Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document to consent to the amendments to the Existing Credit Agreement effected pursuant to this First Amendment and (ii) nothing in the Amended Credit Agreement, this First Amendment or any other Loan Document shall be deemed to require the consent of such Guarantor to any future amendments to the Existing Credit Agreement.

(e)            The parties hereto agree and acknowledge that, for all purposes under the Existing Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, this First Amendment constitutes an Incremental Loan Amendment contemplated by Section 2.19 of the Existing Credit Agreement.

(f)             Each of the Borrower and each Guarantor hereby (i) acknowledges and agrees that all of its obligations under the Guarantees set out in the Amended Credit Agreement and any other guaranties in the Loan Documents to which it is a party are reaffirmed and remain in full force and effect on a continuous basis, (ii) reaffirms each Lien granted by each Loan Party to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and reaffirms the Guarantees made pursuant to the Amended Credit Agreement, (iii) acknowledges and agrees that the grants of security interests by and the Guarantees of the Loan Parties contained in the Amended Credit Agreement and the other Security Documents are, and shall remain, in full force and effect after giving effect to this First Amendment, and (iv) agrees that the Obligations include, among other things and without limitation, the prompt and complete payment and performance by the Borrower when due and payable (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of principal and interest on, and premium (if any) on, the 2022 Incremental Term Loans under the Amended Credit Agreement. Nothing contained in this First Amendment shall be construed as substitution or novation of the obligations outstanding under the Amended Credit Agreement or the other Loan Documents, which shall remain in full force and effect, except to any extent modified hereby.

Section 9. Execution in Counterparts. This First Amendment may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this First Amendment by facsimile or other electronic transmission (e.g., "pdf" or "tif" format) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this First Amendment. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this First Amendment or any document to be signed in connection with this First Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.

Section 10. Governing Law. (a) THIS FIRST AMENDMENT and any claims, controversy, dispute or cause of action (whether sounding in contract, tort or otherwise) based upon, arising out of or relating to this FIRST Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby AND THEREBY shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.

(b)            Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its Property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof (except to the extent the Administrative Agent requires submission to any other jurisdiction in connection with the exercise of any rights under any security document or the enforcement of any judgment), in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this First Amendment, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the extent permitted by applicable Legal Requirements, in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by applicable Legal Requirements. The Borrower agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law and that nothing in this First Amendment shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent or the Lenders may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this First Amendment against it or any of its assets in the courts of any jurisdiction.

(c)            Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Legal Requirements, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this First Amendment in any court referred to in Section 10(b) above. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Legal Requirements, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

(d)            Each party to this First Amendment irrevocably consents to service of process in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan Document, in the manner provided for notices (other than facsimile or email) in Section 11.01 of the Existing Credit Agreement. Nothing in this First Amendment will affect the right of any party to this First Amendment to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable Legal Requirements.

Section 11. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS FIRST AMENDMENT OR THE OTHER TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 11.

Section 12. Headings. The headings of the sections and subsections used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this First Amendment and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this First Amendment.

Section 13. Severability. Any provision of this First Amendment held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction. The parties hereto shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace any invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.

[Signature Pages Follow]

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

Signature Page to First Amendment

Acknowledged:

JEFFERIES FINANCE LLC,

as the Administrative Agent

Signature Page to First Amendment

Exhibit A

Amended Credit Agreement

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CREDIT AGREEMENT

This CREDIT AGREEMENT (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “Agreement”), dated as of November 5, 2021, among INOTIV, INC., an Indiana corporation (the “Borrower”), the Subsidiary Guarantors (such term and each other capitalized term used but not defined herein having the meaning given to it in ‎Article I), the Lenders from time to time party hereto and Jefferies Finance LLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and permitted assigns, the “Administrative Agent”) and as collateral agent for the Secured Parties (in such capacity, together with its successors and permitted assigns, the “Collateral Agent”); with Jefferies Finance LLC, as sole lead arranger (in such capacity, the “Arranger”) and sole bookrunner (in such capacity, the “Bookrunner”).

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, (a) Dolphin Mergeco, Inc. (“Merger Sub”) will merge with and into Envigo RMS Holding Corp. (“Envigo”) on the Closing Date with Envigo as the surviving corporation (the “First Merger”) and (b) the surviving corporation will merge with and into Inotiv Research Models, LLC (“Inotiv Research Models”), with Inotiv Research Models as the surviving company (the “Second Merger”, and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”) and as a result of the Mergers, Inotiv Research Models will become a direct, wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower.

WHEREAS, on the Closing Date, the Borrower (a) has requested the Lenders to extend credit in the form of (i) term loans in an aggregate principal amount equal to $165,000,000 and (ii) delayed draw term loan commitments in an aggregate principal amount equal to $35,000,000 and (b) has requested that the Revolving Lenders extend Revolving Loans at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date and prior to the Revolving Maturity Date in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $15,000,000. The proceeds of the term loans will be used by the Borrower on the Closing Date (i) to finance, in part, the Mergers, (ii) to refinance the existing financing (the “Refinancing”) and (iii) pay fees, costs (including debt breakage costs in connection with the Refinancing) and expenses related to the transaction. The proceeds of the delayed draw term loans will be available after the Closing Date for (i) Permitted Acquisitions, (ii) Designated Capital Expenditures and (iii) replenish cash on the balance sheet or repay Revolving Loans that, in either case, were drawn to finance Permitted Acquisitions or Designated Capital Expenditures. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans will be available after the Closing Date for general corporate purposes.

WHEREAS, the Borrower and each other Loan Party desire to secure all of the Obligations by granting to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in and Lien upon substantially all of the property and assets of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties, subject to the limitations described herein and in the Security Documents.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

Article I
DEFINITIONS

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

“2022 Incremental Term Loan Lenders” shall mean any Lender with a 2022 Incremental Term Loan Commitment and/or a 2022 Incremental Term Loan outstanding hereunder.

“2022 Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Expiration Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎2.02(f).

“2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments” shall mean, with respect to each 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender, the commitment, if any, of such 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender to make a 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan. The aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders’ 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments on the First Amendment Effective Date is $35,000,000.

“2022 Incremental Term Loan Commitments” shall mean, with respect to each 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender, the commitment, if any, of such 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender to make a 2022 Incremental Term Loan. The aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lenders’ 2022 Incremental Term Loan Commitments on the First Amendment Effective Date is $40,000,000.

“2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loans” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the First Amendment.

“2022 Incremental Term Loans” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the First Amendment.

“ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, is used when such Loan comprising such Borrowing is, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing are, bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article ‎II.

“ABR Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of ABR Loans.

“ABR Loan” shall mean any ABR Term Loan or ABR Revolving Loan.

“ABR Revolving Loan” shall mean any Revolving Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article ‎II.

“ABR Term Loan” shall mean any Term Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article ‎II.

“Acquisition Consideration” shall mean the purchase consideration for a Permitted Acquisition and all other payments (but excluding any related acquisition fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with any Permitted Acquisition), directly or indirectly, by any Company in exchange for, or as part of, or in connection with, a Permitted Acquisition, whether paid in cash or by exchange of Equity Interests or of any Property or otherwise and whether payable at or prior to the consummation of a Permitted Acquisition or deferred for payment at any future time (including Earn-Outs); provided that any such Earn-Out or other future payment that is subject to a contingency shall be considered Acquisition Consideration only to the extent of the reserve, if any, required under GAAP at the time of such sale to be established in respect thereof by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; provided, further, that Acquisition Consideration shall not include (a) the portion of consideration or payment constituting salary payments pursuant to ordinary course employment agreements and salary bonuses payable thereunder to the extent relating to the applicable Permitted Acquisition and (b) cash and Cash Equivalents acquired by the Companies as part of the applicable Permitted Acquisition (except to the extent that such cash and Cash Equivalents were (x) directly or indirectly funded or financed by any of the Companies or (y) after giving effect to any repayment of, or incurrence of, Indebtedness (and the release of any Liens in connection therewith) with respect to, or in connection with, such Permitted Acquisition on, or immediately after, the date of consummation thereof, such cash and Cash Equivalents are subject to any Lien (other than the Liens created under the Security Documents).

“Additional Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎2.21(a).

“Adjusted LIBOR Rate” shall mean, for any Interest Period, with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the greater of (a)(i) an interest rate per annum (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next 1/100th of 1%) to be equal to the LIBOR Rate for such Eurodollar Loan in effect for such Interest Period divided by (ii) 1 minus the Statutory Reserves (if any) for such Eurodollar Loan for such Interest Period and (b) 1.00%.

“Administrative Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto and includes each other person appointed as the successor administrative agent pursuant to ‎Article X.

“Administrative Agent Fees” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.05(c).

“Administrative Questionnaire” shall mean an administrative questionnaire in the form supplied from time to time by the Administrative Agent.

“Advisors” shall mean legal counsel (including foreign and local counsel, but excluding in-house counsel), auditors, engineers, accountants, consultants, appraisers or other advisors.

“Affected Financial Institution” shall mean (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

“Affiliate” shall mean, when used with respect to a specified person, another person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the person specified; provided, however, that, (i) for purposes of ‎Section 6.08, the term “Affiliate” shall also include (a) any person that directly or indirectly owns more than 10% of any class of Equity Interests of the person specified and (b) any person that is an executive officer or director of the person specified and (ii) Jefferies LLC and its Affiliates shall be deemed to be Affiliates of Jefferies Finance LLC and its Affiliates.

“Agent Fee Letter” shall mean that certain Agent Fee Letter, dated as of September 21, 2021, by and between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

“Agents” shall mean the Arranger, the Bookrunner, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent; and “Agent” shall mean any of them, as the context may require.

“Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

“Alternate Base Rate” shall mean, for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next 1/100th of 1%) equal to the greatest of (a) the Base Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 0.50%, (c) except during the Eurodollar Unavailability Period, the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for a Eurodollar Loan with a one-month interest period (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 2.00% If the Administrative Agent shall have determined in its reasonable discretion (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for any reason, including the inability or failure of the Administrative Agent to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms of the definition thereof, the Alternate Base Rate shall be determined without regard to clause (b) or (c), as applicable, of the preceding sentence until the circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Base Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the then applicable Adjusted LIBOR Rate shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the Base Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the then applicable Adjusted LIBOR Rate, respectively.

“Amendment Lead Arranger” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the First Amendment.

“Anti-Corruption Laws” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎‎Section 3.22(a).

“Anti-Terrorism Laws” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 3.20(a).

“Applicable Margin” shall mean, until delivery of the financial statements for the first six (6) months ending after the Closing Date pursuant to Section ‎5.01(a) or Section ‎5.01(b), a percentage per annum equal to (i) initially, in the case of Term Loans and Revolving Loans (A) maintained as ABR Loans, 5.25%, and (B) maintained as Eurodollar Loans, 6.25%; thereafter, the following percentages per annum based on the Secured Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section ‎5.02:

No change in the Applicable Margin shall be effective until three Business Days after the date on which the Administrative Agent shall have received the applicable financial statements and a Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section ‎5.02 calculating the Secured Leverage Ratio. At any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or the Borrower has not submitted to the Administrative Agent the applicable information as and when required under Section ‎5.01 or Section ‎5.02, the Applicable Margin shall conclusively equal the highest possible Applicable Margin provided for in this definition. Within one Business Day of receipt of the applicable information under Section ‎5.01 and Section ‎5.02, the Administrative Agent shall give each Lender electronic or telephonic notice (confirmed in writing) of the Applicable Margin in effect from such date.

Furthermore, the Applicable Margin in respect of any Incremental Loans, Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loans, Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Revolving Loans shall be the applicable percentages per annum set forth in the applicable Incremental Amendment, Extension Offer or Refinancing Amendment, respectively.

“Approved Electronic Communications” shall mean any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material that any Loan Party provides to the Administrative Agent pursuant to any Loan Document or the transactions contemplated therein which is distributed to the Agents or the Lenders by means of electronic communications pursuant to ‎Section 11.01(b).

“Approved Fund” shall mean any person (other than a natural person) that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

“Arranger” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

“Asset Disposition Threshold” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎2.10(c)(i).

“Asset Sale” shall mean (a) any Disposition of any Property by any Company (excluding sales and dispositions permitted by ‎Section 6.06 (other than ‎Section 6.06(b)) and (b) any sale or other Disposition of any Equity Interests in a Subsidiary of the Borrower to any person other than a Loan Party.

“Assignment and Assumption” shall mean an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender, as assignor, and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required pursuant to Section ‎11.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, or such other form as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent from time to time.

“Available Tenor” shall mean, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (x) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period or (y) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, pursuant to this Agreement as of such date.

“Bail-In Action” shall mean the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.

“Bail-In Legislation” shall mean (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).

“Bank Product” shall mean each and any of the following bank products and services provided by any Bank Product Provider: (a) credit cards for commercial customers (including, without limitation, “commercial credit cards” and purchasing cards), (b) store value cards, and (c) depository, cash management, and treasury management services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, overdrafts and interstate depository network services).

“Bank Product Agreement” shall mean any agreement entered into by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with Bank Products that has been designated as a “Bank Product Agreement” by Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative Agent.

“Bank Product Obligations” shall mean any and all of the obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor) in connection with Bank Products provided pursuant to a Bank Product Agreement.

“Bank Product Provider” shall mean any Person in its capacity as a provider of Bank Products, provided that such Person (i) is an Agent or a Lender or an Affiliate of any of the foregoing (or was an Agent or a Lender or an Affiliate of any of the foregoing at the time it provides a Bank Product) and (ii) executes and delivers to the Administrative Agent a letter agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to which such counterparty (x) appoints the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent as its agents under the applicable Loan Documents and (y) agrees to be bound by the provisions of ‎Section 11.03, ‎Section 11.09 and ‎Section 11.12 as if it were a Lender hereunder.

“Base Rate” shall mean, for any day, the “U.S. Prime Lending Rate” published in The Wall Street Journal for such day; provided that if The Wall Street Journal ceases to publish for any reason such rate of interest, “Base Rate” shall mean the prime lending rate as set forth on the Bloomberg page PRIMBB Index (or successor page) for such day (or such other service as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of prime lending interest rates); each change in the Base Rate shall be effective on the date such change is effective. The prime rate is not necessarily the lowest rate charged by any financial institution to its customers.

“Benchmark” means, initially, USD LIBOR; provided that if a replacement of the Benchmark has occurred pursuant to this Section titled “Benchmark Replacement Setting”, then “Benchmark” shall mean the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate. Any reference to “Benchmark” shall include, as applicable, the published component used in the calculation thereof.

“Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor:

(1)            For purposes of clause ‎(a) of Section 2.11, the first alternative set forth below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:

(a)            the sum of: (i) Term SOFR and (ii) 0.11448% (11.448 basis points) for an Available Tenor of one-month’s duration, 0.26161% (26.161 basis points) for an Available Tenor of three-months’ duration, and 0.42826% (42.826 basis points) for an Available Tenor of six-months’ duration, or

(b)            the sum of: (i) Daily Simple SOFR and (ii) the spread adjustment selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of the tenor of USD LIBOR with a SOFR-based rate having approximately the same length as the interest payment period specified in clause ‎(a) of this definition; and

(2)            For purposes of clause (b) of Section 2.11, the sum of (a) the alternate benchmark rate and (b) an adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), in each case, that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as the replacement for such Available Tenor of such Benchmark giving due consideration to any evolving or then-prevailing market convention, including any applicable recommendations made by the Relevant Governmental Body, for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time;

provided that, if the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause ‎(1) or ‎(2) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “ABR,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).

“Benchmark Transition Event” means, with respect to any then-current Benchmark other than USD LIBOR, the occurrence of a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the then-current Benchmark, the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark, a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark, announcing or stating that (a) such administrator has ceased or will cease on a specified date to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark, permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark or (b) all Available Tenors of such Benchmark are or will no longer be representative of the underlying market and economic reality that such Benchmark is intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored.

“Beneficial Ownership Certification” shall mean a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” shall mean 31 C.F.R § 1010.230

“Board” shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

“Board of Directors” shall mean, with respect to any person, (a) in the case of any corporation, the board of directors of such person, (b) in the case of any limited liability company, the board of managers or board of directors, as applicable, of such person, or if such limited liability company does not have a board of managers or board of directors, the functional equivalent of the foregoing, (c) in the case of any partnership, the board of directors or board of managers, as applicable, of the general partner of such person and (d) in any other case, the functional equivalent of the foregoing.

“Bookrunner” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

“Borrower” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

“Borrowing” shall mean Loans of the same Class and Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

“Borrowing Request” shall mean a request by Borrower in accordance with the terms of ‎Section 2.03 and substantially in the form of Exhibit B, or such other form as shall be reasonably approved by the Administrative Agent from time to time.

“Business Day” shall mean (i) any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any day which is a legal holiday under the laws of the State of New York or is a day on which banking institutions located in such state are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close and (ii) with respect to all notices, determinations, fundings and payments in connection with the LIBOR Rate or any Eurodollar Loans, any day which is a Business Day described in clause (i) and which is also a day for trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

“Capital Expenditures” shall mean, without duplication, for any period (a) any expenditure or commitment to expend money made during such period for any purchase or other acquisition of any asset including capitalized leasehold improvements, which would be classified as a fixed or capital asset on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with GAAP and (b) Capital Lease Obligations incurred by such persons during such period with respect to real or personal Property acquired during such period, or Synthetic Lease Obligations incurred by such persons during such period, but in each case, excluding (i) expenditures made in connection with the replacement, substitution or restoration of Property pursuant to ‎Section 2.10(c), (ii) any Permitted Acquisitions, (iii) expenditures to the extent reimbursed within such period or paid for by a person who is not a Company (or any of Affiliates thereof) in the ordinary course of business (including, tenant improvements paid or reimbursed by landlords), (iv) the purchase price of equipment or other fixed assets that are purchased in the ordinary course of business substantially contemporaneously with the trade-in of existing assets in the ordinary course of business to the extent that the gross amount of such purchase price is reduced by the credit granted by the seller of such assets for the assets being traded-in at such time, (v) expenditures to the extent financed with the Net Cash Proceeds of Asset Sales that are reinvested in accordance with ‎Section 2.10(c), and (vi) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would immediately thereafter result therefrom, expenditures funded directly with the net cash proceeds of issuances of Equity Interests (other than Permitted Cure Securities) of the Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) to its shareholders and only to the extent that the net cash proceeds of such issuances of Equity Interests are immediately contributed to the Borrower as cash common equity, and in turn immediately contributed to the Borrower as cash common equity.

“Capital Lease Obligations” shall mean, as to any Person, the obligations of such person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal Property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as financing leases on a balance sheet of such person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will any lease that would have been categorized as an operating lease as determined in accordance with GAAP as of September 30, 2020 be considered a Capitalized Lease.

“Capital Requirements” shall mean, as to any person, any matter, directly or indirectly, (a) regarding capital adequacy, capital ratios, capital requirements, the calculation of such person’s capital or similar matters, or (b) affecting the amount of capital required to be obtained or maintained by such person or any person controlling such person (including any direct or indirect holding company), or the manner in which such person or any person controlling such person (including any direct or indirect holding company), allocates capital to any of its contingent liabilities (including letters of credit), advances, acceptances, commitments, assets or liabilities.

“Cash Equivalents” shall mean, as to any person, (a) marketable securities issued, or directly, unconditionally and fully guaranteed or insured, by the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof) having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition by such person, (b) time deposits and certificates of deposit of any Lender or any commercial bank having, or which is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia having, capital and surplus aggregating in excess of $500,000,000 and a rating of “A” (or such other similar equivalent rating) or higher by at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization (as defined in Rule 436 under the Securities Act) with maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition by such person, (c) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than thirty (30) days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (a) above entered into with any person meeting the qualifications specified in clause (b) above, (d) commercial paper issued by any person incorporated in the United States having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from S&P or Moody’s, in each case maturing not more than one year after the date of acquisition by such person, (e) investments in money market funds substantially all of whose assets are comprised of securities of the types described in clauses (a) through (d) above and (f) demand deposit accounts maintained in the ordinary course of business with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (b) above.

“Cash Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, less the sum of (a) interest on any debt paid by the permanent increase in the principal amount of such debt including by issuance of additional debt of such kind for such period, (b) items described in clause (c) or, other than to the extent paid in cash, clause ‎(g) of the definition of “Consolidated Interest Expense” for such period and (c) cash interest income received by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in such period.

“Casualty Event” shall mean any involuntary loss of title or any involuntary loss of or damage to or destruction of, or any condemnation or other taking (including by any Governmental Authority) of, any Property of any Company. “Casualty Event” shall include any taking of all or any part of any Real Property of any person or any part thereof, in or by condemnation or other eminent domain proceedings pursuant to any Legal Requirement, or by reason of the temporary requisition of the use or occupancy of all or any part of any Real Property of any person or any part thereof by any Governmental Authority, or any settlement in lieu thereof.

“CERCLA” shall mean the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.

“CFC” shall mean a Foreign Subsidiary that is a controlled foreign corporation under Section 957 of the Code.

“Change in Control” shall mean (a) an event or series of events by which any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or group or its respective subsidiaries, and any person acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that for purposes of this clause such person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of Voting Stock of the Borrower representing more than 35% of the voting power of the total outstanding Voting Stock of the Borrower or (b) the occurrence of any “change of control” (or similar event, howsoever denominated) under any other Indebtedness with an aggregate principal amount equal to, or in excess of $15,000,000.

“Change in Law” shall mean (a) the adoption of, or taking effect of, any law, treaty, order, rule or regulation after the Closing Date, (b) any change in any law, treaty, order, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the Closing Date or (c) compliance by any Lender (or for purposes of ‎Section 2.12(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the Closing Date; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) 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, 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.

“Charges” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.13.

“Claims” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.03(b).

“Class” (a) when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, Initial Term Loans, Delayed Draw Term Loans, New Term Loans of any series established as a separate “Class” pursuant to Section ‎2.19 or Extended Term Loans, (b) when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Commitment,, Initial Term Loan Commitment, Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, New Term Loan Commitment of any series established as a separate “Class” pursuant to ‎Section 2.19 or refers to a Commitment made pursuant to an Extension Offer, and (c) when used in reference to any Lender, whether such Lender has a Loan or Commitment of a particular Class. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, the Term Loans existing on the Closing Date and the 2022 Incremental Term Loans shall be deemed to be, and treated as, part of a single Class of Term Loans for all purposes hereof, including for any purposes of any determination of Required Lenders and the application of repayments or prepayments to the Term Loans.

“Closing Date” shall mean the date of the initial Credit Extensions hereunder.

“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Collateral” shall mean, collectively, all of the Security Agreement Collateral, the Mortgaged Property and all other Property of whatever kind and nature, whether now existing or hereafter acquired, granted or purported to be granted as collateral or otherwise subject to a security interest or purported to be subject to a security interest under any Security Document.

“Collateral Account” shall mean a collateral account or sub-account established and maintained from time to time by the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in accordance with the provisions of ‎Section 9.01.

“Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

“Commitment” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, Initial Term Loan Commitment, Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, New Term Loan Commitment or any commitment in connection with an Extended Term Loan.

“Commitment Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(a).

“Commitment Letter” shall mean that certain Commitment Letter, dated as of September 21, 2021, between the Borrower, Jefferies Finance LLC and the other Commitment Parties (as defined therein).

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

“Communications” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.01(d).

“Companies” shall mean the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; and “Company” shall mean any one of them.

“Compliance Certificate” shall mean a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit C.

“Consolidated Amortization Expense” shall mean, for any period, the amortization expense of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (including accelerated amortization from the write-off or write-down of tangible or intangible assets (other than the write-down of current assets) including capitalized software and organizational costs).

“Consolidated Current Assets” shall mean, as at any date of determination, the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than cash and cash equivalents including Cash Equivalents, and excluding the effects of adjustments pursuant to GAAP resulting from the application of recapitalization accounting or purchase accounting, as the case may be, in relation to the Transactions or any consummated acquisition), which may properly be classified as current assets on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.

“Consolidated Current Liabilities” shall mean, as at any date of determination, the total liabilities (excluding deferred taxes and taxes payable) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries which may properly be classified as current liabilities (other than (w) the current portion of any Loans and other long-term liabilities, and liabilities in respect of Hedging Obligations, and, in each case, accrued interest thereon, (x) liabilities in respect of unpaid earnouts and accrued litigation settlement costs and (y) current liabilities consisting of deferred revenue) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, plus the amount of long-term deferred revenue of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP and furthermore, excluding the effects of adjustments pursuant to GAAP resulting from the application of purchase accounting in relation to the Transactions or any consummated acquisition.

“Consolidated Depreciation Expense” shall mean, for any period, the depreciation expense of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (including accelerated depreciation from the write-off or write-down of tangible or intangible assets (other than the write-down of current assets) including capitalized software and organizational costs).

“Consolidated EBITDA” shall mean, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period, adjusted by (y) adding thereto, without duplication, in each case, only to the extent deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income and not added back pursuant to the definition of Consolidated Net Income, and provided that to the extent the ability to add back any item is capped or otherwise limited pursuant to one clause of this definition, no other clause herein shall operate to permit an amount in excess of such cap or limitation to be added back:

(a)            Consolidated Interest Expense for such period;

(b)            Consolidated Amortization Expense for such period;

(c)            Consolidated Depreciation Expense for such period;

(d)            Consolidated Tax Expense for such period;

(e)            (1)          the amount of cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and initiatives and synergies incurred, in each case, in connection with the applicable Transaction or another Subject Transaction and which are projected by Borrower in good faith to be reasonably anticipated to be realized from actions taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken within eighteen (18) months of the date of the Transactions or the applicable Subject Transaction (which will be added to Consolidated EBITDA as so projected until fully realized and calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and initiatives and synergies had been realized on the first day of such period) net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that all steps have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken for realizing such cost savings and such cost savings are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable (in the good faith determination of the Borrower and certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower); and (2) the amount of any restructuring charge, reserve, integration cost, new product start-up cost or other business optimization expense or cost (including charges directly related to implementation of cost-savings initiatives), that is deducted (and not added back) in such period in computing Consolidated Net Income including, without limitation, those related to severance, retention, signing bonuses, relocation, litigation transition costs and expenses, recruiting and other similar employee related costs, future lease commitments, lease breakage and costs related to the opening and closure and/or consolidation of facilities or offices and to exiting lines of business; provided that, the aggregate amount pursuant to this clause (e) or the definition of Pro Forma Basis in any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters shall not exceed 25% of Consolidated EBITDA prior to giving effect to such pro forma adjustments for such period; provided further that (x) such 25% limitation will not apply to the extent the adjustments in this clause (e) are determined on a basis consistent with Article 11 of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Exchange Act and as interpreted by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any successor agency) and (y) amounts added back or adjusted pursuant to this clause (e) shall be without duplication of (and shall not be in addition to) any amounts added back or adjusted pursuant to the definition of “Pro Forma Basis” set forth in this Agreement;

(f)             [reserved];

(g)            out-of-pocket fees, costs and expenses (including legal, tax, structuring and other similar costs and expenses) payable to third parties in connection with (except as provided below) any Investment, acquisition (including costs and expenses in connection with the de-listing of public targets and compliance with public company requirements), disposition (including, without limitation, a sale of (1) the equity of the Borrower (or its direct or indirect parent) and its Subsidiaries or (2) substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries), recapitalization, Dividend, Equity Issuance, consolidation, restructurings, or the incurrence, registration (actual or proposed), repayments or amendments of Indebtedness (including, without limitation, letter of credit fees and, in connection with any refinancing of such Indebtedness, unamortized fees, costs and expenses paid in cash in connection with repayment of Indebtedness) (in each case, whether or not consummated or successful), including, without limitation, (t) deferred commission or similar payments paid in cash in connection with any transaction not prohibited by this Credit Agreement, (u) any breakage costs incurred in connection with the termination of any Hedging Agreement as a result of the prepayment of Indebtedness, (v) such out-of-pocket fees, costs or expenses related to the execution, delivery, maintenance and closing of any Loans or any Permitted Refinancing and this Agreement and (w) any amendment, waiver or other modification of Loans or any Permitted Refinancing, any Loan Document, any other Indebtedness or any Equity Interests, in each case, whether or not consummated, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income;

(h)            [reserved];

(i)             (A) non-cash costs and expenses relating to any equity-based compensation or equity-based incentive plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, in each case, of the Borrower or any Subsidiary for such period and (B) any cash costs or expenses relating to any equity-based compensation or equity-based incentive plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement in each case, of the Borrower or any Subsidiary for such period, to the extent that such costs or expenses are funded with net cash proceeds from the issuance of Equity Interests of, or a contribution to the capital of, the Borrower as cash common equity and/or Qualified Stock and which are in turn contributed to the Borrower as cash common equity;

(j)             cash expenses of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries incurred during such period to the extent (x) deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income and (y) reimbursed in cash by any person (other than any of the Borrower, the Companies or any of their Subsidiaries or any owners, directly or indirectly, of Equity Interests, respectively, therein) during such period (or reasonably expected to be so reimbursed within 365 days of the end of such period to the extent not accrued) pursuant to an indemnity or guaranty or any other reimbursement agreement in favor of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent such reimbursement has not been accrued (provided that, (A) if not so reimbursed or received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary within such 365 day period, such expenses or losses shall be subtracted in the subsequent calculation period or (B) if reimbursed or received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in a subsequent period, such amount shall not be permitted to be added back in determining Consolidated EBITDA for such subsequent period);

(k)            (x) the aggregate amount of all other non-cash items, write-downs, non-cash expenses, or non-cash losses (including, to the extent not taken into account when calculating Consolidated EBITDA, (i) purchase accounting adjustments under ASC 805 and (ii) deferred revenue which would reasonably have been included in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period, but for the application of purchase accounting rules) otherwise reducing Consolidated Net Income (other than with respect to the preceding clause (ii)) and excluding any such non-cash items, write-downs, expenses, or losses that are reasonably expected to result in, or require pursuant to GAAP, an accrual of a reserve for cash charge, costs and/or expenses in any future period, (y) net non-cash exchange, translation or performance losses relating to foreign currency transactions and currency fluctuations and (z) cash charges resulting from the application of ASC 805 (including with respect to Earn-Outs incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any Permitted Acquisition);

(l)             costs and expenses related to the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and paid or reimbursed by or on behalf of any of the Loan Parties to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any of the Lenders or other third parties paid or engaged by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any of the Lenders or paid by any of the Loan Parties;

(m)           the unamortized fees, costs and expenses paid in cash in connection with the repayment of Indebtedness to persons that are not Affiliates of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

(n)            the aggregate amount of expenses or losses incurred by the Borrower or any Subsidiary relating to business interruption to the extent covered by insurance and (x) actually reimbursed or otherwise paid to the Borrower or such Subsidiary or (y) so long as such amount for any calculation period is reasonably expected to be received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in a subsequent calculation period and within one year of the date of the underlying loss and, in each case, the amount of such increase is not otherwise included in Consolidated Net Income for such period (provided that, (A) if not so reimbursed or received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary within such one-year period, such expenses or losses shall be subtracted in the subsequent calculation period or (B) if reimbursed or received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in a subsequent period, such amount shall not be permitted to be added back in determining Consolidated EBITDA for such subsequent period);

(o)            any net loss included in Consolidated Net Income attributable to non-controlling interests pursuant to the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 810-10-45 (“Topic 810”);

(p)            the amount of any minority interest expense of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries consisting of Subsidiary income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-wholly owned Subsidiary deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income (and not added back in such period to Consolidated Net Income), but only to the extent income attributable to such non-wholly owned Subsidiary would be permitted to be included in Consolidated Net Income;

(q)            losses, charges and expenses attributable to Asset Sales or other dispositions or the sale or other disposition of any Equity Interests of any Person other than in the ordinary course of business;

(r)             payments to employees, directors or officers of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries paid in connection with Dividends that are otherwise permitted hereunder to the extent such payments are not made in lieu of, or as a substitution for, ordinary salary, ordinary fees or ordinary payroll payments;

(s)            the difference between rental payments actually paid in cash and deferred rental expense deducted in determining consolidated net income;

(t)             the difference between commissions actually paid in cash and commission expense deducted in determining consolidated net income;

(u)            the difference between initiation fees actually received in cash and the amount included in determining consolidated net income; and

(v)            the difference between paid-in-full dues actually received in cash and the amount included in determining consolidated net income;

and (z) subtracting therefrom the aggregate amount of, without duplication and solely to the extent added to Consolidated Net Income, (A) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income (other than the accrual of revenue or recording of receivables in the ordinary course of business and any non-cash gains with respect to cash actually received in a prior period so long as such cash was not included in Consolidated EBITDA in such prior period pursuant to sub-clauses ‎(s) through ‎(v) above), (B) all gains (whether cash or non-cash) resulting from the early termination or extinguishment of Indebtedness, (C) net realized gains from Hedging Agreements or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standard Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements, (D) the amount of any minority interest income consisting of Subsidiary loss attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-wholly owned Subsidiary added to Consolidated Net Income (and not deducted in such period from Consolidated Net Income), (E) any net income included in Consolidated Net Income attributable to non-controlling interests pursuant to the application of Topic 810, (F) any amounts added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to sub-clause ‎(j) above in the prior calculation period with respect to expected reimbursements to the extent such reimbursements are not received within such 365 day period following such prior calculation period and (G) the aggregate amount of all other non-cash gains resulting from purchase price accounting adjustments.

provided that Consolidated EBITDA for the fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2020, December 31, 2020, March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2021 shall be deemed to be $11,199,000, $13,857,000, $12,858,000 and 13,218,000, respectively, in each case, as adjusted on a Pro Forma Basis, as applicable; it being agreed that for purposes of calculating any financial ratio or test on a Pro Forma Basis (after the end of any of the four quarterly periods set forth above) in connection with a Subject Transaction, Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated in a manner consistent with Consolidated EBITDA for such quarterly period and the adjustments set forth above in this definition. Other than for purposes of calculating Excess Cash Flow, Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis to give effect to any Subject Transaction, and for the purposes of calculating Excess Cash Flow, the pro forma adjustments set forth in the preceding clause (e) shall not be taken into account in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA.

Other than for purposes of calculating Excess Cash Flow, Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis to give effect to any Subject Transaction, and for the purposes of calculating Excess Cash Flow, the pro forma adjustments set forth in the preceding clause (e) shall not be taken into account in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA.

“Consolidated First Lien Indebtedness” shall mean, as of any date of determination, without duplication, the aggregate amount of Consolidated Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that, as of such date, is secured by a first priority Lien on any asset or property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

“Consolidated Secured Indebtedness” shall mean, as of any date of determination, without duplication, the aggregate amount of Consolidated Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that, as of such date, is secured by a Lien on any asset or property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

“Consolidated Indebtedness” shall mean, at any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount, determined on a consolidated basis, without duplication, in accordance with GAAP, of (i) all Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries of the types referred to in clauses (a) (but only in respect of the principal amount thereof), (b) (but only in respect of the principal amount thereof and excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, surety bonds), (d) (provided that, in the case of purchase price adjustments or Earn-Outs, solely to the extent due and payable), (f) and (i) (but only in respect of the drawn amount thereof) of the definition of “Indebtedness” in this Section ‎1.01 (giving effect to the proviso to such definition) and (ii) without duplication, all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries of the type referred to in clause (viii) of the definition of “Indebtedness” to the extent that such Guaranteed Obligations relate to liabilities under clauses (a) (but only in respect of the principal amount thereof), (b) (but only in respect of the principal amount thereof and excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, surety bonds), (e) and (i) (but only in respect of the drawn amount thereof) of the definition of “Indebtedness” (giving effect to the proviso to such definition) but, in each case, excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any Bank Product Obligations (other than any overdrafts incurred in respect of the foregoing) and Swap Obligations.

“Consolidated Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, the total consolidated interest expense of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP plus, without duplication:

(a)             imputed interest on Capital Lease Obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period;

(b)            commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to letters of credit securing financial obligations, bankers’ acceptance financing and receivables financings for such period;

(c)             amortization of Debt Issuance costs, debt discount or prepayment or other premiums and other financing fees and expenses incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries for such period;

(d)            cash contributions to any employee stock ownership plan or similar trust made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent such contributions are used by such plan or trust to pay interest or fees to any person (other than the Borrower or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary which is a Subsidiary) in connection with Indebtedness incurred by such plan or trust for such period;

(e)            all interest paid or payable with respect to discontinued operations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries for such period;

(f)             the interest portion of any deferred payment obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries for such period; and

(g)            all interest on any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of the type described in clause (e) or (j) of the definition of “Indebtedness” for such period;

provided that (a) to the extent directly and exclusively related to the consummation of the Transactions, Debt Issuance costs, debt discount or premium and other financing fees and expenses shall be excluded from the calculation of Consolidated Interest Expense and (b) Consolidated Interest Expense shall be calculated after giving effect to Hedging Agreements (including associated costs) intended to protect against fluctuations in interest rates, but excluding unrealized gains and losses with respect to any such Hedging Agreements. For the purposes of determining the Consolidated Interest Expense, for any period, such determination shall be made on a Pro Forma Basis to give effect to any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred for ordinary course working capital needs under ordinary course revolving credit facilities) incurred, assumed or permanently repaid or prepaid or extinguished at any time on or after the first day of the Test Period and prior to the date of determination in connection with any Permitted Acquisition, Asset Sale or other Disposition (other than any Dispositions in the ordinary course of business), and discontinued lines of business or operations as if such incurrence, assumption, repayment or extinguishing had been effected on the first day of such period.

“Consolidated Net Income” shall mean, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than the Specified Subsidiaries) for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded from such net income (to the extent otherwise included therein), without duplication:

(a)            the net income (or loss) of any person (other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower) in which any person other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership interest, except to the extent that cash in an amount equal to any such income has actually been received by the Borrower or (subject to clause (b) below) any of its Subsidiaries during such period;

(b)            the net income of any Subsidiary of the Borrower during such period to the extent that (A) the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary of that income is not permitted by operation of the terms of its Organizational Documents or any agreement (other than this Agreement or any other Loan Document), instrument, Order or other Legal Requirement applicable to that Subsidiary or its equity holders during such period (unless such restriction or limitation has been effectively waived), except that the Borrower’s equity in net loss of any such Subsidiary for such period shall be included in determining Consolidated Net Income, or (B) such net income, if dividended or distributed to the equity holders of such Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of its Organizational Documents, would be received by any Person other than a Loan Party;

(c)             any gain (or loss), together with any related provisions for taxes on any such gain (or the tax effect of any such loss), realized during such period by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries upon any Disposition of assets by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

(d)            gains and losses due solely to (i) exchange, translation or performance gains or losses relating to foreign currency transactions, fluctuations in currency values and the related tax effects determined in accordance with GAAP for such period and (ii) the cumulative effect of any change in accounting principles;

(e)            (x) non-cash gains and losses resulting from any reappraisal, revaluation, write-down or write-up of assets (including intangible assets, goodwill and deferred financing costs) (including pursuant to the application of ASC 350 and ASC 360) and (y) cash and non-cash income, earnings, charges, expenses, gains and losses resulting from the application of ASC 805 with respect to Earn-Outs incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any Permitted Acquisition;

(f)             any net unrealized gains or losses from Hedging Agreements or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standard Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements for such period;

(g)            all deferred financing costs written off and premiums paid or other expenses incurred directly in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness and any net gain (or loss) from any write-off or forgiveness of Indebtedness;

(h)            any extraordinary (as determined in accordance with GAAP) or nonrecurring gain, loss, income and expense, together with any related provision for taxes on any such gain (or the tax effect of any such loss), recorded or recognized by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during such period; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, with respect to any extraordinary or non-recurring gain (or loss, expense or charge) that is also described or referenced in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA”, such extraordinary or non-recurring gain (or loss, expense or charge) shall instead be subtracted from (and/or added back to) Consolidated Net Income in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA in accordance with the definition of such term set forth in this Agreement;

(i)              any (i) non-cash compensation charge or expense arising from any grant of stock, stock options or other equity based awards and any non-cash deemed finance charges in respect of any pension liabilities or other provisions or on the re-valuation of any benefit plan obligation and (ii) income (loss) attributable to deferred compensation plans or trusts;

(j)              the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles;

(k)             any purchase accounting effects including adjustments to inventory, property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries), as a result of any consummated acquisition, or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof (including any write-off of in process research and development); and

(l)              accruals and reserves that are established within twelve (12) months after the Closing Date that are so required to be established as a result of the Transactions in accordance with GAAP.

For purposes of this definition of “Consolidated Net Income,” (w) “nonrecurring” shall mean any gain or loss as of any date that (i) did not occur in the ordinary course of the Borrower’s or its Subsidiaries’ business and (ii) is of a nature and type that has not occurred in the prior twenty-four month period and is not reasonably expected to occur in the future, (x) “ASC 805” shall mean the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 805 (Business Combinations), issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in December 2007, (y) “ASC 350” shall mean the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 350 (Intangibles, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets), issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board in June 2001 and (z) “ASC 360” shall mean the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 360 (Property , Plant and Equipment).

“Consolidated Tax Expense” shall mean, for any period, the tax expense of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and net of any applicable credits or reimbursements received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during such period (to the extent such credit or reimbursement (as applicable) is otherwise included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated EBITDA (as applicable)).

“Consolidated Total Assets” shall mean at any date of determination, the net book value of all assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than the Specified Subsidiaries) determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“Contingent Obligation” shall mean, as to any person, any obligation, agreement, understanding or arrangement of such person guaranteeing or intended to guarantee any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (“primary obligations”) of any other person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including any obligation, agreement, understanding or arrangement of such person, whether or not contingent: (a) to purchase any such primary obligation or any Property constituting direct or indirect security therefor; (b) to advance or supply funds (i) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (ii) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor; (c) to purchase or lease Property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation; (d) with respect to bankers’ acceptances, letters of credit and similar credit arrangements, until a reimbursement obligation arises (which reimbursement obligation shall constitute Indebtedness); or (e) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such primary obligation against loss (in whole or in part) in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term “Contingent Obligation” shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business or any product warranties or other contingent obligations (other than with respect to borrowed money or capital leases) incurred in the ordinary course of business, including indemnities. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount of such primary obligation for which such person may be liable, whether singly or jointly, pursuant to the terms of the instrument evidencing such Contingent Obligation) or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such person is required to perform thereunder) as determined by such person in good faith.

“Contribution Share” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎7.10(a).

“Control” shall mean 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 ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, and the terms “Controlling” and “Controlled” shall have meanings correlative thereto.

“Control Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

“Convertible Indebtedness” shall mean Indebtedness of the Borrower permitted to be incurred under the terms of this Agreement that is either (a) convertible into common stock of the Borrower (and cash in lieu of fractional shares) and/or cash (in an amount determined by reference to the price of such common stock) or (b) sold as units with call options, warrants or rights to purchase (or substantially equivalent derivative transactions) that are exercisable for common stock of the Borrower and/or cash (in an amount determined by reference to the price of such common stock).

“Credit Extension” shall mean the making of a Loan by a Lender.

“Cumulative Amount” shall mean, on any date of determination (the “Reference Date”), the sum of (without duplication):

(a)             $10,000,000; plus

(b)            the portion of Excess Cash Flow, determined on a cumulative basis for all fiscal years of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, commencing with the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2023, that was not required to be applied to prepay Term Loans pursuant to Section ‎2.10(e); minus the aggregate amount of all voluntary prepayments made during such period that reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis the amount required to be applied to prepay Term Loans pursuant to Section ‎2.10(e) in respect of such period; plus

(c)            an amount determined on a cumulative basis from the Closing Date equal to the net cash proceeds from the issuance of Equity Interests of, or a contribution to the capital of, the Borrower (other than (I) to the extent constituting a Cure Amount or (II) proceeds from a Permitted Warrant Transaction or (III) to the extent that such cash proceeds have been previously applied or used for another purpose); plus

(d)            an amount determined on a cumulative basis equal to the net cash proceeds received by the Borrower from Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock issued after the Closing Date and subsequently converted or exchanged into Qualified Stock of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent company of the Borrower (other than to the extent constituting a Cure Amount); plus

(e)            to the extent not included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, an amount determined on a cumulative basis equal to the net cash proceeds of sales of Investments previously made pursuant to ‎Section 6.04(q) using the Cumulative Amount, up to a maximum amount of such original Investment; plus

(f)             to the extent not included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, the aggregate amount of Dividends, profits, returns or similar amounts received in cash or Cash Equivalents on Investments previously made pursuant to ‎Section 6.04(q) using the Cumulative Amount, up to a maximum amount of such original Investment; plus

(g)            [reserved];

(h)            the aggregate amount of prepayments which are declined or waived by any Lender pursuant to Section ‎2.10(h) ; minus

(i)             the aggregate amount of (i) Investments made pursuant to ‎Section 6.04(q) using the Cumulative Amount, (ii) dividends made pursuant to ‎Section 6.07(e) using the Cumulative Amount, (iii) payments in respect of Junior Indebtedness made pursuant to ‎Section 6.09(a)(i) using the Cumulative Amount and (iv) any other payment made hereunder using the Cumulative Amount, in each case during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Reference Date (without taking account of the intended usage of the Cumulative Amount on such Reference Date).

“Cure Amount” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎8.03(a).

“Cure Notice” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎8.03(a).

“Cure Right” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎8.03(a).

“Cure Specified Date” shall mean, with respect to any of the first three fiscal quarters of the Borrower in a fiscal year, within forty five (45) days after the end of such fiscal quarter, and with respect to the fourth fiscal quarter of the Borrower in a fiscal year, within ninety (90) days after the end of such fiscal quarter, in each case, commencing with the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2022.

“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for syndicated business loans; provided that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.

“Debt Issuance” shall mean the incurrence by any Company of any Indebtedness after the Closing Date (other than as permitted by ‎Section 6.01).

“Debt Service” shall mean, for any period, Cash Interest Expense for such period plus scheduled principal amortization (and other scheduled mandatory prepayments and repayments (whether pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise)) of all Indebtedness for such period (including the implied principal component of scheduled payments made in respect of permitted Capital Lease Obligations).

“Debtor Relief Laws” shall mean the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.

“Default” shall mean any event, occurrence or condition which is, or upon notice, lapse of time or both would constitute, an Event of Default.

“Default Excess” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.16(c).

“Default Period” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.16(c).

“Default Rate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.06(c).

“Defaulted Loan” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of Defaulting Lender.

“Defaulting Lender” shall mean any Lender that has (a) failed to fund its portion of any Borrowing within two Business Days of the date on which it shall have been required to fund the same (such Loan being a “Defaulted Loan”), unless the subject of a good faith dispute between Borrower and such Lender related hereto, (b) notified Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations under this Agreement or under agreements in which it commits to extend credit generally, unless such notification or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such notification or public statement) cannot be satisfied, (c) failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm that it will comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to its obligations to fund prospective Loans (unless the subject of a good faith dispute between Borrower and such Lender); provided that any such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender under this clause (c) upon receipt of such confirmation by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, (d) otherwise failed to pay over to the Borrower the, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date when due (unless such amount is subject to a good faith dispute), (e)(i) been adjudicated as, (or whose direct or indirect parent company has been adjudicated as), or determined by any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such person (or such person’s direct or indirect parent company) or its Properties or assets to be, insolvent or (ii) become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or custodian, appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment, unless, in the case of any Lender referred to in this clause (e), the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall be satisfied that such Lender intends, and has all approvals required to enable it, to continue to perform its obligations as a Lender hereunder. For the avoidance of doubt, a Lender shall not be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in such Lender or its parent 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 of America 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 or (f) become, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has become, the subject of a Bail-in Action; provided that, as of any date of determination, the determination of whether any Lender is a Defaulting Lender hereunder shall not take into account, and shall not otherwise impair, any amounts funded by such Lender which have been assigned by such Lender to an SPC pursuant to ‎Section 11.04(i). Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (f) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrower and each Lender.

“Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender to make a Delayed Draw Term Loan. The aggregate principal amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders’ Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments on the Closing Date is $35,000,000. The aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders’ 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments on the First Amendment Effective Date is $35,000,000.

“Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Expiration Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎2.02(f).

“Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Fee Rate” shall mean (a) with respect to each Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender, for the period from (and including) the Closing Date to (but excluding) the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Expiration Date, a rate per annum equal to 1.00% of the average daily unused portion of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments of non-defaulting Lenders with Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, payable quarterly in arrears, and calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and shall be payable for the actual days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). and (b) with respect to each 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender, for the period from (and including) the First Amendment Effective Date to (but excluding) the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Expiration Date, a rate per annum equal to 1.00% of the average daily unused portion of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments of non-defaulting Lenders with Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, payable quarterly in arrears, and calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and shall be payable for the actual days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

“Delayed Draw Term Loan Extension” shall mean the making of a Delayed Draw Term Loan.

“Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility” shall mean the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and the Delayed Draw Term Loans.

“Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender” shall mean a Lender with a Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment or an outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loan, including any 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender with a 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment or an outstanding 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loan.

“Delayed Draw Term Loan Extension” shall mean the making of a Delayed Draw Term Loan.

“Delayed Draw Term Loans” shall mean the delayed draw term loans made by the Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to Section ‎2.01(c). From and after the date of any borrowing of any Delayed Draw Term Loans, each Delayed Draw Term Loan shall be deemed a Term Loan hereunder and part of the same Class as the Initial Term Loans for all purposes hereunder.

“Delayed Draw Ticking Fee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.05(b).

“Designated Capital Expenditures” shall mean Capital Expenditures in amounts included in the Projections.

“Discharge of the Guaranteed Obligations” shall mean and shall have occurred when (i) all Guaranteed Obligations shall have been paid in full in cash and all other obligations under the Loan Documents shall have been performed (other than (a) those expressly stated to survive termination, (b) contingent obligations as to which no claim has been asserted and (c) obligations and liabilities under Specified Hedging Agreements and Bank Product Agreements as to which arrangements satisfactory to the applicable counterparties have been made) and (ii) all Commitments shall have terminated or expired.

“Disposition” shall mean, with respect to any Property, any conveyance, sale, lease, sublease, assignment, transfer or other disposition (including by way of merger or consolidation and including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of such Property, and the terms “Dispose”, “Disposed” and “Disposing” shall have meanings correlative thereto.

“Disqualified Institution” shall mean any Person (or its subsidiaries and affiliates) who is an operating competitor of the Borrower or its subsidiaries and that is separately identified by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent by name in writing prior to the Closing Date (which list of operating competitors may be supplemented by the Borrower after the Closing Date by means of a written notice to the Administrative Agent; provided that (i) such supplementation shall not apply retroactively to disqualify any persons that have previously acquired an assignment or participation in the Loans or commitments hereunder and (ii) such list and any supplement thereto may be posted by the Administrative Agent for the Lenders.

“Disqualified Stock” shall mean any equity interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or instrument into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable or exercisable), or upon the happening of any event, (a) matures (excluding any maturity as the result of an optional redemption by the issuer thereof) or is mandatorily redeemable (other than for shares of equity that are not Disqualified Stock), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable (other than for shares of equity that are not Disqualified Stock) at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, or requires the payment of any cash dividend or any other scheduled payment (other than in shares of equity that are not Disqualified Stock) constituting a return of capital, in each case, on a date that is prior to 91 days after the Final Maturity Date, or (b) is convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for (i) debt securities or other indebtedness or (ii) any equity interest referred to in clause (a) above or (c) contains any repurchase or payment obligation (other than payments or dividends solely in shares of equity that are not Disqualified Stock); provided, however, that any equity interests that would not constitute Disqualified Stock but for provisions thereof giving holders thereof (or the holders of any security into or for which such equity interests is convertible, exchangeable or exercisable) the right to require the issuer thereof to redeem such equity interests upon the occurrence of a Change in Control shall not constitute Disqualified Stock if such equity interests provide that the issuer thereof will not redeem any such equity interests pursuant to such provisions prior to the repayment in full of the Facilities (or any refinancing thereof).

“Dividend” shall mean, with respect to any person, that such person has declared or paid a dividend or returned any equity capital to the holders of its Equity Interests or authorized or made any other distribution, payment or delivery of Property (other than common equity of such person) or cash to the holders of its Equity Interests as such, or redeemed, retired, purchased or otherwise acquired, directly or indirectly, for consideration any of its Equity Interests outstanding (or any options or warrants issued by such person with respect to its Equity Interests), or set aside or otherwise reserved, directly or indirectly, any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or shall have permitted any of its Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any of the outstanding Equity Interests of such person (or any options or warrants issued by such person with respect to its Equity Interests). Without limiting the foregoing, “Dividends” with respect to any person shall also include all payments made or required to be made by such person with respect to any stock appreciation rights, plans, equity incentive or achievement plans or any similar plans or setting aside of or otherwise reserving any funds for the foregoing purposes.

“Dollar Equivalent” shall mean, as to any amount denominated in a Judgment Currency as of any date of determination, the amount of Dollars that would be required to purchase the amount of such Judgment Currency based upon the spot selling rate at which the Administrative Agent (or another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) offers to sell such Judgment Currency for Dollars in the London foreign exchange market at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such date for delivery two Business Days later.

“Dollars” or “$” shall mean lawful money of the United States.

“Domestic Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary organized under the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States.

“Early Opt-in Effective Date” means, with respect to any Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.

“Early Opt-in Election” shall mean the occurrence of:

(a)            a notification by the Administrative Agent to (or the request by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent to notify) each of the other parties hereto that at least five currently outstanding U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and

(b)            the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from USD LIBOR and the provision by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Lenders.

“Earn-Outs” shall mean, with respect to a Permitted Acquisition or any other acquisition of any assets or Property by any Company, that portion of the purchase consideration therefor and that portion of all other payments and liabilities (whether payable in cash or by exchange of Equity Interests or of any Property or otherwise), directly or indirectly, payable by any Company in exchange for, or as part of, or in connection with, such Permitted Acquisition or such other acquisition, as the case may be, that is deferred for payment to a future time after the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition or such other acquisition, as the case may be, whether or not any such future payment is subject to the occurrence of any contingency, and includes any and all payments representing the purchase price and any assumptions of Indebtedness, “earn-outs” and other agreements to make any payment the amount of which is, or the terms of payment of which are, in any respect subject to or contingent upon the revenues, income, cash flow or profits (or the like) of any person or business.

“EEA Financial Institution” shall mean (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” shall mean any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

“EEA Resolution Authority” shall mean 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.

“Employee Benefit Plan” shall mean any Pension Plan and any other “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan and other than a Foreign Plan) which is or was maintained, contributed to or required to be contributed to by any Company.

“Engagement Letter” shall mean the Engagement Letter, dated as of August 22, 2021 between Inotiv, Inc. and Jefferies Finance LLC (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or modified from time to time in accordance with its terms).

“Envigo Israel Sale” means the sale of Envigo CRS (Israel) Ltd and/or Envigo RMS (Israel) Ltd and/or their respective assets that do not constitute Collateral.

“Environment” shall mean any surface or subsurface physical medium or natural resource, including air, land, soil, surface waters, ground waters, sediments (including stream and river sediments), biota and any indoor surface area, surface or physical medium, and any ecological systems and living organisms supported by these media.

“Environmental Claim” shall mean any claim, notice, demand, Order, action, suit, investigation, proceeding, or other communication or legal proceeding alleging or asserting liability or obligations under Environmental Law, including liability or obligation for investigation, enforcement proceedings, governmental response, assessment, remediation, removal, cleanup, Response, corrective action, monitoring, post-remedial or post-closure studies, investigations, operations and maintenance, injury, damage, destruction or loss to natural resources, personal injury, medical monitoring, wrongful death, property damage, fines, penalties or other costs resulting from, related to or arising out of (a) the presence, Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials in, on, into, through or from the Environment at any location or (b) any violation of or non-compliance with Environmental Law, and shall include any claim, notice, demand, Order, action, suit or proceeding seeking damages (including the costs of remediation), contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, penalties, fines, indemnities, compensation or injunctive relief resulting from, related to or arising out of the presence, Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Material or alleged injury or threat of injury to human health and safety (as it relates to exposure to Hazardous Materials) or the Environment.

“Environmental Law” shall mean any and all applicable Legal Requirements relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning human health and safety (as it relates to exposure to Hazardous Materials) or pollution, preservation, or protection of the Environment, the Release, threatened Release, or the generation, manufacture, use, labeling, treatment, storage, handling, or transportation of Hazardous Material, natural resources or natural resource damages, or occupational safety or health (as it relates to exposure to Hazardous Materials).

“Environmental Permit” shall mean any permit, license, approval, consent, notifications, exemptions, registration or other authorization required by or from a Governmental Authority under any Environmental Law.

“Equity Interest” shall mean, with respect to any person, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents, including membership interests (however designated, whether voting or nonvoting), of equity of such person, including, if such person is a partnership, partnership interests (whether general or limited), or if such person is a limited liability company, membership interests, and any other interest or participation that confers on a person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of Property of, such partnership, whether outstanding on the Closing Date or issued on or after the Closing Date, but excluding Convertible Indebtedness.

“Equity Issuance” shall mean, without duplication, (a) any issuance or sale by the Borrower of any Equity Interests in the Borrower (including any Equity Interests issued upon exercise of any warrant or option or equity-based derivative) or any warrants or options or equity-based derivatives to purchase Equity Interests of the Borrower or (b) any contribution to the capital of the Borrower.

“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by any Governmental Authority, as from time to time in effect.

“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any person, any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with such person, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA, or solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.

“ERISA Event” shall mean (i) a “reportable event” within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA (other than any such event with respect to which the notice requirement has been waived) with respect to any Pension Plan; (ii) the failure of any Company or any ERISA Affiliate to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 or 430 of the Code or Section 302 or 303 of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412(c) of the Code) or the failure of any Company or any ERISA Affiliate to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan or the failure of any Company or any ERISA Affiliate to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan, or the filing of any request for or receipt of a minimum funding waiver under Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan; (iii) a determination that any Pension Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at risk” status (as defined in Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA); (iv) the provision by the administrator of any Pension Plan pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate such Pension Plan in a distress termination described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA, the termination of any Pension Plan under Section 4041(c) of ERISA or the provision by the administrator of any Pension Plan pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate such Pension Plan, if such termination would require material additional contributions in order to be considered a standard termination within the meaning of Section 4041(b) of ERISA; (v) a determination that any Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, in “critical” or “endangered” status under Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA; (vi) the withdrawal by any Company or any ERISA Affiliate from any Pension Plan with two or more contributing sponsors or the termination of any such Pension Plan resulting in liability of any Company or any ERISA Affiliate pursuant to Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA; (vii) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate any Pension Plan, or the occurrence of any event or condition which could reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (viii) the imposition of liability on any Company or any ERISA Affiliate pursuant to Section 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or by reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (ix) the complete or partial withdrawal of any Company or any ERISA Affiliate from any Multiemployer Plan (within the meaning of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) if there is any potential liability therefor, or the receipt by any Company or any ERISA Affiliate of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is in reorganization or insolvency pursuant to Section 4245 of ERISA, or that it intends to terminate or has terminated under Section 4041A or 4042 of ERISA; (x) the failure of any Pension Plan (or any other Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code) to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code, or the failure of any trust forming part of any Pension Plan to qualify for exemption from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code; (xi) the imposition of a Lien pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or pursuant to ERISA or a violation of Section 436 of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan; or (xii) a Foreign Plan Event.

“Erroneous Payment” shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section ‎10.14(a).

“Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment” shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section ‎10.14(d).

“Erroneous Payment Impacted Class” shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section ‎10.14(d).

“Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency” shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section ‎10.14(d).

“Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights” shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section ‎10.14(d).

“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” shall mean the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

“Eurodollar Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Loans.

“Eurodollar Loan” shall mean any Eurodollar Revolving Loan or Eurodollar Term Loan.

“Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Revolving Loans.

“Eurodollar Revolving Loan” shall mean any Revolving Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBOR Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article ‎II.

“Eurodollar Term Loan” shall mean any Term Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBOR Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article ‎II.

“Eurodollar Unavailability Period” shall mean any period of time during which a notice delivered to the Borrower in accordance with ‎Section 2.11 or ‎Section 2.12(e) shall remain in effect.

“Event of Default” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 8.01.

“Excess Cash Flow” shall mean, for any Excess Cash Flow Period:

(a)           the sum, without duplication, of

(i)             Consolidated EBITDA for such Excess Cash Flow Period;

(ii)           cash items of income actually received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period not included (or deducted) in calculating Consolidated EBITDA; and

(iii)           the decrease, if any, in Net Working Capital from the start to the end of such Excess Cash Flow Period; minus

(b)           the sum, in each case without duplication, of:

(i)             the aggregate amount of cash Consolidated Tax Expense paid or payable by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with respect to such Excess Cash Flow Period and, if payable, for which, to the extent required under GAAP, reserves have been established;

(ii)            the aggregate amount of Debt Service for such Excess Cash Flow Period;

(iii)           the aggregate amount of permanent repayments and prepayments of Indebtedness (including the Voluntary Loan Prepayment Amount made during such Excess Cash Flow Period that is applied by Borrower to Term Loans that are due and payable within the same fiscal year that such amortization payment is due pursuant to ‎Section 2.09, as applicable, but excluding, in each case, the Voluntary Loan Prepayment Amount for such Excess Cash Flow Period that is applied by Borrower to Term Loans that are due and payable during such Excess Cash Flow Period in any fiscal quarter following the date such Voluntary Loan Prepayment Amount is made) made by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period but only to the extent that (x) such repayments and prepayments by their terms cannot be reborrowed or redrawn, (y) such repayments and prepayments do not occur in connection with a refinancing of all or a portion of such Indebtedness, and (z) such repayments and prepayments are funded with Internally Generated Funds (other than to the extent made using the Cumulative Amount);

(iv)           the aggregate amount of Capital Expenditures actually paid or committed to be paid in cash during such Excess Cash Flow Period and anticipated to be made prior to the date the mandatory prepayment is required by ‎Section 2.10(e) to the extent funded from Internally Generated Funds (other than to the extent made using the Cumulative Amount); provided that any such amounts not actually used shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow in the subsequent Excess Cash Flow Period;

(v)            the aggregate amount of Acquisition Consideration with respect to Permitted Acquisitions, other Investments permitted hereunder, other than Investments of a type permitted under ‎Section 6.04(b) (other than clause (iv) therein) or (f) in each case, paid in cash during such Excess Cash Flow Period (or committed to be paid in cash during such Excess Cash Flow Period and anticipated to be made prior to the date the mandatory prepayment is required by ‎Section 2.10(e); provided that any such amounts not actually used shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow in the subsequent Excess Cash Flow Period) to the extent funded from Internally Generated Funds (other than to the extent made using the Cumulative Amount);

(vi)           the aggregate amount of expenditures, other than Capital Expenditures, made in cash during such Excess Cash Flow Period and capitalized in accordance with GAAP during such Excess Cash Flow Period to the extent such expenditures are funded from Internally Generated Funds (other than to the extent made using the Cumulative Amount);

(vii)          the aggregate amount of cash items of expense (including losses) during such Excess Cash Flow Period not deducted in calculating Consolidated EBITDA;

(viii)         the aggregate amount of any Dividends (other than Dividends of a type permitted under ‎Section 6.07(a) or ‎(e)) paid during such Excess Cash Flow Period;

(ix)            the aggregate amount of any cash paid to repurchase Term Loans to the extent funded from Internally Generated Funds;

(x)             the aggregate amount of cash items included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA for such period to the extent paid in cash by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period;

(xi)            the amount of any severance costs and expenses, restructuring expenses, charges, accruals and reserves, cost synergies and operating expense reductions, in each case, to the extent constituting adjustments included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA for such Excess Cash Flow Period;

(xii)           the increase, if any, in Net Working Capital from the start to the end of such Excess Cash Flow Period;

(xiii)          the amount of any non-cash gain included in Consolidated EBITDA for such Excess Cash Flow Period recognized as a result of any Dispositions; and

(xiv)         cash payments by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period in respect of long-term liabilities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than obligations described in clause ‎(v) above or Indebtedness) to the extent such payments are not expensed during any Excess Cash Flow Period or are not deducted in calculating Consolidated EBITDA;

provided, that, for purposes of calculating Excess Cash Flow for any Excess Cash Flow Period, for each Permitted Acquisition or other Investment consummated during such Excess Cash Flow Period, the Consolidated EBITDA of a target of any Permitted Acquisition or other Investment shall be included in such calculation only from and after the date of the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition or Investment, as applicable.

“Excess Cash Flow Period” shall mean, commencing with the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2022, each fiscal year of the Borrower.

“Excess Net Cash Proceeds” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.10(c)(i).

“Excess Payment” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎7.10(a).

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

“Excluded Assets” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

“Excluded Subsidiary” shall mean (i) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by applicable law at the time such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary from becoming a Guarantor, (ii) (A) any Subsidiary that is a CFC, to the extent making such CFC a Guarantor would result in material adverse tax consequences to the Borrower (as mutually determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower) and any and all direct or indirect subsidiaries of such excluded CFC or CFC Holding Company (as defined below) and (B) any Subsidiary that has no material assets other than equity (or equity and indebtedness) of excluded CFCs described in the foregoing clause (ii)(A) (a “CFC Holding Company”) and/or excluded CFC Holding Companies, (iii) any Immaterial Subsidiary and (iv) any Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or other similar Investment permitted by this Agreement that is an obligor in respect of secured indebtedness that is permitted pursuant to this Agreement and not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or other similar investment and any Subsidiary thereof that Guarantees such secured Indebtedness, in each case to the extent (and for so long as) such secured indebtedness prohibits such subsidiary from becoming a Guarantor. For the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower shall at no time constitute an Excluded Subsidiary.

“Excluded Swap Obligation” shall mean any obligation of any Guarantor to pay or perform under any agreement, contract, or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act (a “Swap”), if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee by such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor or the Borrower of a security interest to secure, such Swap (or any guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation, or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder.

“Excluded Taxes” shall mean, with respect to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, as applicable (each, a “Recipient”), of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder, or under any Loan Document, (a) Taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case (i) imposed by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b)  in the case of a Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by Borrower under ‎Section 2.16), any U.S. federal withholding Tax that (i) is imposed on amounts payable to such Recipient at the time such Recipient becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office) or (ii) is attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with ‎Section 2.15(e), in each case except to the extent that such Recipient (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts with respect to such withholding Tax pursuant to Section ‎2.15(a), and (c) any United States federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

“Executive Order” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 3.20(a).

“Existing Lien” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 6.02(b).

“Extended Term Loans” shall have the meaning specified in ‎Section 2.20(a).

“Extending Lender” shall have the meaning specified in ‎Section 2.20(a).

“Extension” shall have the meaning specified in ‎Section 2.20(a).

“Extension Offer” shall have the meaning specified in ‎Section 2.20(a).

“Facilities” shall mean the Term Loan Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility.

“Fair Market Value” shall mean, with respect to any asset (including any Equity Interests of any person), the price at which a willing buyer (that is not an Affiliate of the seller), and a willing seller who does not have to sell, would agree to purchase and sell such asset, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Borrower or, pursuant to a specific delegation of authority by such Board of Directors or a designated senior executive officer, of the Borrower (or the Subsidiary of the Borrower selling such asset).

“FATCA” shall mean sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Closing Date (or any amended or successor version to the extent such version is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, and any intergovernmental agreements or agreements implementing the foregoing entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b) of the Code.

“Federal Funds Effective Rate” shall mean, for any day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System of the United States arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary to the next 1/100th of 1%) of the quotations for the day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.

“Fees” shall mean the Commitment Fees, the Administrative Agent Fees and the other fees referred to in ‎Section 2.05(d).

“Final Maturity Date” shall mean the later of (i) the Revolving Maturity Date and (ii) the Term Loan Maturity Date.

“Financial Officer” of any person shall mean any of the president, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, or controller of such person.

“FIRREA” shall mean the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.

“First Amendment” shall mean that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2022, by and among the Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors party thereto and the Administrative Agent.

“First Amendment Effective Date” shall mean the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in Section 3 of the First Amendment are satisfied.

“First Lien Leverage Ratio” shall mean, at any date of determination, the ratio of (a) the Consolidated First Lien Indebtedness outstanding on such date minus Unrestricted Cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that are Domestic Subsidiaries in favor of the Collateral Agent in an aggregate amount not to exceed $35,000,000 to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period then most recently ended.

“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall mean, as of the last day of any specified Test Period, the ratio of: (a) (i) Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period ending on such date, minus (ii) Consolidated Capital Expenditures other than Consolidated Capital Expenditures made in cash in such period that are financed with cash proceeds of (A) Delayed Draw Term Loans or (B) Equity Issuances (other than Permitted Cure Securities), plus (iii) the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash and Cash Equivalents in excess of $35,000,000 to (b) the sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense paid in cash for such period, plus (ii) scheduled amortization principal payments of Indebtedness that have been made or required to have been made during such period pursuant to this Agreement (including scheduled principal payments in respect of the Term Loans and scheduled reductions of the Revolving Commitments to the extent accompanied by a reduction in the amount of Revolving Exposure, but excluding any mandatory prepayments pursuant to Section 2.10(c) and Section 2.10(e) of this Agreement), plus (iii) Taxes based on income paid in cash in such period, plus (iv) without duplication of the foregoing, payments made during such Test Period on account of principal of Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.

“Flood Certificate” shall mean a “Standard Flood Hazard Determination Form” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and any successor Governmental Authority performing a similar function.

“Floor” shall mean the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to USD LIBOR.

“Foreign Lender” shall mean any Lender that is not a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

“Foreign Plan” shall mean any employee pension benefit plan, fund, program, policy, arrangement, or agreement, or other similar program established, maintained or contributed to by any Company on behalf of (or for the benefit of) its employees, officers or directors employed, or otherwise engaged, outside the United States.

“Foreign Plan Event” shall mean, with respect to any Foreign Plan, (i) the existence of unfunded liabilities in excess of the amount permitted under any applicable Legal Requirement, or in excess of the amount that would be permitted absent a waiver from a Governmental Authority, (ii) the failure to make the required contributions or payments, under any applicable Legal Requirement, on or before the due date for such contributions or payments, (iii) the receipt of a notice from a Governmental Authority relating to the intention to terminate such Foreign Plan or to appoint a trustee or similar official to administer such Foreign Plan, or alleging the insolvency of such Foreign Plan, or (iv) the incurrence of any liability by any Company under applicable Legal Requirements on account of the complete or partial termination of such Foreign Plan or the complete or partial withdrawal of any participating employer therein.

“Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean a Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

“Funding Default” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.16(c).

“GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis.

“Governmental Authority” shall mean any federal, state, local or foreign (whether civil, administrative, criminal, military or otherwise) court, central bank or governmental agency, tribunal, authority, instrumentality or regulatory body or any subdivision thereof or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

“Granting Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.04(i).

“Guaranteed Obligations” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 7.01.

“Guarantees” shall mean the guarantees issued pursuant to Article ‎VII by each of the Guarantors.

“Guarantors” shall mean the Subsidiary Guarantors and, with respect to Hedging Obligations and Bank Product Obligations, the Borrower.

“Hazardous Materials” shall mean any substances, chemicals, or wastes that are listed, regulated, or otherwise defined as hazardous, toxic, radioactive, a pollutant or a contaminant (or words of similar regulatory intent or meaning), under any Environmental Laws, or which could give rise to liability under any Environmental Law, including but not limited to, polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”) or any substance or compound containing PCBs, asbestos or any asbestos-containing materials in any form or condition, lead-based paint, pesticides, radon or any other radioactive materials including any source, special nuclear or by-product material, petroleum, petroleum by-products, crude oil or any fraction thereof, toxic mold, or per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

“Hedging Agreement” shall mean (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, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options or warrants to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by, or otherwise subject to, any master agreement or any netting agreement, and (b) any and all transactions or arrangements of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement (or similar documentation) published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such agreement or documentation, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.

“Hedging Obligations” shall mean obligations under or with respect to Hedging Agreements.

“Historical Financial Statements” shall mean (a) the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and certain of its Affiliates (as specified therein) as at the end of the fiscal years ended September 30, 2020, 2019 and 2018, (b) the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and certain of its Affiliates (as specified therein) as at the end of the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2021, (c) the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of Envigo and certain of its Affiliates (as specified therein) as of the dates specified therein and, in each case, the related consolidated statements of income or operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal periods, including the notes thereto.

“Immaterial Subsidiary” shall mean, as of any date, any Subsidiary (x) whose total assets, in the aggregate with the total assets of all other Subsidiaries constituting Immaterial Subsidiaries, in each case, as measured as of the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most recently ended for which financial statements have been delivered, equal or are less than 2.5% of Consolidated Total Assets, (y) whose total revenue in the aggregate with the total revenue of all other Subsidiaries constituting Immaterial Subsidiaries, in each case, as measured as of the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most recently ended for which financial statements have been delivered, equal or are less than 2.5% of consolidated total revenues of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (z) whose Consolidated EBITDA, in the aggregate with Consolidated EBITDA of all other Subsidiaries constituting Immaterial Subsidiaries, in each case, as measured as of the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most recently ended for which financial statements have been delivered, equal or are less than 2.5% of Consolidated EBITDA; provided that a Subsidiary will not be considered to be an Immaterial Subsidiary if it directly or indirectly, guarantees or otherwise provides direct credit support for any Indebtedness of any Loan Party, or if it owns any Intellectual Property that is material to the business of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary.

“Increased Amount Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(a).

“Increasing Lenders” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎2.19(b).

“Incremental Excess Yield” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(a).

“Incremental Facility” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(a).

“Incremental Loan Amendment” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(c).

“Indebtedness” of any person shall mean, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such person for borrowed money or advances (including unreimbursed amounts outstanding under letters of credit and any Convertible Indebtedness); (b) all obligations of such person evidenced by loan agreements, bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments; (c) all obligations of such person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to Property purchased by such person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such Property); (d) all obligations of such person issued or assumed as part of the deferred purchase price of Property or services (excluding (w) trade accounts payable and accrued obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business on normal trade terms, (x) deferred rent obligations, (y) customary obligations under employment arrangements and (z) purchase price adjustments or Earn-Outs that have not yet become liabilities on the balance sheet of such person in accordance with GAAP); (e) all Indebtedness of others secured by any Lien on Property owned or acquired by such person, whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed, but limited to the lower of (i) the Fair Market Value of such Property and (ii) the amount of the Indebtedness secured; (f) all Capital Lease Obligations, Purchase Money Obligations and Off-Balance Sheet Obligations of such person; (g) the amount of all obligations of such person with respect to the redemption, repayment or other repurchase of Disqualified Stock; (h) all Hedging Obligations to the extent required to be reflected on a balance sheet of such person; (i) all obligations of such person for the reimbursement of any obligor in respect of letters of credit (but only to the extent of drawn but unreimbursed amounts thereunder), letters of guaranty, bankers’ acceptances and similar credit transactions; and (j) all Contingent Obligations of such person in respect of Indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (a) through (i) above. The Indebtedness of any person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such person is a general partner) to the extent such person is liable therefor as a result of such person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except (other than in the case of general partner liability) to the extent that terms of such Indebtedness expressly provide that such person is not liable therefor; provided that Indebtedness shall not include accrued expenses, deferred revenue, deferred rent, deferred taxes and deferred compensation and customary obligations under employment arrangements.

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

“Indemnitee” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.03(b).

“Information” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.12.

“Initial Term Lender” shall mean any Lender with an Initial Term Loan Commitment or holding Initial Term Loans.

“Initial Term Loan Commitment” means, with respect to each Initial Term Lender, the commitment of such Initial Term Lender to make Initial Term Loans. The aggregate amount of the Initial Term Loan Commitments on the Closing Date is $165,000,000.

“Initial Term Loans” means the term loans made by the Initial Term Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to Section ‎2.01(a).

“Insolvency Law” shall mean the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, conservatorship, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, reorganization, or similar Legal Requirements of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.

“Insurance Policies” shall mean the insurance policies and coverages required to be maintained by each Loan Party that is an owner or lessee of Mortgaged Property with respect to the applicable Mortgaged Property pursuant to ‎Section 5.04 and all renewals and extensions thereof.

“Insurance Requirements” shall mean, collectively, all material provisions of the Insurance Policies, all material requirements of the issuer of any of the Insurance Policies and all material Orders, rules, regulations and any other requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters (or any other body exercising similar functions) binding upon any Loan Party that is an owner of Mortgaged Property and applicable to the Mortgaged Property or any use or condition thereof.

“Intellectual Property” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 3.06(a).

“Interest Election Request” shall mean a request by Borrower to convert or continue a Revolving Borrowing, Term Borrowing in accordance with ‎Section 2.08(b), substantially in the form of Exhibit D.

“Interest Payment Date” shall mean (a) with respect to any ABR Loan, the last Business Day of each fiscal quarter to occur during any period in which such Loan is outstanding, (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Loan with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day that would have been an Interest Payment Date had successive Interest Periods of three months’ duration been applicable to such Borrowing, (c) with respect to any Revolving Loan, the Revolving Maturity Date or such earlier date on which the Revolving Commitments are terminated and (d) with respect to any Term Loan, the applicable Term Loan Maturity Date.

“Interest Period” shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, three or six months thereafter or, to the extent agreed to by all applicable Lenders, twelve months or shorter than one month thereafter, as the Borrower may elect; provided that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.

“Internally Generated Funds” shall mean funds not constituting the proceeds of any Indebtedness, Debt Issuance, Equity Issuance, Asset Sale or Casualty Event (in each case, without regard to the exclusions from the definitions thereof).

“Investments” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 6.04.

“Joinder Agreement” shall mean a joinder agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit 3 to the Security Agreement.

“Judgment Currency” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.18.

“Judgment Currency Conversion Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.18.

“Junior Indebtedness” shall mean any Indebtedness of any Company that is (x) secured by a Lien that is junior in priority to the Lien securing the Obligations, (y) by its terms subordinated in right of payment to all or any portion of the Obligations or (z) unsecured.

“LCA Election” shall mean the Borrower’s election to treat a specified acquisition as a Limited Condition Acquisition.

“Leases” shall mean any and all leases, subleases, tenancies, options, concession agreements, rental agreements, occupancy agreements, franchise agreements, access agreements and any other agreements (including all amendments, extensions, replacements, renewals, modifications and/or guarantees thereof), whether or not of record and whether now in existence or hereafter entered into, affecting the use or occupancy of all or any portion of any Real Property.

“Legal Requirements” shall mean, as to any person, the Organizational Documents of such person, and any treaty, law (including the common law), statute, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, license, permit, guidelines, decrees, requirement, Order or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, or other legally binding requirements, in each case would reasonably be interpreted to be applicable to or binding upon such person or any of its Property or to which such person or any of its Property would reasonably be interpreted to be subject.

“Lender Presentation” shall mean that certain lender presentation furnished to the initial Lenders in connection with the syndication of the Facilities on or around the August 2021.

“Lenders” shall mean (a) each financial institution and other persons party hereto as “Lenders” on the date hereof, (b) each Additional Lender and (c) each financial institution or other person that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption (including pursuant to Section ‎2.19 and Section ‎2.20), other than, in each case, any such financial institution or person that has ceased to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.

“LIBOR Rate” shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the arithmetic mean of the offered rates for deposits in Dollars with a term comparable to such Interest Period that appears on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 (or such other page as may replace such page on such service for the purpose of displaying the rates at which dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London, England time, on the second full Business Day preceding the first day of such Interest Period; provided that if the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 shall not be available for such Interest Period (an “Impacted Interest Period”) then the LIBOR Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate (as defined below); provided, however, that (i) if no comparable term for an Interest Period is available, the LIBOR Rate shall be determined using the weighted average of the offered rates for the two terms most nearly corresponding to such Interest Period and (ii) if there shall at any time no longer exist a Reuters Screen LIBOR01, “LIBOR Rate” shall mean, with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to Eurodollar Borrowings comprising part of the same Borrowing, the rate per annum equal to the rate at which the Administrative Agent is offered deposits in Dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m., London, England time, two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period in the London interbank market for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period for the number of days comprised therein and in an amount comparable to its portion of the amount of such Eurodollar Borrowing to be outstanding during such Interest Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of clause (c) of the definition of Alternate Base Rate, the rates referred to above shall be the rates as of 11:00 a.m., London, England time, on the date of determination (rather than the second London Business Day preceding the date of determination). “Interpolated Rate” shall mean the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 for the longest period for which the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 is available that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period; and (b) the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 for the shortest period (for which the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 is available) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.

“Lien” shall mean, with respect to any Property, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien (statutory or otherwise), pledge, encumbrance, claim, charge, assignment, hypothecation, security interest or encumbrance of any kind, including any easement, right-of-way or other encumbrance on title to Real Property, in each of the foregoing cases whether voluntary or imposed by law, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such Property, and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities; provided, that in no event shall an operating lease be deemed to constitute a Lien.

“Limited Condition Acquisition” shall mean any acquisition or investment permitted hereunder by any Borrower or one or more of its Subsidiaries whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing; provided that solely for the purpose of (i) measuring the relevant ratios and baskets with respect to the incurrence of any Indebtedness (including any Incremental Facilities) or Liens or the making of any acquisitions or other Investments, Dividends, Restricted Debt Payments, Asset Sales or other sales or dispositions of assets or fundamental changes or (ii) determining compliance with representations and warranties or the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, in each case, in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition after giving effect thereto, if the Borrower has made an LCA Election with respect to such Limited Condition Acquisition, the date of determination of whether any such action is permitted hereunder shall be deemed to be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into (the “LCA Test Date”), and, if after giving pro forma effect to the Limited Condition Acquisition and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith as if they had occurred at the beginning of the most recent Test Period ending prior to the LCA Test Date, the Borrower could have taken such action on the relevant LCA Test Date in compliance with such ratio, basket, representation or warranty, such ratio, basket, representation or warranty shall be deemed to have been complied with. If the Borrower has made an LCA Election for any Limited Condition Acquisition, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio or basket on or following the relevant LCA Test Date and prior to the earliest to occur of (i) the date on which such Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated, (ii) the date that the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition or (iii) the date that is 120 days after the relevant LCA Test Date, any such ratio or basket shall be calculated (A) on a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated until such time as the applicable Limited Condition Acquisition has actually closed, the acquisition agreement with respect thereto has been terminated or such 120-day period has expired and (B) on a standalone basis without giving effect to such Limited Condition Acquisition and the other transactions in connection therewith.

“Loan” or “Loans” shall mean, as the context may require, a Revolving Loan, Initial Term Loan, Extended Term Loan, New Term Loan or a Delayed Draw Term Loan.

“Loan Documents” shall mean this Agreement, the First Amendment, the Notes (if any), the Security Documents and each Joinder Agreement, but excluding any Hedging Agreement. Any reference in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to a Loan Document shall include all appendices, exhibits or schedules thereto, and all amendments, restatements, supplements or other modifications thereto, and shall refer to this Agreement or such Loan Document as the same may be in effect at any and all times such reference becomes operative.

“Loan Parties” shall mean the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.

“Main Street Credit Agreement” shall mean that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4, 2020, by and among Envigo, the guarantors party thereto and Harbor Bankshares Asset Management, LLC, as lender.

“Margin Stock” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation U.

“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean, any event, change or condition that, individually or in the aggregate, has had, or could reasonably be expected to have (a) a material adverse effect on the business, operations or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) a material and adverse effect on the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (other than solely due to the extent of the action or inaction of the Administrative Agent, or any of the Lenders), or (c) a material and adverse effect on the ability of the Borrower and Guarantors to perform their payment obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

“Maximum Incremental Facilities Amount” shall mean the sum of the following:

(i)            $35,000,000, plus

(ii)           an unlimited additional amount of New Term Loans and New Revolving Commitments so long as, on a Pro Forma Basis, the First Lien Leverage Ratio shall not exceed 3.25:1.00; provided that (x) for purposes of determining compliance with the foregoing First Lien Leverage Ratio, any New Revolving Commitments and any incremental facilities in the form of delayed draw term loans shall be deemed to be drawn in full, all New Term Loans and the cash proceeds of any New Term Loans and New Revolving Commitments (assuming the full amount thereof is drawn) shall be excluded for cash netting purposes and (y) to the extent the proceeds of any New Term Loans are intended to be applied to finance a Limited Condition Acquisition, the First Lien Leverage Ratio shall be tested in accordance with the last sentence of the definition of “Limited Condition Acquisition”.

“Maximum Rate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.13.

“Merger” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble.

“Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, made and entered into as of September 21, 2021, by and among, inter alios, Merger Sub, LLC, Merger Sub, the Borrower and Envigo, together with the schedules and exhibits thereto.

“Minimum Extension Condition” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.20(b).

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

“Mortgage” shall mean an agreement, including a mortgage, deed of trust or any other document, creating and evidencing a first priority Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent on Mortgaged Property in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (including with respect to requirements for title, flood and other insurance and surveys), with such schedules and including such provisions as shall be necessary to conform such document to applicable local or foreign law or as shall be customary under applicable local or foreign Legal Requirements.

“Mortgaged Property” shall mean each Real Property that is (or shall be) subject to a Mortgage delivered on the Closing Date or after the Closing Date pursuant to Section ‎4.01(o), Section ‎5.18 or Section ‎5.10(d).

“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any Company or any ERISA Affiliate has an obligation to contribute or with respect to which any Company or ERISA Affiliate has incurred any undischarged liability or could reasonably be expected to incur any liability (whether contingent or otherwise).

“Net Cash Proceeds” shall mean:

 (a)            with respect to any Asset Sale (other than any issuance or sale of Equity Interests), the proceeds thereof in the form of cash, cash equivalents (including Cash Equivalents) and marketable securities (including any such proceeds received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable, or by the sale, transfer or other Disposition of any non-cash consideration received in connection therewith or otherwise, but only as and when received) received by any Company (including cash proceeds subsequently received (as and when received by any Company) in respect of non-cash consideration initially received) net of, without duplication, (i) selling fees and expenses (including brokers’ fees or commissions, legal, accounting and other professional and transactional fees, transfer and similar taxes and the Borrower’s good faith estimate of income taxes paid or payable in connection with such sale and in connection with any repatriation of such proceeds (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements)), (ii) amounts provided as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against (x) any liabilities under any indemnification obligations, earn-out obligations or purchase price adjustments associated with such Asset Sale or (y) any other liabilities retained or payable by any Company associated with the Properties sold in such Asset Sale (provided that, to the extent and at the time any such amounts are released from such reserve, such amounts shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds), (iii) if applicable, the principal amount of any Indebtedness secured by a Permitted Lien on the assets subject to such Asset Sale (other than Indebtedness secured under the Security Documents or otherwise subject to an intercreditor agreement pursuant to this Agreement) that has been repaid or refinanced in accordance with its terms with the proceeds of such Asset Sale or Casualty Event and (iv) the Borrower’s good faith estimate of the amount of payments required to be made with respect to unassumed liabilities relating to the properties sold within thirty (30) days of such Asset Sale (provided that (x) the funds described in this clause (iv) are deposited into escrow with a third party escrow agent or set aside in a separate deposit account that is subject to a control agreement entered into with the Collateral Agent and (y) to the extent such cash proceeds are not used to make payments in respect of such unassumed liabilities within the earlier of thirty (30) days after such Asset Sale or at such time when such amounts are no longer required to be set aside as such a reserve, such reserved amounts shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds);

(b)            with respect to any Debt Issuance or any issuance or sale of Equity Interests by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is not an Equity Issuance, the cash proceeds thereof received by, or on behalf of, any Company, net of fees, commissions, costs and other expenses incurred in connection therewith; and

(c)            with respect to any Casualty Event, the cash insurance proceeds, condemnation awards and other compensation received by, or on behalf of, any Company in respect thereof, net of all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the collection of such proceeds, awards or other compensation in respect of such Casualty Event (including, in respect of any such Casualty Event, transfer and similar taxes and the Borrower’s good faith estimate of income taxes paid or payable in connection with such sale (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements) (provided that, to the extent and at the time that any such taxes are no longer required to be paid or payable, such amounts shall then constitute Net Cash Proceeds)).

“Net Working Capital” shall mean, at any time, Consolidated Current Assets at such time minus Consolidated Current Liabilities at such time.

“New Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(b).

“New Revolving Commitments” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(a).

“New Term Loan Commitments” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(a).

“New Term Loans” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(a).

“Non-Guarantor Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor.

“Non-Public Information” shall mean material non-public information (within the meaning of United States federal, state or other applicable securities laws) with respect to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or their respective securities.

“Notes” shall mean any notes evidencing the Term Loans, Delayed Draw Term Loans or Revolving Loans, in each case issued pursuant to ‎Section 2.04(e) of this Agreement, if any, substantially in the form of Exhibit E-1, E-2 or E-3 respectively.

“Obligations” shall mean (a) all obligations and guarantees thereof of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties from time to time arising under or in respect of the due and punctual payment of (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on the Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise and (ii) all other monetary obligations, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (b) the due and punctual performance of all covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties under or pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, in each case, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising.

“OFAC” shall mean the Office of Foreign Asset Control of the Department of Treasury of the United States of America.

“Off-Balance Sheet Obligations” of a person shall mean, without duplication, (a) any repurchase obligation or liability of such person with respect to accounts or notes receivable sold by such person, (b) any Synthetic Lease Obligations of such person, or (c) any indebtedness, liability or obligation arising with respect to any other transaction which is the functional equivalent of or takes the place of borrowing but which does not constitute a liability on the balance sheets of such person (other than operating leases).

“Offer Process” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.04(c)(ii).

“Officers’ Certificate” shall mean a certificate executed by (a) the chairman of the Board of Directors (if an officer), the chief executive officer, the president or the chief operating officer or (b) one of the Financial Officers, each in his or her official (and not individual) capacity.

“Order” shall mean any judgment, decree, verdict, order, consent order, consent decree, writ, declaration or injunction.

“Organizational Documents” shall mean, collectively, with respect to any person, (a) in the case of any corporation, the certificate of incorporation and by-laws (or similar constitutive documents) of such person, (b) in the case of any limited liability company, the certificate of formation and operating agreement (or similar constitutive documents) of such person, (c) in the case of any limited partnership, the certificate of formation and limited partnership agreement (or similar constitutive documents) of such person, (d) in the case of any general partnership, the partnership agreement (or similar constitutive document) of such person, (e) in any other case, the functional equivalent of the foregoing, and (f) any shareholder, voting trust or similar agreement between or among any holders of Equity Interests of such person.

“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 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” shall mean any and all present or future stamp, court, intangible, recording, property, filing or documentary Taxes or any similar Taxes, charges or levies arising from any payment made or required to be made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, performance, registration or enforcement of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document.

“Participant” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.04(f).

“Participant Register” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.04(f).

“Patriot Act” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 3.21(a).

“Payment Recipient” shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section ‎10.14(a).

“PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA.

“Pension Plan” shall mean any “employee pension benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) (other than a Multiemployer Plan and other than a Foreign Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 or 430 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA (a) which is maintained, sponsored, contributed to or required to be contributed to by any Company or any ERISA Affiliate or (b) with respect to which any Company or ERISA Affiliate has incurred any undischarged liability or could reasonably be expected to incur any liability (whether contingent or otherwise) including under Section 4062 or Section 4069 of ERISA.

“Perfection Certificate” shall mean a perfection certificate in the form of Exhibit F-1 or any other form approved by the Collateral Agent, as the same shall be supplemented from time to time by a Perfection Certificate Supplement or otherwise.

“Perfection Certificate Supplement” shall mean a perfection certificate supplement in the form of Exhibit F-2 or any other form approved by the Collateral Agent.

“Permitted Acquisition” shall mean any consensual transaction or series of related transactions for the direct or indirect (a) acquisition of all or substantially all of the Property of any person, or all or substantially all of any business or division of any person, (b) acquisition of all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of any person, and otherwise causing such person to become a Subsidiary of such person, if each of the following conditions is met, or (c) merger or consolidation or any other combination with any person if the Required Lenders have otherwise consented in writing thereto; in the case of clauses (a) through (c), so long as each of the following conditions are satisfied:

(i)           no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing immediately prior to an after giving effect to the consummation of such acquisition (or in the case of a Limited Condition Acquisition, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time the definitive agreement for such acquisition is executed);

(ii)          the persons or business to be acquired shall be, or shall be engaged in, a business of the type that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are then permitted to be engaged in under ‎Section 6.11;

(iii)         to the extent that any Specified Acquired Property is to be acquired (or is acquired) pursuant to such proposed transaction or series of related proposed transactions, the Acquisition Consideration paid (or payable) with respect to such Specified Acquired Property shall not exceed, together with the amount of Acquisition Consideration paid (or payable) for any other Specified Acquired Property acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition after the Closing Date, $20,000,000 in the aggregate;

(iv)         (a) in the case of an acquisition of all or substantially all of the Property of any person or all or substantially all of any business or division of any person (other than, in either case, Specified Acquired Property), the person making such acquisition is Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor, or upon consummation of the Permitted Acquisition becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the requirements of and only to the extent required by ‎Section 5.10, (b) in the case of an acquisition of the Equity Interests of any person (other than Specified Acquired Property), both the person making such acquisition and the person directly so acquired is Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor, or upon consummation of the Permitted Acquisition becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the requirements of and only to the extent required by ‎Section 5.10 and (c) in the case of a merger or consolidation or any other combination with any person (other than Specified Acquired Property), the person surviving such merger, consolidation or other combination is Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor, or upon consummation of the Permitted Acquisition becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the requirements of and only to the extent required by Section ‎5.10; and

(v)          if the Acquisition Consideration for such acquisition is greater than $10,000,000, Administrative Agent shall have received a copy of any quality of earnings report prepared in respect of any such transaction; and

(vi)         after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition, the Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary shall be in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with the financial covenants set forth in Section ‎6.15 applicable for the four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended on, or most recently preceding, the date of such Permitted Acquisition for which financial statements have been (or were required to have been) delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section ‎5.01(a) or (b); provided, that, with respect to any Limited Condition Acquisition, the Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary shall be, as of the date of the execution and delivery of the applicable definitive purchase agreement in connection with such Limited Condition Acquisition, in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with the financial covenants applicable for the four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended on, or most recently preceding, such date for which financial statements have been (or were required to have been) delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section ‎5.01(a) or (b).

“Permitted Convertible Indebtedness” shall mean unsecured Convertible Indebtedness that satisfies each the following conditions: (i) such Indebtedness shall not, until 180 days or more after the Term Loan Maturity Date, (x) require any amortization or other scheduled cash repayment (other than cash interest payments and payments of cash in lieu of any fraction shares upon conversion, and cash payments in connection with a “fundamental change” (defined as is typical for public company Convertible Indebtedness) (all of which, shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be subject to the covenants and limitations contained in the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, Section 6.07 and Section 6.09); and (y) have any put rights, redemption, repayment or other conditions that cause payment that are not customary redemption or repayment events for public company Convertible Indebtedness (provided that any put rights, redemption, repayment or other conditions that cause payment shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be subject to the covenants and limitations contained in the Loan Documents, including, without limitation, Section 6.07 and Section 6.09); (ii) other than provided in (i)(x) above, such Indebtedness shall not require any cash payments until at least 180 days after the Term Loan Maturity Date; provided, that any such cash payments, shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be subject to the covenants and limitations contained in the Loan Documents); (iii) such Indebtedness shall have no (x) events of default other than those that are typical for public company Convertible Indebtedness; provided that any events of defaults of the type set forth in the Loan Documents shall be set back with at least a 25% cushion relative to such event of default under the Loan Documents; provided further that in no event shall any events of default in such Indebtedness be more burdensome for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, than those events of default set forth in the Loan Documents; provided, however, that such Convertible Indebtedness shall only cross-accelerate and shall not cross-default to the Loan Documents, (y) financial covenants or (z) other covenants other than covenants customary for public company Convertible Indebtedness; provided that any covenants of the type set forth in the Loan Documents shall be set back with at least a 25% cushion relative to such covenants under the Loan Documents; provided, further, that in no event shall the covenants in such Indebtedness be more burdensome for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, than those covenants set forth in the Loan Documents; (iv) the interest payable on account of such Indebtedness shall not exceed 4.25% per annum, (v) the maturity date of such Indebtedness shall be at least 180 days after the Term Loan Maturity Date and (vi) such Indebtedness shall be issued by the Borrower and only guaranteed by BAS Evansville Inc and no other Subsidiary.

“Permitted Cure Securities” shall mean Equity Interests of the Borrower issued (in the form of common equity and/or other Qualified Stock) to the extent (and only to the extent) necessary to fund the Cure Right, as the same is immediately contributed as cash common equity to the Borrower.

“Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction” shall mean any call or capped call option (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) on the Borrower’s common stock purchased by the Borrower in connection with the issuance of any Permitted Convertible Indebtedness; provided that the purchase price for such Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction, less the proceeds received by the Borrower from the sale of any related Permitted Warrant Transaction, does not exceed the net proceeds received by the Borrower from the sale of such Permitted Convertible Indebtedness issued in connection with the Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction.

“Permitted Liens” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 6.02.

“Permitted Refinancing” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 6.01(k).

“Permitted Warrant Transaction” shall mean any call option, warrant or right to purchase (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) on the Borrower’s common stock sold by the Borrower substantially concurrently with any purchase by the Borrower of a related Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction.

“Person” shall mean any natural person, corporation, business trust, joint venture, association, company, company (whether limited in liability or otherwise), partnership (whether limited in liability or otherwise) or Governmental Authority, or any other entity, in any case, whether acting in a personal, fiduciary or other capacity.

“Platform” shall mean IntraLinks, SyndTrak or a substantially similar electronic transmission system.

“Pledgor” shall mean each Company listed on Schedule 1.01(a), and each other Subsidiary of any Company that is or becomes a party to this Agreement (in its capacity as a Subsidiary Guarantor) and the Security Documents pursuant to ‎Section 5.10.

“Premises” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the applicable Mortgage.

“Pro Forma Basis” shall mean, with respect to compliance with any test or covenant hereunder (excluding ‎Section 2.10(e)), that all Subject Transactions (including, to the extent applicable, the Transactions, but excluding any investments, acquisitions and dispositions in the ordinary course of business), restructuring or other cost saving actions and the following transactions in connection therewith (if any) shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement in such test or covenant and all definitions (including Consolidated EBITDA) used for purposes of the financial covenants or tests hereunder (excluding ‎Section 2.10(e)) shall be determined subject to pro forma adjustments which are attributable to such event or events, which may include the amount of run rate cost savings, operating expense reductions and cost synergies projected by the Borrower in good faith to result from or relating to any Subject Transaction which is being given pro forma effect that have been realized or are expected to be realized and for which the actions necessary to realize such cost savings, operating expense reductions and cost synergies are taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are reasonably expected to be taken for realizing such cost savings and such cost savings are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable (in the good faith determination of the Borrower and certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower) (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and initiatives and synergies had been realized on the first day of such period and “run rate” means the full recurring benefit for a period that is associated with any action taken, committed to be taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are reasonably expected to be taken for realizing such cost savings and such cost savings are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable (including any savings expected to result from the elimination of a public target’s compliance costs with public company requirements) net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions, and any such adjustments shall be included (without duplication of any amounts that are otherwise added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA or any other components thereof) in the initial pro forma calculations of such financial ratios or tests and during any subsequent period in which the effects thereof are expected to be realized)) relating to such Subject Transaction, restructuring or other cost saving actions; provided that such amounts are (A) certified by the Borrower as having been determined in good faith to be reasonably anticipated to be realized from actions taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken within eighteen (18) months following such Subject Transaction, restructuring or other cost saving actions or (B) determined on a basis consistent with Article 11 of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Exchange Act and as interpreted by the staff of the Securities And Exchange Commission (or any successor agency); provided further that, the aggregate amount pursuant to (A) of the preceding proviso or clause (e) in the definition of Consolidated EBITDA in any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters shall not exceed 25% of Consolidated EBITDA prior to giving effect to such pro forma adjustments for such period;

“Pro Rata Percentage” of any (a) Revolving Lender at any time shall mean the percentage of the total Revolving Commitments of all Revolving Lenders represented by such Lender’s Revolving Commitment, (b) Initial Term Lender at any time shall mean the percentage of the total Initial Term Loan Commitments of all Initial Term Lenders represented by such Lender’s Initial Term Loan Commitment or (c) Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender at any time shall mean the percentage of the total Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments of all Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders represented by such Lender’s Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment; provided that, in the case of the Revolving Credit Facility, if such Commitments have been terminated or have expired, then the Pro Rata Percentage of each Lender shall be determined based on the Pro Rata Percentage of such Lender immediately prior to such termination or expiration and after giving effect to any subsequent assignments made pursuant to the terms hereof.

“Pro Rata Share” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎7.10(a).

“Projections” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section ‎3.04(b).

“Property” shall mean any right, title or interest in or to property or assets of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible and including Equity Interests of any person and whether now in existence or owned or hereafter entered into or acquired, including all Real Property, cash, securities, accounts, revenues and contract rights.

“Public Lenders” shall mean any Lender that does not wish to receive Non-Public Information with respect to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or their respective securities.

“Public Official” shall mean (i) any officer, employee or representative of any regional, federal, state, provincial, county or municipal government or government department, agency, or other division; (ii) any officer, employee or representative of any commercial enterprise that is owned or controlled by a government, including any state-owned or controlled veterinary or medical facility; (iii) any officer, employee or representative of any public international organization, such as the African Union, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations or the World Bank; (iv) any person acting in an official capacity for any government or government entity, enterprise, or organization identified above; and (v) any political party, party official or candidate for political office.

“Purchase Money Obligation” shall mean, for any person, the obligations of such person in respect of Indebtedness (including Capital Lease Obligations) incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price of any fixed or capital assets (including Equity Interests of any person owning fixed or capital assets) or the cost of installation, construction or improvement of any fixed or capital assets (including capitalized leasehold improvements); provided, however, that (a) such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 90 days after such acquisition, installation, construction or improvement of such fixed or capital assets by such person and (b) the amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed 100% of the cost of such acquisition, installation, construction or improvement, as the case may be.

“Qualified ECP Guarantor” shall mean, in respect of any Swap Obligations, each Loan Party that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant Guarantee or grant of the relevant security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or such other person as constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

“Qualified Stock” of any person shall mean any Equity Interest of such person that does not constitute Disqualified Stock.

“Real Property” shall mean, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned, leased or operated by any person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other Property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation thereof.

“Reference Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “Cumulative Amount”.

“Refinancing” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

“Refinancing Amendment” shall mean an amendment to this Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower executed by each of (a) the Borrower, (b) the Administrative Agent and (c) each Additional Lender that agrees to provide any portion of the extending, renewing or refinancing Indebtedness being incurred pursuant thereto.

“Refinancing Revolving Loan Commitments” shall mean one or more Tranches of Revolving Loan commitments hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

“Refinancing Revolving Loans” shall mean one or more Tranches of Revolving Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

“Refinancing Term Commitments” shall mean one or more Tranches of Term Loan Commitments hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

“Refinancing Term Loans” shall mean one or more Tranches of Term Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

“Register” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.04(d).

“Regulation D” shall mean Regulation D of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

“Regulation T” shall mean Regulation T of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

“Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

“Regulation X” shall mean Regulation X of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.

“Reinvestment Funds” means, with respect to any Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale or Casualty Event in respect of the single event or series of related events giving rise thereto, that portion of such funds as shall be reinvested (or be subject to a binding commitment for any such reinvestment) within 365 days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in assets (other than ordinary course current assets) useful in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; provided that, if any such Net Cash Proceeds are not actually so reinvested within 365 days of such receipt (or 545 days of receipt if committed to be so reinvested pursuant to a binding agreement entered into on or prior to such 365^th day), such unreinvested portion shall no longer constitute Reinvestment Funds and shall be applied on the last day of such period as a mandatory prepayment as provided in Section ‎‎2.10(c).

“Related Person” shall mean, with respect to any person, (a) each Affiliate of such person and each of the officers, directors, partners, trustees, employees, affiliates, shareholders, Advisors, agents, administrators, managers, representatives, attorneys-in-fact and Controlling persons of each of the foregoing, and (b) if such person is an Agent, each other person designated, nominated or otherwise mandated by or assisting such Agent pursuant to ‎Section 10.05 or any comparable provision of any Loan Document.

“Release” shall mean any releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, depositing, dispersing, migrating, dumping or disposing in, on, into, through or from the Environment or any Real Property (including the abandonment or disposal of any barrels, containers or other closed receptacles containing any Hazardous Material).

“Relevant Governmental Body” shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.

“Required Lenders” shall mean, at any date of determination, Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders) having Loans and unused Revolving Commitments, outstanding Initial Term Loans and Initial Term Loan Commitments and outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of all Loans outstanding and unused Revolving Commitments, outstanding Initial Term Loans and Initial Term Loan Commitments, outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments at such time; provided that, if there are two (2) or more unaffiliated Lenders, “Required Lenders” shall also be required to include two (2) such unaffiliated Lenders.

“Resolution Authority” shall mean an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.

“Response” shall mean (a) “response” as such term is defined in CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. § 9601(25) or any other applicable Environmental Law, or (b) all other actions required pursuant to Environmental Law to (i) clean up, remove, treat, abate, monitor or in any other way address any Release or presence of Hazardous Materials at, in, on, under or from any Real Property, or otherwise in the Environment, (ii) prevent the Release or threat of Release, or minimize the further Release, of any Hazardous Material, or (iii) perform studies and investigations in connection with, or as a precondition to, clause (i) or (ii) above.

“Responsible Officer” of any person shall mean any executive officer, any executive vice president or Financial Officer of such person.

“Revolving Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Revolving Loans.

“Revolving Commitment” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Revolving Loans hereunder up to the amount set forth on Annex II or on Schedule 1 to the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender assumed its Revolving Commitment, as applicable, as the same may be (a) increased from time to time pursuant to ‎Section 2.19, (b) reduced from time to time pursuant to ‎Section 2.07 and (c) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to ‎Section 11.04. The aggregate principal amount of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments on the Closing Date is $15,000,000.

“Revolving Commitment Increase” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(d).

“Revolving Credit Facility” shall mean the credit facility represented by the Revolving Commitments and the Revolving Loans.

“Revolving Exposure” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of all outstanding Revolving Loans of such Lender.

“Revolving Increasing Lender” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 2.19(d).

“Revolving Lender” shall mean a Lender with a Revolving Commitment.

“Revolving Loan” shall mean a Loan made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to ‎Section 2.01(b) and ‎Section 2.19. Each Revolving Loan shall either be an ABR Revolving Loan or a Eurodollar Revolving Loan.

“Revolving Maturity Date” shall mean November 5, 2026.

“S&P” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.

“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 6.03.

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

“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country, (c) the government of a Sanctioned Country or the Government of Venezuela; or (d) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons or acting for or on behalf of such Person or Persons as described in the foregoing clauses (a) (b), or (c).

“Sanctions” shall mean economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by OFAC or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.

“Sarbanes-Oxley Act” shall mean the United States Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

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

“Secured Leverage Ratio” shall mean, at any date of determination, the ratio of (a) the Consolidated Secured Indebtedness outstanding on such date minus Unrestricted Cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrowers and its Subsidiaries that are Domestic Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $35,000,000 to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period then most recently ended.

“Secured Obligations” shall mean (a) the Obligations, (b) the Specified Hedging Agreement Obligations, (c) the Bank Product Obligations and (d) Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights.

“Secured Parties” shall mean, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, each other Agent, the Lenders, each Bank Product Provider and each counterparty to a Specified Hedging Agreement and such counterparty executes and delivers to the Administrative Agent a letter agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to which such counterparty (i) appoints the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent as its agents under the applicable Loan Documents and (ii) agrees to be bound by the provisions of ‎Section 11.03, ‎Section 11.09 and ‎Section 11.12 as if it were a Lender hereunder.

“Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

“Securities Collateral” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.

“Security Agreement” shall mean that certain Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Loan Parties and the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time by one or more Joinder Agreements, or otherwise, in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.

“Security Agreement Collateral” shall mean all Property pledged or granted as collateral pursuant to the Security Agreement delivered on the Closing Date or thereafter pursuant to Section ‎5.18 or ‎Section 5.10.

“Security Documents” shall mean, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Mortgages (if any), each Control Agreement, and each other security document or pledge agreement delivered in accordance with applicable local or foreign Legal Requirements to grant a valid, enforceable, perfected security interest (with the priority required under the Loan Documents) in any Property as collateral for the Secured Obligations, and all UCC or other financing statements or instruments of perfection required by this Agreement, the Security Agreement, any Mortgage, any Control Agreement or any other such security document or pledge agreement to be filed with respect to the security interests in Property created pursuant to the Security Agreement, any Mortgage, any Control Agreement and any other document or instrument utilized to pledge any Property as collateral for all (or any of) the Secured Obligations.

“SOFR” shall mean a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate) on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at http://www.newyorkfed.org (or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the administrator of the secured overnight financing rate from time to time).

“SPC” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in ‎Section 11.04(i).

“Specified Acquired Property” shall mean (a) any person that does not, upon the consummation of the Permitted Acquisition, become a Subsidiary Guarantor and (b) Property acquired in connection with any Permitted Acquisition that is not made subject to the Lien of the Security Documents in accordance with ‎Section 5.10.

“Specified Guarantor Release Provision” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.12(c).

“Specified Hedging Agreement” shall mean each Hedging Agreement (to the extent the Hedging Obligations thereunder are permitted pursuant to ‎Section 6.01(c)) entered into with any counterparty that was an Agent, a Lender or an Affiliate of an Agent or a Lender at the time that such Hedging Agreement was entered into and that has been designated as a “Specified Hedging Agreement” by the Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative Agent.

“Specified Hedging Agreement Obligations” shall mean (a) all obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries from time to time arising under or in respect of the due and punctual payment of each amount (including all liabilities) required to be paid by Borrower and its Subsidiaries under each Specified Hedging Agreement (and under each Loan Document with respect thereto), when and as due, including payments in respect of interest thereon (including interest accruing during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) and obligations to provide cash collateral and all other monetary obligations, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of the Borrower under each Specified Hedging Agreement (and under each Loan Document with respect thereto), and (b) the due and punctual performance of all covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under or pursuant to each Specified Hedging Agreements (and under each Loan Document with respect thereto); provided, that the Specified Hedging Agreement Obligations shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations.

“Specified Merger Agreement Representations” means the representations and warranties made by or on behalf of (or related to) Envigo, its subsidiaries or their respective businesses in the Merger Agreement which are material to the interests of the Lenders, but which are required to be true and correct only to the extent that the Borrower (or its applicable Affiliate party to the Merger Agreement) has the right to terminate, taking into account any cure provisions, its obligations under the Merger Agreement or to decline to consummate the Mergers as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties.

“Specified Representations” shall mean the representations and warranties set forth in Section ‎3.01 (as it relates to corporate or other organizational existence, organizational power and authority), ‎3.02 (as it relates to the due authorization execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents and the enforceability thereof), ‎3.15, ‎3.03 (as it relates to no conflicts resulting from the entering into and performance of the Loan Documentation with charter documents, existing agreements and legal proceedings), ‎3.09, ‎3.10, the last sentence of ‎3.11(a), Section ‎3.19 (as it relates to the creation, validity and perfection of the security interests in the Collateral) and Section ‎3.21.

“Statutory Reserves” shall mean, for any Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, the average maximum rate at which reserves (including any marginal, supplemental or emergency reserves) are required to be maintained during such Interest Period under Regulation D by member banks of the United States Federal Reserve System in New York City with deposits exceeding one billion Dollars against “Eurocurrency liabilities” (as such term is used in Regulation D). Eurodollar Borrowings shall be deemed to constitute Eurodollar liabilities and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exceptions or offsets which may be available from time to time to any Lender under Regulation D.

“Subject Transaction” shall mean, (a) any Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment that is otherwise permitted by this Agreement, (b) any disposition of all or substantially all of the assets or all the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary (or any business unit, line of business or division of any of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower for which financial statements are available) not prohibited by this Agreement, (c) discontinued divisions or lines of business or operations or (d) the proposed incurrence of Indebtedness or making of a restricted payment or payment in respect of Indebtedness in respect of which compliance with any financial ratio is by the terms of this Agreement required to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.

“Subsidiary” shall mean, with respect to any person (the “parent”) at any date, (a) any person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, (b) any other corporation, limited liability company, association or other business entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the voting power of all Equity Interests entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of the Board of Directors (or similar governing body) thereof are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held by the parent and/or one or more subsidiaries of the parent, (c) any partnership (i) the sole general partner or the managing general partner of which is the parent and/or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or (ii) the only general partners of which are the parent and/or one or more subsidiaries of the parent and (d) any other person that is otherwise Controlled by the parent and/or one or more subsidiaries of the parent. Unless the context requires otherwise, “Subsidiary” refers to a Subsidiary of the Borrower.

“Subsidiary Guarantor” shall mean each Subsidiary of any Loan Party that (i) is a Domestic Subsidiary and (ii) is or becomes a party to this Agreement and the Security Documents pursuant to and in compliance with all the requirements set forth in ‎Section 5.10, including the Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 1.01(c) and specified on such schedule as a Subsidiary Guarantor.

“Survey” shall mean American Land Title Association/American Congress on Surveying and Mapping form surveys, for which all necessary fees (where applicable) have been paid, reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, showing all buildings and other improvements, any off-site improvements, the location of any easements, parking spaces, rights of way, building set-back lines and other dimensional regulations and the absence of encroachments, either by such improvements or on to such property, and other defects, other than encroachments and other defects reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (i) dated or redated no more than 30 days before the relevant date, certified to the Administrative Agent and the issuer of the Mortgage policies in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent by a land surveyor duly registered and licensed in the States in which the property described in such surveys is located, or (ii) dated or redated no more than five (5) years before the relevant date, with an affidavit from the Borrower confirming that since the date of such survey no material exterior construction has occurred on the applicable property nor any material easement, right of way or other interest in such property has been granted or become effective through operation of law or otherwise which can be depicted on a survey which survey is sufficient for the Title Company to remove all standard survey exceptions from the Title Policy for such Property.

“Swap Agreement” means (i) 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 (ii) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.

“Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

“Synthetic Lease” shall mean, as to any person, any lease (including leases that may be terminated by the lessee at any time) of any Property (a) that is accounted for as an operating lease under GAAP and (b) in respect of which the lessee retains or obtains ownership of the Property so leased for U.S. federal income tax purposes, other than any such lease under which such person is the lessor.

“Synthetic Lease Obligations” shall mean, as to any person, an amount equal to the capitalized amount of the remaining lease payments under any Synthetic Lease that would appear on a balance sheet of such person in accordance with GAAP if such obligations were accounted for as Capital Lease Obligations.

“Tax Returns” shall mean all returns, statements, filings, attachments and other documents or certifications required to be filed in respect of Taxes.

“Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, assessments, fees, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding) or other similar charges, whether computed on a separate, consolidated, unitary, combined or other basis and any and all liabilities (including interest, fines, penalties or additions to tax) with respect to the foregoing.

“Term Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Term Loans.

“Term Loan” shall mean an Initial Term Loan made by a Lender to the Borrower pursuant to ‎Section 2.01(a), any term loan made by a Term Loan Lender to the Borrower pursuant to ‎Section 2.19 or ‎Section 2.20 or any delayed draw term loan made by a Delayed Draw Term Loan Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Section ‎2.01(c). Each Term Loan shall be either an ABR Term Loan or a Eurodollar Term Loan.

“Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, (a) with respect to each Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Lender to make a Term Loan on the Closing Date and (b) with respect to any 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make 2022 Incremental Term Loans to the Borrower on the First Amendment Effective Date.

“Term Loan Facility” shall mean the credit facility represented by the Term Loans made under this Agreement.

“Term Loan Lender” shall mean a Lender with a Term Loan Commitment or an outstanding Term Loan, including any 2022 Incremental Term Loan Lender with a 2022 Incremental Term Loan Commitment or an outstanding 2022 Incremental Term Loan.

“Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean (a) with respect to (i) the Initial Term Loans advanced on the Closing Date and, (ii) the 2022 Incremental Term Loans advanced on the First Amendment Effective Date and (iii) any Delayed Draw Term Loans (including the 2022 Incremental Delayed Draw Term Loans), November 5, 2026, (b) with respect to any tranche of New Term Loans made pursuant to ‎Section 2.19, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Incremental Loan Amendment and accepted by the respective Increasing Lenders and New Lenders and (c) with respect to any tranche of Extended Term Loans made pursuant to ‎Section 2.20, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Extension Offer accepted by the respective Lender or Lenders.