UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 20, 2014

 

 

OCH-ZIFF CAPITAL MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-33805   26-0354783

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

9 West 57th Street, New York, New York   10019
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

212-790-0041

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

4.500% Senior Notes due 2019

On November 20, 2014, Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC (the “Issuer”), an indirect subsidiary of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (“Och-Ziff” or the “Company”), issued $400 million in aggregate principal amount of its 4.500% Senior Notes due 2019 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by that certain first supplemental indenture (the “First Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”) among the Issuer and OZ Management LP, OZ Advisors LP and OZ Advisors II LP (excluding the Issuer, collectively, the “Guarantors”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), each dated as of November 20, 2014. The Issuer used a portion of the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes to permanently repay all of the outstanding borrowings and other obligations under OZ Management LP’s Delayed Draw Term Loan (as defined and further described in Item 1.02 below). The remaining net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including investments in new funds and strategies.

The Notes bear interest at a rate of 4.500% per annum accruing from November 20, 2014. Interest is payable semiannually in arrears on May 20 and November 20 of each year, commencing on May 20, 2015. The Notes will mature on November 20, 2019, unless earlier redeemed or repurchased in full. The Notes are unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Issuer. The Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guarantees”), jointly and severally, by each of the Guarantors. The Guarantees are unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Guarantors. The Notes may be redeemed from time to time at the Issuer’s option, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to the greater of 100% of the principal amount to be redeemed and a make-whole redemption price, in either case, plus any accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. If a change of control repurchase event occurs, the Issuer will be required to offer to repurchase the Notes at a price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes, plus any accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the repurchase date.

The Indenture includes certain covenants, including limitations on the Issuer’s and, as applicable, the Guarantors’ ability to, subject to exceptions, incur indebtedness secured by liens on voting stock or profit participating equity interests of their respective subsidiaries or merge, consolidate or sell, transfer or lease all or substantially all assets. The Indenture also provides for customary events of default and further provides that the Trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes may declare the Notes immediately due and payable upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any event of default. In the case of certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, the entire outstanding principal amount of the Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes automatically will become immediately due and payable.

The Notes were offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers in the United States pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

Revolving Credit and Guaranty Agreement

On November 20, 2014, OZ Management LP, as borrower (the “Borrower”), and certain other subsidiaries of Och-Ziff, as guarantors, entered into a $150 million unsecured revolving credit and guaranty agreement (the “Revolving Credit Agreement”), with certain financial institutions, as lenders, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as syndication agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, which provides for a revolving credit facility with a maturity of five years. The Borrower intends to use the proceeds of the loans under the Revolving Credit Agreement for working capital and general corporate purposes. Any amounts borrowed under the Revolving Credit Agreement and subsequently repaid may be reborrowed until the maturity or termination of the Revolving Credit Facility. The Borrower may increase the maximum amount of availability under the Revolving Credit Agreement by up to an aggregate amount of $75 million if certain conditions are satisfied, including the consent of the lenders participating in each such increase.

Loans under the Revolving Credit Agreement will bear interest at a per annum rate equal to, at the Borrower’s option, one, three or six month (or nine or twelve month with the consent of each lender) LIBOR plus a margin of 1.00% to 2.00%, or a base rate plus a margin of 0% to 1.00%. The Borrower is required to pay an undrawn commitment fee at a rate per annum equal to 0.10% to 0.25% of the undrawn portion of the commitments under the Revolving Credit Agreement computed on a daily basis. The LIBOR and base rate margins, as well as the amount of the commitment fee owed by the Borrower, are based on the Borrower’s corporate rating at the time.

All obligations under the Revolving Credit Agreement are unsecured and are guaranteed by OZ Advisors LP, OZ Advisors II LP, and Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC. In the event that the Company or any of its subsidiaries becomes a party to, or guarantees indebtedness under the Indenture, such person will also be required to become a guarantor under the Revolving Credit Agreement. In addition, the Borrower may at any time designate any subsidiary of the Borrower or a guarantor or any new advisor sister company as a guarantor if certain conditions are satisfied, including pro forma compliance with an economic income leverage ratio.

The Revolving Credit Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and covenants for a transaction of this type, including two financial maintenance covenants. The first financial maintenance covenant prohibits the total fee-paying assets under management of the Borrower, the guarantors, and their consolidated subsidiaries as of the last day of any fiscal quarter to be less than $22 billion for two successive quarters, and the second prohibits the economic income leverage ratio as of the last day of any fiscal quarter to exceed 4.0 to 1.0. The Revolving Credit Agreement allows a limited right to cure an event of default resulting from noncompliance with the economic income leverage ratio test described above with an equity contribution made to the Borrower. Such cure right may not be used more than two times in any four-quarter period or more than three times during the term of the Revolving Credit Agreement. Certain subsidiaries of the Company, including, but not limited to, funds and other investment vehicles owned or managed by the Company and its subsidiaries, are excluded from the representations and warranties and the restrictions contained in certain of the foregoing covenants.

The Revolving Credit Agreement contains customary events of default for a transaction of this type. If an event of default under the Revolving Credit Agreement occurs and is continuing, then, at the request (or with the consent) of the lenders holding a majority of the commitments under the Revolving Credit Agreement, upon notice by the administrative agent to the Borrower, the obligations under the Revolving Credit Agreement shall become immediately due and payable. In addition, if the Borrower or any of its material subsidiaries becomes the subject of voluntary or involuntary proceedings under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law, then any outstanding obligations under the Revolving Credit Agreement will automatically become immediately due and payable.

The preceding is a summary of the terms of the Indenture, the Notes, and the Revolving Credit Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, the form of the Notes and the Revolving Credit Agreement attached hereto as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 10.1, respectively, each of which is incorporated herein by reference as though they were fully set forth herein.


Item 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement

On November 20, 2014, upon the Issuer’s receipt of the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes as described in Item 1.01 above, such proceeds were used to permanently repay all of the outstanding borrowings and other obligations under the Borrower’s existing credit and guaranty agreement, dated as of November 15, 2011 (as amended, the “Delayed Draw Term Loan”), among the Borrower, certain other subsidiaries of Och-Ziff, certain financial institutions, as lenders, Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as administrative agent, Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., as collateral administrative agent, and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as lead arranger. On November 20, 2014, upon such repayment, all of the guarantees and all of the liens on the assets of the Borrower and the other subsidiaries of Och-Ziff securing obligations under the Delayed Draw Term Loan were released, and the Delayed Draw Term Loan was terminated. No early termination penalties were incurred by the Borrower in connection with the termination of the Delayed Draw Term Loan, other than customary immaterial LIBOR breakage fees.

The information set forth in Item 1.01 above is hereby incorporated by reference in this Item 1.02.

 

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

The information required by this Item 2.03 is set forth under Item 1.01 above and is hereby incorporated by reference in response to this Item 2.03.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

  4.1    Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014, among Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, the Guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
  4.2    First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014, among Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, the Guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
  4.3    Form of 4.500% Senior Note due 2019 (included in Exhibit 4.2 hereto).
10.1    Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014, among OZ Management LP, as borrower, OZ Advisors LP, OZ Advisors II LP and Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, as guarantors, the lenders party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as syndication agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized

 

   

OCH-ZIFF CAPITAL MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC

(Registrant)

Date: November 20, 2014     By:  

/s/ Joel M. Frank

    Name:   Joel M. Frank
    Title:  

Chief Financial Officer,

Senior Chief Operating Officer and

Executive Managing Director


Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

  4.1    Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014, among Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, the Guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
  4.2    First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014, among Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, the Guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
  4.3    Form of 4.500% Senior Note due 2019 (included in Exhibit 4.2 hereto).
10.1    Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014, among OZ Management LP, as borrower, OZ Advisors LP, OZ Advisors II LP and Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, as guarantors, the lenders party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as syndication agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners.

Exhibit 4.1

INDENTURE

Dated as of November 20, 2014

Among

OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC,

THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN

and

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

     1   
 

Section 101.

   Definitions      1   
 

Section 102.

   Compliance Certificates and Opinions      9   
 

Section 103.

   Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee      9   
 

Section 104.

   Acts of Holders; Record Dates      10   
 

Section 105.

   Notices, Etc., to Trustee, Company and Guarantors      12   
 

Section 106.

   Notice to Holders; Waiver      12   
 

Section 107.

   Reserved      13   
 

Section 108.

   Effect of Headings and Table of Contents      13   
 

Section 109.

   Successors and Assigns      13   
 

Section 110.

   Separability Clause      13   
 

Section 111.

   Benefits of Indenture      13   
 

Section 112.

   Governing Law      13   
 

Section 113.

   Legal Holidays      14   
 

Section 114.

   No Recourse Against Others      14   
 

Section 115.

   WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL      14   
 

Section 116.

   U.S.A. Patriot Act      14   
 

Section 117.

   Execution in Counterparts      15   

ARTICLE II SECURITY FORMS

     15   
 

Section 201.

   Forms Generally      15   
 

Section 202.

   Form of Legend for Global Securities      15   
 

Section 203.

   Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication      16   

ARTICLE III THE SECURITIES

     16   
 

Section 301.

   Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series      16   
 

Section 302.

   Denominations      20   
 

Section 303.

   Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating      20   
 

Section 304.

   Temporary Securities      21   
 

Section 305.

   Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange      22   

 

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Section 306.

   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities      24   
 

Section 307.

   Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved      25   
 

Section 308.

   Persons Deemed Owners      26   
 

Section 309.

   Cancellation      26   
 

Section 310.

   Computation of Interest      27   
 

Section 311.

   CUSIP or ISIN Numbers      27   
 

Section 312.

   Additional Amounts      27   
 

Section 313.

   General Provisions Relating to Global Securities      28   

ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

     28   
 

Section 401.

   Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture      28   
 

Section 402.

   Application of Trust Money      30   

ARTICLE V REMEDIES

     30   
 

Section 501.

   Events of Default      30   
 

Section 502.

   Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment      32   
 

Section 503.

   Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee      33   
 

Section 504.

   Trustee May File Proofs of Claim      33   
 

Section 505.

   Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities      34   
 

Section 506.

   Application of Money Collected      34   
 

Section 507.

   Limitation on Suits      35   
 

Section 508.

   Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert Securities      36   
 

Section 509.

   Rights and Remedies Cumulative      36   
 

Section 510.

   Delay or Omission Not Waiver      36   
 

Section 511.

   Control by Holders      36   
 

Section 512.

   Waiver of Past Defaults      37   
 

Section 513.

   Undertaking for Costs      37   
 

Section 514.

   Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws      37   
 

Section 515.

   Restoration of Rights and Remedies      37   

ARTICLE VI THE TRUSTEE

     38   
 

Section 601.

   Certain Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee      38   
 

Section 602.

   Notice of Defaults      39   

 

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Section 603.

   Certain Rights of Trustee      39   
 

Section 604.

   Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities      41   
 

Section 605.

   May Hold Securities      41   
 

Section 606.

   Money Held in Trust      41   
 

Section 607.

   Compensation and Reimbursement      42   
 

Section 608.

   Conflicting Interests      43   
 

Section 609.

   Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility      43   
 

Section 610.

   Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor      43   
 

Section 611.

   Acceptance of Appointment by Successor      45   
 

Section 612.

   Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business      46   
 

Section 613.

   Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company      46   
 

Section 614.

   Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company      46   

ARTICLE VII HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE TRUSTEE, THE COMPANY AND THE GUARANTORS

     47   
 

Section 701.

   Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders      47   
 

Section 702.

   Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders      47   
 

Section 703.

   Reports by Trustee      47   
 

Section 704.

   Reports by the Company and the Guarantors      48   

ARTICLE VIII CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OF ASSETS AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS

     48   
 

Section 801.

   Company and Guarantors May Merge or Transfer Assets on Certain Terms      48   
 

Section 802.

   Successor Person Substituted      49   

ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

     49   
 

Section 901.

   Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders      49   
 

Section 902.

   Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders      50   
 

Section 903.

   Execution of Supplemental Indentures      52   
 

Section 904.

   Effect of Supplemental Indentures      52   
 

Section 905.

   Reserved      52   
 

Section 906.

   Notice of Supplemental Indenture; Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures      52   

 

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ARTICLE X COVENANTS

     53   
 

Section 1001.

   Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest      53   
 

Section 1002.

   Maintenance of Office or Agency      54   
 

Section 1003.

   Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust      55   
 

Section 1004.

   Statement by Officers as to Default      55   
 

Section 1005.

   Waiver of Certain Covenants      56   

ARTICLE XI REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

     56   
 

Section 1101.

   Applicability of Article      56   
 

Section 1102.

   Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee      56   
 

Section 1103.

   Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed      56   
 

Section 1104.

   Notice of Redemption      57   
 

Section 1105.

   Deposit of Redemption Price      58   
 

Section 1106.

   Securities Payable on Redemption Date      59   
 

Section 1107.

   Securities Redeemed in Part      59   

ARTICLE XII SINKING FUNDS

     59   
 

Section 1201.

   Applicability of Article      59   
 

Section 1202.

   Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities      60   
 

Section 1203.

   Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund      60   

ARTICLE XIII DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

     60   
 

Section 1301.

   Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance      60   
 

Section 1302.

   Defeasance and Discharge      61   
 

Section 1303.

   Covenant Defeasance      61   
 

Section 1304.

   Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance      62   
 

Section 1305.

   Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions      63   
 

Section 1306.

   Reinstatement      64   

ARTICLE XIV GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES

     64   
 

Section 1401.

   Guarantee      64   
 

Section 1402.

   Additional Guarantors      65   
 

Section 1403.

   Waiver      65   

 

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Section 1404.

   Guarantee of Payment      65   
 

Section 1405.

   No Discharge or Diminishment of Guarantee      65   
 

Section 1406.

   Defenses of Company Waived      66   
 

Section 1407.

   Continued Effectiveness      66   
 

Section 1408.

   Subrogation      66   
 

Section 1409.

   Subordination      67   
 

Section 1410.

   Release of Guarantor and Termination of Guarantee      67   
 

Section 1411.

   Limitation of Guarantors’ Liability      68   
 

Section 1412.

   No Obligation to Take Action Against the Company      69   
 

Section 1413.

   Execution and Delivery      69   

SCHEDULE I

     Schedule I-1   

 

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INDENTURE, dated as of November 20, 2014, among OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “ Company ”), each of the Guarantors named herein (the “ Guarantors ”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, as Trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ”).

RECITALS

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its senior unsecured debt securities (herein called the “ Securities ”), to be issued in one or more series as provided in this Indenture.

Each Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for its guarantee of the Securities (the “ Guarantees ”).

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders (as defined herein) thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS

OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 101. Definitions .

For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

 

  (1) the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to them in this Article I and include the plural as well as the singular;

 

  (2) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP;

 

  (3) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article,” a “Section” or a “Schedule” refers to an Article, a Section or a Schedule, as the case may be, of this Indenture;

 

  (4) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision;

 

  (5) “including” means including without limitation;


  (6) when used with respect to any Security, the words “convert,” “converted” and “conversion” are intended to refer to the right of the Holder, the Company or the Guarantors to convert or exchange such Security into or for securities or other property in accordance with such terms, if any, as may hereafter be specified for such Security as contemplated by Section 301, and these words are not intended to refer to any right of the Holder, the Company or the Guarantors to exchange such Security for other Securities of the same series and of like tenor pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 or another similar provisions of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires; and references herein to the terms of any Security that may be converted mean such terms as may be specified for such Security as contemplated in Section 301; and

 

  (7) unless otherwise provided, references to agreements and other instruments shall be deemed to include all amendments and other modifications to such agreements and instruments, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of this Indenture.

Act ,” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104.

Affiliate ” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to a Depositary, as to any matter at any time, the policies and procedures of such Depositary, if any, that are applicable to such matter at such time.

Bankruptcy Law ” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

Business Day ” means unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, which is not a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close in the City of New York or in a Place of Payment.

Commission ” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

Company ” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor Person.

Company Request ” or “ Company Order ” means a written request or order signed by or on behalf of the Company by any Officer, manager, member or partner thereof (or any Person designated in writing by any such Person as authorized to execute and deliver Company Requests and Company Orders), and delivered to the Trustee.

 

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Company Resolution ” means a copy of one or more resolutions certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company (or any general partner of the Company or ultimate general partner, or sole or managing member of such general partner) to have been duly adopted by the member or members of the Company, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification and delivered to the Trustee.

Corporate Trust Office ” means the principal office of the Trustee at which, at any particular time, this Indenture shall be administered, which office is located as of the date of this Indenture at 246 Goose Lane, Suite 105, Guilford, Connecticut 06437, Attn: Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC Administrator, or at any other time at such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Company).

Covenant Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 1303.

Credit Group ” means the Credit Parties and the Credit Parties’ direct and indirect Subsidiaries (to the extent of their economic ownership interest in such Subsidiaries) taken as a whole.

Credit Parties ” means the Company and the Guarantors.

Custodian ” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

Default ” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

Defaulted Interest ” has the meaning specified in Section 307.

Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 1302.

Depositary ” means, with respect to Securities of any series issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as Depositary for such Securities as contemplated by Section 301.

Event of Default ” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

Exchange Act ” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

Expiration Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 104.

GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (including, if applicable, International Financial Reporting Standards) as in effect from time to time.

Global Security ” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 202 (or such legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities).

 

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Guarantees ” has the meaning specified in the second recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Guarantee made by each of the Guarantors as set forth in Article XIV hereof.

Guarantors ” means (i) each of the Persons listed on Schedule I attached hereto, (ii) in the future, any New Och-Ziff Operating Group Entity that becomes a Guarantor pursuant to Article XIV, but in each case excluding Persons who cease to be Guarantors in accordance with this Indenture and (iii) in the future, OZ if it becomes a Guarantor pursuant to Article XIV, but excluding OZ if it ceases to be a Guarantor in accordance with this Indenture.

Holder ” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Security Register.

Indenture ” means this Indenture as originally executed and as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof. The term “Indenture” shall also include the terms of particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.

Insignificant Guarantor ” means a Guarantor (or a group of Guarantors taken together) that would not, on a combined and consolidated basis and taken as a whole together with all then-existing Non-Guarantor Entities designated pursuant to clause (ii) of the definition of Non-Guarantor Entity set forth in Section 1410, constitute a Significant Subsidiary.

interest ” means, when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, interest payable after Maturity.

Interest Payment Date ” means, when used with respect to any Security, the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.

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

Maturity ” means, when used with respect to any Security, the date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

New Och-Ziff Operating Group Entity ” means any Subsidiary (other than a directly or indirectly wholly-owned Subsidiary) of OZ other than (i) a then-existing Guarantor, (ii) any Person (including the Company) in which OZ directly or indirectly owns its interest through one or more then-existing Guarantors or (iii) any Person through which OZ directly or indirectly owns its interests in one or more then-existing Guarantors or which is formed or acquired to hold direct or indirect interests in an additional Guarantor.

Non-Guarantor Entity ” means any Person so designated by the Company pursuant to Section 1410.

Non-Guarantor Limitation ” has the meaning specified in Section 1410.

 

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Notice of Default ” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 501.

Obligations ” has the meaning specified in Section 1401.

obligor ” has the meaning given to such term in the Trust Indenture Act.

Officer ” means any President, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Senior Chief Operating Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Managing Director, General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Managing Director, Director, Vice President, Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company or any Guarantor (or any sole or managing member or general partner of the Company or any Guarantor or ultimate general partner, sole or managing member of such member or general partner of the Company), as the case may be.

Officers’ Certificate ” means a certificate signed by two Officers of the Company or any Guarantor (or any sole or managing member or general partner of the Company or any Guarantor or ultimate general partner, sole or managing member of such member or general partner), as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee.

Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion of counsel (who may be counsel for, including an employee or Officer of, the Company or for any Guarantor) and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

Original Issue Discount Security ” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502.

Outstanding ” means, when used with respect to Securities, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:

 

  (1) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

 

  (2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;

 

  (3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 1302;

 

  (4) Securities which have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to Section 306, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company; and

 

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  (5) Securities as to which any property deliverable upon conversion thereof has been delivered (or such delivery has been made available), or as to which any other particular conditions have been satisfied, in each case as may be provided for such Securities as contemplated in Section 301;

provided , however , that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder as of any date, (A) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 502, (B) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined as contemplated by Section 301, (C) the principal amount of a Security denominated in one or more foreign currencies, composite currencies or currency units which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 301, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of a Security described in clause (A) or (B) above, of the amount determined as provided in such clause), and (D) Securities owned by the Company, any Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, any Guarantor or such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding (except (i) in the case where the Securities are 100% owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company and (ii) in the case of Securities owned by an Affiliate of the Company, with respect to any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action hereunder that requires the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected thereby pursuant to the terms of this Indenture), except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, only Securities which a Responsible Officer actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company, any Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, any Guarantor or such other obligor.

OZ ” means Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, together with its successors and assigns.

OZ Fund ” means any multi-strategy fund, credit fund, collateralized loan obligations, real estate fund, hedge fund, equity fund, managed account, real estate investment trust, business development company, private equity fund and any other investment vehicles for which OZ, any of its subsidiaries or any other entity directly or indirectly controlled by the foregoing, provides asset management services from time to time.

Paying Agent ” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company or any Guarantor.

 

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Permitted Jurisdictions ” has the meaning specified in Section 801(a)(1).

Person ” means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership, an association, a trust, or any other entity including a government or political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.

Place of Payment ” means, when used with respect to the Securities of any series, the place or places where the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities of such series are payable as specified as contemplated by Section 301.

Predecessor Security ” means, with respect to any particular Security, every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

Redemption Date ” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.

Redemption Price ” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.

Regular Record Date ” means, for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series, the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

Repayment Date ” means, when used with respect to a Security to be repaid at the option of a Holder, the date fixed for such repayment by or pursuant to this Indenture.

Responsible Officer ” means with respect to the Trustee, any officer assigned to the corporate trust department (or any successor division or unit) of the Trustee located at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture and, for the purposes of Section 601(3)(B) and the second sentence of Section 602, shall also include any other officer of the Trustee to whom any corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

Securities ” has the meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.

Securities Act ” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

Security Register ” and “ Security Registrar ” have the respective meanings specified in Section 305.

Significant Subsidiary ” means a “significant subsidiary” (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act or any successor provision) of OZ.

 

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Special Record Date ” means, for the payment of any Defaulted Interest, a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.

Stated Maturity ” means, when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.

Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing a majority of the ordinary voting power are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person; provided that, the term “Subsidiary” shall not include (i) any OZ Fund or OZ Funds or (ii) any entity controlled by any OZ Fund.

Substantially All Merger ” means a merger or consolidation of one or more Credit Parties with or into another Person that would, in one or a series of related transactions, result in the transfer or other disposition, directly or indirectly, of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Credit Group to a Person that is not within the Credit Group immediately prior to such transaction.

Substantially All Sale ” means a sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance to any other Person, in one or a series of related transactions, directly or indirectly, of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Credit Group to a Person that is not within the Credit Group immediately prior to such transaction.

Trust Indenture Act ” means the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed; provided , however , that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.

Trustee ” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of such series.

United States Alien ” means, except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, any Person who, for United States Federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a nonresident alien individual, a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a foreign partnership, one or more of the members of which is, for United States Federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a nonresident alien individual or a nonresident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.

U.S. Government Obligation ” has the meaning specified in Section 1304(1).

 

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Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions .

Upon any application or request by the Company or any Guarantor to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company or such Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been satisfied and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been satisfied, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for certificates provided for in Section 1004) shall include:

 

  (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

 

  (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

 

  (3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with or satisfied, as applicable; and

 

  (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with or satisfied, as applicable.

Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee .

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

Any certificate or opinion of an Officer may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such Officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which such Officer’s certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an Officer or Officers stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or a Guarantor, as the case may be, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

 

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Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

Section 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates .

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company or the Guarantors. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “ Act ” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and, subject to Section 601, conclusive in favor of the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantors, if made in the manner provided in this Section 104.

The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner which the Trustee reasonably deems sufficient. Where such execution is by a Person acting in a capacity other than such Person’s individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of such Person’s authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent or the Company or any Guarantor in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.

The Company or any Guarantor may, in its discretion, set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series but shall have no obligation to do so; provided that none of the Company or any Guarantor may set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If not set by the Company or any Guarantor prior to the first solicitation of Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series made by any Person in respect of such action or, in the case of any such vote, prior to such vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be 30 days prior to the first solicitation of such vote or consent. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on

 

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such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company or any Guarantor from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company or any Guarantor, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106.

The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 502, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 511, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company and the Guarantors in writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106. Any failure of the Trustee to so notify the Company or the Guarantors, shall not in any way impair or affect the validity of any such act by the Holder or subject the Trustee to any liability hereunder.

With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 104, the party hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the “ Expiration Date ” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 106, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 104, the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the 90th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.

 

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Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.

Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee, Company and Guarantors .

Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

 

  (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or a Guarantor shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing (which may be by facsimile) to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office at the location specified in Section 101; or

 

  (2) the Company or a Guarantor by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid or overnight delivery, to the Company or any Guarantor addressed to the attention of the Secretary of the Company or such Guarantor at the address of the Company’s principal office specified in writing to the Trustee by the Company and, until further notice, at 9 West 57 th Street, 39 th Floor, Suite 1300, fax number: (212) 790-0060, Attention: Chief Financial Officer.

The Trustee shall have the right, but shall not be required, to rely upon and comply with instructions and directions sent by e-mail, facsimile and other similar unsecured electronic methods by persons believed by the Trustee to be authorized to give instructions and directions on behalf of the Company. The Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to verify or confirm that the person who sent such instructions or directions is, in fact, a person authorized to give instructions or directions on behalf of the Company; and the Trustee shall have no liability for any losses, liabilities, costs or expenses incurred or sustained by the Company or any other Person as a result of such reliance upon or compliance with such instructions or directions. The Company agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties.

Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver .

Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid or overnight delivery, to each Holder affected by such event, at such Holder’s address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, if any, and not earlier than the earliest date, if any, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case

 

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where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

Where this Indenture provides for notice of any event to a Holder of a Global Security, such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary for such Security (or its designee), pursuant to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary, not later than the latest date, if any, and not earlier than the earliest date, if any, prescribed for the giving of such notice.

Section 107. Reserved .

Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents .

The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 109. Successors and Assigns .

All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company and the Guarantors shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 110. Separability Clause .

In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 111. Benefits of Indenture .

Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

Section 112. Governing Law .

This Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantees shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of law.

 

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Section 113. Legal Holidays .

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security, or any date on which a Holder has the right to convert such Holder’s Security, shall not be a Business Day in the City of New York or at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other than a provision of any Security which specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section 113)) payment of principal and premium, if any, or interest, or the Redemption Price or conversion of such Security, need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, or on such conversion date. In the case, however, of Securities of a series bearing interest at a floating rate based on the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR), if any Interest Payment Date (other than the Redemption Date or Stated Maturity) would otherwise be a date that is not a Business Day, then the Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the following date which is a Business Day, unless that Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar month, in which case the Interest Payment Date will be the immediately preceding Business Day. No interest shall accrue for the period from and after any such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Stated Maturity or conversion date, as the case may be, to the date of such payment with respect to such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Stated Maturity or conversion date.

Section 114. No Recourse Against Others .

To the fullest extent permitted by law, a director, partner, executive managing director, managing director, officer, employee, member, manager or stockholder as such of OZ, the Company or any Guarantor (or its general partner) shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities, the Guarantors under the Guarantees or under this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Security, each Holder shall waive and release all such liability. The waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.

Section 115. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL .

EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS, THE TRUSTEE AND THE HOLDERS, BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE SECURITIES, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING AS AMONG THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS AND THE TRUSTEE ONLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE GUARANTEES.

Section 116. U.S.A. Patriot Act .

The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

 

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Section 117. Execution in Counterparts .

This Indenture may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile, email, PDF or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture and signature pages for all purposes.

ARTICLE II

SECURITY FORMS

Section 201. Forms Generally .

The Securities of each series shall be in substantially such form or forms as shall be established by or pursuant to a Company Resolution or, subject to Section 303, set forth in, or determined in the manner provided in, an Officers’ Certificate of the Company pursuant to a Company Resolution, or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the Officer executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Company Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or its general partner, and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities. If all of the Securities of any series established by action taken pursuant to a Company Resolution are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the time of issuance of each Security of such series, but an appropriate record of such action shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series.

The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel-engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officers of the Company executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

Section 202. Form of Legend for Global Securities .

Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for the Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

 

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UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“ DTC ”) TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF. TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

Section 203. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication .

The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Dated:

 

Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee
By:     
Authorized Signatory

ARTICLE III

THE SECURITIES

Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series .

The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.

The Securities may be issued in one or more series. The terms of the Securities shall be established in, or pursuant to, one or more Company Resolutions. In the event that such Securities are established pursuant to Company Resolutions, but such Company Resolutions do not set forth the final terms of such Securities, the establishment of such series of Securities shall be set forth in (a) an Officers’ Certificate of the Company detailing such establishment, or (b) one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series. Such Company Resolutions, Officers’ Certificate or supplemental indenture, as applicable, shall set forth:

 

  (1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other series);

 

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  (2) the limit, if any, on the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder) or aggregate offering price;

 

  (3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest;

 

  (4) the date or dates on which the principal of any Securities of the series is payable or the method used to determine or extend those dates;

 

  (5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which any such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;

 

  (6) the place or places where the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner in which any payment may be made;

 

  (7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company and, if other than by a Company Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the Securities shall be evidenced;

 

  (8) the obligation or the right, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase any Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or at the option of the Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which any Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation or right;

 

  (9) if other than minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof, the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be issuable;

 

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  (10) if the amount of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities of the series may be determined with reference to a financial or economic measure or index or pursuant to a formula, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;

 

  (11) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the definition of “Outstanding” in Section 101;

 

  (12) if the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the manner in which such amount shall be determined);

 

  (13) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502;

 

  (14) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);

 

  (15) if other than by a Company Resolution, the manner in which any election by the Company to defease any Securities of the series pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 shall be evidenced; whether any Securities of the series other than Securities denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate are to be subject to Section 1302 or Section 1303; or, in the case of Securities denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate, if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or any specified part, shall not be defeasible pursuant to Section 1302 or Section 1303 or both such Sections;

 

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if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of that set

 

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  forth in Section 202 and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in clause (2) of the last paragraph of Section 305 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and any other provisions governing exchanges or transfers of such Global Security;

 

  (17) any addition to, deletion from or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502;

 

  (18) any addition to, deletion from or change in the covenants set forth in Article X which applies to Securities of the series;

 

  (19) if the Securities of the series are to be convertible into or exchangeable for cash and/or any securities or other property of any Person (including the Company), the terms and conditions upon which such Securities will be so convertible or exchangeable;

 

  (20) whether the Securities of the series will be guaranteed by any Person or Persons other than the Guarantors and, if so, the identity of such Person or Persons, the terms and conditions upon which such Securities shall be guaranteed and, if applicable, the terms and conditions upon which such guarantees may be subordinated to other indebtedness of the respective guarantors;

 

  (21) whether the Securities of the series will be secured by any collateral and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which such Securities shall be secured and, if applicable, upon which such liens may be subordinated to other liens securing other indebtedness of the Company or any guarantor;

 

  (22) if other than Wilmington Trust, National Association is to act as Trustee for the Securities of such series, the name and Corporate Trust Office of such Trustee;

 

  (23) if any priority of payment is set for the Securities of such series, the nature and terms of that priority of payment set for the Securities of the series;

 

  (24) if any of the Securities of such series will be issued as Original Issue Discount Securities, the terms on which such Securities of the series will be issued as Original Discount Securities and the portion of the principal amount as shown on the face of those Securities that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or at the time of any prepayment of those Securities or the method or methods for determining that portion of that principal amount payable at any of those times;

 

  (25) if additional amounts will be payable to Holders of Securities of such series pursuant to Section 312, the terms (other than the terms expressly set forth in Section 312) upon, and conditions under, which such additional amounts will be payable; and

 

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  (26) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 901(12)).

All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Company Resolution referred to above or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Company Resolutions and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate of the Company referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

All Securities of any one series need not be issued at one time and, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the Company Resolution referred to above and, subject to Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in the Officers’ Certificate of the Company referred to above or pursuant to authority granted by one or more Company Resolutions or in any such indenture supplemental hereto with respect to a series of Securities, additional Securities of a series may be issued, at the option of the Company, without the consent of any Holder, at any time and from time to time.

If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Company Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate of the Company setting forth the terms of the series.

Section 302. Denominations .

The Securities of each series shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such specified denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating .

The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by any President, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Executive Managing Director, Managing Director, Director, Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company (or any of its members or their respective general partners). The signature on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

Securities bearing the manual, facsimile, email or PDF signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper Officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.

 

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At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and, subject to Section 601, shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent of the Indenture to the authentication and delivery of such Securities have been satisfied.

If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will adversely affect the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph of this Section 303, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, including in the event that the aggregate principal amount of a series of Outstanding Securities is increased as contemplated by Section 301, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers’ Certificate of the Company otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to this Section 303 at or prior to the authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

Section 304. Temporary Securities .

Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and, upon delivery of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities of such series in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the Officer or Officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution thereof.

 

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If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for such series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.

Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange .

The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “ Security Register ”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed “ Security Registrar ” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of a series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for such series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and principal amount.

At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities, which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company and the respective Guarantors, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

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No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.

If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor) are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities of such series (or of such series and specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the sending of a notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the day of such sending, or (B) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.

Neither the Trustee nor the Security Registrar shall have any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Global Security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

The provisions of clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) of this paragraph shall apply only to Global Securities:

 

  (1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.

 

  (2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, and subject to such applicable provisions, if any, as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301, no Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary with respect to such Global Security and a successor Depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days, (B) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor Depositary is not appointed within 90 days, (C) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security, (D) the Company so directs the Trustee by a Company Order or (E) there shall exist such circumstances, if any, in addition to, or in lieu of, the foregoing as have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 301.

 

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  (3) Subject to clause (2) above and to such applicable provisions, if any, as may be specified as contemplated by Section 301, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall direct.

 

  (4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section 305, Section 304, 306, 906 or 1107 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.

Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities .

If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (1) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (2) such security or indemnity as shall be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of written notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount, having the Guarantees noted therein, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.

Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 306, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of counsel to the Company and the fees and expenses of the Trustee and its counsel) connected therewith.

Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section 306 in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company and the respective Guarantors, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of such series and Guarantees duly issued hereunder.

 

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The provisions of this Section 306 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved .

Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “ Defaulted Interest ”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:

 

  (1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest payable on Securities of a series to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be given to each Holder of Securities of such series in the manner set forth in Section 106, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).

 

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  (2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 307, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

In the case of any Security which is converted after any Regular Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other than any Security whose Maturity is prior to such Interest Payment Date), interest whose Stated Maturity is on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such conversion, and such interest (whether or not punctually paid or made available for payment) shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the case of any Security which is converted, interest whose Stated Maturity is after the date of conversion of such Security shall not be payable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms of any Security that may be converted may provide that the provisions of this paragraph do not apply, or apply with such additions, changes or omissions as may be provided thereby, to such Security.

Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners .

Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and premium, if any, and, subject to Section 307, any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and none of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Section 309. Cancellation .

All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company or any Guarantor may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company or such Guarantor may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section 309, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of in accordance with its customary procedures. The Trustee shall provide the Company or any Guarantor a list of all Securities that have been cancelled from time to time as requested in writing by the Company or such Guarantor.

 

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Section 310. Computation of Interest .

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

Section 311. CUSIP or ISIN Numbers .

The Company in issuing any series of the Securities may use “CUSIP” or “ISIN” numbers and/or other similar numbers, if then generally in use, and thereafter with respect to such series, the Trustee may use such numbers in any notice of redemption with respect to such series; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities of such series or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities of such series, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Trustee shall be notified, in writing, of any change in the CUSIP or ISIN numbers.

Section 312. Additional Amounts .

If the Securities of any series provide for the payment of additional amounts, the Company will pay to the Holder of any Security of such series the additional amounts as provided in the terms of the Securities of such series. Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or in respect of, any Security of such series or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of such series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of additional amounts provided for in this Section to the extent that, in such context, additional amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section and express mention of the payment of additional amounts, if applicable, in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding additional amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

If the Securities of any series provide for the payment of additional amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to that series of Securities (or if the Securities of that series will not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal, and premium, if any, is made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal, and premium, if any, or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers’ Certificate, the Company will furnish the Trustee and the applicable Paying Agents, if other than the Trustee, with an Officers’ Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent whether such payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of such series shall be made to Holders of Securities of such series who are United States Aliens without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described in the Securities of such series. If any such withholding shall be required, then such Officers’ Certificate shall specify by country

 

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the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities, and the Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the additional amounts required by this Section. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or reasonable expense incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officers’ Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section.

Section 313. General Provisions Relating to Global Securities .

Owners of beneficial interests in the Securities evidenced by a Global Security will not be entitled to any rights under this Indenture with respect to such Global Security, and the Depositary or its nominee may be treated by the Company, the Guarantors, and the Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee, including any Security Registrar or Paying Agent as the owner and Holder of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company, the Trustee, the Security Registrar, the Paying Agent or any other agent of the Company, the Guarantors or of the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests. None of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Security Registrar, the Paying Agent or any other agent of the Company or of the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability to any person for any acts or omissions of the Depositary or its nominee in respect of a Global Security, for the records of any such Depositary, including records in respect of beneficial ownership interests in respect of such Global Security, for any transactions between such Depositary and any participant or indirect participant in such Depositary or between or among such Depositary, any participant or indirect participant in such Depositary and/or any Holder or owner of a beneficial interest in such Global Security, or for any transfers of beneficial interests in any such Global Security. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, the Security Registrar or the Paying Agent or such agent from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or its nominee or impair, as between the Depositary or its nominee and such owners of beneficial interests, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depositary or its nominee as Holder of any Global Security.

ARTICLE IV

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture .

This Indenture shall, upon Company Request, cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities specified in such Company Request (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series, when:

 

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  (1) either

 

  (A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

 

  (B) all such Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation

 

  (i) have become due and payable, or

 

  (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year of the date of deposit, or

 

  (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,

and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee, as trust funds in trust for the purpose, money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and premium, if any, and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;

 

  (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and

 

  (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate of the Company and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series have been satisfied.

In the event there are Securities of two or more series hereunder, the Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so with respect to Securities of such series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions thereto are met.

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section 401, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.

 

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Section 402. Application of Trust Money .

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the applicable series of Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and premium, if any, and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee. All money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 (and held by it or any Paying Agent) for the payment of Securities subsequently converted into other property shall be returned to the Company upon Company Request. The Company may direct by a Company Order the investment of any money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401, without distinction between principal and income, in United States Treasury securities with a maturity of one year or less. In the absence of any such Company Order, such funds will be held in cash.

ARTICLE V

REMEDIES

Section 501. Events of Default .

Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to Section 301 for Securities of any series, an “ Event of Default ” means, whenever used herein or in a Security issued hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(1) the Company defaults in the payment of any installment of interest on any Security of such series, and such default continues for a period of 30 days after such payment becomes due and payable;

(2) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on any Security of such series when the same becomes due and payable, regardless of whether such payment became due and payable at its Stated Maturity, upon redemption, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

(3) the Company defaults in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as due by the terms of a Security of such series;

(4) any Credit Party defaults in the performance of, or breaches, any of its covenants and agreements in respect of any Security of such series contained in this Indenture or in the Securities of such series (other than those referred to in (1), (2) or (3) above), and such default or breach continues for a period of 90 days after the notice specified below;

 

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(5) the Company or any Guarantor (other than an Insignificant Guarantor), pursuant to or within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Law:

(A) commences a voluntary case or proceeding;

(B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding;

(C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property;

(D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;

(E) files a petition in bankruptcy or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief;

(F) consents to the filing of such petition or the appointment of or taking possession by a Custodian; or

(G) takes any comparable action under any foreign laws relating to insolvency;

(6) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

(A) is for relief against the Company or any Guarantor (other than an Insignificant Guarantor) in an involuntary case, or adjudicates the Company or any Guarantor (other than an Insignificant Guarantor) insolvent or bankrupt;

(B) appoints a Custodian of the Company or any Guarantor (other than an Insignificant Guarantor) or for all or substantially all of the property of the Company or any Guarantor (other than an Insignificant Guarantor); or

(C) orders the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Guarantor (other than an Insignificant Guarantor) (or any similar relief is granted under any foreign laws),

and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days;

(7) except as otherwise provided herein, a Guarantee of any Guarantor (other than an Insignificant Guarantor) ceases to be in full force and effect or is declared to be null and void and unenforceable or such Guarantee is found to be invalid or a Guarantor (other than an Insignificant Guarantor) denies its liability under its Guarantee (other than by reason of release of such Guarantee in accordance with the terms of this Indenture); or

(8) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of such series occurs.

 

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The term “ Bankruptcy Law ” means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar Federal or state or foreign law for the relief of debtors. The term “ Custodian ” means any custodian, receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or other similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

A Default with respect to Securities of any series under clause (4) of this Section 501 shall not be an Event of Default until the Trustee (by written notice to the Company and the Guarantors) or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series (by written notice to the Company and the Guarantors and the Trustee) gives notice of the Default and the Company and the Guarantors do not cure such Default within the time specified in clause (4) after receipt of such notice. Such notice must specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that such notice is a “ Notice of Default .”

Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment .

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6) occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of such series (or, if any Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof), together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company and the Guarantors (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration, such principal amount (or specified amount), together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section 501(6) with respect to the Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of such series (or, in the case of any Security of such series which specifies an amount to be due and payable thereon upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof, such amount as may be specified by the terms thereof), together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable. Upon payment of such amount, all obligations of the Company in respect of the payment of principal and interest of the Securities of such series shall terminate.

Except as may otherwise be provided pursuant to Section 301 for all or any specific Securities of any series, at any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due based on such acceleration has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article V provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, by written notice to the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

 

  (1) the Company or any Guarantor has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:

 

  (A) all overdue interest on all Securities of such series,

 

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  (B) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Securities of such series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in the Securities of such series,

 

  (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and

 

  (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and

 

  (2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of such series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of Securities of such series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 512.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee .

The Company covenants that if (1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or (2) default is made in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on any Security at the Maturity thereof, it will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and premium, if any, and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem necessary to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim .

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company, any Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company, any Guarantor or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by

 

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declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company or any Guarantor for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

 

  (1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and premium, if any, and interest owning and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

 

  (2) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by the Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and for any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.

No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided , however , that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.

Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities .

All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, any predecessor Trustee under Section 607, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

Section 506. Application of Money Collected .

Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article V, and any money or other property distributable in respect of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture after the occurrence of an Event of Default, shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or

 

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premium, if any, or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee (including any predecessor Trustee) under Section 607;

SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and

THIRD: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or the Guarantors.

Section 507. Limitation on Suits .

Except as otherwise provided in Section 508, no Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator or sequestrator (or similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

 

  (1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default, specifying an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series;

 

  (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;

 

  (3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

 

  (4) the Trustee has failed to institute any such proceeding for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity; and

 

  (5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series;

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.

 

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Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest and to Convert Securities .

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and, subject to Section 307, interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or date for repayment, as the case may be, and, if the terms of such Security so provide, to convert such Security in accordance with its terms) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment and, if applicable, any such right to convert, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.

Section 509. Rights and Remedies Cumulative .

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

Section 510. Delay or Omission Not Waiver .

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

Section 511. Control by Holders .

The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series; provided that

 

  (1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, shall not be unduly prejudicial to the rights of Holders not joining the direction and shall not involve the Trustee in any personal liability, and

 

  (2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.

Before proceeding to exercise any right or power hereunder at the direction of the Holders, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive from such Holders security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses, losses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

 

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Section 512. Waiver of Past Defaults .

The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series, upon notice to the Company and the Trustee, waive any past Default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a Default

 

  (1) in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Security of such series, or

 

  (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.

Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 513. Undertaking for Costs .

In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess reasonable costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section 513 nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company, any Guarantor or the Trustee, a suit by a Holder under Section 508, or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities.

Section 514. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws .

Each of the Company and the Guarantors covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each of the Company and the Guarantors (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

 

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Section 515. Restoration of Rights and Remedies .

If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

ARTICLE VI

THE TRUSTEE

Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee .

 

  (1) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to any series of Securities,

 

  (A) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee with respect to such series; and

 

  (B) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely with respect to the Securities of such series, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts, statements, opinions or conclusions stated therein).

 

  (2) In case an Event of Default with respect to any series of Securities has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

 

  (3) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

 

  (A) this Section 601(3) shall not be construed to limit the effect of Section 601(1) or Section 601(4);

 

  (B) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved in a court of competent jurisdiction that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

 

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  (C) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, determined as provided in Sections 101, 104 and 511, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series.

 

  (4) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

 

  (5) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 601.

Section 602. Notice of Defaults .

If a Default occurs with respect to Securities of any series and is continuing and written notice of such Default has been received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, the Trustee shall give to each Holder of Securities of such series notice of Default within 90 days after such written notice is received by such Responsible Officer. Except in the case of a Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security, the Trustee may withhold notice if and so long as it in good faith determines that withholding such notice is in the interests of Holders of Securities of such series.

Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee .

Subject to the provisions of Section 601:

 

  (1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall fully be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

 

  (2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order, and any resolution of the member or members of the Company or board of managers of the Company, as the case may be, shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Resolution thereof;

 

  (3) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate of the Company or the Guarantors;

 

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  (4) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

 

  (5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;

 

  (6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company or the Guarantors, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the Company or the Guarantors and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;

 

  (7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;

 

  (8) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder and to its agents;

 

  (9) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;

 

  (10) anything in this Indenture notwithstanding, in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action;

 

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  (11) in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services (it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances);

 

  (12) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless written notice of such Default or Event of Default, as the case may be, has been received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture;

 

  (13) the Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officers’ Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officers’ Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded; and

 

  (14) the permissive right of the Trustee to take or refrain from taking action hereunder shall not be construed as a duty.

Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities .

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company and the Guarantors, as the case may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or the Guarantees. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.

Section 605. May Hold Securities .

The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company or the Guarantors, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.

Section 606. Money Held in Trust .

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.

 

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Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement .

The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, agrees:

 

  (1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed to in writing between the parties hereto for all services rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

 

  (2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel and all Persons not regularly in its employ), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith, in each case as determined by a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction, and the Trustee shall provide the Company reasonable notice of any expenditure not in the ordinary course of business; and

 

  (3) to indemnify each of the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee and their officers, agents, directors and employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claims, liability or expense incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on its part, in each case as determined by a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction, arising out of or in connection with this Indenture, the Securities and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, or any Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, or in connection with enforcing the provisions of this Section.

In addition to, but without prejudice to its other rights under this Indenture, when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or (6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.

“Trustee” for purposes of this Section shall include any predecessor Trustee; provided , however , that the negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of any Trustee hereunder shall not affect the rights of any other Trustee hereunder.

As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by it hereunder for any amount owing it or any predecessor Trustee pursuant to this Section 607, except with respect to funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities for the payment of principal of and premium, if any, or interest.

 

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The provisions of this Section 607 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of the Securities, the termination for any reason of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.

Section 608. Conflicting Interests .

If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.

To the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series.

Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility .

There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and has its Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York or any other city in the United States that is acceptable to the Company. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 609 and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent annual report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 609, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VI.

Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor .

No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611.

The Trustee or any successor hereafter appointed may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

 

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The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, upon written notice delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Trustee being removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

If at any time:

 

  (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company, the Guarantors or any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or

 

  (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company, the Guarantors or any such Holder, or

 

  (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or commence a voluntary bankruptcy proceeding, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or consented to, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,

then, in any such case, (A) the Company or the Guarantors may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities or (B) subject to Section 513, Holders of 10% in aggregate principal amount of Securities of any series who have been bona fide Holders of such Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company or the Guarantors shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company or the Guarantors. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company the Guarantors or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by

 

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Section 611, Holders of 10% in aggregate principal amount of Securities of any series who have been bona fide Holders of Securities of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.

The Company or the Guarantors shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series to all Holders of Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.

Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor .

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company, the Guarantors and the retiring Trustee a written instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee, but, on the request of the Company, the Guarantors or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver a written instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder subject nonetheless to the lien provided for in Section 607.

In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the Guarantors, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company, the Guarantors or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee

 

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shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates subject nonetheless to the lien provided for in Section 607.

Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company and the Guarantors shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.

No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article VI.

Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section, the Company shall transmit notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders, as their names and addresses appear upon the Security Register. If the Company fails to transmit such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be transmitted at the expense of the Company.

Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business .

Any Person into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder; provided that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion, consolidation or sale to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities; and in case at that time any Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.

Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company .

The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the TIA, excluding any creditor relationship listed in Section 311(b) of the TIA. A Trustee who has resigned or has been removed shall comply with Section 311(a) of the TIA to the extent indicated.

Section 614. Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company .

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after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than 10 Business Days after the date any officer of the Company actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.

ARTICLE VII

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE TRUSTEE,

THE COMPANY AND THE GUARANTORS

Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders .

If the Trustee is not the Security Registrar, the Company shall cause the Security Registrar to furnish to the Trustee, in writing at least five Business Days before each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Holders of Securities of each series.

Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders .

The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may dispose of any list furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act.

Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act, as if the Trust Indenture Act were applicable.

Section 703. Reports by Trustee .

The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.

A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange and automated quotation system, if any, upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission (if accepted for filing by the Commission) and the Company. The Trustee shall be notified in writing when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange or automated quotation system or delisted therefrom.

 

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Section 704. Reports by the Company and the Guarantors .

Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute a representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the reports, information and documents. The Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s or the Guarantors’ compliance with any of their covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates of the Company).

ARTICLE VIII

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OF ASSETS AND OTHER TRANSACTIONS

Section 801. Company and Guarantors May Merge or Transfer Assets on Certain Terms .

(a) None of the Credit Parties shall be a party to a Substantially All Merger or participate in a Substantially All Sale, unless:

 

  (1) such Credit Party is the surviving Person, or the Person formed by or surviving such Substantially All Merger or to which such Substantially All Sale has been made is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or British Crown Dependencies, a member country of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development or any political subdivision of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “ Permitted Jurisdictions ”), and has expressly assumed by supplemental indenture all of the obligations of such Credit Party under this Indenture ( provided that, in the case of the Company, if the surviving Person is not organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, there shall be a co-issuer of the notes that is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia);

 

  (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; and

 

  (3) the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate of the Company and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such transaction and any supplemental indenture relating thereto comply with this Indenture and that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been satisfied.

(b) For as long as any Securities of any series under this Indenture remain outstanding, each of the Credit Parties must be organized under the laws of a Permitted Jurisdiction and all equity and voting interests of the Company must be owned directly or indirectly by one or more Guarantors.

 

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Section 802. Successor Person Substituted .

Upon the consummation of a transaction contemplated by and consummated in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the applicable Credit Party under this Indenture, with the same effect as if such successor Person had been an original party to this Indenture, and, except in the case of a lease, the applicable Credit Party shall be released from all of its liabilities and obligations under this Indenture and the Securities (including the Guarantees).

ARTICLE IX

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders .

Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

 

  (1) to add to the covenants for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company or any Guarantor hereunder, under any indenture supplemental hereto or under any series of Securities;

 

  (2) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or any Guarantor, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor Person of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company or such Guarantor pursuant to Article VIII;

 

  (3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series);

 

  (4) to add new Guarantors;

 

  (5) to provide for the release of any Guarantor in accordance with this Indenture;

 

  (6) to secure the Securities;

 

  (7) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 611; or

 

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  (8) to provide for the issuance of additional Securities of any series;

 

  (9) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301;

 

  (10) to comply with the rules of any applicable Depositary;

 

  (11) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form;

 

  (12) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities; provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor (ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no Security described in clause (i) Outstanding;

 

  (13) to cure any ambiguity, omission or mistake, or to correct or supplement any provision of this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any supplemental indenture;

 

  (14) to change any other provision contained in the Securities of any series or under this Indenture; provided that such action pursuant to this clause (14) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any series in any material respect; and

 

  (15) to conform the text of this Indenture, the Securities or any supplemental indenture to any provision of the “Description of the Notes” or similarly captioned section of any offering memorandum, offering circular, prospectus supplement or similar offering document relating to Securities of such series, in each case, as stated in an Officers’ Certificate.

Section 902. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders .

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange for Securities), by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided , however , no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected thereby:

 

  (1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Security;

 

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  (2) reduce the principal amount of any Security or reduce the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 503, or reduce the rate of or extend the time of payment of interest on any Security;

 

  (3) reduce any premium payable upon the redemption of or change the date on which any Security may or must be redeemed;

 

  (4) change the coin or currency in which the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Security is payable;

 

  (5) impair the right of any Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);

 

  (6) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture;

 

  (7) modify any of the provisions of Section 512, this Section 902 or Section 1005, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided , however , that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section 902 and Section 1005, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(7);

 

  (8) if the Securities of any series are convertible into or for any other securities or property of the Company, make any change that adversely affects in any material respect the right to convert any Security of such series (except as permitted by Section 901) or decrease the conversion rate or increase the conversion price of any such Security of such series, unless such decrease or increase is permitted by the terms of such Security;

 

  (9) subordinate the Securities of any series or any Guarantee of a Guarantor in respect thereof to any other obligation of the Company or such Guarantor;

 

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  (10) modify the terms of any Guarantee in a manner adverse to the Holders of Securities of a series; or

 

  (11) modify clauses (1) through (10) above.

A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 902 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures .

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and, subject to Section 601, shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the documents required by Section 102, an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that all conditions precedent in this Indenture to the execution of such supplemental indenture, if any, have been satisfied; provided , however , that no such Opinion of Counsel shall be required in the case of any supplemental indenture executed and delivered concurrently with the original execution and delivery of this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. Any supplemental indenture the sole effect of which is to add new Guarantors need not be executed and delivered by any then-existing Guarantor.

Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures .

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article IX, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

Section 905. Reserved .

Section 906. Notice of Supplemental Indenture; Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures .

After a supplemental indenture (other than a supplemental indenture (i) the sole effect of which is to add new Guarantors or (ii) which is publicly available) under Section 901 and 902 becomes effective, the Company shall send or make available to the Trustee and the Holders such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Company to send or make available such supplemental indenture shall not in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

 

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Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.

ARTICLE X

COVENANTS

Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest .

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities of such series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture. Principal and interest shall be considered paid on the date due if, on or before 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on such date, the Trustee or the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or any Subsidiary of a Credit Party is the Paying Agent, the segregated account or separate trust fund maintained by the Company or such Subsidiary pursuant to Section 1003) holds in accordance with this Indenture money sufficient to pay all principal and interest then due.

The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate specified therefor in the Securities, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful as provided in Section 307.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Company, the Guarantors or the Paying Agent may, to the extent it is required to do so by law, deduct or withhold income or other similar taxes imposed by the United States of America or other domestic or foreign taxing authorities from principal or interest payments hereunder.

Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency .

The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of such series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of such series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, where Securities may be surrendered for conversion, and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such series and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. The Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.

 

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The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided , however , that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

With respect to any Global Security, and except as otherwise may be specified for such Global Security as contemplated by Section 301, the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee shall be the Place of Payment where such Global Security may be presented or surrendered for payment or for registration of transfer or exchange, or where successor Securities may be delivered in exchange therefor; provided , however , that any such payment, presentation, surrender or delivery effected pursuant to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary for such Global Security shall be deemed to have been effected at the Place of Payment for such Global Security in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust .

If the Company shall at any time act as Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date for the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any of the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities a sum sufficient to pay the principal and premium, if any, and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Holders or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it will, no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on each due date for the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Securities of such series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held in trust for the Holders of such Securities entitled to the same, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 1003, that such Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by such Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or interest on the Securities and shall notify the Trustee in writing of any default by the Company in making any such payment. Upon any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding relating to the Company, the Trustee shall be the Paying Agent.

The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

 

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Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.

Section 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default .

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof an Officers’ Certificate of the Company stating whether or not, to the best knowledge of such Officer, the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture applicable to it (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and status thereof of which such Officer may have knowledge.

The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the details of such Default or Event of Default, its status and the actions which the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

Section 1005. Waiver of Certain Covenants .

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series, the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, may, with respect to the Securities of any series, omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant provided pursuant to Section 301(18), Section 901(1) or Section 901(12) for the benefit of the Holders of such series or in Article VIII, if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and effect.

 

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ARTICLE XI

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

Section 1101. Applicability of Article .

Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities) in accordance with this Article XI.

Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee .

The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a Company Resolution or an Officers’ Certificate of the Company or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of the Securities of any series (including any such redemption affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 15 days prior to the date any notice of a redemption is to be given to the Holders pursuant to Section 1104 (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate of the Company evidencing compliance with such restriction.

Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed .

If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate, including by lot or pro rata (subject to the then-current rules and procedures of the applicable Depositary), and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series; provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.

If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted in part before termination of the conversion right with respect to the portion of the Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which have been converted during a selection of securities to be redeemed shall be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection.

 

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The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid, and in case of any Securities selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

The provisions of the three preceding paragraphs shall not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.

For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.

Section 1104. Notice of Redemption .

Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed (or, in the case of Global Notes, delivered electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depositary) not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date (or within such period as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of a series), to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register.

A notice of redemption may, in the Company’s discretion, be conditioned upon the satisfaction of one or more conditions, including the consummation of an acquisition, financing transaction or equity offering.

All notices of redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall state:

 

  (1) the Redemption Date;

 

  (2) the Redemption Price (or the method of calculating such price);

 

  (3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such Securities, the respective principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount of the particular Security to be redeemed;

 

  (4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed, and if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;

 

  (5) the place or places where each such Security is to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;

 

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  (6) for any Securities that by their terms may be converted, the terms of conversion, the date on which the right to convert the Security to be redeemed will terminate and the place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for conversion;

 

  (7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case;

 

  (8) if applicable, the CUSIP, ISIN or any similar numbers of the Securities of such series; provided , however , that no representation will be made as to the correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP, ISIN or any similar number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Securities; and

 

  (9) if the redemption or notice of redemption is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, that, in the Company’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or such redemption may not occur and such notice of redemption may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date so delayed.

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request given at least 3 Business Days before such notice is required to be sent (which may be rescinded or revoked at any time prior to the time at which the Trustee shall have given such notice to the Holders), by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company. The notice, if mailed in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to send such notice or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Securities.

Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price .

By no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit or cause to be deposited with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if any of the Credit Parties is acting as Paying Agent, such Credit Party will segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date or the Securities of the series provide otherwise) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date, other than Securities or portions of Securities called for redemption which are owned by any of the Credit Parties and have been delivered by such Credit Party to the Trustee for cancellation. All money, if any, earned on funds held by the Paying Agent shall be remitted to the Company. In addition, the Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Company any money deposited with the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the Redemption Price of, and accrued interest, if any, on, all Securities to be redeemed.

If any Security called for redemption is converted, any money deposited with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such Security shall (subject to any right of the Holder of such Security or any Predecessor Security to receive interest as provided in the last paragraph of Section 307 or in the terms of such Security) be paid to the Company upon Company Request or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.

 

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Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date .

Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together, if applicable, with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided , however , that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307; provided further that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301, if the Redemption Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date, the accrued and unpaid interest shall be payable to the Holder of the redeemed Securities registered on the relevant Regular Record Date.

If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and premium, if any, shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.

Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part .

Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered.

ARTICLE XII

SINKING FUNDS

Section 1201. Applicability of Article .

The provisions of this Article XII shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.

The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any series of Securities is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment,” and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of such Securities is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of any series of Securities, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of the series as provided for by the terms of such Securities.

 

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Section 1202. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities .

The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities as and to the extent provided for by the terms of such Securities; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.

Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund .

Not less than 60 days (or such shorter period as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate of the Company specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 30 days prior to each such sinking fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of, and at the expense of, the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107.

ARTICLE XIII

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

Section 1301. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance .

Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301, Sections 1302 and 1303 shall apply to all Securities and each series of Securities, denominated in U.S. dollars and bearing interest at a fixed rate, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article XIII; and the Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have Sections 1302 and 1303 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, designated pursuant to Section 301 as being defeasible pursuant to such Section 1302 or 1303, in accordance with any applicable requirements provided pursuant to Section 301 and upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article XIII. Any such election shall be evidenced by a Company Resolution, Officers’ Certificate of the Company, one or more indentures supplemental hereto or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities.

 

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Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge .

Upon the Company’s exercise of its option, if any, to have this Section 1302 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, or if this Section 1302 shall otherwise apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, the Company and the Guarantors shall be deemed to have been discharged from their respective obligations with respect to such Securities and related Guarantees as provided in this Section 1302 on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “ Defeasance ”). For this purpose, such Defeasance means that each of the Company and the Guarantors shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and Guarantees and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and Guarantees and this Indenture insofar as such Securities and Guarantees are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Securities to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully set forth in such Section 1305, payments in respect of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on such Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities and the Guarantors’ obligations with respect to such Guarantees under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article XIII. Subject to compliance with this Article XIII, the Company may exercise its option, if any, to have this Section 1302 applied to the Securities of any series and the related Guarantees notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option, if any, to have Section 1303 applied to such Securities and Guarantees.

Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance .

Upon the Company’s exercise of its option, if any, to have this Section 1303 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, or if this Section 1303 shall otherwise apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, (1) the Company and the Guarantors shall be released from their respective obligations under Section 801 and any covenants provided which were made a part of the terms of the Securities of such series in accordance with Section 301(18), Section 901(1) or Section 901(12) for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Section 501(4) and Section 501(8) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to such Securities and Guarantees as provided in this Section 1303 on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 are satisfied (hereinafter called “ Covenant Defeasance ”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities and Guarantees, each of the Company and the Guarantors may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and Guarantees shall be unaffected thereby.

 

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Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance .

The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 1302 or 1303 to any Securities or any series of Securities:

 

  (1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article XIII applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized, independent investment bank, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used herein, “ U.S. Government Obligation ” means (x) any security which is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged, or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.

 

  (2) In the event of an election to have Section 1302 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.

 

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  (3) In the event of an election to have Section 1303 apply to any Securities or any series of Securities, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.

 

  (4) No Default or Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such deposit or, insofar as Section 501(5) or Section 501(6) are concerned, at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day).

 

  (5) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other material agreement or instrument (other than any agreement or instrument governing any other indebtedness being contemporaneously defeased, discharged or replaced) to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.

 

  (6) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate of the Company and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been satisfied (in each case, subject to the satisfaction of the condition in clause (5)).

Before or after a deposit, the Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of Securities at a future date in accordance with Article XI.

Section 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions .

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section 1305 and Section 1306, the Trustee and any such other trustees are referred to collectively as the “ Trustee ”) pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of any Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal and premium, if any, and interest, but money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

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The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities; provided that the Trustee shall be entitled to charge any such tax, fee or other charge to such Holder’s account.

Anything in this Article XIII to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304 with respect to any Securities which are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.

Section 1306. Reinstatement .

If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with this Article XIII with respect to any Securities by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this Indenture and such Securities and Guarantees from which the Company and the Guarantors have been discharged or released pursuant to Section 1302 or 1303 shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article XIII with respect to such Securities and Guarantees, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1305 with respect to such Securities and Guarantees in accordance with this Article XIII; provided , however , that (a) if the Company or the Guarantors makes any payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, shall be subrogated to the rights, if any, of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust and (b) unless otherwise required by any legal proceeding or any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority, the Trustee or Paying Agent shall return all such money and U.S. Government Obligations to the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, promptly after receiving a written request therefor at any time, if such reinstatement of the obligations of the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, has occurred and continues to be in effect.

ARTICLE XIV

GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES

Section 1401. Guarantee .

Each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally and fully and unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee hereunder, and to the Trustee on behalf of each such Holder, the due and punctual payment in full of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on such Security when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity, by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent permitted by law) interest, if any, on such Security and all other amounts due and payable under the Indenture (collectively, the “ Obligations ”), in accordance with the terms of such Security and this Indenture. If the

 

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Company shall fail to pay when due any Obligations, for whatever reason, each Guarantor shall be jointly and severally obligated to pay in cash the same promptly. An Event of Default under this Indenture or the Security of any series shall entitle the Holders of such Securities to accelerate the Obligations of the Guarantors hereunder in the same manner and to the same extent as the Obligations of the Company.

Section 1402. Additional Guarantors .

The Company and each Guarantor shall cause each New Och-Ziff Operating Group Entity (other than a Non-Guarantor Entity) to become a Guarantor pursuant to a supplemental indenture to this Indenture and provide a Guarantee in respect of the Securities. At any time after the Issue Date, OZ may, upon the sole election of the Company, become a Guarantor pursuant to this Indenture and provide a Guarantee in respect of the Securities.

Section 1403. Waiver .

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor hereby waives the benefits of diligence, presentment, demand for payment, any requirement that the Trustee or any of the Holders exhaust any right or take any action against the Company or any other Person, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest or notice with respect to any Security or the indebtedness evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that no Guarantee will be discharged in respect of any Security except by complete performance of the Obligations contained in such Security and in this Article.

Section 1404. Guarantee of Payment .

Each Guarantee shall constitute a guarantee of payment when due and not a guarantee of collection. The Guarantors hereby agree that, in the event of a default in payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Security, whether at its Stated Maturity, by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise, legal proceedings may be instituted by the Trustee on behalf of, or by, the Holder of such Security, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Indenture, directly against the Guarantors to enforce the Guarantee without first proceeding against the Company.

Section 1405. No Discharge or Diminishment of Guarantee .

Subject to Section 1410, the obligations of each of the Guarantors hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional and not be subject to any reduction, limitation, termination, impairment or for any reason (other than the payment in full in cash of the Obligations), including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise of any of the Obligations, and shall not be subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Securities, this Indenture or the Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each of the Guarantors hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of the Trustee or any Holder of the Notes to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Indenture or any Security, any other

 

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guarantee or any other agreement, by any waiver, modification or indulgence of any provision thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Obligations, by any release of any other Guarantor pursuant to Section 1410 or by any other act or omission or delay to do any other act that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or that would otherwise operate as a discharge of any Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the payment in full in cash of all the Obligations); provided , however , that notwithstanding the foregoing, no such waiver, modification or indulgence shall, without the consent of the Guarantors, increase the principal amount of such Security, or increase the interest rate thereon, change any redemption provisions thereof (including any change to increase any premium payable upon redemption thereof) or change the Stated Maturity of any payment thereon, or increase the principal amount of any Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration or the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 of this Indenture.

Section 1406. Defenses of Company Waived .

To the extent permitted by applicable law, each of the Guarantors waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of the Company or any other Guarantor or the unenforceability of the Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of the Company, other than final payment in full in cash of the Obligations. Each of the Guarantors waives any defense arising out of any such election even though such election operates to impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of each of the Guarantors against the Company or any security.

Section 1407. Continued Effectiveness .

Subject to Section 1410, each of the Guarantors further agrees that its Guarantee with respect to any Security hereunder shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be irrevocable notwithstanding any petition filed by or against the Company for liquidation or reorganization, the Company becoming insolvent or making an assignment for the benefit of creditors or a receiver or trustee being appointed for all or any significant part of the Company’s assets, and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned by the Trustee or any Holder of any Security, whether as a “voidable preference,” “fraudulent transfer” upon bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made, until the date upon which the entire Obligation, if any, and interest on such Security has been, or has been deemed pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture to have been paid in full. In the event that any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned on any Security, such Security shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be reinstated and deemed paid only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.

Section 1408. Subrogation .

In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right of each of the Guarantors by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay any Obligation when and as the same shall become due, each of the Guarantors hereby promises to and will, upon receipt of

 

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written demand by the Trustee or any Holder of the Securities of any series, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Holders in cash the amount of such unpaid Obligations, and thereupon the Holders shall, assign (except to the extent that such assignment would render a Guarantor a “creditor” of the Company within the meaning of Section 547 of Title 11 of the United States Code as now in effect or hereafter amended or any comparable provision of any successor statute) the amount of the Obligations owed to it and paid by such Guarantor pursuant to this Guarantee to such Guarantor, such assignment to be pro rata to the extent the Obligations in question were discharged by such Guarantor, or make such other disposition thereof as such Guarantor shall direct (all without recourse to the Holders, and without any representation or warranty by the Holders). If (a) a Guarantor shall make payment to the Holders of all or any part of the Obligations and (b) all the Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Indenture shall be paid in full, the Trustee will, at such Guarantor’s request, execute and deliver to such Guarantor appropriate documents, without recourse and without representation or warranty, necessary to evidence the transfer by subrogation to such Guarantor of an interest in the Obligations resulting from such payment by such Guarantor.

Section 1409. Subordination .

Upon payment by any Guarantor of any sums to the Holders, as provided above, all rights of such Guarantor against the Company, arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation or otherwise, shall in all respects be subordinated and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full in cash of all the Obligations to the Trustee; provided , however , that any right of subrogation that such Guarantor may have pursuant to this Indenture is subject to Section 1408.

Section 1410. Release of Guarantor and Termination of Guarantee .

A Guarantor shall, upon the occurrence of any of the following events, be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all obligations under this Indenture and its Guarantee without any action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder; provided that such Guarantor would not, immediately after such release and discharge, be required to become a Guarantor pursuant to Section 1402:

 

  (1) at any time such Guarantor is not OZ (in the event that OZ is an additional Guarantor of the Notes) and is sold or disposed of (whether by merger, consolidation or the sale of all or substantially all of its assets) to an entity that is not required to become a Guarantor, if such sale or disposition is otherwise in compliance with this Indenture;

 

  (2) such Guarantor is designated a Non-Guarantor Entity in accordance with this Indenture; or

 

  (3) the Company effects a satisfaction and discharge in accordance with Article IV hereof or a Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance in accordance with Article XIII hereof.

 

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The Company may designate any Person as a “ Non-Guarantor Entity ” if (i) such Person is directly or indirectly wholly owned by one or more Credit Parties or (ii) such Person, together with all then-existing Non-Guarantor Entities designated pursuant to this clause (ii) on a combined and consolidated basis and taken as a whole, would not constitute a Significant Subsidiary (the foregoing, the “ Non-Guarantor Limitation ”). The Company may also, from time to time, remove the designation of any Person as a Non-Guarantor Entity and must remove the designation as to one or more Non-Guarantor Entities designated pursuant to clause (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence to the extent as of the end of any fiscal quarter of OZ, such Non-Guarantor Entities exceed the Non-Guarantor Limitation. Any such designation or removal by the Company shall be evidenced to the Trustee by promptly filing with the Trustee a Company Resolution giving effect to such designation or removal, and in the case of a designation, a certificate of a financial officer of OZ certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing provisions.

The Trustee shall deliver such instruments reasonably requested by the Company evidencing such release upon receipt of a request of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate certifying as to the compliance with this Section.

Section 1411. Limitation of Guarantors’ Liability .

Each Guarantor, and by its acceptance hereof each Holder, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the Guarantee by such Guarantor not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of Title 11 of the United States Code, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar federal or state law to the extent applicable to any Guarantor. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Holders and such Guarantor hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of such Guarantor under this Indenture and its Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum aggregate amount which, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor, and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of, any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to any other obligations under this Indenture, will result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee not constituting such fraudulent transfer or conveyance.

Each Guarantee is expressly limited so that in no event, including the acceleration of the Maturity of the Securities, shall the amount paid or agreed to be paid in respect of interest on the Securities (or fees or other amounts deemed payment for the use of funds) exceed the maximum permissible amount under applicable law, as in effect on the date hereof and as subsequently amended or modified to allow a greater amount of interest (or fees or other amounts deemed payment for the use of funds) to be paid under such Guarantee. If for any reason the amount in respect of interest (or fees or other amounts deemed payment for the use of funds) required by a Guarantee exceeds such maximum permissible amount, the obligation to pay interest under such Guarantee (or fees or other amounts deemed payment for the use of funds) shall be automatically reduced to such maximum permissible amount and any amounts collected by any holder of any Security in excess of the permissible amount shall be automatically applied to reduce the outstanding principal on such Security.

 

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Section 1412. No Obligation to Take Action Against the Company .

Neither the Trustee, any Holder nor any other Person shall have any obligation to enforce or exhaust any rights or remedies or take any other steps under any security for the Obligations or against the Company or any other Person or any Property of the Company or any other Person before the Trustee, such Holder or such other Person is entitled to demand payment and performance by any or all Guarantors of their liabilities and obligations under their Guarantee.

Section 1413. Execution and Delivery .

To evidence its Guarantee set forth in this Article XIV, each Guarantor hereby agrees that this Indenture shall be executed on behalf of such Guarantor by an Officer of such Guarantor, and in the case of any New Och-Ziff Operating Group Entity that becomes a Guarantor in accordance with this Indenture, such New Och-Ziff Operating Group Entity’s Guarantee shall be evidenced by the execution and delivery on behalf of such New Och-Ziff Operating Group Entity of a supplemental indenture hereto by an Officer of such New Och-Ziff Operating Group Entity. If OZ becomes a Guarantor, its Guarantee shall be evidenced solely by the delivery of a Company Request to the Trustee and the execution and delivery to the Trustee of a counterpart to this Indenture and any applicable supplemental indenture hereto, and no Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel shall be required to be delivered in connection therewith.

Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in this Article XIV shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Guarantee on any Securities.

If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates any Security, the Guarantee shall be valid nevertheless.

The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors.

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This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

[Signature page follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, as Company
By:    /s/ Joel M. Frank
Name:   Joel M. Frank

Title:

  Treasurer

 

OZ Management LP, as Guarantor

By: Och-Ziff Holding Corporation, its

general partner

By:    /s/ Joel M. Frank
Name:   Joel M. Frank

Title:

  Chief Financial Officer

 

OZ Advisors LP, as Guarantor

By: Och-Ziff Holding Corporation, its

general partner

By:    /s/ Joel M. Frank
Name:   Joel M. Frank

Title:

  Chief Financial Officer

 

OZ Advisors II LP, as Guarantor
By: Och-Ziff Holding LLC, its general partner
By:    /s/ Joel M. Frank
Name:   Joel M. Frank

Title:

  Chief Financial Officer

[Signature Page to Base Indenture]


Wilmington Trust, National Association,

as Trustee

By:    /s/ Joseph P. O’Donnell
Name:   Joseph P. O’Donnell

Title:

  Vice President

[Signature Page to Base Indenture]


Schedule I

GUARANTORS

OZ Management LP

OZ Advisors LP

OZ Advisors II LP

 

I-1

Exhibit 4.2

 

 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of November 20, 2014

Supplementing that Certain

INDENTURE

Dated as of November 20, 2014

Among

OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC,

THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN

And

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

4.500% Senior Notes due 2019

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

          Page  

ARTICLE I

  

Issuance of Securities

  

Section 1.1

   Issuance of Notes; Principal Amount; Maturity; Title      2   

Section 1.2

   Interest      3   

Section 1.3

   Relationship with Base Indenture      3   

ARTICLE II

  

Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

  

Section 2.1

   Definitions      4   

ARTICLE III

  

Security Forms

  

Section 3.1

   Form Generally      9   

Section 3.2

   Form of Note      10   

Section 3.3

   Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities      19   

ARTICLE IV

  

Remedies

  

Section 4.1

   Events of Default      20   

Section 4.2

   Waiver of Past Defaults      20   

ARTICLE V

  

Redemption of Securities

  

Section 5.1

   Optional Redemption      21   

Section 5.2

   Base Indenture      21   

ARTICLE VI

  

Particular Covenants

  

Section 6.1

   Liens      21   

Section 6.2

   Obligation to Offer to Repurchase Upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event      22   

Section 6.3

   Financial Reports      23   

 

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ARTICLE VII

  

Supplemental Indentures

  

Section 7.1

   Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders of Notes      24   

Section 7.2

   Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders of Notes      25   

ARTICLE VIII

  

Defeasance

  

Section 8.1

   Covenant Defeasance      26   

ARTICLE IX

  

Miscellaneous

  

Section 9.1

   Execution as Supplemental Indenture      27   

Section 9.2

   Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes      27   

Section 9.3

   Separability Clause      27   

Section 9.4

   Successors and Assigns      27   

Section 9.5

   Execution and Counterparts      27   

Section 9.6

   Governing Law      28   

 

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This First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014 (the “ First Supplemental Indenture ”), among Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, having its principal office at 9 West 57th Street, 39 th Floor, New York, New York 10019 (the “ Company ”), the Guarantors party hereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, a national banking association, as Trustee under the Base Indenture (as hereinafter defined) and hereunder (the “ Trustee ”), supplements that certain Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014, among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (the “ Base Indenture ” and subject to Section 1.3 hereof, together with this First Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

The Company and the Guarantors have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee the Base Indenture providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more series of the Company’s senior unsecured debt securities (herein and in the Base Indenture called the “ Securities ”), the forms and terms of which are to be determined as set forth in Sections 201 and 301 of the Base Indenture, and the Guarantees thereof by the Guarantors; and

Section 901 of the Base Indenture provides, among other things, that the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into indentures supplemental to the Base Indenture for, among other things, the purposes of (a) establishing the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301 of the Base Indenture and (b) adding to or changing any of the provisions to the Base Indenture in certain circumstances;

The Company desires to create a series of Securities designated as its “4.500% Senior Notes due 2019” pursuant to the terms of this First Supplemental Indenture.

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture and the Notes (as defined herein) to be issued from time to time, as provided for in the Indenture.

Each Guarantor has duly authorized its Guarantee of the Notes and to provide therefor each Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture.

All things necessary have been done to make this First Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms and to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered under the Indenture and duly issued by the Company, the valid and legally binding obligations of the Company.

All things necessary have been done to make the Guarantees, upon execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture, the valid and legally binding obligations of each Guarantor and to make this First Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of each Guarantor, in accordance with its terms.


ARTICLE I

Issuance of Securities

Section 1.1 Issuance of Notes; Principal Amount; Maturity; Title .

(1) On November 20, 2014, the Company shall issue and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall authenticate, the Initial Notes (as defined herein) substantially in the form set forth in Section 3.2 below, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Base Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture, and with such letters, numbers, or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the Officer executing such Notes, as evidenced by the execution of such Notes.

(2) The Initial Notes to be issued pursuant to the Indenture shall be issued in the aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000 and shall mature on November 20, 2019 (the “ Stated Maturity ”), unless the Notes are redeemed prior to that date as described in Section 5.1. The aggregate principal amount of Initial Notes Outstanding at any time may not exceed $400,000,000, except for Notes issued, authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes of the series pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 of the Base Indenture and except for any Notes which, pursuant to Section 303 of the Base Indenture, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered. The Company may without the consent of the Holders, issue additional Notes hereunder as part of the same series and on the same terms and conditions (and having the same Guarantors) and with the same CUSIP numbers as the Initial Notes, but such additional Notes may be offered at a different offering price or have a different issue date, initial interest accrual date or initial interest payment date (“ Additional Notes ”); provided that if any Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such Additional Notes may not have the same CUSIP number as the Initial Notes; provided further that such Additional Notes issued pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act may initially be issued under a temporary CUSIP during the applicable Restricted Period.

(3) The Notes shall be issued only in fully registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

(4) Pursuant to the terms hereof and Sections 201 and 301 of the Base Indenture, the Company hereby creates a series of Securities designated as the “4.500% Senior Notes due 2019” of the Company (as amended or supplemented from time to time, that are issued under the Indenture, including both the Initial Notes and the Additional Notes, if any, the “ Notes ”), which Notes shall be deemed “Securities” for all purposes under the Base Indenture.

 

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Section 1.2 Interest .

(1) Interest on a Note will accrue at the per annum rate of 4.500%, from and including the date specified on the face of such Note to, but excluding, the date on which the principal thereof is paid, deemed paid, or made available for payment and, in each case, will be paid on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

(2) The Company shall pay interest on the Notes semi-annually in arrears on May 20 and November 20 of each year (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing May 20, 2015.

(3) Interest shall be paid on each Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders of the Notes after the close of business on the Regular Record Date (as defined herein).

(4) Amounts due on the Stated Maturity or earlier Redemption Date of the Notes will be payable at the Corporate Trust Office. The Company shall make payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest or the Repurchase Price in connection with a Change of Control Repurchase Event in respect of the Notes in book-entry form to DTC in immediately available funds, while disbursement of such payments to owners of beneficial interests in Notes in book-entry form will be made in accordance with the procedures of DTC and its participants in effect from time to time. The Company may at any time designate additional Paying Agents or rescind the designation of any Paying Agent or approve a change in the office through which any Paying Agent acts, except that the Company shall be required to maintain a Paying Agent in each Place of Payment for the Notes. Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall impose any service charge for any transfer or exchange of a Note. However, the Company may require Holders of the Notes to pay any taxes or other governmental charges in connection with a transfer or exchange of Notes.

(5) If any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity, or earlier Redemption Date or Repurchase Price Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day in the City of New York or in the Place of Payment, the Company shall make the required payment of principal, premium, if any, and/or interest or Repurchase Price in connection with a Change of Control Repurchase Event on the next succeeding Business Day as if it were made on the date payment was due, and no interest will accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after that Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity or earlier Redemption Date or Repurchase Price Payment Date, as the case may be, to such next succeeding Business Day.

Section 1.3 Relationship with Base Indenture .

The terms and provisions contained in the Base Indenture will constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this First Supplemental Indenture. However, to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture will govern and be controlling.

 

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ARTICLE II

Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application

Section 2.1 Definitions .

For all purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context of this First Supplemental Indenture otherwise requires):

(1) any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this First Supplemental Indenture;

(2) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this First Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision;

(3) “including” means including without limitation;

(4) unless otherwise provided, references to agreements and other instruments shall be deemed to include all amendments and other modifications to such agreements and instruments, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of this Indenture.

The terms defined in this Section 2.1 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context of this First Supplemental Indenture otherwise requires) for all purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto have the respective meanings specified in this Section 2.1. All other terms used in this First Supplemental Indenture that are defined in the Base Indenture, either directly or by reference therein (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context of this First Supplemental Indenture otherwise requires), have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Base Indenture, as in force at the date of this First Supplemental Indenture as originally executed; provided that any term that is defined in both the Base Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture shall have the meaning assigned to such term in this First Supplemental Indenture.

Additional Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(2).

Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global Security or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

Below Investment Grade Rating Event ” means the rating on the Notes is lowered in respect of a Change of Control and the Notes are rated below Investment Grade by both Rating Agencies on any date from the date of the public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control until the end of the 60-day period following public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control (which period shall be extended until the ratings are announced if during such 60-day period the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by either of the Rating Agencies); provided that a Below

 

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Investment Grade Rating Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Repurchase Event hereunder) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not announce or publicly confirm or inform the Company in writing at its request that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Rating Event).

Change of Control ” means the occurrence of the following:

 

  (1) the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Credit Group to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision), other than to a Continuing OZ Person; or

 

  (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision), other than a Continuing OZ Person, becomes (A) the beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act or any successor provision) of a majority of the voting interests in (i) OZ or (ii) one or more Guarantors comprising all or substantially all of the assets of the Credit Group and (B) entitled to receive a Majority Economic Interest in connection with such transaction.

Change of Control Offer ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.2(1).

Change of Control Repurchase Event ” means the occurrence of a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.

Clearstream ” means Clearstream Banking, S.A.

Commission ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor entity.

Comparable Treasury Issue ” means the United States Treasury security or securities selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of a comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Notes.

Comparable Treasury Price ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date or, if the Company obtains only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation, such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation.

 

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Continuing OZ Person ” means, immediately prior to and immediately following any relevant date of determination, (i) an individual who (a) is an executive managing director of any of the general partners of the Och-Ziff Operating Group entities (or the equivalent officers at the relevant time) and has been appointed as such in the ordinary course of business or (b) formerly served as an executive managing director, (ii) any Person in which any one or more of such individuals directly or indirectly, singly or as a group, holds a majority of the voting interests, (iii) any Person that is the spouse (including a surviving spouse) or another immediate family member of such individual or individuals, (iv) the estate and lawful heirs of any Continuing OZ Person or (v) any trust, family partnership, foundation, family limited liability company or other estate planning vehicle for which such individual acts as a trustee or beneficiary, provided that the investment decisions relating to any equity interests of the Guarantors held by such trusts or other entities are controlled directly or indirectly by one or more of the Persons specified in clauses (i) through (iv) above (any Person referred to in clause (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) is referred to as a “Related Party”). For the avoidance of doubt, each of the executive managing directors of any of the general partners of the Och-Ziff Operating Group entities as of the Issue Date and any Related Party of any such executive managing director shall be deemed to be a Continuing OZ Person.

Covenant Defeasance ” has the meaning specified in Section 8.1.

DTC ” means The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation.

EDGAR ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.3(1).

Euroclear ” means Euroclear Bank, S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear system.

Event of Default ” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1.

Fitch ” means Fitch Ratings Inc. or any successor thereto.

Independent Investment Banker ” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

Initial Notes ” means Notes in an aggregate principal amount of $400,000,000 initially issued under this First Supplemental Indenture in accordance with Section 1.1(2).

Interest Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.2(2).

Investment Grade ” means a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Fitch) and BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P) (or, in each case, if such Rating Agency ceases to rate the Notes for reasons outside of the Company’s control, the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any Rating Agency selected by the Company as a replacement Rating Agency).

 

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Issue Date ” means November 20, 2014.

Majority Economic Interest ” means any right or entitlement to receive more than 50% of the equity distributions or partner allocations (whether such right or entitlement results from the ownership of partner or other equity interests, securities, instruments or agreements of any kind) made to all holders of partner or other equity interests in the Credit Group (other than entities within the Credit Group).

Notes ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1(4).

Och-Ziff Operating Group ” means, collectively, OZ Management LP, OZ Advisors LP and OZ Advisors II LP.

Permitted Liens ” means (a) liens on voting stock or profit participating equity interests of any Subsidiary existing at the time such entity becomes a direct or indirect Subsidiary of OZ or is merged into a direct or indirect Subsidiary of OZ (provided such liens are not created or incurred in connection with such transaction and do not extend to any other Subsidiary), (b) statutory liens, liens for taxes or assessments or governmental liens not yet due or delinquent or which can be paid without penalty or are being contested in good faith, (c) liens granted by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary that is the general partner, manager, managing member (or the equivalent of any of the foregoing) of any OZ Fund in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past or industry practices (i) securing indebtedness of such OZ Fund or any subsidiary thereof on the right of such general partner, manager, managing member (or the equivalent of any of the foregoing) to issue or make capital calls in its capacity as general partner, manager, managing member (or the equivalent of any of the foregoing) of such OZ Fund or its subsidiaries or (ii) on the equity interests of any OZ Fund to secure indebtedness of such OZ Fund or any subsidiary thereof (or a permitted guarantee thereof), (d) other liens of a similar nature as those described above, (e) liens existing on the Issue Date, (f) liens securing indebtedness for money borrowed in an aggregate amount outstanding at any one time not to exceed $300 million, and (g) any lien extending, renewing, restating or refunding any lien permitted hereby without increase of the principal amount (plus all accrued interest on the indebtedness and the amount of all fees, costs and expenses, including premiums and defeasance costs, incurred in connection therewith) of the indebtedness secured thereby.

Rating Agency ” means:

 

  (1) each of Fitch and S&P; and

 

  (2) if either of Fitch or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Fitch or S&P, or both, as the case may be.

Reference Treasury Dealer ” means each of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or their respective affiliates which are primary U.S. Government securities dealers, and their respective successors; provided that if J.P.

 

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Morgan Securities LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or their respective affiliates shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in The City of New York (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer.

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations ” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 3:30 p.m. New York time on the third business day preceding such Redemption Date.

Registrar ” means the Security Registrar for the Notes, which shall initially be Wilmington Trust, National Association, or any successor entity thereof, subject to replacement as set forth in the Base Indenture.

Regular Record Date ” for interest payable in respect of any Note on any Interest Payment Date means the May 15 or November 15, as applicable, immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day).

Regulation S Permanent Global Note ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1(3).

Regulation S Temporary Global Note ” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1(3).

Related Party ” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Continuing OZ Person.”

Repurchase Price ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.2(1).

Repurchase Price Payment Date ” has the meaning specified in Section 6.2(3)(iii).

Restricted Period ,” with respect to any Notes, means the period of 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (a) the day on which such Notes are first offered to persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in reliance on Regulation S, notice of which day shall be promptly given by the Company to the Trustee, and (b) the Issue Date, and with respect to any Additional Notes, it means the comparable period of 40 consecutive days.

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

Stated Maturity ” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1.(2).

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity or interpolated (on a day count basis) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.

 

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ARTICLE III

Security Forms

Section 3.1 Form Generally .

(1) The Notes shall be in substantially the form set forth in Section 3.2 of this Article III, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Base Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefore or as may, consistent herewith, be determined by the Officer executing such Notes, as evidenced by the execution thereof. All Notes shall be in fully registered form.

(2) The Notes shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officer of the Company executing such Notes, as evidenced by the execution of such Notes.

(3) Upon their original issuance, the Notes sold pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons.

Notes sold pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act initially shall be represented by one or more Global Securities in fully registered, global form without interest coupons (collectively, the “ Regulation S Temporary Global Note ”), which shall be registered in the name of the Depository or the nominee of the Depository for the accounts of designated agents holding on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream.

Following the termination of the Restricted Period, beneficial interests in the Regulation S Temporary Global Note shall be exchanged for beneficial interests in a permanent Global Security (the “ Regulation S Permanent Global Note ”) pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Depository. Simultaneously with the authentication of the Regulation S Permanent Global Note, the Trustee shall cancel the Regulation S Temporary Global Note. The aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Temporary Global Note and the Regulation S Permanent Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, in connection with transfers of interest as hereinafter provided.

Each such Global Security shall be duly executed by the Company, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and shall be registered in the name of DTC, as Depositary, or its nominee, and deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for DTC. Beneficial interests in the Global Securities will be shown on, and transfers will only be made through, the records maintained by DTC and its participants, including Clearstream and the Euroclear System.

 

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Section 3.2 Form of Note .

[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]

[THE FOLLOWING LEGEND SHALL APPEAR ON THE FACE OF EACH GLOBAL SECURITY SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT:

THIS SECURITY (INCLUDING THE RELATED GUARANTEES) HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC OR ANY AFFILIATE OF OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC, OZ MANAGEMENT LP OR OZ ADVISORS II LP OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO

 

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OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATIONS AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.]

[THE FOLLOWING LEGEND SHALL APPEAR ON THE FACE OF EACH GLOBAL SECURITY SOLD PURSUANT TO REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT:

THIS SECURITY (INCLUDING THE RELATED GUARANTEES) HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS 40 DAYS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC OR ANY AFFILIATE OF OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC, OZ MANAGEMENT LP, OZ ADVISORS LP OR OZ ADVISORS II LP OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS NOT A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER AND THAT IS PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH

 

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ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D),(E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATIONS AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.]

[THE FOLLOWING LEGEND SHALL APPEAR ON THE FACE OF EACH GLOBAL SECURITY:

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF. TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) OR ITS NOMINEE OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.].

[THE FOLLOWING LEGEND SHALL APPEAR ON THE FACE OF EACH GLOBAL SECURITY FOR WHICH DTC IS TO BE THE DEPOSITARY:

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]

 

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Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC

4.500% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2019

 

No.                     

   Principal Amount (US)$                     

CUSIP NO.                     

  

Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor Person under the First Supplemental Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of                      United States Dollars (U.S.$                      ) on [•], 201[•] and to pay interest thereon, from [•], 201[•], or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to but excluding the next Interest Payment Date, which shall be May 20 and November 20 of each year, commencing [•], 201[•], at the per annum rate of 4.500%, or as such rate may be adjusted pursuant to the terms hereof, per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment.

The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the First Supplemental Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the May 15 or November 15 immediately prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day). Except as otherwise provided in the First Supplemental Indenture, any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes not less than 10 days prior to the Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Notes may be listed, all as more fully provided in the Indenture. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.

Payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on this Note and the Repurchase Price in connection with a Change of Control Repurchase Event will be made at the Corporate Trust Office, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. With respect to Global Securities, the Company will make such payments by wire transfer of immediately available funds to DTC, or its nominee, as registered owner of the Global Securities. With respect to certificated Notes, the Company will make such payments by wire transfer of immediately available funds to a United States Dollar account maintained in the contiguous United States to each Holder of an aggregate principal amount of Notes in excess of U.S. $5,000,000 that has furnished wire instructions in writing to the Trustee no later than 15 days prior to the relevant payment date. If a Holder of a certificated Note (i) does not furnish such wire instructions as provided in the preceding sentence or (ii) holds U.S. $5,000,000 or less aggregate principal amount of Notes, the Company will make such payments by mailing a check to such Holder’s registered address.

 

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Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC,

as Issuer

By:    
      Name:
      Title:

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

By:    
Authorized Signatory

[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]

1. Indenture . This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company designated as its “4.500% Senior Notes due 2019” (herein called the “ Notes ”), issued under a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014 (the “ First Supplemental Indenture ”), to an indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “ Base Indenture ” and herein with the First Supplemental Indenture, collectively, the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, the Guarantors and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The aggregate principal amount of Initial Notes Outstanding at any time may not exceed $400,000,000 in aggregate principal amount, except for, or in lieu of, other Notes of the series pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 of the Base Indenture and except for any Notes which, pursuant to Section 303 of the Base Indenture, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered. The First

 

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Supplemental Indenture pursuant to which this Note is issued provides that Additional Notes may be issued thereunder. All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern.

2. Optional Redemption . The Company may at its option redeem all or a part of the Notes, upon not more than 60 nor less than 30 days prior notice, at a redemption price in cash equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the aggregate principal amount of any Notes being redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

3. Change of Control Repurchase Event . If a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Notes to repurchase all or any part (provided that each new Note will be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase, pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.2 of the First Supplemental Indenture.

4. Global Security . If this Note is a Global Security, then, in the event of a deposit or withdrawal of an interest in this Note, including an exchange, transfer, redemption, repurchase or conversion of this Note in part only, the Trustee, as custodian of the Depositary, shall make an adjustment on its records to reflect such deposit or withdrawal in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

5. Defaults and Remedies . If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal of all the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Upon payment of the amount of principal so declared due and payable, all obligations of the Company in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest on the Notes shall terminate.

No Holder of Notes shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to the Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator or sequestrator (or similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder (except actions for payment of overdue principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on such Notes in accordance with its terms), unless (i) such Holder has previously given written notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of an Event of Default and the continuance thereto with respect to the Notes, specifying an Event of Default, as required under the Indenture; (ii) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee under the Indenture; (iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request; (iv) the Trustee has failed to institute any such proceeding for 60

 

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days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity; and (v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of the Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under the Indenture, except in the manner provided in the Indenture and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.

The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal of, and premium, if any, or interest hereon, on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

6. Amendment, Supplement and Waiver . The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note or such other Note. Certain modifications or amendments to the Indenture require the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair (without the consent of the Holder hereof) the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

7. Registration and Transfer . As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registerable on the Security Register. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of this Note at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and principal amount. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, at the option of the Holder, this Note may be exchanged for one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and principal amount, upon surrender of this Note at such office or agency. Upon such surrender by the Holder, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and principal amount. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall be duly endorsed (if so required by the Company or the Trustee), or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and

 

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the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

8. Guarantee . As expressly set forth in the Base Indenture, payment of this Note is jointly and severally and fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantors that have become and continue to be Guarantors pursuant to the Indenture. Guarantors may be released from their obligations under the Indenture and their Guarantees under the circumstances specified in the Base Indenture.

9 Governing Law . THE INDENTURE, THIS SECURITY AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.

ABBREVIATIONS

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM (= tenant in common)

TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties (Cust))

JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common)

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT (= under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act )

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

 

(I) or (we) assign and transfer this

Note to:

  

 

  
(Insert assignee’s legal name)
(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
 
 
 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

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and irrevocably appoint                                                                                                      , as agent, to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

In connection with the assignment of the Notes evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the date that is one year or six months, as the case may be (as specified in Rule 144(d) under the Securities Act), after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any affiliate of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW:

 

1    ¨    acquired for the undersigned’s own account, without transfer; or
2    ¨    transferred to the Company; or
3    ¨    transferred pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”); or
4    ¨    Transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or
5    ¨    transferred pursuant to and in compliance with Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act; or
6    ¨    transferred to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3), or (7) under the Securities Act) that, prior to such transfer, furnished the Trustee with a signed letter containing certain representations and agreements relating to the transfer; or
7    ¨    transferred pursuant to another available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any Person other than the registered holder thereof; provided , however , that if box (5), (6) or (7) is checked, the Company may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, in its sole discretion, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company may reasonably request to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act, such as the exemption provided by Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

Dated:  

 

    Signature:  

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee:      

 

   

 

(Signature must be guaranteed)     Signature
       
                 

The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to Rule 17Ad-15 of the Securities Exchange Act.

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (1) OR (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Dated:     

    

Signature:

[SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN NOTE]

Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC

4.500% Senior Note due 2019

The initial principal amount of this Note is $              . The following increases or decreases in this Note have been made:

 

Date

  

Amount of
decrease in
Principal
Amount of this
Note

   Amount of
increase in
Principal
Amount of this
Note
   Principal
Amount of this
Note following
such decrease
or increase
   Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee] (1)

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

(1) Insert for Global Securities only

Section 3.3 Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities .

(1) The transfer and exchange of Global Securities or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with the Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth in the Indenture and in the Global Security) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor. A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Security to another Global Security shall deliver to the Security Registrar a duly completed Assignment Form in the form attached to the Global Security, any applicable certifications or opinions required by the Assignment Form and a written order given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in the Global Security. The Security Registrar shall, in accordance with such instructions, instruct the Depositary to credit to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Security and to debit the account of the Person making the transfer the beneficial interest in the Global Security being transferred.

 

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(2) If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Security to a beneficial interest in another Global Security, the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Security to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of the Global Security from which such interest is being transferred.

(3) If the Company determines (upon the advice of counsel and such other certifications and evidence as the Company may reasonably require) that a Note is eligible for resale after the applicable Resale Restriction Termination Date (as defined in the applicable Note) pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or a successor provision) without the need for current public information and that the applicable legend in either the first or second paragraph of Section 3.2 hereto (a “Restricted Legend”) is no longer necessary or appropriate in order to ensure that subsequent transfers of the Note (or a beneficial interest therein) are effected in compliance with the Securities Act, the Company may instruct the Trustee to cancel the Note and issue to the Holder thereof (or to its transferee) a new Note in any authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, registered in the name of the Holder thereof (or its transferee), that does not bear the Restricted Legend, and the Trustee, upon (i) receipt of a Company Order and the documents required by Section 102 of the Base Indenture and (ii) in the case of Global Securities, compliance by the Company with DTC’s applicable procedures relating to the exchange and/or issuance of such new Note, will comply with such instruction.

ARTICLE IV

Remedies

Section 4.1 Events of Default .

Event of Default ” means, wherever used herein with respect to the Notes, any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(1) an Event of Default pursuant to Section 501 of the Base Indenture; or

(2) the Company’s failure to pay the Repurchase Price when due in connection with a Change of Control Repurchase Event.

Section 4.2 Waiver of Past Defaults .

Section 512 of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes, and, with respect to the Notes, any reference to Section 512 in the Base Indenture shall instead be deemed to refer to this Section 4.2.

 

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Subject to Section 502 of the Base Indenture, the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, upon notice to the Company and the Trustee, waive any past Default hereunder with respect to the Notes and its consequences, except a default

(1) in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Note or the Repurchase Price in connection with a Change of Control Repurchase Event; or

(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof or of the Base Indenture which under Article VII hereof or under Article IX of the Base Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected.

Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this First Supplemental Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

ARTICLE V

Redemption of Securities

Section 5.1 Optional Redemption .

The Notes will be redeemable in whole or in part, at the Company’s option at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the aggregate principal amount of any Notes being redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on any Notes being redeemed (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Section 5.2 Base Indenture .

Any redemption of the Notes under Section 5.1 above shall be in accordance with Article XI of the Base Indenture (Redemption of Securities).

ARTICLE VI

Particular Covenants

Section 6.1 Liens .

The Credit Parties shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of their respective Subsidiaries to, create, assume, incur or guarantee any indebtedness for money borrowed that is secured by a pledge, mortgage, lien or other encumbrance (other than Permitted Liens) on any voting stock or profit participating equity interests of their respective Subsidiaries (to the extent of their ownership of such voting stock or profit participating equity interests) or any entity that succeeds (whether by merger, consolidation, sale of assets or otherwise) to all or any substantial

 

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part of the business of any of such Subsidiaries, without providing that the Notes (together with, if the Credit Parties shall so determine, any other indebtedness of, or guarantee by, the Credit Parties ranking equally with the Notes and existing as of the closing of the offering of the Notes or thereafter created) will be secured equally and ratably with or prior to all other indebtedness secured by such pledge, mortgage, lien or other encumbrance on the voting stock or profit participating equity interests of any such entities for so long as such other indebtedness is so secured. This Section 6.1 shall not limit the ability of the Credit Parties or their Subsidiaries to incur indebtedness or other obligations secured by liens on assets other than the voting stock or profit participating equity interests of the Credit Parties and their respective Subsidiaries.

Section 6.2 Obligation to Offer to Repurchase Upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event .

(1) If a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes pursuant to Article V, the Company shall make an offer to each Holder of Notes to repurchase all or any part (provided that each new note will be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes (the “ Change of Control Offer ”) at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of purchase (the “ Repurchase Price ”).

(2) In connection with any Change of Control related to a Change of Control Repurchase Event and any particular reduction in the rating on the Notes, the Company shall request from the Rating Agencies each such Rating Agency’s written confirmation that such reduction in the rating on the Notes was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of any Below Investment Grade Rating Event). The Company shall promptly deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee certifying as to whether or not such confirmation has been received or denied.

(3) Within 30 days following any Change of Control Repurchase Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after the public announcement of the Change of Control, the Company shall give notice to each Holder of Notes, with a written copy to the Trustee. Such notice shall state:

(i) a description of the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Repurchase Event;

(ii) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 6.2;

(iii) the Repurchase Price and the date on which the Repurchase Price will be paid, which date shall be a Business Day that is no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the “ Repurchase Price Payment Date ”); and

 

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(iv) if the notice is given prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, a statement that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Repurchase Event occurring on or prior to the Repurchase Price Payment Date.

(4) The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes as a result of a Change of Control Repurchase Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Notes set forth in the First Supplemental Indenture, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Notes set forth in this First Supplemental Indenture by virtue of such conflict.

(5) On the Repurchase Price Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:

(i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;

(ii) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Repurchase Price in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and

(iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being purchased.

The Paying Agent shall promptly deliver to each Holder of Notes properly tendered the Repurchase Price for such Notes, and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate (if applicable) and deliver (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder of Notes properly tendered a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Notes surrendered; provided that each new Note will be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

(6) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Notes upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event if (i) a third party makes an offer in respect of the Notes in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all the Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer or (ii) the Company has given written notice of a redemption as provided under Section 5.2; provided that the Company has not failed to pay the Redemption Price on the Redemption Date.

Section 6.3 Financial Reports .

Section 704 of the Base Indenture shall apply to the reports, information, and documents delivered under this Section 6.3.

 

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(1) For so long as OZ is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall provide (or cause its Affiliates to provide) to the Trustee, unless available on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“ EDGAR ”) (or successor system), within 15 days after OZ files the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which OZ may file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. In connection with any annual report or quarterly report of OZ, the Company will provide (or cause its Affiliates to provide) to the Trustee, unless available on EDGAR (or successor system), unaudited reconciliation indicating the differences between the financial information of OZ and the financial information of the Credit Parties on a combined and consolidated basis, taken as a whole, provided that, the requirement to deliver such unaudited reconciliation shall not be applicable at any time OZ guarantees the Notes. The Trustee may conclusively presume, and shall incur no liability in such presumption, that OZ has not filed any such reports, information, documents and other reports with the Commission that are not available on EDGAR (or successor system) unless and until it shall have received written notice from the Company to the contrary.

(2) For so long as any of the Notes remain Outstanding and have not become freely tradable without restrictions by non-affiliates of the Credit Parties pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Company shall, or shall cause its Affiliates to, furnish to the Holders of the Notes and prospective investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act for the Company and, unless available on EDGAR (or successor system), for OZ (as if such rule applied to it); provided , however , that if at any time the Credit Parties are no longer consolidated with OZ, or OZ does not guarantee the Notes, such information shall be provided for either (i) the Credit Parties on a combined and consolidated basis, taken as a whole or (ii) any Person that directly or indirectly controls the Credit Parties and guarantees the Notes (in each case, as if such rule applied to such Persons). The Company shall, or shall cause its Affiliates to, make the above information and reports available to securities analysts and prospective investors upon request.

ARTICLE VII

Supplemental Indentures

Section 7.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders of Notes .

For the purposes of the Base Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture, no amendment to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency in this First Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture or the Notes made solely to conform this First Supplemental Indenture, the Base Indenture or the Notes to the Description of the Notes contained in the Company’s offering memorandum dated November 13, 2014, shall be deemed to adversely affect the interests of the Holders of any Notes.

 

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Section 7.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders of Notes .

Section 902 of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes, and, with respect to the Notes, any reference to Section 902 in the Base Indenture shall instead be deemed to refer to this Section 7.2.

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange for the Notes), by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of such Notes under the Indenture; provided , however , no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any Note;

(2) reduce the principal amount of any Note which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 and Section 503 of the Base Indenture, or reduce the rate of or extend the time of payment of interest on any Note;

(3) reduce the Repurchase Price in connection with a Change of Control Repurchase Event;

(4) reduce any premium payable upon the redemption of or change the date on which any Note may or must be redeemed;

(5) change the coin or currency in which the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Note is payable;

(6) impair the right of any Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date);

(7) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes the consent of whose Holders is required for modification or amendment of this First Supplemental Indenture or the Base Indenture or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of the Base Indenture or this First Supplemental Indenture or certain defaults thereunder and hereunder and their consequences) provided for in the Base Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture

(8) modify any of the provisions of this Section 7.2 or Section 512 or Section 1005 of the Base Indenture, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby; provided , however ,

 

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that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in this Section 7.2 and Section 1005 of the Base Indenture, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(7) of the Base Indenture;

(9) subordinate the Notes or any Guarantee of a Guarantor in respect thereof to any other obligation of the Company or such Guarantor;

(10) modify the terms of any Guarantee in a manner materially adverse to the Holders of the Notes; or

(11) modify clauses (1) through (10) above.

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 7.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

In addition, the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes, waive compliance with the Credit Parties’ covenants described under Sections 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 of this First Supplemental Indenture and Article VIII of the Base Indenture.

ARTICLE VIII

Defeasance

Section 8.1 Covenant Defeasance .

Section 1303 of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes, and, with respect to the Notes, any reference to Section 1303 in the Base Indenture shall instead be deemed to refer to this Section 8.1.

Upon the Company’s exercise of its option, if any, to have this Section 8.1 applied to the Notes, or if this Section 8.1 shall otherwise apply to the Notes, (1) the Company and the Guarantors shall be released from their respective obligations and any covenants provided pursuant to Article VI of this First Supplemental Indenture and Section 301(18), Section 801, Section 901(1), Section 901(12) and Section 1402 of the Base Indenture for the benefit of the Holders of such Notes and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Section 501(4) and Section 501(8) of the Base Indenture and Section 4.1(2) of the First Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to such Notes and the related Guarantees as provided in Section 1303 of the Base Indenture on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 of the Base Indenture are satisfied (hereinafter called “ Covenant Defeasance ”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Notes and Guarantees, each of the Company and the Guarantors may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of the Base Indenture, this First Supplemental Indenture and such Notes and Guarantees shall be unaffected thereby.

 

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ARTICLE IX

Miscellaneous

Section 9.1 Execution as Supplemental Indenture .

This First Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture shall henceforth be read together, and any conflict between the Base Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture shall be resolved as provided in Section 1.3 of this First Supplemental Indenture.

Section 9.2 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes .

The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company and the Guarantors, as the case may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture or of the Securities or the Guarantees. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Notes or the proceeds thereof.

Section 9.3 Separability Clause .

In case any provision in this First Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 9.4 Successors and Assigns .

All covenants and agreements in this First Supplemental Indenture by the Company and the Guarantors shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Trustee in this First Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

Section 9.5 Execution and Counterparts .

This First Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. This exchange of copies of this First Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original First Supplemental Indenture and signature pages for all purposes.

 

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Section 9.6 Governing Law .

This First Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of law.

[Signature page to follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

Och-Ziff Finance Co. LLC, as Company
By:    /s/ Joel M. Frank
Name:   Joel M. Frank
Title:   Treasurer

 

OZ Management LP, as Guarantor
By: Och-Ziff Holding Corporation, its general partner
By:    /s/ Joel M. Frank
Name:   Joel M. Frank
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

OZ Advisors LP, as Guarantor
By: Och-Ziff Holding Corporation, its general partner
By:    /s/ Joel M. Frank
Name:   Joel M. Frank
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

OZ Advisors II LP, as Guarantor
By: Och-Ziff Holding LLC, its general partner
By:    /s/ Joel M. Frank
Name:   Joel M. Frank
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]


Wilmington Trust, National Association,

as Trustee

By:    /s/ Joseph P. O’Donnell
Name:   Joseph P. O’Donnell
Title:   Vice President

[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Copy

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

dated as of November 20, 2014

among

OZ MANAGEMENT LP,

as Borrower

OZ ADVISORS LP,

as a Guarantor,

OZ ADVISORS II LP,

as a Guarantor,

OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC,

as a Guarantor

CERTAIN OTHER GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME,

as Guarantors,

VARIOUS LENDERS,

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent,

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA,

as Syndication Agent

and

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA,

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

 

 

$150,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  
ARTICLE 1   
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION   
Section 1.01  

Definitions

     1   
Section 1.02  

Accounting Terms

     24   
Section 1.03  

Subject Transactions

     25   
Section 1.04  

Interpretation, etc.

     26   
ARTICLE 2   
LOANS   
Section 2.01  

Loans

     26   
Section 2.02  

Pro Rata Shares; Availability of Funds

     27   
Section 2.03  

Use of Proceeds

     28   
Section 2.04  

Evidence of Debt; Register; Lenders’ Books and Records; Notes

     28   
Section 2.05  

Interest on Loans

     29   
Section 2.06  

Conversion/Continuation

     30   
Section 2.07  

Default Interest

     31   
Section 2.08  

Fees

     31   
Section 2.09  

Scheduled Payments

     31   
Section 2.10  

Voluntary Prepayments

     31   
Section 2.11  

Application of Prepayments

     33   
Section 2.12  

General Provisions Regarding Payments

     33   
Section 2.13  

Ratable Sharing

     34   
Section 2.14  

Making or Maintaining Eurodollar Rate Loans

     35   
Section 2.15  

Increased Costs; Capital Adequacy

     37   
Section 2.16  

Taxes; Withholding

     39   
Section 2.17  

Obligation to Mitigate

     42   
Section 2.18  

Increase of Commitments

     43   
Section 2.19  

Removal or Replacement of a Lender

     44   
ARTICLE 3   
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT   
Section 3.01  

Closing Date

     45   
Section 3.02  

Further Conditions to All Loans

     47   
Section 3.03  

Notices

     48   
ARTICLE 4   
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES   
Section 4.01  

Organization; Requisite Power and Authority; Qualification

     48   
Section 4.02  

Equity Interests and Ownership

     48   

 

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Section 4.03  

Due Authorization

     49   
Section 4.04  

No Conflict

     49   
Section 4.05  

Governmental Consents

     49   
Section 4.06  

Binding Obligation

     49   
Section 4.07  

Historical Financial Statements

     49   
Section 4.08  

No Material Adverse Effect

     50   
Section 4.09  

Adverse Proceedings, etc.

     50   
Section 4.10  

Payment of Taxes

     50   
Section 4.11  

Title to Properties

     50   
Section 4.12  

No Defaults

     50   
Section 4.13  

Investment Company Act

     51   
Section 4.14  

Use of Proceeds

     51   
Section 4.15  

Employee Benefit Plans

     51   
Section 4.16  

Compliance with Statutes, etc.

     52   
Section 4.17  

Disclosure

     52   
Section 4.18  

Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions

     52   
ARTICLE 5   
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS   
Section 5.01  

Financial Statements and Other Reports

     53   
Section 5.02  

Existence

     55   
Section 5.03  

Payment of Taxes

     55   
Section 5.04  

Maintenance of Properties

     55   
Section 5.05  

Insurance

     55   
Section 5.06  

Books and Records; Inspections

     56   
Section 5.07  

Compliance with Laws

     56   
Section 5.08  

Additional Guarantors

     56   
Section 5.09  

Further Assurances

     57   
ARTICLE 6   
NEGATIVE COVENANTS   
Section 6.01  

Indebtedness

     57   
Section 6.02  

Liens

     61   
Section 6.03  

Restricted Payments

     64   
Section 6.04  

Restrictions on OZ Subsidiary Distributions

     66   
Section 6.05  

Fundamental Changes; Disposition of Assets

     67   
Section 6.06  

Transactions with Shareholders and Affiliates

     69   
Section 6.07  

Conduct of Business

     70   
Section 6.08  

Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents and Certain Agreements

     70   
Section 6.09  

Fiscal Year

     70   
Section 6.10  

Financial Covenants

     70   
Section 6.11  

Jurisdiction of Formation

     71   

 

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ARTICLE 7   
GUARANTY   
Section 7.01  

Guaranty of the Obligations

     71   
Section 7.02  

Contribution by Guarantors

     71   
Section 7.03  

Payment by Guarantors

     72   
Section 7.04  

Liability of Guarantors Absolute

     72   
Section 7.05  

Waivers by Guarantors

     74   
Section 7.06  

Guarantors’ Rights of Subrogation, Contribution, etc.

     74   
Section 7.07  

Subordination of Other Obligations

     75   
Section 7.08  

Continuing Guaranty

     75   
Section 7.09  

Authority of Guarantors or Borrower

     75   
Section 7.10  

Financial Condition of Borrower

     75   
Section 7.11  

Bankruptcy, etc.

     76   
Section 7.12  

Discharge of Guaranty Upon Sale of Guarantor

     76   
Section 7.13  

Release of Guarantor

     77   
ARTICLE 8   
EVENTS OF DEFAULT   
Section 8.01  

Events of Default

     77   
Section 8.02  

Borrowers’ Right to Cure

     79   
ARTICLE 9   
AGENT   
Section 9.01  

Appointment of Administrative Agent

     80   
Section 9.02  

Powers and Duties

     80   
Section 9.03  

General Immunity

     81   
Section 9.04  

Administrative Agent Entitled to Act as Lender

     82   
Section 9.05  

Lenders’ Representations, Warranties and Acknowledgment

     83   
Section 9.06  

Right to Indemnity

     83   
Section 9.07  

Successor Administrative Agent

     83   
Section 9.08  

Guaranty

     84   
Section 9.09  

Withholding Taxes

     84   
ARTICLE 10   
MISCELLANEOUS   
Section 10.01  

Notices

     85   
Section 10.02  

Expenses

     86   
Section 10.03  

Indemnity

     87   
Section 10.04  

Set-Off

     87   
Section 10.05  

Amendments and Waivers

     88   
Section 10.06  

Successors and Assigns; Participations

     89   
Section 10.07  

Independence of Covenants

     93   
Section 10.08  

Survival of Representations, Warranties and Agreements

     93   

 

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Section 10.09  

No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative

     93   
Section 10.10  

Marshalling; Payments Set Aside

     93   
Section 10.11  

Severability

     94   
Section 10.12  

Obligations Several; Independent Nature of Lenders’ Rights

     94   
Section 10.13  

Non-Recourse Nature of Obligations

     94   
Section 10.14  

Headings

     94   
Section 10.15  

Applicable Law

     94   
Section 10.16  

Consent to Jurisdiction

     94   
Section 10.17  

Waiver of Jury Trial

     95   
Section 10.18  

Confidentiality

     95   
Section 10.19  

Usury Savings Clause

     96   
Section 10.20  

Counterparts

     97   
Section 10.21  

Effectiveness

     97   
Section 10.22  

Entire Agreement

     97   
Section 10.23  

PATRIOT Act

     97   
Section 10.24  

Electronic Execution of Assignments

     97   
Section 10.25  

No Fiduciary Duty

     98   

 

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APPENDICES:

 

A       Commitments
B       Notice Addresses, Principal Office

SCHEDULES:

 

4.07       Liabilities
4.10       Payment of Taxes
6.04       Certain Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions

EXHIBITS:

 

A-1       Funding Notice
A-2       Conversion/Continuation Notice
B       Note
C       Compliance Certificate
D       Assignment Agreement
E       Certificate re Non-Bank Status
F       Closing Date Certificate
G       Counterpart Agreement
H       Subordination Provision
I       Form of Reconciliation Statement

 

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CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

This CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT, dated as of November 20, 2014, is entered into by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), as borrower, OZ ADVISORS LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“ Advisors ”), as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“ Advisors II ”), as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“ Finco ”), as a Guarantor, CERTAIN OTHER GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME, the Lenders party hereto from time to time, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. (“ JPMCB ”), as Administrative Agent (together with its permitted successors in such capacity, “ Administrative Agent ”), GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners.

RECITALS:

WHEREAS, capitalized terms used in these Recitals and the preamble to this Agreement shall have the respective meanings set forth for such terms in Section 1.01 hereof;

WHEREAS, Lenders have agreed to extend an unsecured revolving credit facility to Borrower, in an initial aggregate principal amount not to exceed $150,000,000, in accordance with terms and conditions hereof.

Article 1

D EFINITIONS AND I NTERPRETATION

Section 1.01 Definitions . The following terms used herein, including in the preamble, Recitals, Exhibits and Schedules hereto, shall have the following meanings:

Accession Agreement ” as defined in Section 2.18(a).

Adjusted Eurodollar Rate ” means, for any Interest Rate Determination Date with respect to an Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the rate per annum obtained by dividing (i) (a) the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; in each case the “ Screen Rate ”) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such Interest Rate Determination Date; or (b) in the event the rates referenced in the preceding clause (a) are not available at such time for such Interest Period (an “ Impacted Interest Period ”) with respect to Dollars, the Interpolated Rate at such time, by (ii) an amount equal to (x) one minus (y) the Applicable Reserve Requirements; provided that if the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for all purposes of this Agreement. “ Interpolated Rate ” means, at any time, for any Impacted Interest Period, the


rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the two relevant Screen Rates) determined by 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 Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available in Dollars) that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period and (b) the Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available in Dollars) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.

Administrative Agent ” as defined in the preamble hereto.

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

Adverse Proceeding ” means any action, suit, proceeding, hearing, governmental investigation, claim or dispute at law or in equity, in arbitration or before or by any Governmental Authority pending (or in the case of governmental investigations, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, pending) or, to the knowledge of any Credit Party, threatened in writing against Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, any other Guarantor or any OZ Subsidiary, or any property of Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, any other Guarantor or any OZ Subsidiary.

Advisors ” as defined in the preamble hereto.

Advisors II ” as defined in the preamble hereto.

Affected Lender ” as defined in Section 2.14(b).

Affected Loans ” as defined in Section 2.14(b).

Affiliate ” means, as applied to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, that Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise.

Agent Affiliates ” as defined in Section 10.01(b)(iii).

Aggregate Amounts Due ” as defined in Section 2.13.

Aggregate Payments ” as defined in Section 7.02.

Agreement ” means this Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Aircraft Loan” as defined in Section 6.01(p).

 

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Anti-Corruption Laws ” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to Borrower, any other Credit Party or their respective Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.

Applicable Margin ” means, at any time, (i) in the case of interest calculable with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the percentage per annum set forth in the column headed “Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate” opposite the applicable Debt Rating below, (ii) in the case of interest calculable with respect to any Base Rate Loan, the percentage per annum set forth below in the column headed “Applicable Margin for Base Rate” opposite the applicable Debt Rating below, and (iii) in the case of Commitment Fees, the percentage per annum set forth in the column headed “Commitment Fees” opposite the applicable Debt Rating below:

 

Tier

  

Debt Rating

(S&P/Fitch)

   Applicable
Margin for Base
Rate
    Applicable
Margin for
Eurodollar Rate
    Commitment
Fee Rate
 

I

   A- /A-      0     1.00     0.10

II

   BBB+/ BBB+      0.25     1.25     0.125

III

   BBB/ BBB      0.50     1.50     0.15

IV

   BBB-/BBB-      0.75     1.75     0.20

V

   £ BB+/ BB+ (or unrated by both Rating Agencies)      1.00     2.00     0.25

Debt Rating ” means, as of any date of determination, the corporate rating assigned to the Borrower (as guaranteed by the Guarantors) by S&P or Fitch.

For purposes of the foregoing, if there are Debt Ratings by both S&P and Fitch and such Debt Ratings shall fall within different Tiers, the Applicable Margin shall be based on the higher of the two Debt Ratings unless one of the two Debt Ratings is two or more Tiers lower than the other, in which case the Applicable Margin shall be determined by reference to the Tier next below that of the higher of the two Debt Ratings.

The Applicable Margin shall be subject to adjustment (upwards or downwards, as appropriate) effective as of the date on which S&P or Fitch announces a change of Debt Rating that results in a change in the Applicable Margin, irrespective of when notice of such change shall have been furnished by Borrower to Administrative Agent and Lenders pursuant to Section 5.01 or otherwise. Each adjustment in the Applicable Margin shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of the applicable adjustment in Debt Rating and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such adjustment in Debt Rating.

If the rating system of S&P or Fitch shall change, or if either or both of S&P and Fitch shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate obligors, the Borrower and the Lenders

 

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(acting with consent of the Requisite Lenders) shall negotiate in good faith to amend this definition to reflect such changed rating system or the unavailability of ratings from such rating agency and pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Margin shall, at the option of the Borrower, be determined (i) by reference to the Debt Rating most recently in effect prior to such change or cessation or (ii) by disregarding the rating from such rating agency.

Applicable Reserve Requirement ” means, at any time, for any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the maximum rate, expressed as a decimal, at which reserves (including any basic marginal, special, supplemental, emergency or other reserves) are required to be maintained with respect thereto against “Eurocurrency liabilities” (as such term is defined in Regulation D) under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors or other applicable banking regulator. Without limiting the effect of the foregoing, the Applicable Reserve Requirement shall reflect any other reserves required to be maintained by such member banks with respect to (i) any category of liabilities which includes deposits by reference to which the applicable Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or any other interest rate of a Loan is to be determined, or (ii) any category of extensions of credit or other assets which include Eurodollar Rate Loans. A Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be deemed to constitute Eurocurrency liabilities and as such shall be deemed subject to reserve requirements without benefits of credit for proration, exceptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to the applicable Lender. The rate of interest on Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in the Applicable Reserve Requirement.

Approved Electronic Communications ” means any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material that any Credit Party provides to Administrative Agent pursuant to any Credit Document or the transactions contemplated therein which is distributed to the lenders by means of electronic communications pursuant to Section 10.01(b).

Asset Sale ” means a sale, lease or sub-lease (as lessor or sublessor), sale and leaseback, assignment, conveyance, exclusive license (as licensor or sublicensor), transfer or other disposition to, or any exchange of property with, any Person (other than Borrower or any Guarantor), in one transaction or a series of transactions, of all or any part of any Credit Party’s or any of the OZ Subsidiaries’ businesses, assets or properties of any kind, whether real, personal, or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, leased or licensed, or any issuances or sale of the Equity Interests of any OZ Subsidiary, other than (i) inventory (or other assets) sold, leased, licensed out or otherwise disposed, or exchanged for other property, in the ordinary course of business, (ii) sales, leases, licenses, exchanges, transfers, disposals or other dispositions of used, obsolete, worn out or surplus property no longer used or useful in the conduct of business or the dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with the collection or compromise thereof, (iii) licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases granted to others not interfering in any material respect with the business of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (iv) sales, leases, licenses, sublicenses, subleases, exchanges, transfers or other dispositions of property to any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor is a Credit Party, then the transferee must also be a Credit Party, (v) sales, leases, licenses, sublicenses, subleases, exchanges, transfers or other dispositions of other assets for consideration of less than $10,000,000 with respect to any transaction or series of related transactions and less than $20,000,000 in the aggregate during any

 

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Fiscal Year, (vi) sales, transfers or dispositions of Cash Equivalents for fair market value, (vii) Involuntary Dispositions, (viii) the abandonment or other sale, transfer, disposal or disposition of intellectual property that is, in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower, no longer economically practicable to maintain or useful in any material respect in the conduct of the business of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ix) sales or other transfers or dispositions of Margin Stock, (x) issuances by the Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, and/or any New Advisor Guarantor to any Person other than a Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary of its Equity Interests, Class C Non-Equity Interests or Och-Ziff Operating Group D Units, as applicable, (xi) sales or other transfers or dispositions of securities in connection with repurchase agreements, (xii) issuances by Finco to the Issuer, Och-Ziff Holding or Och-Ziff Corp of its Equity Interests, Class C Non-Equity Interests or Och-Ziff Operating Group D Units, as applicable, (xiii) the substantially concurrent purchase and sale, transfer, disposition or exchange of non-cash assets for substantially equivalent value, and (xiv) the unwinding of, or settlements under, Interest Rate Agreements or Currency Agreements.

Assignment Agreement ” means an Assignment and Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit D, with such amendments or modifications as may be approved by Administrative Agent.

Assignment Effective Date ” as defined in Section 10.06(b).

AUM ” as defined in Section 6.10(a).

Authorized Officer ” means, as applied to any Person, any individual holding the position of chairman of the board (if an officer), chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer, president or a vice president (or the equivalent thereof) of such Person or of such Person’s general partner or equivalent.

Availability Period ” means the period from and including the Closing Date to but excluding the earlier of the Maturity Date and the Termination Date.

Bankruptcy Code ” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute.

Base Rate ” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (i) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (ii) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1% and (iii) the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate for a one month Interest Period commencing on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1% (which Adjusted Eurodollar Rate shall be based on the relevant Screen Rate (or if not available, the Interpolated Rate) at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day). Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate shall be effective on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate, respectively. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Federal Funds Effective Rate used to determine the Base Rate shall be less than zero at any time, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of such determination.

 

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Base Rate Loan ” means a Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Base Rate.

Beneficiary ” means Administrative Agent and any Lender.

Board of Governors ” means the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, or any successor thereto.

Bonds ” means the senior unsecured notes, bonds or debt securities issued under the Indenture, in each case as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Borrower ” as defined in the preamble hereto.

Business Day ” means (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 Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or any Eurodollar Rate Loans, the term “ Business Day ” shall mean 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 Lease ” means, subject to the last sentence of Section 1.02(a), as applied to any Person, any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee that, in conformity with the accounting principles used in the preparation of the Historical Financial Statements, is or should be accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.

Capital Lease Obligations ” of any Person means, subject to the last sentence of Section 1.02(a), the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any Capital Lease, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with the accounting principles used in the preparation of the Historical Financial Statements.

Cash ” means money, currency or a credit balance in any demand or deposit account, securities account or commodity account.

Cash Equivalents ” means, as at any date, (a) securities issued or directly 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 twelve months from the date of acquisition, (b) time deposits and certificates of deposit denominated in a Permitted Currency of (i) any Lender, (ii) any domestic commercial bank of recognized standing having capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 as of the date of the acquisition thereof or (iii) any bank whose short term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least A-1 or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is at least P-1 or the equivalent thereof as of the date of the acquisition thereof (any such bank being an “ Approved Bank ”), in each case with maturities of not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition, (c) commercial paper and variable or fixed rate notes issued by any Approved Bank (or by the

 

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parent company thereof) or any variable rate notes issued by, or guaranteed by, any domestic corporation rated A-1 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or P-1 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moody’s and maturing within six months of the date of acquisition, (d) repurchase agreements entered into by any Person with a bank or trust company (including any of the Lenders) or recognized securities dealer having capital and surplus in excess of $250,000,000 for direct obligations issued by or fully guaranteed by the United States and (e) investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets, in money market investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 which are administered by reputable financial institutions having capital of at least $500,000,000, as of the date of each respective transaction and the portfolios of which are limited to investments of the character described in the foregoing subdivisions (a) through (d).

Certificate re Non-Bank Status ” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E.

Change of Control ” means, at any time, any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than Permitted Holders, has become the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of 50% or more of the voting interests in the Equity Interests of Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II or any New Advisor Guarantor on a fully diluted basis.

Class A Shares ” means the Class A limited liability company interests of the Issuer.

Class C Non-Equity Interest ” means a non-equity interest in each of Borrower, Advisors and Advisors II on which discretionary income allocations may be made to existing and future partners of Borrower, Advisors and Advisors II, and any comparable non-equity interest in any New Advisor Guarantor on which discretionary income allocation may be made to partners of any New Advisor Guarantor.

Closing Date ” means the date on which all conditions precedent in Section 3.01 are satisfied or have been waived, which date is the date of this Agreement.

Closing Date Certificate ” means a Closing Date Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F.

Code ” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to the date hereof and from time to time hereafter, and any successor statute.

Combined Economic Income ” means, for any period, an amount calculated on a combined basis for Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries determined on the basis of economic income, in accordance with the methodology utilized by the Issuer to derive economic income in the Issuer’s earnings press release for the Fiscal Quarter ended on June 30, 2014, equal to (i) economic income for such period, less (ii) incentive income for such period, plus (iii) any amount of bonus compensation expenses during such period, in the case of this clause (iii) not to exceed an amount equal to 20% of total revenues for such period, plus (iv) interest expenses for such period, and excluding (v) any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring gains or losses or income or expense or charge for such period.

 

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Combined Total Debt ” means, as at any date of determination, without duplication, the aggregate stated balance sheet amount of (a) all Indebtedness of Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries of the type described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (vi) (only to the extent the applicable letter of credit has been drawn and not reimbursed), and (vii) of the definition of Indebtedness (other than intercompany Indebtedness among any of the Credit Parties and OZ Subsidiaries) and (b) all Guarantees of Credit Parties and OZ Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness of the type described in clause (a) of this definition, each determined on a combined basis in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that in any event “Combined Total Debt” shall exclude any Indebtedness of any OZ Fund that is consolidated into the Issuer or any Credit Party (but for the avoidance of doubt, shall include any Guarantee by any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary of any such Indebtedness of any OZ Fund described in clause (b) of this definition).

Commitment ” means the commitment of a Lender to make or otherwise fund Loans, and “ Commitments ” means such commitments of all Lenders in the aggregate. The amount of each Lender’s Commitment, if any, is set forth on Appendix A or in the applicable Assignment Agreement, subject to any adjustment or reduction pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof. The aggregate amount of the Commitments as of the Closing Date is $150,000,000.

Commitment Fees ” as defined in Section 2.08.

Commitment Increase ” as defined in Section 2.18(a).

Commitment Letter ” means the Commitment Letter, dated as of September 17, 2014, by and among Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, Finco, JPMCB, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as amended by an Amendment to Commitment Letter, dated October 28, 2014.

Compliance Certificate ” means a Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C.

Contractual Obligation ” means, as applied to any Person, any provision of any Security issued by that Person or of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, contract, undertaking, agreement or other instrument to which that Person is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound or to which it or any of its properties is subject.

Contributing Guarantors ” as defined in Section 7.02.

Conversion/Continuation Date ” means the effective date of a continuation or conversion, as the case may be, as set forth in the applicable Conversion/Continuation Notice.

Conversion/Continuation Notice ” means a Conversion/Continuation Notice substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2.

 

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Counterpart Agreement ” means a Counterpart Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit G delivered by a Credit Party pursuant to Section 5.08.

Cost Sharing Arrangement ” means any cost sharing, cash contribution or offset arrangements (other than Expense Allocation Agreements) entered into by any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary from time to time in respect of allocated costs and expenses of the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer (other than any OZ Fund or any Subsidiary thereof), provided that any expenses, fees, costs, cash contributions and other charges or amounts allocated to or payable or offset by any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary pursuant to such arrangements shall be accounted for as expenses of such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary.

Credit Date ” means the date of a Credit Extension, which shall be a Business Day.

Credit Document ” means (i) any of this Agreement, the Notes, if any, each Counterpart Agreement, Commitment Increase and any subordination agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement, including any amendments, supplements, consents, joinder or waivers to the foregoing, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, and (ii) solely for purposes of Section 3.01, Article 7, Article 8 and Section 10.03 (including the defined terms used therein), the Fee Letters.

Credit Extension ” means the making of a Loan.

Credit Party ” means Borrower and each Guarantor (including each New Advisor Guarantor).

Currency Agreement ” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract, synthetic cap or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which is for the purpose of hedging the foreign currency risk associated with Borrower’ and the OZ Subsidiaries’ operations and not for speculative purposes.

Default ” means a condition or event that, after notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

Debt Rating ” as defined in the definition of “Applicable Margin”.

Defaulting Lender ” as defined in Section 2.19(a).

Disqualified Equity Interests ” means any Equity Interest which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (i) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests which are not otherwise Disqualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), (ii) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Equity Interests which are not otherwise Disqualified Equity Interests), in whole or in part, (iii) provides for the scheduled

 

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payments of dividends in cash, or (iv) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date. For the avoidance of doubt, Disqualified Equity Interests shall not include Och-Ziff Operating Group A Units, Och-Ziff Operating Group B Units, Class C Non-Equity Interests or Och-Ziff Operating Group D Units.

Dollars ” and the sign “ $ ” mean the lawful money of the United States of America.

Economic Income Leverage Ratio ” means as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, the ratio of (i) Combined Total Debt (net of Unrestricted Cash and Cash Equivalents) as of such day to (ii) Combined Economic Income for the four-Fiscal Quarter period ending on such day; provided that the Economic Income Leverage Ratio as of any time other than the last day of a Fiscal Quarter shall mean the Economic Income Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the Fiscal Quarter most recently ended prior to such time of determination for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.01.

Eligible Assignee ” means, other than a natural Person, (i) any Lender, any Affiliate of any Lender and any Related Fund (any two or more Related Funds being treated as a single Eligible Assignee for all purposes hereof), and (ii) any commercial bank, insurance company, investment or mutual fund or other entity that is an “accredited investor” (as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act) and which extends credit or buys loans; provided , no Affiliate of a Credit Party shall be an Eligible Assignee.

Employee Benefit Plan ” means any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA which is or was sponsored, maintained or contributed to by, or required to be contributed by, a Credit Party, any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates.

Equity Interests ” means any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation), including partnership interests and membership interests, and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase or other arrangements or rights to acquire any of the foregoing, but excluding Class C Non-Equity Interests and Och-Ziff Operating Group D Units; provided that Equity Interests shall not include convertible Indebtedness prior to conversion.

ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any successor thereto.

ERISA Affiliate ” means, as applied to any Person, (i) any corporation which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Code of which that Person is a member; (ii) any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of a group of trades or businesses under common control within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code of which that Person is a member; and (iii) any member of an affiliated service group within the meaning of Section 414(m) or (o) of the Code of which that Person, any corporation described in clause (i) above or any trade or business described in

 

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clause (ii) above is a member. Any former ERISA Affiliate of a Credit Party or any of the OZ Subsidiaries shall continue to be considered an ERISA Affiliate of such Credit Party or any such OZ Subsidiary within the meaning of this definition with respect to the period such entity was an ERISA Affiliate of such Credit Party or such OZ Subsidiary and with respect to liabilities arising after such period for which such Credit Party or such OZ Subsidiary could be liable under the Code or ERISA.

ERISA Event ” means (i) a “reportable event” within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued thereunder with respect to any Pension Plan (excluding those for which the provision for 30-day notice to the PBGC has been waived by regulation); (ii) the failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412(c) of the Code) or the failure 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 to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (iii) 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 plan in a distress termination described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (iv) the withdrawal by a Credit Party, any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from any Pension Plan with two or more contributing sponsors or the termination of any such Pension Plan resulting in liability to a Credit Party, any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA; (v) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate any Pension Plan, or the occurrence of any event or condition which can be reasonably expected to constitute grounds under ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (vi) the imposition of liability on a Credit Party, any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or by reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (vii) the withdrawal of a Credit Party, any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in a complete or partial withdrawal (within the meaning of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any Multiemployer Plan if there is any potential liability therefor, or the receipt by a Credit Party, any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is in reorganization or insolvency pursuant to Section 4241 or 4245 of ERISA, or that it intends to terminate or has terminated under Section 4041A or 4042 of ERISA; (viii) the occurrence of an act or omission which could give rise to the imposition on a Credit Party, any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of fines, penalties, taxes or related charges under Chapter 43 of the Code or under Section 409, Section 502(c), (i) or (1), or Section 4071 of ERISA in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan; (ix) the assertion of a material claim (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Employee Benefit Plan other than a Multiemployer Plan or the assets thereof, or against a Credit Party, any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan; (x) receipt from the Internal Revenue Service of notice of 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; or (xi) the imposition of a Lien pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or Section 303(k) of ERISA or a violation of Section 436 of the Code.

 

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Eurodollar Rate Loan ” means a Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate.

Event of Default ” means each of the conditions or events set forth in Section 8.01.

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

Excluded Taxes ” means with respect to Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation hereunder or under any other Credit Document: (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net income or gross receipts (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) 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; (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction; (c) in the case of a Non-US Lender, any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Non-US Lender at the time such Non-US Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Non-US Lender’s failure or inability (other than as a result of a change in law after the date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement or designates a new lending office) to comply with Section 2.16(f), except to the extent that such Non-US Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower or other Credit Party with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.16(b); and (d) any Taxes imposed by FATCA.

Existing Credit Agreement ” means that certain Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 15, 2011, among the Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, the other guarantors party thereto, Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as administrative agent, the lenders party thereto from time to time and the other agents and arrangers named therein (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof).

Expense Allocation Agreement ” means one or more agreements entered into among the Issuer, Och-Ziff Corp, Och-Ziff Holding, the Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II and Finco providing for the allocation of certain expenses as described in the Issuer’s proxy statements from time to time, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified or replaced from time to time; provided that any expenses, fees, costs and other charges allocated to or payable or offset by any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary pursuant to such agreements shall be accounted for as expenses of such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary.

Exposure ” means, with respect to any Lender, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of the Loans of such Lender.

Fair Share Contribution Amount ” as defined in Section 7.02.

Fair Share ” as defined in Section 7.02.

 

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FATCA ” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code as in effect on the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor provisions, provided such amended or successor provisions do not place compliance or other burdens on the Lender (as determined in the reasonable judgment of the affected Lender) that are materially more onerous than the provisions in effect on the date of this Agreement) and any Treasury Regulations or other guidance promulgated thereunder.

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

Fee Letters ” means (i) the arrangement fee letter, dated as of September 17, 2014, among Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, Finco, JPMCB and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, (ii) the arrangement fee letter, dated as of September 17, 2014, among Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, Finco and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, and (iii) the administration fee letter, dated as of September 17, 2014, among Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, Finco and the Administrative Agent, in each case as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Financial Officer Certification ” means, with respect to the financial statements for which such certification is required, the certification of the chief financial officer of Borrower (or of Borrower’s general partner or equivalent) that (i) such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied (subject to, in the case of financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a), normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes) and (ii) such financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the financial condition of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries as at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the periods indicated, subject to changes resulting from audit and normal year-end adjustments.

Finco ” as defined in the preamble hereto.

Fiscal Quarter ” means a fiscal quarter of any Fiscal Year.

Fiscal Year ” means the fiscal year of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries, or the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries, as the case may be, each ending on December 31 of each calendar year; provided the fiscal year of Och-Ziff India Private Limited and Och-Ziff Real Estate India Private Limited may end on March 31 of each calendar year; provided , further , that a newly acquired Subsidiary may end its fiscal year on a date other than December 31 of

 

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each calendar year. For purposes of this Agreement and any other Credit Documents, references to “Fiscal Year” shall refer to the fiscal year of the Credit Parties unless the context requires otherwise or unless otherwise specified.

Fitch ” means Fitch Ratings, Inc., or any successor to its rating agency business.

Funding Guarantors ” as defined in Section 7.02.

Funding Notice ” means a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit A-l.

GAAP ” means, subject to the limitations on the application thereof set forth in Section 1.02, United States generally accepted accounting principles in effect as of the date of determination thereof.

Governmental Authority ” means any federal, state, municipal, national or other government, governmental department, commission, board, bureau, court, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision thereof or any entity, officer or examiner exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to any government or any court, in each case whether associated with a state of the United States, the United States, or a foreign entity or government.

Governmental Authorization ” means any permit, license, authorization, plan, directive, consent order or consent decree of or from any Governmental Authority.

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

 

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Guaranteed Obligations ” as defined in Section 7.01.

Guarantor ” means (i) Advisors, (ii) Advisors II, (iii) Finco, and (iv) each other Person that becomes a party to this Agreement, or a Guarantor, pursuant to Section 5.08.

Guaranty ” means the guaranty of each Guarantor set forth in Article 7.

Highest Lawful Rate ” means the maximum lawful interest rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, charged, or received under the laws applicable to any Lender which are presently in effect or, to the extent allowed by law, under such applicable laws which may hereafter be in effect and which allow a higher maximum nonusurious interest rate than applicable laws now allow.

Historical Financial Statements ” means as of the Closing Date, (i) the audited financial statements of Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2013 consisting of consolidated balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year, and (ii) the unaudited financial statements of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries as at September 30, 2014, consisting of a consolidated balance sheet and the related consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for the nine-month period ending on such date, that fairly present, in all material respects, the financial condition of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries as at the date indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the period indicated, subject to changes resulting from audit and normal year-end adjustments.

Increase Effective Date ” means the effective date of any Commitment Increase pursuant to Section 2.18.

Increased-Cost Lenders ” as defined in Section 2.19(a).

Increasing Lender ” as defined in Section 2.18(a).

Indebtedness ”, as applied to any Person, means, without duplication, (i) all indebtedness for borrowed money; (ii) that portion of Capital Lease Obligations that are properly classified as a liability on a balance sheet in conformity with the accounting principles used in the preparation of the Historical Financial Statements; (iii) notes payable and drafts accepted representing extensions of credit whether or not representing obligations for borrowed money; (iv) any obligation owed for all or any part of the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (a) trade account payables in the ordinary course of business, (b) earn-out obligations payable in Equity Interests (other than Equity Interests of OZ Subsidiaries or their respective Subsidiaries), (c) any earn-out obligation (other than earn-out obligations covered under subclause (b) above) if not paid after becoming due and payable, and (d) obligations with respect to deferred compensation); (v) all indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by any Lien on any property or asset owned or held by that Person regardless of whether the indebtedness secured thereby shall have been assumed by that Person or is nonrecourse to the credit of that Person; (vi) all reimbursement obligations arising under any letter of credit; (vii) Disqualified Equity Interests, (viii) net obligations of such Person in respect of any exchange traded or over the counter derivative transaction, including any Interest Rate

 

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Agreement and Currency Agreement, whether entered into for hedging or speculative purposes; provided , in no event shall obligations under any Interest Rate Agreement and any Currency Agreement be deemed “Indebtedness” for purposes of calculating the Economic Income Leverage Ratio; and (ix) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the following shall not constitute Indebtedness: Class C Non-Equity Interests, Och-Ziff Operating Group D Units and all obligations of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary arising under or with respect to the Expense Allocation Agreement and any Cost Sharing Arrangement.

The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (v) above shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.

Indemnified Liabilities ” means, collectively, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages (including natural resource damages), penalties, claims, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for Indemnitees in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding or hearing commenced or threatened by any Person, whether or not any such Indemnitee shall be designated as a party thereto, and any fees or expenses incurred by Indemnitees in enforcing this indemnity), whether direct, indirect or consequential and whether based on any federal, state or foreign laws, statutes, rules or regulations (including securities and commercial laws, statutes, rules or regulations), on common law or equitable cause or on contract or otherwise, that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against any such Indemnitee, in any manner relating to or arising out of this Agreement, or the other Credit Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including the execution and delivery of any Credit Document, the performance by the parties hereto or thereto, the Lenders’ agreement to make Credit Extensions, or the use or intended use of the proceeds thereof, or any enforcement of any of the Credit Documents (including any sale of, collection from, or upon the enforcement of the Guaranty)) or any claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether or not such claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding is brought by any Credit Party, any OZ Subsidiary or their respective equity holders, Affiliates, creditors or any other third Person and whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that Indemnified Liabilities with respect to legal fees, disbursements and expenses shall be limited to the fees of one counsel and, if necessary, of a single firm of local counsel in each relevant jurisdiction, and, in the case of an actual or reasonably perceived conflict of interest (where the Indemnitee affected by such conflict informs Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel with Borrower’s prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed)), one additional counsel to each similarly affected group of Indemnitees and, if necessary, one additional local counsel in each relevant jurisdiction for such affected group of Indemnitees).

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

Indemnitee ” as defined in Section 10.03(a).

 

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Indenture ” means the Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014, by and among Finco, as issuer, the Borrower, Advisors and Advisors II, as guarantors, any additional guarantors party thereto from time to time, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 20, 2014, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Initial Loans ” as defined in Section 2.18(b).

Interest Payment Date ” means with respect to (i) any Loan that is a Base Rate Loan, each March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date and the final maturity date of such Loan; and (ii) any Loan that is a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan; provided , in the case of each Interest Period of longer than three months, “Interest Payment Date” shall also include each date that is three months, or an integral multiple thereof, after the commencement of such Interest Period.

Interest Period ” means, in connection with a Eurodollar Rate Loan, an interest period of one, three or six months (or nine or twelve months with the consent of each Lender), as selected by Borrower in the applicable Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, (i) initially, commencing on the Credit Date or Conversion/Continuation Date thereof, as the case may be; and (ii) thereafter, commencing on the day on which the immediately preceding Interest Period expires; provided , (a) if an Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day unless no further Business Day occurs in such month, in which case such Interest Period shall expire on the immediately preceding Business Day; (b) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall, subject to clause (c), of this definition, end on the last Business Day of a calendar month and (c) no Interest Period with respect to any portion of the Loans shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.

Interest Rate Agreement ” means any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedging agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which is for the purpose of hedging the interest rate exposure associated with Credit Parties’ and the OZ Subsidiaries’ operations and not for speculative purposes.

Interest Rate Determination Date ” means, with respect to any Interest Period, the date that is two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.

Involuntary Disposition ” means any loss of, damage to or destruction of, or any condemnation or other taking for public use of, any property of a Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary.

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Joint Venture ” means a joint venture, partnership or other similar arrangement, whether in corporate, partnership or other legal form; provided , in no event shall any corporate Subsidiary of any Person be considered to be a Joint Venture to which such Person is a party.

JPMCB ” as defined in the preamble hereto.

Lender ” means each financial institution listed on the signature pages hereto as a Lender, and any other Person that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment Agreement or Accession Agreement.

Lien ” means any lien, mortgage, pledge, assignment, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement) and any preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest having the practical effect of any of the foregoing.

Loan ” means a loan made by a Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a).

Margin Stock ” as defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors as in effect from time to time.

Material Adverse Effect ” means a material adverse effect on and/or material adverse change with respect to (i) the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent) or financial condition of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) the ability of any Credit Party to fully and timely perform its payment Obligations hereunder; or (iii) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against a Credit Party of a Credit Document to which it is a party.

Material Subsidiary ” means any OZ Subsidiary or group of OZ Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, at any time of determination, have or account for (a) assets with a value equal to or greater than 5% of the total value of the aggregate assets of all Credit Parties and OZ Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as at the last day of the Fiscal Quarter ending prior to the date of determination and for which financial statements required to be delivered under Section 5.01(a) or Section 5.01(b) have been delivered, or (b) Combined Economic Income of equal to or greater than 5% of the Combined Economic Income of all of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, for the most recent four consecutive Fiscal Quarter period of the Credit Parties ending prior to the date of determination and for which financial statements required to be delivered under Section 5.01(a) or Section 5.01(b) have been delivered; provided that neither 57 AVIATION SERVICES, LLC nor any New Aviation Subsidiary shall be a Material Subsidiary.

Maturity Date ” means the earlier of (i) November 20, 2019 and (ii) the date that all Loans shall become due and payable in full hereunder, whether by acceleration or otherwise.

ML Fund ” means the Merrill Lynch Investment Solutions – Och-Ziff European Multi-Strategy UCITS Fund.

 

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Multiemployer Plan ” means any Employee Benefit Plan which is a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA.

NAIC ” means The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and any successor thereto.

New Advisor ” means any direct Subsidiary of Issuer, Och-Ziff Holding or Och-Ziff Corp (other than Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, Finco, any OZ Fund or any of their respective Subsidiaries), of which 100% of the shares of Voting Stock of such Subsidiary is at the time directly owned, or the management of which is otherwise 100% directly controlled, by (or of which the general partner or equivalent is) any or all of Issuer, Och-Ziff Holding and Och-Ziff Corp, and such Subsidiary is engaged in substantially the same business and earns fees or other compensation on substantially the same basis as Borrower, Advisors or Advisors II.

New Advisor Guarantor ” means any Guarantor that is a New Advisor, other than Advisors, Advisors II and Finco.

New Advisor Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of any New Advisor that is not a New Advisor Guarantor, other than an OZ Fund or any of its Subsidiaries.

New Aviation Subsidiary ” as defined in Section 6.01(p).

Nonpublic Information ” means information which has not been disseminated in a manner making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of Regulation FD.

Non-Consenting Lender ” as defined in Section 2.19(a).

Non-US Lender ” as defined in Section 2.16(e)(i).

Note ” means a promissory note in the form of Exhibit B, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Notice ” means a Funding Notice or a Conversion/Continuation Notice.

Obligations ” means all obligations of every nature of each Credit Party, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, primary or secondary, fixed or otherwise, including obligations now or hereafter from time to time owed to Administrative Agent, the Lenders or any of them, under any Credit Document, whether for principal, interest (including interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to such Credit Party, would have accrued on any Obligation, whether or not a claim is allowed against such Credit Party for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding), fees, expenses, indemnification 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).

Obligee Guarantor ” as defined in Section 7.07.

Och-Ziff Corp ” means Och-Ziff Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation.

 

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Och-Ziff Holding ” means Och-Ziff Holding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Och-Ziff Operating Group ” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto from time to time in the public filings made by the Issuer with the SEC

Och-Ziff Operating Group A Unit ” means a Class A operating group unit in Borrower, Advisors or Advisors II, and any comparable unit designated as a Class A operating group unit for any New Advisor Guarantor.

Och-Ziff Operating Group B Unit ” means a Class B operating group unit in Borrower, Advisors or Advisors II, and any comparable unit designated as a Class B operating group unit for any New Advisor Guarantor.

Och-Ziff Operating Group D Unit ” means a Class D operating group unit in Borrower, Advisors or Advisors II, and any comparable unit designated as a Class D operating group unit for any New Advisor Guarantor.

Organizational Documents ” means (i) with respect to any corporation, its certificate or articles of incorporation or organization, as amended, and its by-laws, as amended, (ii) with respect to any limited partnership, its certificate of limited partnership, as amended, and its partnership agreement, as amended, (iii) with respect to any general partnership, its partnership agreement, as amended, and (iv) with respect to any limited liability company, its articles of organization or certificate of formation, as amended, and its operating agreement, as amended. In the event any term or condition of this Agreement or any other Credit Document requires any Organizational Document to be certified by a secretary of state or similar governmental official, the reference to any such “ Organizational Document ” shall only be to a document of a type customarily certified by such governmental official.

Other Connection Taxes ” means, with respect to Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation hereunder or under any other Credit Document, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such party and the jurisdiction imposing such Taxes (other than connections arising from such party 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 Credit Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Credit Document).

Other Taxes ” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Credit Document, except for any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.17).

OZ Fund ” means (a) each multi-strategy fund, credit fund, equity fund, hedge fund, real estate fund, collateralized loan obligation, managed accounts, investment fund, real

 

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estate investment trust, business development company, private equity fund, registered investment company, open- or closed-end fund, investment trust, undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities, any other investment vehicle, in each case that primarily makes investments similar to those made by investment funds and whose primary purpose is not to operate as a funding or financing vehicle for the Issuer, a Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary, and (b) any subsidiary or portfolio company of any of the foregoing set forth in clause (a), in each case of clauses (a) and (b), managed (or for which investment advisory or other asset management services are provided), directly or indirectly, by a Credit Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any of its or their investment advisors.

OZ Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of a Credit Party (whether or not such Subsidiary is also a Credit Party itself) other than an OZ Fund or any of its Subsidiaries.

Participant Register ” as defined in Section 10.06(g)(i).

PATRIOT Act ” as defined in Section 3.01(i).

PBGC ” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.

Pension Plan ” means any Employee Benefit Plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan, which is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA.

Permitted Currency ” means Japanese Yen, Euro, Hong Kong Dollar, Swiss Franc, and UK Sterling.

Permitted Holders ” means (i) Daniel Och, (ii) any other individual who is an executive managing director of the general partners of Borrower, Advisors or Advisors II, or the equivalent officer positions and has been appointed as such in the ordinary course of business as of any date of determination (“EMDs”), (iii) any individual who formerly served as an EMD, (iv) the spouse (including a surviving spouse) and immediate family members of any Permitted Holder, (v) the estate and lawful heirs of any Permitted Holder, and (vi) the beneficial trusts, family partnerships, foundations, family limited liability companies or other vehicles established for estate planning or charitable purposes of any of the foregoing, provided that the investment decisions relating to any Equity Interests of Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II or any New Advisor Guarantor held by such trusts or other entities are controlled directly or indirectly by one or more of the persons specified in the foregoing clauses (i) through (v).

Person ” means and includes natural persons, corporations, limited partnerships, general partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, joint stock companies, Joint Ventures, associations, companies, trusts, banks, trust companies, land trusts, business trusts or other organizations, whether or not legal entities, and Governmental Authorities.

Platform ” as defined in Section 5.01(i).

Prime Rate ” means the rate of interest per annum as announced from time to time by Administrative Agent as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City.

 

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The Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. Administrative Agent or any other Lender may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of interest at, above or below the Prime Rate.

Principal Office ” means such Person’s “Principal Office” as set forth on Appendix B, or such other office or office of a third party or sub-agent, as appropriate, as such Person may from time to time designate in writing to Borrower, Administrative Agent and each Lender.

Pro Forma Basis ” means, subject to and in accordance with the pro forma measurement principals set forth in Section 1.03, as of any date, with respect to any determination of any financial covenant, Economic Income Leverage Ratio or any other test or condition hereunder that is required to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis shall give effect to any acquisition or asset sale or incurrence, retirement or repayment of Indebtedness as through such event occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement with respect to any test, ratio or covenant for which such calculation is being made.

Pro Rata Share ” means with respect to all payments, computations and other matters relating to the Loan of any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) the Commitment of that Lender by (b) the aggregate Commitments of all Lenders; provided that from and after the time that the Commitments have been terminated or reduced to zero, the Pro Rata Share shall mean the percentage obtained by dividing (a) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans made by that Lender, by (b) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Loans.

Rating Agency ” means S&P or Fitch.

Reconciliation Statement ” as defined in Section 5.01(d).

Register ” as defined in Section 2.04(b).

Regulation D ” means Regulation D of the Board of Governors, as in effect from time to time.

Regulation FD ” means Regulation FD as promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act and Exchange Act as in effect from time to time.

Related Fund ” means, with respect to any Lender that is an investment fund, any other investment fund that invests in commercial loans and that is managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.

Relevant Four Fiscal Quarter Period ” as defined in Section 8.02(a).

Replacement Lender ” as defined in Section 2.19(a).

Requisite Lenders ” means, subject to Section 2.19(b)(ii), at any time, one or more Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders having or holding Exposure and unused Commitment representing more than 50% of the aggregate Exposure and unused Commitments of all Lenders that are not Defaulting Lenders at such time.

 

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Restricted Payment ” means (i) any dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any Equity Interests of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary now or hereafter outstanding; (ii) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any Equity Interests of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary now or hereafter outstanding; and (iii) any payment made to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire Equity Interests of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary now or hereafter outstanding.

S&P means Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC business, or any successor to its rating agency business.

Sanctioned Country ” means, at any time, a country or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (at the time of this Agreement, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).

Sanctioned Person ” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b) to the extent that conducting transactions with such Persons is prohibited for any party hereto or any Person participating in the Loans (whether as Lender, Borrower or otherwise) under the laws of the United States, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and any European Union member state or the United Kingdom.

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

SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities ” means any stock, shares, partnership interests, voting trust certificates, certificates of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement or arrangement, options, warrants, bonds, debentures, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, secured or unsecured, convertible, subordinated or otherwise, or in general any instruments commonly known as “securities” or any certificates of interest, shares or participations in temporary or interim certificates for the purchase or acquisition of, or any right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire, any of the foregoing.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

 

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Specified Equity Contribution ” as defined in Section 8.02(a).

Subject Quarter ” as defined in Section 8.02(b).

Subject Transaction ” as defined in Section 1.03.

Subsequent Periods ” as defined in Section 8.02(b).

Subsidiary ” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of Voting Stock is at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person.

Tax ” means any present or future tax, levy, impost, duty, assessment, charge, fee, deduction or withholding of any nature and whatever called, by whomsoever, on whomsoever and wherever imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

Termination Date ” means the earlier to occur of (i) the date the Commitments are permanently reduced to zero pursuant to Section 2.10(b), and (ii) the date of termination of the Commitments pursuant to Section 8.01.

Terminated Lender ” as defined in Section 2.19(a).

Type ” when used in reference to any Loan, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan is determined by reference to the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or the Base Rate.

UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code (or any similar or equivalent legislation) as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.

U.S. Lender ” as defined in Section 2.16(e)(i).

Unrestricted Cash and Cash Equivalents ” means all Cash and Cash Equivalents not restricted as described in SEC Regulation S-X Rule 7-03(a)(2).

Voting Stock ” means, with respect to any Person, Equity Interests issued by such Person the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even though the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

754 Election ” as defined in Section 6.03(a).

Section 1.02 Accounting Terms . (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that, if Borrower notifies Administrative Agent that Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if Administrative Agent notifies Borrower that the Requisite Lenders request

 

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an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. Financial statements and other information required to be delivered by Borrower to Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections 5.01(a) and 5.01(b) shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied (subject to, in the case of financial statements delivered pursuant to Sections 5.01(a), normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes) (and delivered together with the reconciliation statements provided for in Section 5.01(d), if applicable). Subject to the foregoing, calculations in connection with the definitions, covenants and other provisions hereof shall utilize accounting principles and policies in conformity with GAAP. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts, definitions, covenants and ratios referred to herein shall be made (i) without giving effect to any election under Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 825 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of Borrower, any other Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof at “fair value”, as defined therein, and (ii) without giving effect to proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) Leases (Topic 840) issued August 17, 2010, (Topic 842) issued May 16, 2013, any successor proposal, any implementation thereof, any oral or public deliberations by the Financial Accounting Standards Board regarding the foregoing, or any other change in GAAP after that Closing Date that would require the obligations of a Person in respect of an operating lease or a lease that would be treated as an operating lease on the Closing Date to be recharacterized as a Capital Lease or Capital Lease Obligations.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any other Credit Document or certificate or other document delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, in the event that the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries effect a restatement of their financial statements previously provided hereunder and such restated financial statements do not indicate a material adverse change in the creditworthiness of the Credit Parties, taken as a whole, from that indicated by such previously provided financial statements to which the restatement relates, then such restatement shall not be deemed to constitute a breach of any representation or warranty under any Credit Document or any other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith, or provide the basis for a Default or an Event of Default hereunder or under any other Credit Document; provided that if any such restatement affects in any material respect the calculation of Combined Total Debt or Combined Economic Income, then the provisions of paragraph (a) of this Section will apply as if such restatement resulted from a change in GAAP or in the application thereof, and at the request of the Borrower or the Requisite Lenders, the relevant provisions of this Agreement will be renegotiated by the Borrower and the Lenders (acting via a majority) to give effect to the intent of this Agreement as in effect prior to such restatement.

Section 1.03 Subject Transactions . With respect to any period during which an acquisition, asset sale or the incurrence, retirement or repayment of Indebtedness has occurred (each, a “ Subject Transaction ”), for purposes of determining the Economic Income Leverage Ratio, Combined Total Debt and Combined Economic Income shall be calculated with respect to such period on a pro forma basis (including pro forma adjustments arising out of events which

 

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are directly attributable to a specific transaction, are reasonable identifiable and supportable and are expected to be realized, in each case determined in good faith by or under the direction of the chief financial officer of Borrower (or of Borrower’s general partner or equivalent), which would include cost savings resulting from head count reduction, closure of facilities and similar restructuring charges, which pro forma adjustments shall be certified by the chief financial officer of Borrower (or of Borrower’s general partner or equivalent)) using the historical audited financial statements of any business so acquired or to be acquired or sold or to be sold and the consolidated financial statements of Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries which shall be reformulated as if such Subject Transaction, and any Indebtedness incurred or repaid in connection therewith, had been consummated or incurred or repaid at the beginning of such period (and assuming that such Indebtedness bears interest during any portion of the applicable measurement period prior to the relevant acquisition at the weighted average of the interest rates applicable to outstanding Loans incurred during such period).

Section 1.04 Interpretation, etc. Any of the terms defined herein may, unless the context otherwise requires, be used in the singular or the plural, depending on the reference. References herein to any Section, Appendix, Schedule or Exhibit shall be to a Section, an Appendix, a Schedule or an Exhibit, as the case may be, hereof unless otherwise specifically provided. The use herein of the word “include” or “including”, when following any general statement, term or matter, shall not be construed to limit such statement, term or matter to the specific items or matters set forth immediately following such word or to similar items or matters, whether or not non-limiting language (such as “without limitation” or “but not limited to” or words of similar import) is used with reference thereto, but rather shall be deemed to refer to all other items or matters that fall within the broadest possible scope of such general statement, term or matter. The terms “lease” and “license” shall include “sub-lease” and “sub-license,” as applicable. The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights. The words “herein,” hereof,” “hereto,” and “hereunder” and similar words refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section, subsection or clause of in this Agreement.

Article 2

L OANS

Section 2.01 Loans .

(a) Commitments . Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender severally agrees to make, during the Availability Period, Loans in Dollars to Borrower from time to time in an aggregate amount that will not result in (i) such Lender’s Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Commitment or (ii) the total Exposures of all Lenders exceeding the total Commitments. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Loans. All amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Loans shall be paid in full no later than the Maturity Date. Each Lender’s Commitment shall terminate immediately and without further action on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the Termination Date.

 

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(b) Borrowing Mechanics for Loans .

(i) Borrower shall deliver to Administrative Agent a fully executed and irrevocable Funding Notice no later than 12:00 noon (New York City time), three Business Days prior to the applicable Credit Date in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans and no later than 12:00 noon (New York City time), on the proposed Credit Date in the case of Base Rate Loans. Promptly upon receipt by Administrative Agent of such Funding Notice, Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the proposed borrowing.

(ii) Each Lender shall make its Loan available to Administrative Agent not later than (A) in the case of Base Rate Loans, 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the applicable Credit Date and (B) in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, 12:00 noon (New York City time) on the applicable Credit Date, by wire transfer of same day funds in Dollars, at the Principal Office designated by Administrative Agent. Upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent specified herein, Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of the Loans available to Borrower on the applicable Credit Date by causing an amount of same day funds in Dollars equal to the proceeds of all such Loans received by Administrative Agent from Lenders to be credited to the account of Borrower designated by Borrower in the applicable Funding Notice or to such other account as may be designated in writing to Administrative Agent by Borrower.

(iii) Each borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof; provided that a borrowing of Base Rate Loans may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments.

Section 2.02 Pro Rata Shares; Availability of Funds .

(a) Pro Rata Shares . All Loans shall be made, by Lenders simultaneously and proportionately to their respective Pro Rata Shares, it being understood that no Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other Lender in such other Lender’s obligation to make a Loan requested hereunder nor shall any Commitment of any Lender be increased or decreased as a result of a default by any other Lender in such other Lender’s obligation to make a Loan requested hereunder.

(b) Availability of Funds . Unless Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the applicable Credit Date that such Lender does not intend to make available to Administrative Agent the amount of such Lender’s Loan requested on such Credit Date, Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to Administrative Agent on such Credit Date and Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, but shall not be obligated to, make available to Borrower a corresponding amount on such Credit Date. If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to Administrative Agent by such Lender, Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding amount on demand from such Lender together with interest thereon, for each day from such Credit Date until the date such amount is paid to Administrative Agent, at the rate equal to the

 

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greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, Administrative Agent shall promptly notify Borrower and Borrower shall immediately pay such corresponding amount to Administrative Agent together with interest thereon, for each day from the Credit Date until the date such amount is paid to Administrative Agent, at the rate payable hereunder for Base Rate Loans. Nothing in this Section 2.02(b) shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.

Section 2.03 Use of Proceeds . The proceeds of the Loans shall be used by the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries for working capital and general corporate purposes. No part of the proceeds of any Loans will be used, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, for any purpose that entails a violation of any provision of Regulation T, Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors.

Section 2.04 Evidence of Debt; Register; Lenders’ Books and Records; Notes .

(a) Lenders’ Evidence of Debt . Each Lender shall maintain on its internal records an account or accounts evidencing the Obligations of Borrower to such Lender, including the amounts of the Loans made by it and each repayment and prepayment in respect thereof. Any such recordation shall be conclusive and binding on Borrower, absent manifest error; provided , that the failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such recordation, shall not affect any Lender’s Commitments or Borrower’s Obligations in respect of any applicable Loans; and provided further , in the event of any inconsistency between the Register and any Lender’s records, the recordations in the Register shall govern.

(b) Register . Administrative Agent (or its agent or sub-agent appointed by it), acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of Lenders and the Commitments and Loans of each Lender from time to time (the “ Register ”). The Register shall be available for inspection by Borrower or any Lender (with respect to any entry relating to such Lender’s Loans) at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. Administrative Agent shall record, or shall cause to be recorded, in the Register the Commitments and the Loans in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.06, and each repayment or prepayment in respect of the principal amount of the Loans, and any such recordation shall be conclusive and binding on Borrower and each Lender, absent manifest error; provided , failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such recordation, shall not affect any Lender’s Commitments or Borrower’s Obligations in respect of any Loan. Borrower hereby designates JPMCB to serve as Borrower’s non-fiduciary agent solely for purposes of maintaining the Register as provided in this Section 2.04, and Borrower hereby agrees that, to the extent JPMCB serves in such capacity, JPMCB and its officers, directors, employees, agents, sub-agents and affiliates acting in such capacity shall constitute “Indemnitees.”

(c) Notes . If so requested by any Lender by written notice to Borrower (with a copy to Administrative Agent) at least two Business Days prior to the Closing Date, or at any time thereafter, Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (and/or, if applicable and if so

 

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specified in such notice, to any Person who is an assignee of such Lender pursuant to Section 10.06) on the Closing Date (or, if such notice is delivered after the Closing Date, promptly after Borrower’s receipt of such notice) a Note or Notes to evidence such Lender’s Loan.

Section 2.05 Interest on Loans .

(a) Except as otherwise set forth herein, each Loan shall bear interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof from the date made through repayment (whether by acceleration or otherwise) thereof as follows:

(i) in the case of a Base Rate Loan, at the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin; or

(ii) in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Loan, at the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

(b) Subject to Section 2.14, the basis for determining the rate of interest with respect to any Loan and the Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, shall be selected by Borrower and notified to Administrative Agent and Lenders pursuant to the applicable Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, as the case may be. If on any day a Loan is outstanding with respect to which a Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice has not been delivered to Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof specifying the applicable basis for determining the rate of interest, then for that day such Loan shall be a Eurodollar Rate Loan with an Interest Period of one (1) month.

(c) In connection with Eurodollar Rate Loans there shall be no more than ten (10) Interest Periods outstanding at any time. So long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, in the event Borrower fails to specify between a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan in the applicable Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, such Loan (if outstanding as a Base Rate Loan) will be automatically converted into a Eurodollar Rate Loan on the date designated for such borrowing or such conversion or continuation in such Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice (or if outstanding as a Eurodollar Rate Loan will remain as, or (if not then outstanding) will be made as) a Eurodollar Rate Loan with an Interest Period of one (1) month. In the event Borrower fails to specify an Interest Period for any Eurodollar Rate Loan in the applicable Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one (1) month. As soon as practicable after 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on each Interest Rate Determination Date, Administrative Agent shall determine (which determination shall, absent manifest error, be final, conclusive and binding upon all parties) the interest rate that shall apply to the Eurodollar Rate Loans for which an interest rate is then being determined for the applicable Interest Period and shall promptly give notice thereof (in writing or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Borrower and each Lender.

(d) Interest payable pursuant to Section 2.05(a) shall be computed (i) in the case of Base Rate Loans that are subject to the Base Rate based on the Prime Rate, on the basis of a 365-day or 366-day year, as the case may be, and (ii) in the case of other Loans (including the) Eurodollar Rate Loans), on the basis of a 360-day year, in each case for the actual number of

 

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days elapsed in the period during which it accrues. In computing interest on any Loan, the date of the making of such Loan or the first day of an Interest Period applicable to such Loan or the last Interest Payment Date or, with respect to a Base Rate Loan being converted from a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the date of conversion of such Eurodollar Rate Loan to such Base Rate Loan, as the case may be, shall be included, and the date of payment of such Loan or the expiration date of an Interest Period applicable to such Loan or, with respect to a Base Rate Loan being converted to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the date of conversion of such Base Rate Loan to such Eurodollar Rate Loan, as the case may be, shall be excluded; provided , if a Loan is repaid on the same day on which it is made, one day’s interest shall be paid on that Loan.

(e) Except as otherwise set forth herein, interest on each Loan shall accrue on a daily basis and shall be payable in arrears (i) on each Interest Payment Date with respect to interest accrued on and to each such payment date; (ii) upon any prepayment of that Loan, whether voluntary or mandatory, to the extent accrued on the amount being prepaid; and (iii) at maturity of the Loans, including final maturity of the Loans and termination of the Commitments; provided , however , with respect to any voluntary prepayment of a Base Rate Loan, accrued interest shall instead be payable on the applicable Interest Payment Date.

Section 2.06 Conversion/Continuation .

(a) Subject to Section 2.14 and so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and then be continuing, Borrower shall have the option:

(i) to convert at any time all or any part of any Loan equal to $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount from one Type to another Type; provided , a Eurodollar Rate Loan may only be converted on the expiration of the Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Rate Loan unless Borrower shall pay all amounts due under Section 2.14 in connection with any such conversion; or

(ii) upon the expiration of any Interest Period applicable to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, to continue all or any portion of such Loan equal to $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount as a Eurodollar Rate Loan.

(b) Borrower shall deliver a Conversion/Continuation Notice to Administrative Agent no later than 12:00 noon (New York City time) on the proposed conversion date (in the case of a conversion to a Base Rate Loan) and at least three Business Days in advance of the proposed conversion/continuation date (in the case of a conversion to, or a continuation of, a Eurodollar Rate Loan). Except as otherwise provided herein, a Conversion/Continuation Notice for conversion to, or continuation of, any Eurodollar Rate Loans (or telephonic notice in lieu thereof to be confirmed in writing) shall be irrevocable on and after the related Interest Rate Determination Date, and Borrower shall be bound to effect a conversion or continuation in accordance therewith. Any conversion/continuation date shall be a Business Day.

 

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Section 2.07 Default Interest . Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), any overdue amounts shall thereafter bear interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable bankruptcy laws) payable on demand at a rate that is 2% per annum in excess of the interest rate otherwise payable hereunder with respect to the applicable Loans (or, in the case of any such fees and other amounts, at a rate which is 2% per annum in excess of the interest rate otherwise payable hereunder for Base Rate Loans); provided , in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, upon the expiration of the Interest Period in effect at the time any such increase in interest rate is effective such Eurodollar Rate Loans shall thereupon become Base Rate Loans and shall thereafter bear interest payable upon demand at a rate which is 2% per annum in excess of the interest rate otherwise payable hereunder for Base Rate Loans. Payment or acceptance of the increased rates of interest provided for in this Section 2.07 is not a permitted alternative to timely payment and shall not constitute a waiver of any Event of Default or otherwise prejudice or limit any rights or remedies of Administrative Agent or any Lender.

Section 2.08 Fees . Borrower agrees to pay to Lenders commitment fees (“ Commitment Fees ”) in an amount computed on a daily basis equal to (1) the daily difference between (A) the total Commitments then in effect and (B) the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Loans, times (2) the Commitment Fee Rate then in effect as shown in the definition of Applicable Margin. All Commitment Fees referred to in this Section 2.08 (a) shall accrue during the Availability Period and be paid to Administrative Agent at its Principal Office and, upon receipt, Administrative Agent shall promptly distribute to each Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof, and (b) shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed and shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December, as applicable, after the Closing Date, and on the earlier of the Maturity Date and the Termination Date.

Section 2.09 Scheduled Payments . Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for account of the applicable Lenders the outstanding principal amount of the Loans on the Maturity Date.

Section 2.10 Voluntary Prepayments ; Reduction of Commitment .

(a) Subject to Section 2.14(c), at any time and from time to time:

(i) with respect to Base Rate Loans, Borrower may prepay any such Loans on any Business Day in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount, or, if less, the entire principal amount of such Loan then outstanding; and

(ii) with respect to Eurodollar Rate Loans, Borrower may prepay any such Loans on any Business Day in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount, or, if less, the entire principal amount of such Loan then outstanding.

 

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(iii) All such prepayments under this clause (a) shall be made:

(iv) (i) upon prior written or telephonic notice in the case of Base Rate Loans delivered to Administrative Agent no later than the time required below on the proposed prepayment date, which shall be a Business Day; and

(v) (ii) upon not less than three Business Days’ prior written or telephonic notice in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans;

in each case given to Administrative Agent by 12:00 noon (New York City time) on the date required and, if given by telephone, promptly confirmed in writing to Administrative Agent (and Administrative Agent will promptly transmit such telephonic or original notice for the Loans by facsimile or telephone to each Lender). Upon the giving of any such notice, the principal amount of the Loans specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the prepayment date specified therein; provided that Borrower may condition such notice on the occurrence of a specified asset sale, acquisition, refinancing or other event and, if such event shall not have occurred, Borrower may rescind such notice and the principal amount of the Loans specified in such notice shall not become due and payable on such prepayment date. Any such voluntary prepayment shall be applied as specified in Section 2.11(a).

(b) Voluntary Commitment Reductions .

(i) Borrower may, in its sole discretion, upon not less than three Business Days’ prior written or telephonic notice promptly confirmed by delivery of written notice thereof to Administrative Agent (which original written notice Administrative Agent will promptly transmit by facsimile or telephone to each applicable Lender and which notice shall be irrevocable (subject to clause (ii) below)), at any time and from time to time terminate in whole or permanently reduce in part, without premium or penalty, the Commitments; provided that (A) any such partial reduction of the Commitments shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess of that amount, and (B) Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 2.10(a), the total Exposures would exceed the total Commitments.

(ii) Borrower’s notice to Administrative Agent shall designate the date (which shall be a Business Day) of such termination or reduction and the amount of any partial reduction, and such termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be effective on the date specified in Borrower’s notice and shall reduce the Commitment of each Lender proportionately to its Pro Rata Share thereof; provided that Borrower may condition the notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.10(b) on the occurrence of a specified asset sale, acquisition, refinancing or other event and, if such event shall not have occurred, Borrower may rescind such notice and the termination or reduction of the Commitments specified in such notice shall not become effective on such specified effective date.

 

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Section 2.11 Application of Prepayments .

(a) Application of Prepayments of Loans . Subject to Section 2.12, any prepayment of any Loan pursuant to Section 2.10(a) shall be applied on a pro rata basis to reduce the remaining outstanding principal amounts of the Loans.

(b) Application of Prepayments of Loans to Base Rate Loans and Eurodollar Rate Loans . Any prepayment of Loans shall be applied first to Base Rate Loans to the full extent thereof before application to Eurodollar Rate Loans, in each case in a manner which minimizes the amount of any payments required to be made by Borrower pursuant to Section 2.14(c).

Section 2.12 General Provisions Regarding Payments .

(a) All payments by Borrower of principal, interest, fees and other Obligations shall be made in Dollars in same day funds, without defense, set-off or counterclaim, free of any restriction or condition, and delivered to Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date due at the Principal Office designated by Administrative Agent for the account of Lenders; for purposes of computing interest and fees, funds received by Administrative Agent after that time on such due date shall be deemed to have been paid by Borrower on the next succeeding Business Day.

(b) All payments in respect of the principal amount of any Loan shall be accompanied by payment of accrued interest on the principal amount being repaid or prepaid, and all such payments (and, in any event, any payments in respect of any Loan on a date when interest is due and payable with respect to such Loan) shall be applied to the payment of interest then due and payable before application to principal. If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, to pay interest and fees then due hereunder, and (ii) second, to pay principal then due hereunder, each in the manner set forth in this Section 2.12.

(c) Administrative Agent (or its agent or sub-agent appointed by it) shall promptly distribute to each Lender at such address as such Lender shall indicate in writing, such Lender’s applicable Pro Rata Share of all payments and prepayments of principal and interest due hereunder, together with all other amounts due thereto, including all fees payable with respect thereto, to the extent received by Administrative Agent.

(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions hereof, if (A) any Conversion/Continuation Notice is withdrawn as to any Affected Lender, (B) any Affected Lender makes Base Rate Loans in lieu of its Pro Rata Share of any Eurodollar Rate Loans, or (C) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) of the definition thereof, Administrative Agent shall give effect thereto in apportioning payments received thereafter.

(e) Subject to the proviso set forth in the definition of “Interest Period”, whenever any payment to be made hereunder with respect to any Loan shall be stated to be due on a day that is not a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and such extension of time shall be included in the computation of the payment of interest hereunder.

 

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(f) Administrative Agent shall deem any payment by or on behalf of Borrower hereunder that is not made in same day funds prior to 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) to be a non-conforming payment. Any such payment shall not be deemed to have been received by Administrative Agent until the later of (i) the time such funds become available funds, and (ii) the applicable next Business Day. Any non-conforming payment may constitute or become a Default or Event of Default in accordance with the terms of Section 8.01(a). Interest shall continue to accrue on any principal as to which a non-conforming payment is made until such funds become available funds (but in no event less than the period from the date of such payment to the next succeeding applicable Business Day) at the rate determined pursuant to Section 2.07 from the date such amount was due and payable until the date such amount is paid in full.

(g) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and not otherwise been waived, and the maturity of the Obligations shall have been accelerated pursuant to Section 8.01, all payments or proceeds received by Administrative Agent hereunder in respect of any of the Obligations shall be applied as follows:

first , to the payment of all amounts for which Administrative Agent is entitled to reimbursement or indemnification hereunder (in its capacity as Administrative Agent and not as a Lender) and all advances made by Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Borrower or any Guarantor, and to the payment of all costs and expenses paid or incurred by Administrative Agent in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy hereunder, all in accordance with the terms hereof;

second , to the extent of any excess of such proceeds, to the payment of all other Obligations for the ratable benefit of the Lenders; and

third , to the extent of any excess of such payments or proceeds, to the payment to or upon the order of whosoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.

Section 2.13 Ratable Sharing . Lenders hereby agree among themselves that, if any of them shall, whether by voluntary payment (other than a voluntary prepayment of Loans made and applied in accordance with the terms hereof), through the exercise of any right of set-off or banker’s lien, by counterclaim or cross action or by the enforcement of any right under the Credit Documents or otherwise, or as adequate protection of a deposit treated as cash collateral under the Bankruptcy Code, receive payment or reduction of a proportion of the aggregate amount of principal, interest, fees and other amounts then due and owing to such Lender hereunder or under the other Credit Documents (collectively, the “ Aggregate Amounts Due ” to such Lender) which is greater than the proportion received by any other Lender in respect of the Aggregate Amounts Due to such other Lender, then the Lender receiving such proportionately greater payment shall (a) notify Administrative Agent and each other Lender of the receipt of such payment and (b) apply a portion of such payment to purchase participations (which it shall be deemed to have purchased from each seller of a participation simultaneously upon the receipt by such seller of its portion of such payment) in the Aggregate Amounts Due to the other

 

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Lenders so that all such recoveries of Aggregate Amounts Due shall be shared by all Lenders in proportion to the Aggregate Amounts Due to them; provided , if all or part of such proportionately greater payment received by such purchasing Lender is thereafter recovered from such Lender upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of Borrower or otherwise, those purchases shall be rescinded and the purchase prices paid for such participations shall be returned to such purchasing Lender ratably to the extent of such recovery, but without interest. Borrower expressly consents to the foregoing arrangement and agrees that any holder of a participation so purchased may exercise any and all rights of banker’s lien, set-off or counterclaim with respect to any and all monies owing by Borrower to that holder with respect thereto as fully as if that holder were owed the amount of the participation held by that holder. The provisions of this Section 2.13 shall not be construed to apply to (a) any payment made by Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or (b) any payment obtained by any Lender as consideration for the assignment or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or other Obligations owed to it.

Section 2.14 Making or Maintaining Eurodollar Rate Loans .

(a) Inability to Determine Applicable Interest Rate . In the event that Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto), on any Interest Rate Determination Date with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loans, that by reason of circumstances affecting the London interbank market adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the interest rate applicable to such Loans on the basis provided for in the definition of “ Adjusted Eurodollar Rate ”, Administrative Agent shall on such date give notice (by facsimile or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Borrower and each Lender of such determination, whereupon (i) no Loans may be made as or converted to Eurodollar Rate Loans, and the Loans shall be made as or converted to Base Rate Loans on the first day of the Interest Period immediately following such Interest Rate Determination Date, in each case until such time as Administrative Agent notifies Borrower and Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, and (ii) any Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice given by Borrower with respect to the Loans in respect of which such determination was made shall be deemed to be rescinded by Borrower.

(b) Illegality or Impracticability of Eurodollar Rate Loans . In the event that on any date any Lender shall have determined (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto but shall be made only after consultation with Borrower and Administrative Agent) that the making, maintaining or continuation of its Eurodollar Rate Loans (i) has become unlawful as a result of compliance by such Lender in good faith with any law, treaty, governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order (or would conflict with any such treaty, governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order not having the force of law even though the failure to comply therewith would not be unlawful), or (ii) has become impracticable, as a result of contingencies occurring after the Closing Date which materially and adversely affect the London interbank market or the position of such Lender in that market, then, and in any such event, such Lender shall be an “ Affected Lender ” and it shall on that day give notice (by email, facsimile or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Borrower and Administrative Agent of such determination (which notice Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each other Lender). If Administrative Agent receives a notice from (x) any Lender pursuant to clause (i) of the preceding sentence or (y) Lenders constituting Requisite Lenders pursuant to clause (ii) of the

 

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preceding sentence, then (1) the obligation of the Lenders (or, in the case of any notice pursuant to clause (i) of the preceding sentence, such Affected Lender) to make Loans as, or to convert Loans to, Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended until such notice shall be withdrawn by the Affected Lender, (2) to the extent such determination by the Affected Lender relates to a Eurodollar Rate Loan then being requested by Borrower pursuant to the Funding Notice or a Conversion/Continuation Notice, the Lenders (or in the case of any notice pursuant to clause (i) of the preceding sentence, such Affected Lender) shall make such Loan as (or continue such Loan as or convert such Loan to, as the case may be) a Base Rate Loan, (3) the Lenders’ (or in the case of any notice pursuant to clause (i) of the preceding sentence, such Affected Lender’s) obligation to maintain their respective outstanding Eurodollar Rate Loans (the “ Affected Loans ”) shall be terminated at the earlier to occur of the expiration of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the Affected Loans or when required by law, and (4) the Affected Loans shall automatically convert into Base Rate Loans on the date of such termination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent a determination by an Affected Lender as described above relates to a Eurodollar Rate Loan then being requested by Borrower pursuant to the Funding Notice or a Conversion/Continuation Notice, Borrower shall have the option, subject to the provisions of Section 2.14(c), to rescind the Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice as to all Lenders by giving notice (by email, facsimile or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Administrative Agent of such rescission on the date on which the Affected Lender gives notice of its determination as described above (which notice of rescission Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each other Lender). Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, nothing in this Section 2.14(b) shall affect the obligation of any Lender other than an Affected Lender to make or maintain Loans as, or to convert Loans to, Eurodollar Rate Loans in accordance with the terms hereof.

(c) Compensation for Breakage or Non-Commencement of Interest Periods . Borrower shall compensate each Lender, upon written request by such Lender (which request shall set forth the basis for requesting such amounts), for all reasonable losses, expenses and liabilities (including any interest paid or payable by such Lender to Lenders of funds borrowed by it to make or carry its Eurodollar Rate Loans and any loss, expense or liability sustained by such Lender in connection with the liquidation or re-employment of such funds but excluding loss of anticipated profits (including, without duplication, any loss of the Applicable Margin on the relevant Loans)) which such Lender may sustain: (i) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender) a borrowing of any Eurodollar Rate Loan does not occur on a date specified therefor in a Funding Notice or a telephonic request for borrowing, or a conversion to or continuation of any Eurodollar Rate Loan does not occur on a date specified therefor in a Conversion/Continuation Notice or a telephonic request for conversion or continuation; (ii) if any prepayment or other principal payment of (for the avoidance of doubt, including without limitation any deemed prepayment or payment in connection with any Commitment Increase), or any conversion of, any of its Eurodollar Rate Loans occurs on a date prior to the last day of an Interest Period applicable to that Loan; or (iii) if any prepayment of any of its Eurodollar Rate Loans is not made on any date specified in a notice of prepayment given by Borrower. A certificate of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail the calculation of the amount or amounts payable under this Section 2.14(c) shall be delivered to Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such amount or amounts shall be payable within ten (10) days after Borrower’s receipt of such certificate.

 

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(d) Booking of Eurodollar Rate Loans . Subject to Section 2.17, any Lender may make, carry or transfer Eurodollar Rate Loans at, to, or for the account of any of its branch offices or the office of an Affiliate of such Lender.

(e) Assumptions Concerning Funding of Eurodollar Rate Loans . Calculation of all amounts payable to a Lender under this Section 2.14 and under Section 2.15 shall be made as though such Lender had actually funded each of its relevant Eurodollar Rate Loans through the purchase of a Eurodollar deposit bearing interest at the rate obtained pursuant to clause (i) of the definition of “Adjusted Eurodollar Rate” in an amount equal to the amount of such Eurodollar Rate Loan and having a maturity comparable to the relevant Interest Period and through the transfer of such Eurodollar deposit from an offshore office of such Lender to a domestic office of such Lender in the United States of America; provided , however , each Lender may fund each of its Eurodollar Rate Loans in any manner it sees fit and the foregoing assumptions shall be utilized only for the purposes of calculating amounts payable under this Section 2.14 and under Section 2.15.

Section 2.15 Increased Costs; Capital Adequacy .

(a) Compensation For Increased Costs and Taxes . Subject to the provisions of Section 2.16 (which shall be controlling with respect to the matters covered thereby), in the event that any Lender shall determine (which determination shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto) that any law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order, or any change therein or in the interpretation, administration or application thereof (including the introduction of any new law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order), or any determination of a court or governmental authority, in each case that becomes effective after the Closing Date, or compliance by such Lender with any guideline, request or directive issued or made after the Closing Date by any central bank or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law): (i) subjects such Lender (or its applicable lending office) to any additional Tax (other than any Tax covered by Section 2.16(b) and the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender) with respect to this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents or any of its obligations hereunder or thereunder or any payments to such Lender (or its applicable lending office) of principal, interest, fees or any other amount payable hereunder; (ii) imposes, modifies or holds applicable any reserve (including any marginal, emergency, supplemental, special or other reserve), special deposit, compulsory loan, FDIC insurance or similar requirement against assets held by, or deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, or advances or loans by, or other credit extended by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender (other than any such reserve or other requirements with respect to Eurodollar Rate Loans that are reflected in the definition of “ Adjusted Eurodollar Rate ”); or (iii) imposes any other condition (other than with respect to a Tax matter) on or affecting such Lender (or its applicable lending office) or its obligations hereunder or the London interbank market; and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender of agreeing to make, making or maintaining Loans hereunder or to reduce any amount received or receivable by such Lender (or its applicable lending office) with respect thereto; then, in any such case, Borrower shall promptly pay to such Lender, upon receipt of the statement referred to in the next sentence, such additional amount or amounts (in the form of an increased rate of, or a different method of calculating, interest or otherwise as such Lender in its sole discretion shall determine) as may be necessary to

 

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compensate such Lender on an after-tax basis for any such increased cost or reduction in amounts received or receivable hereunder. Such Lender shall deliver to Borrower (with a copy to Administrative Agent) a written statement, setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for calculating the additional amounts owed to such Lender under this Section 2.15(a), which statement shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto absent manifest error; 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) of the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall be deemed to be changes in law made after the Closing Date regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.15(a), no Lender shall demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.15(a) if such demand is inconsistent with such Lender’s treatment of other borrowers which, as a credit matter, are similarly situated to Borrower and which are subject to similar provisions.

(b) Capital Adequacy and Liquidity Adjustment . In the event that any Lender shall have determined that the adoption, effectiveness, phase-in or applicability after the Closing Date of any law, rule or regulation (or any provision thereof) regarding capital adequacy or liquidity requirements, or any change therein or in the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender (or its applicable lending office) with any guideline, request or directive regarding capital adequacy or liquidity requirements (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency, has had the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a consequence of, or with reference to, such Lender’s Loans or participations therein or other obligations hereunder with respect to the Loans to a level below that which such Lender or such controlling corporation could have achieved but for such adoption, effectiveness, phase-in, applicability, change or compliance (taking into consideration the policies of such Lender or such controlling corporation with regard to capital adequacy or liquidity requirements), then from time to time, within 15 days after receipt by Borrower from such Lender of the statement referred to in the next sentence, Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such controlling corporation on an after-tax basis for such reduction. Such Lender shall deliver to Borrower (with a copy to Administrative Agent) a written statement, setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for calculating the additional amounts owed to Lender under this Section 2.15(b), which statement shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto absent manifest error; 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) of the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall be deemed to be changes in law made after the Closing Date regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.15(b), no Lender shall demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.15(b) if such demand is inconsistent with such Lender’s treatment of other borrowers which, as a credit matter, are similarly situated to Borrower and which are subject to similar provisions.

 

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(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.15 to the contrary, Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 2.15 for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies Borrower of the change in law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that if the change in law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 180 day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

Section 2.16 Taxes; Withholding .

(a) Payments to Be Free and Clear . All sums payable by any Credit Party hereunder and under the other Credit Documents shall (except to the extent required by law) be paid free and clear of, and without any deduction or withholding on account of, any Tax.

(b) Withholding of Taxes . If any Credit Party or any other Person is required by law to make any deduction or withholding on account of any Tax from any sum paid or payable by any Credit Party to Administrative Agent or any Lender under any of the Credit Documents: (i) Borrower shall notify Administrative Agent of any such requirement or any change in any such requirement as soon as Borrower becomes aware of it; (ii) Borrower shall pay or cause to be paid any such Tax before the date on which penalties attach thereto, such payment to be made (if the liability to pay is imposed on any Credit Party) for its own account or (if that liability is imposed on Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be) on behalf of and in the name of Administrative Agent or such Lender; (iii) if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, the sum payable by the relevant Credit Party in respect of which the relevant deduction, withholding or payment is required shall be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that, after the making of that deduction, withholding or payment, Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, receives on the due date a net sum equal to what it would have received had no such deduction, withholding or payment been required or made; and (iv) within thirty days after paying any sum from which it is required by law to make any deduction or withholding, and within thirty days after the due date of payment of any Tax which it is required by clause (ii) above to pay, Borrower shall deliver to Administrative Agent evidence satisfactory to the other affected parties of such deduction, withholding or payment and of the remittance thereof to the relevant taxing or other authority.

(c) Payment of Other Taxes by the Credit Parties . Without limiting the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) above, the Credit Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(d) Indemnification by the Borrower . The Borrower shall indemnify Administrative Agent and each Lender for any Indemnified Taxes paid or payable by Administrative Agent or such Lender in connection with this Agreement (including amounts payable under this Section 2.16) and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. The indemnity under this Section 2.16(d) shall be paid within 10 days after Administrative Agent or Lender as the case may be delivers to the Borrower a certificate stating the amount of any such Tax so paid or payable. Any Lender who delivers

 

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such a certificate to the Borrower shall deliver a copy thereof to Administrative Agent. The certificate delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive of the amount so paid or payable absent manifest error.

(e) Evidence of Exemption From U.S. Withholding Tax .

(i) Each Lender that is not a United States Person (as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) for U.S. federal income tax purposes (a “ Non-US Lender ”) shall deliver to Administrative Agent for transmission to Borrower, on or prior to the Closing Date (in the case of each Lender listed on the signature pages hereof on the Closing Date) or on or prior to the date of the Assignment Agreement pursuant to which it becomes a Lender (in the case of each other Lender), and at such other times as may be necessary in the determination of Borrower or Administrative Agent (each in the reasonable exercise of its discretion), (x) two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E, W-8ECI and/or W-8IMY (or, in each case, any successor forms), properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Code and reasonably requested by Borrower or Administrative Agent to establish that such Lender is not subject to (or is subject to a reduced rate of) deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax with respect to any payments to such Lender of principal, interest, fees or other amounts payable under any of the Credit Documents, or (y) if such Lender is not a “bank” or other Person described in Section 881(c)(3) of the Code and is claiming the “portfolio interest exemption”, a Certificate re Non-Bank Status together with two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor form), properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Code and reasonably requested by Borrower to establish that such Lender is not subject to (or is subject to a reduced rate of) deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax with respect to any payments to such Lender of interest payable under any of the Credit Documents. Each Lender that is a United States person (as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) for United States federal income tax purposes (a “ U.S. Lender ”) and is not an exempt recipient within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6049-4(c) shall deliver to Administrative Agent and Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date (or, if later, on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement) two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or any successor form), properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, certifying that such U.S. Lender is entitled to an exemption from United States backup withholding tax, or otherwise prove that it is entitled to such an exemption. Each Lender required to deliver any forms, certificates or other evidence with respect to United States federal income tax withholding matters pursuant to this Section 2.16(e) hereby agrees, from time to time after the initial delivery by such Lender of such forms, certificates or other evidence, whenever a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders such forms, certificates or other evidence obsolete or inaccurate in any material respect, that such Lender shall promptly deliver to Administrative Agent for transmission to Borrower two new original copies of

 

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Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E, W-8ECI and/or W-8IMY (or, in each case, any successor forms), or a Certificate re Non-Bank Status and two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor form), as the case may be, properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Code and reasonably requested by Borrower to confirm or establish that such Lender is not subject to (or is subject to a reduced rate of) deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax with respect to payments to such Lender under the Credit Documents, or notify Administrative Agent and Borrower of its inability to deliver any such forms, certificates or other evidence. Borrower shall not be required to pay any additional amount to any Non-US Lender under Section 2.16(b)(iii) if such Lender shall have failed to deliver the forms, certificates or other evidence referred to in the first sentence of this Section 2.16(e)(i); provided , if such Lender shall have satisfied the requirements of the first sentence of this Section 2.16(e) on the Closing Date or on the date of the Assignment Agreement pursuant to which it became a Lender, as applicable, nothing in this last sentence of Section 2.16(e) shall relieve Borrower of its obligation to pay any additional amounts pursuant this Section 2.16 in the event that, as a result of any change in any applicable law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order, or any change in the interpretation, administration or application thereof, such Lender is no longer properly entitled to deliver forms, certificates or other evidence at a subsequent date establishing the fact that such Lender is not subject to withholding as described herein.

(ii) If a payment made to a Lender under any Credit Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or Administrative Agent, such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower as may be necessary for the Borrower and Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations under FATCA, to determine that such Administrative Agent or Lender, as applicable, has or has not complied with its obligations under FATCA and, as necessary, to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment.

(f) Indemnification by the Lenders . Each Lender shall severally indemnify Administrative Agent for any Taxes attributable to such Lender that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Credit Document (but in the case of Indemnified Taxes, only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so) and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. The indemnity under this Section 2.16(f) shall be paid within 10 days after Administrative Agent delivers to the

 

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applicable Lender a certificate stating the amount of any such Tax so paid or payable by Administrative Agent. The certificate delivered to the Lender shall be conclusive of the amount so paid or payable absent manifest error.

(g) Treatment of Certain Refunds . If Administrative Agent or any Lender determines in its sole discretion exercised in good faith that it has received a refund of any Taxes with respect to which any Credit Party has paid additional amounts pursuant to Section 2.16(b) from the Governmental Authority to which such tax was paid, it shall pay to such Credit Party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of additional amounts paid by such Credit Party with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that each Credit Party, upon the request of Administrative Agent or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to such Credit Party (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This paragraph shall not be construed to require Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary.

(h) Survival . Each party’s obligations under this Section 2.16 shall survive any assignment of rights by or replacement of any Lender or Administrative Agent, and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other obligations under this Agreement.

Section 2.17 Obligation to Mitigate . Each Lender agrees that, as promptly as practicable after the officer of such Lender responsible for administering its Loans becomes aware of the occurrence of an event or the existence of a condition that would cause such Lender to become an Affected Lender or that would entitle such Lender to receive payments under Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16, it will, to the extent not inconsistent with the internal policies of such Lender and any applicable legal or regulatory restrictions, use reasonable efforts to (a) make, issue, fund or maintain its Credit Extensions, including any Affected Loans, through another office of such Lender, or (b) take such other measures as such Lender may deem reasonable, if as a result thereof the circumstances which would cause such Lender to be an Affected Lender would cease to exist or the additional amounts which would otherwise be required to be paid to such Lender pursuant to Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16 would be materially reduced and if, as determined by such Lender in its sole discretion, the making, issuing, funding or maintaining of such Loans through such other office or in accordance with such other measures, as the case may be, would not otherwise adversely affect such Loans or the interests of such Lender; provided , such Lender will not be obligated to utilize such other office pursuant to this Section 2.17 unless Borrower agrees to pay all incremental expenses incurred by such Lender as a result of utilizing such other office as described in this Section 2.17 (a) and (b) above. A certificate as to the amount of any such expenses payable by Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.17 (setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for requesting such amount) submitted by such Lender to Borrower (with a copy to Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

 

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Section 2.18 Increase of Commitments .

(a) The Borrower may from time to time after the Closing Date, by written notice to Administrative Agent (which shall be provided four (4) Business Days prior to the Increase Effective Date or within such shorter period of time as Administrative Agent may agree), executed by the Borrower and one or more financial institutions (any such financial institution referred to in this Section being called an “ Increasing Lender ”), which may include any Lender (acting in its sole discretion), cause new Commitments to be extended by the Increasing Lenders or cause the existing Commitments of the Increasing Lenders to be increased (any such extension or increase being called a “ Commitment Increase ”), in an amount set forth in such notice; provided , that (i) the aggregate amount of the Commitment Increases becoming effective on any single date shall be at least the lesser of (A) $25,000,000 (or such lesser amount consented to by Administrative Agent) and (B) the result of $75,000,000 minus the aggregate amount of all Commitment Increases effected since the Closing Date pursuant to this Section 2.18, (ii) after giving effect to the requested increase, the aggregate amount of all increases in the Commitments following the Closing Date pursuant to this Section 2.18 shall not exceed $75,000,000, and (iii) each Increasing Lender, if not already a Lender hereunder, (A) shall be subject to the approval of Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), (B) shall complete an Administrative Questionnaire and provide to Administrative Agent such forms, certificates or other evidence with respect to United States federal income tax withholding matters as such Increasing Lender may be required to deliver pursuant to Section 2.16(e), and (C) shall become a party hereto by completing and delivering to Administrative Agent, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Increase Effective Date, a duly executed accession agreement in a form reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “ Accession Agreement ”). Each Commitment Increase shall become effective on the date specified in the applicable notices delivered pursuant to this paragraph. Upon the effectiveness of any Accession Agreement to which any Increasing Lender is a party, (x) such Increasing Lender shall thereafter be deemed to be a party to this Agreement and shall be entitled to all rights, benefits and privileges accorded to, and shall be subject to all obligations of, a Lender hereunder and (y) Appendix A shall be deemed to have been amended to reflect the Commitments of such Increasing Lender as provided in such Accession Agreement. Upon the effectiveness of any Commitment Increase with respect to a Lender already a party hereto, Appendix A shall be deemed to have been amended to reflect the increased Commitment of such Lender. For the avoidance of doubt, no Lender may be made an Increasing Lender without its consent.

(b) On the Increase Effective Date, which shall not be less than 30 days prior to the Maturity Date (without regard to clause (ii) of such definition), the Borrower shall (i) prepay the outstanding Loans (if any) (the “ Initial Loans ”) in full, (ii) simultaneously borrow new Loans hereunder in an amount equal to, and in the same Type as, such prepayment (in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, with Adjusted Eurodollar Rates equal to the outstanding Adjusted Eurodollar Rates and with Interest Period(s) ending on the date(s) of any then outstanding Interest Period(s); provided that with respect to subclauses (i) and (ii), (x) the prepayment to, and borrowing from, any existing Lender shall be effected by book entry to the extent that any portion of the amount prepaid to such Lender will be subsequently borrowed from such Lender and (y) the existing Lenders and the Increasing Lenders shall make and receive payments among themselves, in a manner acceptable to the Administrative Agent, so that, after giving effect thereto, the Loans of each Type are held ratably by the Lenders in accordance with the respective Commitments of such Lenders (after giving effect to such Commitment Increase) and (iii) pay to

 

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the Lenders the amounts, if any, payable under Section 2.14(c) as a result of any such prepayment. Concurrently therewith, the Lenders shall be deemed to have adjusted their participation interests in any outstanding Loans of each Type so that such interests are held ratably in accordance with their Commitments as so increased.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no increase in the Commitments (or in any Commitment of any Lender) shall become effective under this Section 2.18(c) unless, on the date of such increase, the conditions set forth in Section 3.02(a)(ii) and (iii) shall be satisfied (with all references in such paragraphs to a Loan being deemed to be references to such increase) and Administrative Agent shall have received, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Increase Effective Date, a certificate to that effect dated such date and executed by the chief financial officer of each Credit Party (or, in the case of Finco, treasurer of Finco).

Section 2.19 Removal or Replacement of a Lender .

(a) Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event that: (a) (i) any Lender (an “ Increased-Cost Lender ”) shall give notice to Borrower that such Lender is an Affected Lender or that such Lender is entitled to receive payments under Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16, (ii) the circumstances which have caused such Lender to be an Affected Lender or which entitle such Lender to receive such payments shall remain in effect, and (iii) such Lender shall fail to withdraw such notice within five Business Days after Borrower’s request for such withdrawal; (b) in connection with any proposed amendment, modification, termination, waiver or consent with respect to any of the provisions hereof as contemplated by Section 10.05(b), the consent of Requisite Lenders shall have been obtained but the consent of one or more of such other Lenders (each a “ Non-Consenting Lender ”) whose consent is required shall not have been obtained; or (c) for any reason any Lender shall have (i) failed to fund any portion of the Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within one Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, unless the subject of a good faith dispute, (ii) otherwise failed to pay to 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 the subject of a good faith dispute or (iii) been deemed insolvent or become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding (each a “ Defaulting Lender ”; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority or such instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender), then, with respect to each such Increased-Cost Lender, Non-Consenting Lender or Defaulting Lender (the “ Terminated Lender ”), Borrower may by giving written notice to Administrative Agent and any Terminated Lender of its election to do so, elect to cause, at its sole expense and effort, such Terminated Lender (and such Terminated Lender hereby irrevocably agrees) to assign its outstanding Loans, if any, in full to one or more Eligible Assignees (each a “ Replacement Lender ”) in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.06 and Borrower shall pay any fees payable thereunder in connection with such assignment; provided , (1) on the date of such assignment, the Replacement Lender shall pay to Terminated Lender an amount equal to the principal of, and all accrued interest on, all outstanding Loans of the Terminated Lender;

 

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(2) on the date of such assignment, Borrower shall pay any amounts payable to such Terminated Lender pursuant to Section 2.14(c), 2.15 or 2.16; or otherwise as if it were a prepayment and (3) in the event such Terminated Lender is a Non-Consenting Lender, each Replacement Lender shall consent, at the time of such assignment, to each matter in respect of which such Terminated Lender was a Non-Consenting Lender. Upon the prepayment of all amounts owing to any Terminated Lender, such Terminated Lender shall no longer constitute a “Lender” for purposes hereof; provided , any rights of such Terminated Lender to indemnification hereunder shall survive as to such Terminated Lender. Each Lender agrees that if Borrower exercises its option hereunder to cause an assignment by such Lender as a Non-Consenting Lender or Terminated Lender, such Lender shall, promptly after receipt of written notice of such election, execute and deliver all documentation necessary to effectuate such assignment in accordance with Section 10.06. In the event that a Lender does not comply with the requirements of the immediately preceding sentence within one Business Day after receipt of such notice, each Lender hereby authorizes and directs Administrative Agent to execute and deliver such documentation as may be required to give effect to an assignment in accordance with Section 10.06 on behalf of a Non-Consenting Lender or Terminated Lender and any such documentation so executed by Administrative Agent shall be effective for purposes of documenting an assignment pursuant to Section 10.06.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:

(i) Commitment Fees pursuant to Section 2.08 shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender; and

(ii) The Commitment of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether all Lenders or the Requisite Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment or waiver pursuant to Section 10.05), provided that this clause (b)(ii) shall not apply to the vote of a Defaulting Lender in the case of an amendment, waiver or other modification requiring the consent of (i) all Lenders or (ii) each Lender affected thereby (and such Defaulting Lender, if affected thereby).

Article 3

C ONDITIONS P RECEDENT

Section 3.01 Closing Date . The obligation of each Lender to make a Credit Extension on the Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction, or waiver in accordance with Section 10.05, of the following conditions on or before the Closing Date:

(a) Credit Documents . Administrative Agent shall have received sufficient copies of each Credit Document originally executed and delivered by each applicable Credit Party and each Lender.

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forms of any amendments, joinders or supplements to such documents shall be required to be delivered under this Section 3.01(b) (and certain other documents, such as confidential separation and similar agreements, shall not be required to be delivered) so long as the unredacted versions of such definitive documents do not otherwise amend, supplement or modify the Organizational Documents in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders) executed and delivered by each Credit Party (or officers of such Credit Party’s general partner or equivalent), as applicable, and, to the extent applicable, certified as of a recent date by the appropriate governmental official, each dated the Closing Date or a recent date prior thereto; (ii) signature and incumbency certificates of the officers of such Person (or officers of such Person’s general partner or equivalent) executing the Credit Documents to which it is a party; (iii) to the extent applicable, resolutions of the Board of Directors or similar governing body of each Credit Party approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents to which it is a party, certified as of the Closing Date by its secretary or an Authorized Officer (or officers of such Person’s general partner or equivalent) as being in full force and effect without modification or amendment; and (iv) a good standing certificate from the applicable Governmental Authority of each Credit Party’s jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation, each dated a recent date prior to the Closing Date.

(c) Representations and Warranties . As of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Credit Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as of the Closing Date to the same extent as though made on and as of that date, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as of such earlier date.

(d) Governmental Authorizations and Consents . Each Credit Party shall have obtained all Governmental Authorizations and all consents of other Persons, in each case that are necessary in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of the Credit Documents and each of the foregoing shall be in full force and effect and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent.

(e) Financial Statements . Administrative Agent shall have received from Borrower the Historical Financial Statements.

(f) Opinions of Counsel . Administrative Agent and its counsel shall have received a copy of the favorable written opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, counsel for Credit Parties, dated as of the Closing Date in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent (and each Credit Party hereby instructs such counsel to deliver such opinions to Administrative Agent and Lenders).

(g) Events of Default; Default . No event shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the consummation of the transactions and borrowing contemplated hereby that would constitute an Event of Default or a Default.

 

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(h) Closing Date Certificate . Borrower shall have delivered to Administrative Agent an originally executed Closing Date Certificate, together with all attachments thereto.

(i) PATRIOT Act . Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received all documentation and other information requested in writing by Administrative Agent and required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “ PATRIOT Act ”).

(j) Absence of Material Adverse Change . Since December 31, 2013, there shall have not occurred any Material Adverse Effect.

(k) Existing Credit Agreement . Payment in full of all loans and obligations outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement (other than contingent or indemnification obligations to which no claim has been asserted or that are not then due and payable) and termination of the Existing Credit Agreement on terms reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent.

(l) Payment of Fees and Expenses . The expenses of Administrative Agent (including the reasonable, documented fees and expenses of its attorneys) arising in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents for which invoices have been presented to Borrower at least one Business Day prior to the Closing Date shall have been paid. In addition to the foregoing, on or prior to the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent and Lenders shall have received all fees described in the Fee Letters that are due and payable and required to be paid thereto on the Closing Date.

Section 3.02 Further Conditions to All Loans .

(a) Conditions Precedent . The obligation of each Lender to make any Loan on any Credit Date on or after the Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction, or waiver in accordance with Section 10.05, of the following conditions precedent:

(i) Administrative Agent shall have received a fully executed notice (or telephonic notice) in accordance with Section 2.01(b) and Section 3.03;

(ii) as of such Credit Date, the representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Credit Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as of such Credit Date to the same extent as though made on and as of that date, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as of such earlier date; and

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Section 3.03 Notices . Any Notice shall be executed by an Authorized Officer in a writing delivered to Administrative Agent. In lieu of delivering a Notice, Borrower may give Administrative Agent telephonic notice by the required time of any proposed borrowing, conversion/continuation; provided each such notice shall be promptly confirmed in writing. Neither Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall incur any liability to Borrower in acting upon any telephonic notice referred to above that Administrative Agent believes in good faith to have been given by a duly authorized officer or other person authorized on behalf of Borrower or for otherwise acting in good faith.

Article 4

R EPRESENTATIONS AND W ARRANTIES

In order to induce Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Credit Extensions to be made thereby, the Credit Parties each represent and warrant to each Lender, on the Closing Date, that the following statements are true and correct (it being understood and agreed that the representations and warranties made on the Closing Date are deemed to be made concurrently with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents):

Section 4.01 Organization; Requisite Power and Authority; Qualification . Each of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization (or, only where applicable, the equivalent status in such jurisdiction of organization), except (other than with respect to any Credit Party) as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) has all requisite power and authority to own and operate its properties, to carry on its business, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) is qualified to do business and in good standing in every jurisdiction where its assets are located and wherever necessary to carry out its business and operations, except in jurisdictions where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing would not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.02 Equity Interests and Ownership . As of the Closing Date, the Equity Interests of each Credit Party and each of their Subsidiaries have been duly and validly authorized and issued, and in the case of entities that are organized as corporations, are fully paid and non-assessable, and in the case of entities that are organized as limited liability companies, no Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary is liable to such entity to make any additional capital contributions with respect to its equity interest in such entity (except as otherwise required by the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act), and, in the case of entities organized as partnerships, all of the interests in each such entity have been duly and validly created. As of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the payment of all loans and obligations outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement in accordance with Section 3.01(k), all Equity Interests of Subsidiaries of any Credit Party are owned directly or indirectly by one or more Credit Parties, free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, or other claim of any third party.

 

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Section 4.03 Due Authorization . Each of the Credit Parties has all requisite power and authority to enter into the Credit Documents to which it is a party and to carry out the transactions contemplated thereby. The execution, delivery and performance of the Credit Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of each Credit Party that is a party thereto.

Section 4.04 No Conflict . The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Credit Parties of the Credit Documents to which they are parties and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents do not and will not (a) violate (i) any provision of any law or any governmental rule or regulation applicable to such Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary, (ii) any of the Organizational Documents of such Credit Party, (iii) any of the Organizational Documents of any OZ Subsidiary, or (iv) any order, judgment or decree of any court or other agency of government binding such Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary, in each case of clauses (i), (iii) and (iv), except to the extent such violation would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (b) conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute (with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any material Contractual Obligation of such Credit Party except to the extent such conflict, breach or default would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (c) result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of such Credit Party that would not be permitted hereunder; or (d) require any approval of stockholders, members or partners or any approval or consent of any Person under any material Contractual Obligation of any Credit Party or any of their respective OZ Subsidiaries, except for such approvals or consents which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect and except for any such approvals or consents the failure of which to obtain will not have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.05 Governmental Consents . The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Credit Parties of the Credit Documents to which they are parties and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents do not and will not require any registration with, consent or approval of, or notice to, or other action to, with or by, any Governmental Authority except (a) registrations, consents, approvals, notices and other actions which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect and (b) those registrations, consents, approvals, notices and other actions, the failure of which to obtain or make would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.06 Binding Obligation . Each Credit Document has been duly executed and delivered by each of the Credit Parties that is a party thereto and is the legally valid and binding obligation of such Credit Party, enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with its respective terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law).

Section 4.07 Historical Financial Statements . The Historical Financial Statements fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position, on a consolidated basis, of the Persons described in such financial statements as at the respective dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows, on a consolidated basis, of the entities described therein for each of the periods then ended, subject, in the case of any such unaudited financial statements, to

 

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changes resulting from audit and normal year-end adjustments. As of the Closing Date, none of the Credit Parties nor any of the OZ Subsidiaries has any contingent liability or liability for taxes, long-term lease or unusual forward or long-term commitment that is not reflected in the Historical Financial Statements or the notes thereto other than (a) the liabilities reflected on Schedule 4.07, (b) obligations arising under this Agreement, the other Credit Documents, the Indenture and the Bonds, and (c) liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business that, either individually or in the aggregate, have not had or would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.08 No Material Adverse Effect . From December 31, 2013 to the Closing Date, no Material Adverse Effect has occurred.

Section 4.09 Adverse Proceedings, etc. There are no Adverse Proceedings, individually or in the aggregate, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Credit Parties nor any OZ Subsidiary, to such Credit Party’s knowledge, is subject to or in default with respect to any final judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees, rules or regulations of any court or any federal, state, municipal or other governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.10 Payment of Taxes . Except as otherwise permitted under Section 5.03, as set forth on Schedule 4.10 or as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, all tax returns and reports of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary required to be filed by any of them have been timely filed, and all taxes due and payable by any Credit Party and all assessments, fees and other governmental charges upon any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary and upon their respective properties, assets, income and businesses which are due and payable have been timely paid, other than those which are being contested by such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary in good faith and by appropriate proceedings; provided , such reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made or provided therefor.

Section 4.11 Title to Properties . Each of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries has (i) good title to (in the case of fee interests in real property), (ii) valid leasehold interests in (in the case of leasehold interests in real or personal property), (iii) valid licensed rights in (in the case of licensed interests in intellectual property), and (iv) good title to (in the case of all other personal property), all of its respective properties and assets necessary in the ordinary conduct of its business, in each case except for assets disposed of since the date of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.01 in the ordinary course of business or as otherwise permitted under Section 6.05 and except where the failure to have such title, rights or other interest would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as permitted by this Agreement, all such properties and assets are free and clear of Liens except for minor defects in title that do not materially interfere with any Credit Party’s or any OZ Subsidiary’s ability to conduct its business or to utilize such assets for their intended purposes.

Section 4.12 No Defaults . None of the Credit Parties nor any of the OZ Subsidiaries is in default under any of its material Contractual Obligations that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Section 4.13 Investment Company Act . None of the Credit Parties is subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940. None of the Credit Parties is a “registered investment company” or a company “controlled” by a “registered investment company” or a “principal underwriter” of a “registered investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Section 4.14 Use of Proceeds; Anti-Corruption Laws . The Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries will use the proceeds of the Loans solely for purposes and in the manner permitted under Section 2.03. The Borrower will not request any Loan, and the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries shall not use, and shall procure representations that their respective OZ Subsidiaries and respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, the proceeds of any Loan (A) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (B) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, to the extent it would result in a violation of any Sanctions applicable to and by any party hereto, or (C) in any other manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to and by any party hereto.

Section 4.15 Employee Benefit Plans . In each case, except as would not reasonably be expect to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries and each of their respective ERISA Affiliates are in compliance in all material aspects with all applicable provisions and requirements of ERISA and the Code and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, and have performed in all material aspects all their obligations under each Employee Benefit Plan, (ii) each Employee Benefit Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service indicating that such Employee Benefit Plan is so qualified and nothing has occurred subsequent to the issuance of such determination letter which would cause such Employee Benefit Plan to lose its qualified status, or such Employee Benefit Plan is entitled to reliance on the opinion letter issued to the prototype sponsor by the Internal Revenue Service, (iii) no liability to the PBGC (other than required premium payments), the Internal Revenue Service, any Employee Benefit Plan or any trust established under Title IV of ERISA has been or is expected to be incurred by the Credit Parties or any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates, (iv) no ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur, (v) except to the extent required under Section 4980B of the Code or similar state laws, no Employee Benefit Plan provides health or welfare benefits (through the purchase of insurance or otherwise) for any retired or former employee of the Credit Parties or any of the OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates, (vi) the present value of the aggregate benefit liabilities under each Pension Plan sponsored, maintained or contributed to by any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary or any of their ERISA Affiliates, (determined as of the end of the most recent plan year on the basis of the actuarial assumptions specified for funding purposes in the most recent actuarial valuation for such Pension Plan), did not exceed the aggregate current value of the assets of such Pension Plan, and (vii) each of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries and each of their respective ERISA Affiliates has complied in all material aspects with the requirements of Section 515 of ERISA with respect to each Multiemployer Plan and is not in material “default” (as defined in Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA) with respect to payments to a Multiemployer Plan.

 

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Section 4.16 Compliance with Statutes, etc. Each of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable statutes, regulations and orders of, and all applicable restrictions imposed by, all Governmental Authorities, in respect of the conduct of its business and the ownership of its property, except in such instances in which (a) such statute, regulation, order or restriction is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) non-compliance therewith, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.17 Disclosure . No reports, certificates or written statements (other than information of a general economic or general industry nature) furnished to Administrative Agent or any Lender by or on behalf of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (in each case, as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished), when taken as a whole, contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state a material fact (known to Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II or any New Advisor Guarantor, in the case of any document not furnished by any of them) necessary in order to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which the same were made; provided that, with respect to any projections and pro forma financial information contained in such materials, the Borrower represents only that such information is based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II or any New Advisor Guarantor to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by Lenders that such projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such projections may differ from the projected results and such differences may be material.

Section 4.18 Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions . Each of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary (as the case may be), its Subsidiaries (other than the ML Fund) and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and each of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries and their respective officers and, to the knowledge of any of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries, their respective employees and directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects. None of (a) any Credit Parties or any OZ Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers, or (b) to the knowledge of any of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries, any of their respective employees or agents that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person.

Article 5

A FFIRMATIVE C OVENANTS

Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Commitment is in effect and until payment in full of all Obligations (other than contingent or indemnification obligations to which no claim has been asserted or that are not then due and payable), each Credit Party shall perform, and shall cause each of the OZ Subsidiaries to perform, all covenants in this Article 5.

 

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Section 5.01 Financial Statements and Other Reports . Borrower will deliver to Administrative Agent, for further distribution to the Lenders:

(a) Quarterly Financial Statements . Within 45 days after the end of the first three Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year, commencing with the Fiscal Quarter ending on March 31, 2015 (i) the consolidated balance sheet of Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Quarter and the related consolidated statements of operations and cash flows of Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries for such Fiscal Quarter and for the period from the beginning of the current Fiscal Year to the end of such Fiscal Quarter, and (ii) a Financial Officer Certification with respect to such consolidated financial statements; provided that, so long as Issuer is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the filing of Issuer’s report on Form 10-Q for such fiscal quarter shall satisfy the requirements of this clause (i) of this Section 5.01(a), so long as such Form 10-Q is concurrently furnished (which may be by a link to a website containing such document sent by automated electronic notification) to Administrative Agent substantially upon filing thereof;

(b) Annual Financial Statements . Within 120 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, commencing with the Fiscal Year in which the Closing Date occurs, (i) the consolidated balance sheet of Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the previous Fiscal Year, in reasonable detail, (ii) a Financial Officer Certification with respect to such consolidated financial statements; and (iii) with respect to such consolidated financial statements a report thereon of independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing selected by Issuer, and reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, which report shall be unqualified as to going concern and scope of audit, and shall state that such consolidated financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position of Issuer as at the dates indicated and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the periods indicated; provided that, so long as Issuer is subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the filing of Issuer’s report on Form 10-K for such fiscal year shall satisfy the requirements of clause (i) of this Section 5.01(b), so long as such Form 10-K is concurrently furnished (which may be by a link to a website containing such document sent by automated electronic notification) to Administrative Agent substantially upon filing thereof;

(c) Compliance Certificate . No later than five days after delivery of financial statements pursuant to Sections 5.01(a) and 5.01(b), a completed Compliance Certificate duly executed by the chief financial officer of the Issuer;

(d) Statements of Reconciliation .

(i) If, as a result of any change in accounting principles and policies from those used in the preparation of financial statements of the Issuer, the consolidated financial statements of Issuer delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(a) or 5.01(b) will differ in any material respect from the consolidated financial statements that would have been delivered pursuant to such subdivisions had no such change in accounting principles and policies been made, then, together with the first delivery of such financial statements after such change, one or more

 

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statements of reconciliation with respect to “Economic Income” that would have otherwise been presented in the financial statements in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent.

(ii) In addition, (i) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in clause (a) and (b) above, a written reconciliation of such financial statements showing adjustments between combined financial statements for the Credit Parties and OZ Subsidiaries and their respective Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and the consolidated financial statements for the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries, substantially in the form of Exhibit I or otherwise in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent and in any event sufficient to permit the calculation of the financial measurements under Article 6 (a “ Reconciliation Statement ”) and (ii) within 20 Business Days of the delivery of the financial statements in clause (b) above, a Reconciliation Statement, together with agreed-upon procedures from the accounting firm that performed the audit of such financial statements .

(e) Notice of Default . Promptly upon any officer of Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II or any New Advisor Guarantor obtaining knowledge (i) of any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default or that notice has been given to Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II or any New Advisor Guarantor with respect thereto; or (ii) of the occurrence of any event or change that has caused or evidences, either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, a certificate of its Authorized Officer specifying the nature and period of existence of such condition, event or change, or specifying the notice given and action taken by any such Person and the nature of such claimed Event of Default, Default, default, event or condition, and what action Borrower has taken, is taking and proposes to take with respect thereto;

(f) Public Filings . Promptly after the same become publicly available, notice of the filing of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports, proxy or financial statements, and registration statements (including any prospectus, prospectus supplement, pricing supplement or similar document) filed by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries with the SEC, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any or all of the functions of said Commission, or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by the Issuer to its shareholders generally, as the case may be; provided that the documents and notices required to be delivered pursuant to this clause (f) shall be deemed to have been furnished by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent (and by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders) on the date on which such documents are publicly available as posted on the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR);

(g) Rating Changes . Promptly after S&P or Fitch shall have announced a change in the Debt Rating, written notice of such rating change;

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(i) Certification of Public Information . Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II and any New Advisor Guarantor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to indicate in writing, concurrently with the delivery of any document or notice required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 5.01, whether such document or notice contains Nonpublic Information. Borrower and each Lender acknowledge that certain of the Lenders may be “public-side” Lenders (Lenders that do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, any New Advisor Guarantor, their respective Subsidiaries or their respective securities) and, if documents or notices required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 5.01 or otherwise are being distributed through IntraLinks/IntraAgency, SyndTrak or another relevant website or other information platform (the “ Platform ”), any document or notice that Borrower has indicated contains Nonpublic Information shall not be posted on that portion of the Platform designated for such public-side Lenders. If Borrower has not indicated whether a document or notice delivered pursuant to this Section 5.01 contains Nonpublic Information, Administrative Agent reserves the right to post such document or notice solely on that portion of the Platform designated for Lenders who wish to receive material nonpublic information with respect to Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II, any New Advisor Guarantor, their respective Subsidiaries and their respective securities.

Section 5.02 Existence . Except as otherwise permitted under Section 6.05, each Credit Party will, and will cause each of the OZ Subsidiaries to, at all times (a) preserve and keep in full force and effect its legal existence under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation, organization or incorporation and (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights and franchises, licenses and permits material to its business, in the case of clauses (a) (in the case of any OZ Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party) and (b) except to the extent failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.03 Payment of Taxes . Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of the OZ Subsidiaries to, pay all material Taxes imposed upon it or any of its properties or assets or in respect of any of its income, businesses or franchises before any penalty or fine accrues thereon; provided , no such material Tax need be paid (i) if it is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, so long as adequate reserve or other appropriate provision, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP, shall have been made therefor or (ii) to the extent the failure to pay such material Tax would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.04 Maintenance of Properties . Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of the OZ Subsidiaries to, maintain or cause to be maintained in good repair, working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, all material properties necessary in the operation of the business of Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries, except to the extent failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and from time to time will make or cause to be made all appropriate repairs, renewals and replacements thereof, except to the extent failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.05 Insurance . Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II and any New Advisor Guarantor will maintain or cause to be maintained, with financially sound and reputable insurers, such insurance with respect to their business and properties as may customarily be carried or maintained under similar circumstances by Persons of established reputation engaged in similar

 

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businesses, in each case in such amounts (giving effect to self-insurance), with such deductibles, covering such risks and otherwise on such terms and conditions as shall be customary for such Persons, except where failure to maintain such insurance would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.06 Books and Records; Inspections . Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Credit Party will, and will cause each of the OZ Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and accounts in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of all material financial transactions and matters involving its assets and business. Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of the OZ Subsidiaries to, permit any authorized representatives designated by any Lender to visit and inspect any of the properties of any Credit Party and any of the OZ Subsidiaries, to inspect, copy and take extracts from its and their financial and accounting records, and to discuss its and their affairs, finances and accounts with its and their officers (provided that an Authorized Officer of Issuer or any Credit Party shall be present during such discussions), all upon reasonable notice and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may reasonably be requested in advance; provided that absent any Event of Default the Borrower shall not be required to pay the expenses related thereto more frequently than once each Fiscal Year; and provided further that during the existence of an Event of Default Administrative Agent (or any of its representatives) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrower at any time during normal business hours and without advance notice. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.06, none of the Credit Parties nor any of the OZ Subsidiaries will be required to disclose, permit the inspection, examination or making copies or abstracts of, or discussion of, any document, information or other matter that (i) constitutes non-financial trade secrets or non-financial proprietary information, (ii) in respect of which disclosure to Administrative Agent or any Lender (or their respective representatives or contractors) is prohibited by law or any binding agreement or (iii) is subject to attorney-client privilege or constitutes attorney work product.

Section 5.07 Compliance with Laws . Each Credit Party will comply, and shall cause each of the OZ Subsidiaries to comply, with the requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of law, rule, regulation or order is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) noncompliance would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Each Credit Party and OZ Subsidiary will maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by each Credit Party and OZ Subsidiary, their respective Subsidiaries (other than the ML Fund) and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.

Section 5.08 Additional Guarantors .

(a) In the event that the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries becomes a party to, or guarantees any Indebtedness under, the Indenture or the Bonds (or extensions, renewals, replacements or refinancing thereof), Borrower shall, within 30 days after such Person becomes a party thereto or guarantor thereunder (or such longer period as Administrative Agent may agree in its discretion), (i) cause such Person to become a Guarantor hereunder by executing and delivering to Administrative Agent a Counterpart Agreement, and (ii) take all such actions and

 

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execute and deliver, or cause to be executed (to the extent applicable) and delivered, all such documents, instruments, agreements and certificates as are similar to those described in Section 3.01(b). With respect to each such Person, Borrower shall promptly send to Administrative Agent written notice setting forth with respect to such Person the name and jurisdiction of organization of such Subsidiary and the date on which such Subsidiary first became a party to, or guarantor of any Indebtedness under, the Indenture or the Bonds (or extensions, renewals, replacements or refinancing thereof).

(b) The Borrower may at any time, upon not less than 10 days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its discretion), designate any OZ Subsidiary or New Advisor that is not a Credit Party as a Guarantor; provided that (i) immediately before and after such designation, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (ii) immediately after giving effect to such designation, on a Pro Forma Basis, the Economic Income Leverage Ratio shall not exceed 4.0 to 1.0, and (iii) Borrower shall cause such Person to become a Guarantor hereunder by executing and delivering to Administrative Agent a Counterpart Agreement, and shall take all such actions and execute and deliver, or cause to be executed (to the extent applicable) and delivered, all such documents, instruments, agreements and certificates as are similar to those described in Section 3.01(b).

Section 5.09 Further Assurances . At any time or from time to time upon the request of Administrative Agent, each Credit Party will, at its expense, promptly execute, acknowledge and deliver such further documents and do such other acts and things as Administrative Agent may reasonably request in order to effect fully the purposes of the Credit Documents. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, each Credit Party shall take such actions as Administrative Agent may reasonably request from time to time to ensure that the Obligations are guaranteed by the Guarantors.

Article 6

N EGATIVE C OVENANTS

Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Commitment is in effect and until payment in full of all Obligations (other than contingent or indemnification obligations to which no claim has been asserted or that are not then due and payable), such Credit Party shall perform, and shall cause each of the OZ Subsidiaries to perform, all covenants in this Article 6.

Section 6.01 Indebtedness . No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of the OZ Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or guaranty, or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness, except:

(a) Indebtedness created hereunder (including pursuant to Section 2.18) and under the other Credit Documents;

(b) Indebtedness created under the Bonds issued on or prior to the Closing Date, and any extensions, renewals, replacements, refundings or refinancing thereof (including any Indebtedness incurred to defease or satisfy and discharge the Bonds) that do not (i) increase

 

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the outstanding principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Bonds so extended, renewed, replaced, refunded, refinanced, defeased or satisfied and discharged except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest, premium thereon and any original issue discount pursuant to the terms thereof, plus other reasonable amounts paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such extension, renewal, replacement, refunding, refinancing, defeasance or substitution and discharge, or (ii) shorten the final maturity of the Bonds so extended, renewed, replaced, refunded, refinanced, defeased or satisfied and discharged;

(c) Indebtedness of any Credit Party; provided that at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, and immediately after giving effect to the incurrence thereof on a Pro Forma Basis, (i) the Economic Income Leverage Ratio shall not exceed 4.0 to 1.0; and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(d) Indebtedness of (i) any Credit Party to any other Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary, and (ii) any OZ Subsidiary to any Credit Party or any other OZ Subsidiary; provided that any Indebtedness owed by any Credit Party to any OZ Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party incurred pursuant to this clause (d) shall be subordinated in right of payment to the payment in full of the Obligations (other than contingent or indemnification obligations to which no claim has been asserted or that are not then due and payable) pursuant to terms substantially in the form of Exhibit H (or such other subordination terms as may be mutually agreed between Borrower and Administrative Agent);

(e) current liabilities of the Credit Parties or the OZ Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business but not incurred through (i) the borrowing of money or (ii) the obtaining of credit except for credit on an open account basis customarily extended and in fact extended in connection with normal purchases of goods and services;

(f) Indebtedness in respect of taxes, assessments, governmental charges or levies and claims for labor, materials and supplies to the extent that payment therefor shall not at the time be required to be made in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.03;

(g) Indebtedness in respect of judgments or awards only to the extent, for the period and for an amount not resulting in a Default;

(h) endorsements for collection, deposit or negotiation and warranties of products or services, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(i) Indebtedness in the form of either a direct obligation of a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary or in the form of a guaranty by a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary, in each case, with respect to the obligation to refund or repay management, incentive or promote fees previously received from a fund;

(j) Indebtedness incurred by a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary arising from agreements providing for indemnification, earn-outs, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, or from guaranties or letters of credit, surety bonds or performance bonds securing the performance of such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary, as applicable, pursuant to such agreements, in connection with permitted acquisitions or permitted dispositions of any business or assets of a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary;

 

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(k) Indebtedness which may be deemed to exist pursuant to any guaranties, performance, surety, statutory, appeal or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, including those incurred to secure health, safety and environmental obligations in the ordinary course of business;

(l) Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protections and otherwise in connection with margin accounts, deposit accounts and cash management services, including, but not limited to (i) credit cards (including, without limitation, “commercial credit cards” and purchasing cards), (ii) stored value cards, and (iii) depository, cash management and treasury services and other similar services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, overdrafts and interstate depository network services), in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(m) guaranties in the ordinary course of business of the obligations of suppliers, customers, franchisees and licensees of a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary, as applicable;

(n) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes an OZ Subsidiary after the Closing Date, and extensions, renewals, refinancings, refundings and replacements of any such Indebtedness that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest, premium thereon and any original issue discount pursuant to the terms thereof, plus other reasonable amounts paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with such extension, renewal, replacement, refunding or refinancing; provided that (i) such Indebtedness exists at the time such Person becomes an OZ Subsidiary and is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming an OZ Subsidiary; and (ii) such Person becoming an OZ Subsidiary is permitted under this Agreement;

(o) Indebtedness of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary incurred to finance the acquisition, construction, development or improvement of any fixed or capital assets, including Capital Lease Obligations, and extensions, renewals, refinancings, refundings and replacements of any such Indebtedness that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest, premium thereon and any original issue discount pursuant to the terms thereof, plus other reasonable amounts paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with such extension, renewal, replacement, refunding or refinancing; provided that such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction, development or improvement;

(p) Indebtedness of (i) 57 Aviation Services, LLC (or any successor to such entity pursuant to any transaction permitted under Section 6.05) or any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary permitted to be incurred from time to time under that certain Loan Agreement, dated as of February 14, 2014 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), between JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and 57 AVIATION SERVICES, LLC and that certain Business Purpose Promissory Note, dated February 14, 2014, between JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and 57 AVIATION SERVICES, LLC (such Loan Agreement and Business Purpose Promissory Note, the “ Aircraft Loan ”), and (ii) any additional Indebtedness of any of the

 

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foregoing entities or any other OZ Subsidiary (the “ New Aviation Subsidiary ”) (or any successor to such entity pursuant to any transaction permitted under Section 6.05) incurred to purchase, lease or finance one additional aircraft and other assets related thereto (including, but not limited to, engines (including spare engines), parts, and equipment for such aircraft), and, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), any renewals, extensions, replacements, refundings or refinancings of any of the foregoing;

(q) other Indebtedness in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time $150,000,000;

(r) security deposits and obligations under letters of credit and letters of guaranty supporting leases and other obligations of any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(s) Indebtedness of the Credit Parties or any OZ Subsidiaries in the nature of any contingent obligations of any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary (i) to issue, make or apply the proceeds of any capital calls in its capacity as the general partner, manager, managing member (or the equivalent of any of the foregoing) of any OZ Fund or any of their respective Subsidiaries, either now existing or newly created, to or in respect of any Indebtedness of such Persons or (ii) in respect of a pledge of such Credit Party’s or such OZ Subsidiary’s Equity Interests in any OZ Fund for the purpose of securing Indebtedness of such OZ Fund;

(t) obligations in respect of any Interest Rate Agreement or Currency Agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes, and obligations to repurchase securities under customary repurchase agreements, provided that the securities subject to such repurchase agreements shall have a value no less than the amount that would be customary and prudent to support such repurchase obligations;

(u) Indebtedness consisting of the financing of insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business;

(v) Indebtedness owed to (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guaranties and similar instruments for the benefit of) any Person providing workers’ compensation, health, disability or other employee benefits (whether to current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals and other personnel (or to current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals and other personnel of such Person’s general partner or equivalent)) or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance in respect of such items, or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers’ compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits (whether current or former) or property, casualty or liability insurance, in each case in the ordinary course of business; and

(w) guaranties by any Credit Party, or guaranties by any OZ Subsidiary of Indebtedness of any other OZ Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, in each case with respect to Indebtedness permitted under clauses (a) through (v) of this Section 6.01.

 

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Section 6.02 Liens . No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of the OZ Subsidiaries to create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on or with respect to any property or asset of any kind (including any document or instrument in respect of goods or accounts receivable) of any Credit Party or any of the OZ Subsidiaries, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or any income, profits or royalties therefrom, except:

(a) any Lien existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof (including by merger or consolidation) by any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary or existing on any property or asset of any Person that becomes a Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary after the Closing Date prior to the time such Person becomes a Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary; provided that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary, as the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Credit Parties or their respective Subsidiaries (other than accessions and additions thereto and proceeds and products thereof, and other than pursuant to customary cross-collateralization provisions with respect to other property of a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary that also secured Indebtedness owed to the same financing party or its Affiliates pursuant to this Section 6.02(a) or Section 6.02(n)), (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary, as the case may be, or obligations in respect of any extensions, renewals, refinancings, refundings and replacements thereof, and (iv) acquisition of such property or assets or such Person becoming a Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary, as the case may be, is permitted under this Agreement;

(b) Liens for Taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies not yet due or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted in accordance with Section 5.03;

(c) statutory Liens of landlords, banks and other financial institutions (and rights of set-off and similar rights), of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, repairmen, workmen, suppliers and materialmen, other Liens imposed by law or pursuant to customary reservations or retentions of title arising in the ordinary course of business (other than any such Lien imposed pursuant to Section 401 (a)(29) or 430(k) of the Code or by ERISA), and deposits securing letters of credit supporting such obligations, in each case (i) for amounts not yet overdue or (ii) for amounts that are overdue, are unfiled and no other action has been taken to enforce the same or (in the case of any such amounts overdue for a period in excess of five days) are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, so long as such reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made for any such contested amounts;

(d) Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security, or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, trade contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money or other Indebtedness), and deposits securing letters of credit supporting such obligations;

 

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(e) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, encroachments, and other similar encumbrances and minor defects or irregularities in title, in each case which do not interfere in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of any Credit Party or any of the OZ Subsidiaries;

(f) any interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under any lease of real estate permitted hereunder and purported Liens evidenced by the filing of any precautionary UCC financing statement relating solely to such lease;

(g) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money (or appeal or other surety bonds relating to such judgments) not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h);

(h) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by any Credit Party or any of the OZ Subsidiaries in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder;

(i) purported Liens evidenced by the filing of precautionary UCC financing statements relating solely to operating leases of personal property entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(j) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods;

(k) any zoning or similar law or right reserved to or vested in any governmental office or agency to control or regulate the use of any real property;

(l) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01(p) on the aircraft financed thereby and on the other assets related thereto (including, but not limited to, aircraft purchase agreements, engines, spare engines, parts and equipment for any such aircraft) and the proceeds thereof and Liens on the Equity Interests of any Credit Party’s Subsidiary owning such assets to secure such Indebtedness (or a permitted guaranty thereof);

(m) non-exclusive outbound licenses of patents, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights granted by any Credit Party or any of the OZ Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and not interfering in any respect with the ordinary conduct of, or materially detracting from the value of, the business of any Credit Party or such OZ Subsidiary;

(n) Liens on property, plant and equipment of any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary acquired, constructed, developed or improved (or Liens created for the purpose of securing Indebtedness permitted by clause (o) of Section 6.01 to finance Capital Leases and the acquisition, construction, development or improvement of such assets); provided that (i) such Liens secure Indebtedness permitted by clause (o) of Section 6.01, (ii) such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within 180 days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction, development or improvement, (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving such property, plant and equipment and (iv) such Liens shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Credit Parties or the OZ Subsidiaries (other than (x) any replacements, additions, accessions and improvements

 

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thereto and proceeds and products thereof, or (y) pursuant to customary cross-collateralization provisions with respect to other property of a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary that also secures Indebtedness owed to the same financing party or its Affiliates pursuant to this Section 6.02(n) or Section 6.02(a));

(o) Liens granted by any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary that is the general partner, manager, managing member (or the equivalent of any of the foregoing) of any OZ Fund in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past or industry practices (i) securing Indebtedness of such OZ Fund on the right of such general partner, manager, managing member (or the equivalent of any of the foregoing) to issue or make capital calls in its capacity as general partner, manager, managing member (or the equivalent of any of the foregoing) of such OZ Fund or (ii) on the Equity Interests of any OZ Fund to secure Indebtedness of such OZ Fund (or a permitted guaranty thereof);

(p) to the extent constituting a Lien, the existence of the “equal and ratable” clause in the Indenture, the Bonds or the documents in respect of any other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Section 6.01, and any extensions, renewals, replacements, refundings or refinancings of the foregoing; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, this clause (p) shall not be deemed to permit any Lien incurred pursuant to such “equal and ratable clause” unless such Lien is otherwise permitted under this Agreement without giving effect to this clause (p));

(q) pledges and deposits (i) securing obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 or (ii) securing payments of obligations that are not Indebtedness under leases entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(r) Liens deemed to exist in connection with repurchase agreements (and Liens created on securities that are the subject of such repurchase agreements to secure the payment and performance of the obligations under such agreements and any custodial fees in connection therewith) and reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to deposit accounts, securities accounts, commodity accounts or other brokerage accounts maintained in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;

(s) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off (i) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Credit Parties and OZ Subsidiaries or (ii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(t) Liens on cash or Cash Equivalents used to defease or to satisfy and discharge Indebtedness; provided that (i) such defeasance or satisfaction and discharge is not otherwise prohibited hereunder, and (ii) the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents subject to such Liens does not exceed the amount that is necessary to complete such defeasance or discharge;

(u) Liens on Equity Interests of any joint venture (i) securing obligations of such joint venture or (ii) pursuant to the relevant joint venture agreement or arrangement;

 

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(v) (i) Liens that are deemed to exist by virtue of any Interest Rate Agreement or Currency Agreement entered into with financial institutions in connection with bona fide hedging activities in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes, or (ii) pledges and deposits, whether in cash or securities, securing obligations in respect of Interest Rate Agreement or Currency Agreement entered into with financial institutions in connection with bona fide hedging activities in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes, and the following cash management services: (i) credit cards (including, without limitation, “commercial credit cards” and purchasing cards), (i) stored value cards, and (iii) depository, cash management, and treasury services and other similar services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursement, automated clearinghouse transactions, return items, overdrafts and interstate depository network services), in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(w) Liens on (i) insurance policies and the proceeds thereof or (ii) pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with requirements of any provider of insurance, in each case securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01(u);

(x) Liens on Margin Stock; and

(y) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section 6.02 securing Indebtedness and other obligations of the Credit Parties or the OZ Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 at any time outstanding.

Section 6.03 Restricted Payments . No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of the OZ Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, declare, order, pay, make or set apart (for a sinking or other similar fund), or agree to declare, order, pay, or make or set apart (for a sinking or other similar fund for), any sum for any Restricted Payment while any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or would occur after giving effect to such Restricted Payment on a Pro Forma Basis and subject to Section 8.02(b); provided that:

(a) any Credit Party and any OZ Subsidiary may, for any period for which such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary is treated as a pass-through entity for federal and state income tax purposes, make Restricted Payments in the form of distributions for the payment of taxes in an amount equal to federal and state income taxes that would be owed (including estimated taxes), as determined by Borrower, Advisors, Advisors II or any New Advisor Guarantor in their reasonable discretion (it being understood that benefits arising from any election under Section 754 of the Code (a “ 754 Election ”) may be disregarded in the determination), by any Person as a result of its direct or indirect ownership and its status as a partner or single owner (for federal and state income tax purposes) of such Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary that is treated as a pass-through entity for federal and state income tax purposes; provided that if any Restricted Payments are made by any OZ Subsidiary pursuant to this Section 6.03(a), such Restricted Payments, together with other Restricted Payments made pursuant to this Section 6.03(a), shall not exceed the amount of Restricted Payments that would otherwise be payable if solely made by the Credit Parties pursuant to this Section 6.03(a);

(b) any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments (i) payable solely in the Equity Interests of such Person; (ii) in the form of Class A Shares,

 

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Class C Non-Equity Interests or Och-Ziff Operating Group D Units; (iii) in cash made directly or indirectly from the cash proceeds of any issuances of Equity Interests of such Person or Class A Shares, other than any proceeds of any Specified Equity Contribution made pursuant to Section 8.02; provided that (x) the proceeds of any issuance of Equity Interests used to make a Restricted Payment pursuant to this clause (iii) shall be received by a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary from a Person that is not a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary and (y) solely in the case of any OZ Subsidiary, the issuance of any Equity Interests by such Person the proceeds of which are applied to make a Restricted Payment in accordance with this clause (iii) shall be permitted under Section 6.05(h); (iv) to any Credit Party, and (v) to any OZ Subsidiary if such Restricted Payment is made by an OZ Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party;

(c) any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary may pay dividends on its Equity Interests within ninety (90) days of the date of the declaration thereof (or the declaration of a corresponding dividend by the Issuer), so long as such dividend would have been permitted hereunder if paid on the date of the declaration thereof (or the date that the Issuer declared a corresponding dividend);

(d) any Credit Party and any OZ Subsidiary may make dividends or distributions to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to, and indemnities provided on behalf of, current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary (or current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of such Person’s general partner or equivalent), to the extent that such dividends or distributions are treated as expenses of such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary, as the case may be, for purposes of the financial statements of the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries, the Reconciliation Statements and the calculation of Combined Economic Income;

(e) any Credit Party and any OZ Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments made pursuant to and in accordance with any stock option plans or other benefit plans or agreements for current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary (or current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of such Person’s general partner or equivalent);

(f) any Credit Party and any OZ Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to pay management, advisory, consulting or termination fees, indemnities, or other fees to any managers, partners, managing members, principals, consultants, independent contractors or other advisors of any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary in accordance with any management or similar agreements;

(g) any Credit Party and any OZ Subsidiary may repurchase equity interests upon the exercise of stock options, warrants or other convertible or exchangeable securities if such equity interests represent a portion of the exercise, conversion or exchange price thereof;

 

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(h) repurchases of equity interests by any Credit Party and any OZ Subsidiary deemed to occur upon the withholding of a portion of the equity interests granted or awarded to a current or former director, officer, employee, manager, partner, or managing member of such Person (or current or former director, officer, employee, manager, partner, or managing member of such Person’s general partner or equivalent), or consultant or advisor or any spouses, former spouses, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or distributees of any of the foregoing) to pay for the taxes payable by such Person upon such grant or award (or upon the vesting thereof);

(i) any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to fund payments under the Expense Allocation Agreement or any Cost Sharing Arrangement;

(j) any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the extent they are permitted under Section 6.05 (other than Section 6.05(k)).

Section 6.04 Restrictions on OZ Subsidiary Distributions . Except as provided herein, in the other Credit Documents or in the Indenture in effect as of the Closing Date, no Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any OZ Subsidiary to, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any OZ Subsidiary to (a) pay dividends or make any other distributions on any of such OZ Subsidiary’s Equity Interests owned by any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary, (b) repay or prepay any Indebtedness owed by such OZ Subsidiary to any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary, (c) make loans or advances to any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary, or (d) transfer, lease or license any of its material property or assets to any Credit Party, in each case other than restrictions, prohibitions or conditions (i) on the transfer of limited liability company, partnership, or other equity interests, (ii) with respect to the assignment of interests in management agreements, advisory agreements, sub-advisory and similar agreements, (iii) by reason of customary provisions restricting assignments, subletting, leases, licenses or other transfers contained in leases, licenses, joint venture agreements, asset sale agreements, purchase agreements and similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, (iv) that are or were created by virtue of or in connection with any transfer of, agreement to transfer or option or right with respect to any property, assets or Equity Interest not otherwise prohibited under this Agreement, (v) described on Schedule 6.04, and any amendments, restatements, supplements, extensions, replacements, refundings or refinancings of the items listed therein that do not expand the scope of such restrictions, prohibitions or conditions, (vi) that arise in connection with an asset sale solely to the extent relating to the assets being disposed of, (vii) that are customary restrictions on assignment or transfer of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business, (viii) on cash or other deposits, or maintaining a minimum net worth or assets under management, in each case imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, (ix) that arise by operation of applicable requirements of law, (x) that are binding on a Credit Party or an OZ Subsidiary at the time such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary first becomes a Subsidiary of the Issuer, so long as the agreement containing such restrictions was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Issuer and amendments, restatements, supplements, extensions replacements, refundings or refinancings of such agreements so long as such amendments, restatements, supplements, extensions, refinancings, refundings or replacements are not materially more restrictive on such Person than the restrictions in such agreement at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of

 

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the Issuer, (xi) that arise under any document, agreement or other arrangement pertaining to other Indebtedness of a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary that is permitted under this Agreement so long as such restrictions, prohibitions or conditions are not, in the Borrower’s good faith judgment, materially more restrictive or burdensome in respect of the foregoing activities than the Credit Documents (provided that such restrictions would not adversely affect the exercise of rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or under any other Credit Document, or restrict any Credit Party from performing its obligations under the Credit Documents), (xii) of the type set forth in clause (d) above that arise under any document, agreement or other arrangement pertaining to secured Indebtedness of a Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary that is permitted under this Agreement, so long as such restrictions, prohibitions or conditions relate only to the asset or assets subject to the Lien securing such Indebtedness, (xiii) that arise under documents or agreements in respect of the Aircraft Loan, Indebtedness permitted under Section 6.01(p)(ii), or any renewals, extensions, replacements, refundings or refinancings of the foregoing, so long as such restrictions, prohibitions or conditions are not materially more restrictive than the restrictions in the documents or agreements in respect of the Aircraft Loan on the Closing Date, (xiv) that arise under agreements governing Indebtedness or Capital Lease Obligations permitted by Section 6.01(o) (in the case of agreements permitted by such Section, any prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the assets financed thereby), (xv) that arise under the Expense Allocation Agreement or any Cost Sharing Arrangement, (xvi) of the type set forth in clause (d) above that arise under agreements in respect of Indebtedness or Liens permitted under Section 6.01(s) and Section 6.02(o), so long as such restrictions, prohibitions or conditions relate only to the asset or assets subject to such Lien, and (xvii) that arise under agreements with OZ Funds providing for the adjustment, clawback or holdback of incentive compensation.

Section 6.05 Fundamental Changes; Disposition of Assets . No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any OZ Subsidiary to, consummate any merger or consolidation, or liquidate, wind-up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or convey, sell, lease or license, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, all or any part of its business, assets or property of any kind whatsoever (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Asset Sale), whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, leased or licensed, except:

(a) any Credit Party may be merged with or into another Credit Party, or be liquidated, wound up or dissolved, or all or any part of its business, property or assets may be conveyed, sold, leased, transferred or otherwise disposed of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, to a Credit Party;

(b) any Credit Party and any OZ Subsidiary may convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of Equity Interests in the Issuer delivered pursuant to the terms of restricted share units issued by such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary;

(c) any Credit Party may be merged or consolidated with or into any other Person (including the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer); provided that such Credit Party is the surviving entity;

 

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(d) any OZ Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party may be merged or consolidated with or into any other OZ Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party or any other Person or Subsidiary (other than a Credit Party); provided that an OZ Subsidiary is the surviving entity or the surviving entity becomes an OZ Subsidiary upon consummation of such merger or consolidation;

(e) any Credit Party can be merged or consolidated with or into any of Issuer, Och-Ziff Corp, Och-Ziff Holding, any New Advisor that is not a New Advisor Guarantor or any New Advisor Subsidiary; provided that, in the case of a merger or consolidation of a Credit Party with or into any such Person, (i) such Credit Party is the surviving entity or (ii) the surviving Person or the acquiring Person agrees to assume, and expressly assumes, all of the obligations of such Credit Party hereunder and under the other Credit Documents pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Requisite Lenders, and such surviving Person or acquiring Person shall be organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia;

(f) any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary may enter into mergers and consolidations solely to effect asset acquisitions; provided that (i) if any Credit Party is party to such transaction, (x) such Credit Party shall be the continuing or surviving entity or (y) the surviving Person or the acquiring Person shall agree to assume, and shall expressly assume, all of the obligations of such Credit Party hereunder and under the other Credit Documents pursuant to an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Requisite Lenders, and such surviving Person or acquiring Person shall be organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (ii) if any OZ Subsidiary is a party to such transaction, (x) such OZ Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving entity or (y) the surviving entity shall become an OZ Subsidiary upon consummation of such merger or consolidation, in the case of clauses (x) and (y) unless a Credit Party is also a party to such transaction, in which case clause (i) shall apply, and (iii) such asset acquisitions and other transactions effected by such merger or consolidation are otherwise permitted under the Credit Documents without giving effect to this clause (f);

(g) sales, leases, subleases, licenses, sublicenses, exchanges, transfers or other dispositions of assets that do not constitute Asset Sales;

(h) Asset Sales, so long as, immediately prior to such Asset Sale and after giving effect to such Asset Sale on a Pro Forma Basis, the Economic Income Leverage Ratio does not exceed 4.00 to 1.00;

(i) any OZ Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party may dissolve, liquidate or wind up its affairs at any time provided that such dissolution, liquidation or winding up, as applicable, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

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(k) any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary may make an asset sale or otherwise sell, lease, sublease, license, sublicenses, exchange, transfer or dispose of any asset to the extent it constitutes Restricted Payments permitted under Section 6.03 (other than under Section 6.03(b)(iii) or Section 6.03(j)).

It is understood and agreed that this Section 6.05 shall not prohibit any change in ownership of a Credit Party (other than any Credit Party that is also an OZ Subsidiary) that does not cause a Change of Control as long as such Person or the surviving or acquiring Person remains (or becomes) a Credit Party.

Section 6.06 Transactions with Shareholders and Affiliates . No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any OZ Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any transaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate of a Credit Party, on terms that are substantially less favorable to such Credit Party or such OZ Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that might be obtained in a comparable arms-length transaction at the time from a Person who is not an Affiliate; provided , the foregoing restriction shall not apply to (a) any transaction between or among any Credit Parties and any OZ Subsidiaries; (b) compensation (including the granting of Equity Interests and other bonuses), reimbursement and other compensation and reimbursement arrangements (including, but not limited to any retirement, health, stock option or other benefit plan), and other fees paid to, and insurance provided to or for, current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of Credit Parties, the OZ Subsidiaries and their respective Affiliates (or current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of such Person’s general partner or equivalent) entered into in the ordinary course of business; (c) advances to current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of Credit Parties, the OZ Subsidiaries and their respective Affiliates (or current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of such Person’s general partner or equivalent) for personal expenses; (d) use of corporate aircraft or other vehicles for personal use; (e) advances of working capital to any Credit Party, (f) transfers of cash and assets to any Credit Party; (g) intercompany transactions expressly permitted by Section 6.01, Section 6.03 or Section 6.05; (h) transactions with any OZ Fund owned, maintained or managed, directly or indirectly, by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business; (i) investments in any OZ Fund, joint venture or other Affiliate of any Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary without the payment of fees, expenses or other charges related thereto; (j) payments to current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of any Credit Party, any OZ Subsidiary, any New Advisor that is not a New Advisor Guarantor or any New Advisor Subsidiary (or current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of such Person’s general partner or equivalent) in respect of the indemnification of such Persons in such respective capacities from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements, as the case may be, pursuant to the organizational documents or other corporate action of such Credit Party, OZ Subsidiary, New Advisor, New Advisor Subsidiary (or such Person’s general partner or equivalent), as applicable,

 

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or pursuant to applicable law; (k) payments of management, advisory, consulting or termination fees, indemnities, or other fees or profit sharing arrangements to any current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors (including any Credit Party or any Subsidiary acting in such capacity) of any Credit Party, any OZ Subsidiary, any New Advisor that is not a New Advisor Guarantor or any New Advisor Subsidiary (or current or former officers, employees, directors, managers, partners, managing members, principals, advisors, consultants or independent contractors of such Person’s general partner or equivalent) in accordance with any management or similar agreements; and (l) transactions permitted pursuant to Section 6.03, subject to Section 6.08.

Section 6.07 Conduct of Business . From and after the Closing Date, no Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any OZ Subsidiary to, engage in any material line of business substantially different from (i) the asset management, investment management and financial services business or any business ancillary, complementary or reasonably related thereto and reasonable extensions thereof, (ii) the business currently conducted by the Credit Parties and their OZ Subsidiaries on the Closing Date, and (iii) such other lines of business as may be consented to by Requisite Lenders.

Section 6.08 Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents and Certain Agreements . No Credit Party shall nor shall it permit any OZ Subsidiary to, (i) amend, modify or waive any of its organizational documents, any Expense Allocation Agreement, any Cost Sharing Arrangement, the Indenture or the Bonds in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders without obtaining the prior written consent of the Requisite Lenders, (ii) enter into any Expense Allocation Agreement that is different from the Expense Allocation Agreement described in the Issuer’s proxy statement filed with the SEC on April 3, 2014 in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders without obtaining the prior written consent of the Requisite Lenders, or (iii) enter into any Cost Sharing Arrangement that is materially adverse to the Lenders without obtaining the prior written consent of the Requisite Lenders.

Section 6.09 Fiscal Year . Without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent, no Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any OZ Subsidiary to, in each case solely if the fiscal year-end of such Person is December 31 at the time of the proposed change, change its fiscal year-end from December 31 unless such change in fiscal year-end is required by any decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to such Credit Party or OZ Subsidiary, or to qualify for any exemption therefrom.

Section 6.10 Financial Covenants .

(a) Assets Under Management . The Borrower shall not permit the total fee-paying assets under management (“ AUM ”) of the Credit Parties and their consolidated subsidiaries as reported on the Compliance Certificate and Reconciliation Statement, as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter to be less than $22,000,000,000 for two successive Fiscal Quarters.

(b) Maximum Economic Income Leverage Ratio . The Borrower shall not permit the Economic Income Leverage Ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, beginning with the Fiscal Quarter ending on September 30, 2014, to exceed 4.00:1.00, subject to Section 8.02(b).

 

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Section 6.11 Jurisdiction of Formation .

No Credit Party shall change its state of formation to any jurisdiction outside of the United States (including without limitation through merger, consolidation, reorganization or any other manner).

Article 7

G UARANTY

Section 7.01 Guaranty of the Obligations . Subject to the provisions of Section 7.02, Guarantors jointly and severally hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guaranty to Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Beneficiaries the due and punctual payment in full of all Obligations and payment obligations of Borrower under the Fee Letters, in each case when the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)) (collectively, the “ Guaranteed Obligations ”).

Section 7.02 Contribution by Guarantors . All Guarantors desire to allocate among themselves (collectively, the “ Contributing Guarantors ”), in a fair and equitable manner, their obligations arising under this Guaranty. Accordingly, in the event any payment or distribution is made on any date by a Guarantor (a “ Funding Guarantor ”) under this Guaranty such that its Aggregate Payments exceeds its Fair Share as of such date, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from each of the other Contributing Guarantors in an amount sufficient to cause each Contributing Guarantor’s Aggregate Payments to equal its Fair Share as of such date. “ Fair Share ” means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the ratio of (i) the Fair Share Contribution Amount with respect to such Contributing Guarantor to (ii) the aggregate of the Fair Share Contribution Amounts with respect to all Contributing Guarantors multiplied by (b) the aggregate amount paid or distributed on or before such date by all Funding Guarantors under this Guaranty in respect of the obligations Guaranteed. “ Fair Share Contribution Amount ” means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of determination, the maximum aggregate amount of the obligations of such Contributing Guarantor under this Guaranty that would not render its obligations hereunder or thereunder subject to avoidance as a fraudulent transfer or conveyance under Section 548 of Title 11 of the United States Code or any comparable applicable provisions of state law; provided , solely for purposes of calculating the “ Fair Share Contribution Amount ” with respect to any Contributing Guarantor for purposes of this Section 7.02, any assets or liabilities of such Contributing Guarantor arising by virtue of any rights to subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification or any rights to or obligations of contribution hereunder shall not be considered as assets or liabilities of such Contributing Guarantor. “ Aggregate Payments ” means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (1) the aggregate amount of all payments and distributions made on or before such date by such Contributing Guarantor in respect of this Guaranty (including in respect of this Section 7.02), minus (2) the aggregate amount of all payments received on or before such date by such Contributing Guarantor from the other Contributing Guarantors as contributions under this Section 7.02. The amounts payable as contributions hereunder shall be determined as of the date on which the related payment or distribution is made by the applicable Funding Guarantor. The

 

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allocation among Contributing Guarantors of their obligations as set forth in this Section 7.02 shall not be construed in any way to limit the liability of any Contributing Guarantor hereunder. Each Guarantor is a third party beneficiary to the contribution agreement set forth in this Section 7.02.

Section 7.03 Payment by Guarantors . Subject to Section 7.02, Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agree, in furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Beneficiary may have at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, that upon the failure of Borrower to pay any of the Guaranteed Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)), Guarantors will upon demand pay, or cause to be paid, in Cash, to Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of Beneficiaries, an amount equal to the sum of the unpaid principal amount of all Guaranteed Obligations then due as aforesaid, accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranteed Obligations (including interest which, but for Borrower’s becoming the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code, would have accrued on such Guaranteed Obligations, whether or not a claim is allowed against Borrower for such interest in the related bankruptcy case) and all other Guaranteed Obligations then owed to Beneficiaries as aforesaid.

Section 7.04 Liability of Guarantors Absolute . Each Guarantor agrees that its obligations hereunder are irrevocable, absolute, independent and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance which constitutes a legal or equitable discharge of a guarantor or surety other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, each Guarantor agrees as follows:

(a) this Guaranty is a guaranty of payment when due and not of collectability. This Guaranty is a primary obligation of each Guarantor and not merely a contract of surety;

(b) the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are independent of the obligations of Borrower and the obligations of any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the obligations of Borrower, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against such Guarantor whether or not any action is brought against Borrower or any of such other guarantors and whether or not Borrower is joined in any such action or actions;

(c) payment by any Guarantor of a portion, but not all, of the Guaranteed Obligations shall in no way limit, affect, modify or abridge any Guarantor’s liability for any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations which has not been paid. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if Administrative Agent is awarded a judgment in any suit brought to enforce any Guarantor’s covenant to pay a portion of the Guaranteed Obligations, such judgment shall not be deemed to release such Guarantor from its covenant to pay the portion of the Guaranteed Obligations that is not the subject of such suit, and such judgment shall not, except to the extent satisfied by such Guarantor, limit, affect, modify or abridge any other Guarantor’s liability hereunder in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations;

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without affecting the validity or enforceability hereof or giving rise to any reduction, limitation, impairment, discharge or termination of any Guarantor’s liability hereunder, from time to time may (i) renew, extend, accelerate, increase the rate of interest on, or otherwise change the time, place, manner or terms of payment of the Guaranteed Obligations; (ii) settle, compromise, or release or discharge with respect to, or substitutions for, the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement relating thereto and/or subordinate the payment of the same to the payment of any other obligations; (iii) request and accept other guaranties of the Guaranteed Obligations and take and hold security for the payment hereof or the Guaranteed Obligations; (iv) release, surrender, exchange, substitute, compromise, settle, rescind, waive, alter, subordinate or modify, with or without consideration, any security for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations, any other guaranties of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any other obligation of any Person (including any other Guarantor) with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations; (v) enforce and apply any security hereafter held by or for the benefit of such Beneficiary in respect hereof or the Guaranteed Obligations and direct the order or manner of sale thereof, or exercise any other right or remedy that such Beneficiary may have against any such security, in each case as such Beneficiary in its discretion may determine consistent herewith and any applicable security agreement, including foreclosure on any such security pursuant to one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, whether or not every aspect of any such sale is commercially reasonable, and even though such action operates to impair or extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of any Guarantor against Borrower or any security for the Guaranteed Obligations; and (vi) exercise any other rights available to it under the Credit Documents; and

(e) this Guaranty and the obligations of Guarantors hereunder shall be valid and enforceable and shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment, discharge or termination for any reason (other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations), including the occurrence of any of the following, whether or not any Guarantor shall have had notice or knowledge of any of them: (i) any failure or omission to assert or enforce or agreement or election not to assert or enforce, or the stay or enjoining, by order of court, by operation of law or otherwise, of the exercise or enforcement of, any claim or demand or any right, power or remedy (whether arising under the Credit Documents, at law, in equity or otherwise) with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement relating thereto, or with respect to any other guaranty of or security for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations; (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any consent to departure from, any of the terms or provisions (including provisions relating to events of default) hereof, any of the other Credit Documents, or any agreement or instrument executed pursuant thereto, or of any other guaranty or security for the Guaranteed Obligations, in each case whether or not in accordance with the terms hereof or such Credit Document, or any agreement relating to such other guaranty or security; (iii) the Guaranteed Obligations, or any agreement relating thereto, at any time being found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect; (iv) the application of payments received from any source (other than payments received pursuant to the other Credit Documents or from the proceeds of any security for the Guaranteed Obligations, except to the extent such security also serves as collateral for indebtedness other than the Guaranteed Obligations) to the payment of indebtedness other than the Guaranteed Obligations, even though any Beneficiary might have elected to apply such payment to any part or all of the Guaranteed Obligations; (v) any Beneficiary’s consent to the change, reorganization or termination of the corporate structure or existence of any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary and to any corresponding restructuring of the Guaranteed Obligations; (vi) any failure to perfect or continue perfection of a security interest in

 

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any collateral which secures any of the Guaranteed Obligations; (vii) any defenses, set-offs or counterclaims which Borrower may allege or assert against any Beneficiary in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations, including failure of consideration, breach of warranty, payment, statute of frauds, accord and satisfaction and usury; and (viii) any other act or thing or omission, or delay to do any other act or thing, which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor as an obligor in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations.

Section 7.05 Waivers by Guarantors . Each Guarantor hereby expressly waives, for the benefit of Beneficiaries: (a) any right to require any Beneficiary, as a condition of payment or performance by such Guarantor, to (i) proceed against Borrower, any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Person, (ii) proceed against or exhaust any security held from Borrower, any such other guarantor or any other Person, (iii) proceed against or have resort to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of any Beneficiary in favor of Borrower or any other Person, or (iv) pursue any other remedy in the power of any Beneficiary whatsoever; (b) any defense arising by reason of the incapacity, lack of authority or any disability or other defense of Borrower or any other Guarantor including any defense based on or arising out of the lack of validity or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement or instrument relating thereto or by reason of the cessation of the liability of Borrower or any other Guarantor from any cause other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations; (c) any defense based upon any statute or rule of law which provides that the obligation of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal; (d) any defense based upon any Beneficiary’s errors or omissions in the administration of the Guaranteed Obligations, except behavior which amounts to bad faith; (e) (i) any principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise, which are or might be in conflict with the terms hereof and any legal or equitable discharge of such Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, (ii) any rights to set-offs, recoupments and counterclaims, and (iii) promptness (subject to any applicable statute of limitations), diligence and any requirement that any Beneficiary protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest or lien or any property subject thereto; (f) any defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by law which limit the liability of or exonerate guarantors or sureties, or which may conflict with the terms hereof; and (g) all diligence, presentment, demand of payment or performance, protest, notice of nonpayment or nonperformance, notice of protest, notice of dishonor and all other notices, demands or requirements whatsoever of any kind and all notices of acceptance of this Agreement or of the existence, creation, incurrence or assumption of new or additional Obligations.

Section 7.06 Guarantors’ Rights of Subrogation, Contribution, etc . Until the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full, each Guarantor hereby waives any claim, right or remedy, direct or indirect, that such Guarantor now has or may hereafter have against Borrower or any other Guarantor or any of its assets in connection with this Guaranty or the performance by such Guarantor of its obligations hereunder, in each case whether such claim, right or remedy arises in equity, under contract, by statute, under common law or otherwise and including (a) any right of subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification that such Guarantor now has or may hereafter have against Borrower with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations, (b) any right to enforce, or to participate in, any claim, right or remedy that any Beneficiary now has or may hereafter have against Borrower, and (c) any benefit of, and any right to participate in, any collateral or security now or hereafter held by any Beneficiary. In addition, until the

 

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Guaranteed Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full, each Guarantor shall withhold exercise of any right of contribution such Guarantor may have against any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the Guaranteed Obligations, including, without limitation, any such right of contribution as contemplated by Section 7.02. Each Guarantor further agrees that, to the extent the waiver or agreement to withhold the exercise of its rights of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification and contribution as set forth herein is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be void or voidable for any reason, any rights of subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification such Guarantor may have against Borrower or against any collateral or security, and any rights of contribution such Guarantor may have against any such other guarantor, shall be junior and subordinate to any rights any Beneficiary may have against Borrower, to all right, title and interest any Beneficiary may have in any such collateral or security, and to any right any Beneficiary may have against such other guarantor. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of any such subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification or contribution rights at any time when all Guaranteed Obligations shall not have been finally and indefeasibly paid in full, such amount shall be held in trust for Administrative Agent on behalf of Beneficiaries and shall forthwith be paid over to Administrative Agent for the benefit of Beneficiaries to be credited and applied against the Guaranteed Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms hereof.

Section 7.07 Subordination of Other Obligations . Any Indebtedness of Borrower or any Guarantor now or hereafter held by any Guarantor (the “ Obligee Guarantor ”) is hereby subordinated in right of payment to the Guaranteed Obligations, and any such indebtedness collected or received by the Obligee Guarantor after an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing shall be held in trust for Administrative Agent on behalf of Beneficiaries and shall forthwith be paid over to Administrative Agent for the benefit of Beneficiaries to be credited and applied against the Guaranteed Obligations but without affecting, impairing or limiting in any manner the liability of the Obligee Guarantor under any other provision hereof.

Section 7.08 Continuing Guaranty . This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall remain in effect until all of the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been paid in full. Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future transactions giving rise to any Guaranteed Obligations.

Section 7.09 Authority of Guarantors or Borrower . It is not necessary for any Beneficiary to inquire into the capacity or powers of any Guarantor or Borrower or the officers, directors or any agents acting or purporting to act on behalf of any of them.

Section 7.10 Financial Condition of Borrower . Any Credit Extension may be made to Borrower or continued from time to time, without notice to or authorization from any Guarantor regardless of the financial or other condition of Borrower at the time of any such grant or continuation. No Beneficiary shall have any obligation to disclose or discuss with any Guarantor its assessment, or any Guarantor’s assessment, of the financial condition of Borrower. Each Guarantor has adequate means to obtain information from Borrower on a continuing basis concerning the financial condition of Borrower and its ability to perform its obligations under the Credit Documents, and each Guarantor assumes the responsibility for being and keeping informed of the financial condition of Borrower and of all circumstances bearing upon the risk of

 

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nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations. Each Guarantor hereby waives and relinquishes any duty on the part of any Beneficiary to disclose any matter, fact or thing relating to the business, operations or conditions of Borrower now known or hereafter known by any Beneficiary.

Section 7.11 Bankruptcy, etc.

(a) So long as any Guaranteed Obligations remain outstanding, no Guarantor shall, without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent acting pursuant to the instructions of Requisite Lenders, commence or join with any other Person in commencing any bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency case or proceeding of or against Borrower or any other Guarantor. The obligations of Guarantors hereunder shall not be reduced, limited, impaired, discharged, deferred, suspended or terminated by any case or proceeding, voluntary or involuntary, involving the bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, reorganization, liquidation or arrangement of Borrower or any other Guarantor or by any defense which Borrower or any other Guarantor may have by reason of the order, decree or decision of any court or administrative body resulting from any such proceeding.

(b) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that any interest on any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations which accrues after the commencement of any case or proceeding referred to in clause (a) above (or, if interest on any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations ceases to accrue by operation of law by reason of the commencement of such case or proceeding, such interest as would have accrued on such portion of the Guaranteed Obligations if such case or proceeding had not been commenced) shall be included in the Guaranteed Obligations because it is the intention of Guarantors and Beneficiaries that the Guaranteed Obligations which are guaranteed by Guarantors pursuant hereto should be determined without regard to any rule of law or order which may relieve Borrower of any portion of such Guaranteed Obligations. Guarantors will permit any trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person to pay Administrative Agent, or allow the claim of Administrative Agent in respect of, any such interest accruing after the date on which such case or proceeding is commenced.

(c) In the event that all or any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations are paid by Borrower, the obligations of Guarantors hereunder shall continue and remain in full force and effect or be reinstated, as the case may be, in the event that all or any part of such payment(s) are rescinded or recovered directly or indirectly from any Beneficiary as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise, and any such payments which are so rescinded or recovered shall constitute Guaranteed Obligations for all purposes hereunder.

Section 7.12 Discharge of Guaranty Upon Sale of Guarantor . If all of the Equity Interests of any Guarantor or any of its successors in interest hereunder shall be sold or otherwise disposed of (including by merger or consolidation) in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof, the Guaranty of such Guarantor (and, in the case of any other Guarantor that is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Guarantor being so sold or disposed of, the Guaranty of such other Guarantor) or such successor in interest, as the case may be, hereunder shall automatically be discharged and released without any further action by any Beneficiary or any other Person effective as of the time of such asset sale.

 

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Section 7.13 Release of Guarantor . In the event that any Guarantor other than Advisors, Advisors II or Finco is released from its guaranty under the Indenture or the Bonds (or extensions, renewals, replacements or refinancings thereof) in accordance with Section 1410 of the Indenture (or the corresponding provisions of the documents governing such extensions, renewals, replacements or refinancings thereof), Borrower may request the release of such Guarantor, and such Guarantor shall be released as a Guarantor hereunder upon not less than 10 days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its discretion); provided that (i) immediately before and after such removal, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such removal, on a Pro Forma Basis, the Economic Income Leverage Ratio shall not exceed 4.0 to 1.0.

Article 8

E VENTS O F D EFAULT

Section 8.01 Events of Default . If any one or more of the following conditions or events shall occur:

(a) Failure to Make Payments When Due . Failure by Borrower to pay (i) when due any installment of principal of any Loan, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration, by notice of voluntary prepayment or otherwise; or (ii) any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount due hereunder within five Business Days after receiving notice from Administrative Agent of such failure to pay; or

(b) Default in Other Agreements . (i) Failure of any Credit Party or any of the OZ Subsidiaries to pay when due any principal of or interest or premium on one or more items of Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness referred to in Section 8.01(a)) in an aggregate principal amount of $50,000,000 or more (other than any Indebtedness under the Aircraft Loan), in each case beyond the grace period, if any, provided therefor; or (ii) breach or default by any Credit Party or any of the OZ Subsidiaries with respect to any terms of its Indebtedness (other than any Indebtedness under the Aircraft Loan), which is in the individual or aggregate principal amounts referred to in clause (i) above, or any loan agreement, mortgage, indenture or other agreement relating to such item(s) of Indebtedness, in each case beyond the grace period, if any, provided therefor, if the effect of such breach or default is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of that Indebtedness (or a trustee or fiscal agent on behalf of such holder or holders), to cause, that Indebtedness to become or be declared due and payable (or redeemable) prior to its stated maturity or the stated maturity of any underlying obligation, as the case may be; or

(c) Breach of Certain Covenants . Failure of any Credit Party to perform or comply with any term or condition contained in Section 5.01(e)(i), Section 5.02, or Section 6; or

(d) Breach of Representations, etc . Any representation, warranty, certification or other statement made or deemed made by any Credit Party in any Credit Document or in any statement or certificate at any time given by any Credit Party in writing pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall be false in any material respect as of the date made or deemed made; or

 

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(e) Other Defaults Under Credit Documents . Any Credit Party shall default in the performance of or compliance with any term contained herein or any of the other Credit Documents, other than any such term referred to in this Section 8.01, and such default shall not have been remedied or waived within thirty days after receipt by Borrower of notice from Administrative Agent of such default; or

(f) Involuntary Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver, etc . (i) A court of competent jurisdiction shall enter a decree or order for relief in respect of any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary in an involuntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect, which decree or order is not stayed; or any other similar relief shall be granted under any applicable federal or state law; or (ii) an involuntary case shall be commenced against any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect; or a decree or order of a court having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, sequestrator, trustee, custodian or other officer having similar powers over any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary, or over all or a substantial part of its property, shall have been entered; or there shall have occurred the involuntary appointment of an interim receiver, trustee or other custodian of any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary for all or a substantial part of its property; or a warrant of attachment, execution or similar process shall have been issued against any substantial part of the property of any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary, and any such event described in this clause (ii) shall continue for sixty days without having been dismissed, bonded or discharged; or

(g) Voluntary Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver, etc . (i) Any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary shall have an order for relief entered with respect to it or shall commence a voluntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect, or shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case, or to the conversion of an involuntary case to a voluntary case, under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, trustee or other custodian for all or a substantial part of its property; or any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary shall make any assignment for the benefit of creditors; or (ii) any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary shall be unable, or shall fail generally to pay debts as such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally; or the board of directors (or similar governing body) of any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary (or any committee thereof) shall adopt any resolution or otherwise authorize any action to approve any of the actions referred to in this Section 8.01(g); or

(h) Judgments and Attachments . Any final money judgment, writ or warrant of attachment or similar process involving in the aggregate at any time an amount in excess of $50,000,000 (in either case to the extent not adequately covered by insurance as to which a solvent and unaffiliated insurance company has acknowledged coverage) shall be entered or filed against any Credit Party or any Material Subsidiary or any of their respective assets and shall remain undischarged, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a period of sixty days; or

 

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(i) Employee Benefit Plans . There shall occur one or more ERISA Events which individually or in the aggregate results in or would reasonably be expected to result in or have a Material Adverse Effect.

(j) Change of Control . A Change of Control shall occur;

(k) Guaranties and other Credit Documents . At any time after the execution and delivery thereof, (i) the Guaranty for any reason, other than the satisfaction in full of all Obligations (other than contingent or indemnification obligations to which no claim has been asserted or that are not then due and payable), shall cease to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with its terms) or shall be declared to be null and void or any Guarantor shall repudiate its obligations thereunder, (ii) this Agreement ceases to be in full force and effect (other than by reason of the satisfaction in full of the Obligations (other than contingent or indemnification obligations to which no claim has been asserted or that are not then due and payable) in accordance with the terms hereof) or shall be declared null and void for any reason, or (iii) any Credit Party shall contest the validity or enforceability of any Credit Document in writing or deny in writing that it has any further liability, including with respect to future advances by Lenders, under any Credit Document to which it is a party;

THEN , (1) upon the occurrence of any Event of Default described in Section 8.01(f) or (g), automatically, and (2) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any other Event of Default, at the request of (or with the consent of) Requisite Lenders, upon notice to Borrower by Administrative Agent, each of the following shall immediately become due and payable, in each case without presentment, demand, protest or other requirements of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by each Credit Party: (I) the unpaid principal amount of and accrued interest on the Loans and (II) all other Obligations.

Section 8.02 Borrowers’ Right to Cure .

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 8.01, for purposes of determining whether an Event of Default has occurred under any financial covenant set forth in Section 6.10, any equity contribution (in the form of common equity or other equity having terms reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent) made to Borrower after the last day of any Fiscal Quarter and on or prior to the day that is 10 days after the day on which financial statements are required to be delivered for that Fiscal Quarter will, at the request of Borrower, be included as additional management fee revenue in the calculation of Combined Economic Income solely for the purposes of determining compliance with such financial covenants at the end of such Fiscal Quarter and any subsequent period that includes such Fiscal Quarter (any such equity contribution, a “ Specified Equity Contribution ”); provided that (a) Borrower shall not be permitted to so request that separate Specified Equity Contributions be made in more than two Fiscal Quarters in any Relevant Four Fiscal Quarter Period and separate Specified Equity Contributions can only be made in three Fiscal Quarters during the term of this Agreement, (b) the amount of any Specified Equity Contribution will be no greater than the amount required to cause Borrower to be in compliance with the financial covenants, (c) all Specified Equity Contributions and the use of proceeds therefrom will be disregarded for all other purposes under the Credit Documents (including without limitation calculation of Economic Income Leverage Ratio in Section 6.01 and Section 6.05) and (d) if, after giving effect to any Specified Equity

 

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Contribution, Borrower would be in compliance with the financial covenants contained in Section 6.10(b) after giving effect to the provisions of this Section 8.02, no Default or Event of Default shall be deemed to have existed at any time with respect to such financial covenants for the relevant Fiscal Quarter. To the extent that the proceeds of the Specified Equity Contribution are used to repay Indebtedness, such Indebtedness shall not be deemed to have been repaid for purposes of calculating any financial covenant set forth in Section 6.10 for the Relevant Four Fiscal Quarter Period. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “ Relevant Four Fiscal Quarter Period ” shall mean, with respect to any requested Specified Equity Contribution, the four Fiscal Quarter period ending on (and including) the Fiscal Quarter in which Combined Economic Income will be increased as a result of such Specified Equity Contribution.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 8.02(a), for the purposes of determining Economic Income Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the Fiscal Quarter most recently ended prior to the payment of any Specified Equity Contributions (the “ Subject Quarter ”) and as of the last day of any subsequent Fiscal Quarter in which the Subject Quarter is included in the calculation of Combined Economic Income (the “ Subsequent Periods ”), if such Specified Equity Contributions are included as Combined Economic Income as set forth in Section 8.02(a), Borrower shall deduct from the Combined Economic Income for the Subject Quarter and any Subsequent Periods, the lesser of (1) the sum of all Restricted Payments (other than distributions made by any Credit Party pursuant to Section 6.03(a)) made during or for the Subject Quarter and during or for any Subsequent Period and (2) the sum of all Specified Equity Contributions made during or for the Subject Quarter and during or for any Subsequent Period. For the avoidance of doubt, when calculating Economic Income Leverage Ratio after giving effect to any proposed Restricted Payments to be made during or for any Subsequent Period, Borrower shall deduct from the Combined Economic Income such proposed Restricted Payments as if they were made during the prior Fiscal Quarter.

Article 9

A GENT

Section 9.01 Appointment of Administrative Agent . JPMCB is hereby irrevocably appointed Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Credit Documents and each Lender hereby authorizes JPMCB to act as Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof and the other Credit Documents. Administrative Agent hereby agrees to act in its capacity as such upon the express conditions contained herein and the other Credit Documents, as applicable. The provisions of this Article 9 are solely for the benefit of Administrative Agent and Lenders and no Credit Party shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions thereof. In performing its functions and duties hereunder, Administrative Agent shall act solely as an agent of Lenders and does not assume and shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation towards or relationship of agency or trust with or for any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary or any of their respective Affiliates. Administrative Agent, without consent of or notice to any party hereto, may assign any and all of its rights or obligations hereunder to any of its Affiliates.

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delegated or granted to Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers, rights and remedies as are reasonably incidental thereto. Administrative Agent shall have only those duties and responsibilities that are expressly specified herein and the other Credit Documents. Administrative Agent may exercise such powers, rights and remedies and perform such duties by or through its agents or employees. Administrative Agent shall not have, by reason hereof or any of the other Credit Documents, a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender or any other Person; and nothing herein or any of the other Credit Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon Administrative Agent any obligations in respect hereof or any of the other Credit Documents except as expressly set forth herein or therein. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any provision of any other Credit Document, each of the persons named on the cover page hereof as Syndication Agent, Joint Lead Arrangers, or Joint Bookrunners is named as such for recognition purposes only, and in its capacity as such shall have no rights, duties, responsibilities or liabilities with respect to this Agreement or any other Credit Document, except that each such person and its Affiliates shall be entitled to the rights expressly stated to be applicable to them in Section 10.03 (subject to the applicable obligations and limitations as set forth therein).

Section 9.03 General Immunity .

(a) No Responsibility for Certain Matters . Administrative Agent shall not be responsible to any Lender for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, collectability or sufficiency hereof or any other Credit Document or for any representations, warranties, recitals or statements made herein or therein or made in any written or oral statements or in any financial or other statements, instruments, reports or certificates or any other documents furnished or made by Administrative Agent to Lenders or by or on behalf of any Credit Party, or to any Lender in connection with the Credit Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby or for the financial condition or business affairs of any Credit Party or any other Person liable for the payment of any Obligations, nor shall Administrative Agent be required to ascertain or inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, conditions, provisions, covenants or agreements contained in any of the Credit Documents or as to the use of the proceeds of the Loans or as to the existence or possible existence of any Event of Default or Default or to make any disclosures with respect to the foregoing. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, Administrative Agent shall not have any liability arising from confirmations of the amount of outstanding Loans.

(b) Exculpatory Provisions . Neither Administrative Agent nor any of its officers, partners, directors, employees or agents shall be liable to Lenders for any action taken or omitted by Administrative Agent under or in connection with any of the Credit Documents except to the extent caused by Administrative Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, in each case as determined by a final non appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. Administrative Agent shall be entitled to refrain from any act or the taking of any action (including the failure to take an action) in connection herewith or any of the other Credit Documents or from the exercise of any power, discretion or authority vested in it hereunder or thereunder unless and until Administrative Agent shall have received instructions in respect thereof from Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such instructions under Section 10.05) and, upon receipt of such instructions from Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders, as the case may be), Administrative Agent shall be entitled to act or

 

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(where so instructed) refrain from acting, or to exercise such power, discretion or authority, in accordance with such instructions. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, (i) Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any communication, instrument or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person or Persons, and shall be entitled to rely and shall be protected in relying on opinions and judgments of attorneys (who may be attorneys for Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries), accountants, experts and other professional advisors selected by it; and (ii) no Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against Administrative Agent as a result of Administrative Agent acting or (where so instructed) refraining from acting hereunder or any of the other Credit Documents in accordance with the instructions of Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such instructions under Section 10.05).

(c) Delegation of Duties . Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers under this Agreement or under any other Credit Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by Administrative Agent. Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Affiliates. The exculpatory, indemnification and other provisions of this Section 9.03 and of Section 9.06 shall apply to any the Affiliates of Administrative Agent and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. All of the rights, benefits, and privileges (including the exculpatory and indemnification provisions) of this Section 9.03 and of Section 9.06 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Affiliates of any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities as sub-agent as if such sub-agent and Affiliates were named herein. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, with respect to each sub-agent appointed by Administrative Agent, (i) such sub-agent shall be a third party beneficiary under this Agreement with respect to all such rights, benefits and privileges (including exculpatory rights and rights to indemnification) and shall have all of the rights and benefits of a third party beneficiary, including an independent right of action to enforce such rights, benefits and privileges (including exculpatory rights and rights to indemnification) directly, without the consent or joinder of any other Person, against any or all of the Credit Parties and the Lenders and (ii) such rights, benefits and privileges (including exculpatory rights and rights to indemnification) shall not be modified or amended without the consent of such sub-agent.

Section 9.04 Administrative Agent Entitled to Act as Lender . The agency hereby created shall in no way impair or affect any of the rights and powers of, or impose any duties or obligations upon, Administrative Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender hereunder. With respect to its participation in the Loans, Administrative Agent shall have the same rights and powers hereunder as any other Lender and may exercise the same as if it were not performing the duties and functions delegated to it hereunder, and the term “Lender” shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include Administrative Agent in its individual capacity. Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory or other business with any Credit Party or any of their respective Affiliates as if it were not performing the duties specified herein, and may accept fees and other consideration from Borrower, other Credit Parties and their respective Affiliates for services in connection herewith and otherwise without having to account for the same to Lenders.

 

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Section 9.05 Lenders’ Representations, Warranties and Acknowledgment .

(a) Each Lender represents and warrants that it has made its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries in connection with Credit Extensions hereunder and that it has made and shall continue to make its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries. Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to make any such investigation or any such appraisal on behalf of Lenders or to provide any Lender with any credit or other information with respect thereto, whether coming into its possession before the making of the Loans or at any time or times thereafter, and Administrative Agent shall not have any responsibility with respect to the accuracy of or the completeness of any information provided to Lenders. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that the Credit Extension made hereunder are commercial loans and not investments in a business enterprise or securities.

(b) Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement or an Assignment Agreement, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Credit Document and each other document required to be approved by Administrative Agent, Requisite Lenders or Lenders, as applicable on the Closing Date.

Section 9.06 Right to Indemnity . Each Lender, in proportion to its Pro Rata Share, severally agrees to indemnify Administrative Agent, to the extent that Administrative Agent shall not have been reimbursed by any Credit Party, for and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including counsel fees and disbursements) or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against Administrative Agent in exercising its powers, rights and remedies or performing its duties hereunder or under the other Credit Documents or otherwise in its capacity as Administrative Agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other Credit Documents; provided , no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from Administrative Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and non-appealable judgment. If any indemnity furnished to Administrative Agent for any purpose shall, in the opinion of Administrative Agent, be insufficient or become impaired, Administrative Agent may call for additional indemnity and cease, or not commence, to do the acts indemnified against until such additional indemnity is furnished; provided , in no event shall this sentence require any Lender to indemnify Administrative Agent against any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, action, judgment, suit, cost, expense or disbursement in excess of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share thereof; and provided further, this sentence shall not be deemed to require any Lender to indemnify Administrative Agent against any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, action, judgment, suit, cost, expense or disbursement described in the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence.

Section 9.07 Successor Administrative Agent . Administrative Agent may resign at any time by giving thirty days’ prior written notice thereof to Lenders and Borrower. Upon any such notice of resignation, Requisite Lenders shall have the right, upon five Business Days’ notice to Borrower, to appoint a successor Administrative Agent. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent, that

 

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successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent and the retiring Administrative Agent shall promptly (i) transfer to such successor Administrative Agent all records and other documents necessary or appropriate in connection with the performance of the duties of the successor Administrative Agent under the Credit Documents, whereupon such retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. The administration fees payable by Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between Borrower and such successor. If the Requisite Lenders have not appointed a successor Administrative Agent, Administrative Agent shall have the right to appoint a financial institution to act as Administrative Agent hereunder and in any case, Administrative Agent’s resignation shall become effective on the thirtieth day after such notice of resignation. If neither the Requisite Lenders nor Administrative Agent have appointed a successor Administrative Agent, the Requisite Lenders shall be deemed to succeeded to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent. After any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder as Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article 9 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent hereunder.

Section 9.08 Guaranty . Agents under Guaranty . Each Requisite Lender hereby further authorizes Administrative Agent, on behalf of and for the benefit of the Beneficiaries, to be the agent for and representative of Beneficiaries with respect to the Guaranty. Subject to Section 10.05, without further written consent or authorization from any Beneficiary, Administrative Agent may execute any documents or instruments necessary to release any Guarantor from the Guaranty pursuant to Section 7.12 or with respect to which Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such consent under Section 10.05) have otherwise consented.

Section 9.09 Withholding Taxes . To the extent required by any applicable law, Administrative Agent may withhold from any payment to any Lender an amount equivalent to any applicable withholding tax. If the Internal Revenue Service or any other Governmental Authority asserts a claim that Administrative Agent did not properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender because the appropriate form was not delivered by such Lender or was not properly executed or because such Lender failed to notify Administrative Agent of a change in circumstance which rendered the exemption from, or reduction of, withholding tax ineffective or for any other reason, without duplication for any amount payable under Section 2.16(d) and Section 2.16(f), such Lender shall indemnify Administrative Agent fully for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by Administrative Agent as tax or otherwise, including any penalties or interest and together with all expenses (including legal expenses, allocated internal costs and out-of-pocket expenses) incurred, except to the extent resulting from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of Administrative Agent, in each case as determined by a final non appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

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Article 10

M ISCELLANEOUS

Section 10.01 Notices .

(a) Notices Generally . Except in the case of notices and other communications permitted to be given by telephone, any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given to a Credit Party or Administrative Agent shall be sent to such Person’s address as set forth on Appendix B or in the other relevant Credit Document, and in the case of any Lender, the address as indicated on Appendix B or otherwise indicated to Administrative Agent in writing. Except as otherwise set forth in paragraph (b) below, each notice hereunder shall be in writing and may be personally served or sent by facsimile and email or United States mail or courier service and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service and signed for against receipt thereof, upon receipt of email or facsimile, or three Business Days after depositing it in the United States mail with postage prepaid and properly addressed.

(b) Electronic Communications .

(i) Notices and other communications to the Lenders and Administrative Agent hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites, including the Platform) pursuant to procedures approved by Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender pursuant to Article 2 if such Lender has notified Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Section by electronic communication. Administrative Agent or Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. Unless Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.

(ii) Each of the Credit Parties understands that the distribution of material through an electronic medium is not necessarily secure and that there are confidentiality and other risks associated with such distribution and agrees and assumes the risks associated with such electronic distribution, except to the extent caused by the willful misconduct or gross negligence of Administrative Agent, in each case as determined by a final non appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

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(iii) The Platform and any Approved Electronic Communications are provided “as is” and “as available”. Neither Administrative Agent nor any of its respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors or representatives (the “ Agent Affiliates ”) warrant the accuracy, adequacy, or completeness of the Approved Electronic Communications or the Platform and each expressly disclaims liability for errors or omissions in the Platform and the Approved Electronic Communications. No warranty of any kind, express, implied or statutory, including any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third party rights or freedom from viruses or other code defects is made by the Agent Affiliates in connection with the Platform or the Approved Electronic Communications.

(iv) Each of the Credit Parties and the Lenders agree that Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, store any Approved Electronic Communications on the Platform in accordance with Administrative Agent’s customary document retention procedures and policies.

Section 10.02 Expenses . Borrower agrees to pay promptly (a) all the actual, reasonable, documented, out-of-pocket costs and expenses of Administrative Agent and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as a Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner, and their respective Affiliates in connection with the syndication of the credit facility provided for herein, the negotiation, preparation, execution and administration of the Credit Documents, or any consents, amendments, waivers or other modifications hereto and thereto or any other documents or matters requested by Borrower; (b) all the costs of furnishing all opinions by counsel for Borrower and the other Credit Parties; (c) the actual, reasonable, documented fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel to Administrative Agent and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as a Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner, and their respective Affiliates (in each case including allocated costs of internal counsel) in connection with the syndication of the credit facility provided for herein, the negotiation, preparation, execution and administration of the Credit Documents or any consents, amendments, waivers or other modifications hereto or thereto or any other documents or matters requested by Borrower; (d) all the actual documented costs and reasonable documented fees, expenses and disbursements of any auditors, accountants, consultants or appraisers; (e) all other actual, documented, reasonable, out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by Administrative Agent in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of the Credit Documents and any consents, amendments, waivers or other modifications thereto and the transactions contemplated thereby; and (f) after the occurrence of an Event of Default, all documented costs and expenses, including reasonable documented attorneys’ fees (including allocated costs of internal counsel) and costs of settlement, incurred by Administrative Agent and Lenders in enforcing any Obligations of or in collecting any payments due from any Credit Party hereunder or under the other Credit Documents by reason of such Event of Default (including in connection with the enforcement of the Guaranty) or in connection with any refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided hereunder in the nature of a “work-out” or pursuant to any insolvency or bankruptcy cases or proceedings.

 

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Section 10.03 Indemnity .

(a) In addition to the payment of expenses pursuant to Section 10.02, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated, each Credit Party agrees to defend (subject to Indemnitees’ selection of counsel), indemnify, pay and hold harmless, Administrative Agent and each Lender and each of their respective officers, partners, members, directors, trustees, advisors, employees, agents, sub-agents and Affiliates (each, an “ Indemnitee ”), from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities; provided , no Credit Party shall have any obligation to any Indemnitee hereunder with respect to any Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities (i) arise from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of that Indemnitee, in each case as determined by a final non appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, (ii) arise from a material breach of a Credit Document by such Indemnitee, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or (iii) shall not have resulted from an act or omission by any of the Borrower, Guarantors or their respective Affiliates and have been brought by an Indemnitee against any other Indemnitee (other than any claims against Administrative Agent acting in such capacity). To the extent that the undertakings to defend, indemnify, pay and hold harmless set forth in this Section 10.03 may be unenforceable in whole or in part because they are violative of any law or public policy, the applicable Credit Party shall contribute the maximum portion that it is permitted to pay and satisfy under applicable law to the payment and satisfaction of all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by Indemnitees or any of them.

(b) To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Credit Party shall assert, and each Credit Party hereby waives, any claim against each Lender, Administrative Agent and their respective Affiliates, directors, employees, attorneys, agents or sub-agents, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) (whether or not the claim therefor is based on contract, tort or duty imposed by any applicable legal requirement) arising out of, in connection with, arising out of, as a result of, or in any way related to, this Agreement or any Credit Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby or referred to herein or therein, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof or any act or omission or event occurring in connection therewith, and Borrower hereby waives, releases and agrees not to sue upon any such claim or any such damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor.

Section 10.04 Set-Off . In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default each Lender and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized by each Credit Party at any time or from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, without notice to any Credit Party or to any other Person (other than Administrative Agent), any such notice being hereby expressly waived, to set off and to appropriate and to apply any and all deposits (general or special, including Indebtedness evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether matured or unmatured, but not including trust accounts) and any other Indebtedness at any time held or owing by such Lender to or for the credit or the account of any Credit Party against and on account of the obligations and liabilities of any Credit Party to such Lender hereunder, and under the other Credit Documents, including all claims of any nature or description arising out of or connected hereto, or with any other Credit Document, irrespective of whether or not (a) such

 

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Lender shall have made any demand hereunder or (b) the principal of or the interest on the Loans or any other amounts due hereunder shall have become due and payable pursuant to Article 2 and although such obligations and liabilities, or any of them, may be contingent or unmatured.

Section 10.05 Amendments and Waivers .

(a) Requisite Lenders’ Consent . Subject to Section 10.05(b) and 10.05(c), no amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of the Credit Documents, or consent to any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall in any event be effective without the written concurrence of the Requisite Lenders and the Borrower or the applicable Credit Party, as the case may be.

(b) Affected Lenders’ Consent . Without the written consent of each Lender that would be affected thereby, no amendment, modification, termination, or consent shall be effective if the effect thereof would:

(i) extend the scheduled final maturity of any Loan or Note or extend the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment;

(ii) waive, reduce or postpone any scheduled repayment (but not prepayment);

(iii) reduce the rate of interest on any Loan (other than any waiver of any increase in the interest rate applicable to any Loan pursuant to Section 2.07) or any fee payable to any Lender hereunder;

(iv) extend the time for payment of any such interest or fees payable to any Lender hereunder;

(v) reduce the principal amount of any Loan;

(vi) amend, modify, terminate or waive any provision of this Section 10.05(b), Section 10.05(c) or any other provision of this Agreement that expressly provides that the consent of all Lenders is required;

(vii) amend the definition of “Requisite Lenders” or “Pro Rata Share”; provided , with the consent of Requisite Lenders, additional extensions of credit pursuant hereto may be included in the determination of “Requisite Lenders or “Pro Rata Share” on substantially the same basis as the Commitments and the Loans are included on the Closing Date; or

(viii) release all or substantially all of the Guarantors from the Guaranty except as expressly provided in the Credit Documents.

 

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(c) Other Consents . Subject to Section 2.19(b), no amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of the Credit Documents, or consent to any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall:

(i) permit the Borrower to assign or delegate any of its rights and obligations under the Credit Documents without the consent of all Lenders;

(ii) increase the Commitments of any Lender without the consent of such Lender;

(iii) alter the required application of any repayments or prepayments pursuant to Section 2.11 or change Section 2.12 or Section 2.13 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, in each case without the consent of all Lenders; or

(iv) amend, modify, terminate or waive any provision of Section 9 as the same applies to Administrative Agent, or any other provision hereof as the same applies to the rights or obligations of Administrative Agent, without the consent of such Administrative Agent.

(d) Execution of Amendments, etc . Administrative Agent may, but shall have no obligation to, with the concurrence of any Lender, execute amendments, modifications, waivers or consents on behalf of such Lender. Any waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which it was given. No notice to or demand on any Credit Party in any case shall entitle any Credit Party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances. Any amendment, modification, termination, waiver or consent effected in accordance with this Section 10.05 shall be binding upon each Lender at the time outstanding, each future Lender and, if signed by a Credit Party, on such Credit Party.

Section 10.06 Successors and Assigns; Participations .

(a) Generally . This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and the successors and assigns of Lenders. No Credit Party’s rights or obligations hereunder nor any interest therein may be assigned or delegated by any Credit Party without the prior written consent of all Lenders, and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance with clause (c) of this Section, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with clause (g) of this Section 10.06 or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 10.06(h) (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, Affiliates of Administrative Agent and Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

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Commitments and Loans listed therein for all purposes hereof, and no assignment or transfer of any such Commitment or Loan shall be effective, in each case, unless and until recorded in the Register following receipt of an Assignment Agreement effecting the assignment or transfer thereof, together with the required forms and certificates regarding tax matters covered in Section 2.16 and any fees payable in connection with such assignment, in each case, as provided in Section 10.06(d). Each assignment shall be recorded in the Register, and prompt notice thereof shall be provided to Borrower and a copy of such Assignment Agreement shall be maintained. The date of such recordation of a transfer shall be referred to herein as the “ Assignment Effective Date. ” Any request, authority or consent of any Person who, at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent, is listed in the Register as a Lender shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent holder, assignee or transferee of the corresponding Commitments or Loans.

(c) Right to Assign . Each Lender shall have the right at any time to sell, assign or transfer all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement, including all or a portion of its Commitment or Loans owing to it or other Obligations ( provided, however, that each assignment shall be of a uniform, and not varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under and in respect of any Loan or Commitment) to any Person meeting the criteria of clause (i) or (ii) of the definition of the term of “Eligible Assignee” with the consent of (x) Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) or (y) unless an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), Section 8.01(f) or Section 8.01(g) hereof shall have occurred and then be continuing, Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), except that in the case of an assignment by a Lender to any Lender or an Affiliate or Related Fund of any Lender, only notice to the Borrower and Administrative Agent will be required; provided , that each such assignment pursuant to this Section 10.06(c) shall be in an aggregate amount of not less than $5,000,000 (or such lesser amount as (x) may be agreed to by Borrower and Administrative Agent, (y) shall constitute the aggregate amount of the Loan of the assigning Lender or (z) may be the amount assigned by an assigning Lender to an Affiliate or Related Fund of such Lender) with respect to the assignment of Loans.

(d) Mechanics . Assignments and assumptions of Loans and Commitments by Lenders shall be effected by execution and delivery to Administrative Agent of an Assignment Agreement. Assignments made pursuant to the foregoing provision shall be effective as of the Assignment Effective Date. In connection with all assignments there shall be delivered to Administrative Agent a completed Administrative Questionnaire and such forms, certificates or other evidence, if any, with respect to United States federal income tax withholding matters as the assignee under such Assignment Agreement may be required to deliver pursuant to Section 2.16(e), together with payment to Administrative Agent of a registration and processing fee of $3,500 by the parties to such assignment (except that no such registration and processing fee shall be payable (x) in connection with an assignment by or to JPMCB or any Affiliate thereof or (y) in the case of an Assignee which is already a Lender or is an affiliate or Related Fund of a Lender or a Person under common management with a Lender).

(e) Representations and Warranties of Assignee . Each Lender, upon execution and delivery hereof or upon succeeding to an interest in the Loans, as the case may be, represents and warrants as of the Closing Date or as of the Assignment Effective Date that (i) it is an Eligible Assignee; (ii) it has experience and expertise in the making of or investing in loans such

 

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as the applicable Loan; and (iii) it will make or invest in, as the case may be, its Loans for its own account in the ordinary course and without a view to distribution of such Loans within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or other federal securities laws (it being understood that, subject to the provisions of this Section 10.06, the disposition of such Loans or any interests therein shall at all times remain within its exclusive control).

(f) Effect of Assignment . Subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 10.06, as of the “Assignment Effective Date” (i) the assignee thereunder shall have the rights and obligations of a “Lender” hereunder to the extent of its interest in the Loans and Commitments as reflected in the Register and shall thereafter be a party hereto and a “Lender” for all purposes hereof; (ii) the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to the assignee, relinquish its rights (other than any rights which survive the termination hereof under Section 10.08) and be released from its obligations hereunder (and, in the case of an assignment covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations hereunder, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto on the Assignment Effective Date; provided that, anything contained in any of the Credit Documents to the contrary notwithstanding, such assigning Lender shall continue to be entitled to the benefit of all indemnities hereunder as specified herein with respect to matters arising out of the prior involvement of such assigning Lender as a Lender hereunder); (iii) the Commitments shall be modified to reflect the Commitment of such assignee and (iv) any such assignment occurs after the issuance of any Note hereunder, the assigning Lender shall, upon the effectiveness of such assignment or as promptly thereafter as practicable, surrender its applicable Notes to Administrative Agent for cancellation, and thereupon Borrower shall issue and deliver new Notes, if so requested by the assignee and/or assigning Lender, to such assignee and/or to such assigning Lender, with appropriate insertions, to reflect the outstanding Loans of the assignee and/or the assigning Lender.

(g) Participations .

(i) Each Lender shall have the right at any time to sell one or more participations to any Person (other than any Credit Party or any OZ Subsidiary or any of their respective Affiliates) in all or any part of its Commitments, Loans or in any other Obligation; provided , that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) Borrower, Administrative Agent and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Each Lender that sells a participation pursuant to this Section 10.06(g) shall, acting solely for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a non-fiduciary agent of Borrower, maintain a register on which it records the name and address of each participant and the principal amounts of each participant’s participation interest with respect to the Loan (each, a “ Participant Register ”). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of a participation with respect to the Loan for all purposes under this Agreement, notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. No Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the

 

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Participant Register (including the identity of any participant or any information relating to a participant’s interest in any Loans or its other obligations under any Credit Document) to any person except to the extent that the relevant parties, acting reasonably and in good faith, determine that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such participation is in registered form under Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103-1(c). Unless otherwise required by the Internal Revenue Service, any disclosure required by the foregoing sentence shall be made by the relevant Lender directly and solely to the Internal Revenue Service. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of a participation with respect to the Loan for all purposes under this Agreement, notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.

(ii) The holder of any such participation, other than an Affiliate of the Lender granting such participation, shall not be entitled to require such Lender to take or omit to take any action hereunder except with respect to any amendment, modification or waiver that would (A) extend the final scheduled maturity of any Loan or Note in which such participant is participating, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or fees thereon (except in connection with a waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates) or reduce the principal amount thereof, or increase the amount of the participant’s participation over the amount thereof then in effect (it being understood that a waiver of any Default or Event of Default shall not constitute a change in the terms of such participation, and that an increase in any Commitment or Loan shall be permitted without the consent of any participant if the participant’s participation is not increased as a result thereof) or (B) consent to the assignment or transfer by any Credit Party of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement supporting the Loans hereunder in which such participant is participating.

(iii) Borrower agrees that each participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.14(c), 2.15 and 2.16 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section; provided that (x) a participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.15 or 2.16 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such participant, unless the sale of the participation to such participant is made with Borrower’s prior written consent and (y) a participant that would be a Non-US Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.16 unless Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such participant and such participant agrees, for the benefit of Borrower, to comply with Section 2.16 as though it were a Lender; provided further that, except as specifically set forth in clauses (x) and (y) of this sentence, nothing herein shall require any notice to Borrower or any other Person in connection with the sale of any participation. To the extent permitted by law, each participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.04 as though it were a Lender, provided such participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.

 

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(h) Certain Other Assignments and Participations . In addition to any other assignment or participation permitted pursuant to this Section 10.06, any Lender may assign, pledge and/or grant a security interest in all or any portion of its Loans, the other Obligations owed by or to such Lender, and its Notes, if any, to secure obligations of such Lender including any Federal Reserve Bank as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors and any operating circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no Lender, as between Borrower and such Lender, shall be relieved of any of its obligations hereunder as a result of any such assignment and pledge, and provided further , that in no event shall the applicable Federal Reserve Bank, pledgee or trustee be considered to be a “Lender” or be entitled to require the assigning Lender to take or omit to take any action hereunder.

Section 10.07 Independence of Covenants . All covenants hereunder shall be given independent effect so that if a particular action or condition is not permitted by any of such covenants, the fact that it would be permitted by an exception to, or would otherwise be within the limitations of, another covenant shall not avoid the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default if such action is taken or condition exists.

Section 10.08 Survival of Representations, Warranties and Agreements . All representations, warranties and agreements made herein shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and the making of any Credit Extension. Notwithstanding anything herein or implied by law to the contrary, the agreements of each Credit Party set forth in Section 2.14(c), 2.15, 2.16, 10.02, 10.03 and 10.04 and the agreements of Lenders set forth in Sections 2.13, 9.03(b) and 9.06 shall survive the payment of the Loans and the termination hereof.

Section 10.09 No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative . No failure or delay on the part of Administrative Agent or any Lender in the exercise of any power, right or privilege hereunder or under any other Credit Document shall impair such power, right or privilege or be construed to be a waiver of any default or acquiescence therein, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude other or further exercise thereof or of any other power, right or privilege. The rights, powers and remedies given to Administrative Agent and each Lender hereby are cumulative and shall be in addition to and independent of all rights, powers and remedies existing by virtue of any statute or rule of law or in any of the other Credit Documents. Any forbearance or failure to exercise, and any delay in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall not impair any such right, power or remedy or be construed to be a waiver thereof, nor shall it preclude the further exercise of any such right, power or remedy.

Section 10.10 Marshalling; Payments Set Aside . Neither Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Credit Party or any other Person or against or in payment of any or all of the Obligations. To the extent that any Credit Party makes a payment or payments to Administrative Agent or Lenders (or to Administrative Agent, on behalf of Lenders), or Administrative Agent or Lender exercise their rights of setoff, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or setoff or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside and/or required to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party under any bankruptcy law, any other state or federal law, common law or any equitable cause, then, to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all rights and remedies therefor or related thereto, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment or payments had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

 

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Section 10.11 Severability . In case any provision in or obligation hereunder or under any other Credit Document shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 10.12 Obligations Several; Independent Nature of Lenders’ Rights . The obligations of Lenders hereunder are several and no Lender shall be responsible for the obligations or Commitment of any other Lender hereunder. Nothing contained herein or in any other Credit Document, and no action taken by Lenders pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute Lenders as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity. The amounts payable at any time hereunder to each Lender shall be a separate and independent debt, and each Lender shall be entitled to protect and enforce its rights arising out hereof and it shall not be necessary for any other Lender to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

Section 10.13 Non-Recourse Nature of Obligations . No Person that is not a party hereto or to any Credit Document shall be personally liable (whether by operation of law or otherwise) for payments due hereunder or under any other Credit Document for the performance of any Obligations except as expressly provided in the Credit Documents. The sole recourse of each Beneficiary for satisfaction of the Obligations shall be against the Credit Parties and their assets and not against any other Person.

Section 10.14 Headings . Section headings herein are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part hereof for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect.

Section 10.15 Applicable Law . THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Section 10.16 Consent to Jurisdiction . SUBJECT TO CLAUSE (E) OF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE, ALL JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING HERETO OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS, OR ANY OF THE OBLIGATIONS, SHALL BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN THE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY OF NEW YORK. BY EXECUTING AND DELIVERING THIS AGREEMENT, EACH CREDIT PARTY, FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES, IRREVOCABLY (A) ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH COURTS; (B) WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS; (C) AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ALL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT MAY BE MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, TO THE APPLICABLE CREDIT PARTY AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH

 

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SECTION 10.01; (D) AGREES THAT SERVICE AS PROVIDED IN CLAUSE (C) ABOVE IS SUFFICIENT TO CONFER PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE APPLICABLE CREDIT PARTY IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT; AND (E) AGREES THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND LENDERS RETAIN THE RIGHT TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO BRING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ANY CREDIT PARTY IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT.

Section 10.17 Waiver of Jury Trial . EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OF THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS LOAN TRANSACTION OR THE LENDER/BORROWER RELATIONSHIP THAT IS BEING ESTABLISHED. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION, INCLUDING CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS ALREADY RELIED ON THIS WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN ITS RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH PARTY HERETO FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING (OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THIS SECTION 10.17 AND EXECUTED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS HERETO OR ANY OF THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR TO ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS OR AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE LOANS MADE HEREUNDER. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.

Section 10.18 Confidentiality . Administrative Agent and each Lender shall hold all non-public information regarding the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries and their businesses identified as such by such Credit Party and obtained by such Lender pursuant to the requirements hereof in accordance with such Lender’s customary procedures for handling confidential information of such nature, it being understood and agreed by Borrower that, in any event, Administrative Agent and each Lender may make (i) disclosures of such information to Affiliates of such Administrative Agent or Lender and to their respective agents and advisors (and to other Persons authorized by a Lender or Administrative Agent to organize, present or

 

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disseminate such information in connection with disclosures otherwise made in accordance with this Section 10.18), (ii) disclosures of such information reasonably required by any bona fide or potential assignee, transferee or participant in connection with the contemplated assignment, transfer or participation of any Loans or any participations therein or by any direct or indirect contractual counterparties (or the professional advisors thereto) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to any Credit Parties and their respective obligations ( provided , such assignees, transferees, participants, counterparties and advisors are advised of and agree to be bound by either the provisions of this Section 10.18 or other provisions at least as restrictive as this Section 10.18), (iii) disclosure to any rating agency when required by it, provided that, prior to any disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake in writing to preserve the confidentiality of any confidential information relating to the Credit Parties received by it from any of Administrative Agent or any Lender, (iv) disclosures to the extent that such information is publicly available or becomes publicly available other than by reason of improper disclosure by such Lender, (v) disclosures in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Credit Document, (vi) disclosures required or requested by any governmental agency, regulatory authority or representative thereof or by the NAIC or pursuant to legal or judicial process, (vii) disclosures with the consent of the Borrower and (viii) disclosures to any other party hereto; provided that, unless specifically prohibited by applicable law or court order, Administrative Agent and each Lender shall promptly notify Borrower of any request by any governmental agency or representative thereof (other than any such request in connection with any examination of the financial condition or other routine examination of such Lender by such governmental agency) for disclosure of any such non-public information prior to disclosure of such information. In addition, Administrative Agent and each Lender may disclose the existence of this Agreement and the information about this Agreement to market data collectors, similar services providers to the lending industry and service providers to Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection with the administration and management of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, each party (and each of their respective employees, representatives or other agents) may disclose to any and all persons, without limitations of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and all materials of any kind (including opinions and other tax analyses) that are provided to any such party relating to such tax treatment and tax structure. However, any information relating to the tax treatment or tax structure shall remain subject to the confidentiality provisions hereof (and the foregoing sentence shall not apply) to the extent reasonably necessary to enable the parties hereto, their respective Affiliates, and their respective Affiliates’ directors and employees to comply with applicable securities laws. For this purpose, “tax structure” means any facts relevant to the federal income tax treatment of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement but does not include information relating to the identity of any of the parties hereto or any of their respective Affiliates.

Section 10.19 Usury Savings Clause . Notwithstanding any other provision herein, the aggregate interest rate charged with respect to any of the Obligations, including all charges or fees in connection therewith deemed in the nature of interest under applicable law shall not exceed the Highest Lawful Rate. If the rate of interest (determined without regard to the preceding sentence) under this Agreement at any time exceeds the Highest Lawful Rate, the outstanding amount of the Loans made hereunder shall bear interest at the Highest Lawful Rate until the total amount of interest due hereunder equals the amount of interest which would have been due hereunder if the stated rates of interest set forth in this Agreement had at all times been

 

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in effect. In addition, if when the Loans made hereunder are repaid in full the total interest due hereunder (taking into account the increase provided for above) is less than the total amount of interest which would have been due hereunder if the stated rates of interest set forth in this Agreement had at all times been in effect, then to the extent permitted by law, Borrower shall pay to Administrative Agent an amount equal to the difference between the amount of interest paid and the amount of interest which would have been paid if the Highest Lawful Rate had at all times been in effect. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is the intention of Lenders and Borrower to conform strictly to any applicable usury laws. Accordingly, if any Lender contracts for, charges, or receives any consideration which constitutes interest in excess of the Highest Lawful Rate, then any such excess shall be cancelled automatically and, if previously paid, shall at such Lender’s option be applied to the outstanding amount of the Loans made hereunder or be refunded to Borrower.

Section 10.20 Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or in electronic format (i.e., “ pdf ” or “ tif ”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

Section 10.21 Effectiveness . This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution of a counterpart hereof by each of the parties hereto and receipt by Borrower and Administrative Agent of written or telephonic notification of such execution and authorization of delivery thereof.

Section 10.22 Entire Agreement . This Agreement, the other Credit Documents and the Fee Letters constitute the entire contract between the parties relative to the subject matter hereof. Any previous agreement among the parties or their respective Affiliates with respect to the subject matter hereof is superseded by this Agreement, the other Credit Documents and the Fee Letters. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Fee Letters shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and remain in full force and effect, and (ii) this Agreement or any other Credit Documents shall not supersede or terminate the provisions of the Commitment Letter that survive the execution of this Agreement pursuant to the terms of such Commitment Letter.

Section 10.23 PATRIOT Act . Each Lender and Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies each Credit Party that pursuant to the requirements of the PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Credit Party, which information includes the name and address of each Credit Party and other information that will allow such Lender or Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Credit Party in accordance with the PATRIOT Act.

Section 10.24 Electronic Execution of Assignments . The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Assignment Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic signatures 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 or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in

 

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any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

Section 10.25 No Fiduciary Duty . Administrative Agent, each Lender and their respective Affiliates (collectively, solely for purposes of this paragraph, the “ Lenders ”), may have economic interests that conflict with those of Borrower. Borrower agrees that nothing in the Credit Documents or otherwise will be deemed to create an advisory, fiduciary or agency relationship or fiduciary or other implied duty between the Lenders and Borrower, its stockholders or its affiliates. You acknowledge and agree that (i) the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Lenders, on the one hand, and Borrower, on the other, (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading to such transaction each of the Lenders is acting solely as a principal and not the agent or fiduciary of Borrower, its management, stockholders, creditors or any other Person, (iii) no Lender has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of Borrower with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether any Lender or any of its affiliates has advised or is currently advising Borrower on other matters) or any other obligation to Borrower except the obligations expressly set forth in the Credit Documents and (iv) Borrower has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate. Borrower further acknowledges and agrees that it is responsible for making its own independent judgment with respect to such transactions and the process leading thereto. Borrower agrees that it will not claim that any Lender has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to Borrower, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers (or officers of such Person’s general partner or equivalent) thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above.

 

OZ MANAGEMENT LP, as Borrower

By: Och-Ziff Holding Corporation,

its general partner

By:  

/s/ Joel M. Frank

  Name:   Joel M. Frank
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
OZ ADVISORS LP, as a Guarantor

By: Och-Ziff Holding Corporation,

its general partner

By:  

/s/ Joel M. Frank

  Name:   Joel M. Frank
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
OZ ADVISORS II LP, as a Guarantor

By: Och-Ziff Holding LLC,

its general partner

By:  

/s/ Joel M. Frank

  Name:   Joel M. Frank
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC,

as a Guarantor

By:  

/s/ Joel M. Frank

  Name:   Joel M. Frank
  Title:   Treasurer


JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent and a Lender
By:  

/s/ Matthew Griffith

  Name:   Matthew Griffith
  Title:   Executive Director

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA

as Syndication Agent and a Lender

By:  

/s/ Rebecca Kratz

  Name:   Rebecca Kratz
  Title:   Authorized Signatory

CITIBANK N.A.

as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Alex Duka

  Name:   Alex Duka
  Title:   Managing Director

MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.

as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Michael King

  Name:   Michael King
  Title:   Authorized Signatory

STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Andrei Bourdine

  Name:   Andrei Bourdine
  Title:   Vice President


BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Russell K. Guter

  Name:   Russell K. Guter
  Title:   Senior Vice President
CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Doreen Barr

  Name:   Doreen Barr
  Title:   Authorized Signatory
By:  

/s/ Remy Riester

  Name:   Remy Riester
  Title:   Authorized Signatory


APPENDIX A

TO CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

Commitments

 

Lender

   Loan
Commitment
     Pro Rata
Share
 

JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.

   $ 37,500,000         25.00

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

   $ 37,500,000         25.00

Citibank N.A.

   $ 30,000,000         20.00

Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.

   $ 15,000,000         10.00

State Street Bank and Trust Company

   $ 15,000,000         10.00

Bank of America, N.A.

   $ 7,500,000         5.00

Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch

   $ 7,500,000         5.00
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 150,000,000.00         100.00
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

APPENDIX A - 1


APPENDIX B

TO CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

Notice Addresses

OZ MANAGEMENT LP

c/o Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC

9 West 57th Street, 13th Floor

New York, NY 10016

Attention: Joel Frank

Facsimile: (212) 790-0060

Email: ozrevolver@ozcap.com

OZ ADVISORS LP

c/o Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC

9 West 57th Street, 13th

New York, NY 10016

Attention: Joel Frank

Facsimile: (212) 790-0060

Email: ozrevolver@ozcap.com

OZ ADVISORS II LP

c/o Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC

9 West 57th Street, 13th Floor

New York, NY 10016

Attention: Joel Frank

Facsimile: (212) 790-0060

Email: ozrevolver@ozcap.com

OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC

c/o Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC

9 West 57th Street, 13th Floor

New York, NY 10016

Attention: Joel Frank

Facsimile: (212) 790-0060

Email: ozrevolver@ozcap.com

 

Appendix B-1


J.P. MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent and a Lender

500 Stanton Christiana Road

Newark, DE 19713

Attention: John Enyam

Facsimile: (302) 634-8459

Email: john.enyam@jpmorgan.com

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA

as Syndication Agent and a Lender

200 West Street

New York, NY 10282

Facsimile: (917) 977-3966

Notices should be provided via facsimile, rather than e-mail.

CITIBANK N.A.

as a Lender

1615 Brett Road, Ops 3

New Castle, DE 19720

Facsimile: (646) 274-5000

Email: GLOriginationOps@citi.com

MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.

as a Lender

c/o Morgan Stanley Loan Servicing

1300 Thames Street Wharf, 4 th Floor

Baltimore, MD 21231

Facsimile: (718) 233-2140

Email: msloanservicing@morganstanley.com; doc4secportfolio@morganstanley.com

STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

as a Lender

Robyn Shepard

Department: Loan Operations / CSU

Box 5302

Boston, MA 02206

Facsimile: (617) 988-6677

Email: rashepard@statestreet.com

 

Appendix B-2


BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

as a Lender

Russell Guter

Senior Vice President

Bank of America, N.A.

300 Broad Hollow Road

Melville, NY 11747

Facsimile: (631) 547-7701

Email: russell.k.guter@baml.com

CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH

As a Lender,

Doreen B. Barr

Eleven Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10010-3629

Facsimile: (212) 325-9914

Email: doreen.barr@credit-suisse.com

with a copy to:

Warren E. Van Heyst

Eleven Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10010-3629

Facsimile: (212) 743-4950

Email: warren.vanheyst@credit-suisse.com

 

Appendix B-3


SCHEDULE 4.07

TO CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

Liabilities

None

 

Schedule 4.07-1


SCHEDULE 4.10

TO CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

Payment of Taxes

None

 

Schedule 4.10-1


SCHEDULE 6.04

TO CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

Certain Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions

None

 

Schedule 6.04-1


EXHIBIT A-l TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

FUNDING NOTICE

Reference is made to the Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Credit Agreement ”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined), by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), OZ ADVISORS LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC , a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto from time to time, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners.

Pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of the Credit Agreement, Borrower desires that Lenders make the following Loans to Borrower in accordance with the applicable terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement on [            ], 20[    ], which is a Business Day (the “ Credit Date ”):

Loans

¨   

Base Rate Loans:

     $[    ,    ,    
¨   

Eurodollar Rate Loans, with an initial Interest Period of                  month(s):

     $[    ,    ,    

Borrower hereby certifies that:

(i) as of the Credit Date, the representations and warranties contained in each of the Credit Documents are true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as of such Credit Date to the same extent as though made on and as of that date, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties are true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as of such earlier date; and

(ii) as of the Credit Date, no event has occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation of the borrowing contemplated hereby that would constitute an Event of Default or a Default.

 

EXHIBIT A-1-1


The account of Borrower to which the proceeds of the Loans requested on the Credit Date are to be made available by Administrative Agent to the Borrower are as follows:

 

Bank Name:  

 

Bank Address:  

 

ABA Number:  

 

Account Number:  

 

Attention:  

 

Reference:  

 

 

Date: [            ], 20 [    ]     OZ MANAGEMENT LP
    By:   Och-Ziff Holding Corporation,
      its general partner
    By:  

 

    Name:  
    Title:  

 

EXHIBIT A-1-2


EXHIBIT A-2 TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

CONVERSION/CONTINUATION NOTICE

Reference is made to the Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Credit Agreement ”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined), by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), OZ ADVISORS LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC , a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto from time to time, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners.

Pursuant to Section 2.06 of the Credit Agreement, Borrower desires to convert or to continue the following Loans, each such conversion and/or continuation to be effective as of [            ], 20[    ], which is a Business Day:

Loans :

 

$[    ,    ,    ]   

Eurodollar Rate Loans (the current Interest Period of which will expire on [            ], 20[    ]) to be continued with Interest Period of [                    ] month(s)

$[    ,    ,    ]   

Base Rate Loans to be converted to Eurodollar Rate Loans with Interest Period of                      month(s)

$[    ,    ,    ]   

Eurodollar Rate Loans (the current Interest Period of which will expire on [            ], 20[    ]) to be converted to Base Rate Loans

Borrower hereby certifies that as of the date hereof, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

Date: [            ], 20 [    ]     OZ MANAGEMENT LP
    By:   Och-Ziff Holding Corporation,
      its general partner
    By:  

 

    Name:  
    Title:  

 

EXHIBIT A-2-1


EXHIBIT B TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

NOTE

 

$[    ,    ,    ]   
[mm/dd/yy]    New York, New York

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), promises to pay [ NAME OF LENDER ] (“ Payee ”) or its registered assigns the principal amount of [DOLLARS] ($[    ,    ,    ]) (or such other amount as shall equal the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loans made by the Payee to Borrower under the Credit Agreement as defined below) on the dates provided in the Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Credit Agreement ”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined), by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), OZ ADVISORS LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC , a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto from time to time, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners.

Borrower also promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount hereof, from the date such principal amount was made to Borrower until such principal amount is paid in full, at the interest rates and at the times which shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Agreement.

This Note is one of the “Notes” referred to in the Credit Agreement in the aggregate principal amount of $150,000,000 (or such other amount as may be increased or decreased pursuant to the Credit Agreement) and is issued pursuant to and entitled to the benefits of the Credit Agreement (including without limitation the guarantee of Guarantors set forth therein), to which reference is hereby made for a more complete statement of the terms and conditions under which the Loan evidenced hereby was made and is to be repaid.

All payments of principal and interest in respect of this Note shall be made in lawful money of the United States of America in same day funds at the Principal Office of Administrative Agent or at such other place as shall be designated in writing for such purpose in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. Unless and until an Assignment Agreement effecting the assignment or transfer of the obligations evidenced hereby shall have been accepted by Administrative Agent and recorded in the Register, Borrower, Administrative Agent and Lenders shall be entitled to deem and treat Payee as the owner and holder of this Note and the obligations evidenced hereby.

This Note is subject to prepayment at the option of Borrower as provided in the Credit Agreement.

 

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Payee may endorse on the schedule attached hereto or any continuation thereof the date and amount of Loans made by Payee to Borrower, provided that the failure of Payee to make any such endorsement shall not affect the obligations of Borrower to make a payment when due of any amount owing under the Credit Agreement or hereunder in respect of the Loans made by Payee to Borrower.

THIS NOTE AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF BORROWER AND PAYEE HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the unpaid balance of the principal amount of this Note, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, may become, or may be declared to be, due and payable in the manner, upon the conditions and with the effect provided in the Credit Agreement.

The terms of this Note are subject to amendment only in the manner provided in the Credit Agreement.

Borrower promises to pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, all as provided in the Credit Agreement, incurred in the collection and enforcement of this Note. Borrower and any endorsers of this Note hereby consent to renewals and extensions of time at or after the maturity hereof and hereby waive diligence, presentment, protest, demand and notice of every kind and, to the full extent permitted by law, the right to plead any statute of limitations as a defense to any demand hereunder.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , Borrower has caused this Note to be duly executed and delivered by an officer of its general partner thereunto duly authorized as of the date and at the place first written above.

 

OZ MANAGEMENT LP
By:  

Och-Ziff Holding Corporation,

its general partner

By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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Schedule

TRANSACTIONS ON

NOTE

 

Date

 

Amount of Loan

Made This Date

 

Outstanding Principal

Balance This Date

 

Notation Made By

     
     
     

 

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EXHIBIT C TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFIES AS FOLLOWS :

1. I am the Chief Financial Officer of OCH-ZIFF HOLDING CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation and general partner of OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”).

2. I have reviewed the terms of that certain Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Credit Agreement ”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined), by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), OZ ADVISORS LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC , a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, and I have made, or have caused to be made under my supervision, a review in reasonable detail of the transactions and condition of the Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries during the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements.

3. The examination described in paragraph 2 above did not disclose, and I have no knowledge of, the existence of any condition or event which constitutes an Event of Default or Default as of the date of this Certificate, except as set forth in a separate attachment, if any, to this Certificate, describing in detail, the nature of the condition or event, and the action which Borrower has taken, is taking, or proposes to take with respect to each such condition or event.

The foregoing certifications, together with the computations set forth in the Annex A hereto and the financial statements delivered with this Certificate in support hereof, are made and delivered [mm/dd/yy] pursuant to Section 5.01(c) of the Credit Agreement.

 

OZ MANAGEMENT LP
By: Och-Ziff Holding Corporation,
its general partner
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

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ANNEX A TO

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

 

1.    Combined Economic Income : 1 (i)–(ii) + (iii) + (iv) 2 =   
  

(i)

  

economic income:

      $ [    ,    ,    
  

(ii)

  

incentive income:

      $ [    ,    ,    
  

(iii)

  

any amount of bonus compensation expenses not to exceed an amount equal to 20% of total revenues:

      $ [    ,    ,    
  

(iv)

  

interest expense:

      $ [    ,    ,    
     

Combined Economic Income:

      $ [    ,    ,    

2.

  

Combined Total Debt :

   $ [    ,    ,    

3.

  

Economic Income Leverage Ratio : (i)/(ii) =

  
  

(i)

  

Combined Total Debt (net of Unrestricted Cash and Cash Equivalents):

      $ [    ,    ,    
  

(ii)

  

Combined Economic Income for the four Fiscal Quarter period then ended:

      $ [    ,    ,    
        

Actual:

       .    :1.00   
        

Required:

     4.00:1.00   

4.

  

Total Fee Paying Assets Under Management:

   Actual:    $ [    ,    ,    
        

Required:

   $ 22,000,000,000   

 

1   Calculated on a combined basis for Credit Parties and the OZ Subsidiaries determined on the basis of economic income, in accordance with the methodology utilized by the Issuer to derive economic income in the Issuer’s earnings press release for the Fiscal Quarter ended on June 30, 2014.
2   In each case of Items (i) through (iv), excluding any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring gains or losses or income or expense or charge for the relevant quarter.

 

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EXHIBIT D-1 TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

This Assignment Agreement (this “ Assignment ”) is dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and between [ Insert name of Assignor ] (the “ Assignor ”) and [ Insert name of Assignee ] (the “ Assignee ”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Credit Agreement ”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by the Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment as if set forth herein in full.

For an agreed consideration, the Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor, subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by Administrative Agent as contemplated below, (i) all of the Assignor’s rights and obligations in its capacity as a Lender under the Credit Agreement and any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and obligations of the Assignor under the respective facilities identified below and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender) against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned by the Assignor to the Assignee pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as the “ Assigned Interest ”). Such sale and assignment is without recourse to the Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and the Credit Agreement, without representation or warranty by the Assignor.

 

1.    Assignor:   
2.    Assignee:                         [and is an Affiliate/Related Fund 3 ]
3.    Borrower:    OZ MANAGEMENT LP
4.    Administrative Agent:    JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. , as administrative agent under the Credit Agreement
5.    Credit Agreement:    The Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Credit Agreement ”; the terms

 

3  

Select as applicable

 

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      defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined), by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), OZ ADVISORS LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC , a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
6.    Assigned Interest:   

 

Aggregate Amount of
Commitment/Loans for all
Lenders

    Amount of
Commitment/Loans
Assigned
    Percentage Assigned of
Commitment/Loans 4
 
$        $              
$        $              
$        $              

Effective Date:             , 20     [TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.]

 

7. Notice and Wire Instructions:

 

[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]     [NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
Notices :     Notices :
 

 

     

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

     

 

  Attention:       Attention:
  Telecopier:       Telecopier:
with a copy to:     with a copy to:
 

 

     

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

     

 

  Attention:       Attention:
  Telecopier:       Telecopier:
Wire Instructions :     Wire Instructions :
   

 

4   Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders thereunder.

 

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The terms set forth in this Assignment are hereby agreed to:

 

ASSIGNOR

[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]

By:  

 

Title:  

ASSIGNEE

[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]

By:  

 

Title:  

 

Consented to and Accepted:
JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent
By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory
[Consented to] 5 :
OZ MANAGEMENT LP
By:  

Och-Ziff Holding Corporation,

its general partner

By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

5   To be added only if the consent of Borrower is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement.

 

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ANNEX 1

STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT

 

1. Representations and Warranties .

 

  1.1 Assignor . The Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest, (ii) the Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim and (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and (b) assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with any Credit Document, (ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or document delivered pursuant thereto, other than this Assignment (herein collectively the “ Credit Documents ”), or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the financial condition of Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of any Credit Document or (iv) the performance or observance by Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under any Credit Document.

 

  1.2

Assignee . The Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (ii) it meets all requirements of an Eligible Assignee under the Credit Agreement, (iii) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement and, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to acquire assets of the type represented by the Assigned Interest and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its decision to acquire the Assigned Interest, is experienced in acquiring assets of such type, (v) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, and has received or has been accorded the opportunity to receive copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.1 thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it deems appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and to purchase the Assigned Interest, (vi) it has, independently and without reliance upon Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and to purchase the Assigned Interest, and (vii) if it is a Non-US Lender, attached to this Assignment is any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by the Assignee; and

 

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  (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance on Administrative Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Credit Documents, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Credit Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender.

 

2. Payments . All payments with respect to the Assigned Interests shall be made on the Effective Date as follows:

From and after the Effective Date, Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignor for amounts which have accrued to but excluding the Effective Date and to the Assignee for amounts which have accrued from and after the Effective Date.

 

3. General Provisions . This Assignment shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Assignment may be executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment. This Assignment and the rights and obligations of the Parties hereunder shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York.

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EXHIBIT E TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

CERTIFICATE RE NON-BANK STATUS

Reference is made to the Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Credit Agreement ”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined), by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), OZ ADVISORS LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC , a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners. Pursuant to Section 2.16(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that it is not a “bank” or other Person described in Section 881(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

[NAME OF LENDER]
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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EXHIBIT F TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

CLOSING DATE CERTIFICATE

THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFY AS FOLLOWS:

1. I am the chief financial officer of Och-Ziff Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the general partner of OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”).

2. I have reviewed the terms of Section 3.1 of the Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Credit Agreement ”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined), by and among Borrower, OZ ADVISORS LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC , a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, and the definitions and provisions contained in such Credit Agreement relating thereto, and in my opinion I have made, or have caused to be made under my supervision, such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable me to express an informed opinion as to the matters referred to herein.

3. Based upon my review and examination described in paragraph 2 above, I certify, on behalf of Borrower, that as of the date hereof:

(i) the representations and warranties contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents are true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as of the Closing Date to the same extent as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties are true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as of such earlier date;

(ii) each Credit Party has obtained all Governmental Authorizations and all consents of other Persons, in each case that are necessary in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of the Credit Documents and each of the foregoing is in full force and effect;

(iii) no event has occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation of the transactions and borrowing contemplated by the Credit Agreement that would constitute an Event of Default or a Default; and

(iv) Since December 31, 2013, there have not occurred any Material Adverse Effect.

 

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4. Each Credit Party has requested Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP to deliver to Administrative Agent and Lenders on the Closing Date a favorable written opinion as to such matters as Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

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F-2


The foregoing certifications are made and delivered as of             , 2014.

 

OZ MANAGEMENT LP
By:   Och-Ziff Holding Corporation,
  its general partner

 

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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EXHIBIT G TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

COUNTERPART AGREEMENT

This COUNTERPART AGREEMENT , dated [mm/dd/yy] (this “ Counterpart Agreement ”) is delivered pursuant to that certain Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014 (as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Credit Agreement ”; the terms defined therein and not otherwise defined herein being used herein as therein defined), by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP , a Delaware limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), OZ ADVISORS LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP , a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC , a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto, as Guarantors, the Lenders party thereto from time to time, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. , as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners.

Section 1 . Pursuant to Section 5.08 of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby:

(a) agrees that this Counterpart Agreement may be attached to the Credit Agreement and that by the execution and delivery hereof, the undersigned becomes a Guarantor under, and a party to, the Credit Agreement and agrees to be bound by all of the terms thereof as fully as if the undersigned were one of the original parties thereto;

(b) represents and warrants that each of the representations and warranties set forth in the Credit Agreement and each other Credit Document that (i) are made or deemed to be made by the undersigned (including without limitation the representation and warranties in Article 4 of the Credit Agreement) or (ii) are otherwise applicable to the undersigned is true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) both before and after giving effect to this Counterpart Agreement, except to the extent that any such representation and warranty relates solely to any earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty is true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality, in all respects) as of such earlier date;

(c) agrees that no event has occurred or is continuing as of the date hereof, or will result from the transactions contemplated hereby on the date hereof, that would constitute an Event of Default or a Default; and

(d) agrees to irrevocably and unconditionally guaranty the due and punctual payment in full of all Obligations any payment obligations under the Fee Letters, in each case when the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)) and in accordance with Article 7 of the Credit Agreement; and

 

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(e) agrees that this Counterpart Agreement shall constitute a Credit Document for all purposes, including without limitation for purposes the representations and warranties made or deemed to be made by the undersigned (including without limitation the representation and warranties in Article 4 of the Credit Agreement).

Section 2 . The undersigned agrees from time to time, upon reasonable request of Administrative Agent, to take such additional actions and to execute and deliver such additional documents and instruments as Administrative Agent may reasonably request to effect the transactions contemplated by, and to carry out the intent of, this Counterpart Agreement. Neither this Counterpart Agreement nor any term hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated, except by an instrument in writing signed by the party (including, if applicable, any party required to evidence its consent to or acceptance of this Counterpart Agreement) against whom enforcement of such change, waiver, discharge or termination is sought. Any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be given pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Credit Agreement, and all for purposes thereof, the notice address of the undersigned shall be the address as set forth on the signature page hereof. In case any provision in or obligation under this Counterpart Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

THIS COUNTERPART AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the undersigned has caused this Counterpart Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by its duly authorized officer as of the date above first written.

 

[NAME OF SUBSIDIARY]
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

Address for Notices:
 

 

 

 

 

 

  Attention:
  Telecopier
with a copy to:
 

 

 

 

 

 

  Attention:
  Telecopier

ACKNOWLEDGED AND ACCEPTED,

as of the date above first written:

 

JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. ,

as Administrative Agent

By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

 

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EXHIBIT H TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

AGREED SUBORDINATION TERMS

 

1. Definitions

All capitalized terms used but not elsewhere defined in these Agreed Subordination Terms shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement (as defined below). For purposes of these Agreed Subordination Terms, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Credit Agreement ” means the Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2014, by and among OZ MANAGEMENT LP, a Delaware limited partnership, OZ ADVISORS LP, a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OZ ADVISORS II LP, a Delaware limited partnership, as a Guarantor, OCH-ZIFF FINANCE CO. LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as a Guarantor, the other Guarantors party thereto from time to time, as Guarantors, the lenders party thereto from time to time, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as Syndication Agent, and J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, as such agreement may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Obligors ” means the Credit Parties.

Paid in Full ” or “ Payment in Full ” means (i) the payment in full in cash of all Senior Indebtedness (other than contingent or indemnification obligations to which no claim has been asserted or that are not then due and payable) and (ii) the termination of all Commitments under the Credit Agreement.

Proceeding ” is defined in Section 2.3.

Senior Creditors ” means, collectively, the Beneficiaries and other holders of the Obligations.

Senior Indebtedness ” means the “Obligations” (as defined in the Credit Agreement). For the purposes of these Agreed Subordination Terms, except as otherwise provided herein, Senior Indebtedness shall be considered to be outstanding whenever any Commitment under the Credit Agreement is outstanding.

Subordinated Creditor ” means any holder of the Subordinated Indebtedness from time to time.

Subordinated Indebtedness ” means all Indebtedness of the Obligors owed to any OZ Subsidiary that is not a Credit Party, which Indebtedness shall be subject to these Agreed Subordination Terms.

Subordinated Indebtedness Documents ” means any agreements, documents, promissory notes and instruments evidencing Subordinated Indebtedness, as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

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2. Subordination of Subordinated Indebtedness to Senior Indebtedness

 

2.1 Subordination . The payment of any and all of the Subordinated Indebtedness is expressly subordinated, postponed and deferred, to the extent and in the manner set forth in these Agreed Subordination Terms, to the Payment in Full of the Senior Indebtedness. Each holder of Senior Indebtedness, whether now outstanding or hereafter arising, shall be deemed to have acquired Senior Indebtedness in reliance upon the provisions contained herein. The intent of the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, the Subordinated Creditor(s) and the relevant Obligors in agreeing to these Agreed Subordination Terms is to provide for, among other things, the express, contractual subordination, postponement and deferral of the Subordinated Indebtedness to the Senior Indebtedness to the extent provided for herein, and restrictions on the ability of the Subordinated Creditors to exercise rights and remedies in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness to the extent provided herein. The parties hereto intend that these Agreed Subordination Terms be enforceable by any applicable court under (a) the Bankruptcy Code or (b) any similar enactment or legislation.

 

2.2 Restriction on Payments . Notwithstanding any provision of the Subordinated Indebtedness Documents to the contrary and in addition to any other limitations set forth herein or therein, no payment (whether made in cash, securities or other property) of principal, interest, fees, charges or any other amount due with respect to the Subordinated Indebtedness shall be made or received, and the Subordinated Creditors shall not demand or accept any such payment or exercise any right or remedy, including any right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any Subordinated Indebtedness (other than any right or action otherwise permitted under the Agreed Subordination Terms), unless and until all of the Senior Indebtedness shall has been Paid in Full; provided that, notwithstanding anything in the Agreed Subordination Terms to the contrary, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or would occur after giving effect to any such payment on a Pro Forma Basis, until such Default or Event of Default is cured or waived in accordance with the terms of the Credit Documents (such period, the “Subordination Activation Period”), the Obligors may make, and the Subordinated Creditor shall be entitled to accept, demand and receive such payments with respect to the Subordinated Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof and may exercise any right or remedy (except as otherwise specified in the last sentence of Section 2.6), including any right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any Subordinated Indebtedness. The provisions of this Section 2.2 shall not apply to any payment with respect to which Section 2.3 would be applicable.

 

2.3

Proceedings . In the event of any insolvency, bankruptcy or liquidation proceeding, or any receivership, custodianship or assignment for the benefit of creditors or other similar proceeding, in each case with respect to any Obligor (each, a “ Proceeding ”): (i) all Senior Indebtedness shall be Paid in Full before any payment (whether made in cash, securities or other property) of or with respect to the Subordinated Indebtedness shall be made; (ii) any payment which, but for the terms hereof, otherwise would be payable or deliverable in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness shall be paid or delivered directly to the Administrative Agent (to be held and/or applied by the Administrative Agent for the benefits of the Lenders) until all Senior Indebtedness is Paid in Full, and each Subordinated Creditor irrevocably authorizes, empowers and directs all receivers, trustees, liquidators, custodians, conservators and others having authority in the premises to effect all such payments and deliveries, and each Subordinated Creditor also irrevocably authorizes, empowers and directs the Administrative Agent to demand, sue for, collect and receive every such payment or distribution; (iii) each Subordinated Creditor agrees to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent or its representative all such further instruments confirming the authorization referred to in the foregoing clause (ii) as Administrative Agent may reasonably request; and (iv) each Subordinated Creditor agrees to execute, verify, deliver and file any proofs of claim in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness reasonably requested by the

 

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  Administrative Agent in connection with any such Proceeding and irrevocably authorizes, empowers and appoints the Administrative Agent its agent and attorney-in-fact to (A) execute, verify, deliver and file such proofs of claim upon the failure of such Subordinated Creditor promptly to do so (and in any event prior to ten (10) days before the expiration of the time to file any such proof) and (B) vote such claim in any such Proceeding upon the failure of such Subordinated Creditor to do so prior to ten (10) days before the expiration of time to vote any such claim; provided that the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to execute, verify, deliver, and/or file any such proof of claim and/or vote any such claim. In the event that the Administrative Agent votes any claim in accordance with the authority granted hereby, no Subordinated Creditor shall be entitled to change or withdraw such vote. The Senior Indebtedness shall continue to be treated as Senior Indebtedness and the provisions of these Agreed Subordination Terms shall continue to govern the relative rights and priorities of the Senior Creditors and the Subordinated Creditors even if all or part of the Senior Indebtedness are subordinated, set aside, avoided or disallowed in connection with any such Proceeding and these Agreed Subordination Terms shall be reinstated if at any time any payment of any of the Senior Indebtedness is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by any holder of the Senior Indebtedness or any representative of such holder.

 

2.4 Incorrect Payments . If any payment (whether made in cash, securities or other property) not permitted under these Agreed Subordination Terms is received by a Subordinated Creditor on account of the Subordinated Indebtedness during a Subordination Activation Period before all Senior Indebtedness is Paid in Full, such payment shall be held in trust by such Subordinated Creditor for the benefit of the Senior Creditors and shall be paid over to the Administrative Agent, for application to the Senior Indebtedness then remaining unpaid, until the end of such Subordination Activation Period.

 

2.5 Sale, Transfer. Each Subordinated Creditor agrees that it shall not sell, assign, dispose of or otherwise transfer all or any portion of the Subordinated Indebtedness to any other OZ Subsidiary (or, during a Subordination Activation Period, to any Person) unless the assignee shall have executed an agreement in writing in favor of the Senior Creditors agreeing to be bound by the provisions hereof in the same manner and to the same extent as the assigning Subordinated Creditor and shall provide an executed copy of such agreement (which executed copy shall include an address for notices to the assignee) to the Administrative Agent. In the event a Subordinated Creditor shall fail to comply with this section, the subordination effected hereby shall survive any sale, assignment, disposition or other transfer of all or any portion of the Subordinated Indebtedness held by such Subordinated Creditor, and the terms of these Agreed Subordination Terms shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of such Subordinated Creditor, as provided in Section 6 below.

 

2.6

Restriction on Action by Subordinated Creditors . During a Subordination Activation Period, until all Senior Indebtedness is Paid in Full and not withstanding anything contained in the Subordinated Indebtedness Documents, the Credit Agreement, or any other Credit Documents to the contrary, no Subordinated Creditor shall, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, take any action to collect or enforce payment or, except as provided hereafter, accelerate any of the Subordinated Indebtedness, exercise any of the rights or remedies with respect to the Subordinated Indebtedness set forth in any of the Subordinated Indebtedness Documents or that otherwise may be available to such Subordinated Creditor, either at law or in equity, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, provided that the foregoing will not prevent a Subordinated Creditor from (i) accelerating any of the Subordinated Indebtedness if in any Proceeding (other than a Proceeding initiated by a Subordinated Creditor) it is necessary for such Subordinated Creditor to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Subordinated Indebtedness and (ii) filing such other papers or

 

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  documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of such Subordinated Creditor allowed in such Proceeding. Outside of a Subordination Activation Period, no Subordinated Creditor shall bring, commence, cause to be commenced, institute, prosecute, or participate in any lawsuit, action, or proceeding, whether private, judicial, equitable, administrative or otherwise to enforce its rights or interests in respect of the Subordinated Debt.

 

3. Effectiveness of these Agreed Subordination Terms; Modifications to Senior Indebtedness

These Agreed Subordination Terms shall be deemed to be a contract among the Senior Creditors, the Subordinated Creditors and the Obligors to the same extent as if all such parties had executed and delivered an agreement containing these Agreed Subordination Terms. The terms of these Agreed Subordination Terms, the subordination effected hereby, and the rights and the obligations of the Subordinated Creditors and the Senior Creditors arising hereunder, shall not be affected, modified or impaired in any manner or to any extent by: (a) any amendment or modification of or supplement to the Credit Agreement, or any other Credit Document or any Subordinated Indebtedness Document (other than these Agreed Subordination Terms); (b) the validity or enforceability of any of such agreements, documents or instruments (other than by the termination of these Agreed Subordination Terms upon the Payment in Full of the Senior Indebtedness); or (c) any exercise or non-exercise of any right, power or remedy under or in respect of the Senior Indebtedness or the Subordinated Indebtedness or any of the agreements, documents or instruments referred to in clause (a) above. The Senior Creditors together with the Obligors may at any time and from time to time without the consent of or notice to any Subordinated Creditor, without incurring liability to any Subordinated Creditor and without impairing or releasing the obligations of any Subordinated Creditor under these Agreed Subordination Terms, change the manner or place of payment or extend the time of payment of or refinance, renew, add or alter any Senior Indebtedness (including increasing the principal amount thereof, interest applicable thereto or any fee or charges), or amend, supplement, amend and restate or otherwise modify in any manner any Credit Document or any of the provisions therein contained (including, without limitation, any covenants or default provisions).

 

4. Modification

Any modification or waiver of any provision of these Agreed Subordination Terms, or any consent to any departure by the Senior Creditors or the Subordinated Creditors therefrom, shall not be effective in any event unless the same is in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent, the Obligors and each Subordinated Creditor subject hereto, and then such modification, waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose given. Any notice to or demand on a Subordinated Creditor in any event not specifically required of the Senior Creditors (or a representative thereof) hereunder shall not entitle such Subordinated Creditor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances unless specifically required hereunder.

 

5. Additional Documents and Actions

Each Subordinated Creditor at any time, and from time to time, after the execution and delivery of these Agreed Subordination Terms, upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent and at the expense of the Obligors, promptly will execute and deliver such further documents and do such further acts and things as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in order to effect fully the terms of these Agreed Subordination Terms.

 

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6. Successors and Assigns

These Agreed Subordination Terms shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Senior Creditors and, except as provided in Section 2.5, shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of the Subordinated Creditors and the Obligors.

 

7. Defines Rights of Creditors; Subrogation

 

7.1 Rights of Creditors . The provisions of these Agreed Subordination Terms are solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the Subordinated Creditors and the Senior Creditors and shall not be deemed to create any rights or priorities in favor of any other Person, including, without limitation, any Obligor.

 

7.2 Subrogation . In the event and to the extent cash, property or securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the holders of the Subordinated Indebtedness shall have been applied pursuant to these Agreed Subordination Terms to the payment of Senior Indebtedness, then and in each such event, the holders of the Subordinated Indebtedness shall be subrogated to the rights of each holder of the Senior Indebtedness to receive any further payment or distribution in respect of or applicable to the Senior Indebtedness; provided , however , that the holders of the Subordinated Indebtedness agree not to assert or enforce any such rights of subrogation it may acquire as a result of any such payment or distribution during a Subordination Activation Period until the earlier of (i) Payment in Full of all Senior Indebtedness and (ii) the end of such Subordination Activation Period. For the purposes of such subrogation, no payment or distribution to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which any holder of the Subordinated Indebtedness would be entitled except for the provisions of these Agreed Subordination Terms shall, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of these Agreed Subordination Terms to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness by the holders of the Subordinated Indebtedness shall, as between any Obligor and its creditors other than the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and the holders of the Subordinated Indebtedness, be deemed to be a payment by such Obligor to or on account of the Senior Indebtedness.

 

8. Conflict

In the event of any conflict between any term, covenant or condition of these Agreed Subordination Terms and any term, covenant or condition of any of the Subordinated Indebtedness Documents, the provisions of these Agreed Subordination Terms shall control and govern. For purposes of this Section 8, to the extent that any provisions of any of the Subordinated Indebtedness Documents provide rights, remedies and benefits to the Senior Creditors that exceed the rights, remedies and benefits provided to the Senior Creditors under these Agreed Subordination Terms, such provisions of the applicable Subordinated Indebtedness Documents shall be deemed to supplement (and not to conflict with) the provisions hereof.

 

9. Termination

These Agreed Subordination Terms shall terminate upon the Payment in Full of the Senior Indebtedness.

 

10. No Contest of Senior Indebtedness; No Security for Subordinated Indebtedness

Each Subordinated Creditor agrees that it will not at any time contest the validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of the Senior Indebtedness or accept or take any Lien or any collateral security for the Subordinated Indebtedness.

 

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11. Governing Law; Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial

 

11.1 Governing Law. THESE AGREED SUBORDINATION TERMS AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF ANY SENIOR CREDITORS, SUBORDINATED CREDITORS OR OBLIGORS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

11.2 Consent to Jurisdiction. SUBJECT TO CLAUSE (E) OF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE, ALL JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY SENIOR CREDITOR, SUBORDINATED CREDITOR OR OBLIGOR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING HERETO SHALL BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN THE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY OF NEW YORK. EACH OBLIGOR AND SUBORDINATED CREDITOR, FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES, IRREVOCABLY (A) ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH COURTS; (B) WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS; (C) AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ALL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT MAY BE MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, TO THE APPLICABLE OBLIGOR OR SUBORDINATED CREDITOR, AS THE CASE MAY BE, AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN THE CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT FROM TIME TO TIME; (D) AGREES THAT SERVICE AS PROVIDED IN CLAUSE (C) ABOVE IS SUFFICIENT TO CONFER PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE APPLICABLE OBLIGOR OR SUBORDINATED CREDITOR, AS THE CASE MAY BE, IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT; AND (E) AGREES THAT SENIOR CREDITORS RETAIN THE RIGHT TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO BRING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ANY OBLIGOR OR SUBORDINATED CREDITOR IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT.

 

11.3

WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF SENIOR CREDITORS, SUBORDINATED CREDITORS AND OBLIGORS HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING HEREUNDER OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, INCLUDING CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH OF SENIOR CREDITORS, SUBORDINATED CREDITORS AND OBLIGORS HAS ALREADY RELIED ON THIS WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN ITS RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH OF SENIOR CREDITORS, SUBORDINATED CREDITORS AND OBLIGORS FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING (OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER

 

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  SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THIS SECTION AND EXECUTED BY EACH OF SENIOR CREDITORS, SUBORDINATED CREDITORS AND OBLIGORS), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS HERETO OR TO ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS OR AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, THESE AGREED SUBORDINATION TERMS MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.

 

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EXHIBIT I TO

CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT

FORM OF RECONCILIATION STATEMENT

UNAUDITED RECONCILIATION OF FINANCIAL DATA

The following tables present the historical unaudited financial information for the Och-Ziff Operating Group and its consolidated subsidiaries as of and for the [year-to-date] ended [ ]. The Och-Ziff Operating Group does not report audited or unaudited financial information on a stand-alone basis. Accordingly, the financial data presented herein for the Och-Ziff Operating Group and its consolidated subsidiaries has been reconciled to Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC’s financial statements for the relevant periods.

You should read this data in conjunction with Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC’s financial statements and the related notes incorporated by reference herein.

 

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     [Period] Ended [ ]  
     Och-Ziff
Operating Group
     Consolidated
Och-Ziff Funds
and Related
Eliminations
     Other (1)      Och-Ziff Capital
Management
Group LLC
Consolidated
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Revenues

           

Management fees

   $                    $                    $                    $                

Incentive income

           

Other revenues

           

Income of consolidated Och-Ziff funds

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Revenues

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Expenses

           

Compensation and benefits

           

Reorganization expenses

           

Interest expense

           

General, administrative and other

           

Expenses of consolidated Och-Ziff funds

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Expenses

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Other Income

           

Net gains on investments in Och-Ziff funds and joint ventures

           

Net gains of consolidated Och-Ziff funds

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Other Income

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income Before Income Taxes

           

Income taxes

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Consolidated and Total Comprehensive Net Income

   $         $         $         $     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Allocation of Consolidated and Total Comprehensive Net Income

           

Class A Shareholders

   $         $         $         $     

Noncontrolling interests

           

Redeemable noncontrolling interests

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $         $         $         $     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1) Includes amounts related to entities not included in the Och-Ziff Operating Group or the consolidated Och-Ziff funds, including related eliminations.

 

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     As of [ ]  
     Och-Ziff
Operating Group
     Consolidated
Och-Ziff Funds
and Related
Eliminations
     Other (1)      Och-Ziff Capital
Management
Group LLC
Consolidated
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Assets

           

Cash and cash equivalents

   $                    $                    $                    $                

Income and fees receivable

           

Due from related parties

           

Deferred income tax assets

           

Other assets, net

           

Assets of consolidated Och-Ziff funds:

           

Investments, at fair value

           

Other assets of Och-Ziff funds

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Assets

   $         $         $         $     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity

           

Liabilities

           

Due to related parties

   $         $         $         $     

Debt obligations

           

Compensation payable

           

Other liabilities

           

Liabilities of consolidated Och-Ziff funds:

           

Notes payable of consolidated CLOs, at fair value

           

Securities sold under agreements to repurchase

           

Other liabilities of Och-Ziff funds

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Liabilities

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests

           

Shareholders’ Equity

           

Class A Shares, no par value

           

Class B Shares, no par value

           

Paid-in capital

           

Appropriated retained earnings

           

Retained earnings (accumulated deficit)

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Shareholders’ equity (deficit) attributable to Class A Shareholders

           

Shareholders’ equity attributable to noncontrolling interests

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Shareholders’ Equity

           
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Liabilities, Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests and Shareholders’ Equity

   $         $         $         $     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1) Includes amounts related to entities not included in the Och-Ziff Operating Group or the consolidated Och-Ziff funds, including related eliminations.

 

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