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): April 3, 2017
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 1-16463 | 13-4004153 | ||
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
701 Market Street, St. Louis, Missouri | 63101-1826 | |
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (ZIP Code) |
Registrants telephone number, including area code: (314) 342-3400
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Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement |
Plan of Reorganization
As previously disclosed, on April 13, 2016, Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (Peabody Energy or the Company), and a majority of the Companys wholly owned domestic subsidiaries, as well as one international subsidiary in Gibraltar (collectively with the Company, the Debtors), filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the U.S. Code (the Bankruptcy Code) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (the Bankruptcy Court). The Debtors Chapter 11 cases (the Chapter 11 Cases) were jointly administered under the caption In re Peabody Energy Corporation, et al. , Case No. 16-42529.
On March 17, 2017, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order, Docket No. 2763 (the Confirmation Order), confirming the Debtors Second Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of Debtors and Debtors in Possession as revised March 15, 2017 (the Plan). Copies of the Confirmation Order and the Plan were included as exhibits to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) on March 20, 2017.
On April 3, 2017, (the Effective Date), the Company satisfied the conditions to effectiveness set forth in the Confirmation Order and in the Plan, the Plan became effective in accordance with its terms and the Company and the other Debtors emerged from the Chapter 11 Cases. All capitalized terms used herein but not otherwise defined in this Current Report on Form 8-K have the meanings set forth in the Plan.
Registration Rights Agreement
On the Effective Date, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement (the Registration Rights Agreement) with certain parties (together with any person or entity that becomes a party to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Holders) that received shares of the Companys new common stock (the Common Stock) and new Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the Preferred Stock) in the Company on the Effective Date as provided in the Plan. The Registration Rights Agreement provides Holders with registration rights for the Holders Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement).
Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company is required to file a Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) with respect to the Registrable Securities within 30 days of the Effective Date. Subject to limited exceptions, the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of any such registration statement until the Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement have been disposed of or are no longer Registrable Securities.
In addition, specified Holders have the right to demand that the Company effect the registration of any or all of the Registrable Securities (a Demand Registration) and/or effectuate the distribution of any or all of their Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten shelf takedown offering. The Company is not obligated to effect more than four Demand Registrations or more than four underwritten shelf takedown offerings in any twelve-month period, and it need not comply with such a request unless the aggregate gross proceeds from such a sale will exceed $25 million. The Company will not be obligated to effect an underwritten shelf takedown within 90 days after the consummation of a previous underwritten shelf takedown or Demand Registration.
Holders also have customary piggyback registration rights, subject to the limitations set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.
These registration rights are subject to certain conditions and limitations, including the right of the underwriters to limit the number of shares to be included in a registration statement and the Companys right to delay or withdraw a registration statement under certain circumstances. The Company will generally pay all registration expenses in connection with its obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement, regardless of whether a registration statement is filed or becomes effective. The registration rights granted in the Registration Rights Agreement are subject to customary indemnification and contribution provisions, as well as customary restrictions such as blackout periods.
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The foregoing description of the Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Registration Rights Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
Preferred Stock
The information set forth under Item 3.02 and Item 5.03 below is incorporated by reference into this section.
Warrant Agreement
On the Effective Date, the Company entered into a warrant agreement (the Warrant Agreement) with American Stock Transfer and Trust Company, LLC. In accordance with the Plan, the Company issued 6,210,000 warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 6,210,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share (the Warrants) to all Noteholder Co-Proponents (as defined in the Plan) and subscribers in the Rights Offering (as defined in the Plan) and related backstop commitment.
All unexercised Warrants will expire, and the rights of the holders of such Warrants to purchase Common Stock will terminate, on the date that is 90 days after the Effective Date, or if such date falls on a date other than a business day, on the next succeeding business day, which is July 3, 2017.
The Warrant Agreement provides that nothing contained therein will be construed as conferring upon any holder of Warrants or his, her or its transferees the right to vote or to receive dividends or distributions (except as otherwise expressly provided therein) or to consent or to receive notice as a stockholder in respect of any meeting of stockholders for the election of directors of the Company or of any other matter, or any rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company.
The number of shares of Common Stock for which a Warrant is exercisable, and the exercise price per share of such Warrant, is subject to adjustment from time to time upon the occurrence of specified events, including: (1) the subdivision or combination of the Common Stock into a greater or lesser number of shares (2) the payment of a dividend on the Common Stock and (3) certain forms of tender offers or exchange offers made by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as specified in the Warrant Agreement.
In connection with any Organic Change (as defined in the Warrant Agreement) prior to the expiration of the exercise period, the Company will make appropriate provision to ensure that the holders of the Warrants have the right to acquire and receive, upon exercise of the Warrants, the cash, stock, securities or other assets or property as would have been issued or payable in such Organic Change with respect to, or in exchange for, as applicable, the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued upon exercise of such Warrants, if such Warrants had been exercised immediately prior to the occurrence of such Organic Change.
The foregoing description of the Warrant Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Warrant Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
2022 and 2025 Notes
As previously disclosed, on February 15, 2017, Peabody Securities Finance Corporation (PSFC), a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into an indenture (the Indenture) between PSFC and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee), relating to the issuance by PSFC of $500.0 million aggregate principal amount of 6.000% senior secured notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes) and $500.0 million aggregate principal amount of 6.375% senior secured notes due 2025 (together with the 2022 Notes, the Notes). The Notes were sold on February 15, 2017 in a private transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act).
Prior to the Effective Date, PSFC deposited the net proceeds of the offering of the Notes, together with additional funds deposited by the Company, into an escrow account pending confirmation of the Plan and certain other conditions being satisfied. On the Effective Date, the net proceeds from the offering were released from
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escrow to the Company and the Company became a co-obligor of the Notes by executing a supplemental indenture, dated as of April 3, 2017 (the First Supplemental Indenture), among the Company, PSFC, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and the Trustee, and, thereafter, became the sole issuer of the Notes upon the merger of PSFC with and into the Company pursuant to the Certificate of Ownership and Merger, dated as of April 3, 2017, with the Company as the surviving corporation (the Assumption).
Upon the Assumption, the Notes became jointly and severally and fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior secured basis by substantially all of the Companys material domestic subsidiaries and secured by first priority liens over (1) substantially all of the assets of the Company and the guarantors, except for certain excluded assets, (2) 100% of the capital stock of each domestic restricted subsidiary of the Company, (3) 100% of the non-voting capital stock of each first tier foreign subsidiary of the Company or a foreign subsidiary holding company and no more than 65% of the voting capital stock of each first tier foreign subsidiary of the Company or a foreign subsidiary holding company, (4) a legal charge of 65% of the voting capital stock and 100% of the non-voting capital stock of Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited and (5) all intercompany debt owed to the Company or any guarantor, in each case, subject to certain exceptions, including that the Notes and guarantees are secured by second priority liens on certain collateral pledged under the Credit Agreement (as defined below).
The foregoing description of the Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Indenture, a copy of which is incorporated as Exhibit 4.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein, and the full text of the First Supplemental Indenture, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 4.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
Credit Agreement
As previously disclosed, on January 11, 2017, the Debtors obtained an exit facility commitment letter (the Exit Facility Commitment Letter) from Goldman Sachs Bank USA (Goldman Sachs), JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JPMorgan), Credit Suisse AG (acting through such of its affiliates or branches as it deems appropriate, CS), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (CS Securities and, together with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, the Arrangers), Macquarie Capital Funding LLC (together with Goldman Sachs, CS and JPMorgan, the Initial Lenders) and Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. (collectively with the Arrangers and the Initial Lenders, the Commitment Parties), pursuant to which, in connection with the consummation of the Plan, the Initial Lenders agreed to provide a senior secured term loan facility in an aggregate amount of $1.5 billion, less the aggregate principal amount of privately placed debt securities of the Company, or special purpose escrow issuer, issued on or prior to the closing date of the term loan facility (the Closing Date), plus any amount of additional senior secured term loans funded on the Closing Date at the sole discretion of the Arrangers and the Company.
On April 3, 2017, the Company entered into the Credit Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Company, as Borrower, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Administrative Agent, and the other lenders party thereto (the Credit Agreement) as contemplated by the Exit Facility Commitment Letter. The Credit Agreement provides for a $950 million senior secured term loan, matures in 2022 and bears interest at a fluctuating rate of LIBOR plus 4.50% per annum with a 1.00% LIBOR floor.
The foregoing description of the Exit Facility Commitment Letter and the Credit Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Exit Facility Commitment Letter, a copy of which is incorporated as Exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein, and the full text of the Credit Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 10.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
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Securitization Facility
As previously disclosed, on January 27, 2017, the Company and P&L Receivables Company, LLC (P&L Receivables) obtained a commitment letter (as amended, the Receivables Commitment Letter) from PNC Bank, National Association (PNC), pursuant to which, in connection with the consummation of the Plan, PNC agreed to amend the existing securitization facility evidenced by the Fifth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 25, 2016, among P&L Receivables, as the seller, the Company, as the servicer, the sub-servicers party thereto, the various purchasers and purchaser agents party thereto and PNC, as administrator, in order to, among other things, (1) increase the purchase limit to an amount not to exceed $250.0 million, (2) extend the facility termination date, and (3) add certain Australian subsidiaries of the Company as originators.
On the Effective Date, the Company entered into the Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017 (the Receivables Purchase Agreement), among P&L Receivables, as the seller, the Company, as the servicer, the sub-servicers party thereto, the various purchasers and purchaser agents party thereto and PNC, as administrator. The Receivables Purchase Agreement effectuates the terms of the Receivables Commitment Letter.
The foregoing description of the Receivables Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Receivables Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 10.4 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
Item 1.02 | Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement |
Cancellation of Prepetition Obligations
In accordance with the Plan, on the Effective Date all of the obligations of the Debtors with respect to the following debt instruments were cancelled:
| Indenture governing $1,000.0 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Companys 10.00% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2022, dated as of March 16, 2015, among the Company, U.S. Bank National Association (U.S. Bank), as trustee and collateral agent, and the guarantors named therein, as supplemented; |
| Indenture governing $650.0 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Companys 6.50% Senior Notes due 2020, dated as of March 19, 2004, among the Company, U.S. Bank, as trustee, and the guarantors named therein, as supplemented; |
| Indenture governing $1,518.8 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Companys 6.00% Senior Notes due 2018, dated as of November 15, 2011, among the Company, U.S. Bank, as trustee, and the guarantors named therein, as supplemented; |
| Indenture governing $1,339.6 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Companys 6.25% Senior Notes due 2021, dated as of November 15, 2011, by and among the Company, U.S. Bank, as trustee, and the guarantors named therein, as supplemented; |
| Indenture governing $250.0 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Companys 7.875% Senior Notes due 2026, dated as of March 19, 2004, among the Company, U.S. Bank, as trustee, and the guarantors named therein, as supplemented; |
| Subordinated Indenture governing $732.5 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Companys Convertible Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2066, dated as of December 20, 2006, among the Company and U.S. Bank, as trustee, as supplemented; and |
| Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, as amended and restated as of September 24, 2013, related to $1,170.0 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of term loans under a term loan facility and $1,650.0 million under a revolving credit facility, which includes approximately $675 million of posted but undrawn letters of credit and approximately $947 million in outstanding borrowings, by and among the Company, Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent, swing line lender and letter of credit issuer, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., PNC Capital Markets LLC and RBS Securities Inc., as joint lead arrangers and joint book managers, and the lender parties thereto, as amended by that certain Omnibus Amendment Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2015. |
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Cancellation of Prior Common Stock
In accordance with the Plan, each share of the Companys common stock outstanding prior to the Effective Date, including all options and warrants to purchase such stock, were extinguished, canceled and discharged, and each such share, option or warrant has no further force or effect after the Effective Date. Furthermore, all of the Companys equity award agreements under prior incentive plans, and the awards granted pursuant thereto, were extinguished, canceled and discharged and have no further force or effect after the Effective Date.
Item 3.02 | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities |
On the Effective Date, in connection with the Companys emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and in reliance on the exemption from registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Section 1145 of the Bankruptcy Code, the Company issued:
| 11,636,980 shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the initial distribution of Common Stock to holders of Allowed Claims in Classes 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D and 5B on account of such claims as provided in the Plan; and |
| 51,225,813 shares of Common Stock and approximately 2,915,990 Warrants (the 1145 Warrants) issued pursuant to the completed Rights Offering to certain holders of the Companys pre-petition indebtedness for total consideration of approximately $704 million. |
Any shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the exercise of such 1145 Warrants will similarly be issued pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Section 1145 of the Bankruptcy Code.
In addition, on the Effective Date, in connection with the Companys emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases and in reliance on the exemption from registration requirements of the Securities Act provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, the Company issued:
| 29,999,999 shares of Preferred Stock issued to specified parties to the Private Placement Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2016 (as amended, the Private Placement Agreement), among the Company and the other parties thereto, for total consideration of $750 million; |
| 3,319,641 shares of Common Stock and approximately 188,979 Warrants (the Private Warrants) issued to specified parties to the Backstop Commitment Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2016 (as amended, the Backstop Commitment Agreement), among the Company and the other parties thereto, on account of their commitments under that agreement, for total consideration of $46 million; and |
| 4,799,813 shares of Common Stock and 3,105,000 Private Warrants to specified parties to the Private Placement Agreement and Backstop Commitment Agreement on account of commitment premiums contemplated by those agreements. |
Any shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the conversion of the Preferred Stock or the exercise of such Private Warrants will be issued pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Section 3(a)(9) and/or Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.
The securities issued in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act are subject to restrictions on transfer unless otherwise registered under the Securities Act.
Item 3.03 | Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders |
The information set forth under Item 1.01, Item 1.02 above and Item 5.03 below is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.03.
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Item 5.01 | Changes in Control of Registrant |
The information set forth under Item 1.01 above and Item 5.02 below is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.01.
Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers |
Board of Directors
In accordance with the Plan, on the Effective Date, William A. Coley, William E. James, Robert B. Karn, III, Henry E. Lentz, William C. Rusnack, John F. Turner, Sandra A Van Trease, and Heather A. Wilson ceased to be members of the Companys board of Directors (the Board).
As previously disclosed, and in accordance with the Plan, on the Effective Date, the Board was constituted with nine members. The Companys eight independent directors were selected as follows: (1) the Debtors designated one; (2) Contrarian Capital Management Corp. (Contrarian), PointState Capital Management, LP (PointState), and Panning Capital Management, LP (Panning) together designated one; (3) Elliott Management Corp. (Elliott) designated one; and (4) a selection committee comprising the Companys chief executive officer, a representative of Elliott and one nominee acting on behalf of Contrarian, PointState and Panning agreed on the retention of a search firm to identify and recommend the remaining five, which were then selected by the committee.
The following are the members of the Board as of the Effective Date: Nicholas J. Chirekos, Stephen E. Gorman, Glenn L. Kellow, Joe W. Laymon, Teresa S. Madden, Robert A. Malone, Kenneth W. Moore, Michael W. Sutherlin and Shaun A. Usmar.
All directors are in one class and serve for a term ending at the annual meeting following the annual meeting at which the director was elected. The current class of directors will be subject to reelection at the Companys 2018 annual meeting.
The audit committee currently consists of Teresa S. Madden (chair), Nicholas J. Chirekos and Kenneth W. Moore. The compensation committee currently consists of Joe W. Laymon (chair). The nominating and corporate governance committee consists of Shaun A. Usmar, Joe W. Laymon and Kenneth W. Moore.
There are no transactions in which any member of the Board has an interest that requires disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act.
Indemnification Agreements
The previous Board approved a form of indemnification agreement (the Indemnification Agreement) to be entered into by all of the members of the new Board and the Companys executive officers. The Indemnification Agreement provides for the mandatory advancement and reimbursement of reasonable expenses (subject to limited exceptions) incurred by indemnitees in various legal proceedings in which they may be involved by reason of their service as directors or officers, as applicable, as permitted by Delaware law and the Companys Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the Charter). Each executive officer listed in Exhibit 10.4 has entered into an Indemnification Agreement and the Company anticipates that each director will each enter into an Indemnification Agreement.
The foregoing description of the Indemnification Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the form of Indemnification Agreement, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 10.5 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
2017 Incentive Compensation Plan
In accordance with the Plan, the Peabody Energy Corporation 2017 Incentive Plan (the 2017 Incentive Plan) became effective as of the Effective Date. The 2017 Incentive Plan is intended to, among other things, help
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attract and retain employees and directors upon whom, in large measure, the Company depends for sustained progress, growth and profitability. The 2017 Incentive Plan also permits awards to consultants. By encouraging employees, consultants and directors of the Company and its subsidiaries to acquire a proprietary interest in the Companys growth and performance, the 2017 Incentive Plan is intended to motivate employees, consultants and directors to achieve Company goals and to more closely align such persons interests with those of the Companys other stockholders.
Unless otherwise determined by the Board, the Compensation Committee (the Committee) will administer the 2017 Incentive Plan. The 2017 Incentive Plan generally provides for the following types of awards:
| options (including non-qualified stock options and incentive stock options); |
| stock appreciation rights; |
| restricted stock; |
| restricted stock units; |
| deferred stock; |
| performance units; |
| dividend equivalents; and |
| cash incentive awards. |
The aggregate number of shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2017 Incentive Plan is 14,092,376. The 2017 Incentive Plan will remain in effect, subject to the right of the Board to terminate the Plan at any time, subject to certain restrictions, until the earlier to occur of (a) the date all shares of common stock subject to the 2017 Incentive Plan are purchased or acquired and the restrictions on all restricted stock granted under the 2017 Incentive Plan have lapsed, according to the 2017 Incentive Plans provisions, and (b) ten years from the Effective Date.
Unless otherwise set forth in the applicable award agreement, upon the occurrence of (a) an event satisfying the definition of Change in Control (as defined in the 2017 Incentive Plan) with respect to a particular award, and (b) during the two year period immediately following such event, an involuntary termination of service of a grantee who holds an award either (i) by the grantee for good reason (as may be defined in the applicable award agreement) or (ii) by the Company for a reason other than Cause (as defined in the 2017 Incentive Plan), then such award will become fully vested, all restrictions will lapse and all performance goals will be deemed to be met at target levels, as applicable; provided that no payment of an award will be accelerated to the extent such payment would cause such award to be subject to the adverse consequences described in Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). The Committee may, in its discretion, include such further provisions and limitations in any award agreement as it may deem desirable.
In order to maintain the grantees rights with respect to an award upon the occurrence of a Change in Control in which such award is assumed by the acquiring or surviving entity, the Committee will, unless otherwise set forth in an applicable award agreement, either (a) make such adjustment to any such award then outstanding as the Committee deems appropriate to reflect such Change in Control or (b) cause any such award to be substituted for new rights, by the acquiring or surviving entity after such Change in Control. In order to maintain the grantees rights with respect to an award upon the occurrence of a Change in Control in which such award is not to be assumed by the acquiring or surviving entity, the Committee will, unless otherwise set forth in an applicable award agreement, cause such award to be canceled in exchange for consideration (whether in cash or other property) based on the price paid per share of Common Stock as part of the transaction which constitutes the Change in Control; provided, that such cancellation and payment complies with Section 409A of the Code. In addition, for each option or stock appreciation right with an option price or strike price, respectively, that is greater than the price paid per share of Common Stock as part of the transaction which constitutes the Change in Control, the Committee may cancel such award without any payment therefor.
Grant of Emergence Awards
On the Effective Date, the Company granted restricted stock units under the 2017 Incentive Plan and the terms of the relevant restricted stock unit agreement to employees, including its executive officers, covering an
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aggregate of 2,941,731 shares of Common Stock (the Emergence Awards). The Emergence Awards granted to our executive officers generally will vest ratably on each of the first three anniversaries of the Effective Date, subject to, among other things, each such executive officers continued employment with the Company. The Emergence Awards will become fully vested upon each such executive officers termination of employment by the Company and its subsidiaries without Cause or by the executive for Good Reason (each, as defined in the award agreement) or due to a termination of employment with the Company and its subsidiaries by reason of death or Disability (as defined in the award agreement).
In order to receive the Emergence Awards, the executive officers must execute a restrictive covenant agreement (a Restrictive Covenant Agreement) which requires the recipient to: (1) maintain the confidentiality of the Companys confidential information, (2) not compete with the Company during the term of employment and for a period of twelve months thereafter, and (3) not solicit the Companys employees or customers during the period of employment and for a period of twelve months thereafter.
The foregoing description of the 2017 Incentive Plan, Restricted Stock Unit Agreements and Restrictive Covenant Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the 2017 Incentive Plan, the full text of the Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement, and the full text of the Form of Restrictive Covenant Agreement, copies of which are included as Exhibits 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
Other Items
Also, in connection with the Companys emergence from the Chapter 11 Cases, Mr. Kellow executed the standard participation agreement for the Peabody Energy Corporation 2015 Amended and Restated Executive Severance Plan (the Executive Severance Plan), commiserate with the Companys previously disclosed intent for its executives to transition from employment agreements to its Executive Severance Plan. Mr. Kellows participation in the Executive Severance Plan will be upon terms materially consistent with the previously disclosed terms of the plan. None of the Companys executive officers are parties to employment agreements and, with the addition of Mr. Kellow, all of the Companys executive officers are now covered by the Executive Severance Plan.
Item 5.03 | Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year |
The Charter, Certificate of Designation of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock attached thereto (Certificate of Designation), and Amended and Restated Bylaws (the Bylaws) in the forms contemplated by the Plan became effective on the Effective Date. The Charter authorizes the Company to issue: up to 450,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 70,982,247 shares were or will be issued pursuant to the Plan on the Effective Date and up to 100,000,000 shares of preferred stock, of which 50,000,000 shares are designated as Series A Convertible Stock and of which 30,000,000 were issued pursuant to the Plan on the Effective Date.
A description of the key provisions of the Charter, Certificate of Designation and Bylaws is included in the Companys registration statement on Form 8-A filed with the SEC on April 3, 2017, which description is incorporated by reference herein.
This description is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Charter, Certificate of Designation and Bylaws, copies of which are included as Exhibits 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure |
On April 3, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing the Effective Date of the Plan. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
The information set forth in and incorporated into this Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is being furnished pursuant to Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that
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section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any of the Companys filings under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof and regardless of any general incorporation language in such filings, except to the extent expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing. The filing of this Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K shall not be deemed an admission as to the materiality of any information herein that is required to be disclosed solely by reason of Regulation FD.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include statements that relate to the intent, beliefs, plans or expectations of the Company or its management at the time of this Current Report, as well as any estimates or projections for the outcome of events that have not yet occurred at the time of this Current Report. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include expressions such as believe anticipate, expect, estimate, intend, may, plan, predict, will and similar terms and expressions. All forward-looking statements made by the Company are predictions and not guarantees of future performance and are subject to various risks, uncertainties and factors relating to the Companys operations and business environment, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Companys control. These risks, uncertainties and factors could cause the Companys actual results to differ materially from those matters expressed in or implied by these forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: those described under the Risk Factors section and elsewhere in the Companys most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the SEC, which are available on the Companys website at www.peabodyenergy.com and on the SECs website at www.sec.gov, such as unfavorable economic, financial and business conditions. Factors that could affect the Companys results or an investment in its securities include, but are not limited to:
| competition in the energy market and supply and demand for the Companys products, including the impact of alternative energy sources, such as natural gas and renewables; |
| global steel demand and the downstream impact on metallurgical coal prices, and lower demand for the Companys products by electric power generators; |
| customer procurement practices and contract duration; |
| the impact of weather and natural disasters on demand, production and transportation; |
| reductions and/or deferrals of purchases by major customers and the Companys ability to renew sales contracts; |
| credit and performance risks associated with customers, suppliers, contract miners, co-shippers, and trading, bank and other financial counterparties; |
| geologic, equipment, permitting, site access, operational risks and new technologies related to mining; |
| transportation availability, performance and costs; |
| availability, timing of delivery and costs of key supplies, capital equipment or commodities such as diesel fuel, steel, explosives and tires; |
| impact of take-or-pay arrangements for rail and port commitments for the delivery of coal; |
| successful implementation of business strategies, including, without limitation, the actions the Company is implementing to improve its organization and respond to current conditions; |
| negotiation of labor contracts, employee relations and workforce availability, including, without limitation, attracting and retaining key personnel; |
| changes in post-retirement benefit and pension obligations and their related funding requirements; |
| replacement and development of coal reserves; |
| effects of changes in interest rates and currency exchange rates (primarily the Australian dollar); |
| effects of acquisitions or divestitures; |
| the Companys ability to successfully consummate planned divestitures, including the planned sale of all of its equity interests in Metropolitan Collieries Pty Ltd, the entity that owns the Metropolitan coal mine in New South Wales, Australia (the Metropolitan Mine); |
| economic strength and political stability of countries in which the Company has operations or serve customers; |
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| legislation, regulations and court decisions or other government actions, including, but not limited to, new environmental and mine safety requirements, changes in income tax regulations, sales-related royalties, or other regulatory taxes and changes in derivative laws and regulations; |
| the Companys ability to obtain and renew permits necessary for its operations; |
| the Companys ability to appropriately secure its requirements for reclamation, federal and state workers compensation, federal coal leases and other obligations related to the Companys operations, including its ability to utilize self-bonding and/or successfully access the commercial surety bond market; |
| litigation or other dispute resolution, including, but not limited to, claims not yet asserted; |
| terrorist attacks or security threats, including, but not limited to, cybersecurity breaches; |
| impacts of pandemic illnesses; |
| any lack of an established market for certain of the Companys securities, including its Preferred Stock, and potential dilution of its Common Stock due to future issuances of equity securities; |
| price volatility in the Companys securities; |
| short-sales in the Companys Common Stock; and |
| any conflicts of interest between the Companys significant stockholders and other holders of its capital stock. |
In addition, such factors include the following related to the Companys capital structure:
| the Companys ability to generate sufficient cash to service all of its indebtedness; |
| the Companys debt instruments and capital structure placing certain limits on its ability to pay dividends and repurchase Common Stock; and |
| the Companys ability to comply with financial and other restrictive covenants in various agreements, including its debt instruments. |
Forward-looking statements made by the Company in this Current Report, or elsewhere, speak only as of the date on which the statements were made. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all of these events or how they may affect it or its anticipated results. The Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements except as may be required by law. In light of these risks and uncertainties, readers should keep in mind that the events referenced by any forward-looking statements made in this Current Report may not occur and should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.
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Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit
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Description |
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3.1 | Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation | |
3.2 | Certificate of Designation of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock | |
3.3 | Amended and Restated Bylaws | |
4.1 | Warrant Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Registrant and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC | |
4.2 | Indenture, dated as of February 15, 2017, between the Peabody Securities Finance Corporation (merged with and into the Registrant on April 3, 2017) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrants Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 15, 2017) | |
4.3 | First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Registrant, Peabody Securities Finance Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee | |
10.1 | Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Registrant and the stockholders party thereto | |
10.2 | Exit Facility Commitment Letter entered into as of January 11, 2017, by and among the Registrant, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Credit Suisse AG, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Macquarie Capital Funding LLC and Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrants Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 12, 2017) | |
10.3 | Credit Agreement dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Registrant, as Borrower, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Administrative Agent, and the other lenders party thereto | |
10.4 | Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 3 2017, by and among P&L Receivables Company, LLC, Peabody Energy Corporation, the various Sub-Servicers listed on the signature pages thereto, all Conduit Purchasers listed on the signature pages thereto, all Committed Purchasers listed on the signature pages thereto, all Purchaser Agents listed on the signature pages thereto, all LC Participants listed on the signature pages thereto, and PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrator and as LC Bank | |
10.5 | Form of Indemnification Agreement | |
10.6 | Peabody Energy Corporation 2017 Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 of the Registrants Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed April 3, 2017) | |
10.7 | Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement | |
10.8 | Form of Restrictive Covenant Agreement under the Peabody Energy Corporation 2017 Incentive Plan | |
99.1 | Press Release |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION | ||||||||
April 3, 2017 | By: |
/s/ A. Verona Dorch |
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Name: | A. Verona Dorch | |||||||
Title: | Chief Legal Officer |
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
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Description |
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3.1 | Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation | |
3.2 | Certificate of Designation of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock | |
3.3 | Amended and Restated Bylaws | |
4.1 | Warrant Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Registrant and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC | |
4.2 | Indenture, dated as of February 15, 2017, between the Peabody Securities Finance Corporation (merged with and into the Registrant on April 3, 2017) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registrants Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 15, 2017) | |
4.3 | First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Registrant, Peabody Securities Finance Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee | |
10.1 | Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Registrant and the stockholders party thereto | |
10.2 | Exit Facility Commitment Letter entered into as of January 11, 2017, by and among the Registrant, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Credit Suisse AG, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Macquarie Capital Funding LLC and Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrants Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 12, 2017) | |
10.3 | Credit Agreement dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Registrant, as Borrower, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Administrative Agent, and the other lenders party thereto | |
10.4 | Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 3 2017, by and among P&L Receivables Company, LLC, Peabody Energy Corporation, the various Sub-Servicers listed on the signature pages thereto, all Conduit Purchasers listed on the signature pages thereto, all Committed Purchasers listed on the signature pages thereto, all Purchaser Agents listed on the signature pages thereto, all LC Participants listed on the signature pages thereto, and PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrator and as LC Bank | |
10.5 | Form of Indemnification Agreement | |
10.6 | Peabody Energy Corporation 2017 Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 of the Registrants Registration Statement on Form S-8, filed April 3, 2017) | |
10.7 | Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement | |
10.8 | Form of Restrictive Covenant Agreement under the Peabody Energy Corporation 2017 Incentive Plan | |
99.1 | Press Release |
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Exhibit 3.1
FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
Adopted March 3, 2017 to be effective April 3, 2017
The name of the corporation is Peabody Energy Corporation. The original Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on February 27, 1998 under the name P&L Coal Holdings Corporation. This Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted and is being filed in accordance with Sections 242, 245 and 303 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. This Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is being filed pursuant to an order for relief with respect to the Corporation, which order for relief was entered in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on March 17, 2017.
FIRST: The name of the corporation is Peabody Energy Corporation.
SECOND: The registered office and registered agent of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware 19808.
THIRD: The purposes of the Corporation are to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
FOURTH : (1) The total number of shares of all classes of stock that the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is 600,000,000 shares, consisting of 450,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Common Stock), 100,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Preferred Stock), of which 50,000,000 are designated as Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, having the description set forth in the related Certificate of Designation of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of Peabody Energy Corporation to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on April 3, 2017 (the Series A Certificate of Designations), and 50,000,000 shares of Series Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (Series Common Stock). The number of authorized shares of any of the Preferred Stock, the Common Stock or the Series Common Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (or any successor provision thereto), and no vote of the holders of any of the Preferred Stock, the Common Stock or the Series Common Stock voting separately as a class shall be required therefor.
(2) The Board of Directors is hereby expressly authorized, by resolution or resolutions, to provide, out of the unissued shares of Preferred Stock, for series of Preferred Stock and, with respect to each such series, to fix the number of shares constituting such series and the designation of such series, the voting powers (if any) of the shares of such series, and the preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the shares of such series. The powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of each series of Preferred Stock, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, may differ from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding.
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(3) The Board of Directors is hereby expressly authorized, by resolution or resolutions, to provide, out of the unissued shares of Series Common Stock, for series of Series Common Stock and, with respect to each such series, to fix the number of shares constituting such series and the designation of such series, the voting powers (if any) of the shares of such series, and the preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the shares of such series. The powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of each series of Series Common Stock, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, may differ from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding.
(4) (a) Each holder of Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock held of record by such holder on all matters on which stockholders generally are entitled to vote; provided, however, that, except as otherwise required by law, holders of Common Stock, as such, shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including the Series A Certificate of Designations and any additional certificate of designations relating to any series of Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including the Series A Certificate of Designations and any additional certificate of designations relating to any series of Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock) or pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
(b) Except as otherwise required by law, holders of any series of Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled only to such voting rights, if any, as shall expressly be granted thereto by this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including the Series A Certificate of Designations and any additional certificate of designations relating to such series).
(c) Subject to applicable law and the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock or any class or series of stock having a preference over or the right to participate with the Common Stock with respect to the payment of dividends, dividends may be declared and paid on the Common Stock at such times and in such amounts as the Board of Directors in its discretion shall determine.
(d) Upon the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, subject to the rights, if any, of the holders of any outstanding series of Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock or any class or series of stock having a preference over or the right to participate with the Common Stock with respect to the distribution of assets of the Corporation upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of the Common Stock, as such, shall be entitled to receive the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders ratably in proportion to the number of shares held by them.
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(5) The Corporation may not issue non-voting equity securities of any class, series or other designation to the extent prohibited by Section 1123(a)(6) of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (11 U.S.C. §§ 101-1330), as amended (the Bankruptcy Code); provided, however, that the foregoing restriction (i) shall have no further force and effect beyond that required under such Section 1123(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code nor after such Section 1123(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code no longer applies to the Corporation, and (ii) may be amended or eliminated in accordance with applicable laws as from time to time may be in effect.
FIFTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred upon it by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the Board of Directors shall have the power to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors at which a quorum is present in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware, subject to the power of the stockholders to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the By-Laws made by the Board of Directors. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to the contrary, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75 percent in voting power of all the shares of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required in order for the stockholders to adopt, amend, alter or repeal any provision of the By-Laws which is to the same effect as this Article FIFTH and Article EIGHTH of this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or to adopt any provision inconsistent therewith.
SIXTH: The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of a Board of Directors. Procedures for the election of members of the Board of Directors, including the requirements for nominating directors, will be as set forth in the By-Laws of the Corporation, as they may be amended from time to time.
SEVENTH : To the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware:
(1) The Corporation shall indemnify any person (and such persons heirs, executors or administrators) who was or is a patty or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (brought in the right of the Corporation or otherwise), whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, and whether formal or informal, including appeals, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited liability company or other enterprise, for and against all expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person or such persons heirs, executors or administrators in connection
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with such action, suit or proceeding, including appeals. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify a person described in such sentence in connection with any action, suit or proceeding (or part thereof) commenced by such person only if the commencement of such action, suit or proceeding (or part thereof) by such person was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The Corporation may indemnify any person (and such persons heirs, executors or administrators) who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (brought in the right of the Corporation or otherwise), whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, and whether formal or informal, including appeals, by reason of the fact that such person is or was an employee or agent of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited liability company or other enterprise, for and against all expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person or such persons heirs, executors or administrators in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, including appeals.
(2) The Corporation shall promptly pay expenses incurred by any person described in the first sentence of Section (1) of this Article SEVENTH in defending any action, suit or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding, including appeals, upon presentation of appropriate documentation; provided, however, that the payment of such expenses incurred by or on behalf of such person in advance of the final disposition of such matter shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay all amounts so advanced in the event that it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article SEVENTH.
(3) The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person described in Section (1) of this Article SEVENTH against any liability asserted against such person, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this Article SEVENTH or otherwise.
(4) The provisions of this Article SEVENTH shall be applicable to all actions, claims, suits or proceedings made or commenced after the adoption hereof, whether arising from acts or omissions to act occurring before or after its adoption. The provisions of this Article SEVENTH shall be deemed to be a contract between the Corporation and each director or officer who serves in such capacity at any time while this Article SEVENTH and the relevant provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and other applicable law, if any, are in effect, and any repeal or modification hereof shall not affect any rights or obligations then existing with respect to any state of facts or any action, suit or proceeding then or theretofore existing, or any action, suit or proceeding thereafter brought or threatened based in whole or in part on any such state of facts. If any provision of this Article SEVENTH shall be found to be invalid or limited in
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application by reason of any law or regulation, it shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions hereof. The rights of indemnification provided in this Article SEVENTH shall neither be exclusive of, nor be deemed in limitation of, any rights to which an officer, director, employee or agent may otherwise be entitled or permitted by contract, this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, vote of stockholders or directors or otherwise, or as a matter of law, both as to actions in such persons official capacity and actions in any other capacity while holding such office, it being the policy of the Corporation that indemnification of any person whom the Corporation is obligated to indemnify pursuant to the first sentence of Section (1) of this Article SEVENTH shall be made to the fullest extent permitted by law.
(5) For purposes of this Article SEVENTH, references to other enterprises shall include employee benefit plans; references to fines shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to serving at the request of the Corporation shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries.
(6) A director of the Corporation shall not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as the same exists or may hereafter be amended. Any amendment, modification or repeal of the foregoing sentence shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment, modification or repeal.
EIGHTH: Any action required or permitted to be taken by the holders of the Common Stock of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of such holders and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such holders. Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the By-Laws of the Corporation may provide. In lieu of holding a meeting of stockholders at any place, the Board of Directors, in its sole discretion, may determine that any meeting of stockholders may be held solely by means of remote communication.
NINTH: Notwithstanding anything contained in this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to the contrary, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75 percent of the voting power of all the shares of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class, shall be required to alter, amend or repeal Article FIFTH, Article EIGHTH or this Article NINTH or to adopt any provision inconsistent therewith.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, which restates, integrates and amends the certificate of incorporation of the Corporation, and which has been duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242, 245 and 303 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, has been executed by its duly authorized officer this 3rd day of April, 2017.
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PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION | ||||
By: |
/s/ A. Verona Dorch |
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Name: | A. Verona Dorch | |||
Title: |
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Government Affairs and Corporate Secretary |
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Exhibit 3.2
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION OF
SERIES A CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK OF
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
(Pursuant to Section 151 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)
Peabody Energy Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the DGCL (the Corporation ), in accordance with the provisions of Section 103 thereof, does hereby submit the following:
WHEREAS, the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (the Certificate of Incorporation ) authorizes the issuance of up to 100,000,000 (One Hundred Million) shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation ( Preferred Stock ) in one or more series, and with respect to each such series, to establish and fix the number of shares to be included in any series of Preferred Stock and the designation, rights, preferences, powers, restrictions and limitations of the shares of such series. No shares of Preferred Stock have been issued by the Corporation prior to the date of this Certificate of Designation.
WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Section 303 of the DGCL, this Certificate of Designations has been filed pursuant to an order for relief with respect to the Corporation, which order for relief was entered in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on March 17, 2017. Such order for relief provides for the issuance of a series of preferred stock for cash or exchange of other securities, rights or property and fixes and determines the rights, preferences, restrictions and other matters relating to such series of preferred stock, as set forth as follows.
1. Designation and Number of Shares . The series of preferred stock shall be designated as Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, with a par value of $0.01 per share (the Series A Preferred Stock ), and the number of shares so authorized and designated shall be 50,000,000 (Fifty Million). At all times the Corporation will have sufficient shares authorized, and will take all actions necessary to authorize additional shares of Series A Preferred Stock, if required, in each case, to meet its obligations hereunder.
2. Ranking . Each share of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be identical in all respects to every other share of the Series A Preferred Stock, and shall, with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the affairs of the Corporation, rank senior to all classes of the Common Stock and each other class of the Corporations capital stock and any other class or series of Preferred Stock established after the Effective Date (all such shares, collectively, the Junior Securities ), except for any capital stock or class or series of preferred stock designated as senior or pari passu to the Series A Preferred Stock and approved pursuant to Section 9 below (in which case, such capital stock, or class or series of preferred stock, shall rank as so designated).
3. Dividends .
(a) Regular Dividends, Payable in Kind . Holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, mandatory and cumulative dividends payable semi-annually in arrears with respect to each dividend period ending on and including the last calendar day of each six-month period ending October 31 and April 30, respectively (each such period, a Dividend Period and each such date, a Dividend Payment Date ), at the rate per share of Series A Preferred Stock equal to 8.5% per annum on the Liquidation Preference (equivalent to $2.125 per annum per share) (the Dividend Rate ). The record date for payment of semi-annual dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock will be the 15th day of the calendar month of the applicable Dividend Payment Date, whether or not such date is a Business Day, and dividends shall only be payable to registered holders of record of the Series A Preferred Stock as such holders appear on the stock register of the Corporation at the close of business on the related record date. If any Dividend Payment Date is not a Business Day, the applicable payment shall be due on the next succeeding Business Day. Dividends contemplated by this paragraph (a) above shall be paid in kind as a dividend of additional shares of Series A Preferred Stock ( PIK Dividends ) for each Dividend Period on the applicable Dividend Payment Date using a price per share equal to the Liquidation Preference; provided that the Corporation shall not issue any fractional shares of Series A Preferred Stock and instead the Corporation shall make a cash payment in lieu thereof in an amount equal to the product of (a) the fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock that would otherwise be issuable; multiplied by (b) the Liquidation Preference. If and to the extent that the Corporation does not for any reason pay the entire dividend payable for a particular Dividend Period as a PIK Dividend (other than for cash in lieu of fractional shares, as contemplated by the preceding sentence), on the applicable Dividend Payment Date for such period (whether or not the payment of dividends is permitted under applicable law or such dividends are declared by the Board of Directors of the Corporation), such unpaid dividends shall be automatically paid as PIK Dividends to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock as of the record date for the applicable Dividend Payment Date, on the first date on which such PIK Dividends can be paid in accordance with applicable law. PIK Dividends shall be treated for all purposes as a single series with all other shares of Series A Preferred Stock, and shall have the same designations, rights, preferences, powers, restrictions and limitations as all other shares of Series A Preferred Stock, including, without limitation, with respect to the accrual and payment of dividends or distributions. If and to the extent that shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be represented by a physical certificate, it shall not be necessary for the Corporation to issue additional physical certificates to represent any PIK Dividends, but the outstanding physical certificates may be deemed to represent all such PIK Dividends pro rata.
(b) Special Dividends, on As-Converted Basis . If and to the extent the Corporation intends to pay any dividend or make a distribution on shares of Common Stock, whether in the form of cash, securities, debt, assets or options, warrants or other rights, but excluding any dividend or distribution payable in shares of Common Stock (which shall result in an adjustment to the Conversion Price as described in Section 5(f)(ii) below) or any dividend as provided in Section 3(a) above (a Special Dividend ), then any such Special Dividend shall be payable to the holders of shares of Common Stock and Series A Preferred Stock on a pari passu , pro rata basis (treating each holder of shares of Series A Preferred Stock as being the holder of the number of shares of Common Stock into which such holders shares of Series A Preferred Stock
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would have been converted if such shares were converted pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 hereof as of the record date for payment of such dividend or distribution). The record date for payment of any Special Dividend to holders of Series A Preferred Stock will be the same date as the record date for payment of the Special Dividend to holders of Common Stock, whether or not such date is a Business Day. The payment date of any Special Dividend to holders of Series A Preferred Stock will be the same date on which payment of such dividend is made to holders of Common Stock ( Special Dividend Payment Date ).
(c) Dividend Calculations . Dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year, consisting of twelve (12), thirty (30) calendar day periods, and shall accrue daily commencing on the Effective Date, and shall be deemed to accrue from such date whether or not earned or declared and whether or not there are profits, surplus or other funds of the Corporation legally available for the payment of dividends. When a dividend is paid or deemed paid as a PIK Dividend, the number of shares so payable per share of Series A Preferred Stock shall be: (i) for any full Dividend Period, the full Dividend Rate divided by two, and (ii) for any partial Dividend Period, the Dividend Rate divided by two multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days elapsed during the period with respect to which the dividend is payable and the denominator of which is 180.
(d) Conversion Prior to or Following a Record Date . Except as otherwise set forth in Section 6(d) , if the Conversion Date for any shares of Series A Preferred Stock is prior to the close of business on the record date for a dividend as provided in paragraphs (a) or (b) above, the holder of such shares shall not be entitled to any dividend in respect of such record date. If the Conversion Date for any shares of Series A Preferred Stock is after the close of business on the record date for a dividend as provided in subsections (a) or (b) above but prior to the corresponding Dividend Payment Date or Special Dividend Payment Date, as applicable, the holder of such shares as of the applicable record date shall be entitled to receive such dividend, notwithstanding the conversion of such shares prior to the applicable Dividend Payment Date or Special Dividend Payment Date, as applicable.
4. Transfer . If any shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall constitute restricted securities, as that term is defined in Rule 144 (or any successor rule) promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, such shares shall be Transferred only pursuant to a registration statement filed with the SEC in accordance with the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or an exemption from the requirements of such registration.
5. Conversion Rights .
(a) Optional Conversion by Holder . A holder shall have the right (the Conversion Right), at its option and at any time, to convert each share of Series A Preferred Stock that it holds into Common Stock. Upon exercise of the Conversion Right as provided in this Section 5 (an Optional Conversion ), the Corporation shall deliver to the holder the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product obtained by multiplying (i) the Liquidation Preference times (ii) an amount equal to one (1) plus the Per Share Makewhole Amount on the Conversion Date, by (y) the Conversion Price in effect on the Conversion Date. Immediately following such conversion, the right of the holder, as a holder of the converted Series A Preferred Stock, shall, except as set forth in Section 3(d) above, cease,
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and such holder, or the Person or Persons designated by it as provided in Section 5(b), shall be treated for all purposes as having become the owner(s) of such Common Stock with respect to the shares of Series A Preferred Stock that have been converted.
(b) Manner of Conversion . To convert Series A Preferred Stock, a holder must (A) if the Series A Preferred Stock is represented by a certificate or certificates, surrender the certificate or certificates evidencing the shares of Series A Preferred Stock to be converted, duly endorsed in a form satisfactory to the Corporation, at the office of the Corporation or Transfer Agent for the Series A Preferred Stock, (B) notify the Corporation at such office that it elects to convert Series A Preferred Stock and the number of shares it wishes to convert, (C) state in writing the name or names in which it wishes the certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock to be issued or otherwise to be recorded on the Common Stock register, and (D) pay any transfer or similar tax required by subsection (d) below to be paid by the holder, if any. In the event that a holder fails to notify the Corporation of the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock which it wishes to convert, (x) if its shares of Series A Preferred Stock are represented by a certificate or certificates, it shall be deemed to have elected to convert all shares represented by the certificate or certificates surrendered for conversion and (y) if its shares are not so represented, it shall be deemed to have elected to convert all shares registered in the name of the holder on the Preferred Stock Register. The date on which the holder satisfies the foregoing requirements is the Conversion Date .
As soon as practical, and in any event within three (3) Business Days, following the Conversion Date, (x) if the Common Stock is then represented by certificates and the Corporation so elects, the Corporation shall deliver a certificate for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion, and otherwise the Corporation shall record such shares on the Common Stock register, and (y) if the Series A Preferred Stock is then represented by certificates and the Corporation so elects, the Corporation shall deliver a new certificate representing the unconverted portion, if any, of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock represented by the certificate or certificates surrendered for conversion, and otherwise the Corporation shall record such shares on the Preferred Stock Register. The Person in whose name the Common Stock certificate is registered, or the Person in whose name the shares of Common Stock are recorded on the Common Stock Register, shall be treated as the stockholder of record on and after the Conversion Date. Except as otherwise provided herein, the holder of record of a share of Series A Preferred Stock at the close of business on a record date with respect to the payment of dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock in accordance with Section 3 hereof will be entitled to receive such dividends with respect to such share of Series A Preferred Stock on the corresponding Dividend Payment Date, notwithstanding the conversion of such share after such record date and prior to such dividend payment date. If a holder of Series A Preferred Stock converts more than one share at a time, the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be based on the total Liquidation Preferences of all shares of Series A Preferred Stock converted by such holder at such time.
(c) Fractional Shares . The Corporation shall not issue any fractional shares of Common Stock upon conversion of Series A Preferred Stock. Instead the Corporation shall pay a cash adjustment to the holder of Series A Preferred Stock being converted based upon the Current Market Price on the Business Day prior to the Conversion Date.
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(d) Tax . If a holder converts shares of Series A Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issue of shares of Common Stock upon the conversion. However, the holder shall pay any such tax that is due because the shares are issued in a name other than the holders name.
(e) Reservation of Shares; Listing . The Corporation shall reserve (and shall keep available and free from preemptive rights) and shall continue to reserve out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock or its Common Stock held in treasury a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to permit the conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock in full, including conversion of shares of Series A Preferred Stock issuable as PIK Dividends. All shares of Common Stock that may be issued upon conversion of Series A Preferred Stock shall be fully paid and non-assessable. The Corporation shall comply with all securities laws regulating the offer and delivery of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of Series A Preferred Stock, and if at any time the Common Stock is listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation system, the Corporation shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to list all shares of Common Stock that may be issued upon conversion of Series A Preferred Stock on such national securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Common Stock is listed. All shares of Common Stock that are issued upon the exercise of Series A Preferred Stock shall, upon issuance, be validly issued, not subject to any preemptive rights, and, be free from all taxes, liens, security interests, charges, and other encumbrances with respect to the issuance thereof (collectively, Encumbrances ), other than taxes in respect of any transfer occurring contemporaneously with such issue and Encumbrances created by the holder.
(f) Specific Adjustments . The Conversion Price shall be subject to adjustment as provided in this Section 5(f) .
(i) Subdivisions and Combinations . In case the outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided into a greater number of shares of Common Stock or combined into a lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then the Conversion Price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision or combination becomes effective shall be adjusted to equal the product of the Conversion Price in effect on such date and a fraction the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such subdivision or combination, and the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such subdivision or combination. Such adjustment shall become effective retroactively to the close of business on the day upon which such subdivision or combination becomes effective.
(ii) Dividends or Distributions Payable in Common Stock . In case the Corporation shall pay or make a dividend or other distribution on Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such Conversion Price by a fraction the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination and the denominator of which shall be the sum of such number of shares outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination and the total number of shares
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constituting such dividend or other distribution, such reduction to become effective retroactively to a date immediately following the close of business on the record date for the determination of the holders entitled to such dividends and distributions. For the purposes of this Section 5(f)(ii) , the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Corporation. The Corporation will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Corporation.
(iii) Issuances of Common Stock Below Current Market Price . In case the Corporation shall issue or sell Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents at a price per share less than 95% of the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders or other persons entitled to receive such Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (treating the price per share of Common Stock, in the case of the issuance of any Common Stock Equivalent, as equal to (x) the sum of the price for such Common Stock Equivalent plus any additional consideration payable (without regard to any anti-dilution adjustments) upon the conversion, exchange or exercise of such Common Stock Equivalent divided by (y) the number of shares of Common Stock initially underlying such Common Stock Equivalent), the Conversion Price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be reduced by multiplying such Conversion Price by a fraction (I) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription, purchase or acquisition would purchase at such Current Market Price (or, in the case of Common Stock Equivalents, the number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate consideration received by the Corporation upon the issuance of such Common Stock Equivalents and receivable by the Corporation upon the conversion, exchange or exercise of such Common Stock Equivalents would purchase at the Current Market Price) and (II) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription, purchase or acquisition (or, in the case of Common Stock Equivalents, the maximum number of shares of Common Stock into which such Common Stock Equivalents initially may convert, exchange or be exercised).
Such reduction shall become effective immediately on the issuance or sale of such Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. However, upon the expiration of any Common Stock Equivalent to purchase Common Stock, the issuance of which resulted in an adjustment in the Conversion Price pursuant to this Section 5(f)(iii) , if any such Common Stock Equivalent shall expire and shall not have been exercised, the Conversion Price shall be recomputed immediately upon such expiration and effective immediately upon such expiration shall be increased to the price it would have been (but reflecting any other adjustments to the Conversion Price made pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5 after the issuance of such Common Stock Equivalents) had the adjustment of the Conversion Price made upon the issuance of such Common Stock Equivalents been made on the basis of offering for subscription or purchase only that number of shares of Common Stock actually purchased upon the exercise of such Common Stock
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Equivalents. No further adjustment shall be made upon exercise of any Common Stock Equivalent if any adjustment shall be made upon the issuance of such security. For the purposes of this Section 5(f)(iii) , the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Corporation. The Corporation will not issue any Common Stock Equivalents in respect of shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Corporation. In case at any time any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or any rights or options to purchase any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents shall be issued or sold for cash, the consideration received therefor shall be deemed to be the amount received by the Corporation therefor, without deduction therefrom of any expenses incurred or any underwriting commissions or concessions or discounts paid or allowed by the Corporation in connection therewith. In case any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or any rights or options to purchase any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents shall be issued or sold for a consideration other than cash, the amount of the consideration other than cash received by the Corporation shall be deemed to be the Fair Market Value of such consideration, without deduction therefrom of any expenses incurred or any underwriting commissions or concessions or discounts paid or allowed by the Corporation in connection therewith. This Section 5(f)(iii) shall not apply to issuances of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents to employees, directors and consultants of the Corporation, solely in their capacity as such, pursuant to any bona fide stock or option plan authorized by the Plan or duly adopted by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such purpose, provided that in any event, the aggregate amount of shares of (x) Common Stock and (y) shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion, vesting, exercise and/or settlement (or any similar event) of Common Stock Equivalents, in each case issued pursuant to all such plans, shall not exceed 12.5% of the shares of fully diluted Common Stock outstanding at the time of any such issuance.
(iv) Self Tender Offers and Exchange Offers . In case a tender offer or exchange offer made by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation for all or any portion of the Common Stock shall expire and such tender offer or exchange offer shall involve the payment by the Corporation or such subsidiary of consideration per share of Common Stock (which, if payable other than in cash shall be the Fair Market Value thereof) at the last time (the Expiration Time ) tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (as it shall have been amended) that exceeds the average Daily VWAP over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the seventh Trading Day after the Expiration Time (the Expiration Time Price ), the Conversion Price shall be reduced so that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the Expiration Time by a fraction of which (I) the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (without giving effect to the purchase or exchange of shares of Common Stock pursuant to such tender or exchange offer) on the Expiration Time multiplied by the Expiration Time Price and (II) the denominator shall be the sum of (x) the Fair Market Value of the aggregate consideration payable to stockholders based on the acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer) of all shares validly tendered or exchanged and not withdrawn as of the Expiration
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Time and (y) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (after giving effect to the purchase or exchange of shares of Common Stock pursuant to such tender or exchange offer) on the Expiration Time and the Expiration Time Price, such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the Expiration Time. For the purposes of this Section 5(f)(iv) , the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Corporation. Except as provided in Section 5(l) , if the application of this clause (iv) would result in an increase in the Conversion Price, no adjustment shall be made for such tender offer or exchange offer under this clause (iv).
(v) In case the Corporation at any time or from time to time shall issue any Junior Securities other than Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, then, in each such case, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted in such manner and at such time as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors upon the advice of a nationally recognized investment bank or other financial advisor as is fair and equitable in the circumstances to the holders of Series A Preferred Stock and consistent with the spirit and purposes of the adjustments pursuant to Sections 5(f)(i) through Section 5(f)(iv) .
(g) Rounding . All calculations under Section 5(f) shall be made to the nearest 1/1,000 th of a cent or to the nearest 1/1,000 th of a share, as the case may be.
(h) Reduction of Conversion Price . The Corporation from time to time may reduce the Conversion Price for a period of not less than ten (10) Business Days if it considers such reductions to be advisable in order that any event treated for federal income tax purposes as a dividend of stock or stock rights will not be taxable to the holders of Common Stock by any amount.
(i) Par Value . No adjustment in the Conversion Price shall reduce the Conversion Price below the then par value of the Common Stock.
(j) Fundamental Change . If there shall occur a Fundamental Change, other than a Fundamental Change resulting in a Mandatory Fundamental Change Conversion, from and after the occurrence of such Fundamental Change, shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be convertible, at the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the consummation thereof, into the amount or number of cash, securities or other property that the holder of such shares would have received had it elected to convert such shares of Series A Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock immediately prior to occurrence of such Fundamental Change. Following such Fundamental Change, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted from time to time as nearly as possible in the manner provided in this Section 5 to adjust for the types of transactions set forth in Sections 5(f)(i) through 5(f)(iv) .
(k) Notices .
(i) If: (A) the Corporation takes any action which requires an adjustment in the Conversion Price pursuant to this Section 5 ; (B) the Corporation engages in a Fundamental Change, whether or not the Conversion Price is required to be adjusted pursuant to this Section 5 ; or (C) there is a dissolution or liquidation of the Corporation,
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the Corporation shall notify holders of the Series A Preferred Stock of the proposed record or effective date, as the case may be at least ten (10) days before such date; provided , however , that the failure to provide such notice or any defect in it shall not affect the validity of any transaction referred to in clause (A), (B) or (C) of this Section 5(k) .
(ii) Whenever the Conversion Price shall be adjusted, the Corporation shall file with the Transfer Agent for the Series A Preferred Stock, if other than the Corporation, a certificate from the Corporation, duly signed by an authorized officer of the Corporation, briefly stating the facts requiring the adjustment and the manner of computing it, and provide notice to the holders of Series A Preferred Stock as provided herein.
(l) Deferral; Failure to Issue or Rescission . In any case in which this Section 5 shall require that an adjustment as a result of any event that becomes effective from and after a record date, the Corporation may elect to defer until after the occurrence of such event the issuance to the holder of any shares of Series A Preferred Stock converted after such record date and before the occurrence of such event of the additional shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion over and above the shares issuable on the basis of the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to adjustment; provided , however , that if such event shall not have occurred and authorization of such event shall be rescinded by the Corporation (including a decision by the Corporation not to issue Common Stock or pay dividends, make distributions, or take other actions contemplated by Section 5(f) ), the Conversion Price shall be recomputed immediately upon such rescission to the price that would have been in effect had such event not been authorized with respect to all holders of Series A Preferred Stock, provided that such rescission or decision is permitted by and effective under applicable laws.
6. Mandatory Conversion .
(a) Mandatory Threshold Conversion . At any time following the Effective Date, in the event the Daily VWAP exceeds the Conversion Threshold for at least forty-five (45) Trading Days in a sixty (60) consecutive Trading Day period, including each of the last twenty (20) Trading Days in such sixty (60) consecutive Trading Day period (such period, a Mandatory Threshold Conversion Period ), all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, including, if applicable, the Makewhole Amount in accordance with Section 6(d), shall automatically be converted (a Mandatory Threshold Conversion ) into a number of shares of Common Stock, effective as of the close of business on the last day of the Mandatory Threshold Conversion Period, at the Conversion Price in effect as of such close of business. Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the first forty-five (45) Trading Days following the Effective Date, a Mandatory Threshold Conversion will be deemed to have occurred if the Daily VWAP exceeds $37.50 for at least ten (10) Trading Days in a twenty (20) consecutive Trading Day period, including each of the last five (5) Trading Days of such ten (10) Trading Day period.
(b) Mandatory Conversion by Holders . At any time following the Effective Date, holders of at least two-thirds (2/3 rds ) of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, may, by notice to the Corporation (a Mandatory Holder Conversion Notice ), require the conversion (a Mandatory Holder Conversion ) of all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock,
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including, if applicable, the Makewhole Amount in accordance with Section 6(d) , effective as of the close of business on the thirtieth (30 th ) day from the date of delivery of the Mandatory Holder Conversion Notice (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), into a number of shares of Common Stock, at the Conversion Price in effect as of such close of business. The Corporation shall provide prompt notice to holders of all Series A Preferred Stock of its receipt of a Mandatory Holder Conversion Notice.
(c) Mandatory Fundamental Change Conversion . If at any time following the Effective Date there shall occur a Fundamental Change that is approved by the holders of Series A Preferred Stock as provided under Section 9 , if and to the extent required therein, and either (x) at the time of consummation of the Fundamental Change the price per share of Common Stock exceeds the Conversion Threshold or (y) the consideration payable in the Fundamental Change is payable in cash and the price payable per share of Common Stock exceeds the Conversion Threshold, all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, including, if applicable, the Makewhole Amount in accordance with Section 6(d) , shall automatically be converted (a Mandatory Fundamental Change Conversion ) into a number of shares of Common Stock, effective immediately prior to the consummation of the Fundamental Change, at the Conversion Price then in effect.
(d) Makewhole . For purposes of determining the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon an Optional Conversion or a Mandatory Threshold Conversion, a Mandatory Holder Conversion or a Mandatory Fundamental Change Conversion (each a Mandatory Conversion ), in each case that occurs on or prior to the Three Year Anniversary Date, there shall be deemed to have been issued in respect of all shares of Series A Preferred Stock at the time outstanding (x) PIK Dividends through the Dividend Payment Date immediately preceding the date of the Conversion Date in respect of such Optional Conversion or Mandatory Conversion, as applicable, including PIK Dividends on such PIK Dividends, to the extent accrued and not previously paid, and (y) PIK Dividends on (I) the shares of Series A Preferred Stock at the time outstanding and (II) any shares deemed issued pursuant to the preceding clause (x) accruing from the Dividend Payment Date immediately preceding the date of the Conversion Date in respect of such Optional Conversion or Mandatory Conversion, as applicable, through, but not including, the Three Year Anniversary Date, and all PIK Dividends on such PIK Dividends (the total amount of shares of Series A Preferred Stock deemed to have been issued in accordance with this Section 6(d) or Section 8 , the Makewhole Amount ). In respect of an Optional Conversion or any Mandatory Conversion occurring after the Three Year Anniversary Date, there shall be deemed to have been issued in respect of all shares of Series A Preferred Stock at the time outstanding (x) PIK Dividends through the Dividend Payment Date immediately preceding the date of the Conversion Date in respect of such Optional Conversion or Mandatory Conversion, as applicable, including PIK Dividends on such PIK Dividends, to the extent accrued and not previously paid, and (y) PIK Dividends on (I) the shares of Series A Preferred Stock at the time outstanding and (II) any shares deemed issued pursuant to the preceding clause (x) accruing from the Dividend Payment Date immediately preceding the Conversion Date in respect of such Optional Conversion or Mandatory Conversion, as applicable, through, but not including, the Conversion Date in respect of such Optional Conversion or Mandatory Conversion Date, and all PIK Dividends on such PIK Dividends.
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(e) Issuance of Conversion Shares . If there shall occur a Mandatory Conversion, the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Mandatory Conversion shall be issued on the third Business Day following the expiration of the Mandatory Threshold Conversion Period to the holder of the respective shares of Series A Preferred Stock on the date thereof, and the Corporation shall issue certificates representing the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Mandatory Conversion, if the Common Stock is then represented by certificates and the Corporation so elects, or the Corporation shall record the issuance of such Common Stock on the Common Stock Register, in the name of the respective holders of the Series A Preferred Stock on the date of such Mandatory Conversion; provided that in the case of a Mandatory Fundamental Change Conversion, no such certificates need be issued or record made in the Common Stock Register, but the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be deemed to represent the right to receive the consideration payable to holders of Common Stock in the Fundamental Change.
7. Optional Redemption . If at any time following the Effective Date there shall be outstanding less than 7,500,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall have the right, but not the obligation, to redeem (an Optional Redemption ) all, but not less than all, of such outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock by notice (an Optional Redemption Notice ) to the holders of Series A Preferred Stock, for a price per share equal to the Liquidation Preference per share of Series A Preferred Stock, which price may be payable in cash or in shares of Common Stock (based upon the greater of the Daily VWAP on the date of the Optional Redemption Notice or the Business Day immediately preceding the date of the Optional Redemption and as adjusted to reflect the Makewhole Amount). The Optional Redemption shall be effective on the date specified in the Optional Redemption Notice, which shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date of such notice, with respect to any shares of Series A Preferred Stock that have not been converted prior to the date of the Optional Redemption. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time that any obligations under the Replacement Secured First Lien Term Loan remain outstanding, the amount payable to holders of Series A Preferred Stock in an Optional Redemption shall be paid in shares of Common Stock only, and not by cash.
8. Liquidation Event . Upon any Liquidation Event of the Corporation, each holder of shares of the Series A Preferred Stock will be entitled to payment out of the assets of the Corporation available for distribution, before any distribution or payment out of such assets may be made to the holders of any Junior Securities, and subject to the rights of the holders of any Senior Securities or Parity Securities approved, if and to the extent required, by the holders of Series A Preferred Stock in accordance with Section 9 hereof and the rights of the Corporations creditors, of an amount equal to the Liquidation Preference payable with respect to the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock and any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon, whether or not declared. If, upon any Liquidation Event of the Corporation, the amounts payable with respect to the Series A Preferred Stock are not paid in full, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock will share equally and ratably in any distribution of assets of the Corporation in proportion to the full liquidation preference and accumulated and unpaid dividends, if any, and other amounts payable in such event.
The following shall be regarded as Liquidation Events within the meaning of this Section 8 (without limitation): (a) the commencement of a voluntary or involuntary case with
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respect to the Corporation or any subsidiary holding all or substantially all of the Corporations assets (on a consolidated basis) pursuant to or within the meaning of Title 11 of the United States Code, (b) the appointment of a custodian for all or substantially all of the assets of the Corporation and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (c) a general assignment by the Corporation for the benefit of its creditors and (d) any other liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the affairs of the Corporation. To the maximum extent that any liquidating distribution is made in a combination of cash and property other than cash, the liquidating distributions to the holders of the Series A Preferred shall be made in cash to the maximum extent possible, in preference and priority to the liquidating distribution payable to any other capital stock, other than, if properly approved in accordance with Section 9, Parity Stock (in which case, such distribution in cash shall be made pro rata) or Senior Securities. Whenever the distribution provided for in this Section 8 shall be payable in property other than cash, the value of such distribution shall be the Fair Market Value.
Neither the sale (for cash, shares of stock, securities or other consideration) of all or substantially all of the assets or business of the Corporation (other than in connection with the liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of the Corporation), nor the merger or consolidation of the Corporation into or with any other Person, shall be deemed to be a voluntary or involuntary liquidation, winding-up or dissolution of the Corporation for the purposes of this Section 8.
After the payment to any holder of Series A Preferred Stock of the full amount as contemplated by this Section 8 for each such share of such holders Series A Preferred Stock, such holder (as such) shall have no right or claim to any of the remaining assets of the Corporation with respect to such shares of Series A Preferred Stock.
9. Voting Rights .
(a) Voting with Common Stock . The holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to notice of all annual or special meetings of stockholders or action of stockholders by written consent without a meeting, given in accordance with the Corporations bylaws and the DGCL, and except as otherwise required by applicable law, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to vote (which term shall include written consent without a meeting) on all matters submitted to the stockholders for a vote, voting together with the holders of the Common Stock as a single class, with each share of Common Stock entitled to one vote per share and each share of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to one vote for each share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock as of the record date for such vote or, if no record date is specified, as of the date of such vote (in each case, including any Series A Preferred Stock issuable in respect of any accrued but unpaid dividends to, but not including, such date).
(b) Class Voting . So long as any shares of Series A Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Corporation shall not, either directly or indirectly, by amendment, merger, reorganization, reclassification, recapitalization, conversion, consolidation or otherwise, do any of the following without (in addition to any other vote required by law or the Certificate of Incorporation) the affirmative vote or consent of the Requisite Holders voting as a separate class, given in person or by proxy, either in writing by consent or by resolution adopted at an annual or special meeting
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and any act or transaction entered into without such vote or consent shall be void ab initio and of no force and effect:
(i) authorize or create (by way of reclassification or otherwise) any class or series of Senior Securities or Parity Securities or any obligation or security convertible or exchangeable into or evidencing the right to purchase, shares of any class or series of Parity Securities or Senior Securities;
(ii) reclassify, alter or amend any authorized Parity Securities, Senior Securities or Junior Securities of the Corporation, if such reclassification, alteration or amendment would render such other security on a parity with or senior to (or, in the case of Parity Securities or Senior Securities, pari passu with or senior in additional respects to) the Series A Preferred Stock;
(iii) (A) issue any shares of Series A Preferred Stock other than (x) the Series A Preferred Stock issued on the Effective Date and (y) PIK Dividends or (B) amend or alter the Certificate of Incorporation or this Certificate of Designation to increase the authorized amount of Series A Preferred Stock, other than to satisfy the payment of PIK Dividends;
(iv) authorize, allow or undertake any Fundamental Change that would require the approval of at least a majority of the holders of the issued and outstanding Common Stock;
(v) authorize, allow or undertake any liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the affairs of the Corporation;
(vi) pay any cash dividends in excess of $100,000,000 on the Common Stock to the holders of Common Stock in any twelve-month period, or any other dividends or distributions on the Common Stock other than dividends payable solely in shares of Common Stock;
(vii) issue any dividend, distribution or other payment with respect to Junior Securities other than Common Stock; or
(viii) amend or alter the Corporations Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or this Certificate of Designation to amend the terms of the Series A Preferred Stock.
10. Information Rights . The holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall have the right to receive all reports, notices and other information delivered to the holders of the Common Stock, at the same time and in the same manner as the holders of the Common Stock.
11. Amendment . So long as any shares of Series A Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Corporation shall not, either directly or indirectly, by amendment, merger, reorganization, reclassification, recapitalization, conversion, consolidation or otherwise, amend the terms of the Series A Preferred Stock in any manner that would alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the Series A Preferred Stock without (in addition to any other vote required by
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law or the Certificate of Incorporation) the affirmative vote or consent of the Requisite Holders, given in person or by proxy, either in writing by consent or by resolution adopted at an annual or special meeting of stockholders. Any amendment to the terms of the Series A Preferred Stock, including, but not limited to, any amendment to this Certificate of Designation or the Corporations Certificate of Incorporation, entered into without such vote or consent shall be void ab initio and of no force and effect.
12. Exclusion of Other Rights . Except as may otherwise be required by law, the shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall not have any voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, other than those specifically set forth in this Certificate of Designation (as such Certificate of Designation may be amended from time to time) and in the Certificate of Incorporation. The shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have no preemptive or subscription rights.
13. Headings of Subdivisions . The headings of the various subdivisions hereof are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of any of the provisions hereof.
14. Severability of Provisions . If any voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of the Series A Preferred Stock and qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof set forth in this resolution (as such resolution may be amended from time to time) is invalid, unlawful or incapable of being enforced by reason of any rule of law or public policy, all other voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of Series A Preferred Stock and qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof set forth in this resolution (as so amended) which can be given effect without the invalid, unlawful or unenforceable voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of Series A Preferred Stock and qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof shall, nevertheless, remain in full force and effect and no voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of Series A Preferred Stock and qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof herein set forth shall be deemed dependent upon any other such voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of Series A Preferred Stock and qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof unless so expressed herein.
15. Re-issuance of Series A Preferred Stock . Shares of Series A Preferred Stock that have been issued and reacquired by the Corporation in any manner, including shares purchased or redeemed or exchanged or converted, shall (upon compliance with any applicable provisions of the laws of Delaware) have the status of authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock of the Corporation undesignated as to series and may be designated or re-designated and issued or reissued, as the case may be, as part of any series of preferred stock of the Corporation, provided that any issuance of such shares as Series A Preferred Stock must be in compliance with the terms hereof.
16. Mutilated or Missing Series A Preferred Stock Certificates . If physical certificates are issued for the Series A Preferred Stock and if any of such Series A Preferred Stock certificates shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Corporation shall issue, at the holders expense, in exchange and in substitution for and upon cancellation of the mutilated
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Series A Preferred Stock certificate, or in lieu of and substitution for the Series A Preferred Stock certificate lost, stolen or destroyed, a new Series A Preferred Stock certificate of like tenor and representing an equivalent amount of shares of Series A Preferred Stock, but only upon receipt of evidence of such loss, theft or destruction of such Series A Preferred Stock certificate and indemnity and/or a bond, if requested, satisfactory to the Corporation and the Transfer Agent (if other than the Corporation).
17. Transfer Agent, Conversion Agent, Registrar and Paying Agent . The Transfer Agent, conversion agent, registrar and paying agent for the Series A Preferred Stock shall initially be American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, the Corporations duly appointed transfer agent for the Series A Preferred Stock. The Corporation may appoint a successor to any one or more of such roles (and may remove any such successor in accordance with any agreement with such successor and appoint a new successor). Upon any such removal or appointment, the Corporation shall provide notice to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock thereof. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Corporation and its duly appointed Transfer Agent may deem and treat the holder of any shares of Series A Preferred Stock as the true and lawful owner thereof for all purposes.
18. Taxes . All payments and distributions (or deemed distributions) on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock (and any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion thereof) shall be subject to withholding and backup withholding of tax to the extent required by law, and such amounts withheld, if any, shall be treated as received by the holders of Series A Preferred Stock. The Corporation shall pay any and all stock transfer and documentary stamp taxes that may be payable in respect of any issuance or delivery of shares of Series A Preferred Stock or shares of Common Stock or other securities issued on account of Series A Preferred Stock pursuant hereto or certificates representing such shares or securities. The Corporation shall not, however, be required to pay any such tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance or delivery of shares of Common Stock or other securities in a name other than that in which the shares of Series A Preferred Stock with respect to which such shares or other securities are issued or delivered were registered, and the Corporation shall not be required to make any such issuance or delivery unless and until the Person otherwise entitled to such issuance or delivery has paid to the Corporation the amount of any such tax or has established, to the satisfaction of the Corporation, that such tax has been paid or is not payable.
19. Notices . Except as otherwise set forth herein, all notices to be provided by the Corporation to holders of Series A Preferred Stock hereunder shall be delivered by a notice sent to holders of Series A Preferred Stock by first class mail, postage prepaid, or by electronic mail or facsimile, or by such other manner as may be permitted in this Certificate of Designation, or the Corporations Certificate of Incorporation or bylaws.
20. Adjustment to Liquidation Preference . The Liquidation Preference shall be subject to equitable adjustment in a manner not adverse to the holders of Series A Preferred Stock if and whenever there shall occur a stock split, combination, reclassification or other similar event involving the Series A Preferred Stock. Such adjustments shall be determined in good faith by the Board of Directors (or an authorized committee thereof) of the Corporation and submitted by the Board of Directors (or such authorized committee thereof) to the Transfer Agent.
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21. Certain Definitions . As used in this Certificate of Designation, the following terms shall have the following meanings (with terms defined in the singular having comparable meanings when used in the plural and vice versa), unless the context otherwise requires:
Business Day means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by Law to close.
Common Stock means the common stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Corporation as constituted on the Effective Date, and any other security or securities for which such common stock may be exchanged or into which such common stock may be converted, in any one or any series of transactions, pursuant to any reorganization, reclassification or Fundamental Change.
Common Stock Equivalent means any security or obligation which is by its terms, directly or indirectly, convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Common Stock (other than such instruments issued pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan or share purchase plan or similar plans), including, without limitation, any option, warrant or other subscription or purchase right with respect to Common Stock or any Common Stock Equivalent.
Common Stock Register means a register maintained by the Corporation, the Transfer Agent or other agent of the Corporation for the purpose of recording the holders of record of shares of Common Stock.
Conversion Price means a price per share of Common Stock equal to $16.25, subject to adjustment from time to time pursuant to the terms of Section 5 hereof.
Conversion Threshold means a price per share of Common Stock equal to $32.50; provided that if the Conversion Price shall be adjusted as provided in Section 5 , the Conversion Threshold on any day shall be the Conversion Threshold determined in accordance with the preceding clause multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the Conversion Price immediately following such adjustment and the denominator of which shall be the Conversion Price immediately prior to such adjustment.
Current Market Price means, on any day, the average of the Daily VWAP for the five (5) consecutive Trading Days ending the Trading Day immediately prior to the day in question, except with respect to issuances of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents to employees, directors and consultants, in which case Current Market Price shall be the Market Price on the date of grant.
Daily VWAP means the consolidated volume-weighted average price per share of Common Stock as displayed under the heading Bloomberg VWAP on the Bloomberg page for the <equity> AQR page corresponding to the ticker for such Common Stock (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the Market Price of one share of such Common Stock on such Trading Day). The volume weighted average price shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.
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DGCL means the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
Effective Date means April 3, 2017 or such other date upon which the Corporations Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization becomes effective, being the initial issue date of the Series A Preferred Stock.
Fair Market Value means fair market value as determined by a nationally recognized investment banking firm, financial advisor or other appraiser selected in good faith by the Board of Directors; provided that the Fair Market Value of any cash dividend or distribution shall be the amount of such cash dividend or distribution.
Fundamental Change means a transaction in which the Corporation consolidates with, or merges with or into, or enters into any other business combination with, another Person or sells, assigns, conveys, transfers, leases or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its and its subsidiaries assets to any Person, or any Person consolidates or combines with, or merges with or into, the Corporation, in which such consolidation, combination, or merger the outstanding voting capital stock of the Corporation is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property; provided that, for purposes of Section 6 , following such transaction the holders of Common Stock immediately prior to such transaction do not own more than 50% of the common equity of the company surviving such business combination transaction or to which such assets are transferred or do not own the common equity in the company surviving such business combination substantially in the same relative proportions as their respective interests in the Common Stock.
Issuance Date means the date on which the Series A Preferred Stock were first issued.
Liquidation Preference means $25.00 per share of Series A Preferred Stock.
Market Price means, with respect to the Common Stock or any other security, on any given day, the last sale price, regular way, or, in case no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, of the shares of the Common Stock or of such security, as applicable, on the New York Stock Exchange on such day. If the Common Stock or such security, as applicable, is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange as of any date of determination, the Market Price of the Common Stock or such security, as applicable, on such date of determination means the closing sale price on such date as reported in the composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock or such security, as applicable, is so listed or quoted, or, if no closing sale price is reported, the last reported sale price on such date on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock or such security, as applicable, is so listed or quoted, or if the Common Stock or such security, as applicable, is not so listed or quoted on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the last quoted bid price on such date for the Common Stock or such security, as applicable, in the over-the-counter market as reported by OTC Markets LLC or similar organization, or, if that bid price is not available, the Market Price of the Common Stock or such security, as applicable, on that date shall mean the Fair Market Value per share as of such date of the Common Stock or such security.
Parity Securities means securities ranking on a parity with Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends and distributions or on the occurrence of a Liquidation Event.
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Per Share Makewhole Amount means, as of any date, the Makewhole Amount calculated as of such date in respect of a single share of Series A Preferred Stock.
Person means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, joint stock company, trust, governmental authority or other entity of any kind.
Plan means the Corporations Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization.
Preferred Stock Register means a register maintained by the Corporation, the Transfer Agent or other agent of the Corporation for the purpose of recording the holders of record of shares of Series A Preferred Stock.
Replacement Secured First Lien Term Loan has the meaning given such term in the Plan.
Requisite Holders means, at any time, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock representing at least (x) a majority of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock at such time with respect to matters described in Section 9(b)(i) - (vii) , and (y) sixty six and two thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock at such time with respect to matters described in Section 9(b)(viii) and Section 11 .
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Senior Securities means securities ranking senior to the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends or distributions or on the occurrence of a Liquidation Event.
Three Year Anniversary Date means the date that is three years from the Issuance Date.
Trading Day means any day on which trading in listed securities occurs on the principal U.S. national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not so listed, any day on which trading in listed securities occurs on the New York Stock Exchange.
Transfer means, as a noun, any voluntary or involuntary transfer, sale, pledge, hypothecation, gift, or other disposition and, as a verb, voluntarily or involuntarily to transfer, sell, pledge, hypothecate, give, or otherwise dispose of. A Transfer of shares of Series A Preferred Stock held by a stockholder shall also include any Transfer of such stockholder or any direct or indirect interest in a stockholder that constitutes a direct or indirect change of control of the stockholder.
Transfer Agent shall be American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, the Corporations duly appointed transfer agent for the Series A Preferred Stock, unless and until a successor is selected by the Corporation as provided herein.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Certificate of Designation to be executed by its duly authorized officer.
Dated: April 3, 2017
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ A.Verona Dorch | |
Name: A.Verona Dorch | ||
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Government Affairs and Corporate Secretary |
Exhibit 3.3
AMENDED AND RESTATED
BY-LAWS
OF
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
ARTICLE I
MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
Section 1.1. Place of Meeting . Meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be held at such place, if any, either within or without the State of Delaware as the Board of Directors may determine. In lieu of holding a meeting of stockholders at any place, the Board of Directors, in its sole discretion, may determine that any meeting of stockholders may be held solely by means of remote communication.
Section 1.2. Annual Meetings . (A) Annual meetings of stockholders shall be held, at a date, time and place, if any, fixed by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of meeting, to elect a Board of Directors and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
(B) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the proposal of business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders (1) pursuant to the Corporations notice of meeting delivered pursuant to Section 1.4 of these By-Laws (as may be amended from time to time, the By-Laws), (2) by or at the direction of the Chairman of the Board or (3) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who (x) complied with the notice procedures set forth in subparagraph (C) of this Section 2 and who was a stockholder of record at the time such notice is delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation and at the time of the meeting or (y) complied with the procedures and met the requirements set forth in Section 1.10 of these By-Laws; clause (3) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations or submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14-a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), and included in the Corporations notice of meeting) before an annual meeting of stockholders.
(C) Without qualification, for nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to Section 1.2(B)(3)(x) of these By-Laws, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, and, in the case of business other than nominations, such other business must be a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, a stockholders notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding years annual meeting;
provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than twenty (20) days, or delayed by more than seventy (70) days, from such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than one hundred and twenty (120) days prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholders notice as described above. To be in proper form, a stockholders notice (whether given pursuant to this paragraph (C) or Section 1.3(B) of these By-Laws) must (1) set forth as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director (a) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, including such persons written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected and (b) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination and any beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination is made, if any, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the registrant for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant; provided that the Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent director of the Corporation or that could be material to a reasonable stockholders understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee; (2) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, set forth (a) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made and (b) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; (3) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (a) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporations books, and of such beneficial owner, if any, (b) (i) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, (ii) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right,
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or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the Corporation or otherwise (a Derivative Instrument) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation, (iii) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder has a right to vote any shares of any security of the Corporation, (iv) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of these By-Laws a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security), (v) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (vi) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner and (vii) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including without limitation any such interests held by members of such stockholders immediate family sharing the same household (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date), and (c) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (4) with respect to each nominee for election or reelection to the Board of Directors, include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Article I, Section 1.8 of these By-Laws.
(D) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of paragraph (C) of these By-Laws to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors of the Corporation is increased and there is no public announcement naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors made by the Corporation at least eighty (80) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding years annual meeting, a stockholders notice required by this By-Law shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.
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Section 1.3. Special Meetings . (A) General . Each of the chairman of the board, chief executive officer, president and Board of Directors may call a special meeting of stockholders. Except as provided in subsection (B)(4) of this Section 1.3 , a special meeting of stockholders shall be held on the date and at the time and place set by the chairman of the board, chief executive officer, president or Board of Directors, whoever has called the meeting. Subject to subsection (B) of this Section 1.3 , a special meeting of stockholders shall also be called by the secretary of the Company to act on any matter that may properly be considered at a meeting of stockholders upon the written request of stockholders entitled to cast not less the Special Meeting Percentage (as defined below) of all the votes entitled to be cast on such matter at such meeting.
(B) Stockholder-Requested Special Meetings . (1) Any stockholder of record seeking to have stockholders request a special meeting shall, by sending written notice to the secretary (the Record Date Request Notice ) by registered mail, return receipt requested, request the Board of Directors to fix a record date to determine the stockholders entitled to request a special meeting (the Request Record Date ). The Record Date Request Notice shall set forth the purpose of the meeting and the matters proposed to be acted on at such meeting, shall be signed by one or more stockholders of record as of the date of signature (or their agents duly authorized in a writing accompanying the Record Date Request Notice), shall bear the date of signature of each such stockholder (or such agent) and shall set forth all information relating to each such stockholder and each matter proposed to be acted on at the meeting that would be required to be disclosed in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the election of directors or the election of each such individual, as applicable, in an election contest (even if an election contest is not involved), or would otherwise be required in connection with such a solicitation, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A (or any successor provision) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the Exchange Act ). Upon receiving a valid Record Date Request Notice, the Board of Directors may fix a Request Record Date. The Request Record Date shall not precede and shall not be more than ten days after the close of business on the date on which the resolution fixing the Request Record Date is adopted by the Board of Directors. If the Board of Directors, within 20 Business Days after the date on which a valid Record Date Request Notice is received, fails to adopt a resolution fixing the Request Record Date, the Request Record Date shall be the close of business on the 20 th Business Day after the first date on which a Record Date Request Notice is received by the secretary.
(2) In order for any stockholder to request a special meeting to act on any matter that may properly be considered at a meeting of stockholders, one or more written requests for a special meeting (collectively, the Special Meeting Request ) signed by stockholders of record (or their agents duly authorized in a writing accompanying the request) as of the Request Record Date entitled to cast not less than 40% (forty percent) of all of the votes entitled to be cast on such matter at such meeting (the Special Meeting Percentage ) shall be delivered to the secretary. In addition, the Special Meeting Request shall (a) set forth the purpose of the meeting and the matters proposed to be acted on at it (which shall be limited to
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those lawful matters set forth in the Record Date Request Notice received by the secretary), (b) bear the date of signature of each such stockholder (or such agent) signing the Special Meeting Request, (c) set forth (i) the name and address, as they appear in the Companys books, of each stockholder signing such request (or on whose behalf the Special Meeting Request is signed), (ii) the class, series and number of all shares of stock of the Company which are owned (beneficially or of record) by each such stockholder and (iii) the nominee holder for, and number of, shares of stock of the Company owned beneficially but not of record by such stockholder, (d) be sent to the secretary by registered mail, return receipt requested, and (e) be received by the secretary within 60 days after the Request Record Date. Any requesting stockholder (or agent duly authorized in a writing accompanying the revocation of the Special Meeting Request) may revoke his, her or its request for a special meeting at any time by written revocation delivered to the secretary.
(3) The secretary shall inform the requesting stockholders as promptly as practicable of the reasonably estimated cost of preparing and mailing or delivering the notice of the requested special meeting (including the Companys proxy materials). The secretary shall not be required to call a special meeting upon stockholder request and such meeting shall not be held unless, in addition to the documents required by paragraph (2) of this Section 1.3(B) , the secretary receives payment of such reasonably estimated cost prior to the preparation and mailing or delivery of such notice of the meeting.
(4) In the case of any special meeting called by the secretary upon the request of stockholders (a Stockholder-Requested Meeting ), such meeting shall be held on such date and at such place and time as shall be designated by the Board of Directors; provided , however, that the date of any Stockholder-Requested Meeting shall be not more than 60 days after the record date for such meeting (the Meeting Record Date ). In fixing a date for a Stockholder-Requested Meeting, the Board of Directors may consider such factors as it deems relevant, including, without limitation, the nature of the matters to be considered, the facts and circumstances surrounding any request for the meeting and any plan of the Board of Directors to call an annual meeting or a special meeting. In the case of any Stockholder-Requested Meeting, if the Board of Directors fails to fix a Meeting Record Date that is a date within 30 days after the date that a valid Special Meeting Request is deemed to have been received, in accordance with subsection (B)(6) of this Section 1.3 , by the secretary (the Delivery Date ), then the close of business on the 30 th day after the Delivery Date shall be the Meeting Record Date (or if such day is not a Business Day, the first preceding Business Day). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Board of Directors may revoke the notice for any Stockholder-Requested Meeting in the event that the requesting stockholders fail to comply with the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Section 1.3(B) .
(5) If written revocations of the Special Meeting Request have been delivered to the secretary and the result is that stockholders of record (or their agents duly authorized in writing), as of the Request Record Date, entitled to cast less than the Special Meeting Percentage have delivered, and not revoked, requests for
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a special meeting on the matter to the secretary: (i) if the notice of meeting has not already been delivered, the secretary shall refrain from delivering the notice of the meeting and send to all requesting stockholders who have not revoked such requests written notice of any revocation of a request for a special meeting on the matter, or (ii) if the notice of meeting has been delivered and if the secretary first sends to all requesting stockholders who have not revoked requests for a special meeting on the matter written notice of any revocation of a request for the special meeting and written notice of the Companys intention to revoke the notice of the meeting or for the chairman of the meeting to adjourn the meeting without action on the matter, (A) the secretary may revoke the notice of the meeting at any time before ten days before the commencement of the meeting or (B) the chairman of the meeting may call the meeting to order and adjourn the meeting without acting on the matter. Any request for a special meeting received after a revocation by the secretary of a notice of a meeting shall be considered a request for a new special meeting.
(6) The chairman of the board, chief executive officer, president or Board of Directors may appoint regionally or nationally recognized independent inspectors of elections to act as the agent of the Company for the purpose of promptly performing a ministerial review of the validity of any purported Special Meeting Request received by the secretary. For the purpose of permitting the inspectors to perform such review, no such purported Special Meeting Request shall be deemed to have been received by the secretary until the earlier of (i) five Business Days after actual receipt by the secretary of such purported request and (ii) such date as the independent inspectors certify to the Company that the valid requests received by the secretary represent, as of the Request Record Date, stockholders of record entitled to cast not less than the Special Meeting Percentage. Nothing contained in this paragraph (6) shall in any way be construed to suggest or imply that the Company or any stockholder shall not be entitled to contest the validity of any request, whether during or after such five Business Day period, or to take any other action (including, without limitation, the commencement, prosecution or defense of any litigation with respect thereto, and the seeking of injunctive relief in such litigation).
(7) Only such business shall be conducted at a Stockholder-Requested Meeting as shall have been set forth in and brought before the meeting pursuant to the Special Meeting Request with respect to such meeting.
(8) The chairman of a special meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with the provisions of this Section 1.3 and, if the chairman should so determine, any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted.
(9) For purposes of these Bylaws, Business Day shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in Saint Louis, Missouri are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close.
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Section 1.4. Notice . Except as otherwise provided by law, at least ten (10) and not more than sixty (60) days before each meeting of stockholders, written notice of the time, date and place of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be given to each stockholder. Any previously scheduled meeting of the stockholders may be postponed, and (unless the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on April 3, 2017 (as it may be amended from time to time, the Charter) otherwise provides) any special meeting of the stockholders may be cancelled by resolution of the Board of Directors upon public notice given prior to the date previously scheduled for such meeting of stockholders. Except as otherwise provided herein or permitted by applicable law, notice to stockholders shall be in writing and delivered personally or mailed (including by electronic transmission in accordance with applicable law) to the stockholders at their address appearing on the books of the Corporation. Notice by mail is deemed given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholders address as it appears on the records of the Corporation, and notice by electronic transmission shall be deemed given pursuant Section 232(b) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Any stockholder may waive notice of any meeting, either before or after the meeting. The attendance of any stockholder at any meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the stockholder attends for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Any stockholder so waiving notice of the meeting shall be bound by the proceedings of the meeting in all respects as if due notice thereof had been given.
Section 1.5. Quorum . At any meeting of stockholders, the holders of record, present in person or by proxy, of a majority of the Corporations issued and outstanding capital stock shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, except as otherwise provided by law. The Chairman of the meeting or a majority of the outstanding capital stock so represented may adjourn the meeting from time to time, whether or not there is such a quorum (provided, that with respect to a Stockholder-Requested Meeting, such date may not be more than 90 days after the original record date). No notice of the time and place of adjourned meetings need be given other than by announcement at the meeting, except as required by law.
Section 1.6. Voting . (A) Except as otherwise provided by law or by the Charter, (a) all matters submitted to a meeting of stockholders, other than the election of directors, shall be decided by vote of the holders of record of a majority of the shares of the Corporations issued and outstanding capital stock present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the matter, and (b) except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (B) of this Section 1.6 in the case of a contested election (as defined below), each director to be elected by stockholders shall be elected by the vote of the majority of the votes cast at any meeting of stockholders for the election of directors at which a quorum is present. For purposes of this Section 1.6, a majority of votes cast shall mean that the number of shares voted for exceeds 50% of the number of votes cast with respect to that directors election. Votes cast shall include votes to withhold authority or votes against in each case as applicable and shall exclude abstentions with respect to that directors election.
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(B) In the event of a contested election of directors, directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person or represented by proxy and voting for nominees in the election of directors at any meeting of stockholders for the election of directors at which a quorum is present. For purposes of this Section 1.6, a contested election shall mean any election of directors in which the number of candidates for election as directors exceeds the number of directors to be elected, with the determination thereof being made by the Secretary of the Corporation (a) as of the close of the applicable notice of nomination period set forth in Section 1.2(C) of these By-Laws based on whether one or more notice(s) of nomination were timely filed in accordance with said Section 1.2(C) or (b) if later, reasonably promptly following the determination by any court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction that one or more notice(s) of nomination were timely filed in accordance with said Section 1.2(C); provided that the determination that an election is a contested election by the Secretary of the Corporation pursuant to clause (a) or (b) shall be determinative only as to the timeliness of a notice of nomination and not otherwise as to its validity. If, prior to the time the Corporation mails its initial proxy statement in connection with such election of directors, one or more notices of nomination are withdrawn (or declared invalid or untimely by any court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction) such that the number of candidates for election as director no longer exceeds the number of directors to be elected, the election shall not be considered a contested election, but in all other cases, once an election is determined to be a contested election, directors shall be elected by the vote of a plurality of the votes cast.
(C) Whenever the holders of any one or more series of Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock issued by the Corporation shall have the right, voting separately as a series or separately as a class with one or more such other series, to elect directors at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, the election, term of office, removal, filling of vacancies and other features of such directorships shall be governed by the terms of the Charter (including the certificate of designations relating to any Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock) and these By-Laws applicable thereto.
(D) In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of any meeting of stockholders, the Board may fix a record date, which will not precede the date upon which the Board resolution fixing the same is adopted and will not be more than 60 nor less than 10 calendar days before the date of such meeting, except to the extent otherwise permitted under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. If the Board so fixes a date, such date shall also be the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting unless the Board determines, at the time it fixes such record date, that a later date on or before the date of the meeting shall be the date for making such determination. If no record date is fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders will be at the close of business on the calendar day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of
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business on the calendar day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of the stockholders will apply to any recess or adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the recessed or adjourned meeting, and in such case shall also fix as the record date for stockholders entitled to such notice of such recessed or adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.6(D) at the recessed or adjourned meeting. The Company will be entitled to treat the person in whose name any share of its stock is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes, and will not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such share on the part of any other person, whether or not the Company has notice thereof, except as expressly provided by applicable law. The provisions of this Section 1.6 will be subject to compliance with Section 1.3(B)(4) as it relates to the determination of the Meeting Record Date.
Section 1.7. General . (A) Only persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in these By-Laws shall be eligible to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in these By-Laws. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Charter or these By-Laws, the Chairman of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made in accordance with the procedures set forth in this By-Law and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with these By-Laws, to declare that such defective nomination shall be disregarded or that such proposed business shall not be transacted.
(B) For purposes of these By-Laws, public announcement shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or disclosure in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
(C) For purposes of this By-Law, no adjournment nor notice of adjournment of any meeting shall be deemed to constitute a new notice of such meeting for purposes of this Article, and in order for any notification required to be delivered by a stockholder pursuant to this Article to be timely, such notification must be delivered within the periods set forth above with respect to the originally scheduled meeting. Subject to Section 1.4 and, with respect to adjournments, Section 1.5 above and applicable law, the Board of Directors may elect to postpone any previously scheduled meeting of stockholders.
(D) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in these By-Laws.
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Nothing in these By-Laws shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporations proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.
Section 1.8. Submission of Questionnaire, Representation and Agreement . To be eligible to be a nominee for election or reelection as a director of the Corporation, a person must deliver (in accordance with the time periods prescribed for delivery of notice under Section 1.2(C) of these By-Laws) to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation a written questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made (which questionnaire shall be provided by the Secretary upon written request) and a written representation and agreement (in the form provided by the Secretary upon written request) that such person (A) is not and will not become a party to (1) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such person, if elected as a director of the Corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a Voting Commitment) that has not been disclosed to the Corporation in writing or (2) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such persons ability to comply, if elected as a director of the Corporation, with such persons fiduciary duties under applicable law, (B) is not and will not become a party to any compensatory, payment or other financial agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the Corporation that has not been disclosed to the Corporation in writing, and (C) in such persons individual capacity and on behalf of any person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made, would be in compliance, if elected as a director of the Corporation, and will comply with all applicable publicly disclosed corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality and stock ownership and trading policies and guidelines of the Corporation.
Section 1.9. Inspectors of Elections; Opening and Closing the Polls . The Board of Directors by resolution shall appoint one or more inspectors, which inspector or inspectors may include individuals who serve the Corporation in other capacities, including, without limitation, as officers, employees, agents or representatives, to act at the meetings of stockholders and make a written report thereof. One or more persons may be designated as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If no inspector or alternate has been appointed to act or is able to act at a meeting of stockholders, the Chairman of the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Each inspector, before discharging his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspectors shall have the duties prescribed by law.
The Chairman of the meeting shall fix and announce at the meeting the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting.
Section 1.10. Inclusion of Stockholder Director Nominations in the Corporation s Proxy Materials . (A) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in these
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By-Laws, for any annual meeting of stockholders commencing with the Corporations 2017 annual meeting, the Corporation shall include in its proxy statement for an annual meeting of stockholders the name, together with the Required Information (as defined below), of any person nominated for election (the Stockholder Nominee) to the Board of Directors by a stockholder or group of stockholders that satisfies the requirements of this Section 1.10, including qualifying as an Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (E) below), and that expressly elects at the time of providing the written notice required by this Section 1.10 (a Proxy Access Notice) to have its nominee included in the Corporations proxy materials pursuant to this Section 1.10. For the purposes of this Section 1.10:
(1) Voting Shares shall mean outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors;
(2) Constituent Holder shall mean any stockholder, collective investment fund included within a Qualifying Fund (as defined in paragraph (E) below) or beneficial holder whose stock ownership is counted for the purposes of qualifying as holding the Proxy Access Request Required Shares (as defined in paragraph (E) below) or qualifying as an Eligible Stockholder (as defined in paragraph (E) below);
(3) affiliate and associate shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in Rule 405 under the Exchange Act; provided , however , that the term partner as used in the definition of associate shall not include any limited partner that is not involved in the management of the relevant partnership, and
(4) a stockholder (including any Constituent Holder) shall be deemed to own only those outstanding shares of Voting Shares as to which the stockholder itself (or such Constituent Holder itself) possesses both (a) the full voting and investment rights pertaining to the shares and (b) the full economic interest in (including the opportunity for profit and risk of loss on) such shares. The number of shares calculated in accordance with the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) shall be deemed not to include (and to the extent any of the following arrangements have been entered into by affiliates of the stockholder (or of any Constituent Holder), shall be reduced by) any shares (x) sold by such stockholder or Constituent Holder (or any of eithers affiliates) in any transaction that has not been settled or closed, including any short sale, (y) borrowed by such stockholder or Constituent Holder (or any of eithers affiliates) for any purposes or purchased by such stockholder or Constituent Holder (or any of eithers affiliates) pursuant to an agreement to resell or (z) subject to any option, warrant, forward contract, swap, contract of sale, other derivative or similar agreement entered into by such stockholder or Constituent Holder (or any of eithers affiliates), whether any such instrument or agreement is to be settled with shares or with cash based on the notional amount or value of Voting Shares, in any such case which instrument or agreement has, or is intended to have, or if exercised by either party thereto would have, the purpose or effect of (i) reducing in any manner, to any extent or at any time in the future, such stockholders or Constituent Holders (or eithers
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affiliates) full right to vote or direct the voting of any such shares, and/or (ii) hedging, offsetting or altering to any degree gain or loss arising from the full economic ownership of such shares by such stockholder or Constituent Holder (or eithers affiliates), other than any such arrangements solely involving an exchange-listed multi-industry market index fund in which Voting Shares represent at the time of entry into such arrangement less than 10% of the proportionate value of such index. A stockholder (including any Constituent Holder) shall own shares held in the name of a nominee or other intermediary so long as the stockholder itself (or such Constituent Holder itself) retains the right to instruct how the shares are voted with respect to the election of Directors and the right to direct the disposition thereof and possesses the full economic interest in the shares. A stockholders (including any Constituent Holders) ownership of shares shall be deemed to continue during any period in which such person has loaned such shares or delegated any voting power over such shares by means of a proxy, power of attorney or other instrument or arrangement which in all such cases is revocable at any time by the stockholder. The terms owned, owning and other variations of the word own shall have correlative meanings.
(a) | For purposes of this Section 1.10, the Required Information that the Corporation will include in its proxy statement is (1) the information concerning the Stockholder Nominee and the Eligible Stockholder that the Corporation determines is required to be disclosed in the Corporations proxy statement by the regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act; and (2) if the Eligible Stockholder so elects, a Statement (as defined in paragraph (G) below). The Corporation shall also include the name of the Stockholder Nominee in its proxy card. For the avoidance of doubt, and any other provision of these By-Laws notwithstanding, the Corporation may in its sole discretion solicit against and include in the proxy statement its own statements or other information relating to any Eligible Stockholder and/or Stockholder Nominee, including any information provided to the Corporation with respect to the foregoing. |
(b) | To be timely, a stockholders Proxy Access Notice must be delivered to the principal executive offices of the Corporation within the time periods applicable to stockholder notices of nominations pursuant to Section 1.2(C) of these By-Laws. In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting, the date of which has been announced by the Corporation, commence a new time period for the giving of a Proxy Access Notice. |
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The number of Stockholder Nominees (including Stockholder Nominees that were submitted by an Eligible Stockholder for inclusion in the Corporations proxy materials pursuant to this Section 1.10 but either are subsequently withdrawn or that the |
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Board of Directors decides to nominate as Board of Director nominees) appearing in the Corporations proxy materials with respect to an annual meeting of stockholders shall not exceed the greater of (x) two and (y) the largest whole number that does not exceed 20% of the number of directors in office as of the last day on which a Proxy Access Notice may be delivered in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.10 (such greater number, the Permitted Number); provided , however , that the Permitted Number shall be reduced by: (1) the number of such director candidates for which the Corporation shall have received one or more valid stockholder notices nominating director candidates pursuant to Section 1.2(C) of these By-Laws; (2) the number of directors in office or director candidates that in either case will be included in the Corporations proxy materials with respect to such annual meeting as an unopposed (by the Corporation) nominee pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or other understanding with any stockholder or group of stockholders (other than any such agreement, arrangement or understanding entered into in connection with an acquisition of Voting Shares, by such stockholder or group of stockholders, from the Corporation), other than any such director referred to in this clause (2) who at the time of such annual meeting will have served as a director continuously, as a nominee of the Board of Directors, for at least two (2) annual terms, but only to the extent the Permitted Number after such reduction with respect to this clause (2) equals or exceeds one; and (3) the number of directors in office that will be included in the Corporations proxy materials with respect to such annual meeting for whom access to the Corporations proxy materials was previously provided pursuant to this Section 1.10, other than any such director referred to in this clause (3) who at the time of such annual meeting will have served as a director continuously, as a nominee of the Board of Directors, for at least two annual terms. In the event that the number of Stockholder Nominees submitted by Eligible Stockholders pursuant to this Section 1.10 exceeds the Permitted Number, each Eligible Stockholder will select one Stockholder Nominee for inclusion in the Corporations proxy materials until the Permitted Number is reached, going in order of the amount (largest to smallest) of Voting Shares each Eligible Stockholder disclosed as owned in its Proxy Access Notice submitted to the Corporation. If the Permitted Number is not reached after each Eligible Stockholder has selected one Stockholder Nominee, this selection process will continue as many times as necessary, following the same order each time, until the Permitted Number is reached. |
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An Eligible Stockholder is one or more stockholders of record who own and have owned, or are acting on behalf of one or more |
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beneficial owners who own and have owned (in each case as defined above), in each case continuously for at least three years as of both the date that the Proxy Access Notice is received by the Corporation pursuant to this Section 1.10, and as of the record date for determining stockholders eligible to vote at the annual meeting, capital stock of the Corporation representing at least 3 % of the Voting Shares (the Proxy Access Request Required Shares), and who continue to own the Proxy Access Request Required Shares at all times between the date such Proxy Access Notice is received by the Corporation and the date of the applicable annual meeting of stockholders, provided that the aggregate number of stockholders, and, if and to the extent that a stockholder is acting on behalf of one or more beneficial owners, of such beneficial owners, whose stock ownership is counted for the purpose of satisfying the foregoing ownership requirement shall not exceed twenty (20). Two or more collective investment funds that are (1) under common management and investment control, (2) under common management and funded primarily by the same employer or (3) a group of investment companies as such term is defined in Section 12(d)(1)(G)(ii) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (each, a Qualifying Fund) shall be treated as one stockholder for the purpose of determining the aggregate number of stockholders in this Section 1.10, provided that each fund included within a Qualifying Fund otherwise meets the requirements set forth in this Section 1.10. No shares may be attributed to more than one group constituting an Eligible Stockholder under this Section 1.10 (and, for the avoidance of doubt, no stockholder may be a member of more than one group constituting an Eligible Stockholder). A record holder acting on behalf of one or more beneficial owners will not be counted separately as a stockholder with respect to the shares owned by beneficial owners on whose behalf such record holder has been directed in writing to act, but each such beneficial owner will be counted separately, subject to the other provisions of this paragraph (E), for purposes of determining the number of stockholders whose holdings may be considered as part of an Eligible Stockholders holdings. For the avoidance of doubt, Proxy Access Request Required Shares will qualify as such if and only if the beneficial owner of such shares as of the date of the Proxy Access Notice has itself individually beneficially owned such shares continuously for the three-year (3 year) period ending on that date and through the other applicable dates referred to above (in addition to the other applicable requirements being met). |
(B) No later than the final date when a nomination pursuant to this Section 1.10 may be delivered to the Corporation, an Eligible Stockholder (including each Constituent Holder) must provide the following information in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation: (1) with respect to each Constituent Holder, the name and address of,
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and number of Voting Shares owned by, such person; (2) one or more written statements from the record holder of the shares (and from each intermediary through which the shares are or have been held during the requisite three-year holding period) verifying that, as of a date within seven calendar days prior to the date the Proxy Access Notice is delivered to the Corporation, such person owns, and has owned continuously for the preceding three years, the Proxy Access Request Required Shares, and such persons agreement to provide: (a) within ten (10) days after the record date for the annual meeting, written statements from the record holder and intermediaries verifying such persons continuous ownership of the Proxy Access Request Required Shares through the record date, together with any additional information reasonably requested to verify such persons ownership of the Proxy Access Request Required Shares; and (b) immediate notice if the Eligible Stockholder ceases to own any of the Proxy Access Request Required Shares prior to the date of the applicable annual meeting of stockholders; (3) any information relating to such Eligible Stockholder (including any Constituent Holder) and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, and any information relating to such Eligible Stockholders Stockholder Nominee(s), in each case that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement and form of proxy or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for the election of such Stockholder Nominee(s) in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; (4) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among the Eligible Stockholder (including any Constituent Holder) and its or their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each of such Eligible Stockholders Stockholder Nominees, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the Eligible Stockholder (including any Constituent Holder), or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the registrant for purposes of such rule and the Stockholder Nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant; (5) a representation that such person (a) acquired the Proxy Access Request Required Shares in the ordinary course of business and not with the intent to change or influence control of the Corporation, and does not presently have such intent, (b) has not nominated and will not nominate for election to the Board of Directors at the annual meeting any person other than the Stockholder Nominee(s) being nominated pursuant to this Section 1.10, (c) has not engaged and will not engage in, and has not and will not be a participant in another persons, solicitation within the meaning of Rule 14a-1(l) under the Exchange Act in support of the election of any individual as a director at the annual meeting other than its Stockholder Nominee(s) or a nominee of the Board of Directors; (d) will not distribute to any stockholder any form of proxy for the annual meeting other than the form distributed by the Corporation and (e) will provide facts, statements and other information in all communications with the Corporation and its stockholders that are or will be true and correct in all material respects and do not and will not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
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misleading and will otherwise comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations in connection with any actions taken pursuant to this Section 1.10; (6) in the case of a nomination by a group of stockholders that together is such an Eligible Stockholder, the designation by all group members of one group member that is authorized to act on behalf of all members of the nominating stockholder group with respect to the nomination and matters related thereto, including withdrawal of the nomination; and (7) an undertaking that such person agrees to (a) assume all liability stemming from, and indemnify and hold harmless the Corporation and each of its directors, officers and employees individually against any liability, loss or damages in connection with any threatened or pending action, suit or proceeding, whether legal, administrative or investigative, against the Corporation or any of its directors, officers or employees arising out of any legal or regulatory violation arising out of the Eligible Stockholders communications with the stockholders of the Corporation or out of the information that the Eligible Stockholder (including such person) provided to the Corporation, and (b) file with the Securities and Exchange Commission any solicitation by the Eligible Stockholder of stockholders of the Corporation relating to the annual meeting at which the Stockholder Nominee will be nominated. In addition, no later than the final date on which a Proxy Access Notice may be submitted under this Section 1.10, a Qualifying Fund whose share ownership is counted for purposes of qualifying as an Eligible Stockholder must provide to the Secretary of the Corporation documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Board of Directors that demonstrates that the funds included within the Qualifying Fund are either part of the same family of funds or sponsored by the same employer. In order to be considered timely, any information required by this Section 1.10 to be provided to the Corporation must be supplemented (by delivery to the Secretary of the Corporation) (1) no later than ten days following the record date for the applicable annual meeting, to disclose the foregoing information as of such record date, and (2) no later than the fifth day before the annual meeting, to disclose the foregoing information as of the date that is no earlier than ten days prior to such annual meeting. For the avoidance of doubt, the requirement to update and supplement such information shall not permit any Eligible Stockholder or other person to change or add any proposed Stockholder Nominee or be deemed to cure any defects or limit the remedies (including without limitation under these By-Laws) available to the Corporation relating to any defect.
(a) | The Eligible Stockholder may provide to the Secretary of the Corporation, at the time the information required by this Section 1.10 is originally provided, a written statement for inclusion in the Corporations proxy statement for the annual meeting, not to exceed 500 words, in support of the candidacy of such Eligible Stockholders Stockholder Nominee (the Statement). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 1.10, the Corporation may omit from its proxy materials any information or Statement that it, in good faith, believes is materially false or misleading, omits to state any material fact, or would violate any applicable law or regulation. |
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No later than the final date when a nomination pursuant to this Section 1.10 may be delivered to the Corporation, each Stockholder Nominee must (1) provide an executed agreement, in a form deemed satisfactory by the Board of Directors or its designee (which form shall be provided by the Corporation reasonably promptly upon written request of a stockholder), that such Stockholder Nominee: (a) consents to being named in the Corporations proxy statement and form of proxy card (and will not agree to be named in any other persons proxy statement or form of proxy card) as a nominee and to serving as a director of the Corporation if elected; (b) agrees, if elected, to adhere to the Corporations Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and any other publicly available policies and guidelines of the Corporation applicable to directors; and (c) is not and will not become a party to any compensatory, payment or other financial agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity in connection with his or her nomination, service or action as a director of the Corporation, or any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity as to how the Stockholder Nominee would vote or act on any issue or question as a director, in each case that has not been disclosed to the Corporation; (2) complete, sign and submit all questionnaires, representations and agreements required by these By-Laws or of the Corporations directors generally; and (3) provide such additional information as necessary to permit the Board of Directors to determine if such Stockholder Nominee: (a) is independent under the listing standards of each principal U.S. exchange upon which the common shares of the Corporation are listed, any applicable rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and any publicly disclosed standards used by the Board of Directors in determining and disclosing the independence of the Corporations directors; (b) has any direct or indirect relationship with the Corporation other than those relationships that have been deemed categorically immaterial pursuant to the Corporations Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics; (c) would, by serving on the Board of Directors, violate or cause the Corporation to be in violation of these By-Laws, the Charter, the rules and listing standards of the principal U.S. exchange upon which the common stock of the Corporation is listed or any applicable law, rule or regulation; and (d) is or has been subject to any event specified in Item 401(f) of Regulation S-K (or successor rule) of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the event that any information or communications provided by the Eligible Stockholder (or any Constituent Holder) or the Stockholder Nominee to the Corporation or its stockholders ceases to be true and correct in all material respects or omits a |
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material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, each Eligible Stockholder or Stockholder Nominee, as the case may be, shall promptly notify the Secretary of the Corporation of any defect in such previously provided information and of the information that is required to correct any such defect; it being understood for the avoidance of doubt that providing any such notification shall not be deemed to cure any such defect or limit the remedies (including without limitation under these By-Laws) available to the Corporation relating to any such defect. |
(c) | Any Stockholder Nominee who is included in the Corporations proxy materials for a particular annual meeting of stockholders but either (1) withdraws from or becomes ineligible or unavailable for election at that annual meeting (other than by reason of such Stockholder Nominees disability or other health reason), or (2) does not receive votes cast in favor of the Stockholder Nominees election of at least 10% of the shares represented in person or by proxy at the annual meeting, will be ineligible to be a Stockholder Nominee pursuant to this Section 1.10 for the next two annual meetings. Any Stockholder Nominee who is included in the Corporations proxy statement for a particular annual meeting of stockholders, but subsequently is determined not to satisfy the eligibility requirements of this Section 1.10 or any other provision of the By-Laws, Charter or other applicable regulation any time before the annual meeting of stockholders, will not be eligible for election at the relevant annual meeting of stockholders. |
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The Corporation shall not be required to include, pursuant to this Section 1.10, a Stockholder Nominee in its proxy materials for any annual meeting of stockholders, or, if the proxy statement already has been filed, to allow the nomination of a Stockholder Nominee, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation: (1) who is not independent under the listing standards of each principal U.S. exchange upon which the common share of the Corporation are listed, any applicable rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and any publicly disclosed standards used by the Board of Directors in determining and disclosing independence of the Corporations directors, in each case as determined by the Board of Directors; (2) whose service as a member of the Board of Directors would violate or cause the Corporation to be in violation of these By-Laws, the Charter, the rules and listing standards of the principal U.S. exchange upon which the common shares of the Corporation are traded or any applicable law, rule or regulation; (3) if the Eligible Stockholder (or any Constituent Stockholder) or applicable Stockholder Nominee otherwise breaches or fails to comply in any material respect with |
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its obligations pursuant to this Section 1.10 or any agreement, representation or undertaking required by this Section; or (4) if the Eligible Stockholder ceases to be an Eligible Stockholder for any reason, including but not limited to not owning the Proxy Access Request Required Shares through the date of the applicable annual meeting. For the purposes of this paragraph, clauses (1) and (2) and, to the extent related to a breach or failure by the Stockholder Nominee, clause (3) will result in the exclusion from the proxy materials pursuant to this Section 1.10 of the specific Stockholder Nominee to whom the ineligibility applies, or, if the proxy statement already has been filed, the ineligibility of the Stockholder Nominees to be nominated; provided, however, that clauses (4) and, to the extent related to a breach or failure by an Eligible Stockholder (or any Constituent Holder), clause (3) will result in the Voting Shares owned by such Eligible Stockholder (or Constituent Holder) being excluded from the Proxy Access Request Required Shares (and, if as a result the Proxy Access Notice shall no longer have been filed by an Eligible Stockholder the exclusion from the proxy materials pursuant to this Section 1.10 of all of the applicable stockholders Stockholder Nominees from the applicable annual meeting of stockholders or, if the proxy statement has already been filed, the ineligibility of all of such stockholders Stockholder Nominees to be nominated). |
ARTICLE II
DIRECTORS
Section 2.1. Responsibility . The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of a Board of Directors.
Section 2.2 Number , Election and Removal of Directors . (A) The number of Directors that shall constitute the Board of Directors shall be not less than three nor more than 15. Within the limits specified in the Charter (including the certificate of designations relating to any Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock) and in these By-Laws, the number of Directors shall be determined by the Board of Directors by resolution adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors or by the stockholders. The Directors shall be elected by the stockholders at their annual meeting in the manner set forth in Section 1.6 of these By-Laws. Any newly created directorship on the Board of Directors that results from an increase in the number of Directors and any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors shall be filled only by a majority of the Directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining Director. Any Director elected to fill a vacancy not resulting from an increase in the number of Directors shall have the remaining term as that of his or her predecessor. Directors may be removed, with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting as a single class. Unless and except to the extent that these By-Laws shall so require, the election of the Directors of the Corporation need not be by written ballot.
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(B) All Directors shall be of one class and serve for a term ending at the annual meeting following the annual meeting at which the Director was elected. In no case shall a decrease in the number of Directors shorten the term of any incumbent Director. Each Director shall hold office after the annual meeting at which his or her term is scheduled to end until his or her successor shall be elected and shall qualify, subject, however, to prior death, resignation, disqualification or removal from office.
Section 2.3. Meetings . Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such times and places as may from time to time be fixed by the Board of Directors or as may be specified in a notice of meeting. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at any time upon the call of the Chairman or President and shall be called by the President or Secretary if directed by a majority of the Directors. Directors may participate in meetings of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting, if all members of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, consent to the action in writing or by electronic transmission, and the written consents or electronic transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form. Except as otherwise provided herein, whenever notice is required to be given to any Director by applicable law, the Charter or these By-Laws, such notice shall be deemed given effectively if given in person or by telephone, mail addressed to such Director at such Directors address as it appears on the records of the Corporation, facsimile, e-mail or by other means of electronic transmission. Notice of each special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be sent to each Director not less than two days before such meeting. A meeting of the Board of Directors may be held without notice immediately after the annual meeting of the stockholders. Notice need not be given of regular meetings of the Board of Directors. Whenever notice to Directors is required by applicable law, the Charter or these By-Laws, a waiver thereof, in writing signed by, or by electronic transmission by, the Director entitled to the notice, whether before or after such notice is required, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance by a Director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting except when the Director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting was not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special Board of Directors or committee meeting need be specified in any waiver of notice.
Section 2.4. Quorum . One-third of the entire Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If a quorum is not present at any
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meeting of the Board of Directors, the Directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until such a quorum is present. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Charter, these By-Laws or any contract or agreement to which the Corporation is a party, the act of a majority of the Directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors.
Section 2.5. Committees of Directors . The Board of Directors may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire Board, designate one or more committees, including without limitation an Executive Committee, to have and exercise such power and authority as the Board of Directors shall specify. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another Director to act at the meeting in place of any such absent or disqualified member. A quorum for the transaction of business of such committee shall be fifty percent or more of the authorized number of members of such committee, unless otherwise provided in any resolution of the Board of Directors designating a committee pursuant to this Section 2.5. The act of a majority of the members of such committee present at any meeting of such committee at which there is a quorum shall be the act of such committee (except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the Charter or these By-Laws).
ARTICLE III
OFFICERS
Section 3.1. General . The officers of the Corporation shall consist of a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a Chief Executive Officer, one or more Presidents, one or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer and such other additional officers with such titles (including, without limitation, a Chief Operating Officer and a Chief Financial Officer) as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine, all of whom shall be elected by and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. Subject to applicable law, an officer may hold more than one office, if so elected by the Board of Directors. Such officers shall have the usual powers and shall perform all the usual duties incident to their respective offices. Such officers shall also have such powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board of Directors. All officers shall be subject to the supervision and direction of the Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board shall be chosen from among the directors. The Board of Directors may from time to time elect, or the Chief Executive Officer or President may appoint, such other officers (including one or more Assistant Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Treasurers, and Assistant Controllers) and such agents, as may be necessary or desirable for the conduct of the business of the Corporation. Such other officers and agents shall have such duties and shall hold their offices for such terms as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or by the Chief Executive Officer or President, as the case may be. The officers of the Corporation need not be stockholders of the Corporation nor, except in the case of the Chairman of the Board, need such officers be directors of the Corporation.
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Section 3.2. Election and Term of Office . The officers of the Corporation shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors at the regular meeting of the Board of Directors held after the annual meeting of stockholders. If the election of officers shall not be held at such meeting, such election shall be held as soon thereafter as convenient. Each officer shall hold office until his successor shall have been duly elected and shall have qualified or until his death or until he shall resign, but any officer may be removed from office at any time as provided in Section 3.3.
Section 3.3. Removal . Any officer elected, or agent appointed, by the Board of Directors may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board of Directors then in office. Any officer or agent appointed by the Chief Executive Officer or the President may be removed by the Chief Executive Officer or the President, as the case may be, at any time, with or without cause. Such removal, whether by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, shall be without prejudice to the contractual rights, if any, of the person so removed; provided that no elected officer shall have any contractual rights against the Corporation for compensation beyond the date of the election of his successor, his death, his resignation or his removal, whichever event shall first occur, except as otherwise provided in an employment contract or under an employee deferred compensation, severance or other employee plan.
Section 3.4. Vacancies . A newly created elected office and a vacancy in any elected office because of death, resignation, or removal may be filled by the Board of Directors for the unexpired portion of the term at any meeting of the Board of Directors. Any vacancy in an office appointed by the Chief Executive Officer or the President because of death, resignation, or removal may be filled by the Chief Executive Officer or the President.
ARTICLE IV
INDEMNIFICATION
To the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law: (A) the Corporation shall indemnify any person (and such persons heirs, executors or administrators) who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (brought in the right of the Corporation or otherwise), whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, and whether formal or informal, including appeals, by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited liability company or other enterprise, for and against all expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and
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reasonably incurred by such person or such heirs, executors or administrators in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, including appeals. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify a person described in such sentence in connection with any action, suit or proceeding (or part thereof) commenced by such person only if the commencement of such action, suit or proceeding (or part thereof) by such person was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The Corporation may indemnify any person (and such persons heirs, executors or administrators) who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (brought in the right of the Corporation or otherwise), whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, and whether formal or informal, including appeals, by reason of the fact that such person is or was an employee or agent of the Corporation or is or was serving, at the request of the Corporation, as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, limited liability company or other enterprise, for and against all expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person or such heirs, executors or administrators in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, including appeals.
(B) The Corporation shall promptly pay expenses incurred by any person described in the first sentence of paragraph (A) of this By-Law in defending any action, suit or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding, including appeals, upon presentation of appropriate documentation; provided, however, that the payment of such expenses incurred by or on behalf of such person in advance of the final disposition of such matter shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay all amounts so advanced in the event that it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article IV.
(C) The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person described in paragraph (A) of this By-Law against any liability asserted against such person, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this By-Law or otherwise.
(D) The provisions of this By-Law shall be applicable to all actions, claims, suits or proceedings made or commenced after the adoption hereof, whether arising from acts or omissions to act occurring before or after its adoption. The provisions of this By-Law shall be deemed to be a contract between the Corporation and each director or officer who serves in such capacity at any time while this By-Law and the relevant provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and other applicable law, if any, are in effect, and any repeal or modification hereof shall not affect any rights or obligations then existing with respect to any state of facts or any action, suit or proceeding then or theretofore existing, or any action, suit or proceeding thereafter brought or threatened based in whole or in part on any such state of facts. If any provision of this By-Law shall be found to be invalid or limited in application by
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reason of any law or regulation, it shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions hereof. The rights of indemnification provided in this By-Law shall neither be exclusive of, nor be deemed in limitation of, any rights to which an officer, director, employee or agent may otherwise be entitled or permitted by contract, the Charter, vote of stockholders or directors or otherwise, or as a matter of law, both as to actions in such persons official capacity and actions in any other capacity while holding such office, it being the policy of the Corporation that indemnification of any person whom the Corporation is obligated to indemnify pursuant to the first sentence of paragraph (A) of this By-Law shall be made to the fullest extent permitted by law.
(E) For purposes of this By-Law, references to other enterprises shall include employee benefit plans; references to fines shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to serving at the request of the Corporation shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries.
(F) A director of the Corporation shall not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as the same exists or may hereafter be amended. Any amendment, modification or repeal of the foregoing sentence shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment, modification or repeal.
ARTICLE V
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 5.1. Amendments . Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, the Charter or these By-Laws, these By-Laws may be amended, altered, changed, adopted and repealed or new By-Laws adopted by the Board of Directors, or by the stockholders as expressly provided in the Charter (including the certificate of designations relating to any Preferred Stock or Series Common Stock).
Section 5.2. Fiscal Year . The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.
Section 5.3. Exclusive Forum . Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director or officer or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporations stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any director or officer or other
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employee of the Corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law (as it may be amended from time to time) or the Charter or these By-Laws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any director or officer or other employee of the Corporation governed by the internal affairs doctrine shall be a state court located within the State of Delaware (or, to the extent that no state court located within the State of Delaware has jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware).
Section 5.4. Form of Records . Any records maintained by the Corporation in the regular course of its business, including its stock ledger, books of account and minute books, may be kept on, or by means of, or be in the form of, any information storage device or method, provided that the records so kept can be converted into clearly legible paper form within a reasonable time. Upon the request of any person entitled to inspect such records pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law (as it may be amended from time to time), the Corporation shall so convert such records.
As amended through April 3, 2017
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Exhibit 4.1
WARRANT AGREEMENT
THIS WARRANT AGREEMENT (this Agreement ) is made as of the 3rd day of April, 2017 by and between Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Company ), and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, a New York limited liability trust company (the Warrant Agent ).
WHEREAS, on April 13, 2016, the Company and its debtor affiliates (collectively, the Debtors ) each filed a voluntary petition for relief under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (the Bankruptcy Court ) under the lead case 16-42529;
WHEREAS, (i) on December 22, 2016, the Debtors filed the Joint Plan of Reorganization of Debtors and Debtors in Possession, (ii) on January 25, 2017, the Debtors filed a First Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of Debtors and Debtors in Possession, and (iii) on January 27, 2017, the Debtors filed a Second Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of Debtors and Debtors in Possession (as further amended, the Plan of Reorganization );
WHEREAS, on March 17, 2017, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order confirming the Plan of Reorganization, and the Company emerged from its chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings on April 3, 2017 (the Effective Date );
WHEREAS , pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization, the Company will issue on or as soon as practicable after the Effective Date, warrants (the Warrants ) to purchase, in the aggregate, 6,210,000 shares of the common stock of the reorganized Company, authorized and issued pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization and the articles of incorporation ( Common Stock ), at an exercise price of $0.01, to all Noteholder Co-Proponents, subscribers in the Rights Offering Equity Rights and Rights Offering Backstop Parties, as all such terms are defined in the Plan of Reorganization;
WHEREAS , the Company desires to provide for the form and provisions of the Warrants, the terms upon which they shall be issued and exercised, and the respective rights, limitation of rights, and immunities of the Company, the Warrant Agent, and the holders of the Warrants;
WHEREAS , the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to so act, in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange, call, exercise and cancellation of the Warrants; and
WHEREAS , all acts and things have been done and performed which are necessary to make the Warrants, when executed on behalf of the Company and countersigned, either by manual or facsimile signature, by or on behalf of the Warrant Agent, as provided herein, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Definition of Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following capitalized terms shall have the following respective meanings:
(a) Affiliate has the meaning set forth in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
(b) Appropriate Officer has the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a) hereof.
(c) Beneficial Holder means, with respect to any Warrants represented by a Global Warrant Certificate, any person or entity that beneficially owns (as such term is defined under and determined pursuant to Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) such Warrants.
(d) Book-Entry Warrants has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) hereof.
(e) Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which the New York Stock Exchange is closed for trading.
(f) Certificated Warrants has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) hereof.
(g) Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on any date of determination means:
(i) if the Common Stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange or The NASDAQ Stock Market on such date, the average closing sale price per share of the Common Stock (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the closing bid and closing ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average closing bid and the average closing ask prices) for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days immediately prior to such date of determination, as reported by the New York Stock Exchange or The NASDAQ Stock Market, as applicable;
(ii) if the Common Stock is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange or The NASDAQ Stock Market on such date but is listed on another U.S. national or regional securities exchange, the average closing sale price per share of the Common Stock (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the high bid and low asked prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average high bid and low asked prices) for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days immediately prior to such date of determination, as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded;
(iii) if the Common Stock is not listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange but is traded on the over-the-counter market, the average last quoted sale price for the Common Stock (or, if no sale price is reported, the average of the high bid and low asked price for such date) for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days immediately prior to such date of determination, in the over-the-counter market as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or other similar organization; or
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(iv) in all other cases, as determined in good faith by the board of directors of the Company.
The Closing Sale Price shall be determined without reference to early hours, after hours or extended market trading.
(h) Common Stock has the meaning set forth in the Recitals, and shall include any successor security as a result of any recapitalization, reorganization, reclassification or similar transaction involving the Company.
(i) Daily VWAP means the volume-weighted average price per share of Common Stock as displayed under the heading Bloomberg VWAP on the Bloomberg page for the <equity> AQR page corresponding to the ticker for such Common Stock (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of such Common Stock on such Trading Day. The volume weighted average price shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.
(j) Depositary has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) hereof.
(k) Direct Registration Warrants has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) hereof.
(l) Effective Date has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
(m) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(n) Exercise Date means any date, on or prior to the expiration of the Exercise Period, on which the Registered Holder exercises the right to purchase the Warrant Exercise Shares, in whole or in part, pursuant to and in accordance with the terms and conditions described herein.
(o) Exercise Form has the meaning set forth in Section 4.3(b) hereof.
(p) Exercise Price has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1 hereof.
(q) Exercise Period has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2 hereof.
(r) Expiration Time has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1(c) hereof.
(s) Expiration Time Price has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1(c) hereof.
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(t) Fair Market Value means fair market value as determined by a nationally recognized investment banking firm, financial advisor or other appraiser selected in good faith by the board of directors of the Company; provided that the Fair Market Value of any cash dividend or distribution shall be the amount of such cash dividend or distribution.
(u) Global Warrant Certificates has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) hereof.
(v) Governmental Authority means any (i) government, (ii) governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental agency, branch, department, official or entity and any court or other tribunal) or (iii) body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory or taxing authority or power of any nature, in each case, whether federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, supranational or of any other jurisdiction.
(w) Holder has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1 hereof.
(x) Law means all laws, statutes, rules, regulations, codes, injunctions, decrees, orders, ordinances, registration requirements, disclosure requirements and other pronouncements having the effect of law of the United States, any foreign country or any domestic or foreign state, county, city or other political subdivision or of any Governmental Authority.
(y) Organic Change means any recapitalization, reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale of a all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries or other transaction, in each case which is effected in such a way that the holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive (either directly or upon subsequent liquidation) cash, stock, securities or other assets or property with respect to or in exchange for Common Stock, other than a transaction which triggers an adjustment pursuant to Sections 5.1(a) or (c) .
(z) Person means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, association, indenture trustee, organization, joint stock company, joint venture, estate, trust, governmental unit or any political subdivision thereof, or any other entity (as such term is defined in the Bankruptcy Code).
(aa) Plan of Reorganization has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
(bb) Pro Rata Repurchase Offer means any offer to purchase shares of Common Stock by the Company or any Affiliate thereof pursuant to (i) any tender offer or exchange offer subject to Section 13(e) or 14(e) of the Exchange Act or Regulation 14E promulgated thereunder or (ii) any other offer available to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock to purchase or exchange their shares of Common Stock, in the case of both (i) or (ii), whether for cash, shares of capital stock of the Company, other securities of the Company, evidences of indebtedness of the Company or any other Person, or any other property (including, without limitation, shares of capital stock, other securities or evidences of indebtedness of a Subsidiary), or any combination thereof, effected while the Warrants are outstanding. The effective date of a Pro Rata Repurchase Offer shall mean the date of acceptance of shares for
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purchase or exchange by the Company under any tender or exchange offer which is a Pro Rata Repurchase Offer or the date of purchase with respect to any Pro Rata Repurchase Offer that is not a tender or exchange offer.
(cc) Registered Holder has the meaning set forth in Section 3.4(d) hereof.
(dd) Requisite Holders means Registered Holders of Warrants exercisable for sixty six and two-thirds (66 2/3%) of the Common Stock issuable upon exercise of all Warrants then outstanding.
(ee) SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other federal agency at the time administering the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
(ff) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(gg) Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity of which (i) if a corporation, a majority of the total voting power of shares of stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, or (ii) if a partnership, limited liability company or other business entity (other than a corporation), a majority of the partnership, limited liability company or other similar ownership interest thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof. For purposes hereof, a Person or Persons shall be deemed to have a majority ownership interest in a partnership, limited liability company or other business entity if such Person or Persons shall be allocated a majority of partnership, limited liability company or other business entity gains or losses or shall be or control the general partner, the managing member or entity performing similar functions of such partnership, limited liability company or other business entity.
(hh) Trading Day means any day on which trading in listed securities occurs on the principal U.S. national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not so listed, any day on which trading in listed securities occurs on The Nasdaq Stock Market.
(ii) Transfer has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1(a) hereof.
(jj) Warrant Agent has the meaning set forth in the preamble and shall include any successor to the Warrant Agent pursuant to Section 8.1 hereof.
(kk) Warrant Certificate has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) hereof.
(ll) Warrant Exercise Shares means the shares of Common Stock issued upon the applicable exercise of a Warrant.
(mm) Warrant Register has the meaning set forth in Section 3.4(c) hereof.
(nn) Warrant Restrictions has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) hereof.
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(oo) Warrant Statements has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(c) hereof.
(pp) Warrants has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Section 1.2 Rules of Construction.
(a) The singular form of any word used herein, including the terms defined in Section 1.1 hereof, shall include the plural, and vice versa. The use herein of a word of any gender shall include correlative words of all genders.
(b) Unless otherwise specified, references to Articles, Sections and other subdivisions of this Agreement are to the designated Articles, Sections and other subdivision of this Agreement as originally executed. The words hereof, herein, hereunder and words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole.
(c) References to $ are to dollars in lawful currency of the United States of America.
(d) The Exhibits attached hereto are an integral part of this Agreement.
ARTICLE II
APPOINTMENT OF WARRANT AGENT
Section 2.1 Appointment . The Company hereby appoints the Warrant Agent to act as agent for the Company for the Warrants in accordance with the express terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement (and no implied terms or conditions), and the Warrant Agent hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to perform the same in accordance with the express terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement.
ARTICLE III
WARRANTS
Section 3.1 Issuance of Warrants .
(a) On the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement and in accordance with the terms of the Plan of Reorganization, on or as soon as practicable, but in no event later than one (1) Business Day, after the Effective Date (such date, the Date of Issuance ), the Company will issue and distribute the Warrants as set forth in the Plan of Reorganization.
(b) The maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to exercise of the Warrants shall be 6,210,000 shares, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time pursuant to this Agreement.
(c) Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Warrants (such Warrants being referred to as Book-Entry Warrants ) shall be issued through the book-entry
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facilities of The Depository Trust Company, as depositary (the Depositary ), in the form of one or more global warrant certificates ( Global Warrant Certificates ), duly executed on behalf of the Company and countersigned, either by manual or facsimile signature, by the Warrant Agent, in the manner set forth in Section 3.2(b) below, which the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Depositary, on or promptly after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Warrants which are not issuable through the Depositary shall either be (x) represented by certificates (including the Global Warrant Certificates, Warrant Certificates ; and any Warrant represented by a Warrant Certificate, other than a Global Warrant Certificate, being referred to as a Certificated Warrant ) or (y) issued by electronic entry registration on the books of the Warrant Agent ( Direct Registration Warrants ) and shall be reflected on statements issued by the Warrant Agent from time to time to the holders thereof (the Warrant Statements ); provided that any Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants that are not subject to any restriction on Transfer or exercise, or are not subject to any vesting requirements (such restrictions or requirements, Warrant Restrictions ), may be exchanged at any time for a corresponding number of Book-Entry Warrants, in accordance with Section 6.1(c) and the applicable procedures of the Depositary and the Warrant Agent.
Section 3.2 Form of Warrant .
(a) Subject to Section 6.1 of this Agreement, the Global Warrant Certificates, with the forms of election to exercise and of assignment printed on the reverse thereof, shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 attached hereto. The Certificated Warrants, with the forms of election to exercise and of assignment printed on the reverse thereof, shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A-2 attached hereto. The Warrant Certificates may bear such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Agreement, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends, summaries, or endorsements placed thereon as may be required by the Depositary (including as provided in Section 3.2(b) ) or to comply with any Law or with any rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, or, be determined by a duly authorized officer of the Company (each, an Appropriate Officer ) executing such Warrant Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the Warrant Certificates; provided any such insertions, omissions, substitutions or variations shall be reasonably acceptable to the Warrant Agent; and provided further , in each case, that they do not affect the rights, duties, obligations, responsibilities, liabilities or indemnities of the Warrant Agent.
(b) The Global Warrant Certificates shall bear a legend substantially in the form indicated therefor on Exhibit A-1 . The Global Warrant Certificates shall be deposited on or after the Date of Issuance with the Warrant Agent and registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary. Each Global Warrant Certificate shall represent such number of the outstanding Warrants as specified therein, and each shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of outstanding Warrants from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding Warrants represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
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Section 3.3 Execution of Warrant Certificates .
(a) The Warrant Certificates shall be signed on behalf of the Company by an Appropriate Officer. Each such signature upon the Warrant Certificates may be in the form of a facsimile signature of any such Appropriate Officer and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Warrant Certificates and for that purpose the Company may adopt and use the facsimile signature of any Appropriate Officer.
(b) If any Appropriate Officer who shall have signed any of the Warrant Certificates shall cease to be such Appropriate Officer before the Warrant Certificates so signed shall have been countersigned, either by manual or facsimile signature, by the Warrant Agent or delivered or disposed of by or on behalf of the Company, such Warrant Certificates nevertheless may be countersigned and delivered or disposed of with the same force and effect as though such Appropriate Officer had not ceased to be such Appropriate Officer of the Company; and any Warrant Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by any person who, at the actual date of the execution of such Warrant Certificate, shall be a proper Appropriate Officer of the Company to sign such Warrant Certificate, although at the date of the execution of this Agreement any such person was not such Appropriate Officer.
(c) A Warrant Certificate shall be, and shall remain, subject to the provisions of this Agreement until such time as all of the Warrants evidenced thereby shall have been duly exercised or shall have expired or been canceled in accordance with the terms hereof.
Section 3.4 Registration and Countersignature .
(a) Upon receipt of a written order of the Company signed by an Appropriate Officer instructing the Warrant Agent to do so, the Warrant Agent (i) shall upon receipt of Warrant Certificates, including the Global Warrant Certificates, duly executed on behalf of the Company, countersign, either by manual or facsimile signature, such Global Warrant Certificates evidencing Warrants, and record such Warrant Certificates, including the Registered Holders thereof, in the Warrant Register, and (ii) shall register in the Warrant Register any Direct Registration Warrants in the names of the initial Registered Holders thereof. Such written order of the Company shall specifically state the number of Warrants that are to be issued as Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants and the name of the Registered Holders thereof, and the number of Warrants that are to be issued as Book-Entry Warrants, and the Warrant Agent may rely conclusively on such written order.
(b) No Warrant Certificate shall be valid for any purpose, and no Warrant evidenced thereby shall be exercisable, until such Warrant Certificate has been countersigned by the manual or facsimile signature of the Warrant Agent. Such signature by the Warrant Agent upon any Warrant Certificate executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that such Warrant Certificate so countersigned has been duly issued hereunder.
(c) The Warrant Agent shall keep or cause to be kept, at an office designated for such purpose, books (the Warrant Register ) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall register the Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, and the Warrants represented by Global Warrant Certificates, and exchanges, cancellations and Transfers of outstanding Warrants in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 6.1 of this Agreement, all in a form satisfactory to the Company and the Warrant
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Agent. No service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of Transfer of the Warrants, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any stamp or other tax or other charge that may be imposed on any Registered Holder in connection with any such exchange or registration of Transfer. The Warrant Agent shall have no obligation to effect an exchange or register a Transfer unless and until it is satisfied that any payments required by the immediately preceding sentence have been made.
(d) Prior to due presentment for registration of Transfer or exchange of any Warrants in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Agreement, the Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the person in whose name such Warrants are registered upon the Warrant Register (the Registered Holder of such Warrants) as the absolute owner of such Warrants, for all purposes including, without limitation, for the purpose of any exercise thereof, any distribution to the holder thereof and for all other purposes, and neither the Warrant Agent nor the Company shall be affected by notice to the contrary. Neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent will be liable or responsible for any registration or Transfer of any Warrants that are registered or to be registered in the name of a fiduciary or the nominee of a fiduciary.
ARTICLE IV
TERMS AND EXERCISE OF WARRANTS
Section 4.1 Exercise Price . Each Warrant shall entitle (i) in the case of the Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, the Registered Holder thereof and (ii) in the case of Book-Entry Warrants, the Beneficial Holder thereof ((i) and (ii) collectively, the Holder ), subject to the provisions of the Warrants and this Agreement, the right to purchase from the Company one share of Common Stock (subject to adjustment in accordance Article V hereof), at the price of $0.01 per share (the Exercise Price ).
Section 4.2 Exercise Period . Warrants may be exercised by the Holder thereof, in whole or in part (but not as to a fractional share of Common Stock), at any time and from time to time after the Date of Issuance and prior to 5:00 P.M., New York time on the date that is ninety (90) days after the Date of Issuance or, if such date falls on a day other than a Business Day, the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (the Exercise Period ). To the extent that a Warrant or portion thereof is not exercised prior to the expiration of the Exercise Period, it shall be automatically cancelled with no action by any Person, and with no further rights thereunder, upon such expiration.
Section 4.3 Method of Exercise .
(a) In connection with the exercise of any Warrant, the Exercise Price shall be paid as provided in this Section 4.3(a) . The Holder of such Warrants shall exchange the Common Stock purchase rights represented thereby by surrendering such Warrant (or portion thereof) to the Warrant Agent for the number of Warrant Exercise Shares being exercised, up to the aggregate number of Warrant Exercise Shares for which the Warrants are exercisable, from which Warrant Exercise Shares, in payment of the Exercise Price thereof, the Company shall withhold and not issue to such Holder a number of such Warrant Exercise Shares equal to (x) the number of Warrant Exercise Shares for which the Warrants are being exercised, multiplied by
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(y) the Exercise Price, and divided by (z) the Closing Sale Price on the Exercise Date (and such withheld shares shall no longer be issuable under such Warrants, and the Holder shall not have any rights or be entitled to any payment with respect to such withheld shares) (such exchange a Cashless Exercise ). Upon exercise of any Warrants, the Warrant Agent will promptly deliver written notice to the Company to confirm the number of shares of Common Stock issuable in connection with a Cashless Exercise. The Company shall calculate and transmit to the Warrant Agent in a written notice, and the Warrant Agent shall have no duty, responsibility or obligation to calculate, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable in connection with any Cashless Exercise. The Warrant Agent shall be entitled to rely conclusively on any such written notice provided by the Company, and the Warrant Agent shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with such written instructions or pursuant to this Agreement.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions of the Warrants and this Agreement, the Holder of any Warrants may exercise, in whole or in part, such Holders right to purchase the Warrant Exercise Shares issuable upon exercise of such Warrants by: (x) in the case of Certificated Warrants, properly completing and duly executing the exercise form for the election to exercise such Warrants (including the exercise forms referred to in clauses (y) and (z) below, an Exercise Form ) appearing on the reverse side of the Warrant Certificates, (y) in the case of Direct Registration Warrants, providing an Exercise Form substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, properly completed and duly executed by the Registered Holder thereof, to the Warrant Agent, and (z) in the case of Book-Entry Warrants, complying with the practices and procedures of the Depositary and its direct and indirect participants and taking such action as is consistent with the provisions of subsection (e) below.
(c) Any exercise of Warrants pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be irrevocable and shall constitute a binding agreement between the Holder and the Company, enforceable in accordance with the terms of the Warrants and this Agreement.
(d) In the case of Certificated Warrants, upon receipt of the Warrant Certificate with the properly completed and duly executed Exercise Form, or in the case of Direct Registration Warrants, upon receipt of an Exercise Form, in each case pursuant to Section 4.3(b) , the Warrant Agent shall:
(i) examine the Exercise Form and all other documents delivered to it by or on behalf of Holders as contemplated hereunder to ascertain whether or not, on their face, such Exercise Form and any such other documents have been executed and completed in accordance with their terms and the terms hereof;
(ii) if an Exercise Form or other document appears, on its face, to have been improperly completed or executed or some other irregularity in connection with the exercise of the Warrants exists, endeavor to inform the appropriate parties (including the person submitting such instrument) of the need for fulfillment of all requirements, specifying those requirements which appear to be unfulfilled;
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(iii) inform the Company of and cooperate with and assist the Company in resolving any reconciliation problems between the information provided on any Exercise Form received and the information on the Warrant Register;
(iv) advise the Company as promptly as practicable but in any event no later than three (3) Business Days after receipt of an Exercise Form, of (A) the receipt of such Exercise Form and the number of Warrant Exercise Shares in respect of which the Warrants are requested to be exercised in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, (B) the instructions with respect to delivery of the Common Stock deliverable upon such exercise, subject to timely receipt of such information by the Warrant Agent, and (C) such other information as the Company shall reasonably request; and
(v) subject to Common Stock being made available to the Warrant Agent by or on behalf of the Company, and written instructions from the Company, liaise with the transfer agent for the Common Stock for the issuance and registration (in electronic entry form, in the case of Direct Registration Warrants) of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants in accordance with the Exercise Form.
The Company reserves the right reasonably to reject any and all Exercise Forms that it determines, in its sole discretion, are not in proper form or for which any corresponding agreement by the Company to exchange would, in the opinion of the Company, be unlawful. Any such determination by the Company shall be final and binding on the Holders of the Warrants, absent manifest error. Moreover, the Company reserves the absolute right to waive any of the conditions to any particular exercise of Warrants or any defects in the Exercise Form(s) with regard to any particular exercise of Warrants. The Company shall provide prompt written notice to the Warrant Agent of any such rejection or waiver.
(e) In the case of Book-Entry Warrants, the Company and the Warrant Agent shall cooperate with the Depositary and its direct and indirect participants in order to effectuate the exercise of such Warrants, in accordance with the applicable practices and procedures of the Depositary and such participants, including the manner of delivery of notice of exercise by the Beneficial Holders thereof, which may be substantially in the form of Exhibit C or in such other form as shall be prescribed by such participants, as applicable.
(f) Neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be under any duty to give notice to the Holders of the Warrants of any irregularities in any exercise of Warrants, nor shall it incur any liability for the failure to give such notice.
Section 4.4 Issuance of Common Stock .
(a) Upon the effectiveness of any exercise of any Warrants pursuant to Section 4.3 , the Company shall, subject to Section 4.6 , promptly at its expense, and in no event later than five (5) Business Days of the Exercise Date, cause to be issued as directed by the Holder of such Warrants the total number of whole shares of Common Stock for which such
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Warrants are being exercised (as the same may be hereafter adjusted pursuant to Article V ) in such denominations as are requested by the Holder as set forth below:
(i) in the case of the exercise of any Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants by the Registered Holder thereof, by electronic entry on the books of the Companys transfer agent, registered as directed by the Holder, and
(ii) in the case of the exercise of any Book-Entry Warrants by the Beneficial Holder thereof, by same-day or next-day credit to the Depositary in accordance with the practices and procedures of the Depositary and its respective participants, delivered to such account as directed by the Holder.
(b) Notwithstanding the five (5) Business Day period set forth in Section 4.4(a) , the Warrant Exercise Shares shall be deemed to have been issued at the time at which all of the conditions to such exercise have been fulfilled, and the Holder, or other person to whom the Holder shall direct the issuance thereof, shall be deemed for all purposes to have become the holder of such Warrant Exercise Shares at such time.
Section 4.5 Reservation of Shares . The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock solely for the purpose of issuance upon the exercise of the Warrants, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate Warrant Exercise Shares issuable upon the exercise of all outstanding Warrants. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to take all such actions as may be necessary to assure that all such shares of Common Stock may be so issued without violating the Companys governing documents or any requirements of any national securities exchange upon which shares of Common Stock may be listed. The Company shall not take any action which would cause the number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to be less than the number of such shares required to be reserved hereunder for issuance upon exercise of the Warrants.
Section 4.6 No Fractional Shares . Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Company shall not be required to issue any fraction of a share of its capital stock in connection with the exercise of any Warrants, and in any case where a Holder of Warrants would, except for the provisions of this Section 4.6 , be entitled under the terms thereof to receive a fraction of a share upon the exercise of such Warrants, the Company shall, upon the exercise of such Warrants, (i) round down to the nearest whole number if the resulting fraction of a share is less than 0.50 of a whole share, or (ii) round up to the nearest whole number if the resulting fraction of a share is equal to or greater than 0.50. In the event of rounding in accordance with clause (i) of the preceding sentence, a Holder shall not have any rights or be entitled to any payment with respect to such fraction of a share.
Section 4.7 Close of Books; Par Value . The Company shall not close its books against the Transfer of any Warrants or any Warrant Exercise Shares in any manner which interferes with the timely exercise of such Warrants. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to, from time to time, take all such action as may be necessary to assure that the par value per share of the unissued shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of the Warrants is at all times equal to or less than the Exercise Price.
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Section 4.8 Payment of Taxes . In connection with the exercise of any Warrant, the Company shall not be required to pay any tax or other charge imposed in respect of any Transfer involved in the issue and delivery of any shares of Common Stock (including certificates therefor) or payment of cash or other property to any recipient other than the Holder of the Warrants surrendered upon the exercise thereof, and in case of such Transfer or payment, the Warrant Agent and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any shares or pay any cash until (x) such tax or charge has been paid or an amount sufficient for the payment thereof has been delivered to the Warrant Agent or the Company or (y) it has been established to the Companys and the Warrant Agents satisfaction that any such tax or other charge that is or may become due has been paid. For the avoidance of doubt, the Warrant Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action under any section of this Agreement that requires the payment of taxes or charges, unless and until the Warrant Agent is satisfied that all such taxes and/or charges have been paid.
ARTICLE V
ADJUSTMENT OF NUMBER OF
WARRANT EXERCISE SHARES; PARTICIPATION IN DISTRIBUTIONS
In order to prevent dilution of the rights granted under the Warrants, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of each Warrant shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in this Article V .
Section 5.1 Adjustments .
(a) Subdivision and Combination or Stock Dividends payable with Respect to Common Stock. In case the outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided into a greater number of shares of Common Stock or the Company shall make a dividend on the Common Stock or combined into a lesser number of shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, then, effective as of the close of business on the day on which such subdivision, combination or stock dividend becomes effective, the number of Warrant Exercise Shares issuable upon exercise of a Warrant shall be increased to a number of Shares equal the product of (x) the number of Warrant Exercise Shares so issuable immediately prior to such subdivision, combination or stock dividend, multiplied by (y) a fraction, the (I) numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such subdivision, combination or stock dividend. and the (II) denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such subdivision, combination or stock dividend.
(b) Reserved .
(c) Self Tender Offers and Exchange Offers . In case a tender offer or exchange offer made by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company for all or any portion of the Common Stock shall expire and such tender offer or exchange offer shall involve the payment by the Company or such Subsidiary of consideration per share of Common Stock (which, if payable other than in cash shall be the Fair Market Value thereof) at the last time (the Expiration Time ) tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer
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(as it shall have been amended) that exceeds the average Daily VWAP over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the seventh Trading Day after the Expiration Time (the Expiration Time Price ), the number of Warrant Exercise Shares issuable upon exercise of a Warrant shall be increased to a number of Shares equal to the product of (x) the number of Warrant Exercise Shares so issuable immediately prior to the Expiration Time and (y) a fraction of which (I) the numerator shall be the sum of (1) the Fair Market Value of the aggregate consideration payable to stockholders based on the acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer) of all shares validly tendered or exchanged and not withdrawn as of the Expiration Time and (2) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (after giving effect to the purchase or exchange of shares of Common Stock pursuant to such tender or exchange offer) on the Expiration Time and the Expiration Time Price, and (II) the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (without giving effect to the purchase or exchange of shares of Common Stock pursuant to such tender or exchange offer) on the Expiration Time multiplied by the Expiration Time Price. Such increase shall become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the Expiration Time. For the purposes of this Section 5(c) , the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company.
(d) Reorganization, Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale . In connection with any Organic Change prior to the expiration of the Exercise Period, the Company shall make appropriate provision to ensure that the Holders of the Warrants shall have the right to acquire and receive, upon exercise of such Warrants, such cash, stock, securities or other assets or property as would have been issued or payable in such Organic Change (as if the Holder had exercised such Warrant immediately prior to such Organic Change) with respect to or in exchange, as applicable, for the number of Warrant Exercise Shares that would have been issued upon exercise of such Warrants, if such Warrants had been exercised immediately prior to the occurrence of such Organic Change.
Section 5.2 Notices . Whenever the number and/or kind of Warrant Exercise Shares is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall (i) prepare and deliver, or cause to be prepared and delivered, forthwith to the Warrant Agent a written statement setting forth the adjusted number and/or kind of shares issuable upon the exercise of Warrants after such adjustment, the facts requiring such adjustment and the computation by which adjustment was made, and (ii) cause the Warrant Agent to give written notice to each Registered Holder in the manner provided in Section 9.2 below, of the record date or the effective date of the event. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such event. The Warrant Agent shall be fully protected in relying upon any such written notice delivered in accordance with this Section 5.2 , and on any adjustment therein contained, and shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any such adjustment unless and until it shall have received such written notice. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Warrant Agent shall have no duty or obligation to investigate or confirm whether the information contained in any such written notice complies with the terms of this Agreement or any other document, including the Warrant Certificates. The Warrant Agent shall have no duty to determine when an adjustment under this Article V should be made, how any such adjustment should be calculated, or the amount of any such adjustment.
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Section 5.3 Deferral or Exclusion of Certain Adjustments . No adjustment to the number of Warrant Exercise Shares shall be required hereunder unless such adjustment together with other adjustments carried forward as provided below, would result in an increase or decrease of at least one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the number of Warrant Exercise Shares; provided that any adjustments which by reason of this Section 5.3 are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment.
Section 5.4 Form of Warrant after Adjustments . The form of the Warrant Certificate need not be changed because of any adjustments in the Exercise Price or the number and/or kind of shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, and Warrant Certificates theretofore or thereafter issued may continue to express the same price and number and kind of shares as are stated therein, as initially issued. The Company, however, may at any time in its sole discretion make any change in the form of Warrant Certificate that it may deem appropriate to give effect to such adjustments and that does not affect the substance of the Warrant Certificate (including the rights, duties, liabilities or obligations of the Warrant Agent), and any Warrant Certificate thereafter issued, whether in exchange or substitution for an outstanding Warrant Certificate, may be in the form so changed.
ARTICLE VI
TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE
OF WARRANTS
Section 6.1 Registration of Transfers and Exchanges .
(a) Transfer and Exchange of Book-Entry Warrants . The Transfer (as defined below) and exchange of Book-Entry Warrants shall be effected through the Depositary and its direct and indirect participants, in accordance with the practices and procedures therefor of the Depositary and such participants. As used herein, Transfer means any transfer, sale, assignment or other disposition.
(b) Exchange of Book-Entry Warrants for Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants . If at any time the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the Warrant Agent in writing that it elects to exclusively cause the issuance of Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants under this Agreement, then upon written instructions signed by an Appropriate Officer of the Company, the Warrant Agent shall register and issue Certificated Warrants, or shall register Direct Registration Warrants, in an aggregate number equal to the number of Book-Entry Warrants represented by the Global Warrant Certificates, in accordance with such written instructions. Such written instructions provided by the Company shall state that the Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants issued in exchange for Book-Entry Warrants pursuant to this Section 6.1(a) shall be registered in such names and in such amounts as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Warrant Agent.
(c) Transfer and Exchange of Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants . When Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants are presented to the Warrant Agent with a written request:
(i) to register the Transfer of such Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants; or
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(ii) to exchange such Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants for an equal number of Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, respectively, of other authorized denominations,
the Warrant Agent shall register the Transfer or make the exchange, and in the case of Certificated Warrants shall issue such new Warrant Certificates, as requested if its customary requirements for such transactions are met; provided that the Warrant Agent shall have received (x) a written instruction of Transfer in form satisfactory to the Warrant Agent, duly executed by the Registered Holder thereof or by his attorney, duly authorized in writing, and (y) in the case of Certificated Warrants, surrender of the Warrant Certificate or Certificate(s) representing same duly endorsed for Transfer or exchange.
(d) Exchange of Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants for Book-Entry Warrants. Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants that are not subject to any Warrant Restrictions or subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 6.4 , may be exchanged for Book-Entry Warrants upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth below. Upon receipt by the Warrant Agent of appropriate written instruments of Transfer with respect to such Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, in form satisfactory to the Warrant Agent, and in the case of Certificated Warrants, surrender of the Warrant Certificate or Certificate(s) representing same duly endorsed for Transfer or exchange, together with written instructions directing the Warrant Agent to make, or to direct the Depositary to make, an endorsement on the Global Warrant Certificate to reflect an increase in the number of Warrants represented by the Global Warrant Certificate equal to the number of Warrants represented by such Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, then the Warrant Agent shall cancel such Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants on the Warrant Register and cause, or direct the Depositary to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the Warrant Agent, the number of Book-Entry Warrants represented by the Global Warrant Certificate to be increased accordingly. If no Global Warrant Certificates are then outstanding, or if the Global Warrant Certificates then outstanding cannot be used for such purposes, the Company shall issue and the Warrant Agent shall countersign, by either manual or facsimile signature, a new Global Warrant Certificate representing the appropriate number of Book-Entry Warrants. Any such Transfer shall be subject to the Companys prior written approval.
(e) Restrictions on Transfer and Exchange of Global Warrant Certificates . Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement (other than the provisions set forth in Section 6.1(f) ), unless and until it is exchanged in whole for Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, a Global Warrant Certificate may not be Transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
(f) Restrictions on Transfer . No Warrants or Warrant Exercise Shares shall be sold, exchanged or otherwise Transferred in violation of the Securities Act or state securities Laws. If any Holder purports to Transfer Warrants to any Person in a transaction that would violate the provisions of this Section 6.1(f), such Transfer shall be void ab initio and of no effect.
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(g) Exchange of Global Warrant Certificate . A Global Warrant Certificate may be exchanged for another Global Warrant Certificate of like or similar tenor for purposes of complying with the practices and procedures of the Depositary.
(h) Cancellation of Global Warrant Certificate . At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Warrant Certificates have either been exchanged for Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, redeemed, repurchased or cancelled, the Global Warrant Certificate shall be returned to, or retained and cancelled pursuant to applicable Law by, the Warrant Agent, upon written instructions from the Company satisfactory to the Warrant Agent.
Section 6.2 Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Warrants .
(a) All Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants issued upon any registration of Transfer or exchange of Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, respectively, shall be the valid obligations of the Company, entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants surrendered upon such registration of Transfer or exchange. No service charge shall be made to a Registered Holder for any registration, Transfer or exchange of any Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, but the Company or the Warrant Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any stamp or other tax or other charge that may be imposed on the Registered Holder in connection with any such exchange or registration of Transfer. The Warrant Agent shall forward any such sum collected by it to the Company or to such persons as the Company shall specify by written notice. The Warrant Agent shall have no obligation to effect an exchange or register a Transfer unless and until it is satisfied that all such taxes and/or charges have been paid.
(b) So long as the Depositary, or its nominee, is the registered owner of a Global Warrant Certificate, the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, shall be considered by the Company, the Warrant Agent, and any agent of the Company or the Warrant Agent as the sole owner or holder of the Warrants represented by such Global Warrant Certificate for all purposes under this Agreement. Neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent, in its capacity as registrar for such Warrants, will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to beneficial interests in a Global Warrant Certificate or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial interests. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Warrant Agent, or any agent of the Company or the Warrant Agent from giving effect to any written certification, proxy, or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair the operation of customary practices of the Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Warrant Certificate.
(c) Subject to Sections 6.1(c) , and this Section 6.2 , the Warrant Agent shall,
(i) in the case of Certificated Warrants, upon receipt of all information required to be delivered hereunder and upon delivery by the Registered Holder thereof,
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from time to time register the Transfer of any outstanding Certificated Warrants in the Warrant Register, at the Warrant Agents office designated for such purpose, of the Warrant Certificate representing such Certificated Warrants, properly completed and duly endorsed for Transfer, by the Registered Holder thereof or by the duly appointed legal representative thereof or by a duly authorized attorney, such endorsement to be guaranteed by a participant in a Medallion Signature Guarantee Program at a guarantee level acceptable to the Warrant Agent; and upon any such registration of Transfer, a new Warrant Certificate shall be issued to the transferee.
(ii) in the case of Direct Registration Warrants, upon receipt of all information required to be delivered hereunder, from time to time register the Transfer of any outstanding Direct Registration Warrants in the Warrant Register, upon delivery by the Registered Holder thereof, at the Warrant Agents office designated for such purpose, of a form of assignment substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, properly completed and duly executed by the Registered Holder thereof or by the duly appointed legal representative thereof or by a duly authorized attorney, such signature to be guaranteed by a participant in a Medallion Signature Guarantee Program at a guarantee level acceptable to the Warrant Agent; and upon any such registration of Transfer, new Direct Registration Warrants shall be issued to the transferee.
Section 6.3 Fractional Warrants . The Warrant Agent shall not be required to effect any registration of Transfer or exchange which will result in the issuance of a fraction of a Warrant.
Section 6.4 Restricted Warrants; Legends . Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement, the Company will cause any Warrants that are distributed or issued under the Plan of Reorganization (i) to any Person that the Company determines may be deemed an underwriter under section 1145(b) of Title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 101-1532 (the Bankruptcy Code ) or (ii) in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 or Regulation D promulgated thereunder, to be issued as Certificated Warrants represented by Warrant Certificates bearing a legend in substantially the following form, or as Direct Registration Warrants with a notation to a similar effect on the Warrant Register:
THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ISSUED IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT ) AND HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED PURSUANT TO THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS. THESE WARRANTS (AND THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE THEREOF) MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED EXCEPT (A) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (B) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION THEREUNDER.
The Warrant Exercise Shares issued upon exercise of any such Warrants shall be issued in the form of registered stock certificates bearing a legend indicating that Transfer may be restricted
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under United States federal and state securities Laws, or in the form of an electronic entry on the stock register maintained by the transfer agent for the Common Stock with a notation to a similar effect. If reasonably requested by the Warrant Agent, the Warrant Agent shall have received a written opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Warrant Agent that the Transfer of any such Warrants is in compliance with the Securities Act.
The Holder (or its transferee, as applicable) of any such Warrants or Warrant Exercise Shares, as applicable, shall be entitled to receive from the Company, without expense, new securities of like tenor not bearing the restrictive legend set forth above when (a) such Warrants or Warrant Exercise Shares, as applicable, shall have been (i) effectively registered under the Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with a registration statement covering such securities, (ii) disposed of pursuant to the provisions of Rule 144 or any comparable rule under the Securities Act or (iii) when, in the written reasonable opinion of independent counsel for such Holder (which counsel shall be experienced in Securities Act matters and which counsel and opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company), such restrictions are no longer required in order to insure compliance with the Securities Act (including, without limitation, when the provisions of Rule 144(b) or any comparable rule under the Securities Act shall have been satisfied).
ARTICLE VII
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANTS
Section 7.1 No Rights or Liability as Stockholder . Nothing contained herein or in the Warrants shall be construed as conferring upon the Holder or his, her or its transferees the right to vote or to receive dividends or distributions (except as otherwise expressly provided herein) or to consent or to receive notice as a stockholder in respect of any meeting of stockholders for the election of directors of the Company or of any other matter, or any rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company. The vote or consent of any Holder shall not be required with respect to any action or proceeding of the Company, and no Holder shall have any right not expressly conferred hereunder or under, or by applicable Law with respect to, the Warrants or Warrant Certificate held by such Holder. No provision hereof or in the Warrants, and no mere enumeration herein or in the Warrants of the rights or privileges of the Holder, shall give rise to any liability of such holder for the Exercise Price hereunder or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.
Section 7.2 Notice to Registered Holders . The Company shall give notice to Registered Holders by regular mail or press release, and prompt written notice thereof to the Warrant Agent, if at any time prior to the expiration or exercise in full of the Warrants, any of the following events shall occur:
(a) the establishment by the board of directors of the Company of a record date for the payment of any dividend payable in any securities upon shares of Common Stock or the making of any other dividend or distribution to all holders of Common Stock;
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(b) the issuance to all holders of Common Stock of any additional shares of Common Stock or of rights, options or warrants to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock or of any other subscription rights, options or warrants;
(c) a Pro Rata Repurchase Offer;
(d) an Organic Change; or
(e) a dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company.
Such giving of notice shall be initiated at least ten (10) days prior to the date fixed as the record date or the date of closing of the Companys stock transfer books for the determination of the stockholders entitled to such dividend, distribution or subscription rights, or of the stockholders entitled to vote on such Organic Change, dissolution, liquidation or winding up, as applicable. Such notice shall specify such record date or the date of closing the stock transfer books or proposed effective date, as the case may be. Failure to provide such notice shall not affect the validity of any action taken in connection with any such dividend, distribution or subscription rights, Pro Rata Repurchase Offer, Organic Change, dissolution, liquidation or winding up. For the avoidance of doubt, no such notice shall supersede or limit any adjustment called for by Section 5.1 by reason of any event as to which notice is required by this Section.
Section 7.3 Lost, Stolen, Mutilated or Destroyed Warrant Certificates . If any Warrant Certificate is lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed, the Company may issue, and upon written request by the Company, the Warrant Agent shall countersign, either by manual or facsimile signature, and deliver, in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of the mutilated Warrant Certificate, or in lieu of and substitution for the Warrant Certificate lost, stolen or destroyed, a new Warrant Certificate of like tenor in accordance with written instructions from the Company. In the case of Warrant Certificates other than Global Warrant Certificates, the Company or the Warrant Agent may in its discretion require evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft or destruction of such Warrant Certificate, and indemnity satisfactory to it, and applicants for such substitute Warrant Certificates shall also comply with such other regulations and pay such other charges as the Company or the Warrant Agent may require.
Section 7.4 Cancellation of Warrants . If the Company shall purchase or otherwise acquire Warrants, such Warrants shall be cancelled and retired, in the case of Certificated Warrants or Direct Registration Warrants, by appropriate notation on the Warrant Register, and, in the case of Book-Entry Warrants, in accordance with the practices and procedures of the Depositary, including if required by such practices and procedure by appropriate notation on the applicable Global Warrant Certificate.
ARTICLE VIII
CONCERNING THE WARRANT AGENT AND OTHER MATTERS
Section 8.1 Resignation, Consolidation or Merger of Warrant Agent .
(a) Appointment of Successor Warrant Agent . The Warrant Agent, or any successor to it hereafter appointed, may resign its duties and be discharged from all further duties
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and liabilities hereunder after giving thirty (30) days notice in writing to the Company. If the office of the Warrant Agent becomes vacant by resignation or incapacity to act or otherwise, the Company shall appoint in writing a successor Warrant Agent in place of the Warrant Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of fifteen (15) days after it has been notified in writing of such resignation or incapacity by the Warrant Agent or by the Registered Holder of a Warrant, then the Registered Holder of any Warrant may apply to the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the County of New York for the appointment of a successor Warrant Agent at the Companys cost. Any successor Warrant Agent, whether appointed by the Company or by such court, shall be a Person organized and existing under the Laws of the United States of America, or any state thereunder, in good standing. After appointment, any successor Warrant Agent shall be vested with all the authority, powers, rights, immunities, duties and obligations of its predecessor Warrant Agent with like effect as if originally named as Warrant Agent hereunder, without any further act or deed; but if for any reason it becomes necessary or appropriate, the predecessor Warrant Agent shall execute and deliver, at the expense of the Company, an instrument transferring to such successor Warrant Agent all the authority, powers, rights, immunities, duties and obligations of such predecessor Warrant Agent hereunder; and upon request of any successor Warrant Agent, the Company shall make, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all instruments in writing for more fully and effectually vesting in and confirming to such successor Warrant Agent all such authority, powers, rights, immunities, duties and obligations.
(b) Notice of Successor Warrant Agent . In the event a successor Warrant Agent shall be appointed, the Company shall (i) give notice thereof to the predecessor Warrant Agent and the transfer agent for the Common Stock not later than the effective date of any such appointment, and (ii) cause written notice thereof to be delivered to each Registered Holder at such Holders address appearing on the Warrant Register. Failure to give any notice provided for in this Section 8.1(b) or any defect therein shall not affect the legality or validity of the removal of the Warrant Agent or the appointment of a successor Warrant Agent, as the case may be.
(c) Merger, Consolidation or Name Change of Warrant Agent .
(i) Any Person into which the Warrant Agent may be merged or with which it may be consolidated or any Person resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Warrant Agent shall be a party shall be the successor Warrant Agent under this Agreement, without any further act or deed, if such person would be eligible for appointment as a successor Warrant Agent under the provisions of Section 8.1(a) . If any of the Warrant Certificates have been countersigned but not delivered at the time such successor to the Warrant Agent succeeds under this Agreement, any such successor to the Warrant Agent may adopt the countersignature of any previous Warrant Agent; and if at that time any of the Warrant Certificates shall not have been countersigned, any successor to the Warrant Agent may countersign such Warrant Certificates either in the name of the predecessor Warrant Agent or in the name of the successor Warrant Agent; and in all such cases such Warrant Certificates shall have the full force provided in the Warrant Certificates and in this Agreement.
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(ii) If at any time the name of the Warrant Agent is changed and at such time any of the Warrant Certificates have been countersigned but not delivered, the Warrant Agent whose name has changed may adopt the countersignature under its prior name; and if at that time any of the Warrant Certificates have not been countersigned, the Warrant Agent may countersign such Warrant Certificates either in its prior name or in its changed name; and in all such cases such Warrant Certificates shall have the full force provided in the Warrant Certificates and in this Agreement.
Section 8.2 Fees and Expenses of Warrant Agent .
(a) Remuneration . The Company agrees to pay the Warrant Agent reasonable remuneration for its services as Warrant Agent and will reimburse the Warrant Agent upon demand for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses), taxes and governmental charges and other charges of any kind and nature incurred by the Warrant Agent in connection with the negotiation, preparation, delivery, administration, execution, modification, waiver, delivery, enforcement or amendment of this of this Agreement and the exercise and performance of its duties hereunder.
(b) Further Assurances . The Company agrees to perform, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be performed, executed, acknowledged and delivered all such further and other acts, instruments, and assurances as may reasonably be required by the Warrant Agent for the carrying out or performing of the provisions of this Agreement.
Section 8.3 Duties of Warrant Agent .
(a) Covered Persons . References to the Warrant Agent in this Section 8.3 shall include the Warrant Agent and its Affiliates, principles, directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, attorneys, accountants, advisors and other professionals.
(b) Liability .
(i) The Warrant Agent shall not be liable for or by reason of any of the statements of fact or recitals contained in this Agreement, the Warrant Statements or in the Warrant Certificates (except, in each case, its countersignature thereof) or be required to verify the same, but all such statements and recitals are and shall be deemed to have been made by the Company only. The Warrant Agent shall not be under any responsibility in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or the execution and delivery hereof or in respect of the validity or execution of any Warrant Certificate (except, in each case, its countersignature thereof); nor shall the Warrant Agent be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Warrant Certificate to be complied with by the Company; nor shall the Warrant Agent be responsible for the making of any adjustment in the number and/or kind of shares issuable upon the exercise of a Warrants required under the provisions of Article V or be responsible for the manner, method or amount of any such change or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such change; nor shall the Warrant Agent by any act hereunder be deemed to make any representation or warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any Warrant Exercise Shares to be
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issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Warrant or as to whether any Warrant Exercise Shares will, when issued, be validly issued and fully paid and non-assessable. The Warrant Agent shall not be accountable or under any duty or responsibility for the use by the Company of any Warrant Certificate authenticated by the Warrant Agent and delivered by it to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or for the application by the Company of the proceeds of the issue and sale, or exercise, of the Warrants.
(ii) The Warrant Agent shall have no liability under, and no duty to inquire as to, the provisions of any agreement, instrument or document other than this Agreement, including any Warrant Certificate.
(iii) The Warrant Agent may rely on and shall incur no liability or responsibility to the Company, any Holder, or any other Person for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it upon any notice, instruction, request, resolution, waiver, consent, order, certificate, affidavit, statement, or other paper, document or instrument furnished to the Warrant Agent hereunder and believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the proper party or parties. The Warrant Agent shall be under no duty to inquire into or investigate the validity, accuracy or content of any such notice, instruction, request, resolution, waiver, consent, order, certificate, affidavit, statement, or other paper, document or instrument. The Warrant Agent shall not take any instructions or directions except those given in accordance with this Agreement.
(iv) The Warrant Agent shall act hereunder solely as agent for the Company and in a ministerial capacity and does not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust with any of the Holders of the Warrants, and its duties shall be determined solely by the provisions hereof. The Warrant Agent shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken in connection with this Agreement except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines that its own gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith (as each is determined by a final, nonappealable judgment) was the primary cause of any loss.
(v) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall the Warrant Agent be liable for any special, incidental, punitive, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Warrant Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage. Any liability of the Warrant Agent under this Agreement shall be limited to the amount of fees paid by the Company to the Warrant Agent hereunder.
(vi) All rights and obligations contained in this Section 8.3 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the resignation, replacement, incapacity or removal of the Warrant Agent. All fees and expenses incurred by the Warrant Agent prior to the resignation, replacement, incapacity or removal of the Warrant Agent shall be paid by the Company in accordance with this Section 8.3 of this Agreement notwithstanding such resignation, replacement, incapacity or removal of the Warrant Agent.
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(vii) The Warrant Agent shall not be under any liability for interest on any monies at any time received by it pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.
(viii) In no event shall the Warrant Agent be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its reasonable 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 or hardware) services.
(ix) In the event the Warrant Agent believes any ambiguity or uncertainty exists hereunder or in any notice, instruction, direction, request or other communication, paper or document received by the Warrant Agent hereunder, the Warrant Agent, may, in its sole discretion, refrain from taking any action, and shall be fully protected and shall not be liable in any way to the Company or any Holder or other person or entity for refraining from taking such action, unless the Warrant Agent receives written instructions signed by the Company which eliminates such ambiguity or uncertainty to the satisfaction of Warrant Agent.
(c) Reliance on Company Statement . Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement, the Warrant Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter be proved or established by the Company prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such fact or matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a statement signed by an Appropriate Officer of the Company and delivered to the Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent may rely upon such statement for any action taken or suffered by it pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement. The Company will perform, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be performed, executed, acknowledged and delivered all such further and other acts, instruments and assurances as may reasonably be required by the Warrant Agent for the carrying out or performing by the Warrant Agent of the provisions of this Agreement.
(d) Indemnity . The Company agrees to indemnify, defend, protect and save the Warrant Agent and hold it harmless from and against any and all losses, damages, claims, liabilities, penalties, judgments, settlements, actions, suits, proceedings, litigation, investigations, costs or expenses, including without limitation reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel, that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against such Person, at any time, and in any way relating to or arising out of or in connection with, directly or indirectly, the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, the enforcement of any rights or remedies under or in connection with this Agreement, or as may arise by reason of any act, omission or error of such Person; provided , however , that no such Person shall be entitled to be so indemnified, defended, protected, saved and kept harmless to the extent such loss was caused by its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, each as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be responsible for any settlement made without its written consent, which written consent shall not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld or delayed.
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(e) Exclusions . The Warrant Agent shall have no responsibility with respect to the validity of this Agreement or with respect to the validity or execution of any Warrant (except, in each case, its countersignature thereof); nor shall it be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Warrant; nor shall it be responsible to make any adjustments required under the provisions of Article V hereof or responsible for the manner, method or amount of any such adjustment or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such adjustment; nor shall it by any act hereunder be deemed to make any representation or warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any Common Stock to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Warrant or as to whether any Common Stock will, when issued, be valid and fully paid and nonassessable. The Warrant Agent will not be under any duty or responsibility to ensure compliance with any applicable federal or state securities Laws in connection with the issuance, Transfer or exchange of Warrants.
(f) The Warrant Agent may execute and exercise any of the rights or powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder either itself or by or through its attorneys, agents or employees, and the Warrant Agent shall not be answerable or accountable for any act, default, neglect or misconduct of any such attorneys, agents or employees or for any loss to the Company resulting from such neglect or misconduct; provided that the Warrant Agent acts without gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith (each as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) in connection with the selection of such attorneys, agents or employees.
(g) The Warrant Agent may consult at any time with legal counsel satisfactory to it (who may be legal counsel for the Company) and the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection to the Warrant Agent as to any action taken or omitted by such parties in accordance with such advice.
(h) The Warrant Agent may buy, sell, or deal in any of the Warrants or other securities of the Company freely as though it was not Warrant Agent under this Agreement. Nothing contained herein shall preclude the Warrant Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other Person.
(i) The Warrant Agent shall not be required to use or risk its own funds in the performance of any of its obligations or duties or the exercise of any of its rights or powers, and shall not be required to take any action which, in the Warrant Agents sole and absolute judgment, could involve it in expense or liability unless furnished with security and indemnity satisfactory to it.
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 9.1 Binding Effects; Benefits . This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the Company, the Warrant Agent and the Holders and their respective heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall confer on any person other than the Company, the Warrant Agent and the Holders, or their respective heirs, legal representatives, successors or assigns, any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement.
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Section 9.2 Notices . Unless a provision herein permits notice by way of a press release, any notice or other communication required or which may be given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sent by certified or regular mail (return receipt requested, postage prepaid), by private national courier service, by personal delivery or by facsimile transmission. Such notice or communication shall be deemed given (i) if mailed, two (2) days after the date of mailing, (ii) if sent by national courier service, one (1) Business Day after being sent, (iii) if delivered personally, when so delivered, or (iv) if sent by facsimile transmission, on the Business Day after such facsimile is transmitted, in each case as follows:
if to the Warrant Agent, to:
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC
6201 15th Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11219
Attention: Corporate Actions
with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC
48 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, New York 10005
Attention: Legal Department
if to the Company, to:
Peabody Energy Corporation
701 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63101
Facsimile: (314) 342-7597
Attention: A. Verona Dorch, Chief Legal Officer
with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Jones Day
77 West Wacker
Chicago, IL 60601
Facsimile: (312) 782-8585
Attention: Edward B. Winslow, Esq.
if to Registered Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the Warrant Register or in the records of the transfer agent or registrar for the Common Stock.
Section 9.3 Persons Having Rights under this Agreement . Nothing in this Agreement expressed, and nothing that may be implied from any of the provisions hereof is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or give to, any Person other than the parties hereto and the
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Holders, any right, remedy, or claim under or by reason of this Agreement or of any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise, or agreement hereof. All covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises, and agreements contained in this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, their successors and assigns and the Holders.
Section 9.4 Examination of this Agreement . A copy of this Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times at an office designated for such purpose by the Warrant Agent, for examination by the Registered Holder of any Warrant. Prior to such examination, the Warrant Agent may require any such Holder to submit evidence that such Holder is a Registered Holder of a Warrant.
Section 9.5 Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of original or facsimile or electronic PDF counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 9.6 Effect of Headings . The section headings herein are for convenience only and are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the interpretation hereof.
Section 9.7 Amendments .
(a) Subject to Section 9.7(b) below, this agreement may not be amended except in writing signed by the Company and the Warrant Agent.
(b) The Company and the Warrant Agent may from time to time supplement or amend this Agreement or the Warrants (i) without the approval of any Holder in order to cure any ambiguity, manifest error or other mistake in this Agreement or the Warrants, or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in the Warrants that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein or in the Warrants, or to make any other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising hereunder that the Company may deem necessary and that shall not adversely affect, alter or change the interests of the Holders or (ii) with the prior written consent of Requisite Holders; provided , that no such supplement or amendment shall disproportionately and adversely affects a Holder without the consent of such Holder.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, upon the delivery of a certificate from an Appropriate Officer which states that the proposed supplement or amendment is in compliance with the terms of this Section 9.7 , the Warrant Agent shall execute such supplement or amendment; provided that the Warrant Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, execute any supplement or amendment that affects Warrant Agents rights, duties, immunities, liabilities or obligations hereunder. Any supplement or amendment effected pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of this Section 9.7 shall be binding upon all Holders and upon each future Holder, the Company and the Warrant Agent. In the event of any supplement or amendment, the Company shall give prompt notice thereof to all Registered Holders and, if appropriate, notation thereof shall be made on all Warrant Certificates thereafter surrendered for registration of Transfer or exchange. Any failure of the Company to give such notice or any defect therein shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplement or amendment.
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Section 9.8 No Inconsistent Agreements; No Impairment . The Company shall not, on or after the date hereof, enter into any agreement with respect to its securities which conflicts with the rights granted to the Holders in the Warrants or the provisions hereof. The Company represents and warrants to the Holders that the rights granted hereunder do not in any way conflict with the rights granted to holders of the Companys securities under any other agreements. The Company shall not, by amendment of its certificate of incorporation or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms to be observed or performed hereunder by the Company, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of the Warrants and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary in order to preserve the exercise rights of the Holders against impairment.
Section 9.9 Integration/Entire Agreement . This Agreement is intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement and intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the Company, the Warrant Agent and the Holders in respect of the subject matter contained herein. There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein, with respect to the Warrants. This Agreement and the Warrants supersede all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter.
Section 9.10 Governing Law, Etc . This Agreement and each Warrant issued hereunder shall be deemed to be a contract made under the Laws of the State of New York and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Laws of such State. Each party hereto consents and submits to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and of the federal courts of the Southern District of New York in connection with any action or proceeding brought against it that arises out of or in connection with, that is based upon, or that relates to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. In connection with any such action or proceeding in any such court, each party hereto hereby waives personal service of any summons, complaint or other process and hereby agrees that service thereof may be made in accordance with the procedures for giving notice set forth in Section 9.2 hereof. Each party hereto hereby waives any objection to jurisdiction or venue in any such court in any such action or proceeding and agrees not to assert any defense based on forum non conveniens or lack of jurisdiction or venue in any such court in any such action or proceeding.
Section 9.11 Termination . This Agreement will terminate on the earlier of (i) such date when all Warrants have been exercised with respect to all shares subject thereto, or (ii) the expiration of the Exercise Period; provided that termination of the Agreement shall not occur until the issuance and receipt of all Warrant Exercise Shares by Holders entitled to such shares hereunder. The provisions of Section 8.3 and this Article IX shall survive such termination and the resignation, replacement or removal of the Warrant Agent.
Section 9.12 Waiver of Trial by Jury . Each party hereto, including each Holder by its receipt of a Warrant, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives the right to a trial by jury in any action, suit, counterclaim or other proceeding (whether based on contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of, connected with or relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.
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Section 9.13 Remedies . The Company hereby agrees that, in the event that the Company violates any provisions of the Warrants (including the obligation to deliver shares of Common Stock upon the exercise thereof), the remedies at Law available to the Holder of such Warrant may be inadequate. In such event, the Requisite Holders and, with the prior written consent of the Requisite Holders, the holder of such Warrants, shall have the right, in addition to all other rights and remedies any of them may have, to specific performance and/or injunctive or other equitable relief to enforce the provisions of this Agreement and the Warrants.
Section 9.14 Severability . In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained in this Agreement or in the Warrants, or the application thereof in any circumstances, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provisions in every other respect and of the remaining provisions contained herein and therein shall not be affected or impaired thereby; provided , however , that if any such excluded provision shall adversely affect the rights, immunities, duties or obligations of the Warrant Agent, the Warrant Agent shall be entitled to immediately resign.
Section 9.15 Customer Identification Program . The Company acknowledges that the Warrant Agent is subject to the customer identification program ( Customer Identification Program ) requirements under the USA PATRIOT Act and its implementing regulations, and that the Warrant Agent must obtain, verify and record information that allows the Warrant Agent to identify the Company. Accordingly, prior to accepting an appointment hereunder, the Warrant Agent may request information from the Company that will help the Warrant Agent to identify the Company, including without limitation the Companys physical address, tax identification number, organizational documents, certificate of good standing, license to do business, or any other information that the Warrant Agent deems necessary. The Company agrees that the Warrant Agent cannot accept an appointment hereunder unless and until the Warrant Agent verifies the Companys identity in accordance with the Customer Identification Program requirements.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been duly executed by the parties hereto as of the day and year first above written.
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION | ||
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/s/ A. Verona Dorch |
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Name: A. Verona Dorch | ||
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Government Affairs and Corporate Secretary |
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AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, LLC, as Warrant Agent | ||
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/s/ Paula Caroppoli |
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Name: Paula Caroppoli | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
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EXHIBIT A-1
FACE OF GLOBAL WARRANT CERTIFICATE
VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON JULY 3, 2017
This Global Warrant Certificate is held by The Depository Trust Company (the Depositary) or its nominee in custody for the benefit of the beneficial owners hereof, and is not transferable to any person under any circumstances except that (i) this Global Warrant Certificate may be exchanged in whole but not in part pursuant to Section 6.1(g) of the Warrant Agreement, (ii) this Global Warrant Certificate may be delivered to the Warrant Agent for cancellation pursuant to Section 6.1(h) of the Warrant Agreement and (iii) this Global Warrant Certificate may be transferred to a successor Depositary with the prior written consent of the Company.
Unless this Global Warrant Certificate is presented by an authorized representative of the Depositary to the Company or the Warrant Agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co.. or such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of the Depositary (and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co.. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of the Depositary), any transfer, pledge or other use hereof for value or otherwise by or to any person is wrongful because the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
Transfers of this Global Warrant Certificate shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not in part, to nominees of the Depositary or to a successor thereof or such successors nominee.
No registration or transfer of the securities issuable pursuant to the Warrant will be recorded on the books of the Company until such provisions have been complied with.
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT CERTIFICATE (INCLUDING THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THE WARRANT) ARE SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS SET FORTH IN THE WARRANT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF APRIL 3, 2017, BY AND BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND THE WARRANT AGENT (THE WARRANT AGREEMENT ).
THIS WARRANT WILL BE VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO
5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON JULY 3, 2017
WARRANT TO PURCHASE
SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OF
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION*
CUSIP # 704551 118
ISSUE DATE: April 3, 2017
No. W-1
This certifies that, for value received, [ ] and its registered assigns (collectively, the Registered Holder), is entitled to purchase from Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Company), subject to the terms and conditions hereof, at any time before 5:00 p.m., New York time, on July 3, 2017, the number of fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock of the Company set forth above at the Exercise Price (as defined in the Warrant Agreement). The number and kind of shares purchasable hereunder are subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in Article V of the Warrant Agreement. The Exercise Price shall be $0.01.
This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid unless countersigned by the Warrant Agent.
* | Exercisable for [ ] shares of Common Stock for all Warrants in the aggregate, subject to adjustment in accordance with Article V of the Warrant Agreement. |
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Warrant has been duly executed by the Company under its corporate seal as of the 3rd day of April, 2017.
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION |
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AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, LLC, as Warrant Agent |
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Address of Registered Holder for Notices (until changed in accordance with this Warrant):
Cede & Co.
55 Water Street
New York, New York 10041
REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS WARRANT CERTIFICATE SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF. SUCH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH AT THIS PLACE.
FORM OF REVERSE OF GLOBAL WARRANT CERTIFICATE
The Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate is a part of a duly authorized issue of Warrants to purchase ¤ shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, a copy of which may be inspected at the office of the Warrant Agent designated for such purpose. The Warrant Agreement hereby is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this instrument and is hereby referred to for a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Warrant Agent, the Company and the Registered Holders of the Warrants. All capitalized terms used on the face of this Warrant Certificate that are used herein but not defined are defined in the Warrant Agreement and shall have the meanings assigned to them therein.
The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Common Stock or any certificates that evidence fractional Common Stock.
No Warrants may be sold, exchanged or otherwise transferred in violation of the Securities Act or state securities laws.
This Warrant does not entitle the Registered Holder to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company.
The Company and Warrant Agent may deem and treat the Registered Holder hereof as the absolute owner of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone) for the purpose of any exercise hereof and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
¤ | Exercisable for [ ] shares of Common Stock for all Warrants in the aggregate, subject to adjustment in accordance with Article V of the Warrant Agreement. |
EXHIBIT A-2
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT CERTIFICATE (INCLUDING THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THE WARRANT) ARE SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS SET FORTH IN THE WARRANT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF APRIL 3, 2017, BY AND BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND THE WARRANT AGENT (THE WARRANT AGREEMENT).
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This certifies that
is the holder of
WARRANTS TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK OF
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
transferable on the books of the Company by the holder hereof in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of the certificate properly endorsed. Each Warrant entitles the holder and its registered assigns (collectively, the Registered Holder) to purchase by Cashless Exercise from Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Company), subject to the terms and conditions hereof, at any time before 5:00 p.m., New York time, on July 3, 2017, one fully paid and non-assessable share of Common Stock of the Company at the Exercise Price (as defined in the Warrant Agreement). The number and kind of shares purchasable hereunder are subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in Article V of the Warrant Agreement. The Exercise Price shall be $0.01.
This certificate is not valid unless countersigned and registered by the Warrant Agent.
WITNESS the facsimile seal of the Company and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.
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FORM OF REVERSE OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
The Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are a part of a duly authorized issue of Warrants to purchase [ ] shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, as dated April 3, 2017 between Peabody Energy Corporation and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC (the Warrant Agent and the agreement, the Warrant Agreement), a copy of which may be inspected at the office of the Warrant Agent designated for such purpose. The Warrant Agreement is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this instrument and is hereby referred to for a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Warrant Agent, the Company and the Registered Holders of the Warrants. All capitalized terms used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined that are defined in the Warrant Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them therein.
The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Common Stock or any certificates that evidence fractional Common Stock. No Warrants may be sold, exchanged or otherwise transferred in violation of the Securities Act or state securities laws. The Warrants represented by this Warrant Certificate do not entitle the Registered Holder to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company. The Company and Warrant Agent may deem and treat the Registered Holder hereof as the absolute owner of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone) for the purpose of any exercise hereof and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
For value received, hereby sells, assigns and transfers the Warrants to purchase shares of Peabody Energy Corporation represented by this Warrant Certificate to:
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Print name and address
and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint attorney, to transfer said Warrants on the Warrant Register maintained for the purpose of registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises:
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Note: The above signature and name should correspond exactly with the name of the holder as it appears on the face of the certificate, in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. The signature of the holder hereof must be guaranteed.
EXERCISE FORM
The undersigned Registered Holder of this Warrant Certificate hereby irrevocably elects to exercise Warrants for the purchase of shares of Common Stock, pursuant to the Cashless Exercise provisions of Section 4.3(a) of the Warrant Agreement (the total number of shares of Common Stock for which the Warrants represented hereby are being exercised before withholding for the Exercise Price), and requests that the net number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise be registered as follows:
Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number | ||
Print name and address
If such Warrants shall not constitute all of the Warrants represented hereby, the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate of like tenor and date for the balance of the Warrants represented hereby be issued and delivered as follows:
Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number | ||
Print name and address
Dated: , 2017 | Signature: | |||
Name: |
Note: The above signature and name should correspond exactly with the name of the holder as it appears on the face of the certificate, in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
Note: If the Common Stock, or a new Warrant Certificate representing any portion of the Warrants not exercised, is to be registered in a name other than that in which this Warrant Certificate is registered, the signature of the holder hereof must be guaranteed.
Signature(s) Guaranteed: Medallion Guarantee Stamp THE SIGANTURE(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 S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15.
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EXHIBIT B
EXERCISE FORM FOR REGISTERED HOLDERS
HOLDING DIRECT REGISTRATION WARRANTS
(To be executed upon exercise of Warrants)
NOTE: THIS EXERCISE NOTICE MUST BE DELIVERED TO THE WARRANT AGENT, PRIOR TO 5:00 P.M., EASTERN TIME, ON THE EXPIRATION DATE.
The undersigned Registered Holder, being the holder of Direct Registration Warrants of Peabody Energy Corporation, hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the number of Direct Registration Warrants indicated below, for the purchase of the number of shares of Common Stock indicated below, pursuant to the Cashless Exercise provisions of Section 4.3(a) of the Warrant Agreement.
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The undersigned requests that the net number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants be registered, and a statement in respect thereof be delivered, as follows:
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Note: If the Common Stock is to be registered in a name other than that in which the Direct Registration Warrants are registered, the signature of the holder hereof must be guaranteed.
Signature(s) Guaranteed: Medallion Guarantee Stamp THE SIGANTURE(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 S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15.
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EXHIBIT C
EXERCISE FORM FOR BENEFICIAL HOLDERS
HOLDING WARRANTS THROUGH THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
TO BE COMPLETED BY DIRECT PARTICIPANT
IN THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
(To be executed upon exercise of Warrants)
NOTE: THIS EXERCISE NOTICE MUST BE DELIVERED TO THE WARRANT AGENT, PRIOR TO 5:00 P.M., EASTERN TIME, ON THE EXPIRATION DATE.
The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the number of Book-Entry Warrants of Peabody Energy Corporation, held for its benefit through the book-entry facilities of The Depository Trust Company (the Depositary ), indicated below, for the purchase the number of shares of Common Stock indicated below, pursuant to the Cashless Exercise provisions of Section 4.3(a) of the Warrant Agreement.
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The undersigned requests that the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants be delivered the account at the Depositary specified below.
THE WARRANT AGENT SHALL NOTIFY YOU (THROUGH THE CLEARING SYSTEM) OF (1) THE WARRANT AGENTS ACCOUNT AT THE DEPOSITARY TO WHICH YOU MUST DELIVER YOUR WARRANTS ON THE EXERCISE DATE AND (2) THE ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER AND FACSIMILE NUMBER WHERE YOU CAN CONTACT THE WARRANT AGENT AND TO WHICH WARRANT EXERCISE NOTICES ARE TO BE SUBMITTED.
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE: | ||
NAME: | ||
CAPACITY IN WHICH SIGNING: | ||
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NAME OF PARTICIPANT: | ||
ADDRESS: | ||
CONTACT NAME (if different than above): | ||
TELEPHONE (INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL CODE): | ||
FAX (INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL CODE): | ||
E-MAIL ADDRESS: | ||
DEPOSITARY ACCOUNT NO.: |
EXHIBIT D
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
FOR REGISTERED HOLDERS
HOLDING DIRECT REGISTRATION WARRANTS
(To be executed only upon assignment of Warrants)
For value received, hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto the Assignee(s) named below the number of Direct Registration Warrants to purchase shares of Peabody Energy Corporation listed opposite the respective name(s) of the Assignee(s) named below and all other rights of the Registered Holder under said Direct Registration Warrants to the extent exercisable for such shares, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint attorney, to transfer said Direct Registration Warrants, as and to the extent set forth below, on the Warrant Register maintained for the purpose of registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the premises:
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Note: The above signature and name should correspond exactly with the name of the Holder of the Direct Registration Warrants as it appears on the Warrant Register.
Signature(s) Guaranteed: Medallion Guarantee Stamp THE SIGANTURE(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 S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15.
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Exhibit 4.3
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
F IRST S UPPLEMENTAL I NDENTURE (this Supplemental Indenture ), dated as of April 3, 2017, among Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Successor Issuer ), Peabody Securities Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Escrow Issuer ), each of the Guarantors listed on the signature pages hereto (each, a Guaranteeing Subsidiary and collectively, the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries ) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee under the Indenture referred to below (the Trustee ).
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Escrow Issuer has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an indenture, dated as of February 15, 2017, among the Escrow Issuer and the Trustee (the Initial Indenture and as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture ) providing for the issuance of 6.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes ) and the issuance of 6.375% Senior Secured Notes (the 2025 Notes , and together with the 2022 Notes, the Notes );
WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries shall unconditionally guarantee all of the Issuers Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth herein (the Note Guarantee );
WHEREAS, on the date hereof, the Escrow Issuer is merging with and into the Successor Issuer, with the Successor Issuer being the surviving Person of such merger (the Assumption ); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture without the consent of Holders.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Supplemental Indenture mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:
1. C APITALIZED T ERMS . Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
2. A SSUMPTION OF O BLIGATIONS . Effective upon consummation of the Assumption, the Successor Issuer, pursuant to Article 5 of the Indenture, hereby expressly assumes and agrees to pay, perform and discharge when due each and every debt, obligation, covenant and agreement incurred, made or to be paid, performed or discharged by the Escrow Issuer under the Indenture and the Notes. The Successor Issuer hereby agrees to be bound by all the terms, provisions and conditions of the Indenture and the Notes and agrees that it shall be a Successor Company and a Surviving Company and shall succeed to and be substitute for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Escrow Issuer under the Indenture and the Notes.
3. A GREEMENT TO G UARANTEE . Each of the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries hereby agrees, jointly and severally with all other Guaranteeing Subsidiaries, and fully and unconditionally, to provide an unconditional Guarantee on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Note Guarantee and in the Indenture, including, but not limited to, Article X thereof.
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4. N O R ECOURSE A GAINST O THERS . No director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder of the Successor Issuer or any Guarantor, as such, will have any liability for any obligations of the Successor Issuer or the Guarantors under the Notes, this Indenture, the Note Guarantees, Security Documents or this Supplemental Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes. The waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws.
5. NEW YORK LAW TO GOVERN. THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
6. C OUNTERPARTS . The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this instrument as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original instrument for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
7. E FFECT OF H EADINGS . The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
8. T HE T RUSTEE . The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries and the Successor Issuer.
9. RATIFICATION OF INDENTURE. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the date first above written.
Successor Issuer: | ||||
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION | ||||
By: |
/s/ Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. |
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Name: | Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. | |||
Title: | Senior Vice President, Finance | |||
Escrow Issuer: | ||||
PEABODY SECURITIES FINANCE CORPORATION | ||||
By: |
/s/ Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. |
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Name: | Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. | |||
Title: | President |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
Guarantors: |
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AMERICAN LAND DEVELOPMENT, LLC |
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AMERICAN LAND HOLDINGS OF COLORADO, LLC |
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AMERICAN LAND HOLDINGS OF ILLINOIS, LLC |
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AMERICAN LAND HOLDINGS OF INDIANA, LLC |
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AMERICAN LAND HOLDINGS OF KENTUCKY, LLC |
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BIG RIDGE, INC. |
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BTU WESTERN RESOURCES, INC. |
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COALSALES II, LLC |
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CONSERVANCY RESOURCES, LLC |
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EL SEGUNDO COAL COMPANY, LLC |
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HAYDEN GULCH TERMINAL, LLC |
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HILLSIDE RECREATIONAL LANDS, LLC |
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JAMES RIVER COAL TERMINAL, LLC |
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KAYENTA MOBILE HOME PARK, INC. |
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KENTUCKY UNITED COAL, LLC |
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MOFFAT COUNTY MINING, LLC |
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NEW MEXICO COAL RESOURCES, LLC |
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PEABODY AMERICA, LLC |
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PEABODY ARCLAR MINING, LLC |
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PEABODY ASSET HOLDINGS, LLC |
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PEABODY BEAR RUN MINING, LLC |
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PEABODY BEAR RUN SERVICES, LLC |
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PEABODY CABALLO MINING, LLC |
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PEABODY CARDINAL GASIFICATION, LLC |
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PEABODY CHINA, LLC |
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PEABODY COALSALES, LLC |
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PEABODY COALTRADE, LLC |
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PEABODY COLORADO OPERATIONS, LLC |
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PEABODY COLORADO SERVICES, LLC |
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PEABODY COULTERVILLE MINING, LLC |
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PEABODY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LLC |
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PEABODY ELECTRICITY, LLC |
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PEABODY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, LLC |
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PEABODY GATEWAY NORTH MINING, LLC |
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PEABODY GATEWAY SERVICES, LLC |
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PEABODY GLOBAL FUNDING, LLC |
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PEABODY HOLDING COMPANY, LLC |
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PEABODY ILLINOIS SERVICES, LLC |
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PEABODY INDIANA SERVICES, LLC |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
PEABODY INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS, INC. PEABODY INTERNATIONAL SERVICES, INC. PEABODY INVESTMENTS CORP. PEABODY MIDWEST MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC PEABODY MIDWEST MINING, LLC PEABODY MIDWEST OPERATIONS, LLC PEABODY MIDWEST SERVICES, LLC PEABODY MONGOLIA, LLC PEABODY NATURAL GAS, LLC PEABODY NATURAL RESOURCES COMPANY PEABODY NEW MEXICO SERVICES, LLC PEABODY OPERATIONS HOLDING, LLC PEABODY POWDER RIVER MINING, LLC PEABODY POWDER RIVER OPERATIONS, LLC PEABODY POWDER RIVER SERVICES, LLC PEABODY ROCKY MOUNTAIN MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC PEABODY ROCKY MOUNTAIN SERVICES, LLC PEABODY SCHOOL CREEK MINING, LLC PEABODY SERVICES HOLDINGS, LLC PEABODY TERMINALS, LLC PEABODY VENEZUELA COAL CORP. PEABODY VENTURE FUND, LLC PEABODY WILD BOAR MINING, LLC PEABODY WILD BOAR SERVICES, LLC PEABODY WILLIAMS FORK MINING, LLC PEABODY WYOMING SERVICES, LLC PEABODY-WATERSIDE DEVELOPMENT, L.L.C. PEC EQUIPMENT COMPANY, LLC SAGE CREEK LAND & RESERVES, LLC SHOSHONE COAL CORPORATION TWENTYMILE COAL, LLC |
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By: |
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Name: | Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. | |||
Title: | Senior Vice President, Finance |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
PEABODY INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, LLC |
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By: | Peabody Investments Corp., as its sole member | |||
By: |
/s/ Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. |
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Name: | Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. | |||
Title: | Senior Vice President, Finance | |||
PEABODY IC FUNDING CORP. | ||||
By: |
/s/ Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. |
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Name: | Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. | |||
Title: | President |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
BIG SKY COAL COMPANY | ||||
By: |
/s/ Bryce G. West |
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Name: | Bryce G. West | |||
Title | President |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
PEABODY SAGE CREEK MINING, LLC | ||||
SAGE CREEK HOLDINGS, LLC | ||||
By: |
/s/ Mark A. Scimio |
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Name: | Mark A. Scimio | |||
Title: | President |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
PEABODY TWENTYMILE MINING, LLC | ||||
By: |
/s/ Patrick K. Sollars |
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Name: | Patrick K. Sollars | |||
Title: | President |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
PEABODY WESTERN COAL COMPANY SENECA PROPERTY, LLC UNITED MINERALS COMPANY, LLC |
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By: |
/s/ Robert F. Bruer |
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Name: | Robert F. Bruer | |||
Title: | Vice President |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
SENECA COAL COMPANY, LLC | ||||
By: |
/s/ Charles R. Otec |
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Name: | Charles R. Otec | |||
Title: | President |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee | ||||
By: |
/s/ Shawn Goffinet |
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Name: | Shawn Goffinet | |||
Title: | Assistant Vice President |
[ Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture ]
Exhibit 10.1
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
This Registration Rights Agreement (as amended from time to time, this Agreement ) is dated as of April 3, 2017 and is between Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Company ), and the holders listed on Schedule 1 hereto (collectively, the Initial Holders and, each individually, an Initial Holder ), together with any person or entity that hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 6.1 of this Agreement, a Holder and collectively, the Holders ).
INTRODUCTION
On the date hereof, the Company issued (i) 71,239,217 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Common Stock ), (ii) 30,000,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the Preferred Stock ) and (iii) warrants to purchase 6,210,000 shares of Common Stock (the Warrants ), pursuant to, and upon the terms set forth in, the Second Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of the Company and each of its direct and indirect debtor subsidiaries under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code (including the Plan Supplement and all other exhibits and schedules thereto, as amended, modified or supplemented, the Plan ), confirmed by order dated March 17, 2017 of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
In accordance with the Plan, the Company agrees for the benefit of the Holders as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions . As used in this Agreement:
(a) Affiliate means, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, such Person as of the date on which, or at any time during the period for which, the determination of affiliation is being made (including any investment fund the primary investment advisor to which is such Person or an Affiliate thereof); provided, that for purposes of this Agreement, no Holder shall be deemed an Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. For purposes of this definition, the term control (including the correlative meanings of the terms controlled by and under common control with), as used with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise (it being understood that a director, officer or manager of any Person shall not be deemed to control such Person solely as a result of serving as one of multiple directors, officers or managers of such Person). With respect to any Holder, any investment fund or managed account that is managed on a discretionary basis by the same investment manager as such Holder or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates will be deemed to be an Affiliate of such Holder.
(b) Agreement has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
(c) Aurelius means, collectively, certain entities managed by Aurelius Capital Management, LP that have executed this Agreement.
(d) Alternative Transaction means the sale of Registrable Securities constituting more than 1% of the Common Stock or more than 1% of the Preferred Stock then outstanding to one or more purchasers in a registered transaction without a prior marketing process by means of (i) a bought deal, (ii) a block trade, (iii) a sale by the Hedging Counterparty or by an Initiating Holder to a Hedging Counterparty in connection with a Hedging Transaction, (iv) a direct sale or (v) any other transaction that is registered pursuant to a Shelf Registration that is not a firm commitment underwritten offering.
(e) Automatic Shelf Registration Statement means an automatic shelf registration statement as defined in Rule 405.
(f) Business Day means any day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or other day on which banks are required or authorized by law to be closed in New York, New York.
(g) Commission means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other federal agency then administering the Securities Act or Exchange Act.
(h) Common Stock has the meaning set forth in the Introduction.
(i) Company has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
(j) Company Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c) .
(k) Company Shelf Registration Statement has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(b)(i) .
(l) Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(b)(i) .
(m) Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(b)(i) .
(n) Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Request has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(b)(ii) .
(o) Contrarian means, collectively, certain entities managed by Contrarian Capital Management, L.L.C. that have executed this Agreement.
(p) Demand Eligible Holder has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(a)(i) .
(q) Demand Eligible Holder Request has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(a)(ii) .
(r) Demand Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(a)(i) .
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(s) Demand Registration has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(a)(i) .
(t) Demand Registration Statement has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(a)(ii) .
(u) Discovery means, collectively, certain entities managed by Discovery Capital Management, L.L.C that have executed this Agreement.
(v) Effective Date means the effective date under the Plan.
(w) Effectiveness Period has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(d)(i) .
(x) Event has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(j)(D) .
(y) Elliott means, collectively, certain entities managed by Elliott Capital Advisors, L.P. that have executed this Agreement.
(z) Event Date has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(j)(D) .
(aa) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(bb) Form S-1 Shelf has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a)(i) .
(cc) Form S-1 Shelf Holders means any Initial Holder and any other Holder that holds Registrable Securities immediately prior to the time the Form S-1 Shelf is declared effective by the Commission.
(dd) Form S-3 Shelf has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a)(i) .
(ee) Hedging Counterparty means a broker-dealer registered under Section 15(b) of the Exchange Act or an Affiliate thereof.
(ff) Hedging Transaction means any transaction involving a security linked to the Registrable Securities or any security that would be deemed to be a derivative security (as defined in Rule 16a-1(c) promulgated under the Exchange Act) with respect to the Registrable Securities or a transaction (even if not a security) which would (were it a security) be considered such a derivative security, or which transfers some or all of the economic risk of ownership of the Registrable Securities, including, but not limited to, any forward contract, equity swap, put or call, put or call equivalent position, collar, non-recourse loan, sale of exchangeable security or similar transaction. For the avoidance of doubt the following transactions shall be deemed to be Hedging Transactions:
(i) transactions by an Initiating Holder in which a Hedging Counterparty engages in short sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Prospectus and may use Registrable Securities to close out its short position;
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(ii) transactions pursuant to which an Initiating Holder sells short Registrable Securities pursuant to a Prospectus and delivers Registrable Securities to close out its short position;
(iii) transactions by an Initiating Holder in which the Initiating Holder delivers, in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act, Registrable Securities to the Hedging Counterparty who will then publicly resell or otherwise transfer such Registrable Securities pursuant to a Prospectus or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act; and
(iv) a loan or pledge of Registrable Securities to a Hedging Counterparty who may then become a selling stockholder and sell the loaned shares or, in an event of default in the case of a pledge, sell the pledged shares, in each case, in a public transaction pursuant to a Prospectus.
(gg) Holder has the meaning set forth in the Preamble. A Person shall cease to be a Holder hereunder at such time as it ceases to hold any Registrable Securities.
(hh) Holders Counsel means any counsel to any Qualified Holder and identified to the Company.
(ii) Initial Filing Deadline has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a)(i) .
(jj) Initial Holder has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
(kk) Initiating Holders has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(a)(i) .
(ll) Issuer Free Writing Prospectus means an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 promulgated under the Securities Act, relating to an offer of the Registrable Securities.
(mm) Maximum Offering Size has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d) .
(nn) Panning means Panning Capital Management, LP.
(oo) Person means any individual, partnership, corporation, company, association, trust, joint venture, limited liability company, unincorporated organization, entity or division, or any government, governmental department or agency or political subdivision thereof.
(pp) Piggyback Eligible Holders has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a)(i) .
(qq) Piggyback Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a)(i) .
(rr) Piggyback Registration has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a)(i) .
(ss) Piggyback Registration Statement has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a)(i) .
(tt) Piggyback Request has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(a)(ii) .
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(uu) Plan has the meaning set forth in the Introduction.
(vv) PointState means PointState Capital LP.
(ww) Preferred Stock has the meaning set forth in the Introduction.
(xx) Pro Rata Share of a Holder means a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Registrable Securities held by such Holder and the denominator of which is the total amount of outstanding Registrable Securities, calculated on a Common Stock equivalent basis, with shares of Preferred Stock being the equivalent of the shares the Common Stock into which they are convertible, and with the Warrants being the equivalent of the shares of Common Stock for which they are exercisable.
(yy) Prospectus means the prospectus included in a Registration Statement (including a prospectus that includes any information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective Registration Statement in reliance upon Rule 430A promulgated under the Securities Act), all amendments and supplements to the Prospectus, including post-effective amendments, all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.
(zz) Qualified Holder means each of Aurelius, Contrarian, Discovery, Elliott, Panning, PointState and SDIC; provided that a Qualified Holder may designate another Person to be a Qualified Holder in its stead if such other Person, or the entities that it manages, beneficially owns Common Stock constituting Registrable Securities in an amount equal to at least seven and a half percent (7.5%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock constituting Registrable Securities in an amount equal to seven and a half percent (7.5%) of the Preferred Stock outstanding as of the date of this Agreement.
(aaa) Registrable Securities mean the following securities issued to or acquired or held by a Holder on or after the Effective Date: (i) shares of Common Stock, including, without limitation, any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock (whether upon voluntary or mandatory conversion) or exercise of the Warrants; (ii) shares of Preferred Stock; and (iii) any other securities issued or issuable with respect to any of the shares described in clauses (i) through (ii) above in connection with a stock dividend, stock split or distribution, combination of shares, or in connection with a merger, consolidation, reclassification, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar transaction; provided , that any such securities shall cease to constitute Registrable Securities upon the earliest to occur of: (A) the date on which such securities are disposed of pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144; (B) the date on which, in the opinion of counsel to the relevant Holder, such securities become eligible for sale under Rule 144 without volume or manner of sale restrictions thereunder and all restrictive legends and stop transfer instructions have been removed with respect to all certificates or book entries representing the applicable Registrable Securities; and (C) the date on which such securities cease to be outstanding.
For purposes of determining the percentage (including a majority) of the Registrable Securities held by a Holder or Holders, such determination shall be made on a Common Stock equivalent basis, with shares of Preferred Stock being the equivalent of the shares of Common Stock into which they are at the time voluntarily convertible by the Holder, and with the Warrants being the equivalent of the shares of Common Stock for which they are exercisable.
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(bbb) Registration Statement means a registration statement of the Company filed with or to be filed with the Commission under the Securities Act and other applicable law, including an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, and including any Prospectus, amendments and supplements to each such registration statement or Prospectus, including pre- and post-effective amendments, all exhibits thereto, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such registration statement.
(ccc) Rule 144 means Rule 144 (or any successor rule then in effect) promulgated under the Securities Act.
(ddd) Rule 158 means Rule 158 (or any successor rule then in effect) promulgated under the Securities Act.
(eee) Rule 405 means Rule 405 (or any successor rule then in effect) promulgated under the Securities Act.
(fff) Rule 424 means Rule 424 (or any successor rule then in effect) promulgated under the Securities Act.
(ggg) SDIC means the South Dakota Investment Council.
(hhh) Seasoned Issuer means an issuer eligible to use Form S-3 under the Securities Act and who is not an ineligible issuer as defined in Rule 405.
(iii) Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(jjj) Shelf Period has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a)(ii) .
(kkk) Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(b) .
(lll) Shelf Registration means the registration of an offering of Registrable Securities on a Form S-1 Shelf or a Form S-3 Shelf, as applicable, on a delayed or continuous basis under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, pursuant to Section 2.1 .
(mmm) Shelf Registration Statement has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a)(i) .
(nnn) Shelf Takedown Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c) .
(ooo) Subsidiary means, when used with respect to any Person, any corporation or other entity, whether incorporated or unincorporated, (a) of which such Person or any other Subsidiary of such Person is a general partner (excluding partnerships, the general partnership interests of which held by such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person do not have a majority
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of the voting interests in such partnership) or (b) at least a majority of the securities or other interests of which having by their terms ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or others performing similar functions with respect to such corporation or other entity is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person or by any one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries.
(ppp) Suspension Period has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a)(ii) .
(qqq) Underwritten Shelf Takedown has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(b) .
(rrr) Warrants has the meaning set forth in the Introduction.
(sss) WKSI means a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405.
ARTICLE II
DEMAND AND PIGGYBACK RIGHTS
2.1 Shelf Registration .
(a) Filing of Shelf Registration Statement . (i) As soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective Date, and in any event not later than thirty (30) days after the Effective Date (the Initial Filing Deadline ), the Company shall file a Registration Statement for a Shelf Registration on Form S-1 covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities held by the Form S-1 Shelf Holders on a delayed or continuous basis (a Form S-1 Shelf ). In the event that the Company files the Form S-1 Shelf and thereafter becomes eligible to use a Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (a Form S-3 Shelf ; and together with a Form S-1 Shelf, a Shelf Registration Statement ), the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to convert the Form S-1 Shelf to a Form S-3 Shelf (which shall be an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement if the Company is a WKSI) as soon as practicable after the Company becomes so eligible.
(ii) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, including any applicable Suspension Period, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event (x) no later than the fifteenth (15 th ) calendar day following the Initial Filing Deadline in the event of no review by the Commission, (y) no later than the forty-fifth (45 th ) calendar day following the Initial Filing Deadline in the event of limited review by the Commission, or (z) in the event of a review by the Commission, the seventy-fifth (75 th ) calendar day following the Initial Filing Deadline, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been disposed by the Holder thereof or are no longer Registrable Securities. If a Form S-1 Shelf was converted to a Form S-3 Shelf and the Company thereafter became ineligible to use Form S-3, the Company shall file a Form S-1 Shelf not later than twenty (20) Business Days after the date of such ineligibility, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to have such Registration Statement declared effective as promptly as practicable (but in no event more than thirty (30) days after the date of such filing) (the period during which the
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Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act in accordance with this Section 2.1(a)(ii) is referred to as the Shelf Period ).
(iii) The Company shall notify the Holders named in the Shelf Registration Statement via facsimile or by e-mail of the effectiveness of a Form S-1 Shelf on the same Business Day that the Company telephonically confirms effectiveness with the Commission. The Company shall file a final Prospectus with the Commission to the extent required by Rule 424. The Plan of Distribution section of such Shelf Registration Statement shall provide for all permitted means of disposition of Registrable Securities, including firm-commitment underwritten public offerings, Alternative Transactions, agented transactions, sales directly into the market, purchases or sales by brokers and sales not involving a public offering.
(b) Underwritten Shelf Takedown . At any time during the Shelf Period (subject to any Suspension Period), any one or more Qualified Holder (such Qualified Holder, a Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder ) may request to sell all or any portion of their Registrable Securities in an underwritten offering that is registered pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement (each, an Underwritten Shelf Takedown which term shall not include an Alternative Transaction); provided , that, and subject to Section 2.1(e) below, (x) a Qualified Holder shall not be entitled to request more than four (4) Underwritten Shelf Takedowns in total and (y) the Company shall not be obligated to effect any Underwritten Shelf Takedown if the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be sold in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown, in the good faith judgment of the managing underwriter(s) therefor, is less than $25 million.
(c) Notice of Underwritten Shelf Takedown . All requests for Underwritten Shelf Takedowns shall be made by giving written notice to the Company (the Shelf Takedown Notice ). Each Shelf Takedown Notice shall specify the class or series and the approximate number of Registrable Securities to be sold in the Underwritten Shelf Takedown by the Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder and the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) of such Underwritten Shelf Takedown. Subject to Section 2.1(e) below, within three (3) Business Days after receipt of any Shelf Takedown Notice, the Company shall give written notice of such requested Underwritten Shelf Takedown (which notice shall state that the material terms of such proposed Underwritten Shelf Takedown, to the extent known, as well as the identity of the Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder, are available upon request) to all other Holders of Registrable Securities (the Company Notice ) and, subject to the provisions of Section 2.1(d) and Section 2.1(e) below, shall include in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown all Registrable Securities of the same class or series as the Registrable Securities originally requested to be sold by the Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within five (5) Business Days after giving the Company Notice; provided , that any such Registrable Securities shall be sold subject to the same terms as are applicable to the Registrable Securities the Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holder is requesting to sell.
(d) Priority of Registrable Shares . If the managing underwriters for such Underwritten Shelf Takedown advise the Company and the Holders of Registrable Securities
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proposed to be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown that in their reasonable view the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown exceeds the number of Registrable Securities which can be sold in an orderly manner in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in the Underwritten Shelf Takedown (the Maximum Offering Size ), then the Company shall so advise all Holders of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown, and shall include in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown the number of Registrable Securities which can be so sold in the following order of priority, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown, allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, to give first priority to the inclusion of the Registrable Securities of the Shelf Public Offering Requesting Holders and, thereafter, pro rata among the remaining Holders of such Registrable Securities on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder;
(ii) second, any securities requested to be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown by the Company; and
(iii) third, other securities of the Company requested by the holders thereof to be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to registration rights arrangements similar to this Agreement (including provisions allowing such holders to participate in registrations and offerings required or demanded under such arrangements), to the extent permitted hereunder, allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the respective holders of such other securities on the basis of the number of securities requested to be included therein by each such holder.
(e) Timing of Underwritten Shelf Takedowns . The Company shall not be obligated to effect an Underwritten Shelf Takedown within ninety (90) days (or such shorter period specified in any applicable lock-up agreement entered into with underwriters) after the consummation of a previous Underwritten Shelf Takedown or Demand Registration.
(f) Selection of Bankers and Counsel . The Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in an Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall have the right to select the investment banker(s) and manager(s) to administer the offering (which shall consist of one (1) or more reputable nationally recognized investment banks, subject to the Companys approval (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)) and one (1) firm of counsel to represent all of the Holders (along with any reasonably necessary local counsel), in connection with such Underwritten Shelf Takedown; provided , that the Company shall select such investment banker(s), manager(s) and counsel (including local counsel) if the Holders of such majority of Registrable Securities cannot so agree on the same within a reasonable time period.
(g) Withdrawal from Registration . Any Holder whose Registrable Securities were to be included in any such registration pursuant to Section 2.1(b) may elect to withdraw any or all
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of its Registrable Securities therefrom, without prejudice to the rights of any such Holder or Holders to include Registrable Securities in any future registration (or registrations), by written notice to the Company delivered on or prior to the effective date of the relevant Underwritten Shelf Takedown.
(h) WKSI Eligibility . Upon the Company first becoming a WKSI, the Company shall give written notice to all of the Holders who hold Registrable Securities as promptly as practicable but in no event later than ten (10) Business Days thereafter, and such notice shall describe, in reasonable detail, the basis on which the Company has become a WKSI. If at any time after the Company has provided notice of its WKSI status if it is reasonably likely that the Company will no longer be a WKSI, as promptly as practicable but in no event later than ten (10) days after such determination, the Company shall give written notice of such determination to all of the Holders and the effective date of such loss of WKSI status.
(i) Adding Holders to Registration Statement . After a Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective but subject to the Suspension Period, upon written request by one or more Holders (which written request shall specify the amount of such Holders Registrable Securities to be registered), the Company shall, as promptly as practicable after receiving such request, (i) if it is a Seasoned Issuer or a WKSI, or if such Registration Statement is an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, file a prospectus supplement to include such Holders as selling stockholders in such Registration Statement or (ii) if it is not a Seasoned Issuer or a WKSI, file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement to include such Holders in such Shelf Registration and use commercially reasonable efforts to have such post-effective amendment declared effective.
(j) Liquidated Damages . If
(A) the Shelf Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to the Initial Filing Deadline;
(B) the Shelf Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the fifteenth (15 th ) calendar day following the Initial Filing Deadline or, in the event of a limited review by the Commission, the forty-fifth (45 th ) calendar day following the Initial Filing Deadline or, in the event of a review by the Commission, the seventy-fifth (75 th ) calendar day following Initial Filing Deadline); or
(C) after the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement (including during any Suspension Period), the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities, in each case for more than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of thirty (30) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an Event , and for purposes of clauses (A) and (B), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (C) the date on which such fifteen (15) or thirty (30) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as Event Date ),
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then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law, on the first day of the month following an Event Date, and the first day of each month thereafter until such Event has been cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to (x) $75,000 per day during which an Event has occurred and is continuing beyond one or more Event Dates multiplied by (y) such Holders Pro Rata Share. If the date such payment is due is not a Business Day, such payment shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day.
For the avoidance of doubt, only one amount of liquidated damages shall accrue regardless of the number of Events occurring or existing at the same time. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section 2.1(j) in full within seven (7) Business Days after the date they are payable, the Company shall pay interest thereon at a rate of six percent (6.0%) per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holders, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the aggregate amount of such liquidated damages payable by the Company under this Agreement shall not exceed $10,000,000.
2.2 Right to Demand Registered Offerings .
(a) Demand for Registration Generally . (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, if at any time and from time to time after the Effective Date there is no Shelf Registration Statement, or if there is a Shelf Registration Statement and the Registrable Securities of all the Holders cannot be sold under such Shelf Registration Statement, then upon written notice to the Company (a Demand Notice ) delivered by a Holder or Holders (the Initiating Holders ) all of whose Registerable Securities cannot be sold under a Shelf Registration Statement requesting that the Company effect the registration (a Demand Registration ) under the Securities Act (other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any similar or successor form under the Securities Act) of any or all of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder or Holders, the Company shall promptly (but in any event, not later than five (5) Business Days following the Companys receipt of such Demand Notice) give written notice of the receipt of such Demand Notice to all other Holders that, to its knowledge, hold Registrable Securities (each, a Demand Eligible Holder ).
(ii) The Company shall promptly file the appropriate Registration Statement (the Demand Registration Statement ) and use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, at the earliest practicable date, the registration under the Securities Act and under the applicable state securities laws of (A) the Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register by the Initiating Holder or Holders in the Demand Notice, (B) all other Registrable Securities of the same class or series as those requested to be registered by the Initiating Holder or Holders which the Company has been requested to register by the Demand Eligible Holders by written request (the Demand Eligible Holder Request ) given to the Company within ten (10) Business Days after the giving of such written notice by the Company, and (C) any Registrable Securities to be offered and sold by the Company, in each case subject to Section 2.2(c) , all to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods of disposition) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered.
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(iii) The Holders rights to request a Demand Registration set forth in this Section 2.2 shall not be exercisable at any time if the Company (x) is not in violation of its obligations to file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2.1 or (y) has a currently effective Shelf Registration Statement covering all Registrable Securities in accordance with Section 2.1, and the Company has otherwise complied with its obligations pursuant to this Agreement.
(b) Demand Registration Using Form S-3 . The Company shall effect any requested Demand Registration using Form S-3 whenever the Company is eligible to use such Form, and shall use an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement if it is a WKSI.
(c) Conditions to Demand Registrations . Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall only be required to (i) effect four (4) Demand Registrations in any twelve (12) month period and (ii) comply with a request for a Demand Registration if the aggregate gross proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration exceed $25 million.
(d) Effectiveness of Demand Registration Statement . (i) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Demand Registration Statement declared effective by the Commission and keep the Demand Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act for the period of time necessary for the underwriters or Holders to sell all the Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Registration Statement or such shorter period which will terminate when all Registrable Securities covered by such Demand Registration Statement have been sold pursuant thereto (including, if necessary, by filing with the Commission a post-effective amendment or a supplement to the Demand Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or by filing any other required document or otherwise supplementing or amending the Demand Registration Statement, if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Demand Registration Statement or by the Securities Act, any state securities or blue sky laws, or any other rules and regulations thereunder) (the Effectiveness Period ).
(i) A Demand Registration requested pursuant to this Section 2.2 shall not be deemed to have been effected (A) if the Registration Statement is withdrawn without becoming effective, (B) if the Registration Statement does not remain effective in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act and the laws of any state or other jurisdiction applicable to the disposition of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement for the Effectiveness Period, (C) if, after it has become effective, such Registration Statement is subject to any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the Commission or other governmental or regulatory agency or court for any reason other than a violation of applicable law solely by any selling Holder and has not thereafter become effective within thirty (30) days, (D) in the event of an underwritten offering, if the conditions to closing specified in the underwriting agreement entered into in connection with such registration are not satisfied or waived other than by reason of some wrongful act or omission by any selling Holder, (E) if the Company does not include in the applicable Registration Statement any Registrable Securities held by a Holder that is required by the terms hereof to be included in such Registration Statement,
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(F) if the Initiating Holders and Demand Eligible Holders have not been able to sell at least 75% of the Registrable Securities that they have requested to sell in the Demand Notice or Demand Eligible Holder Request or (G) if the number of Registrable Securities included on the applicable Registration Statement is reduced in accordance with Section 2.2(e) such that less than 66-2/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders sought to be included in such registration are included.
(e) Priority of Registration . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.2 , if (A) the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by a Demand Registration by means of an underwritten offering and (B) the managing underwriters advise the Company and the Initiating Holders that in their reasonable view, the number of Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such offering (including Registrable Securities requested by Holders to be included in such offering and any securities that the Company or any other Person proposes to be included that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Maximum Offering Size, then the Company shall so advise all Initiating Holders and Demand Eligible Holders with Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such underwritten offering, and shall include in such offering the number of Registrable Securities which can be so sold in the following order of priority, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(i) first, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such underwritten offering by the Initiating Holders and the Demand Eligible Holders, allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, to give first priority to the inclusion of the Registrable Securities of the Initiating Holders and, thereafter, pro rata among the Demand Eligible Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Demand Eligible Holder;
(ii) second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company; and
(iii) third, other securities of the Company requested by holders thereof to be included in such underwritten offering pursuant to registration rights arrangements similar to this Agreement (including provisions allowing the Holders to participate in registrations and offerings required or demanded under such arrangements) to the extent permitted hereunder, allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the respective holders of such other securities on the basis of the number of securities requested to be included therein by each such holder.
(f) Underwritten Demand Registration . The determination of whether any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration will be an underwritten offering shall be made in the sole discretion of the Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities included in such underwritten offering, and such Holders shall have the right to (A) determine the plan of distribution, including the price at which the Registrable Securities are to be sold and the underwriting commissions, discounts and fees, and (B) select the investment banker(s) and manager(s) to administer the offering (which shall consist of one (1) or more reputable nationally recognized investment banks, subject to the Companys approval (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)) and one (1) firm of counsel to represent all of the Holders (along with any reasonably necessary local counsel), in connection with such
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Demand Registration; provided , that the Company shall select such investment banker(s), manager(s) and counsel (including local counsel) if the Holders of such majority of Registrable Securities cannot so agree on the same within a reasonable time period.
(g) Withdrawal of Registrable Securities . Any Holder whose Registrable Securities were to be included in any such registration pursuant to Section 2.2 may elect to withdraw any or all of its Registrable Securities therefrom, without prejudice to the rights of any such Holder or Holders to include Registrable Securities in any future registration (or registrations), by written notice to the Company delivered on or prior to the effective date of the relevant Demand Registration Statement.
2.3 Piggyback Registrations .
(a) Registration Statement on behalf of the Company . (i) If at any time the Company proposes to file a Registration Statement, other than pursuant to a Shelf Registration under Section 2.1 or any Demand Registration under Section 2.2 , for an offering of securities for cash (whether in connection with a public offering of Common Stock by the Company, a public offering of Common Stock by stockholders other than Holders, or both, but excluding an offering relating solely to an employee benefit plan, an offering relating to a transaction on Form S-4, a rights offering or an offering on any form of Registration Statement that does not permit secondary sales) (a Piggyback Registration Statement ), the Company shall give prompt written notice (the Piggyback Notice ) to all Holders that, to its knowledge, hold Registrable Securities (collectively, the Piggyback Eligible Holders ) of the Companys intention to file a Piggyback Registration Statement reasonably in advance of (and in any event at least ten (10) Business Days before) the anticipated filing date of such Piggyback Registration Statement. The Piggyback Notice shall offer the Piggyback Eligible Holders the opportunity to include for registration in such Piggyback Registration Statement the number of Registrable Securities of the same class and series as those proposed to be registered as they may request, subject to Section 2.3(c) (a Piggyback Registration ).
(ii) Subject to Section 2.3(c) , the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to include in each such Piggyback Registration such Registrable Securities for which the Company has received written requests (each, a Piggyback Request ) from Piggyback Eligible Holders within five (5) Business Days after giving the Piggyback Notice. If a Piggyback Eligible Holder decides not to include all of its Registrable Securities in any Piggyback Registration Statement thereafter filed by the Company, such Piggyback Eligible Holder shall nevertheless continue to have the right to include any Registrable Securities in any subsequent Piggyback Registration Statements or Registration Statements as may be filed by the Company with respect to offerings of Registrable Securities, all upon the terms and conditions set forth herein. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to register pursuant to the Piggyback Requests, to the extent required to permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities so requested to be registered.
(b) Shelf Takedown by the Company . (i) If at any time the Company proposes to sell securities that have been previously registered pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (a
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Company Shelf Registration Statement ) in a public offering for cash (whether in connection with a public offering of Common Stock by the Company, a public offering of Common Stock by stockholders other than Holders, or both) (a Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering ), the Company shall give written notice (the Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Notice ) to all Qualified Holders of such Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering at least five (5) Business Days before the anticipated pricing date of such Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering. The Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Notice shall give the Qualified Holders the opportunity to include for offering in such Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Registrable Securities of the same class and series as those proposed to be sold in such Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering of any requesting Holder, but only if the Registrable Shares requested for inclusion are registered under an effective Shelf Registration Statement, as necessary to allow such Registrable Securities to be sold in such Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering.
(ii) Subject to Section 2.3(c) , the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to include in each such Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering such Registrable Securities for which the Company has received written requests (each, a Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Request ) from Qualified Holders within three (3) Business Days after giving the Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Notice. If a Qualified Holder decides not to include all of its Registrable Securities in any Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering, such Qualified Holder shall nevertheless continue to have the right to include any Registrable Securities in any subsequent Company Shelf Takedown Public Offerings, all upon the terms and conditions set forth herein. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to include in the Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering all Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to include pursuant to the Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Requests, to the extent required to permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities so requested to be registered, including to the extent so required, by filing and causing to become effective a post-effective amendment to the Company Shelf Registration Statement and any related prospectus supplement.
(c) Priority of Registration . If the Piggyback Registration in respect of which the Company gives notice pursuant to Section 2.3(a) , or the Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering in respect of which the Company gives notice pursuant to Section 2.3(b) , is an underwritten offering, and the managing underwriter or managing underwriters of such offering advise the Company and the applicable Holders that, in their reasonable view, the amount of securities requested to be included in such registration or offering (including Registrable Securities requested by the applicable Holders to be included in such registration or offering and any securities that the Company or any other Person proposes to be included that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the Maximum Offering Size (which shall be within a price range acceptable to the Company), then the Company shall so advise all applicable Holders with Registrable Securities proposed to be included in such Piggyback Registration or Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering, and shall include in such offering the number which can be so sold in the following order of priority, up to the Maximum Offering Size:
(A) in the case of a registration or offering initiated by the Company
(i) first, the securities that the Company proposes to sell up to the Maximum Offering Size;
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(ii) second, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration or offering, allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the applicable Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each Piggyback Eligible Holder; and
(iii) third, other securities of the Company requested to be included in such registration or offering by the holders thereof, allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the respective holders thereof on the basis of the number of securities requested to be included therein by each such holder; and
(B) in the case of a registration or offering that is not initiated by the Company
(i) first, the securities requested to be included by the holders of the Companys securities initiating such registration, up to the Maximum Offering Size;
(ii) second, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration or offering, allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the applicable Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein by each such Holder;
(iii) third, any securities requested to be included in such registration or offering by the Company; and
(iv) fourth, other securities of the Company requested to be included by other holders thereof to the extent permitted hereunder, allocated, if necessary for the registration or offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among the respective holders of such other securities on the basis of the number of securities requested to be included therein by each such holder.
(d) Manner of Sale of Registrable Securities . (i) All Piggyback Eligible Holders requesting to be included in the Piggyback Registration, or Qualified Holders requesting to be included in a Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering, must sell their Registrable Securities to the underwriters selected as provided in Section 2.3(f) on the same terms and conditions as apply to the Company or the holders that initiated such registration. Promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) following receipt of notification by the Company from the managing underwriter of a range of prices at which such Registrable Securities are likely to be sold, the Company shall so advise each applicable Holder requesting registration (or inclusion, as the case may be) in such offering of such price.
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(ii) If any such Holder disapproves of the terms of any such underwriting (including the price offered by the underwriter(s) in such offering), such Holder may elect to withdraw any or all of its Registrable Securities therefrom, without prejudice to the rights of any such Holder or Holders to include Registrable Securities in any future Piggyback Registration (or Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering, as the case may be) or other registration statement, by written notice to the Company and the managing underwriter(s) delivered on or prior to the effective date of such Piggyback Registration Statement or Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering or, if later, prior to the date on which the pricing of the relevant offering is expected to occur. Any Registrable Securities withdrawn from such underwriting shall be excluded and withdrawn from the registration or offering.
(e) Withdrawal from Registration . The Company shall have the right to terminate or withdraw any registration of offering initiated by it under this Section 2.3 prior to the effective date of such Registration Statement or pricing date of such Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering, whether or not any Piggyback Eligible Holder or Qualified Holder, as the case may be, has elected to include Registrable Securities therein, without prejudice, however, to the right of the Holders immediately to request that such registration be effected as an offering under Section 2.1 or a registration under Section 2.2 to the extent permitted thereunder and subject to the terms set forth therein. The registration expenses of such withdrawn registration or offering shall be borne by the Company in accordance with Article IV hereof.
(f) Selection of Bankers and Counsel . If a Piggyback Registration or Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering pursuant to this Section 2.3 involves an underwritten offering, the Company shall have the right, in consultation with the Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities to be included in such underwritten offering, to (i) determine the plan of distribution, including the price at which the Registrable Securities are to be sold and the underwriting commissions, discounts and fees and (ii) select the investment banker or bankers and managers to administer the offering, including the lead managing underwriter.
(g) Effect of Piggyback Registration . No registration or offering effected under this Section 2.3 shall relieve the Company of its obligations to effect any registration of the offer and sale of Registrable Securities under Section 2.1 or upon request under Section 2.2 hereof, and no registration effected pursuant to this Section 2.3 shall be deemed to have been effected pursuant to Section 2.1 or Section 2.2 hereof.
2.4 Notice Requirements . Any Demand Notice, Demand Eligible Holder Request, Piggyback Request, Shelf Takedown Notice or Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Request shall (i) specify the maximum number or class or series of Registrable Securities intended to be offered and sold by the Holder making the request, (ii) express such Holders bona fide intent to offer up to such maximum number of Registrable Securities for distribution, (iii) describe the nature or method of the proposed offer and sale of Registrable Securities (to the extent applicable), and (iv) contain the undertaking of such Holder to provide all such information and materials and take all action as may reasonably be required in order to permit the Company to comply with all applicable requirements in connection with the registration of such Registrable Securities.
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2.5 Conversion of Preferred Stock and Exercise of Warrants . A HOLDER MAY INCLUDE IN ANY UNDERWRITTEN SHELF TAKEDOWN, DEMAND REGISTRATION, PIGGYBACK REGISTRATION OR COMPANY SHELF TAKEDOWN PUBLIC OFFERING SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OR EXERCISE OF ANY REGISTRABLE SECURITIES CONSTITUTING PREFERRED STOCK OR WARRANTS WHOSE CONVERSION OR EXERCISE IS CONDITIONED UPON THE CLOSING OF SUCH UNDERWRITTEN SHELF TAKEDOWN, DEMAND REGISTRATION, PIGGYBACK REGISTRATION OR COMPANY SHELF TAKEDOWN PUBLIC OFFERING, AS THE CASE MAY BE.
ARTICLE III
SUSPENSION AND OTHER MATTERS
3.1 Required Suspension Period
(a) Reasons for Suspension . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Company shall have the right but not the obligation to defer the filing of (but not the preparation of), or suspend the use by the Holders of, any Demand Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statement for a period of up to forty-five (45) days
(i) if an event occurs as a result of which the Registration Statement and any related Prospectus as then supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement, file a new registration statement or supplement any related Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder;
(ii) upon issuance by the Commission of a stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement with respect to Registrable Securities or the initiation of Proceedings with respect to such Registration Statement under Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the Securities Act;
(iii) if the Company believes that any such registration or offering (x) should not be undertaken because it would reasonably be expected to materially interfere with any material corporate development or plan of the Company or (y) would require the Company, under applicable securities laws and other laws, to make disclosure of material nonpublic information that would not otherwise be required to be disclosed at that time and the Company believes in good faith that such disclosures at that time would not be in the Companys best interests; provided that this exception (y) shall continue to apply only during the time that such material nonpublic information has not been disclosed and remains material;
(iv) if the Company elects at such time to offer equity securities of the Company to (x) fund a merger, third-party tender offer or other business combination, acquisition of assets or similar transaction or (y) meet rating agency and other capital funding requirements; or
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(v) if the Company is pursuing a primary underwritten offering of Common Stock pursuant to a registration statement; provided that the Investor shall have Piggyback Registration rights with respect to such primary underwritten offering in accordance with and subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 2.3 (any such period, a Suspension Period ).
provided , however , that in such event, the Initiating Holders will be entitled to withdraw any request for a Demand Registration or an Underwritten Shelf Takedown and, if such request is withdrawn, such Demand Registration or Underwritten Shelf Takedown will not count as a Demand Registration or an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, as applicable, and the Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such registration.
(b) Limitation on Suspensions . In no event shall the Company declare a Suspension Period more than twice in any twelve (12) month period or for more than an aggregate of ninety (90) days in any twelve (12) month period. The Company shall give written notice to the Holders of its declaration of a Suspension Period and of the expiration of the relevant Suspension Period. If the filing of any Demand Registration or Shelf Registration or any Underwritten Shelf Takedown is suspended pursuant to this Section 3.1 , once the Suspension Period ends, an Initiating Holder may request a new Demand Registration, a new Shelf Registration or a new Underwritten Shelf Takedown (and no such request shall be counted as an additional Demand Registration for purposes of Section 2.2(c) or an Underwritten Shelf Takedown for purposes of Section 2.1(b) ).
3.2 Required Information . The Company may require each Holder of Registrable Securities as to which any Registration Statement is being filed or sale is being effected to furnish to the Company such information regarding the distribution of such securities and such other information relating to such Holder and its ownership of Registrable Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing ( provided that such information shall be used only in connection with such registration) and the Company may exclude from such registration or sale the Registrable Securities of any such Holder who fails to furnish such information within a reasonable time after receiving such request. Each Holder agrees to furnish such information to the Company and to cooperate with the Company as reasonably necessary to enable the Company to comply with the provisions of this Agreement.
3.3 Confidentiality . Pending any required public disclosure by the Company and subject to applicable legal requirements and the terms of this Agreement, the parties will maintain the confidentiality of details contained in all notices and other communications regarding a prospective underwritten offering and other sales of securities hereunder, which shall not include, however, the fact that an underwritten offering has been requested hereunder.
3.4 Other Registration Rights Agreements . The Company has not entered into and, unless agreed in writing by each Holder on or after the date of this Agreement, will not enter into, any agreement that (i) is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders with respect to Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof in any material respect or (ii) other than as set forth in this Agreement, would allow any holder of Common Stock to include Common Stock in any Registration Statement filed by the Company on a basis that is more favorable in any material respect to the rights granted to the Holders hereunder.
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ARTICLE IV
REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
The procedures to be followed by the Company and each participating Holder to register the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement in accordance with this Agreement, and the respective rights and obligations of the Company and such Holders with respect to the preparation, filing and effectiveness of such Registration Statement, are as follows:
4.1 Obligations of the Company .
(a) General . The Company will
(i) prepare and file a Registration Statement or a prospectus supplement, as applicable, with the Commission (within the time period specified in Section 2.1 or Section 2.2 , as applicable, in the case of a Shelf Registration, an Underwritten Shelf Takedown or a Demand Registration) which Registration Statement (A) shall be on a form selected by the Company for which the Company qualifies, (B) shall be available for the sale or exchange of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution, and (C) shall comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable form and include and/or incorporate by reference all financial statements required by the Commission to be filed therewith;
(ii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective for the periods provided under Section 2.1 or Section 2.2 , as applicable, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement or a Demand Registration Statement;
(iii) use its commercially reasonable efforts (notwithstanding Section 3.1(a) ) to prevent the occurrence of any event that would cause a Registration Statement to contain a material misstatement or omission or to be not effective and usable for resale of the Registrable Securities registered pursuant thereto (during the period that such Registration Statement is required to be effective as provided under Section 2.1 or Section 2.2 ); and
(iv) cause each Registration Statement and the related Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of such Registration Statement, amendment or supplement (x) to comply in all material respects with any requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission and (y) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
(b) Documentation Prior to Filing . The Company will, (1) at least five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated filing of a Registration Statement or any related Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (or, in the case of an amendment or supplement, as far in
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advance as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances), or before using any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, furnish to such Holders, the Holders Counsel and the managing underwriter or underwriters of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if applicable, copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, (2) use its commercially reasonable efforts to address in each such document prior to being so filed with the Commission such comments as such Holder, Holders Counsel or underwriter reasonably shall propose within three (3) Business Days of receipt of such copies by the Holders and (3) not file any Registration Statement or any related Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto containing information regarding a participating Holder to which a participating Holder reasonably objects.
(c) Filings and Comments . The Company will as promptly as reasonably practicable
(i) prepare and file with the Commission such amendments, including post-effective amendments, and supplements to each Registration Statement and the Prospectus used in connection therewith as (A) may be reasonably requested by any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement necessary to permit such Holder to sell in accordance with its intended method of distribution or (B) may be necessary under applicable law to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered thereby for the periods provided under Section 2.1 or Section 2.2 , as applicable, in accordance with the intended method of distribution and, subject to the limitations contained in this Agreement, prepare and file with the Commission such additional Registration Statements in order to register for resale under the Securities Act all of the Registrable Securities held by the Holders;
(ii) cause the related Prospectus to be amended or supplemented by any required prospectus supplement, and as so supplemented or amended, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;
(iii) respond to any comments received from the Commission with respect to each Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment thereto; and
(iv) as promptly as reasonably practicable, provide such Holders true and complete copies of all correspondence from and to the Commission relating to such Registration Statement or Prospectus other than any comments that the Company determines in good faith would result in the disclosure to such Holders of material non-public information concerning the Company that is not already in the possession of such Holder.
(d) Compliance. The Company will comply in all material respects with the provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (including Regulation M under the Exchange Act) with respect to each Registration Statement and the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by each Registration Statement.
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(e) Notifications . The Company will notify such Holders that, to its knowledge, hold Registrable Securities and the managing underwriter or underwriters of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if applicable, as promptly as reasonably practicable:
(i) (A) when a Registration Statement, any pre-effective amendment, any Prospectus or any prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement or any free writing prospectus is proposed to be filed; (B) when the Commission notifies the Company whether there will be any limited review or review of such Registration Statement and whenever the Commission comments on such Registration Statement (in which case the Company shall provide true and complete copies thereof and all written responses thereto to each Holder, each Holders Counsel and each underwriter, if applicable, other than information which the Company determines in good faith would constitute material non-public information that is not already in the possession of such Holder); and (C) with respect to each Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto, when the same has been declared effective;
(ii) of any request by the Commission or any other federal or state governmental or regulatory authority for amendments or supplements to a Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information (whether before or after the effective date of the Registration Statement) or any other correspondence with the Commission or any such authority relating to, or which may affect, the Registration Statement;
(iii) of the issuance by the Commission or any other governmental or regulatory authority of any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement covering any or all of the Registrable Securities or the initiation of any Proceedings for that purpose;
(iv) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation or threatening of any Proceeding for such purpose;
(v) if, at any time, the representations and warranties of the Company in any applicable underwriting agreement or similar agreement cease to be true and correct in all material respects; or
(vi) of the occurrence of any event that makes any statement made in such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or if, as a result of such event or the passage of time, such Registration Statement, Prospectus or other documents requires revisions so that, in the case of such Registration Statement or the Prospectus, as the case may be, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, or when any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus includes information that
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may conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, or if, for any other reason, it shall be necessary during such time period to amend or supplement such Registration Statement or Prospectus in order to comply with the Securities Act, which shall correct such misstatement or omission or effect such compliance.
(f) Stop Orders . The Company will (notwithstanding Section 3.1(a) ) use its commercially reasonable efforts to avoid the issuance of, or, if issued, obtain the withdrawal of (i) any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or the use of any Prospectus, or (ii) any suspension of the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, at the earliest practicable moment, or if any such order or suspension is made effective during any Suspension Period, at the earliest practicable moment after the Suspension Period is over.
(g) Copies of Documentation . (i) During the Effectiveness Period or the Shelf Period, as applicable, the Company will furnish to each selling Holder and the managing underwriter or underwriters of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if applicable, upon their request, without charge, at least one conformed copy of each Registration Statement and each amendment thereto and all exhibits to the extent requested by such selling Holder or underwriter (including those incorporated by reference) promptly after the filing of such documents with the Commission.
(ii) The Company will promptly deliver to each selling Holder and the managing underwriter or underwriters of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if applicable, without charge, as many copies of each Prospectus or Prospectuses (including each form of prospectus) and each amendment or supplement thereto as such selling Holder or underwriter may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities by such selling Holder or underwriter. The Company consents to the use of such Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders and any applicable underwriter in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by such Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto.
(h) Blue Sky . The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to
(i) register or qualify the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement, no later than the time such Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission, under all applicable securities laws (including the blue sky laws) of such jurisdictions each underwriter, if any, or any selling Holder shall reasonably request;
(ii) keep each such registration or qualification effective during the period such Registration Statement is required to be kept effective under the terms of this Agreement; and
(iii) do any and all other acts and things which may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable such underwriter, if any, and each selling Holder to consummate the disposition in each such jurisdiction of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement;
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provided , however , that the Company will not be required to (x) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this subparagraph, (y) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction or (z) consent to general service of process (other than service of process in connection with such registration or qualification or any sale of Registrable Securities in connection therewith) in any such jurisdiction.
(i) Share Certificates . To the extent that the Company has certificated shares of any Common Stock or Preferred Stock, the Company will cooperate with each Holder and the underwriter or managing underwriter of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if applicable, to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be delivered to a transferee pursuant to a Registration Statement, which certificates shall be free of all restrictive legends indicating that the Registrable Securities are unregistered or unqualified for resale under the Securities Act, Exchange Act or other applicable securities laws, and to enable such Registrable Securities to be in such denominations and registered in such names as each Holder or the underwriter or managing underwriter of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if any, may request in writing. In connection therewith, if required by the Companys transfer agent, the Company will promptly, after the effective date of the Registration Statement, cause an opinion of counsel as to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement to be delivered to and maintained with such transfer agent, together with any other authorizations, certificates and directions required by the transfer agent which authorize and direct the transfer agent to issue such Registrable Securities without any such legend upon sale by the Holder or the underwriter or managing underwriter of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities, if any, of such Registrable Securities under the Registration Statement.
(j) Supplements and Amendments . Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 4.1(e)(vi) , as promptly as reasonably practicable, the Company will (notwithstanding Section 3.1(a) ) prepare a supplement or amendment, including a post-effective amendment, if required by applicable law, to the affected Registration Statement or a supplement to the related Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference or to the applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered, no Registration Statement nor any Prospectus will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading and no Issuer Free Writing Prospectus will include information that conflicts with information contained in the Registration Statement or Prospectus, such that each selling Holder can resume disposition of such Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement or Prospectus.
(k) Underwriting Arrangements . The Company will, in connection with any underwritten offering in accordance with the terms hereof, negotiate in good faith and execute all indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.
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(l) Comfort Letters . The Company will procure auditor comfort letters addressed to the underwriters in the offering from the Companys independent certified public accountants or independent auditors (and, if necessary, any other independent certified public accountants or independent auditors of any Subsidiary of the Company or any business acquired by the Company for which financial statements and financial data are, or are required to be, included in the Registration Statement) in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by comfort letters as the underwriters reasonably request, dated the date of execution of the underwriting agreement and brought down to the closing under the underwriting agreement.
(m) Opinions of Counsel . The Company will obtain for delivery to the underwriter or underwriters of an underwritten offering of Registrable Securities an opinion or opinions from counsel for the Company (including any local counsel reasonably requested by the underwriters) dated the most recent effective date of the Registration Statement or, in the event of an underwritten offering, the date of the closing under the underwriting agreement, in customary form, scope and substance, covering the matters customarily covered in opinions requested in sales of securities or underwritten offerings, which opinions shall be reasonably satisfactory to such underwriters and their counsel.
(n) Inspection . For a reasonable period prior to the filing of any Registration Statement and throughout the Effectiveness Period or the Shelf Period, as applicable, the Company will make available upon reasonable notice at the Companys principal place of business or such other reasonable place for inspection by a representative appointed by the Holders holding a majority of the Registrable Securities covered by the applicable Registration Statement, by any managing underwriter or managing underwriters selected in accordance with this Agreement and by any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by such Holders or underwriter, such financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company, and cause the officers, employees, counsel and independent certified public accountants of the Company to respond to such inquiries and supply all information reasonably requested (and in the case of counsel, not violate an attorney-client privilege in such counsels reasonable belief) to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act.
(o) Transfer . The Company will (i) provide and cause to be maintained a transfer agent and registrar for all Registrable Securities covered by the applicable Registration Statement from and after a date not later than the effective date of such Registration Statement and provide and enter into any reasonable agreements with a custodian for the Registrable Securities and (ii) not later than the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement, provide a CUSIP number for all Registrable Securities.
(p) FINRA . The Company will cooperate with each Holder of Registrable Securities and each underwriter or agent participating in the disposition of Registrable Securities and their respective counsel in connection with any filings required to be made with FINRA and in performance of any due diligence investigations by any underwriter.
(q) Compliance . The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission, the Trading Market, FINRA and any state securities authority, and make available to each Holder, as soon as reasonably
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practicable after the effective date of the Registration Statement, an earnings statement covering at least twelve (12) months which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158.
(r) Free Writing Prospectuses . The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus utilized in connection with any Prospectus complies in all material respects with the Securities Act, is filed in accordance with the Securities Act to the extent required thereby, is retained in accordance with the Securities Act to the extent required thereby and, when taken together with the related Prospectus, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(s) Cooperation . In connection with any registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Agreement, the Company will take all commercially reasonable actions as are necessary or advisable in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of Registrable Securities by such Holders, including using commercially reasonable efforts to cause appropriate officers and employees to be available, on a customary basis and upon reasonable advance notice, to meet with prospective investors in presentations, meetings and road shows; provided , however , that the Company shall not be required to participate in any marketing effort that is longer than three (3) Business Days or requires face to face meeting with investors more than once every ninety (90) days and no more than twice in a twelve (12) month period.
(t) Listing . The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to list the Common Stock and the Preferred Stock covered by a Registration Statement on the New York Stock Exchange as soon as practicable after the Effective Date. Following the listing of the Common Stock and the Preferred Stock on the New York Stock Exchange, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to maintain such listing until each Holder has sold all of its Registrable Securities.
(u) Additional Information . The Company shall, if such registration for an underwritten offering is pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration, include in such Registration Statement such additional information for marketing purposes as the managing underwriter reasonably requests.
(v) Alternative Transactions. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate in a timely manner with any reasonable and customary request of the Holders in respect of any Alternative Transaction, including entering into customary agreements with respect to such Alternative Transactions (and providing customary representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities in such agreements) as well as providing other reasonable assistance in respect of such Alternative Transactions of the type applicable to a public offering subject to this Section 4.1 , to the extent customary for such transactions.
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4.2 Obligations of the Holders in Underwritten Offerings . Each Holder participating in an underwritten offering shall
(i) provide to the Company a Shelf Takedown Notice, Demand Notice, Piggyback Request or Company Shelf Takedown Public Offering Request of such Holders intention to distribute Registrable Securities by means of an underwritten offering;
(ii) participate in such underwriting and include such Holders Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein; provided that no such selling Holder shall be required to make any representations or warranties to or agreements with the Company or the underwriters other than representations, warranties or agreements regarding such selling Holder and such selling Holders Registrable Securities;
(iii) agree to enter into customary agreements, including an underwriting agreement in customary form, and sell such Holders Registrable Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Holders entitled to select the managing underwriter or managing underwriters hereunder (provided that any such Holder shall not be required to make any representations or warranties to or agreements with the Company or the underwriters other than representations, warranties, agreements and indemnities regarding such Holder, such Holders title to the Registrable Securities, such Holders intended method of distribution, the accuracy of information concerning such Holder as provided by or on behalf of such Holder, and any other representations required to be made by the Holder under applicable law, and the aggregate amount of the liability of such Holder in connection with such offering shall not exceed such Holders net proceeds from the disposition of such Holders Registrable Securities in such offering);
(iv) complete and execute all questionnaires, powers of attorney, custody agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements; and
(v) furnish to the Company such information regarding itself as is required to be included in the Registration Statement, the ownership of Registrable Securities by such Holder and the proposed distribution by such Holder of such Registrable Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing, as provided in Section 3.2 .
4.3 Expenses . All expenses incurred in connection with any Registration Statement or registered offering covering Registrable Securities held by Holders, including, without limitation, all registration and filing fees, printing expenses, the fees and expenses of the independent certified public accountants, transfer agents fees, the expense of qualifying such Registrable Securities under state blue sky laws, and, subject to the consent of the Company (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), reasonable fees and expenses of one firm of attorneys selected by Holders holding a majority of Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement or included in such registered offering, will be borne by the Company. However, underwriters, brokers and dealers discounts and commissions applicable to Registrable Securities sold for the account of Holders (and any taxes related thereto) will be borne by such Holders pro rata based on the number of Registrable Securities sold by them. Without limiting the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall obligate the Company to pay
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expenses (including fees and expenses of counsel) of underwriters of securities sold by the Holders (except for reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for any underwriters in connection with blue sky qualification of any Registrable Securities).
ARTICLE V
INDEMNIFICATION
5.1 Indemnification by the Company . In the event of any registration under the Securities Act by any Registration Statement pursuant to rights granted in this Agreement of Registrable Securities, or any offering made pursuant thereto, the Company will indemnify and hold harmless the Holders and their respective officers, directors, managers, employees, limited partners, general partners, equityholders, investment managers, management companies and Affiliates (in each case, in their capacities as such), and each underwriter of such securities and each other person, if any, who controls such Holders or such underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act, against any losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and costs of court), joint or several, to which such Holders and their respective officers, directors, managers, employees, limited partners, general partners, equityholders, investment managers, management companies or Affiliates, or such underwriter or any such controlling person may become subject under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (or any actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of any material fact (i) contained, on its effective date, in any Registration Statement under which such securities were registered under the Securities Act or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing, or which arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (ii) contained in any preliminary prospectus (if used prior to the filing of the final prospectus) or in the final prospectus (as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have filed with the Commission any amendment or supplement to the final prospectus) or any free writing prospectus, or which arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission (if so used) to state a material fact required to be stated in such prospectus or necessary to make the statements in such prospectus not misleading; and will reimburse such Holders and their respective officers, directors, managers, employees, limited partners, general partners, equityholders, investment managers, management companies and Affiliates and each such underwriter and each such controlling person for any legal or any other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, or liability; provided , however , that the Company shall not be liable to a Holder or its respective officers, directors, managers, employees, limited partners, general partners, equityholders, investment managers, management companies and Affiliates or an underwriter or any other person who controls such Holder or such underwriter in any such case if and to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in such Registration Statement, such amendment or supplement or such prospectus, in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder or such underwriter specifically for use in the preparation thereof.
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5.2 Indemnification by Holders . Each Holder severally (and not jointly) will indemnify and hold harmless (in the same manner and to the same extent as set forth in Section 5.1 ) the Company, its officers, directors, managers, employees, limited partners, general partners, equityholders, investment managers, management companies and Affiliates (in each case, in their capacities as such), and each other person, if any, who controls such the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act, against any losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and costs of court), joint or several, to which the Company and such officers, directors, managers, employees, limited partners, general partners, equityholders, investment managers, management companies or Affiliates or any such controlling person may become subject under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (or any actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of any material fact (i) contained, on its effective date, in any Registration Statement under which such securities were registered under the Securities Act or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing, or which arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (ii) contained in any preliminary prospectus (if used prior to the filing of the final prospectus) or in the final prospectus (as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have filed with the Commission any amendment or supplement to the final prospectus), or which arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission (if so used) to state a material fact required to be stated in such prospectus or necessary to make the statements in such prospectus not misleading, if and to the extent such statement or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically for use in the preparation thereof; provided , however , that the total amount to be indemnified by such Holder pursuant to this Section 5.2 shall be limited to the net proceeds (after deducting underwriters discounts and commissions) received by such Holder in the offering to which such Registration Statement relates; provided , further , that a Holder shall not be liable in any case to the extent that prior to the filing of any such Registration Statement, prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, such Holder has furnished in writing to the Company information expressly for use in, and within a reasonable period of time prior to the effectiveness of, such Registration Statement, prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto which corrected or made not misleading information previously provided by such Holder to the Company.
5.3 Indemnification Procedures . Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party of notice of the commencement of any action involving a claim referred to in the preceding Sections of this Article V , the indemnified party will, if a resulting claim is to be made or may be made against an indemnifying party, give written notice to the indemnifying party of the commencement of the action. The failure of any indemnified party to give notice shall not relieve the indemnifying party of its obligations in this Article V , except to the extent, if any, that the indemnifying party is actually materially prejudiced by the failure to give notice and then only to such extent. If any such action is brought against an indemnified party, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate in and to assume the defense of the action with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party, and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election to assume defense of the action, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party for any legal or other expenses incurred by the latter in connection with the actions defense. An indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any action or proceeding and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees
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and expenses of such counsel shall be at such indemnified partys expense unless (i) the employment of such counsel has been specifically authorized in writing by the indemnifying party, which authorization shall not be unreasonably withheld, (ii) the indemnifying party has not assumed the defense and employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party within thirty (30) days after notice of any such action or proceeding, or (iii) the named parties to any such action or proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have been advised by such counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to the indemnified party that are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying party shall not have the right to assume the defense of such action or proceeding on behalf of the indemnified party), it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to one (1) local counsel for each jurisdiction, if necessary, in the good faith opinion of both counsel for the indemnifying party and counsel for the indemnified party in order to adequately represent the indemnified parties) for all indemnified parties with regard to all claims arising out of similar circumstances; and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred upon written request and presentation of invoices. Whether or not a defense is assumed by the indemnifying party, the indemnifying party will not be subject to any liability for any settlement made without its consent. No indemnifying party will consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which (i) does not include as an unconditional term the giving by the claimant or plaintiff, to the indemnified party, of a release from all liability in respect of such claim or litigation or (ii) involves the imposition of equitable remedies or the imposition of any non-financial obligations on the indemnified party.
5.4 Contribution . If the indemnification required by this Article V from the indemnifying party is unavailable to or insufficient to indemnify and hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any indemnifiable losses, claims, damages, liabilities, or expenses as required by this Article V , then the indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, or expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect (i) the relative benefit of the indemnifying and indemnified parties and (ii) if the allocation in clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefit referred to in clause (i) and also the relative fault of the indemnified and indemnifying parties, in connection with the actions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact, has been made by, or relates to information supplied by, such indemnifying party or parties, and the parties relative intent, knowledge, access to information, and opportunity to correct or prevent such action; provided , however , that the total amount to be contributed by any Holder pursuant to this Section 5.4 shall be limited to the net proceeds (after deducting underwriters discounts and commissions) received by such Holder in the offering to which such Registration Statement relates; provided , further , that a Holder shall not be liable in any case to the extent that prior to the filing of any such Registration Statement, prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, such Holder has furnished in writing to the Company information expressly
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for use in, and within a reasonable period of time prior to the effectiveness of, such Registration Statement, prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto which corrected or made not misleading information previously provided by such Holder to the Company. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, claims, damage, liabilities, and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. The Company and Holders agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5.4 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in the prior provisions of this Section 5.4 . For purposes of this Section 5.4 , each person who controls any Holder or any underwriter thereof within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act and each officer, director and Affiliate of any such Holder shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this Section 5.4 .
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5.4 , no indemnifying party shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the securities were offered to the public by the indemnifying party exceeds the amount of any damages which the indemnifying party has otherwise been required to pay by reason of an untrue statement or omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such a fraudulent misrepresentation.
ARTICLE VI
OTHER AGREEMENTS
6.1 Transfer of Rights .
(a) Any Holder may transfer its rights under this Agreement with respect to any or all of the Registrable Securities held by such Holder to any transferee of such Registrable Securities; provided that such transfer of Registrable Securities is made in accordance with the registration requirements (or exemption therefrom) of the Securities Act and of any applicable state securities law and any applicable provisions of the certificate of incorporation of the Company or agreement governing such Registrable Securities; provided further that the Company may reasonably request opinions, certificates or other evidence of compliance therewith before effecting any such transfer. Subject to the foregoing, upon any such transfer of Registrable Securities, the transferring Holder shall cease to have any rights hereunder with respect to such Registrable Securities, and the transferee shall be considered a Holder for purposes hereof, with regard to such Registrable Securities. Any such transfer of rights under this Agreement will be effective upon receipt by the Company of (i) written notice from such Holder stating the name and address of any transferee and identifying the number and type of Registrable Securities with respect to which rights under this Agreement are being transferred, and (ii) a written agreement from the transferee of such Registrable Securities to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
(b) In the event the Company engages in a merger or consolidation in which the Registrable Securities are converted into securities of another company, or if there are any changes in the Common Stock or the Preferred Stock by way of share split, stock dividend, combination or reclassification, appropriate arrangements will be made so that the registration
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rights provided under this Agreement continue to be provided to Holders by the issuer of such securities. To the extent any new issuer, or any other company acquired by the Company in a merger or consolidation, was bound by registration rights obligations that would conflict with the provisions of this Agreement, the Company will, unless Holders then holding a majority of the Registrable Securities otherwise agree, use commercially reasonable efforts to modify any such inherited registration rights obligations so as not to interfere in any material respects with the rights provided under this Agreement.
6.2 Rule 144 . If the Company is subject to the requirements of Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company covenants that it will use its reasonable best efforts to file any reports required to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, so as to enable such Holder to sell Registrable Securities without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144, as such rule may be amended from time to time. Upon the request of any Holder, the Company will deliver to such Holder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such requirements.
6.3 In-Kind Distributions . If any Holder seeks to effectuate an in-kind distribution of all or part of its Registrable Securities to its direct or indirect equityholders, the Company will, subject to applicable lockups and transfer restrictions, reasonably cooperate with such Holder and the Companys transfer agent to facilitate such in-kind distribution in the manner reasonably requested by such Holder.
6.4 Termination of Registration Rights . (a) All registration rights under this Agreement, including, without limitation, the Companys obligations under Sections 2.1 , 2.2 and 2.3 hereof shall continue to be applicable with respect to a Holder until such Holder no longer holds any Registrable Securities. Notwithstanding the termination of registration rights hereunder, the parties rights and obligations under Article V hereof shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with their respective terms.
6.5 Legend Removal . If the Company asserts that the shares of Common Stock, shares of Preferred Stock, or Warrants, or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion or exercise thereof, of any Holder have ceased to be Registrable Securities (other than by reason of restrictive legends or stop transfer instructions appurtenant thereto) because such securities have become eligible for sale under Rule 144 without volume or manner of sale restrictions, then the Company and its legal counsel will upon request promptly provide, at the Companys sole expense, such transfer instructions (including instructions regarding the removal of restrictive legends) and legal opinions (on which such proposed seller may rely), and will undertake, also at the Companys sole expense, such other actions, as may be reasonably requested to permit or facilitate such proposed sale to be made without compliance with the volume or manner of sale restrictions of Rule 144).
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ARTICLE VII
MISCELLANEOUS
7.1 Notices . All notices, requests, demands and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be deemed given if in writing and delivered, if sent by electronic mail, courier or by registered or certified mail (return receipt requested) to the following addresses and facsimile numbers (or at such other addresses or facsimile numbers as shall be specified by like notice):
(a) | If to the Company, to: |
Peabody Energy Corporation
701 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63101
Fax No. (314) 342-7597
Attention: A. Verona Dorch, Chief Legal Officer
Email: XXXXXX@XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
With a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Jones Day
77 West Wacker
Chicago, IL 60601
Fax No. (312) 782-8585
Attention: Edward B. Winslow, Esq.
Email: ebwinslow@jonesday.com
or to such other person or address as the Company shall furnish to the Holders in writing;
(b) | If to a Holder, to the address set forth with respect to such Holder on Schedule 2 or to such other person or address as such Holder shall furnish to the Company and the other Holders in writing. |
Any notice given by delivery, mail or courier shall be effective when received. Any notice given by facsimile shall be effective upon oral or machine confirmation of successful transmission. Any notice given by electronic mail shall be effective upon delivery.
7.2 Section Headings . The article and section headings in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. References in this Agreement to a designated Article or Section refer to an Article or Section of this Agreement unless otherwise specifically indicated.
7.3 Governing Law . This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.
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7.4 Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process . The parties to this Agreement hereby agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York located in the County of New York, Borough of Manhattan, and the courts of the United States of America located in the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement.
7.5 Waiver of Jury Trial . Each of the parties to this Agreement hereby unconditionally agrees to waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, its respective rights to a jury trial of any claim or cause of action (whether based on contract, tort or otherwise) based upon, arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. 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 Agreement, including contract claims, tort claims and all other common law and statutory claims. Each party hereto: (i) acknowledges that this waiver is a material inducement to enter into this Agreement, that each has already relied on this waiver in entering into this Agreement, and that each will continue to rely on this waiver in their related future dealings, (ii) acknowledges that no representative, agent or attorney of any other party has represented, expressly or otherwise, that such other party would not in the event of any action or proceeding, seek to enforce the foregoing waiver and (iii) 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 7.5 AND EXECUTED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT. In the event of litigation, this Agreement may be filed as a written consent to a trial by the court.
7.6 Remedies . Each party to this Agreement, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Agreement. Each party hereto agrees that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Agreement and each party hereto agrees to waive the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.
7.7 Amendments . This Agreement may be amended only by an instrument in writing executed by the Company and Holders holding at least 66 2/3% of the Registrable Securities collectively held by them. Any such amendment will apply to all Holders equally, without distinguishing between them.
7.8 Arms Length Agreement . Each of the parties to this Agreement agrees and acknowledges that this Agreement has been negotiated in good faith, at arms length, and not by any means prohibited by law.
7.9 Entire Agreement . This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding of the parties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The registration rights granted under this Agreement supersede any registration, qualification or
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similar rights with respect to any of the shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock granted under any other agreement, and any of such preexisting registration rights are hereby terminated. The Company shall not hereafter enter into any agreement with respect to its securities which is inconsistent with or violates the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement.
7.10 Severability . The invalidity or unenforceability of any specific provision of this Agreement shall not invalidate or render unenforceable any of its other provisions. Any provision of this Agreement held invalid or unenforceable shall be deemed reformed, if practicable, to the extent necessary to render it valid and enforceable and to the extent permitted by law and consistent with the intent of the parties to this Agreement.
7.11 Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts, including by means of facsimile, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute the same instrument.
[Signature Page Follows.]
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PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION | ||
By: |
/s/ A. Verona Dorch |
|
Name: A. Verona Dorch | ||
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Government Affairs and Corporate Secretary | ||
[HOLDER SIGNATURE BLOCKS] |
[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]
Exhibit 10.3
CREDIT AGREEMENT
among
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION,
as Borrower,
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA,
as Administrative Agent,
and
The Other Lenders Party Hereto
Dated as of April 3, 2017
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
and
CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA,
as Syndication Agent,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
CREDIT SUISSE AG,
and
MACQUARIE CAPITAL (USA) INC.,
as Co-Documentation Agents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section |
Page | |||||
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS |
1 | |||||
1.01 |
Defined Terms |
1 | ||||
1.02 |
Other Interpretive Provisions |
45 | ||||
1.03 |
Accounting Terms |
46 | ||||
1.04 |
Times of Day |
47 | ||||
1.05 |
Negative Covenant Compliance |
47 | ||||
ARTICLE II. THE COMMITMENTS AND BORROWINGS |
47 | |||||
2.01 |
The Loans |
47 | ||||
2.02 |
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of the Loans |
48 | ||||
2.03 |
[Reserved] |
49 | ||||
2.04 |
[Reserved] |
49 | ||||
2.05 |
Prepayments |
49 | ||||
2.06 |
[Reserved] |
54 | ||||
2.07 |
Repayment of Loans |
54 | ||||
2.08 |
Interest |
55 | ||||
2.09 |
Fees |
55 | ||||
2.10 |
Computation of Interest and Fees |
56 | ||||
2.11 |
Evidence of Debt |
56 | ||||
2.12 |
Payments Generally; Administrative Agents Clawback |
57 | ||||
2.13 |
Pro Rata; Sharing of Payments by Lenders |
58 | ||||
2.14 |
[Reserved] |
59 | ||||
2.15 |
Incremental Debt |
59 | ||||
2.16 |
Refinancing Debt |
61 | ||||
2.17 |
[Reserved] |
63 | ||||
2.18 |
Defaulting Lenders |
63 | ||||
2.19 |
Dutch Auction Repurchases |
64 | ||||
2.20 |
Open Market Repurchases |
65 | ||||
ARTICLE III. TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY |
66 | |||||
3.01 |
Taxes |
66 | ||||
3.02 |
Illegality |
69 | ||||
3.03 |
Inability to Determine Rates |
70 | ||||
3.04 |
Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans |
70 | ||||
3.05 |
Compensation for Losses |
72 | ||||
3.06 |
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
73 | ||||
3.07 |
Survival |
73 | ||||
ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
74 | |||||
4.01 |
Closing Date |
74 | ||||
4.02 |
Conditions to all Borrowings (Including on the Closing Date) |
79 |
ARTICLE V. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
80 | |||||
5.01 |
Existence, Qualification and Power |
80 | ||||
5.02 |
Authorization; No Contravention |
80 | ||||
5.03 |
Governmental Authorization |
80 | ||||
5.04 |
Binding Effect |
81 | ||||
5.05 |
Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect |
81 | ||||
5.06 |
Litigation |
81 | ||||
5.07 |
No Default |
82 | ||||
5.08 |
Ownership and Identification of Property |
82 | ||||
5.09 |
Environmental Compliance |
82 | ||||
5.10 |
Insurance |
83 | ||||
5.11 |
Taxes |
84 | ||||
5.12 |
ERISA Compliance |
84 | ||||
5.13 |
Subsidiaries |
84 | ||||
5.14 |
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act |
84 | ||||
5.15 |
Disclosure |
84 | ||||
5.16 |
Compliance with Laws |
85 | ||||
5.17 |
Anti-Corruption; Sanctions; Terrorism Laws |
85 | ||||
5.18 |
Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. |
86 | ||||
5.19 |
Security Documents |
86 | ||||
5.20 |
Mines |
86 | ||||
5.21 |
Solvency |
87 | ||||
5.22 |
Labor Relations |
87 | ||||
ARTICLE VI. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
87 | |||||
6.01 |
Financial Statements |
87 | ||||
6.02 |
Certificates; Other Information |
88 | ||||
6.03 |
Notices |
89 | ||||
6.04 |
Payment of Tax Obligations |
90 | ||||
6.05 |
Preservation of Existence |
90 | ||||
6.06 |
Maintenance of Properties |
90 | ||||
6.07 |
Maintenance of Insurance |
90 | ||||
6.08 |
Compliance with Laws |
91 | ||||
6.09 |
Books and Records |
91 | ||||
6.10 |
Inspection Rights |
91 | ||||
6.11 |
Use of Proceeds |
91 | ||||
6.12 |
Additional Guarantors |
92 | ||||
6.13 |
Unrestricted Subsidiaries |
92 | ||||
6.14 |
Preparation of Environmental Reports |
92 | ||||
6.15 |
Certain Long Term Liabilities and Environmental Reserves |
92 | ||||
6.16 |
Covenant to Give Security |
93 | ||||
6.17 |
Maintenance of Ratings |
96 | ||||
6.18 |
Post Closing Covenants |
96 | ||||
6.19 |
ERISA |
96 |
ii
ARTICLE VII. NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
96 | |||||
7.01 |
Liens |
96 | ||||
7.02 |
Investments |
99 | ||||
7.03 |
Indebtedness |
101 | ||||
7.04 |
Fundamental Changes |
105 | ||||
7.05 |
Dispositions |
106 | ||||
7.06 |
Restricted Payments |
108 | ||||
7.07 |
Change in Nature of Business |
109 | ||||
7.08 |
Transactions with Affiliates |
110 | ||||
7.09 |
[Reserved] |
111 | ||||
7.10 |
Use of Proceeds |
111 | ||||
7.11 |
[Reserved] |
111 | ||||
7.12 |
Burdensome Agreements |
111 | ||||
7.13 |
Restrictions on Specified Subsidiaries |
112 | ||||
7.14 |
Maximum Capital Expenditures |
113 | ||||
7.15 |
Fiscal Year |
113 | ||||
7.16 |
Sale and Lease-Backs |
113 | ||||
7.17 |
Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents |
114 | ||||
7.18 |
Restructuring Transactions |
114 | ||||
ARTICLE VIII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES |
114 | |||||
8.01 |
Events of Default |
114 | ||||
8.02 |
Remedies Upon Event of Default |
116 | ||||
8.03 |
Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries |
117 | ||||
8.04 |
Application of Funds |
117 | ||||
ARTICLE IX. ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT |
117 | |||||
9.01 |
Appointment and Authority |
117 | ||||
9.02 |
Rights as a Lender |
118 | ||||
9.03 |
Exculpatory Provisions |
118 | ||||
9.04 |
Reliance by Administrative Agent |
119 | ||||
9.05 |
Delegation of Duties |
120 | ||||
9.06 |
Resignation of Administrative Agent |
120 | ||||
9.07 |
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders |
121 | ||||
9.08 |
No Other Duties, Etc. |
122 | ||||
9.09 |
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim |
122 | ||||
9.10 |
Guaranty and Collateral Matters |
123 | ||||
9.11 |
Withholding Tax |
124 | ||||
9.12 |
Intercreditor Agreements, Collateral Matters and Specified Amendments |
124 | ||||
ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS |
125 | |||||
10.01 |
Amendments, Etc. |
125 | ||||
10.02 |
Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication |
128 | ||||
10.03 |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies |
131 | ||||
10.04 |
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
131 | ||||
10.05 |
Marshalling; Payments Set Aside |
133 |
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10.06 |
Successors and Assigns |
134 | ||||
10.07 |
Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality |
138 | ||||
10.08 |
Right of Setoff |
139 | ||||
10.09 |
Usury Savings Clause |
140 | ||||
10.10 |
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness |
140 | ||||
10.11 |
Survival of Representations, Warranties |
141 | ||||
10.12 |
Severability |
141 | ||||
10.13 |
Replacement of Lenders |
141 | ||||
10.14 |
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc. |
142 | ||||
10.15 |
Waiver of Jury Trial |
143 | ||||
10.16 |
USA PATRIOT Act Notice |
144 | ||||
10.17 |
Time of the Essence |
144 | ||||
10.18 |
[Reserved] |
144 | ||||
10.19 |
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility |
144 | ||||
10.20 |
[Reserved] |
145 | ||||
10.21 |
Release of Liens and Release from Guaranty |
145 | ||||
10.22 |
Independence of Covenants |
146 | ||||
10.23 |
Independent Nature of Lenders Rights |
146 | ||||
10.24 |
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions |
146 | ||||
10.25 |
Original Issue Discount |
147 |
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SCHEDULES
1.01(a) |
Guarantors |
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1.01(b) |
Unrestricted Subsidiaries |
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1.01(c) |
Excluded Equity Interests |
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1.01(d) |
Real Property Marketed for Sale |
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1.01(e) |
Reserve Areas |
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2.01 |
Commitments |
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5.08(b) |
Fee Owned Material Real Property |
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5.08(c) |
Leased Material Real Property |
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5.08(d) |
Material Real Property for Title Opinions |
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5.09 |
Environmental Matters |
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5.13 |
Subsidiaries |
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5.18 |
Intellectual Property |
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5.20 |
Mines |
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6.18 |
Post Closing Covenants |
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7.01 |
Existing Liens |
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7.02 |
Existing Investments |
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7.03 |
Existing Indebtedness |
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7.05 |
Specified Dispositions |
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7.08 |
Transactions with Affiliates |
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7.12 |
Burdensome Agreements |
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10.02 |
Administrative Agents Office; Certain Addresses for Notices |
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10.06 |
Processing and Recordation Fees |
EXHIBITS
Form of: |
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A |
Borrowing Notice |
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B |
[Reserved] |
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C |
Note |
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D |
Compliance Certificate |
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E |
Assignment and Assumption |
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F |
Guaranty |
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G |
Security Agreement |
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H-1 |
Opinion of Jones Day |
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H-2 |
Opinion of Triay Stagnetto Neish |
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H-3 |
Opinion of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP |
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I-1 |
Collateral Trust Agreement |
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J |
Mortgage |
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K |
Solvency Certificate |
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L |
Auction Procedures |
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M-1 |
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate |
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M-2 |
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate |
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M-3 |
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate |
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M-4 |
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
This CREDIT AGREEMENT (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the Agreement ) is entered into as of April 3, 2017, among PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the Borrower ), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the Lenders and, individually, a Lender ), GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as Administrative Agent, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, J.P. MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. and CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA, as syndication agent (in such capacity, the Syndication Agent), and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., CREDIT SUISSE AG AND MACQUARIE CAPITAL (USA) INC., as co-documentation agents (in such capacities, the Documentation Agents).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
The Borrower, together with certain of its wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries and one subsidiary organized under the laws of Gibraltar (collectively, the Debtors ), each filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code on April 13, 2016.
Pursuant to the Confirmation Order, entered on March 17, 2017, the Bankruptcy Court confirmed the Debtors Plan of Reorganization, and the Debtors will emerge from the Bankruptcy Cases pursuant thereto (the Exit ) on the Closing Date.
The Borrower has requested that on the Closing Date, the Lenders make Term Loans to the Borrower to finance a portion of the Transactions and to pay fees and expenses in connection with the Transactions (the Transaction Costs ) and the Lenders have agreed to provide such Term Loans on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
ABL Agent(s) means each administrative agent, collateral agent, collateral trustee or other representative of the holders of ABL Obligations with respect to any ABL Facility.
ABL Credit Documents means the instruments or agreements executed in connection with any ABL Facility (including all security agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages, control agreements or other grants or transfers for security in favor of any ABL Agent, for the benefit of the holders of ABL Obligations) and any instrument or agreement executed in connection with any refinancings and replacements thereof to the extent permitted under the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, as each such instrument or agreement may be amended, restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
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ABL Facility means one or more asset based lending facilities; provided that the aggregate principal amount outstanding of all ABL Facilities, together with the aggregate principal amount (or similar amount) outstanding under any Permitted Securitization Program, shall not exceed the greater of $250,000,000 and 3.5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
ABL Intercreditor Agreement means an intercreditor agreement to be entered into between the ABL Agent, the Collateral Trustee and the Junior Collateral Trustee that sets forth the relative priority of the Priority Liens and the Junior Liens (as each term is defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement), on the one hand, compared to the ABL Liens (as defined in the Collateral Trust Agreement), on the other hand, on substantially the terms described in Section 7.25 of the Collateral Trust Agreement and otherwise in accordance with Section 7.25 of the Collateral Trust Agreement, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
ABL Obligations means all debts, liabilities and obligations incurred by the Borrower or any Subsidiary under the ABL Credit Documents.
ABL Priority Collateral has the meaning assigned to ABL Priority Collateral in the Collateral Trust Agreement.
Accepting Lenders has the meaning specified in Section 10.01(g) .
Accounting Change means changes in accounting principles after the Closing Date required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board or, if applicable, the SEC.
Acquisition Agreement means, with respect to any Permitted Acquisition, the definitive documentation for such Permitted Acquisition.
Acquisition Agreement Representations means, with respect to any Acquisition Agreement, the representations and warranties made by or with respect to the Person to be acquired or selling its assets pursuant to such Acquisition Agreement that are material to the interests of the Lenders, but only to the extent that (a) the accuracy of any such representation or warranty is a condition to the Borrowers or its Restricted Subsidiarys obligations to close under the Acquisition Agreement or (b) the Borrower or Restricted Subsidiary has the right to terminate its obligations under the Acquisition Agreement as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties.
Additional Extensions of Credit has the meaning specified in Section 10.01 .
Administrative Agent means Goldman Sachs Bank USA, in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
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Administrative Agents Office means the Administrative Agents address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02 , or such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the Lenders.
Administrative Questionnaire means an administrative questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
Affiliate means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.
Agent Parties has the meaning specified in Section 10.02(c) .
Agents means the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agents.
Aggregate Commitments means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
Agreement has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.
Anti-Corruption Laws has the meaning specified in Section 5.17 .
Applicable Percentage means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the tenth decimal place) of the Term Loan Facility represented by (i) until the Closing Date, such Lenders respective Term Loan Commitments and (ii) thereafter, the aggregate principal amount of such Lenders Term Loans then outstanding. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of the Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.
Applicable Rate means a percentage per annum equal to (i) 4.50% for Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (ii) 3.50% for Base Rate Loans.
Applicable Reserve Requirement means, at any time, for any Eurocurrency 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 Eurocurrency 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 Eurocurrency Rate Loans. A Eurocurrency 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 Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in the Applicable Reserve Requirement.
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Approved Fund means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
Arrangers means Goldman Sachs Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, each in its capacity as joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner.
Asset Sale means any Disposition or series of related Dispositions of property by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any Person; provided that Asset Sale shall exclude any Disposition or series of related Dispositions with a fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Borrower in good faith) of less than $10,000,000; provided, further , that Asset Sale shall exclude the sale or discount of accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the compromise or collection thereof.
Asset Sale Sweep Provision has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(e) .
Assignee Group means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
Assignment and Assumption means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.06(b) , and accepted by the Administrative Agent) in substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent, in accordance with Section 10.06(b) .
Attributable Indebtedness means, on any date, in respect of any Capital Lease Obligations of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.
Auction has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a) .
Auction Manager has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a) .
Auction Procedures means the procedures for conducting any Auction set forth on Exhibit L, subject to modification as mutually determined by the Borrower and the Auction Manager and consented to by the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
Audited Financial Statements means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2016, December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, changes in shareholders equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.
Authorization Order means that certain Order (I) Authorizing the Debtors to (A) Enter into Exit Financing Commitment Letter and Related Agreements and (B) Incur and Pay Certain Related Fees and/or Premiums, Indemnities, Costs and Expenses; and (II) Granting Related Relief, as entered in the Bankruptcy Court on January 27, 2017, Docket No. 2225.
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Backstop Commitment Agreement means that certain Backstop Commitment Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2016, by and among the Borrower and each Commitment Party (as defined therein).
Bail-In Action means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.
Bail-In Legislation means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
Bankruptcy Cases means the cases of Borrower and certain of its direct and indirect wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries and one subsidiary organized under the laws of Gibraltar in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code consolidated under Case No. 16-42529.
Bankruptcy Court means the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and, to the extent of the withdrawal of any reference under 28 U.S.C. § 157, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Base Rate means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50%, (b) the Eurocurrency Rate (after giving effect to any Eurocurrency Rate floor) that would be payable on such day for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan with a one month Interest Period plus 1%, and (c) the Prime Rate in effect on such day. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Rate shall be effective on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Rate, respectively. In no event, with respect to the Term Loans issued on the Closing Date, notwithstanding the rate determined pursuant to the foregoing, shall the Base Rate be less than 2.00%.
Base Rate Loan means a Term Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
Borrower has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
Borrower Materials has the meaning specified in Section 6.02 .
Borrowing means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01 .
Borrowing Notice means a notice of (a) a Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Term Loans from one Type to the other or (c) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, in each case, pursuant to Section 2.02(a) , which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A .
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Building means a Building as defined in 12 CFR Chapter III, Section 339.2.
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 Eurocurrency Rate or any Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the term Business Day means 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 Expenditure means any expenditure that, in accordance with GAAP, is or should be included in purchase of property and equipment or similar items, or which should otherwise be capitalized, reflected in the consolidated statement of cash flows of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that Capital Expenditure shall not include any expenditure (i) for replacements and substitutions for fixed assets, capital assets or equipment to the extent made with Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds invested pursuant to Section 2.05(h) or with Net Proceeds invested pursuant to Section 2.05(e) or (ii) which constitute a Permitted Acquisition.
Capital Lease Obligations means of any Person as of the date of determination, the aggregate liability of such Person under Financing Leases reflected on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP.
Capital Stock 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) and any and all warrants or options to purchase any of the foregoing, but excluding any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Capital Stock.
Cash Equivalents means
(a) | U.S. Government Obligations or certificates representing an ownership interest in U.S. Government Obligations with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition, |
(b) | (i) demand deposits, (ii) time deposits and certificates of deposit with maturities of two years or less from the date of acquisition, (iii) bankers acceptances with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition, and (iv) overnight bank deposits, in each case with any bank or trust company organized or licensed under the laws of the United States or any state thereof (including any branch of a foreign bank licensed under any such laws) having capital, surplus and undivided profits in excess of $250,000,000 (or the foreign currency equivalent thereof) whose short-term debt is rated A-2 or higher by S&P or P-2 or higher by Moodys, |
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(c) | commercial paper maturing within 364 days from the date of acquisition thereof and having, at such date of acquisition, ratings of at least A-1 by S&P or P-1 by Moodys, |
(d) | readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, commonwealth or territory of the U.S. or any political subdivision thereof, in each case rated at least A-1 by S&P or P-1 by Moodys with maturities not exceeding one year from the date of acquisition, |
(e) | bonds, debentures, notes or other obligations with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition issued by any corporation, partnership, limited liability company or similar entity whose long-term unsecured debt has a credit rate of A2 or better by Moodys and A or better by S&P; |
(f) | investment funds at least 95% of the assets of which consist of investments of the type described in clauses (a) through (e) above (determined without regard to the maturity and duration limits for such investments set forth in such clauses, provided that the weighted average maturity of all investments held by any such fund is two years or less), |
(g) | fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 30 days for securities described in clause (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in clause (b) above and |
(h) | in the case of a Restricted Subsidiary that is a Foreign Subsidiary, substantially similar investments, of comparable credit quality, denominated in the currency of any jurisdiction in which such Person conducts business. |
Cash Management Obligations means any and all obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary arising out of (a) the execution or processing of electronic transfers of funds by automatic clearing house transfer, wire transfer or otherwise to or from the deposit accounts of the Borrower and/or any Restricted Subsidiary, (b) the acceptance for deposit or the honoring for payment of any check, draft or other item with respect to any such deposit accounts, (c) any other treasury, deposit, disbursement, overdraft, and cash management services afforded to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, and (d) stored value card, commercial credit card and merchant card services.
Change in Law means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority required to be complied with by any Lender. For purposes of this definition, (x) the Dodd-Frank Act and any rules, regulations, orders, requests, guidelines and directives adopted, promulgated or implemented in connection therewith, and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to have been adopted, issued, promulgated or
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implemented after the Closing Date, but shall be included as a Change in Law only to the extent a Lender is imposing applicable increased costs or costs in connection with capital adequacy and other requirements similar to those described in Sections 3.04(a) and (b) generally on other similarly situated borrowers of loans under United States credit facilities.
Change of Control means:
(a) an event or series of events by which any person or group (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the equity securities of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis; or
(b) a Change of Control as defined in the Priority Lien Notes Indenture or the ABL Credit Documents, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, replaced, or refinanced from time to time.
Closing Date means the date on which all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.01 and the Term Loans are made, which occurred on April 3, 2017.
Closing Date Material Adverse Effect means any circumstance or condition that individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect (a) the business, assets, results of operations, properties or financial condition of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower and the Guarantors, taken as a whole, to perform their payment obligations under this Agreement or the Guaranty or (c) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Trustee and the Lenders under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, in each case, except to the extent such event results from, arises out of, or is attributable to, the following (either alone or in combination): (i) any change after such date in global, national or regional political conditions (including hostilities, acts of war, sabotage, terrorism or military actions, or any escalation or material worsening of any such hostilities, acts of war, sabotage, terrorism or military actions existing or underway) or in the general business, market, financial or economic conditions affecting the industries, regions and markets in which the Loan Parties operate, including any change in the United States or applicable foreign economies or securities, commodities or financial markets, or force majeure events or acts of God; (ii) any changes after such date in applicable law or GAAP, or in the interpretation or enforcement thereof; (iii) the execution, announcement or performance of the transactions contemplated by the Plan of Reorganization (including any act or omission of the Loan Parties expressly required or prohibited, as applicable, by the Plan of Reorganization or consented to or required by the Requisite Members of the Noteholder Steering Committee (each as defined in the Plan of Reorganization) in writing); (iv) changes in the market price or trading volume of the claims or equity or debt securities of the Loan Parties (but not the underlying facts giving rise to such changes unless such facts are otherwise excluded pursuant to the clauses contained in this definition); (v) the departure of officers or directors of any of the
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Loan Parties not in contravention of the terms and conditions of the Plan Support Agreement or the Plan of Reorganization (but not the underlying facts giving rise to such departure unless such facts are otherwise excluded pursuant to the clauses contained in this definition); (vi) the filing or pendency of the Bankruptcy Cases (including events resulting from any filing made in such Bankruptcy Cases); or (vii) declarations of national emergencies in the United States or natural disasters in the United States; provided, that the exceptions set forth in clauses (i), (ii) and (vii) shall not apply to the extent that such event is materially and disproportionately adverse to the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, as compared to other companies in the industries in which the Loan Parties operate.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time (unless as indicated otherwise).
Collateral means, collectively, all of the real, personal and mixed property (including Equity Interests) in which Liens are purported to be granted pursuant to the Security Documents as security for all or any part of the Obligations (subject to exceptions contained in the Security Documents), in each case excluding any Excluded Assets.
Collateral Questionnaire means a certificate in form reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that provides information with respect to the personal or mixed property of each Loan Party.
Collateral Trust Agreement means a collateral trust agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit I-1 , as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Collateral Trustee means Wilmington Trust, National Association and its successors and assigns as Collateral Trustee pursuant to the Collateral Trust Agreement.
Commitment means a Term Loan Commitment or corresponding commitment under another Facility, as the context may require.
Commodity Exchange Act means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended and any successor statute.
Compliance Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D .
Confirmation Order means an order confirming the Plan of Reorganization, which confirmation order shall be, to the extent material to the Arrangers and the Lenders, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to each Arranger and Lender.
Consolidated Capital Expenditures means, for any period, the aggregate of all Capital Expenditures of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
Consolidated EBITDA means, as of the last day of any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period plus, without duplication, for such period (i) consolidated interest expense, determined in accordance with GAAP; (ii) to the extent deducted in computing such
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Consolidated Net Income, the sum of all income, franchise or similar taxes; (iii) depreciation, depletion, amortization (including, without limitation, amortization of intangibles, deferred financing fees and any amortization included in pension or other employee benefit expenses) and all other non-cash items reducing Consolidated Net Income (including, without limitation, write-downs and impairment of property, plant, equipment and intangibles and other long-lived assets and the impact of purchase accounting) but excluding, in each case, non-cash charges in a period which reflect cash expenses paid or to be paid in another period); (iv) non-recurring restructuring costs, expenses and charges, including, without limitation, all business optimization costs and expenses, facility opening, pre-opening and closing and consolidation costs and expenses, advisory and professional fees and stay and retention bonuses; (v) any expenses, costs or charges related to any equity offering, Investment permitted under Section 7.02, acquisition, disposition, recapitalization or Indebtedness permitted to be incurred by the indenture (whether or not successful); (vi) all non-recurring or unusual losses, charges and expenses (and less all non-recurring or unusual gains); (vii) all non-cash charges and expenses; (viii) any debt extinguishment costs; (ix) any amount of asset retirement obligations expenses; (x) transaction costs, fees and expenses incurred during such period in connection with any acquisition or disposition not prohibited hereunder or any issuance of debt or equity securities by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, for such expenses; (xi) net after-tax losses attributable to asset sales, and net after-tax extraordinary losses; (xii) (a) mark-to-market gains (and less any mark-to-market losses) relating to any Hedging Agreements permitted hereunder and (b) any mark-to-market losses attributed to short positions in any actual or synthetic forward sales contracts relating to coal or any other similar device or instrument or other instrument classified as a derivative pursuant to FASB ASC Topic No. 815, Derivatives and Hedging and (xiii) commissions, premiums, discounts, fees or other charges relating to performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds, reclamation and completion guarantees and other similar obligations; provided that, with respect to any Restricted Subsidiary, such items will be added only to the extent and in the same proportion that the relevant Restricted Subsidiarys net income was included in calculating Consolidated Net Income.
Consolidated Net Income means, for any period, the net income (or loss) attributable to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for that period, determined in accordance with GAAP, excluding, without duplication, (a) noncash compensation expenses related to common stock and other equity securities issued to employees, (b) extraordinary or non-recurring gains and losses, (c) income or losses from discontinued operations or disposal of discontinued operations or costs and expenses associated with the closure of any mines (including any reclamation or disposal obligations), (d) any non-cash impairment charges or asset write-off resulting from the application of ASC 320 Investments-Debt and Equity Securities, ASC 323 Investments-Equity Method and Joint Ventures, ASC 350 IntangiblesGoodwill and Other and ASC 360 Property, Plant and Equipment and any future or similar ASC standards relating to impairment, (e) net unrealized gains or losses resulting in such period from non-cash foreign currency remeasurement gains or losses, (f) net unrealized gains or losses resulting in such period from the application ASC 815 Derivatives and Hedging, in each case, for such period, (g) non-cash charges including non-cash charges due to cumulative effects of changes in accounting principles, and (h) any net income (or loss) of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary for such period that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting to the extent included therein; plus , without duplication, any cash dividends and/or distributions actually received by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary from any Unrestricted Subsidiary and/or Joint Venture during such period to the extent not already included therein.
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Consolidated Net Tangible Assets means, as of any particular time, the total of all the assets appearing on the most recent consolidated balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries as of the end of the last fiscal quarter for which financial information is available (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting from such amount (i) all current liabilities, including current maturities of long-term debt and current maturities of obligations under capital leases (other than any portion thereof maturing after, or renewable or extendable at the option of the Borrower or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary beyond, twelve months from the date of determination); and (ii) the total of the net book values of all assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries properly classified as intangible assets under GAAP (including goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and other like intangible assets).
Consolidated Net Total Debt means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate stated balance sheet amount of all Indebtedness described in clauses (a), (b), (c), (f) and (g) (with respect to Indebtedness described in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (f)) of the definition of the term Indebtedness of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (for the avoidance of doubt, for this purpose, letters of credit will be deemed to have a principal amount equal to the amount drawn and not reimbursed thereunder, if any) determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, minus (b) the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash included in the consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date (other than the proceeds of Incremental Debt to be incurred on such date of determination).
Contract has the meaning specified in the definition of Excluded Assets.
Contractual Obligation means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
Control means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Controlling and Controlled have meanings correlative thereto.
Controlled Subsidiary means, with respect to any consent, waiver or right to terminate or accelerate the obligations under a Contract, any Subsidiary that the Borrower directly or indirectly Controls for purposes of the provision of such consent, waiver or exercise of such right to terminate or accelerate the obligations under such Contract.
Convertible Securities means the preferred stock of the Borrower issued pursuant to the Plan of Reorganization on the Closing Date which shall be convertible into common stock of the Borrower, in an aggregate amount of at least $750,000,000.
Copyright Security Agreement means the Copyright Security Agreement, substantially in the form attached to the Security Agreement or such other form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, by certain Loan Parties in favor of the Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
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Cumulative Amount means at any time (the Cumulative Amount Reference Time ), an amount (which shall not be less than zero) equal to, without duplication:
(i) (x) the cumulative amount of Excess Cash Flow of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for all fiscal years completed after the Closing Date (commencing with the portion of fiscal year 2017) and prior to the Cumulative Amount Reference Time, minus (y) the portion of such Excess Cash Flow that has been (or is required to be) applied after the Closing Date and prior to the Cumulative Amount Reference Time to the prepayment of Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.05(g) or any other pari passu Indebtedness (including the Priority Lien Notes) in accordance with the terms thereof (but excluding for purposes of this clause (y) any portion of such Excess Cash Flow with respect to which such prepayment has been waived by the Lender or other holder of such Indebtedness entitled thereto); plus
(ii) the amount of any Declined Proceeds; minus
(iii) the aggregate amount of any Restricted Payment made pursuant to Section 7.06(e)(ii) , any Investments made pursuant to Section 7.02(m)(ii) and any Capital Expenditures made pursuant to Section 7.14(b) during the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on or prior to the Cumulative Amount Reference Time (and, for purposes of this clause (iii), without taking account of the intended usage of the Cumulative Amount at such Cumulative Amount Reference Time).
Cumulative Amount Reference Time has the meaning specified in the definition of Cumulative Amount.
Debtor Relief Laws means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
Debtors has the meaning specified in the preliminary statements to this Agreement.
Declined Proceeds has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(n) .
Default means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.
Default Rate means an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Rate applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided , however , that with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to (i) the Eurocurrency Rate otherwise applicable to such Eurocurrency Rate Loan plus (ii) the Applicable Rate applicable to Eurocurrency Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per annum.
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Defaulting Lender means any Lender that (a) has failed to fund any portion of the Loans, unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lenders reasonable determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, (b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within three Business Days of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute, (c) has been deemed insolvent or become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding 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) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender or (d) has become the subject of a Bail-In Action. A Lender that has become a Defaulting Lender because of an event referenced in this definition may cure such status and shall no longer constitute a Defaulting Lender as provided in the last paragraph of Section 2.18 .
Designated Letters of Credit means letters of credit issued with respect to Mine reclamation, workers compensation and other employee benefit liabilities.
Designated Non-Cash Consideration means the fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Borrower in good faith) of non-cash consideration received by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a Disposition that is so designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration minus the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration.
Disposition or Dispose means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith.
Disqualified Equity Interest means Equity Interests that by their terms (or by the terms of any security into which such Equity Interests are convertible, or for which such Equity Interests are exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder thereof) or upon the happening of any event (i) mature or are mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or are required to be redeemed or redeemable at the option of the holder for consideration other than Qualified Equity Interests, or (ii) are convertible at the option of the holder into Disqualified Equity Interests or exchangeable for Indebtedness, in each case of clauses (i) and (ii) prior to the date that is 91 days after the final Maturity Date hereunder, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), if as a result of a change of control or asset sale, so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of such a change of control or asset sale event are subject to the prior payment in full of all Obligations.
Disqualified Institution means (i) any financial institutions and entities identified by the Borrower to the Arrangers by name in writing on or prior to January 11, 2017 or as the Borrower
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and the Arrangers (or, after the Closing Date, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) shall mutually agree after such date, (ii) any competitors of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries identified by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and Lenders by name in writing from time to time and (iii) affiliates of the foregoing that are readily identifiable solely on the basis of similarity of their names; provided that (x) Disqualified Institutions shall not include any bona fide diversified debt fund or a diversified investment vehicle that is engaged in the making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in, acquiring or trading commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course; (y) neither Administrative Agent nor Arranger shall have any responsibility for monitoring compliance with any provisions of this Agreement with respect to Disqualified Institutions and (z) updates to the Disqualified Lender schedule shall not retroactively invalidate or otherwise affect any (A) assignments or participations made to, (B) any trades entered into with or (C) information provided to any Person before it was designated as a Disqualified Institution. It is acknowledged and agreed by the Borrower that the identity of Disqualified Institutions will be made available to the Lenders.
Documentation Agents has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.
Dodd-Frank Act means the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub.L. 111-203, H.R. 4173) signed into law on July 21, 2010, as amended from time to time.
Dollar and $ mean lawful money of the United States.
Domestic Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia; provided , that in no event shall any such Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary be considered a Domestic Subsidiary for purposes of the Loan Documents.
EEA Financial Institution means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
EEA Member Country means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
EEA Resolution Authority means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
Eligible Assignee means (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender, (iii) an Approved Fund and (iv) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by (A) the Administrative Agent and (B) unless an Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a), (f) and (g) has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower (each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided , however , in each case, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, an
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Eligible Assignee shall include only a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or another Person, which, through its Lending Offices, is capable of lending to the Borrower, without the imposition of any additional Indemnified Taxes and assignment to such Person would not, at the time of such assignment, result in the Borrower becoming liable to pay any additional amount to such Person or any Governmental Authority pursuant to Section 3.01 or Section 3.04 ; provided further that no Defaulting Lender or Disqualified Institution shall be an Eligible Assignee.
Environmental Laws means any and all applicable current and future federal, state, local and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or other governmental restrictions or common law causes of action relating to (a) protection of the environment or to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes into the environment including ambient air, surface, water, ground water, or land, (b) human health as affected by Hazardous Materials, and (c) mining operations and activities to the extent relating to environmental protection or reclamation, including the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, provided that Environmental Laws do not include any laws relating to worker or retiree benefits, including benefits arising out of occupational diseases.
Environmental Liability means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
Environmental Permits means any and all permits, licenses, registrations, notifications, exemptions and any other authorization required under any applicable Environmental Law.
Equity Interests means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of Capital Stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of Capital Stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Equity Interests).
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same may be amended from time to time, the regulations promulgated thereunder and any successor statute.
ERISA Affiliate means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).
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ERISA Event means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) the failure to meet the minimum funding standards of Sections 412 or 430 of the Code or Sections 302 or 303 of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA) 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; (c) a determination that any Pension Plan is, or is expected to be, in at risk status (as defined in Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA); (d) a determination that any Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, in critical or endangered status under Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA; (e) a withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (f) a complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (g) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (h) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (i) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate; (j) receipt from the IRS of notice of the failure of any Pension Plan (or any other 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; (k) 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 with respect to any Pension Plan; or (l) the occurrence of any Foreign Plan Event.
EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from time to time.
Eurocurrency Rate means, for any Interest Rate Determination Date with respect to an Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the rate per annum obtained by dividing (i) (a) the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by Administrative Agent to be the London interbank offered rate administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for deposits (for delivery on the first day of such period) with a term equivalent to such period in Dollars displayed on the ICE LIBOR USD page of the Reuters Screen (or any replacement Reuters page which displays that rate) or on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Reuters, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) on such Interest Rate Determination Date, or (b) in the event the rate referenced in the preceding clause (a) is not available, the rate per annum equal to the offered quotation rate to first class banks in the London interbank market by Credit Suisse for deposits (for delivery on the first day of the relevant period) in Dollars of amounts in same day funds comparable to the principal amount of the applicable Term Loan of Administrative Agent, in its capacity as a Lender, for which the Eurocurrency Rate is then being determined with maturities comparable to such period as of
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approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) on such Interest Rate Determination Date, by (ii) an amount equal to (a) one minus (b) the Applicable Reserve Requirement. In no event, with respect to the Term Loans issued on the Closing Date, notwithstanding the rate determined pursuant to the foregoing, shall the Eurocurrency Rate be less than 1.00%.
Eurocurrency Rate Loan means a Term Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Eurocurrency Rate.
Event of Default has the meaning specified in Section 8.01 .
Excess Cash Flow means, for any period, an amount (if positive) equal to, without duplication, the amount for such period, as reflected in the Borrowers and its Restricted Subsidiaries consolidated cash flow statement for the relevant period, of net cash provided by/used in operating activities (as determined in accordance with GAAP);
minus
the sum, without duplication, of the amounts for such period paid from Internally Generated Cash (except to the extent made using the Cumulative Amount) of:
(1) | scheduled repayments of Indebtedness for borrowed money (excluding repayments of revolving loans except to the extent the applicable revolving commitments are permanently reduced in connection with such repayments) and scheduled repayments of Capital Lease Obligations (excluding any interest expense portion thereof), provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, any borrowing under the ABL Facility or repayment thereof (without a corresponding reduction in the commitments thereunder) shall not increase or decrease Excess Cash Flow, |
(2) | Consolidated Capital Expenditures, |
(3) | Permitted Acquisitions and other Investments permitted pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than clauses (a) and (k) of Section 7.02), |
(4) | pre-funding of royalty payments in the ordinary course of business, |
(5) | distributions to non-controlling interests, |
(6) | federal coal lease expenditures, and |
(7) | net cash generated from proceeds of any Permitted Securitization Programs or loan proceeds from the ABL Facility (excluding interest costs). |
As used in clause (1) above, scheduled repayments of Indebtedness does not include (x) repurchases of Term Loans pursuant to Sections 2.19 or 2.20 and (y) repayments of Loans made with the cash proceeds of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.
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Excess Proceeds has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(e) .
Excluded Assets means
(a) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title where the net book value of any such motor vehicle or other such asset individually is less than $1,000,000,
(b) commercial tort claims where the amount of the net proceeds claimed is less than $10,000,000,
(c) (i) any lease, license or other written agreement or written obligation (each, a Contract ) and any leased or licensed asset under a Contract or asset financed pursuant to a purchase money financing Contract or Capital Lease Obligation, in each case that is the direct subject of such Contract (so long as such Contract is not entered into for purposes of circumventing or avoiding the collateral requirements of this Agreement), in each case only for so long as the granting of a security interest therein (x) would be prohibited by, cause a default under or result in a breach of such Contract (unless the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary may unilaterally waive it) or would give another Person (other than the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary) a right to terminate or accelerate the obligations under such Contract or to obtain a Lien to secure obligations owing to such Person (other than the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary) under such Contract (in each case, except to the extent any such prohibition is unenforceable after giving effect to applicable anti-assignment provisions of the UCC) or (y) would require obtaining the consent of any Person (other than the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary) or applicable Governmental Authority, except to the extent that such consent has already been obtained or (ii) any asset the granting of a security interest therein in favor of the Secured Parties would be prohibited by any applicable Requirement of Law (other than any Organizational Document) (except to the extent such prohibition is unenforceable after giving effect to applicable anti-assignment provisions of the UCC, other than proceeds thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC notwithstanding such prohibitions),
(d) those assets with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the costs of obtaining or perfecting such a security interest are excessive in relation to the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties therefrom or would result in materially adverse tax consequences to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries as reasonably determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent,
(e) any Letter of Credit Rights (as defined in the UCC) (other than to the extent a Lien thereon can be perfected by filing a customary financing statement),
(f) any right, title or interest in Receivables Assets sold, pledged or financed pursuant to a Permitted Securitization Program, and all of a Subsidiarys and any Loan Partys rights, interests and claims under a Permitted Securitization Program,
(g) any real property and leasehold rights and interests in real property other than Material Real Property,
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(h) any intent-to-use application for registration of a Trademark (as defined in the Security Agreement) filed pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051, prior to the filing and acceptance of a Statement of Use pursuant to Section 1(d) of the Lanham Act or an Amendment to Allege Use pursuant to Section 1(c) of the Lanham Act with respect thereto, and
(i) (i) any Equity Interests set forth on Schedule 1.01(c) , (ii) any Equity Interest that is Voting Stock of a first-tier Foreign Subsidiary or FSHCO in excess of 65% of the Voting Stock of such Subsidiary, (iii) any Equity Interests in Gibraltar Holdings, Peabody International Investments, Inc., Peabody International Holdings, LLC and each other Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, substantially all of the assets of which consist of Equity Interests in Gibraltar Holdings and any successor to any of the foregoing, (iv) any Equity Interests of captive insurance subsidiaries and not-for-profit subsidiaries, (v) any Equity Interests in, or assets of, any Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiary (to the extent a pledge of the Equity Interests in such Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiary is prohibited under any Permitted Securitization Program entered into by such Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiary), (vi) margin stock and (vii) any Equity Interests in any Subsidiary that is not wholly-owned by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or in a Joint Venture, if the granting of a security interest therein (A) would be prohibited by, cause a default under or result in a breach of, or would give another Person (other than the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary) a right to terminate, under any Organizational Document, shareholders, joint venture or similar agreement applicable to such Subsidiary or Joint Venture or (B) would require obtaining the consent of any Person (other than the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary); provided that 65% of the voting Equity Interests and 100% of the non-voting Equity Interests in Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited (or any successor thereto) shall not constitute Excluded Assets;
provided that the Collateral shall include the replacements, substitutions and proceeds of any of the foregoing unless such replacements, substitutions or proceeds also constitute Excluded Assets.
Excluded Hedging Obligation means, with respect to any Guarantor, (a) as it relates to all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Guarantor of Hedging Obligations, any Hedging Obligation if, and to the extent that, such Hedging Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantors failure for any reason to constitute an eligible contract participant as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guarantee of such Guarantor becomes effective with respect to such Hedging Obligation or (b) as it relates to all or a portion of the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure any Hedging Obligation (or secure any Guarantee in respect thereof), any Hedging Obligation if, and to the extent that, the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure such Hedging Obligation (or secure any Guarantee in respect thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantors failure for any reason to constitute an eligible contract participant as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the grant of
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such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Hedging Obligation. If a Hedging Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Hedging Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal. As used in this definition, Hedging Obligation shall mean, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a swap within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Excluded Taxes means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) branch profits taxes or taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), in each case imposed (i) as a result of the Administrative Agent or such Lender (or such other recipient) being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office in or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) other than in the case of an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 10.13 , any United States federal withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to a Lender under the law applicable at the time such Lender acquires an interest in a Loan or Commitment (or designates a new Lending Office), except to the extent that such Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of the designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment) to receive additional amounts from the applicable Loan Party with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a) , (c) Taxes attributable to such Lenders failure or inability to comply with Section 3.01(e) and (d) any taxes imposed under FATCA.
Existing Credit Agreement means that certain Credit Agreement, dated September 24, 2013, by and among the Borrower, Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto (as amended by that certain Omnibus Amendment, dated as of February 5, 2015 and as otherwise amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified).
Existing Securitization Facility means the accounts receivable securitization financing of P&L Receivables Company LLC existing as of the Closing Date, and any replacements, refinancings, amendments, restatements, renewals or extensions thereof, subject in each case to the restrictions set forth in the definition of Permitted Securitization Programs.
Exit has the meaning specified in the preliminary statements to this Agreement.
Facility means the Term Loan Facility, any Incremental Facility and/or any Refinancing Facility, as the context may require.
FATCA means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any laws implementing an intergovernmental agreement with respect to the foregoing.
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Federal Funds Rate means, for any day, the rate per annum 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 that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to the Administrative Agent on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.
Fee Letters means, collectively, (a) that certain Fee Letter, dated January 11, 2017, among the Borrower, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and Macquarie Capital Funding LLC and (b) that certain Structuring Fee Letter, dated January 11, 2017, among the Borrower and Goldman Sachs Bank USA.
Finance Parties has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(l) .
Financing Lease means any lease of property, real or personal, the obligations of the lessee in respect of which are required in accordance with GAAP to be capitalized on a balance sheet of the lessee; provided that, any operating lease that is required to be treated as a capital lease in accordance with GAAP as a result of any Accounting Change shall not be deemed a Financing Lease for purposes of this Agreement.
Financing Transactions means, collectively, (a) the Refinancing, (b) the incurrence of the Loans under the Loan Documents, (c) the issuance of the Priority Lien Notes (and the assumption by the Borrower of the obligations thereunder), (d) the incurrence of any Permitted Securitization Program and (e) the payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with any of the foregoing clauses (a)-(d) hereof.
First Lien Leverage Ratio means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (i) Consolidated Net Total Debt (other than any portion of Consolidated Net Total Debt that is unsecured or is secured solely by a Lien that is junior to the Liens securing the Obligations) as of the date of the financial statements most recently delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable, to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of the four consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of such financial statements.
First Priority means, with respect to any Lien purported to be created in any Collateral pursuant to any Security Document, that such Lien ranks first in priority to all other Liens, other than Liens permitted under clauses (b), (c), (d), (e), (f)(i), (f)(ii), (g), (p), (s), (t) (solely to the extent such Lien is pari passu with the Liens securing the Obligations and is subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement), (w) (solely to the extent such Lien is pari passu with the Liens securing the Obligations and is subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement) and (z) (solely with respect to any ABL Priority Collateral) of Section 7.01.
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Foreign Lender means any Lender that is not a United States Person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
Foreign Plan means any employee benefit plan, program, policy, arrangement or agreement maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries with respect to employees employed outside the United States and paid through a non-United States payroll.
Foreign Plan Event means, with respect to any Foreign Plan, (a) the existence of unfunded liabilities in excess of the amount permitted under any applicable law, or in excess of the amount that would be permitted absent a waiver from a Governmental Authority, (b) the failure to make the required contributions or payments, under any applicable law, within the time permitted by Law for such contributions or payments, (c) the receipt of a notice from a Governmental Authority relating to the intention to terminate any such Foreign Plan or to appoint a trustee or similar official to administer any such Foreign Plan, or alleging the insolvency of any such Foreign Plan, (d) the incurrence of any liability by any Loan Party under applicable law on account of the complete or partial termination of such Foreign Plan or the complete or partial withdrawal of any participating employer therein, in each case, which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (e) the occurrence of any transaction with respect to a Foreign Plan that is prohibited under any applicable law and that could reasonably be expected to result in the incurrence of any liability by any Loan Party, or the imposition on any Loan Party of any fine, excise tax or penalty with respect to a Foreign Plan resulting from any noncompliance with any applicable law, in each case which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Foreign Subsidiary means a Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or any State thereof or the District of Columbia and any Subsidiary thereof.
FRB means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
FSHCO means any Domestic Subsidiary formed or acquired on or after the Closing Date substantially all of the assets of which consist of the Equity Interests of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries.
Fund means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles, which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination. The sources of accounting principles and the framework for selecting the principles used in the preparation of financial statements of nongovernmental entities that are presented in conformity with GAAP in the United States, are set forth in the Financial Accounting Standards Boards Accounting Standards Codification.
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Gibraltar Holdings means Peabody Holdings (Gibraltar) Limited, or any successor entity that directly holds the Capital Stock of Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited.
Gibraltar Pledge Agreement means the Share Charge, dated as of the Closing Date, between Gibraltar Holdings, Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited and the Collateral Trustee.
Governmental Authority means the government of the United States or any other nation, or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
Guarantee means, as to any Person (the guaranteeing person), any obligation of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another Person (including, without limitation, any bank under any letter of credit) to the extent the guaranteeing person has issued a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation in order to induce the creation of such obligation, in either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the primary obligations) of any other third Person (the primary obligor) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, reimbursement obligations under letters of credit and any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (A) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (B) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided , however , that the term Guarantee obligation shall not include (i) indemnification or reimbursement obligations under or in respect of Surety Bonds or Designated Letters of Credit, (ii) ordinary course performance guarantees by any Loan Party of the obligations (other than for the payment of borrowed money) of any other Loan Party and (iii) endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee obligation is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Guarantee obligation shall be such guaranteeing persons maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith. The term Guarantee as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
Guarantors means any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Domestic Subsidiary (other than those entities to be merged, dissolved or consolidated in connection with the Permitted Restructuring Transactions within thirty (30) days following the Closing Date) and each other Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter formed or acquired, that directly holds Equity
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Interests in Gibraltar Holdings at any time; provided , that such term shall not include (a) any Subsidiary not wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by the Borrower to the extent (but only so long as) it is prohibited by the terms of any Contractual Obligation (including pursuant to any Organizational Documents of such Subsidiary) from guaranteeing the Secured Obligations or any other obligations or liabilities guaranteed pursuant to the terms of the Guaranty (it being understood that, for purposes of this definition, the terms of any Contractual Obligation shall be deemed to prohibit such Guarantee if it would constitute a breach or default under or result in the termination of or require the consent of any Person (other than the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary, or the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in their respective capacities as such) under the security, agreement, instrument or other undertaking giving rise to such Contractual Obligation); provided further , that such Contractual Obligation is not and was not created in contemplation of this definition, (b) any FSHCO, (c) any Domestic Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary of any Foreign Subsidiary; provided, however, that clauses (b) and (c) shall not apply to any Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter formed or acquired, that directly holds Equity Interests in Gibraltar Holdings or (d) any Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiaries and captive insurance entities. The Guarantors as of the Closing Date are the Subsidiaries of the Borrower listed on Schedule 1.01(a) . For the avoidance of doubt, no Foreign Subsidiary now owned or hereafter formed or acquired (including Gibraltar Holdings) shall be a Guarantor.
Guaranty means that certain Guarantee of the Secured Obligations made by the Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit F , including any supplement, accession, assumption or joinder thereto.
Hazardous Materials means (i) any explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and (ii) any hazardous or toxic substances, materials or wastes, defined or regulated as such in or under, or that could reasonably be expected to give rise to liability under, any applicable Environmental Law, including, without limitation, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, urea-formaldehyde insulation, gasoline or petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) or petroleum products or any coal ash, coal combustion by-products or waste, boiler slag, scrubber residue or flue desulphurization residue.
Hedge Bank has the meaning specified in the definition of Secured Hedging Agreement.
Hedging Agreement means (i) any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate future agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedge agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect against or mitigate interest rate risk, (ii) any foreign exchange forward contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract, synthetic cap or other agreement or arrangement designed to protect against or mitigate foreign exchange risk or (iii) any commodity or raw material, including coal, futures contract, commodity hedge agreement, option agreement, any actual or synthetic forward sale contract or other similar device or instrument or any other agreement designed to protect against or mitigate raw material price risk (which shall for the avoidance of doubt include any forward purchase and sale of coal for which full or partial payment is required or received).
Hedging Obligations means all debts, liabilities and obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any Hedging Agreement.
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Hedging Termination Value means, in respect of any one or more Hedging Agreement, after taking into account the effect of any valid netting agreement relating to such Hedging Agreements, (a) for any date on or after the date such Hedging Agreements have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Hedging Agreements, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Hedging Agreements (which may include a Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Affiliate of a Lender or the Administrative Agent) (it being understood that any such termination values and marked-to-market values shall take into account any assets posted as collateral or security for the benefit of a party to the Hedging Agreement).
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.
Incremental Debt means, at any time, all Incremental Notes and Incremental Facilities outstanding.
Incremental Debt Cap means, as determined with respect to any Incremental Debt to be incurred, an amount equal to the sum of (a) $300,000,000 and (b) (i) if such Incremental Debt is (or is intended to be) secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis, an additional amount if, after giving effect to the incurrence of such Incremental Debt and any acquisition consummated in connection therewith, the First Lien Leverage Ratio is equal to or less than 1.75 to 1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis and (ii) if such Incremental Debt is secured by the Collateral on a junior-lien basis or unsecured, an additional amount if, after giving effect to the incurrence of such Incremental Debt and any acquisition consummated in connection therewith, the Total Leverage Ratio is equal to or less than 2.50:1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis.
Incremental Facility has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a) .
Incremental Facility Effective Date has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c) .
Incremental Facility Request has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a) .
Incremental Lender means any Person who provides an Incremental Facility in respect of a term loan hereunder.
Incremental Loan means, with respect to any Incremental Facility, an advance made by any Incremental Lender under such Incremental Facility.
Incremental Notes has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(m) .
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Indebtedness means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments (other than any obligations in respect of performance bonds bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds, reclamation bonds and completion guarantees, bank guarantees and similar obligations under any Mining Law or Environmental Law or with respect to workers compensation benefits);
(b) all obligations of such Person arising under letters of credit, bankers acceptances or similar instruments issued for the account of such Person (solely to the extent such letters of credit, bankers acceptances or other similar instruments have been drawn and remain unreimbursed);
(c) net obligations of such Person under any Hedging Agreement;
(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business, (ii) obligations under federal coal leases, (iii) obligations under coal leases which may be terminated at the discretion of the lessee and (iv) obligations for take-or-pay arrangements);
(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;
(f) Capital Lease Obligations (other than obligations in connection with the IRBs); and
(g) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing Indebtedness of any other Person (but excluding any performance and completion Guarantees of such Person);
provided that in no event shall Indebtedness include (i) asset retirement obligations or (ii) obligations (other than obligations with respect to Indebtedness for borrowed money or other Indebtedness evidenced by loan agreements, bonds, notes or debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit (solely to the extent such letters of credit or other similar instruments have been drawn and remain unreimbursed) (or, without duplication, reimbursement agreements in respect thereof)) related to surface rights under an agreement for the acquisition of surface rights for the production of coal reserves in the ordinary course of business in a manner consistent with historical practice of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
The amount of any net obligation under any Hedging Agreement on any date shall be deemed to be the Hedging Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount shall be deemed to be the face amount of such Indebtedness less the remaining unamortized portion of the original issue discount of such Indebtedness. The amount of any Capital Lease Obligation as of any date shall be deemed to be the amount of Attributable Indebtedness in respect thereof as of such date. The amount of any indebtedness of a Joint Venture secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by the
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Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries as of any date shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the indebtedness that is secured by such Lien and (b) the maximum amount for which the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries may be liable (which may be determined with reference to the fair market value of the property securing such indebtedness as reasonably determined by the Borrower in good faith) pursuant to the terms of such indebtedness. Except as set forth in the sentence immediately above, the amount of indebtedness of any Joint Venture, which is attributable to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be deemed to equal the amount of indebtedness that would be attributable to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with GAAP.
Indemnified Taxes means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.
Indemnitees has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b) .
Information has the meaning specified in Section 10.07 .
Intercreditor Agreements means each of the (a) Collateral Trust Agreement and (b) any ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
Interest Payment Date means, (a) as to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided , however , that if any Interest Period exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date.
Interest Period means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurocurrency Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter, or, if available to all Lenders making such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, twelve months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Borrowing Notice, or, as otherwise contemplated by the first proviso of Section 2.02(a); provided that:
(i) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii) 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 (iii) below, end on the last Business Day of a calendar month; and
(iii) with respect to each Facility, no Interest Period shall extend beyond its applicable Maturity Date.
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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.
Internally Generated Cash means, with respect to any period, any cash of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary generated during such period, excluding Net Proceeds, Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds and any cash that is generated from an incurrence of Indebtedness, an issuance of Equity Interests or a capital contribution.
Investment means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Capital Stock or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance (excluding intercompany liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the cash management operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries) or capital contribution to, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that constitute a business unit. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be (i) the amount actually invested, as determined immediately prior to the time of each such Investment, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment minus (ii) the amount of dividends or distributions received in connection with such Investment and any return of capital and any payment of principal received in respect of such Investment that in each case is received in cash or Cash Equivalents.
IP Rights has the meaning specified in Section 5.18 .
IP Security Agreements means the Copyright Security Agreement, the Trademark Security Agreement and the Patent Security Agreement.
IRBs means the City of St. Louis, Missouri Taxable Industrial Development Revenue Bonds (Peabody Energy Corporation Project), Series 2010, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $60,000,000, as evidenced by that certain Trust Indenture, dated as of March 1, 2011, between the City of St. Louis, Missouri and U.S. Bank, National Association, St. Louis, Missouri.
IRS means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
Joint Venture means any Person (a) other than a Subsidiary in which the Borrower or its Subsidiaries hold an ownership interest or (b) which is an unincorporated joint venture of the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd shall be considered a Joint Venture for this definition.
Junior Collateral Trustee means Wilmington Trust, National Association, in its capacity as Junior Collateral Trustee pursuant to the Collateral Trust Agreement, together with its successors and assigns in such capacity.
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Junior Lien Indebtedness means any Indebtedness (other than any ABL Facility) that is secured by a junior Lien to the Lien securing the Secured Obligations and that was permitted to be incurred and so secured hereunder.
Laws means, as to any Person, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, regulations, ordinances, codes, and determinations of arbitrators or courts or other Governmental Authorities, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
Lender has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto and includes any (a) Incremental Lender and (b) Refinancing Facility Lender.
Lending Office means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lenders Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
Lien means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any Financing Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
Loan means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrower under Article II in the form of a Term Loan, Incremental Loan or Refinancing Loan.
Loan Documents means this Agreement, the Collateral Trust Agreement, each Note, the Fee Letters, the Guaranty, each Security Document and any ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
Loan Parties means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor.
Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse effect upon (a) the business, assets, operations, property or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower and the Guarantors, taken as a whole, to perform their payment obligations under this Agreement or the Guaranty or (c) the validity or enforceability of this or any of the other Loan Documents or the rights or remedies of the Agents, the Collateral Trustee, the Arrangers or the Lenders hereunder or thereunder.
Material Real Property means (a) any fee owned real property interest held by a Loan Party in an active Mine or any leasehold interest in real property of a Loan Party in an active Mine, (b) any real property owned by a Loan Party or in which a Loan Party has a leasehold interest located on a Reserve Area on the Closing Date that has a net book value in excess of $10,000,000, (c) any real property acquired or otherwise owned by a Loan Party or in which a Loan Party acquires a leasehold interest after the Closing Date located on a Reserve Area that has a total net book value in excess of $25,000,000 and (d) any other fee owned real property interest held by a Loan Party (other than the types of property described in clauses (a) through (c) above) with a total net book value in excess of $10,000,000 as of the date of acquisition of
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such real property; provided that Material Real Property shall not include (x) any real property that is identified on Schedule 1.01(d) or (y) any leasehold interests of a Loan Party in commercial real property constituting offices of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; provided further that, any future coal reserve or access to a coal reserve (1) that is fee owned by a Loan Party or in which a Loan Party has a leasehold interest and (2) that is located adjacent to, contiguous with, or in close proximity to, both geographically and geologically (according to reasonable standards used in the mining industry) an active Mine or Reserve Area, may, in the reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent (in consultation with the Borrower), be deemed part of an active Mine or Reserve Area and, as a result, a Material Real Property in the future.
Maturity Date means March 31, 2022 (and, with respect to term loans pursuant to an Incremental Facility or Refinancing Facility, the date on which such term loans shall become due and payable in full hereunder, as specified in the applicable joinder agreement or amendment hereto); provided , however , that, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the preceding Business Day.
MEPP Claim means, collectively, the claims of the United Mine Workers of America 1974 Pension Plan, including (a) proof of claim number 4722 and (b) any other claim related to any withdrawal liability under U.S.C. § 1392(c).
Metropolitan Collieries Disposition means the sale of substantially all of the assets of (or all of the Equity Interests of) Metropolitan Collieries Pty Ltd to the extent permitted by Section 7.05.
Mine means any excavation or opening into the earth in the United States now and hereafter made from which coal or other minerals are or can be extracted on or from any of the real properties in which any Loan Party holds an ownership, leasehold or other interest.
Minimum Cash Balance means at least $600,000,000 in Unrestricted Cash on hand of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the effective date of the Plan of Reorganization after giving effect to any distributions paid to certain holders of claims in accordance with the Plan of Reorganization on the Closing Date.
Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
Mortgage means any mortgages, deeds of trust or similar document (including any fixture filings whether recorded as part of such mortgages or deeds of trust or as separate instruments to the extent necessary in any particular state), substantially in the form of Exhibit J or any such other form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.
Multiemployer Plan means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
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Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds means an amount equal to: (i) any cash payments or proceeds received by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) under any casualty insurance policy in respect of a covered loss thereunder or (b) as a result of the taking of any assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries by any Person pursuant to the power of eminent domain, condemnation or otherwise, or pursuant to a sale of any such assets to a purchaser with such power under threat of such a taking, minus (ii) (a) any actual and reasonable costs incurred by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with the adjustment or settlement of any claims of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in respect thereof, and (b) any bona fide direct costs incurred in connection with any sale of such assets as referred to in clause (i)(b) of this definition, including income taxes payable as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith.
Net Proceeds means, with respect to any Disposition pursuant to Sections 7.05(c) , 7.05(k) , 7.05(l) and 7.05(q) , the sum of (a) cash and Cash Equivalents actually received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Disposition (including any cash received by way of deferred payment (excluding, for avoidance of doubt, royalty payments customary in the mining industry) pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received) minus (b) solely with respect to Dispositions of assets not constituting Collateral, the sum of (i) (A) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest and other amounts of any Indebtedness that is secured by such asset and that is required to be repaid in connection with such Disposition (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents) or (B) any other required debt payments or required payments of other obligations relating to the Disposition, in each case, with the proceeds thereof, (ii) the reasonable or customary out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such Disposition (including attorneys fees, accountants fees, investment banking fees, real property related fees and charges and brokerage and consultant fees), (iii) all Taxes required to be paid or accrued or reasonably estimated to be required to be paid or accrued as a result thereof, (iv) in the case of any Disposition by a non-wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary or non-wholly-owned Unrestricted Subsidiary, the pro rata portion of the Net Proceeds thereof (calculated without regard to this clause (iv)) attributable to minority or other third party interests and not available for distribution to or for the account of the Borrower or a wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary as a result thereof and (v) the amount of any reasonable reserve established in accordance with GAAP against any adjustment to the sale price or any liabilities (x) related to any of the applicable assets and (y) retained by the Borrower or any Subsidiary including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations (however, the amount of any subsequent reduction of such reserve (other than in connection with a payment in respect of any such liability) shall be deemed to be Net Proceeds of such Disposition occurring on the date of such reduction).
Non-Recourse Debt means Indebtedness (a) as to which neither the Borrower nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (i) provides credit support of any kind (including any undertaking, agreement or instrument that would constitute Indebtedness) other than a non-recourse pledge of the Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary to the extent such Equity Interests do not constitute Collateral, (ii) is directly or indirectly liable (as a guarantor or otherwise) other than by virtue of a non-recourse pledge of the Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary to the
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extent such Equity Interests do not constitute Collateral, or (iii) constitutes the lender; (b) no default with respect to which (including any rights that the holders thereof may have to take enforcement action against any Unrestricted Subsidiary) would permit (upon notice, lapse of time or both) any holder of any other Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to declare a default on such other Indebtedness or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to its stated maturity; and (c) as to which the lenders thereunder will not have any recourse to the Capital Stock or assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than solely the Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary to the extent such Equity Interests do not constitute Collateral).
Note means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Lender and its registered assigns evidencing Term Loans made by such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C .
Obligations means all advances to, and debts, liabilities and obligations (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, Hedging Obligations) of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding.
Open Market Purchase has the meaning specified in Section 2.20(a) .
Organizational Documents means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-US jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.
Other Connection Taxes means with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such party and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising solely from the Administrative Agent or such Lender or such other recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, received or perfected a security interest under, or engaged in any other transaction pursuant to this Agreement, any Note or any other Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
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Other Taxes means all present or future stamp, court, intangible, recording, filing, or documentary taxes or any other similar Taxes arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment pursuant to Section 10.13 ).
Outstanding Amount means with respect to Term Loans, Incremental Loans and Refinancing Loans, as the context may require, on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of such Term Loans, Incremental Loans or Refinancing Loans, as applicable, occurring on such date.
Overnight Rate means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Rate in the case of any amount denominated in Dollars and (b) an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
Participant has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d) .
Participant Register has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d) .
Patent Security Agreement means the Patent Security Agreement, substantially in the form attached to the Security Agreement or such other form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, by certain Loan Parties in favor of the Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
PATRIOT Act has the meaning specified in Section 5.17 .
Payment in Full means, the time at which no Lender shall have any Commitments, any Loan or other Obligations unpaid, unsatisfied or outstanding (other than in respect of contingent obligations, indemnities and expenses related thereto that are not then payable or in existence).
PBGC means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA, or any successor thereto.
Pension Plan means any employee pension benefit plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five plan years.
Permitted Acquisition means any acquisition of all or substantially all the assets of, or all of the Equity Interests in, or merger, consolidation or amalgamation with, a Person or division or line of business of a Person, solely to the extent permitted as an Investment under Section 7.02 .
Permitted Amendments means, with respect to any Facility, an extension of the maturity date of any Loan and/or any Commitments in respect of such Facility by the Accepting
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Lenders and, in connection therewith, (a) any change in the Applicable Rate with respect to the applicable Loans and/or Commitments of the Accepting Lenders and/or the payment of additional fees (including rate floor, OID, upfront fees or other fees) to the Accepting Lenders (such change and/or payments to be in the form of cash, Equity Interests or other property as agreed by the Borrower and the Accepting Lenders to the extent not prohibited by this Agreement, excluding Section 2.13 ), (b) the repayment in full on the maturity date of such Facility of the non-extended Loans thereunder and other amounts owing to each of the Lenders who are not Accepting Lenders, (c) any change in the amortization schedule and any prepayment premiums with respect to the applicable Loans of the Accepting Lenders, so long as a weighted average life of the extended Loans is no shorter than that of the Term Loans under such Facility prior to such extension, (d) no repayment of any extended Loans shall be permitted unless such repayment is accompanied by an at least pro rata repayment of all earlier maturing Loans (including previously extended Loans) (or all earlier maturing Loans shall otherwise be or have been terminated and repaid in full) and (e) any other change in terms from the Facility so long as (i) they apply after the non-extended maturity date of such Facility or (ii) the non-Accepting Lenders receive the benefit of any such terms that are more restrictive to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (it being understood that the benefit of such more restrictive terms may be provided to the non-Accepting Lenders without their consent) as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in good faith.
Permitted Asset Swap means the substantially concurrent purchase and sale, trade-in or exchange of equipment, real property or any other property of a nature or type that is used or useful in a Similar Business or a combination of such equipment, real property or any other property and cash or Cash Equivalents between the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and another Person; provided that the fair market value of the equipment, real property or any other property received is at least as great as the fair market value of the equipment, real property or other property being traded-in or exchanged as determined by the Borrower reasonably and in good faith; provided that any shortfall may be treated as an Investment and shall constitute an Investment for purposes of calculating compliance with Section 7.02 .
Permitted Real Estate Encumbrances means the following encumbrances which do not, in any case, individually or in the aggregate, materially detract from the value of any Mine subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business or operations of any Loan Party as presently conducted on, at or with respect to such Mine and as to be conducted following the Closing Date: (a) encumbrances customarily found upon real property used for mining purposes in the applicable jurisdiction in which the applicable real property is located to the extent such encumbrances would be permitted or granted by a prudent operator of mining property similar in use and configuration to such real property (e.g., surface rights agreements, wheelage agreements and reconveyance agreements); (b) rights and easements of (i) owners of undivided interests in any of the real property where the applicable Loan Party or Subsidiary owns less than 100% of the fee interest, (ii) owners of interests in the surface of any real property where the applicable Loan Party or Subsidiary does not own or lease such surface interest, (iii) lessees, if any, of coal or other minerals (including oil, gas and coal bed methane) where the applicable Loan Party or Subsidiary does not own such coal or other minerals, and (iv) lessees of other coal seams and other minerals (including oil, gas and coal bed methane) not owned or
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leased by such Loan Party or Subsidiary; (c) with respect to any real property in which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary holds a leasehold interest, terms, agreements, provisions, conditions, and limitations (other than royalty and other payment obligations which are otherwise permitted hereunder) contained in the leases granting such leasehold interest and the rights of lessors thereunder (and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns), subject to any amendments or modifications set forth in any landlord consent delivered in connection with a Mortgage; (d) farm, grazing, hunting, recreational and residential leases with respect to which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is the lessor encumbering portions of the real properties to the extent such leases would be granted or permitted by, and contain terms and provisions that would be acceptable to, a prudent operator of mining properties similar in use and configuration to such real properties; (e) royalty and other payment obligations to sellers or transferors of fee coal or lease properties to the extent such obligations constitute a lien not yet delinquent; (f) rights of others to subjacent or lateral support and absence of subsidence rights or to the maintenance of barrier pillars or restrictions on mining within certain areas as provided by any mining lease, unless in each case waived by such other person; and (g) rights of repurchase or reversion when mining and reclamation are completed.
Permitted Refinancing Increase means, with respect to the Refinancing of any Indebtedness, an amount equal to (a) any premium or other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such Refinancing, (b) any unpaid accrued interest on the Indebtedness being Refinanced, and (c) any existing commitments unutilized under the Indebtedness being Refinanced.
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness mean any Indebtedness issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to, extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund (collectively, to Refinance ), the Indebtedness being Refinanced (or previous refinancings thereof constituting Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness); provided that (a) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so Refinanced ( plus any Permitted Refinancing Increase in respect of such Refinancing), (b) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall have the same obligors and same guarantees as, and be secured on a pari passu basis with, the Indebtedness so Refinanced ( provided that the Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness may be subject to lesser guarantees or be unsecured or the Liens securing the Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness may rank junior to the Liens securing the Indebtedness so Refinanced) and, to the extent applicable, the Borrower shall have satisfied the requirements of Section 3.8 of the Collateral Trust Agreement with respect to such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, (c) the maturity date is later than or equal to, and the weighted average life to maturity of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is greater than or equal to, that of the Indebtedness being Refinanced, (d) if the Indebtedness so Refinanced is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, then such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, by its terms or by the terms of any agreement or instrument pursuant to which it is outstanding, is expressly made subordinate in right of payment to the Obligations at least to the extent that the Indebtedness so Refinanced is subordinated to the Obligations and (e) the terms and conditions of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are not materially less favorable to the Loan Parties than the terms and conditions of the Indebtedness that is being Refinanced.
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Permitted Restructuring Transaction means the mergers, distributions and other transactions described in Section IV.F.1 and Exhibit IV.F.1 of the Plan of Reorganization undertaken substantially concurrently with, or within the three-month period following, the Closing Date; provided that in connection with any transfers of assets (including Equity Interests) to any Loan Party, such Loan Party shall comply with Section 6.16 with respect to such assets; provided, further, that (i) no such transaction shall result in a change in the ownership of Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited by Gibraltar Holdings, (ii) no such transaction shall result in any material asset becoming an Excluded Asset (other than to the extent such asset is excluded under clause (i)(iii) of the definition of Excluded Asset) and (iii) no such transaction shall involve a transfer of assets (including Equity Interests) or other distribution from a Loan Party to a non-Loan Party or a merger or dissolution of a Loan Party into a non-Loan Party (other than those transactions occurring substantially concurrently with the Closing Date).
Permitted Securitization Programs means (a) the Existing Securitization Facility and (b) any receivables securitization program pursuant to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries sells receivables and interests in Receivables Assets, which are non-recourse (except for representations, warranties, covenants, repurchase obligations and indemnities, in each case, that are reasonably customary for a seller or servicer of assets transferred in connection with such a facility) to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries providing for the sale, conveyance or contribution to capital of Receivables Assets to Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiary; provided , that the aggregate principal amount outstanding of any Permitted Securitization Program, together with the maximum principal amount outstanding of any ABL Facility, shall not exceed the greater of $250,000,000 and 3.5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
Person means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
PIC Intercompany Loan Agreement means that certain Loan Agreement, dated as of April 11, 2012, among Peabody Investments Corp., as lender, and Peabody Energy Australia Pty Ltd, as borrower, with respect to advances made from time to time thereunder.
PIC Intercompany Note means that certain Promissory Note, dated as of the Closing Date, evidencing the advances made pursuant to the PIC Intercompany Loan Agreement.
Plan means any employee benefit plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established by the Borrower or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, by any ERISA Affiliate.
Plan Documents has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(l) .
Plan of Reorganization means the Second Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of Debtors and Debtors in Possession, dated January 27, 2017, relating to the Borrower and its debtor Subsidiaries, and filed with the Bankruptcy Court under Docket No. 2229, including all exhibits thereto, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified or waived from time to time in a manner that does not result in a failure of the condition precedent set forth in Section 4.01(l) .
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Plan Support Agreement means that certain Plan Support Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2016, among (A) the Debtors (as defined therein), (B) the First Lien Lender Co-Proponents, the Ad Hoc Secured Committee Members and the Ad Hoc Unsecured Noteholders Group (each as defined therein), (C) any Additional Supporting Parties (as defined therein) that subsequently enters into the Plan Support Agreement and (D) each other person that becomes a party in accordance with Section 8(b) thereof, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified or waived from time to time in a manner that does not result in a failure of the condition precedent set forth in Section 4.01(l) .
Platform has the meaning specified in Section 6.02 .
Prime Rate means the rate of interest quoted in the print edition of The Wall Street Journal , Money Rates Section as the Prime Rate (currently defined as the base rate on corporate loans posted by at least 75% of the nations thirty (30) largest banks), as in effect from time to time. The Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. The Administrative Agent or any other Lender may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of interest at, above or below the Prime Rate.
Priority Lien Notes means each of (a) the senior secured first lien notes due March 31, 2022 and (b) the senior secured first lien notes due 2025, in each case, issued from time to time pursuant to the Priority Lien Notes Indenture.
Priority Lien Notes Indenture means the Indenture, dated as of February 15, 2017, between Peabody Securities Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the Escrow Issuer ), and the Priority Lien Notes Trustee, as modified by a Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 3, 2017, among the Escrow Issuer, the Borrower, the Guarantors (as defined therein) party thereto and the Priority Lien Notes Trustee, as the same may be further amended, restated, supplemented, replaced, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the Collateral Trust Agreement.
Priority Lien Notes Documents means the Priority Lien Notes Indenture, the Priority Lien Notes and each other instrument or agreement executed in connection with the Priority Lien Notes and any instrument or agreement executed in connection with any refinancings and replacements thereof to the extent permitted under the Collateral Trust Agreement, as each such material instrument or agreement may be amended, restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the Collateral Trust Agreement.
Priority Lien Notes Indebtedness means the Indebtedness of Borrower and the other Loan Parties incurred pursuant to or evidenced by the Priority Lien Notes Documents.
Priority Lien Notes Trustee means Wilmington Trust, National Association, together with its successors and assigns in such capacity.
Production Payments means with respect to any Person, all production payment obligations and other similar obligations with respect to coal and other natural resources of such Person that are recorded as a liability or deferred revenue on the financial statements of such Person in accordance with GAAP.
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Pro Forma Basis means, for purposes of calculating Consolidated Net Tangible Assets, the Total Leverage Ratio under the definition of Incremental Debt Cap, in Section 6.13 , Section 7.03(j) , Section 7.06(e) and Section 7.06(m) , the First Lien Leverage Ratio under the definition of Incremental Debt Cap, or any other test that is based on satisfying a financial ratio or metric, that with respect to any acquisition or disposition (in each case, that would be included in a Pro Forma Basis calculation pursuant to Section 1.03(c)), such acquisition or disposition shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the most recent four fiscal quarter period preceding the date of such acquisition or disposition for which the Borrower has delivered financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01 . In connection with the foregoing, (a) with respect to any such acquisition, income statement items attributable to the Person or property or assets acquired shall be included to the extent relating to any period applicable in such calculations to the extent (i) such items are not otherwise included in such income statement items for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP or in accordance with any defined terms set forth in Section 1.01 , (ii) such items are supported by financial statements or other information reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (iii) any Indebtedness incurred or assumed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including the Person, property or assets acquired) in connection with such acquisition and any Indebtedness of the Person, property or assets acquired which is not retired in connection with such acquisition (A) shall be deemed to have been incurred as of the first day of the most recent four fiscal quarter period preceding the date for such acquisition and (B) if such Indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, shall have an implied rate of interest for the most recent four fiscal quarter period preceding the date of such acquisition for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination; and (b) with respect to any such disposition, income statement items attributable to the Person or property or assets being disposed of shall be excluded to the extent relating to any period applicable in such calculations in accordance with the foregoing principles applicable to acquisitions, mutatis mutandis .
Properties has the meaning specified in Section 5.09(a) .
Qualified Equity Interests means all Equity Interests of a Person other than Disqualified Equity Interests.
Receivables Assets means any receivable (whether constituting an account, chattel, paper, instrument or general intangible) from time to time originated, acquired or otherwise owned by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, including, with respect to any receivable:
(a) all of a Subsidiarys and any Loan Partys interest in any goods (including returned goods) to the extent related to such receivable, and documentation of title evidencing the shipment or storage of any such goods (including any such returned goods),
(b) all instruments and chattel paper that may evidence such receivable (and to the extent they do not evidence any asset that is not a receivable),
(c) all other security interests or liens and property subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment of such receivable, whether pursuant to the contract related to such receivable or otherwise, together with all UCC financing statements or similar filings related thereto,
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(d) solely to the extent applicable to such receivable, the rights, interests and claims under the contracts and all guarantees, indemnities, insurance and other agreements (including the related contract) or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such receivable or otherwise relating to such receivable whether pursuant to the contract related to such receivable or otherwise,
(e) all funds that are received or deemed received by a Loan Party or a Subsidiary in payment of any amounts owed in respect of such receivable (including, without limitation, purchase price, finance charges, fees, interest and all other charges) or are applied to amounts owed in respect of such receivable (including, without limitation, insurance payments and net proceeds of sale or other disposition of repossessed goods or other collateral or property of the related obligor or any other person directly or indirectly liable for the payment of any such receivable and available to be applied thereon),
(f) the lock-box accounts designated solely as the accounts to receive the proceeds of such receivables and all amounts on deposit therein, and all certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time evidencing such lock-box accounts and amounts on deposit therein,
(g) all monies due or to become due with respect to any of the foregoing,
(h) all collections, proceeds and products of any of the foregoing, as defined in the UCC, that are received or are receivable by a Loan Party or a Subsidiary, and
(i) all books and records to the extent related to any of the foregoing Receivables Assets.
For the avoidance of doubt, Receivables Assets shall exclude any intercompany receivables, including, without limitation, amounts owing under the PIC Loan Agreement and the PIC Intercompany Note.
Refinance has the meaning specified in the definition of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.
Refinancing means the refinancing of certain of Borrowers and its Subsidiaries existing Indebtedness, substantially on the terms set forth in the Plan of Reorganization.
Refinancing Facility has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a) .
Refinancing Facility Effective Date has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a) .
Refinancing Facility Lender means any Person who provides a Refinancing Facility.
Refinancing Loan means, with respect to any Refinancing Facility, an advance made by any Refinancing Facility Lender under such Refinancing Facility.
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Refinancing Notes has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(n) .
Register has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c) .
Related Agreements means, collectively, the Priority Lien Notes Documents, the Rights Offering Documents, the documents evidencing the Existing Securitization Facility, the documents governing the Convertible Securities and executed in connection therewith and all other documents executed in connection with the effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization.
Related Parties means, with respect to any Person, such Persons Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, attorneys and advisors of such Person and of such Persons Affiliates.
Related Party Transaction has the meaning specified in Section 7.08 .
Reportable Event means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30 day notice period has been waived.
Required Facility Lenders means, as of any date of determination, with respect to any Facility, Lenders under such Facility holding more than 50% of the Total Outstandings with respect to such Facility.
Required Lenders means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the Total Outstandings; provided that the unused Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded from both the numerator and the denominator for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.
Requirement of Law means as to any Person, the Organizational Documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
Reserve Area means (a) the real property owned in fee by any Loan Party or in which a Loan Party has a leasehold interest that is part of the areas listed on Schedule 1.01(e) and (b) any real property constituting coal reserves or access to coal reserves owned in fee by any Loan Party or in which a Loan Party has a leasehold interest, acquired after the Closing Date, that is not an active Mine.
Responsible Officer means the chief executive officer, president or any vice president of the Borrower or any applicable Subsidiary and, in addition, any Person holding a similar position or acting as a director or managing director with respect to any other Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower or, with respect to financial matters, the chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer of the Borrower.
Restricted Payment means (a) any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to its Capital Stock, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property) by the Borrower or
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any Restricted Subsidiary, including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any of its Capital Stock, or on account of any return of capital to its stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Person thereof) and (b) any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance (including in-substance or legal defeasance), sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, any unsecured Indebtedness, Subordinated Indebtedness or Junior Lien Indebtedness.
Restricted Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
Rights Offering Documents means the documents evidencing the rights offering of Equity Interests in the Borrower to eligible holders of the Borrowers pre-petition unsecured and second lien creditors under the Plan of Reorganization in an aggregate amount equal to at least $750,000,000.
S&P means Standard & Poors Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and any successor thereto.
Same Day Funds means immediately available funds.
Sanctions has the meaning specified in Section 5.17 .
Sanctions Laws has the meaning specified in Section 5.17 .
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
Secured Hedging Agreement means any Hedging Agreement between the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, on the one hand, and any Lender, an Agent, an Arranger or an Affiliate of any of the foregoing (or with any Person that was a Lender, an Agent, an Arranger or an Affiliate of the foregoing when such Hedging Agreement was entered into) (any such counterparty, a Hedge Bank ).
Secured Hedging Obligations means all debts, liabilities and obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any Secured Hedging Agreement.
Secured Obligations means the Obligations and the Secured Hedging Obligations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Secured Obligations shall not include any Excluded Hedging Obligations.
Secured Parties means, collectively, the Agents, the Collateral Trustee, the Arrangers, the Lenders and, with respect to any Secured Hedging Agreement, any Hedge Bank.
Security Agreement means that certain Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit G or such other form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Trustee and the Borrower, among the Borrower, the Restricted Subsidiaries from time to time party thereto and the Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
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Security Documents means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement, the IP Security Agreements, the Mortgages, the Collateral Trust Agreement, each of the pledge agreements and supplements thereto, security agreements and supplements thereto, and other similar agreements delivered to Administrative Agent and Lenders pursuant to Section 6.16 , and any other documents, agreements or instruments that grant or purport to grant a Lien on any assets of the Borrower or any other Loan Party in favor of the Collateral Trustee to secure the Secured Obligations.
Similar Business means any of the following, whether domestic or foreign: the mining, production, marketing, sale, trading and transportation (including, without limitation, any business related to terminals) of natural resources including coal, ancillary natural resources and mineral products, exploration of natural resources, any acquired business activity so long as a material portion of such acquired business was otherwise a Permitted Business, and any business that is ancillary or complementary to the foregoing.
Solvent means, with respect to any Person, that as of the date of determination, both (i) (a) the sum of such Persons debt (including contingent liabilities) does not exceed the present fair saleable value of such Persons present assets; (b) such Persons capital is not unreasonably small in relation to its business as contemplated on the Closing Date and reflected in the projections delivered pursuant to Section 4.01(a)(xii) or with respect to any transaction contemplated to be undertaken after the Closing Date; and (c) such Person has not incurred and does not intend to incur, or believe (nor should it reasonably believe) that it will incur, debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due (whether at maturity or otherwise); and (ii) such Person is solvent within the meaning given that term and similar terms under the Bankruptcy Code and other applicable laws relating to fraudulent transfers and conveyances. For purposes of this definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 5).
Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiary means P&L Receivables Company LLC and any other direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower established in connection with a Permitted Securitization Program for the acquisition of Receivables Assets or interests therein that is organized in a manner intended to reduce the likelihood that it would be substantively consolidated with the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in the event the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary becomes subject to a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
Specified Representations means, with respect to any Permitted Acquisition, the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.01(a)(i) , 5.01(b)(ii) , 5.02(a) , 5.02(b)(i) , 5.02(b)(iii) , 5.04 , 5.14 , 5.17 , 5.19 and 5.21 ; provided , that for purposes of this definition, (a) the defined term Loan Parties as used in such representations and warranties shall mean the Borrower and each Guarantor in existence immediately prior to the consummation of the Permitted Acquisition, (b) clause (a) of the defined term Material Adverse Effect as used in Section 5.02 shall relate to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately prior to the Closing Date and (c) the representation and warranty contained in Section 5.14(b) shall apply only to the Borrower and the Loan Parties (as such term is used in clause (a) of this proviso).
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Specified Subsidiary means each of Gibraltar Holdings, Peabody International Investments, Inc., Peabody International Holdings, LLC, each other Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter formed or acquired, that directly holds Equity Interests in Gibraltar Holdings at any time, and any successor to any of the foregoing; provided that in no event shall any Guarantor be designated as a Specific Subsidiary so long as (i) any Equity Interests owned by such Guarantor constitute Collateral and (ii) the Equity Interests of such Guarantor constitutes Collateral.
Subordinated Indebtedness means any Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that is contractually subordinated to the Indebtedness under the Loan Documents.
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 securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
Surety Bonds means surety bonds obtained by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary consistent with market practice and the indemnification or reimbursement obligations of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection therewith.
Syndication Agent has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.
Tangible Assets means at any date, with respect to any Person, (a) the sum of all amounts that would, in accordance with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption total assets (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of such Person at such date minus (b) the sum of all amounts that would, in accordance with GAAP, be set forth opposite the captions goodwill or other intangible categories (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of such Person on such date.
Taxes means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
Term Loan means an advance made by any Lender under the Term Loan Facility.
Term Loan Commitment means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make Term Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption Term Loan Commitment or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The aggregate amount of Term Loan Commitments as of the Closing Date is $950,000,000.
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Term Loan Facility means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans of all Lenders outstanding at such time.
Threshold Amount means $75,000,000.
Ticking Fee has the meaning assigned in Section 2.09(b).
Total Leverage Ratio means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (i) Consolidated Net Total Debt as of the date of the financial statements most recently delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable, to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of the four consecutive fiscal quarters ending as of the date of such financial statements.
Total Outstandings means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans.
Trademark Security Agreement means the Trademark Security Agreement, substantially in the form attached to the Security Agreement or such other form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, by certain Loan Parties in favor of the Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
Transactions means, collectively, (a) the Exit, (b) the Refinancing, (c) the incurrence of the Loans under the Loan Documents, (d) the transactions contemplated by the Rights Offering Documents, (e) the issuance of the Convertible Securities and the assumption by the Borrower of the obligations under the Priority Lien Notes, (f) the incurrence of any Permitted Securitization Program, (g) the availability of the Minimum Cash Balance and (h) the payment of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with any of the foregoing clauses (a)-(g) hereof.
Transaction Costs has the meaning specified in the preliminary statements to this Agreement.
Type means, with respect to a Term Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.
UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the applicable state of jurisdiction.
Unfunded Pension Liability means the excess of a Pension Plans accrued benefit liabilities under Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of that Pension Plans assets, determined in accordance with the actuarial assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code for the applicable plan year.
United States and US mean the United States of America.
Unrestricted Cash means the aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents held in accounts on the consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent that the use of such cash for application to payment of the Obligations or other Indebtedness is not prohibited by law or any contract or other agreement and such cash is and Cash Equivalents are free and clear of all Liens (other than Liens in favor of the Collateral Trustee) and Liens permitted pursuant to Section 7.01(p)(i) hereof.
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Unrestricted Subsidiary means (a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower that becomes an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 6.13 , (b) any Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiary; provided that any Special Purpose Receivables Subsidiary shall, upon termination of such Permitted Securitization Program (other than as a result of an event of default thereunder unless and until the obligations thereunder are repaid in full), cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or (c) any Subsidiary listed on Schedule 1.01(b) ; provided that in no event shall any of Peabody Investments Corp., Peabody IC Funding Corp., Gibraltar Holdings, Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited, Peabody Global Funding, LLC, Peabody International Investments, Inc. (and any successor thereto), Peabody International Holdings, LLC, and any other Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter formed or acquired, that directly holds Equity Interests in Gibraltar Holdings at any time be or be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
U.S. Government Obligations means obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or by any agency or instrumentality thereof, provided that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support thereof.
Voting Stock means, with respect to any Person, such Persons Equity Interest having the right to vote for the election of directors of such Person under ordinary circumstances.
Weighted Average Yield means with respect to any Loan, on any date of determination, the weighted average yield to maturity, in each case, based on the interest rate applicable to such Loan on such date and giving effect to all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable with respect to such Loan.
Write-Down and Conversion Powers means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions . With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
(a) The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words include , includes and including shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase without limitation. The word will shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word shall . Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organizational Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Persons successors and assigns, (iii) the words herein , hereof , hereto and hereunder , and words of similar import when used in any
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Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) all references to wholly-owned when referring to a Subsidiary of the Borrower shall mean a Subsidiary of which all of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned directly or indirectly by the Borrower or another wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, (vi) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vii) 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.
(b) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word from means from and including ; the words to and until each mean to but excluding ; and the word through means to and including .
(c) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only, shall not constitute a part hereof, shall not be given any substantive effect and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
1.03 Accounting Terms .
(a) Generally . All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b) Changes in GAAP . If at any time any Accounting Change would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such Accounting Change as if such Accounting Change has not been made (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, all financial covenants, standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed as if such Accounting Change had not occurred.
(c) Pro Forma Basis Calculation . Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that all calculations of (i) the Total Leverage Ratio and the First Lien Leverage Ratio for purposes of determining compliance with the Incremental Debt Cap, Section 6.13 , Section 7.03(j) , Section 7.06(e) and Section 7.06(m) , (ii) Consolidated Net
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Tangible Assets or (iii) any other test that is based on satisfying a financial ratio or metric, shall be made on a Pro Forma Basis (A) with respect to any acquisition by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Person, property or assets, if the Consolidated EBITDA for the acquired Person or business for the most recent four fiscal quarter period for which financial statements are available is equal to or greater than 5% of the Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period and (B) with respect to any disposition by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Person, property or assets, if the Consolidated EBITDA for the Person or business being disposed of for the most recent four fiscal quarter period for which financial statements are available was equal to or exceeded 5% of the Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period. With respect to the above Pro Forma Basis calculations, in the event that the relevant entity or property, which is being acquired or disposed, reports its financial results on a semi-annual basis, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may utilize the two most recent semi-annual financial results for purposes of making such calculation and such above determination in a manner similar to the above that is mutually agreeable.
1.04 Times of Day . Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to New York City time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
1.05 Negative Covenant Compliance . For purposes of determining whether the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries comply with any exception to the negative covenants contained in Section 7.01 , Section 7.02 and 7.03 where compliance with any such exception is based on a financial ratio or metric being satisfied, it is understood that (a) compliance shall be measured at the time when the relevant event is undertaken, as such financial ratios and metrics are intended to be incurrence tests and not maintenance tests and (b) correspondingly, any such ratio and metric shall only prohibit the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries from creating, incurring, assuming, suffering to exist or making, as the case may be, any new Liens, Indebtedness or Investments, but shall not result in any previously permitted Liens, Indebtedness or Investments ceasing to be permitted hereunder.
ARTICLE II.
THE COMMITMENTS AND BORROWINGS
2.01 The Loans . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make a loan (a Term Loan ) to the Borrower in Dollars, on the Closing Date in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed such Lenders Applicable Percentage of the Term Loan Facility; provided , however , that after giving effect to any Borrowing, (i) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Term Loan Facility and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Term Loans of any Lender shall not exceed such Lenders Term Loan Commitment. Each Borrowing shall consist of Term Loans made simultaneously by the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentage of the Term Loan Facility. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01 and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein. Term Loan Commitments in effect on the Closing Date and not drawn on the Closing Date shall expire immediately after such date.
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2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of the Loans .
(a) Each Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrowers irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m., New York City time (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (ii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans; provided , however , that if the Borrower wishes to request Eurocurrency Rate Loans having an Interest Period other than one, two, three, or six months or, to the extent available to all Lenders making such Eurocurrency Rate Loans, twelve months in duration as provided in the definition of Interest Period, the applicable notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. New York City time four Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans. Not later than 12:00 p.m. New York City time three Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower (which notice may be by telephone) whether or not the applicable requested Interest Period referenced in the above proviso has been consented to by all the Lenders. Each telephonic notice by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Borrowing Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Borrowing, a conversion of Term Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Term Loans are to be converted and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Borrowing Notice or if the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, then the applicable Term Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurocurrency Rate Loans. If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Borrowing Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month.
(b) Following receipt of a Borrowing Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage under the applicable Facility of the applicable Term Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans as described in the preceding subsection. Each Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agents Office not later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time on the
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Business Day specified in the applicable Borrowing Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Borrowing, Section 4.01 ), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of Administrative Agent with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan. During the existence of an Event of Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans if the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent so notify the Borrower.
(d) 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 Eurocurrency 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 the Borrower and each Lender. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of any change in the Administrative Agents prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.
(e) After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than ten (10) Interest Periods in effect hereunder.
2.03 [Reserved].
2.04 [Reserved].
2.05 Prepayments and Commitment Reductions.
(a) Voluntary Prepayments . The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Term Loans in whole or in part, subject to Section 2.05(i), without premium or penalty; provided that (i) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time (or such other later time which is acceptable to the Administrative Agent), (A) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, and (B) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (ii) any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof;; and (iii) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, the entire amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and, if Eurocurrency Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such Loans. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of
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the amount of such Lenders ratable portion of such prepayment (based on such Lenders Applicable Percentage). If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein; provided that any such notice may be contingent upon the consummation of a refinancing and such notice may otherwise be extended or revoked, in each case, with the requirements of Section 3.05 to apply to any failure of the contingency to occur and any such extension or revocation. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05 . Each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to the scheduled installment payments thereof as the Borrower shall direct, and each prepayment of Loans shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) [Reserved].
(d) [Reserved].
(e) Asset Sales . No later than ten Business Days following the consummation of any Asset Sale by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Sections 7.05(c) , 7.05(k) , 7.05(l) and 7.05(q) that results in the amount of Net Proceeds (as of the date of such receipt) exceeding $10,000,000 (such excess amount, the Excess Proceeds ), the Borrower shall make (or cause to be made) a prepayment of the Term Loans as specified in Section 2.05(e)(iii) below in an amount equal to the lesser of (x) 100% of such Excess Proceeds and (y) the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans then outstanding (the Asset Sale Sweep Provision ), if any, in each case subject to the following:
(i) If prior to the date of any such required prepayment, the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent in writing of the Borrowers and/or its Restricted Subsidiarys intention to reinvest the Excess Proceeds of any Asset Sale in assets that are, in the reasonable business judgment of the Borrower, useful in the business of the Borrower or some or all of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including by way of any Permitted Acquisition) and certifies in such notice that no Event of Default then exists, then the Borrower shall not be required to make a prepayment to the extent (x) the Excess Proceeds are so reinvested within 365 days following receipt thereof by the Borrower and/or such Restricted Subsidiary, or (y) if the Borrower and/or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, has committed in writing to so reinvest such Excess Proceeds during such 365-day period, such Excess Proceeds are so reinvested within 180 days after the expiration of such 365-day period; provided that, to the extent such Excess Proceeds have not been so reinvested prior to the expiration of the applicable period, the Borrower shall promptly prepay the outstanding Term Loans after the expiration of such period in an amount equal to the amount required by the Asset Sale Sweep Provision where, subject to Section 2.05(e)(v) , the amount of Excess Proceeds for such purposes shall be the amount of Excess Proceeds not reinvested as set forth above; provided , further that, if such Asset Sale includes a Disposition of any Collateral, the assets in which the portion of Excess Proceeds derived from such Collateral are so reinvested as set forth above shall be reinvested in assets of one or more Loan Parties and the applicable Loan Party shall comply with Section 6.16 with respect to such assets as if such assets were acquired on the date of such reinvestment.
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(ii) Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05 .
(iii) Each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(e) shall be applied to the scheduled installment repayments thereof in direct order of maturity and shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, with respect to the Metropolitan Collieries Disposition, the Borrowers obligation to repay the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(e) shall be limited to the lesser of (x) the Excess Proceeds as a result of the Metropolitan Collieries Disposition and (y) the amount by which the amount of Unrestricted Cash of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately after giving effect to such Metropolitan Collieries Disposition and the receipt of the proceeds of such Disposition exceeds $800,000,000.
(v) The amount of repayments required to be made pursuant to this Section 2.05(e) shall be reduced by an amount equal to the sum of the amount of any voluntary repayments of the Term Loans made with such Net Proceeds from the relevant Asset Sale.
(f) Issuance of Debt . On the first Business Day following receipt by Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any cash proceeds from the incurrence of any Indebtedness of Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than with respect to Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 7.03 but including Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of the Term Loans), Borrower shall prepay the Term Loans in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such proceeds, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable costs and expenses associated therewith, including reasonable legal fees and expenses.
(g) Excess Cash Flow . In the event that there shall be Excess Cash Flow for any fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017 for the portion of such fiscal year occurring after the Closing Date), Borrower shall, no later than one hundred days after the end of such fiscal year, prepay the Term Loans in an aggregate amount equal to (i) 75% of such Excess Cash Flow minus (ii) voluntary repayments of the Loans made with Internally Generated Cash (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, (x) repurchases of Term Loans pursuant to Sections 2.19 and 2.20 and (y) repayments of Loans made with the Cash proceeds of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness); provided, that if, as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal year (commencing with the payment due one hundred days after December 31, 2018), the Total Leverage Ratio (determined for any such period by reference to the Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) calculating the Total Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such fiscal year) shall be (1) less than or equal to 2.00:1.00 and greater than 1.50:1.00, Borrower shall only be required to make the prepayments otherwise required hereby in an amount equal to (i) 50% of such Excess Cash Flow minus (ii) voluntary repayments of the Loans made with Internally Generated Cash (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, (x) repurchases of
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Term Loans pursuant to Sections 2.19 and 2.20 and (y) repayments of Loans made with the Cash proceeds of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness); (2) less than or equal to 1.50:1.00 and greater than 1.00:1.00, Borrower shall only be required to make the prepayments otherwise required hereby in an amount equal to (i) 25% of such Excess Cash Flow minus (ii) voluntary repayments of the Loans made with Internally Generated Cash (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, (x) repurchases of Term Loans pursuant to Sections 2.19 and 2.20 and (y) repayments of Loans made with the Cash proceeds of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness); and (3) less than or equal to 1.00:1.00, Borrower shall not be required to make the prepayments otherwise required hereby.
(h) Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds . No later than ten Business Days following the date of receipt by Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or Administrative Agent or Collateral Trustee as loss payee, of any Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, Borrower shall prepay the Term Loans in an aggregate amount equal to such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds; provided, if prior to the date of any such required prepayment, the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent in writing of the Borrowers and/or its Restricted Subsidiarys intention to reinvest the Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds in assets that are, in the reasonable business judgment of the Borrower, useful in the business of the Borrower or some or all of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including by way of any Permitted Acquisition) (or used to replace damaged or destroyed assets) and certifies in such notice that no Event of Default then exists, then the Borrower shall not be required to make a prepayment to the extent (x) the Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds are so reinvested within 365 days following receipt thereof by the Borrower and/or such Restricted Subsidiary, or (y) if the Borrower and/or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, has committed in writing to so reinvest such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds during such 365-day period, such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds are so reinvested within 180 days after the expiration of such 365-day period; provided that, to the extent such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds have not been so reinvested prior to the expiration of the applicable period, the Borrower shall promptly prepay the outstanding Term Loans after the expiration of such period in an amount equal to such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds less any amount so reinvested; provided, further that, if such casualty or taking includes any Collateral, the assets in which the portion of Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds derived from such Collateral are so reinvested as set forth above shall be reinvested in assets of one or more Loan Parties and the applicable Loan Party shall comply with Section 6.16 with respect to such assets as if such assets were acquired on the date of such reinvestment.
(i) Call Protection . In the event all or any portion of the Term Loans incurred on the Closing Date is repaid (or repriced or effectively refinanced through any amendment, including, without limitation, through a Refinancing Facility) for any reason (other than voluntary prepayments with Internally Generated Cash, mandatory prepayments required pursuant to Sections 2.05(g) and 2.05(h) and repayments made pursuant to Section 2.07 ) prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, such repayments, repricing or effective refinancings will be made at 101.0% of the principal amount repaid, repriced or effectively refinanced if such repayment, repricing or refinancing occurs on or prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date.
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(j) Repatriation . Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Borrower reasonably determines in good faith that any amounts attributable to Foreign Subsidiaries that are required to be prepaid pursuant to Sections 2.05(e) and 2.05(h) would result in material adverse tax consequences or violate any applicable local law in respect of upstreaming proceeds (including financial assistance and corporate benefit restrictions and statutory duties of the relevant directors), in each case as set forth in a certificate delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, then such Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be required to prepay such amounts as required under Sections 2.05(e) and 2.05(h) the repatriation of which would result in such tax consequence or violation until such material tax consequences or local law violation no longer exist; provided that, for a period of one year following the date on which such payment was originally required, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall take commercially reasonable actions to permit repatriation of the proceeds subject to such prepayments in order to effect such prepayments without violating local law or incurring such material adverse tax consequences.
(k) Application of Mandatory Prepayments . Each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05 shall be applied pro rata to the remaining scheduled installment payments thereof, and each prepayment of Loans shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages.
(l) Additional Limitations . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Borrower may apply amounts otherwise required to make prepayments pursuant to Sections 2.05(e), (g) and (h) to repay (x) with respect to Sections 2.05(e) and (h), any Indebtedness that was secured by any assets not constituting Collateral sold in such Asset Sale or the loss of which resulted in Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, as applicable, to the extent such repayment is required by such Indebtedness as a result of such Asset Sale or loss and (y) a ratable portion of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 7.03 and secured by liens on a pari passu basis pursuant to Section 7.01 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Priority Lien Notes Indebtedness, Incremental Debt and Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of the foregoing), in the case of this clause (y), in respect of which a prepayment (or offer of prepayment) is required to be made with respect to such pari passu Indebtedness with such Excess Proceeds, Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow (determined on the basis of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Terms Loans and such other Indebtedness outstanding at such time).
(m) ABL Facility . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 2.05(e) and 2.05(h) , if any Indebtedness under any ABL Facility is outstanding, to the extent a prepayment or cash collateralization of letters of credit is required under such ABL Facility due to any Net Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds constituting the proceeds of ABL Priority Collateral, no prepayment shall be required under Sections 2.05(e) and 2.05(h) to the extent of such required payment under such ABL Facility.
(n) Waivable Mandatory Prepayment . Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event the Borrower is required to make any mandatory prepayment (a Waivable Mandatory Prepayment ) not less than five Business Days prior to the date (the Required Prepayment Date ) on which the Borrower is required to make such Waivable Mandatory Prepayment, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of the amount of
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such prepayment, and the Administrative Agent will promptly thereafter notify each Lender of the amount of such Lenders Applicable Percentage of such Waivable Mandatory Prepayment and such Lenders option to refuse such amount. Each such Lender may exercise such option by giving written notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of its election to do so on or before the third Business Day prior to the Required Prepayment Date (it being understood that any Lender which does not notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of its election to exercise such option on or before the third Business Day prior to the Required Prepayment Date shall be deemed to have elected, as of such date, not to exercise such option). On the Required Prepayment Date, (i) the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to that portion of the Waivable Mandatory Prepayment that is payable to those Lenders that have elected not to exercise such option, to prepay the Term Loans of such Lenders (which prepayment shall be applied in accordance with the terms of this Section 2.05), and (ii) the portion of the Waivable Mandatory Prepayment otherwise payable to Lenders that have elected to exercise such option ( Declined Proceeds ) may be retained by the Borrower to be used for any purpose not prohibited hereunder.
2.06 [Reserved].
2.07 Repayment of Loans . The Borrower shall repay to the Lenders on each date set forth below (or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) the principal amount of Term Loans set forth opposite such date below:
Date |
Amount | |||
June 30, 2017 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
September 30, 2017 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
December 31, 2017 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
March 31, 2018 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
June 30, 2018 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
September 30, 2018 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
December 31, 2018 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
March 31, 2019 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
June 30, 2019 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
September 30, 2019 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
December 31, 2019 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
March 31, 2020 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
June 30, 2020 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
September 30, 2020 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
December 31, 2020 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
March 31, 2021 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
June 30, 2021 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
September 30, 2021 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
December 31, 2021 |
$ | 2,375,000 | ||
Maturity Date |
$ | 904,875,000 |
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provided , however , that the final principal repayment installment of the Term Loans shall be repaid on the Maturity Date and in any event shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans outstanding on such date.
2.08 Interest .
(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) below, (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; and (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.
(b) If any amount of principal or interest of any Loan (or any other Obligations) is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws. Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
2.09 Fees .
(a) The Borrower shall pay to the Arrangers and the Agents for their own respective accounts, in Dollars, fees in the amounts and at the times specified in each of the Fee Letters. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
(b) If the Closing Date has not occurred on or prior to the date that is 31 days following the final allocation of the Term Loan Facility (such date, the Start Date ), the Borrower agrees to pay (or cause to be paid) to the Arrangers (for the benefit of each Lender that has been allocated a portion of the Term Loan Facility) a fee (the Ticking Fee ) in an amount equal to the sum of (a) for the period, if any, commencing on the Start Date and continuing through the earliest of (x) the date that is 61 days following the final allocation of the Term Loan Facility (such date, the Step-Up Date ), (y) the Closing Date and (z) May 1, 2017 (or if the
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Borrower has elected to extend the date set forth in Section 4.01(n), such date as so extended but in any event no later than August 1, 2017) (the Termination Date ), an amount equal to the product of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the commitments in respect of the Term Loan Facility that were so allocated multiplied by (ii) a per annum rate equal to 50.0% of the interest rate margin applicable to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, plus (b) for the period, if any, after the Step-Up Date through and including the earlier of (x) the date that is 121 days following allocation of the Term Loan Facility (the Second Step-Up Date ), (y) the Closing Date and (z) the Termination Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the commitments in respect of the Term Loan Facility that were so allocated multiplied by (ii) 100% of the interest rate margin applicable to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, plus (c) for the period, if any, after the Second Step-Up Date through and including the earlier of (x) the Closing Date and (y) the Termination Date, an amount equal to the product of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the commitments in respect of the Term Loan Facility that were so allocated multiplied by (ii) 100% of the interest rate (including the interest rate margin) applicable to Eurocurrency Rate Loans (including the LIBOR floor). The Ticking Fee shall be allocated among the Lenders that have been allocated a portion of the Term Loan Facility pro rata in accordance with their respective shares of the then-outstanding aggregate commitments in respect of the Term Loan Facility. The Ticking Fee shall be payable on the earlier of (a) the Closing Date and (b) the Termination Date.
2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees . All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans, where the rate of interest is calculated on the basis of the prime rate, shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid, provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a) , bear interest for one day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
2.11 Evidence of Debt . The Borrowings made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Borrowings made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender to the Borrower made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such Lenders Loans to the Borrower in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to a Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
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2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative Agents Clawback .
(a) General . All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agents Office in Dollars and in Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lenders Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 3:00 p.m., New York City time shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.
(b) (i) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent . Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, prior to 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lenders share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 (or, in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02 ) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the Overnight Rate, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans. If the Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lenders Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.
(ii) Payments by Borrower; Presumptions by Administrative Agent . Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has
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not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender, in Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the Overnight Rate.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(c) Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent . If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender to the Borrower as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II , and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Borrowing set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall promptly return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(d) Obligations of Lenders Several . The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 10.04(c) are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Term Loan or to make any payment under Section 10.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Term Loan or to make its payment under Section 10.04(c) .
(e) Funding Source . Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
2.13 Pro Rata; Sharing of Payments by Lenders . Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal of and interest on any Term Loans shall be allocated by the Administrative Agent pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of such Loans then held by the respective Lenders. If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of the Loans made by it resulting in such Lenders receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of such Loans or participations and accrued interest thereon greater than its pro rata share thereof as provided herein, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the applicable Loans of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans and other amounts owing them, provided that:
(a) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and
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(b) the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (i) any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or (ii) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Term Loans to any assignee or participant.
The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.
2.14 [Reserved] .
2.15 Incremental Debt .
(a) Request for Incremental Facility . Upon notice (an Incremental Facility Request ) to and approval (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of the Administrative Agent (who shall promptly notify the existing Lenders), the Borrower may, without the consent of any Lender, request to add one or more new incremental term loan facilities (each an Incremental Facility ) in aggregate principal amount, which when added to the aggregate principal amount of the other Incremental Debt outstanding does not exceed the Incremental Debt Cap; provided that (i) any such request for an Incremental Facility shall be in a minimum amount equal to the lesser of (x) $25,000,000 and (y) the entire amount that remains available for request under this Section 2.15 and (ii) the Borrower may make a maximum of five such requests.
(b) Incremental Facility Request . Each Incremental Facility Request from the Borrower shall set forth (i) the requested principal amount of the Incremental Facility and (ii) the proposed terms of the Incremental Facility (including its interest rate, amortization and any prepayment premiums). An Incremental Facility may be provided by (A) an existing Lender (but no Lender shall be obligated to provide a commitment in respect of an Incremental Facility, nor shall the Borrower have any obligation to approach any existing Lenders to provide a commitment in respect of an Incremental Facility) or (B) any other Incremental Lender so long as any such Person is approved by the Administrative Agent and any other Person who would have consent rights pursuant to Section 10.06(b) if such Incremental Lender was becoming a Lender. Subject to any such consents being received and if not already a party hereto, any such Incremental Lender may become a party to this Agreement by entering into a joinder agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(c) Closing Date and Allocations . In connection with any Incremental Facility, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall determine the effective date (the Incremental Facility Effective Date ). The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the principal amount of the Incremental Facility and the Incremental Facility Effective Date.
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(d) Conditions to Effectiveness of Incremental Facility . The effectiveness of each Incremental Facility shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i) as of the Incremental Facility Effective Date, (A) the representations and warranties contained in Article V (or, in the case of any Incremental Facility being requested in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, the Specified Representations and Acquisition Agreement Representations in the Acquisition Agreement for such Permitted Acquisition) are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Incremental Facility Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, and (ii) (A) if such Incremental Facility is being requested in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, no Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a) , (f) , or (g) has occurred or is continuing or would immediately result therefrom, unless such conditions would not be permitted by applicable Law (e.g., in an Australian acquisition context), in which case the satisfaction of such conditions shall not be required, and (B) otherwise, no Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing or would immediately result therefrom;
(ii) such Incremental Facility shall have the same guarantees as, and be secured on a pari passu basis with, the Secured Obligations; provided that, if agreed by the Borrower and the relevant Incremental Lenders, the Incremental Facility may be subject to lesser guarantees or be unsecured or less secured, or the Liens securing the Incremental Facility may rank junior to the Liens securing the Term Loan Facility;
(iii) such Incremental Facility shall (A) have a final maturity no earlier than the Maturity Date, (B) have a weighted average life no shorter than that of the Term Loan Facility and any other Incremental Facilities outstanding and (C) not have any terms which require it to be voluntarily or mandatorily prepaid prior to the repayment in full of the Term Loans (including any other Incremental Facilities), unless accompanied by at least a ratable payment of the Term Loans;
(iv) [reserved]; and
(v) to the extent such terms and documentation for the Incremental Facility are not substantially consistent with the applicable Loan Documents, they shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, unless such terms (A) are more favorable to the Borrower, taken as a whole, than the Loan Documents in respect of the Term Loan Facility (or the Lenders under the Term Loan Facility receive the benefit of the more restrictive terms, which, for avoidance of doubt, may be provided to them without their consent), in each case, as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in good faith, (B) concern pricing (including interest rates, rate floors, fees, OID or other fees), the amortization schedule, commitment reductions, prepayments and any prepayment premiums applicable to such Incremental Facility or (C) apply after the applicable Maturity Date (it being understood to the extent that any financial maintenance covenant is added for the benefit of any such Incremental Facility, no consent shall be required from the Administrative Agent to the extent that such financial maintenance covenant is also added for the benefit of the existing Term Loan facility and any existing Incremental facility existing at the time such subsequent Incremental Facility is incurred).
(e) Most Favored Nations . If any Incremental Facility is incurred after the Closing Date, in the event that the Weighted Average Yield for any Incremental Facility exceeds the
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Weighted Average Yield for the Term Loan Facility by more than 50 basis points (the Excess ), then the interest rate margins for the Term Loan shall be increased to the extent necessary to eliminate such Excess; provided that, in determining the Weighted Average Yield applicable to the Incremental Facility and the Term Loan Facility, (i) customary arrangement, structuring or commitment fees payable to the Arrangers or any bookrunner (or their respective affiliates) in connection with the Term Loan or to one or more arrangers or bookrunners (or their respective affiliates) of any Incremental Facility shall be excluded, (ii) OID and upfront fees paid to the lenders thereunder shall be included (with OID being equated to interest based on an assumed four-year life to maturity or, if shorter, the actual weighted average life to maturity) and (iii) if the Incremental Facility includes an interest rate floor greater than the applicable interest rate floor under the existing Term Loan Facility, such differential between interest rate floors shall be equated to the applicable interest rate margin for purposes of determining whether an increase to the interest rate margin under the existing Term Loan Facility shall be required, but only to the extent an increase in the interest rate floor in the existing Term Loan Facility would cause an increase in the interest rate then in effect thereunder, and in such case the interest rate floor (but not the interest rate margin) applicable to the existing Term Loan Facility may be increased to the extent necessary in respect of such differential between interest rate floors; provided that each basis point increase to the interest rate floor of the Term Loans shall count as one basis point of increase in the interest rate margin to the Term Loans for purposes of eliminating the Excess.
(f) Amendment . With the consent of the Lenders providing an Incremental Facility, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (and without the consent of the other Lenders), this Agreement shall be amended in a writing (which may be executed and delivered by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) to reflect any changes necessary to give effect to such Incremental Facility in accordance with its terms (including, without limitation, to give such Incremental Facility the benefits of Section 2.05 , as applicable).
(g) Conflicting Provisions . This Section shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 to the contrary.
2.16 Refinancing Debt .
(a) Refinancing Facility . The Borrower may, without the consent of any Lender, extend, refinance, renew or replace, in whole or in part, the Loans under any Facility with one or more term loan facilities (each, a Refinancing Facility ); provided that any such request for an Refinancing Facility shall be in a minimum amount equal to the lesser of (i) $25,000,000 and (ii) the entire amount of any Facility which is being extended, refinanced, renewed or replaced under this Section 2.16 .
(b) Refinancing Facility Lender . A Refinancing Facility may be provided by (i) an existing Lender (but no Lender shall be obligated to provide a commitment in respect of a Refinancing Facility, nor shall the Borrower have any obligation to approach any existing Lenders to provide a commitment in respect of a Refinancing Facility) or (ii) any other Refinancing Facility Lender so long as any such Person is approved by the Administrative Agent and any other Person who would have consent rights pursuant to Section 10.06(b) if such Refinancing Facility Lender was becoming a Lender. Subject to any such consents being
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received and if not already a party hereto, any such Refinancing Facility Lender may become a party to this Agreement by entering into a joinder agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(c) Effective Date . In connection with any Refinancing Facility, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall determine the effective date (the Refinancing Facility Effective Date ). The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the principal amount of the Refinancing Facility and the Refinancing Facility Effective Date.
(d) Conditions to Effectiveness of Refinancing Facility . The effectiveness of each Refinancing Facility shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i) the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of any Refinancing Facility will not exceed the outstanding aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of any Facility which it is extending, refinancing, renewing or replacing plus any Permitted Refinancing Increase, unless such additional principal amount would otherwise be permitted pursuant to (and any such additional amount shall be deemed to have been incurred under) Section 7.03 and, if applicable, Section 7.01 ;
(ii) such Refinancing Facility shall have the same guarantees as, and be secured on a pari passu basis with, the Secured Obligations; provided that, if agreed by the Borrower and the relevant Refinancing Facility Lenders, the Refinancing Facility may be subject to lesser guarantees or be unsecured or less secured, or the Liens securing the Refinancing Facility may rank junior to the Liens securing the Term Loan Facility;
(iii) such Refinancing Facility (A) shall have (1) a final maturity no earlier than the Maturity Date and (2) a weighted average life no shorter than that of the Term Loan Facility and (B) shall not have any terms which require it to be voluntarily or mandatorily prepaid prior to the repayment in full of the Term Loans, unless accompanied by at least a ratable payment of the Term Loans;
(iv) [reserved]; and
(v) to the extent such terms and documentation for the Refinancing Facility are not substantially consistent with the applicable Loan Documents, they shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, unless such terms (A) are more favorable to the Borrower, taken as a whole, than the Loan Documents in respect of the Term Loan Facility (or the Lenders under the Term Loan Facility receive the benefit of the more restrictive terms, which, for avoidance of doubt, may be provided to them without their consent), in each case, as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in good faith, (B) concern pricing (including interest rates, rate floors, fees, OID or other fees), the amortization schedule, commitment reductions, prepayments and any prepayment premiums applicable to such Refinancing Facility or (C) apply after the Maturity Date.
(e) Amendment . With the consent of the Lenders providing a Refinancing Facility, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (and without the consent of the other Lenders), this Agreement shall be amended in a writing (which may be executed and delivered by the Borrower
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and the Administrative Agent) to reflect any changes necessary to give effect to such Refinancing Facility in accordance with its terms (including, without limitation, to give such Refinancing Facility the benefits of Section 2.05 , as applicable).
(f) Conflicting Provisions . This Section shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 to the contrary.
2.17 [Reserved].
2.18 Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as such Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law:
(a) Reallocation of Loan Payments . Any payment or prepayment (i) of any portion of the principal amount of Loans of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise) shall be applied, first , to the then outstanding amounts (including interest thereon) owed under the terms hereof by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent or (to the extent the Administrative Agent has received notice thereof) to any other Lender, ratably to the Persons entitled thereto, and second , the balance, if any, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction, and (ii) of any other amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (including amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 10.08 ) to have been paid to such Defaulting Lender and applied on behalf of such Defaulting Lender, first , to the liabilities above referred to in item first of clause (i) above, and second , the balance, if any, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction. Any of such amounts as are reallocated pursuant to this Section 2.18(a) that are payable or paid (including pursuant to Section 10.08 ) to such Defaulting Lender shall be deemed paid to such Defaulting Lender and applied by the Administrative Agent on behalf of such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender hereby irrevocably consents thereto.
(b) [Reserved] .
(c) [Reserved] .
A Lender that has become a Defaulting Lender because of an event referenced in the definition of Defaulting Lender may cure such status and shall no longer constitute a Defaulting Lender as a result of such event when (i) such Defaulting Lender shall have fully funded or paid, as applicable, all Loans or other amounts required to be funded or paid by it hereunder as to which it is delinquent (together, in each case, with such interest thereon as shall be required to any Person as otherwise provided in this Agreement), (ii) the Administrative Agent and each of the Borrower shall have received a certification by such Defaulting Lender of its ability and intent to comply with the provisions of this Agreement going forward, and (iii) each of the Administrative Agent, any other Lender as to which a delinquent obligation was owed and the Borrower, shall have determined (and notified the Administrative Agent) that they are satisfied, in their sole discretion, that such Defaulting Lender intends to continue to perform its obligations
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as a Lender hereunder and has all approvals required to enable it, to continue to perform its obligations as a Lender hereunder. No reference in this subsection to an event being cured shall by itself preclude any claim by any Person against any Lender that becomes a Defaulting Lender for such damages as may otherwise be available to such Person arising from any failure to fund or pay any amount when due hereunder or from any other event that gave rise to such Lenders status as a Defaulting Lender.
2.19 Dutch Auction Repurchases.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may at any time and from time to time purchase Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans by conducting modified Dutch auctions (each, an Auction ) (each Auction to be managed exclusively by the Administrative Agent or another investment bank of recognized standing elected by the Borrower following consultation with the Administrative Agent in accordance with the Auction Procedures (in such capacity, the Auction Manager )), so long as the following conditions are satisfied:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of the purchase of any Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans in connection with any Auction;
(ii) the minimum principal amount (calculated on the face amount thereof) of all Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans that the Borrower purchases in any such Auction shall be no less than $1,000,000 and whole increments of $500,000 in excess thereof (unless another amount is agreed to by the Administrative Agent and Auction Manager);
(iii) the aggregate principal amount (calculated on the face amount thereof) of all Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans so purchased by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries shall immediately and automatically be cancelled and retired by them on the settlement date of the relevant purchase (and may not be resold);
(iv) the Borrower will promptly advise the Administrative Agent of the total amount of all Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans so purchased by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and the Administrative Agent is authorized to make appropriate entries in the Register to reflect such cancellation and retirement; and
(v) no more than one Auction may be ongoing at any one time.
(b) The Borrower shall have no liability to any Lender for any termination of the respective Auction as a result of its failure to satisfy one or more of the conditions set forth above which are required to be met at the time which otherwise would have been the time of purchase of Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans or Refinancing Term Loans pursuant to the respective Auction, and any such failure shall not result in any Default hereunder. With respect to all purchases of Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans made by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.19 , (i) the Borrower shall pay on the settlement date of each such purchase all accrued and unpaid interest (except to the extent otherwise set forth in the
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relevant offering documents), if any, on the purchased Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans up to the settlement date of such purchase and (ii) such purchases (and the payments made by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and the cancellation of the purchased Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans or Refinancing Loans, in each case, in connection therewith) shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 2.05 or 2.07 .
(c) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the Auctions and the other transactions contemplated by this Section 2.19 ( provided that no Lender shall have an obligation to participate in any such Auctions) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.05 , 2.07 , 2.12 , 2.13 and 10.06 , it being understood and acknowledged that purchases of the Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Section 2.19 shall not constitute Investments by the Borrower) that may otherwise prohibit any Auction or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.19 . The Auction Manager acting in its capacity as such hereunder shall be entitled to the benefits of the provisions of Article IX and Section 10.04 mutatis mutandis as if each reference therein to the Administrative Agent were a reference to the Auction Manager, and the Administrative Agent shall cooperate with the Auction Manager as reasonably requested by the Auction Manager in order to enable it to perform its responsibilities and duties in connection with each Auction.
2.20 Open Market Repurchases.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may at any time and from time to time make open market purchases of Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans (each, an Open Market Purchase ), so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the time of such Open Market Purchase.
(b) The aggregate principal amount (calculated on the face amount thereof) of all Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans so purchased by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries shall immediately and automatically be cancelled and retired by them on the settlement date of the relevant purchase (and may not be resold).
(c) The Borrower will promptly advise the Administrative Agent of the total amount of all Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans so purchased by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and the Administrative Agent is authorized to make appropriate entries in the Register to reflect such cancellation and retirement.
(d) With respect to all purchases of Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans made by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.20 , (i) the Borrower or its Subsidiaries shall pay on the settlement date of each such purchase all accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the purchased Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans up to the settlement date of such purchase (except to the extent otherwise set forth in the relevant purchase document as agreed by the respective selling Lender) and (ii) such purchases (after the payments made by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and the cancellation of the purchased Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans, in each case in connection therewith) shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 2.05 or 2.07 .
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(e) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the Open Market Purchases contemplated by this Section 2.20 and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.05 , 2.07 , 2.12 , 2.13 and 10.06 , it being understood and acknowledged that purchases of the Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries contemplated by this Section 2.20 shall not constitute Investments by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries) that may otherwise prohibit any Open Market Purchase by this Section 2.20 .
ARTICLE III.
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
3.01 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes . Any and all payments by or on behalf of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith of the applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a withholding agent, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01(a)) the Administrative Agent or Lender, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions or withholdings been made.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower . Without duplication of any obligation set forth in subsection (a) above, the Loan Parties shall timely pay any Other Taxes 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.
(c) Indemnification by the Borrower . The Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender within 10 days after demand therefor for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by, or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of the Loan Parties under any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
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(d) Evidence of Payments . As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 3.01, the applicable Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Status of Lenders . Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to payments hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law and from time to time when reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.
Each Lender that is not a Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter as prescribed by applicable law or upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or Administrative Agent), two duly completed and executed copies of IRS Form W-9.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Foreign Lender holding any Loan to the Borrower shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, but only if such Foreign Lender is legally entitled to do so), two copies of whichever of the following is applicable or any subsequent version thereof or successor thereto:
(i) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, duly completed and executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the interest article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the business profits or other income article of such tax treaty,
(ii) duly completed and executed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI,
(iii) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit M-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a 10 percent shareholder of the Borrower within the
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meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a controlled foreign corporation described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ) and (y) duly completed and executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable,
(iv) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, duly completed and executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit M-2 or Exhibit M-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit M-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner, and
(v) duly completed and executed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in United States Federal withholding tax duly completed and executed together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Borrower or Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; provided, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.01(e), the completion, execution and submission of the documentation described in this clause (v) shall not be required if in the Lenders reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times as reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lenders obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for the purposes of this paragraph, FATCA shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Lender nor any Participant shall be required to deliver any form or other document under this Section 3.01(e) that it is not legally entitled to deliver.
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(f) Treatment of Certain Refunds . If the Administrative Agent or any Lender receives a refund with respect to Taxes to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 3.01 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01), which in the reasonable discretion and good faith judgment of such Administrative Agent or Lender is allocable to such payment, it shall promptly pay such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such Administrative Agent or Lender incurred in obtaining such refund and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided , however , that the Borrower agrees to promptly return such amount, net of any incremental additional costs ( plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority), to the applicable Administrative Agent or Lender, as the case may be, if it receives notice from the applicable Administrative Agent or Lender that such Administrative Agent or Lender is required to repay such refund to the relevant Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (f), in no event will the Administrative Agent or any Lender be required to pay any amount to the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph (f) the payment of which would place the Administrative Agent or any Lender in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This subsection shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.
(g) Survival . Each partys obligations under this Section 3.01 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Loan Document.
3.02 Illegality . If any Lender determines that as a result of any Change in Law it becomes unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority asserts that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Eurocurrency Rate Loans, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars in the applicable interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (a) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loan to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, shall be suspended and (b) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Base Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the interest rate on Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, in each case, until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (i) the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or convert all such Eurocurrency Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on Base Rate
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Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (ii) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender, which it shall do as promptly as possible, that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.
3.03 Inability to Determine Rates . If the Required Lenders determine that for any reason in connection with any request for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof that (a) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or (b) the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, (i) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies shall be suspended and (ii) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Eurocurrency Rate component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case, until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders, who agree to so instruct the Administrative Agent once the circumstances giving rise to the inability ability to determine rates no longer exist) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.
3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans .
(a) Increased Costs Generally . If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement reflected in the Eurocurrency Rate contemplated by Section 3.04(e) );
(ii) subject to any Lender or the Administrative Agent to any Taxes (other than Indemnified Taxes or Excluded Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or
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(iii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Rate Loans made by such Lender;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurocurrency Rate Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such Lender, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon written request of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail such increased costs, the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered; provided that before making any such demand, each Lender agrees to use reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory restrictions and so long as such efforts would not be materially disadvantageous to it, in its reasonable discretion, in any legal, economic or regulatory manner) to designate a different Eurocurrency lending office if the making of such designation would allow the Lender or its Eurocurrency lending office to continue to perform its obligation to make Eurocurrency Rate Loans or to continue to fund or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans and avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, such increased cost.
(b) Capital Requirements . If any Lender reasonably determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lenders holding company, if any, regarding capital requirements has the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lenders capital or on the capital of such Lenders holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by such Lender to a level below that which such Lender or such Lenders holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lenders policies and the policies of such Lenders holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time, after submission to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of a written request therefor setting forth in reasonable detail the change and the calculation of such reduced rate of return, the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lenders holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Certificates for Reimbursement . A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section, describing the basis therefor and showing the calculation thereof in reasonable detail, and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive, absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 30 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in Requests . Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lenders right to demand such compensation, provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than 90 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lenders intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 90-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
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(e) Additional Reserve Requirements . The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as Eurocurrency liabilities ), additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as reasonably determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive, absent manifest error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive, absent manifest error), which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan, provided the Borrower shall have received at least 10 Business Days prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or costs from such Lender describing the basis therefor and showing the calculation thereof, in each case, in reasonable detail. If a Lender fails to give notice 10 Business Days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or costs shall be due and payable within 30 days from receipt of such notice.
(f) Certain Rules Relating to the Payment of Additional Amounts . If any Lender requests compensation pursuant to this Section 3.04 , or the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 , or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02 , such Lender shall either (A) forego payment of such additional amount from the Borrower or (B) reasonably afford the Borrower the opportunity to contest, and reasonably cooperate with the Borrower in contesting, the imposition of any Indemnified Taxes or other amounts giving rise to such payment; provided that the Borrower shall reimburse such Lender for its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs, including reasonable and documented attorneys and accountants fees and disbursements incurred in so cooperating with the Borrower in contesting the imposition of such Indemnified Taxes or other amounts.
3.05 Compensation for Losses . Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:
(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise);
(b) any failure by the Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrower;
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(c) [reserved]; or
(d) any assignment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 10.13 ;
including any foreign exchange losses and any loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan, from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained or from the performance of any foreign exchange contract, but excluding any loss of anticipated profits. The Borrower shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.
For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lenders under this Section 3.05 , each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency Rate Loan made by it at the Eurocurrency Rate used in determining the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the offshore interbank market for such currency for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency Rate Loan was in fact so funded.
3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders .
(a) Designation of a Different Lending Office . If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04 , or the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 , or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02 , then such Lender shall (i) use reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (A) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.04 , as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02 , as applicable, and (B) in each case, would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender and (ii) promptly inform the Borrower and Administrative Agent when the circumstances giving rise to the applicability of such Sections no longer exists. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable and documented costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) Replacement of Lenders . If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04 , if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 , if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02 or if any Lender is at such time a Defaulting Lender, then the Borrower may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 10.13 .
3.07 Survival . The parties obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.
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ARTICLE IV.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
4.01 Closing Date . The effectiveness of this Agreement is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The Administrative Agents receipt of the following, each of which shall be (w) originals, telecopies or electronic copies (followed promptly by originals), (x) properly executed by a duly authorized officer of the signing Loan Party, if and as applicable, (y) dated on or before the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date) and (z) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and, in the case of Security Documents, the Collateral Trustee:
(i) executed counterparts of (a) this Agreement from the parties hereto, (b) the Guaranty from each of the Loan Parties, and (c) the Collateral Trust Agreement from the Borrower, each of the Guarantors, the Administrative Agent, the Priority Lien Notes Trustee, the Collateral Trustee, the Junior Collateral Trustee and the other parties thereto;
(ii) Notes executed by the Borrower in favor of each Lender requesting Notes;
(iii) the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement, duly executed by each party thereto, together with:
(1) to the extent that any Capital Stock pledged pursuant to the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement is certificated and required to be delivered thereunder, the original share certificates for such Capital Stock accompanied by undated share transfer forms or other approved or instruments of transfer executed in blank,
(2) financing statements in form appropriate for filing in the Office of Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia with respect to the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement in order to perfect the Liens created under the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement,
(3) results of recent lien searches (or their equivalent under the Laws of Gibraltar) with respect to Gibraltar Holdings in the jurisdiction in which such Person is organized and the District of Columbia;
(4) an irrevocable proxy and power of attorney in favor of the Collateral Trustee and granted pursuant to the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement; and
(5) any documents that are required to be delivered under the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement.
(iv) such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of duly authorized officers of each Loan Party and each Restricted Subsidiary party to a Loan Document, in each case, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each officer of each Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary executing the Loan Documents to which each Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary is a party;
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(v) such documents and certifications as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each Loan Party is duly organized or formed, and that each Loan Party is validly existing, in good standing and qualified to engage in business in each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(vi) the executed opinion of Jones Day, counsel to the Borrower and special New York counsel to the other Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Trustee and each Lender, as to the matters set forth in Exhibit H-1 ;
(vii) [reserved];
(viii) the executed opinion of Triay Stagnetto Neish, special Gibraltar counsel to the Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Trustee and each Lender, as to the matters set forth in Exhibit H-2;
(ix) the executed opinion of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, special Indiana counsel to the Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Trustee and each Lender, as to the matters set forth in Exhibit H-3 ;
(x) [reserved];
(xi) a certificate of a Responsible Officer either (A) attaching copies of all material consents, licenses and approvals required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party and the validity against such Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and such consents, licenses and approvals shall be in full force and effect or (B) stating that no such consents, licenses or approvals are so required;
(xii) (i) the Audited Financial Statements, (ii) unaudited consolidated financial statements (each of which shall have undergone a SAS 100 review) for each of the first three fiscal quarters of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016 (and the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year) prepared in accordance with GAAP, (iii) an unaudited pro forma consolidated balance sheet and income statement of the Borrower as of December 31, 2016 and for the four-quarter period then ended, giving effect to the effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization and the Transactions (including the adoption of fresh-start accounting) as if the effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization and the Transactions had occurred as of such date (in the case of the balance sheet) or at the beginning of such period (in the case of the income statements), in the case of each of clauses (i) through (iii), meeting the requirements of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended) and (iv) financial projections (including the assumption on which such projections are based) for fiscal years 2017 through 2021;
(xiii) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying (A) that the conditions specified in Sections 4.01(d) , (j) , (l) (solely with respect to clauses (a) and (e) thereof) and (m) and 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied, and (B) that there has not occurred since December 31, 2016, any Closing Date Material Adverse Effect;
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(xiv) a solvency certificate from the chief financial officer of the Borrower in the form of Exhibit K, which demonstrates that the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, are, and after giving effect to the Transactions and the other transactions contemplated hereby, will be, Solvent.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) (i) Not less than 15 business days prior to the Closing Date, the Borrower shall have obtained (a) a public corporate credit rating from Moodys, (b) a private indicative corporate credit rating from S&P, (c) a public credit rating for the Term Loans and the Priority Lien Notes from Moodys and (d) a private indicative credit rating for the Term Loans and the Priority Lien Notes from S&P; and (ii) on or prior to the Closing Date, the Borrower shall have obtained public corporate credit ratings or public credit ratings, as applicable, from S&P consistent with the ratings obtained in the foregoing clause (i).
(d) The Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall have complied in all material respects with all state and federal regulations regarding bonding requirements.
(e) The Arrangers shall have consented (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) to any material claim settlement, including but not limited to, any allowance of or settlement related to the MEPP Claim, above the amounts held in reserve by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of January 11, 2017.
(f) The Bankruptcy Court shall have entered an order approving the Backstop Commitment Agreement and such order shall not have been stayed and shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date, and the Backstop Commitment Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall not have been modified or amended in any manner that adversely affects the rights and interest of the Arrangers or the Lenders.
(g) Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate from the applicable Loan Partys insurance broker or other evidence satisfactory to it that all insurance required to be maintained pursuant to Section 6.07 is in full force and effect, together with endorsements naming Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of Secured Parties, as additional insured and loss payee thereunder to the extent required under Section 6.07.
(h) In order to create in favor of Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of Secured Parties, a valid, perfected First Priority security interest in the Collateral (subject to the limitations set forth in the Security Documents), each Loan Party shall have delivered to Collateral Trustee:
(i) executed counterparts of the Security Agreement;
(ii) except to the extent set forth on Schedule 6.18 or otherwise not required as of the Closing Date pursuant to the terms of the Security Agreement, evidence reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent of the compliance by each Loan Party of their obligations under the Security Agreement and the other Security Documents (including their obligations to execute or authorize, as applicable, and deliver UCC financing statements (including, without limitation, as-extracted financing statements), originals of securities, instruments and chattel paper and any agreements governing deposit and/or securities accounts as provided therein);
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(iii) a completed Collateral Questionnaire dated the Closing Date and executed by a Responsible Officer of each Loan Party, together with all attachments contemplated thereby;
(iv) fully executed IP Security Agreements, in proper form for filing or recording in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, memorializing and recording the encumbrance of the Intellectual Property listed in Schedule 6 to the Security Agreement; and
(v) except to the extent set forth on Schedule 6.18 or otherwise not required as of the Closing Date pursuant to the terms of the Security Agreement, evidence that each Loan Party shall have taken or caused to be taken any other action, executed and delivered or caused to be executed and delivered any other agreement, document and instrument (including the PIC Intercompany Note and any other intercompany notes evidencing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 7.03 ) and made or caused to be made any other filing and recording (other than as set forth herein) reasonably required by the Administrative Agent.
(i) Any fees required to be paid on or before the Closing Date to the Agents, the Arrangers or the Lenders under this Agreement, the Fee Letters or otherwise in connection with the Facilities shall have been paid and, unless waived by the Agents, the Arrangers or the Lenders, as applicable, to the extent invoiced at least three Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Borrower shall have paid all reasonable and documented costs and expenses of the Agents, Arrangers and the Lenders (including the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of counsel to the Agents and the Lenders, plus such additional amounts of such reasonable and documented fees and expenses (including filing fees in respect of collateral) as shall constitute its reasonable estimate of such fees and expenses incurred or to be incurred by it through the closing proceedings ( provided that such estimate shall not thereafter preclude a final settling of accounts between the Borrower and the Agents)).
(j) There shall not exist any action, suit, investigation, litigation, proceeding or hearing, pending or threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that affects the Financing Transactions or otherwise impairs the ability of the Loan Parties to consummate the Transactions (other than the Bankruptcy Cases) and no preliminary or permanent injunction or order by a state or federal court shall have been entered, in each case that would be material and adverse to the Arrangers, the Agents or the Lenders. All Governmental Authorities and Persons shall have approved or consented to the transactions contemplated hereby, to the extent required, and such approvals shall be in full force and effect.
(k) The Arrangers and the Agents shall have received at least three business days prior to the Closing Date all documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities with respect to the Borrower and the other Loan Parties under applicable know your customer and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the PATRIOT Act, that has been requested by the Arrangers or the Agents at least ten Business Days prior to the Closing Date.
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(l) In connection with the Plan of Reorganization or the Plan Support Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby: (a) any of the documents executed in connection with the implementation of the Plan of Reorganization or the Plan Support Agreement (collectively, the Plan Documents ), to the extent they contain provisions differing in any material respect from, or not described in, the Plan of Reorganization or the Plan Support Agreement, that are material and adverse to the rights or interests of any or all of the Arrangers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (collectively, the Finance Parties ) shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Arrangers in their good faith judgment; (b) there shall have been no supplement, modification, waiver or amendment to the Plan of Reorganization or the Plan Support Agreement that, in the good faith judgment of the Arrangers, is material and adverse to the rights or interests of any or all of the Finance Parties or the creditworthiness of the Borrower unless, in each case, the Arrangers shall have reasonably consented thereto in writing; (c) unless the Arrangers shall have consented thereto in writing, the Authorization Order shall not have been vacated, stayed, reversed or modified or amended in any respect that adversely affects the rights or interests of any or all of the Finance Parties in any material respect as determined by the Arrangers in good faith; (d) unless the Arrangers shall have consented thereto in writing, each of the Confirmation Order and the order of the Bankruptcy Court approving the Plan Support Agreement shall have been entered and shall be in full force and effect and shall not have been vacated, stayed, reversed or modified or amended in any respect that adversely affects the rights or interests of any or all of the Finance Parties in any material respect as determined by the Arrangers in good faith; and (e) all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization, as it may be amended, supplemented, modified or waived in accordance with clause (b) above, other than the closing and funding of the Term Loans and the assumption by the Borrower of the obligations under the Priority Lien Notes, shall have occurred (or will occur substantially concurrently with the closing of the Term Loans and the assumption by the Borrower of the obligations under the Priority Lien Notes) or been waived (to the extent such waiver is material and adverse to the rights or interests of any or all of the Finance Parties, with the written consent of the Arrangers), including, but not limited to, the issuance of the Convertible Securities, the completion of the transactions contemplated by the Rights Offering Documents, the substantially simultaneous closing of each Permitted Securitization Program and the availability of the Minimum Cash Balance.
(m) Substantially concurrently with the funding of the Term Loans on the Closing Date, of the Arrangers shall have received reasonably satisfactory evidence that all Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03 ) shall have been extinguished, repaid or repurchased in full, all commitments relating thereto shall have been terminated, and all liens or security interests related thereto shall have been terminated or released, in each case to the extent set forth in or contemplated by the Plan of Reorganization (as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified or waived in accordance with Section 4.01(l) above) and the Loan Documents.
(n) The Plan of Reorganization shall have become effective and all, or substantially all, assets of the Debtors shall have vested in the reorganized Debtors as provided therein, which shall have occurred no later than May 1, 2017 (as such date may be extended at the Borrowers election, but subject to payment of the Ticking Fee, to no later than August 1, 2017).
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.01, to the extent any security interest in any of the intended Collateral is not or cannot be provided and/or perfected on the Closing Date (other than any collateral the security interest in which may be perfected by the filing of a UCC financing statement, the delivery of certificated stock certificates of U.S. Subsidiaries (except as set forth on Schedule 6.18), or the filing of IP Security Agreements (except as set forth on Schedule 6.18)) after the Loan Parties use of commercially reasonable efforts to do so, then the provision and/or perfection of a security interest in such Collateral will not constitute a condition precedent to the obligation of each Lender to make a Borrowing on the Closing Date but such security interest(s) will be perfected as required by Section 6.18.
Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 9.04 , for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01 , each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.
4.02 Conditions to all Borrowings (Including on the Closing Date) . The obligation of each Lender to honor any Borrowing Notice (other than a Borrowing Notice requesting only a conversion of Term Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans) is subject to the following conditions precedent:
(a) The representations and warranties of (i) the Borrower contained in Article V and (ii) each Loan Party contained in each other Loan Document or in any document required to be furnished at any time thereunder, shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 4.02 following the Closing Date, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01; provided that, in each case, such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality or by a reference to a Material Adverse Effect in the text thereof.
(b) No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would result immediately, from such proposed Borrowing or the application of the proceeds thereof.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Notice in accordance with the requirements hereof.
It is understood, for avoidance of doubt, that each Borrowing made in connection with the effectiveness of any Incremental Facility, the proceeds of which are used to consummate a Permitted Acquisition, will be subject to the conditions set forth in clauses (a) and (b) only to the extent specified in Section 2.15(d)(i) .
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Each Borrowing Notice (other than a Borrowing Notice requesting only a conversion of Term Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans) submitted by the Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Section 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Borrowing.
ARTICLE V.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Trustee and the Lenders that:
5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power . Each of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) (i) is duly organized or formed and validly existing and (ii) is in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, if such legal concept is applicable in such jurisdiction, (b) has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (c) is duly qualified, licensed, and in good standing (to the extent good standing is an applicable legal concept in the relevant jurisdiction), under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; except in each case referred to in clauses (a)(ii) , (b)(i) or (c) , to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.02 Authorization; No Contravention . The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party and Gibraltar Holdings of each Loan Document to which such Person is a party, (a) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action and (b) do not and will not (i) contravene the terms of any of such Persons Organizational Documents; (ii) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of, any Lien (except for any Liens that may arise under the Loan Documents) under, or require any payment to be made under (A) any Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or (B) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority to which such Person or its property is subject or (C) any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (iii) violate any Law binding on such Loan Party, except in each case referred to in clauses (b)(ii) or (b)(iii) to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.03 Governmental Authorization . (a) No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority and (b) no material approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with any other Person, in each case, is necessary or required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party or Gibraltar Holdings of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except for those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions which have already been obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect.
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5.04 Binding Effect . This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party and Gibraltar Holdings, as applicable, that is party thereto. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party and Gibraltar Holdings, as applicable, enforceable against each Loan Party and Gibraltar Holdings, as applicable, that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other Laws relating to or affecting creditors rights generally, general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law and an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect .
(a) The Audited Financial Statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein and (ii) fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein.
(b) The unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries dated March 31, 2016, June 30, 2016 and September 30, 2016 and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders equity and cash flows for the fiscal quarters ended on such dates (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (ii) fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such dates and their results of operations for the period covered thereby, subject, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end adjustments.
(c) Since the date of the last Audited Financial Statements, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) The financial projections delivered pursuant to Section 4.01(a)(xii) were prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were believed to be reasonable in light of the conditions existing at the time of delivery of such forecasts (it being understood that any such information is subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Borrowers control, and that no assurance can be given that the future developments addressed in such information can be realized).
5.06 Litigation . There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower threatened, at law, in equity, by or before any Governmental Authority, by or against the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or against any of their properties or revenues that (a) purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement
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or any other Loan Document, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby (other than the Bankruptcy Cases), or (b) except as specifically disclosed in public filings prior to the date hereof, as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.07 No Default . None of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any Contractual Obligation that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
5.08 Ownership and Identification of Property .
(a) The Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries have good record and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, all real property necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business, except for such defects in title as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Closing Date, with respect to all real property listed on Schedule 5.08(c) : (i) the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries possess all leasehold interests necessary for the operation of the Mines currently being operated by each of them and included or purported to be included in the Collateral pursuant to the Security Documents, except where the failure to possess such leasehold interests could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) each of their respective rights under the leases, contracts, rights-of-way and easements necessary for the operation of such Mines are in full force and effect, except to the extent that failure to maintain such leases, contracts, rights of way and easements in full force and effect could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (iii) each of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries possesses all licenses, permits or franchises which are necessary to carry out its business as presently conducted at any Mine included or purported to be included in the Collateral pursuant to the Security Documents, except where failure to possess such licenses, permits or franchises could not, in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Schedule 5.08(b) lists completely and correctly as of the Closing Date all Material Real Property fee owned by the Borrower and the other Loan Parties.
(c) Schedule 5.08(c) lists completely and correctly as of the Closing Date all Material Real Property leased by the Borrower and the other Loan Parties and the lessors thereof.
5.09 Environmental Compliance . Except as disclosed on Schedule 5.09 , or as otherwise could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:
(a) The facilities and properties currently or formerly owned, leased or operated by the Borrower, or any of its respective Restricted Subsidiaries (the Properties ) do not contain any Hazardous Materials in amounts or concentrations which (i) constitute a violation of, or (ii) could reasonably be expected to give rise to liability under, any applicable Environmental Law.
(b) None of the Borrower, nor any of its respective Restricted Subsidiaries has received any notice of violation, alleged violation, non-compliance, liability or potential liability
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regarding compliance with or liability under Environmental Laws with regard to any of the Properties or the business operated by the Borrower, or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (the Business ), or any prior business for which the Borrower has retained liability under any Environmental Law.
(c) Hazardous Materials have not been transported or disposed of from the Properties in violation of, or in a manner or to a location which could reasonably be expected to give rise to liability under, any applicable Environmental Law, nor have any Hazardous Materials been generated, treated, stored or disposed of at, or under any of the Properties in violation of, or in a manner that could reasonably be expected to give rise to liability under, any applicable Environmental Law.
(d) No judicial proceeding or governmental or administrative action is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened under any Environmental Law to which the Borrower, or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, will be named as a party or with respect to the Properties or the Business, nor are there any consent decrees or other decrees, consent orders, administrative orders or other orders, or other similar administrative or judicial requirements outstanding under any Environmental Law with respect to the Properties or the Business.
(e) There has been no release or threat of release of Hazardous Materials at or from the Properties, or arising from or related to the operations of the Borrower, or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with the Properties or otherwise in connection with the Business, in violation of or in amounts or in a manner that could reasonably be expected to give rise to liability under any applicable Environmental Laws.
(f) The Properties and all operations at the Properties are in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws.
(g) The Borrower, and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries has obtained, and is in compliance with, all Environmental Permits required for the conduct of its businesses and operations, and the ownership, occupation, operation and use of its Property, and all such Environmental Permits are in full force and effect.
5.10 Insurance .
(a) The properties of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries are insured with financially sound and reputable insurance companies which may be Affiliates of the Borrower, in such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance compatible with the following standards), with such deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary operates.
(b) As to any Building located on Material Real Property and constituting Collateral, all flood hazard insurance policies required hereunder have been obtained and remain in full force and effect, and the premiums thereon have been paid in full.
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5.11 Taxes . The Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries have filed all applicable US Federal, state, foreign and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have paid all US Federal, state, foreign and other material taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable except (a) those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP, (b) where failure to do any of the foregoing could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (c) to the extent excused or prohibited by the Bankruptcy Code or the Bankruptcy Court; no material tax Lien has been filed which would not be permitted under Section 7.01 and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no material claim is being asserted, with respect to any material tax, fee or other charge which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
5.12 ERISA Compliance . Except as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect:
(a) Each Plan is in material compliance in all respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Federal or state Laws (except that with respect to any Multiemployer Plan which is a Plan, such representation is deemed made only to the knowledge of the Borrower), and each Foreign Plan is in material compliance in all respects with the applicable provisions of Laws applicable to such Foreign Plan.
(b) There has been no nonexempt prohibited transaction (as defined in Section 406 of ERISA) or violation of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan.
(c) (i) As of the Closing Date, no ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (ii) no Pension Plan has any Unfunded Pension Liability; and (iii) neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA.
5.13 Subsidiaries . As of the Closing Date, the Borrower has no Subsidiaries other than those specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.13 .
5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act .
(a) The Borrower is not engaged and will not engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock.
(b) None of the Borrower, any Person Controlling the Borrower, nor any Restricted Subsidiary is or is required to be registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
5.15 Disclosure . No report, financial statement, certificate or other information furnished in writing by any Loan Party or Gibraltar Holdings to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Trustee or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and
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the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document, taken as whole with any other information furnished or publicly available, contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not materially misleading as of the date when made or delivered; provided that, with respect to any forecast, projection or other statement regarding future performance, future financial results or other future developments, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time of delivery of such information (it being understood that any such information is subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Borrowers control, and that no assurance can be given that the future developments addressed in such information can be realized).
5.16 Compliance with Laws . The Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary is in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws (including any zoning, building, ordinance, code or approval or any building or mining permits and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties), except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.17 Anti-Corruption; Sanctions; Terrorism Laws .
(a) None of the Borrower, any Restricted Subsidiary nor, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any director, officer, agent, employee or Affiliate of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is (i) a person on the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons or (ii) subject of any active sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Treasury (including the Office of Foreign Assets Control) or any other applicable governmental authority (collectively, Sanctions , and the associated laws, rules, regulations and orders, collectively, Sanctions Laws ); and the Borrower will not directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly use the proceeds of the Loans for the purpose of financing the activities of any Person that is the subject of, or in any country or territory that at such time is the subject of, any Sanctions.
(b) The Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary is in compliance, in all material respects, with the (i) Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, (ii) the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56), as amended (the PATRIOT Act ), (iii) Sanctions Laws and (iv) Anti-Corruption Laws.
(c) No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly, for any payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws, rules, regulations and orders (collectively, Anti-Corruption Laws ).
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5.18 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. The Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents, patent rights, franchises, licenses and other intellectual property rights (collectively, IP Rights ) that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, except where the failure to own or possess the right to use such IP Rights could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the best knowledge of the Borrower, the use of such IP Rights by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary does not infringe upon any rights held by any other Person except for any infringement that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.18 , no claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.19 Security Documents .
(a) (i) Each Security Document (other than each Mortgage), when executed and delivered, is effective to create in favor of the Collateral Trustee (for the benefit of the Secured Parties), a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral described therein and the Collateral Trustee has been authorized (and is hereby authorized) to make all filings of UCC-1 and as-extracted collateral financing statements in the appropriate filing office necessary or desirable to fully perfect the Collateral Trustees security interest in such Collateral described therein which can be perfected by filing a UCC-1 financing statement in the appropriate filing office, or in the case of the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement, by registering the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement at Companies House Gibraltar within 30 days following the Closing Date, and (ii) with respect to the security interest created in the Collateral pursuant to each Security Document (other than each Mortgage), upon such filings (or, with respect to possessory Collateral, upon the taking of possession by the Collateral Trustee (or by the ABL Agent as bailee for the Collateral Trustee pursuant to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, if applicable) of any such Collateral which may be perfected by possession), such security interests will constitute perfected First Priority Liens on, and security interests in, all right, title and interest of the debtor party thereto in the Collateral described therein that can be perfected by filing a UCC-1 or as-extracted financing statement, as applicable, in the appropriate filing office or by delivery, in the case of possessory Collateral.
(b) Each of the Mortgages, when executed and delivered, will be effective to create in favor of the Collateral Trustee, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable lien on the Material Real Property described therein and such security interests will constitute, upon such Mortgage being and recorded in the appropriate filing offices, First Priority liens on such Material Real Property.
5.20 Mines . Schedule 5.20 sets forth a complete and accurate list of all Mines (including addresses and the owner thereof) owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date and included or purported to be included in the Collateral pursuant to the Security Documents.
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5.21 Solvency . The Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries are and, upon the incurrence of any Obligation by any Loan Party on any date on which this representation and warranty is made, will be, on a consolidated basis, Solvent.
5.22 Labor Relations . Neither the Borrower nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is (a) no unfair labor practice complaint pending against the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or to the best knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against any of them before the National Labor Relations Board and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement that is so pending against the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or to the best knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against any of them, (b) no strike or work stoppage in existence or threatened involving the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, and (c) to the best knowledge of the Borrower, no union representation question existing with respect to the employees of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and, to the best knowledge of the Borrower, no union organization activity that is taking place, except (with respect to any matter specified in clause (a), (b) or (c) above, either individually or in the aggregate) such as is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
ARTICLE VI.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Until Payment in Full, the Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its respective Restricted Subsidiaries to:
6.01 Financial Statements . Deliver to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower (commencing with the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017) a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, changes in shareholders equity and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP; such consolidated statements shall be audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent certified public accountant of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any going concern or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit (other than with respect to or resulting from the upcoming maturity of any Loans under this Agreement, the Priority Lien Notes Documents, any documents evidencing a Permitted Securitization Program or the ABL Credit Documents, occurring within one year from the time such opinion is delivered); and
(b) as soon as available, but in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower (commencing with the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2017), a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations,
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changes in shareholders equity and cash flows for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the Borrowers fiscal year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail; such consolidated statements shall be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, changes in shareholders equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.
6.02 Certificates; Other Information . Deliver to the Administrative Agent, in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:
(a) [reserved];
(b) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) and (b) (commencing with the delivery of the financial statements for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2017), (i) a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and (ii) a reconciliation of such financial statements for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, any such reconciliation of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) shall not be audited;
(c) promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or communication sent to the stockholders of the Borrower, and copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which the Borrower may file or be required to file with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto;
(d) promptly, such additional information regarding the business, financial or corporate affairs of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request; and
(e) not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of summary projections by the Borrower of the operating budget and cash flow budget of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the succeeding fiscal year, such projections to be accompanied by a certificate of a Responsible Officer to the effect that such projections have been prepared based on assumptions believed by the Borrower to be reasonable (it being understood that any such information is subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Borrowers control, and that no assurance can be given that the future developments addressed in such information can be realized).
Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) or Section 6.02(c) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Borrowers website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02 ; (ii) on which
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such documents are posted on the Borrowers behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); or (iii) on which such documents are filed for public availability on the SECs Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval system.
The Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or the Arrangers will make available to the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrower hereunder (collectively, Borrower Materials ) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks or another similar electronic system (the Platform ) and (b) certain of the Lenders may be public-side Lenders ( i.e. , Lenders that do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its securities) (each, a Public Lender ). The Borrower hereby agrees that so long as the Borrower is the issuer of any outstanding debt or equity securities that are registered or issued pursuant to a private offering or is actively contemplating issuing any such securities (a) all Borrower Materials that are to be made available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked PUBLIC which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word PUBLIC shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (b) by marking Borrower Materials PUBLIC, the Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and the Lenders to treat the Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws ( provided , however , that to the extent the Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.07 ); and (c) all Borrower Materials marked PUBLIC or not marked as containing material non-public information are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated Public Investor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall not be under any obligation to mark the Borrower Materials PUBLIC or as containing material non-public information. In connection with the foregoing, each party hereto acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing provisions are not in derogation of their confidentiality obligations under Section 10.07 .
6.03 Notices . Notify the Administrative Agent:
(a) promptly, of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default hereunder or the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default under the Priority Lien Notes Documents or the ABL Credit Documents;
(b) promptly, of any event which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, individually or in the aggregate, would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after the Borrower knows or has obtained notice thereof;
(d) within 15 days of the Borrower or any Guarantor (or Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited) changing its legal name, jurisdiction of organization or the location of its chief executive office or sole place of business;
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(e) to the extent that there will be a cancellation or material reduction in amount or material change in coverage for any insurance maintained by the Borrower or any Guarantor, at least 10 days prior to such cancellation, reduction or change; and
(f) promptly, as to any Building located on Material Real Property and constituting Collateral, any redesignation of any such property on which such Building is located into or out of a special flood hazard area.
Each notice pursuant to clauses (a)-(c) of this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
6.04 Payment of Tax Obligations . Except where failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, with respect to the Borrower and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, pay and discharge all tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its properties or assets, unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by the Borrower or such Subsidiary.
6.05 Preservation of Existence . Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 .
6.06 Maintenance of Properties . (a) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and material equipment, including Collateral, necessary in the operation of its business in good working order and condition (ordinary wear and tear and damage by fire or other casualty or taking by condemnation excepted), except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Keep in full force and effect all of its material leases and other material contract rights, and all material rights of way, easements and privileges necessary or appropriate for the proper operation of the Mines being operated by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary and included or purported to be included in the Collateral by the Security Documents, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.07 Maintenance of Insurance . (a) Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies which may be Affiliates of the Borrower, insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance compatible with the following standards) as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary operates, except to the extent the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) With respect to any Building located on Material Real Property and constituting Collateral, the Borrower shall and shall cause each appropriate Loan Party to (i) maintain fully paid flood hazard insurance on any such Building that is located in a special flood hazard area,
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on such terms and in such amounts as required by The National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 and (ii) furnish to the Administrative Agent an insurance certificate evidencing the renewal (and payment of renewal premiums therefor) of all such policies prior to the expiration or lapse thereof (or at such other time acceptable to the Administrative Agent). The Borrower shall cooperate with the Administrative Agents reasonable request for any information reasonably required by the Administrative Agent to comply with The National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994, as amended.
6.08 Compliance with Laws . Comply in all respects with the requirements of all Laws (including the PATRIOT Act, Sanctions Laws, the Anti-Corruption Laws and Environmental Laws) and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its business or property, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect (or, in the case of compliance with the PATRIOT Act, Sanctions Laws and the Anti-Corruption Laws, the failure to comply therewith is not material).
6.09 Books and Records . (a) Maintain proper books of record and account, in which in all material respects full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP shall be made of all material financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be; and (b) maintain such books of record and account in material conformity with all material requirements of any Governmental Authority having regulatory jurisdiction over the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be.
6.10 Inspection Rights . Permit representatives and independent contractors of the Administrative Agent and each Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties, to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom (except to the extent (a) any such access is restricted by a Requirement of Law or (b) any such agreements, contracts or the like are subject to a written confidentiality agreement with a non-Affiliate that prohibits the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from granting such access to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders; provided that, with respect to such confidentiality restrictions affecting the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, a Responsible Officer is made available to such Lender to discuss such confidential information to the extent permitted), and to discuss the business, finances and accounts with its officers and independent public accountants at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, provided that the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall give the Borrower reasonable advance notice prior to any contact with such accountants and give the Borrower the opportunity to participate in such discussions, provided further that the costs of one such visit per calendar year (or an unlimited amount if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) for the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and their representatives as a group shall be the responsibility of the Borrower.
6.11 Use of Proceeds . Use the proceeds of the Term Loan Facility (a) on the Closing Date, to refinance indebtedness under the Existing Credit Agreement and to pay the Transaction Costs, (b) after the Closing Date, for ongoing working capital, capital expenditures and for other lawful corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including for acquisitions and (c) to make distributions to certain holders of claims in accordance with the Plan of Reorganization.
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6.12 Additional Guarantors . As of the date the Compliance Certificate referred to in Section 6.02 is required to be delivered, notify the Administrative Agent of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor and, by virtue of the definition of Guarantor would be required to be a Guarantor. Within 30 days of such notification, the Borrower shall cause any such Subsidiary to become a Guarantor by executing and delivering to the Administrative Agent a counterpart of the Guaranty or such other document as the Administrative Agent shall deem appropriate for such purpose.
6.13 Unrestricted Subsidiaries . Subject to the exclusions in the proviso in the definition of Unrestricted Subsidiary, any Restricted Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and any Unrestricted Subsidiary may be designated as a Restricted Subsidiary upon delivery to the Administrative Agent of written notice from the Borrower; provided that (a) immediately before and after such designation, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (b) other than for purposes of designating a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in connection with a Permitted Securitization Program, immediately after giving effect to such designation, on a Pro Forma Basis, the Total Leverage Ratio shall be equal to or less than 2.50:1.00, (c) no Subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if it is a Restricted Subsidiary for purposes of any of the Priority Lien Notes Documents, the ABL Credit Documents or any documents evidencing any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness or any Subordinated Indebtedness and (d) each Restricted Subsidiary to be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries has not at the time of designation, and does not thereafter, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness other than Non-Recourse Debt. The designation of any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall constitute an Investment under Section 7.02 by the Borrower therein at the date of designation in an amount equal to the net book value of the Borrowers investment therein. The designation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary shall constitute the incurrence at the time of designation of any Indebtedness or Liens of such Restricted Subsidiary existing at such time.
6.14 Preparation of Environmental Reports . If an Event of Default caused by reason of a breach under Sections 6.08 or 5.09 with respect to compliance with Environmental Laws shall have occurred and be continuing, at the reasonable request of the Required Lenders through the Administrative Agent, provide, in the case of the Borrower, to the Lenders within 60 days after such request, at the expense of the Borrower, an environmental or mining site assessment or audit report for the Properties which are the subject of such default prepared by an environmental or mining consulting firm reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and indicating the presence or absence of Hazardous Materials and the estimated cost of any compliance or remedial action in connection with such Properties and the estimated cost of curing any violation or non-compliance of any Environmental Law.
6.15 Certain Long Term Liabilities and Environmental Reserves . To the extent required by GAAP, maintain adequate reserves for (a) future costs associated with any lung disease claim alleging pneumoconiosis or silicosis or arising out of exposure or alleged
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exposure to coal dust or the coal mining environment, (b) future costs associated with retiree and health care benefits, (c) future costs associated with reclamation of disturbed acreage, removal of facilities and other closing costs in connection with closing its mining operations and (d) future costs associated with other potential environmental liabilities.
6.16 Covenant to Give Security .
(a) Personal Property including IP of New Guarantors . Concurrently with any Restricted Subsidiary becoming a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.12 (or a later date to which the Administrative Agent agrees), cause any such Restricted Subsidiary to (i) duly execute and deliver to the Collateral Trustee counterparts to the Security Agreement or such other document as the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Trustee shall reasonably deem appropriate for such purpose, (ii) to the extent that any Capital Stock in, or owned by, such Restricted Subsidiary is required to be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement or the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement, deliver stock certificates, if any, representing such Capital Stock accompanied by undated stock powers or instruments of transfer executed in blank, (iii) to the extent that any Intellectual Property (as defined in the Security Agreement) owned by a Loan Party is required to be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement but has not been pledged, deliver any supplements to the IP Security Agreements reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Trustee and (iv) comply with all other requirements of the Security Agreement with respect to the Collateral of such Guarantor.
(b) Real Property of New Guarantors .
(i) New Real Property Identification . With respect to any Restricted Subsidiary becoming a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.12 , concurrently with such Restricted Subsidiary becoming a Guarantor (or a later date to which the Administrative Agent agrees), furnish to the Administrative Agent a description of all Material Real Property fee owned or leased by such Restricted Subsidiary.
(ii) Material Real Property Mortgages and Flood Insurance . With respect to any Restricted Subsidiary becoming a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.12 , within the latest of (x) 90 days of such Restricted Subsidiary becoming a Guarantor and (y) a later date to which the Administrative Agent agrees, cause such Restricted Subsidiary to deliver (A) executed counterparts of one or more Mortgages on its Material Real Property in a form appropriate for recording in the applicable recording office, (B) a completed Life-of-Loan Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination with respect to each Building located on such Material Real Property and constituting Collateral and, if any such Building is located in special flood hazard area, (1) a notice about special flood hazard area status and flood disaster assistance duly executed by the Borrower and each Loan Party relating thereto and (2) evidence of applicable flood insurance as required by Section 6.07(b)(i) if such Material Real Property constitutes Collateral, (C) legal opinions from counsel in such jurisdiction as the Material Real Property is located, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent or the Collateral Trustee, (D) to the extent required by the Administrative Agent, evidence of the filing of as-extracted UCC-1 financing statements in the appropriate jurisdiction and (E) payment by the Borrower of all mortgage recording taxes and related charges required for the recording of such Mortgages.
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(iii) Consents Related to Leaseholds Concerning Material Real Property . With respect to any leasehold interest of any Restricted Subsidiary becoming a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.12 that would constitute Material Real Property but for the need to obtain the consent of another Person (other than the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary) in order to grant a security interest therein, use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such consent for the later of (x) the 120 day period commencing after such entity becomes a Guarantor and (y) 225 days after the Closing Date, provided that there shall be no requirement to pay any sums to the applicable lessor other than customary legal fees and administrative expenses (it is understood, for avoidance of doubt, that, without limiting the foregoing obligations of the Borrower set forth in this Section 6.16(b)(iii) , any failure to grant a security interest in any such leasehold interest as a result of a failure to obtain a consent shall not be a Default hereunder, and, for avoidance of doubt, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall no longer be required to use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any such consent after such above-mentioned time period to obtain a consent has elapsed).
(c) Personal Property (including IP) Acquired by Borrower or Guarantors . Within the applicable time period set forth in the Security Agreement, shall, in the case of the Borrower, or cause any such Restricted Subsidiary otherwise, (i) to the extent that any Capital Stock in, or owned by, a Loan Party or Gibraltar Holdings is required to be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement or the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement but has not been pledged, deliver stock certificates, if any, representing such Capital Stock accompanied by undated stock powers or instruments of transfer executed in blank to the Collateral Trustee and execute and deliver to the Collateral Trustee supplements to the Security Agreement, the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement or such other document as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably deem appropriate to pledge any such Capital Stock, (ii) to the extent that any Intellectual Property (as defined in the Security Agreement) owned by a Loan Party is required to be pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement but has not been pledged, deliver any supplements to the IP Security Agreements reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and (iii) to the extent that a Lien on any asset of a Loan Party is required to be perfected pursuant to the Security Agreement but has not been perfected, take such additional actions as may be required pursuant to the Security Agreement in order to perfect the Lien of the Collateral Trustee on such asset.
(d) Real Property Acquired by Borrower and Guarantors .
(i) New Real Property Identification . As of the date the Compliance Certificate referred to in Section 6.02 is required to be delivered (or a later date to which the Administrative Agent agrees), with respect to each Loan Party, notify the Administrative Agent the acquisition of any Material Real Property fee owned or leased by such Loan Party.
(ii) Material Real Property Mortgages and Supplements . Within the latest of (x) 90 days of the notification provided pursuant to Section 6.16(d)(i) (or a later date to which the Administrative Agent agrees), (y) 90 days after the Closing Date and (z) a later date to which the Administrative Agent agrees, cause such Loan Party to deliver the materials set forth in Section 6.16(b)(ii) with respect any such newly acquired Material Real Property, unless, in the judgment of the Administrative Agent, delivery of such materials is unnecessary to ensure the Secured Parties benefit from a perfected First Priority security interest in such Material Real Property in favor of the Collateral Trustee and such flood insurance (it is understood that in lieu of any new Mortgage, mortgage supplements or any other security documents may be delivered if reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent).
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(iii) Consents Related to Leaseholds Concerning Material Real Property . With respect to the acquisition of any leasehold interest by any Restricted Subsidiary that would constitute Material Real Property but for the need to obtain the consent of another Person (other than the Borrower or any Controlled Subsidiary) in order to grant a security interest therein, use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such consent for the later of (x) the 120 day period commencing on the date of the notification provided pursuant to Section 6.16(d)(i) and (y) 225 days after the Closing Date, provided that there shall be no requirement to pay any sums to the applicable lessor other than customary legal fees and administrative expenses (it is understood, for avoidance of doubt, that, without limiting the foregoing obligations of the Borrower set forth in this Section 6.16(d)(iii) , any failure to grant a security interest in any such leasehold interest as a result of a failure to obtain a consent shall not be a Default hereunder, and, for avoidance of doubt, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall no longer be required to use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain any such consent after such above-mentioned time period to obtain a consent has elapsed).
(e) Further Assurances . Subject to any applicable limitation in any Security Documents, upon request of the Administrative Agent, at the expense of the Borrower, promptly execute and deliver any and all further instruments and documents and take all such other action as the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable in obtaining the full benefits of, or (as applicable) in perfecting and preserving the Liens of, the Security Documents, including the filing of financing statements necessary or advisable in the opinion of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Trustee to perfect any security interests created under the Security Documents.
(f) Collateral Principles . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document, (i) except as contemplated by the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement or with respect to the pledge of intercompany loans (including the PIC Intercompany Note), no actions in any non-U.S. jurisdiction or required by the Requirement of Law of any non-U.S. jurisdiction shall be required in order to create any security interests in assets located or titled outside of the U.S. (it being understood that, except for the Gibraltar Pledge Agreement, there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements governed under the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction), (ii) the Administrative Agent in its discretion may grant extensions of time for the creation or perfection of security interests in, and Mortgages on, or taking other actions with respect to, particular assets where it reasonably determines in consultation with the Borrower, that the creation or perfection of security interests and Mortgages on, or taking other actions, cannot be accomplished without undue delay, burden or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Security Documents and (iii) any Liens required to be granted from time to time pursuant to Security Documents and this Agreement on assets of the Loan Parties or Gibraltar Holdings to secure to the Secured Obligations shall exclude the Excluded Assets.
(g) Junior Lien Indebtedness Guarantees and Collateral . Without limitation of (and subject to) any provision in the Collateral Trust Agreement, if the Junior Collateral Trustee or any holder of Junior Lien Indebtedness receive any additional guaranty or any additional collateral in connection with the Junior Lien Indebtedness after the Closing Date, without
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limitation of any Event of Default that may arise as a result thereof, the Loan Parties shall, concurrently therewith, cause the same to be granted to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Trustee, as applicable, for its own benefit and the benefit of the Secured Parties.
6.17 Maintenance of Ratings . Use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain (i) a public corporate family rating issued by Moodys and a public corporate credit rating issued by S&P and (ii) a public credit rating from each of Moodys and S&P with respect to the Term Loans.
6.18 Post Closing Covenants . Cause to be delivered or performed the documents and other agreements and actions set forth on Schedule 6.18 within the time frame specified on such Schedule 6.18.
6.19 ERISA . Except, in each case, to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, comply with the provisions of ERISA, the Code, and other Laws applicable to the Plans.
ARTICLE VII.
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Until Payment in Full, the Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:
7.01 Liens . Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following:
(a) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document;
(b) Liens existing on the date hereof and (other than any individual Lien that secures obligations of less than $2,000,000) set forth on Schedule 7.01 and any renewals, extensions, modifications, restatements or replacements thereof, provided that (i) the property covered thereby is not changed, (ii) the amount secured or benefited thereby is not increased except with respect to any Permitted Refinancing Increase and (iii) any renewal, extension, modification, restatement or replacement of the obligations secured or benefited thereby is permitted by Section 7.03 ;
(c) Liens for taxes not yet due or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;
(d) landlords, carriers, warehousemens, mechanics, materialmens, repairmens or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not overdue for a period of more than 60 days or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;
(e) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation and employee health and disability benefit legislations and deposits securing liability to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements;
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(f) (i) Liens (including deposits) to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness), reclamation bonds, insurance bonds, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds, bank guarantees and letters of credit and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business, (ii) Liens on assets to secure obligations under surety bonds obtained as required in connection with the entering into of federal coal leases or (iii) Liens created under or by any turnover trust;
(g) easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions, other restrictions and other similar encumbrances which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the applicable Person;
(h) Liens securing attachments or judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h) or securing appeal or surety bonds related to such attachments or judgments;
(i) Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted by Section 7.03(k) ; provided that (i) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness, any other property which may be incorporated with or into that financed property or any after-acquired title in or on such property and proceeds of the existing collateral in accordance with the instrument creating such Lien, including replacement parts, accessories or enhancements that are affixed to any leased goods and (ii) the principal amount of Indebtedness secured by any such Lien shall at no time exceed 100% of the original purchase price of such property at the time it was acquired (it being understood that Liens of the type described in this subsection (i) incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary before such time as it became a Restricted Subsidiary are permitted under this subsection (i));
(j) Liens on property or assets acquired in a transaction permitted by Section 7.02 or of a Person which becomes a Restricted Subsidiary after the date hereof; provided that (i) such Liens existed at the time such property or assets were acquired or such entity became a Subsidiary and were not created in anticipation thereof, (ii) such Liens do not extend to any other property or assets of such Person (other than the proceeds of the property or assets initially subject to such Lien) or of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and (iii) the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;
(k) Liens on the property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as a tenant under a lease or sublease entered into in the ordinary course of business by such Person, in favor of the landlord under such lease or sublease, securing the tenants performance under such lease or sublease, as such Liens are provided to the landlord under applicable law and not waived by the landlord;
(l) Liens (including those arising from precautionary UCC financing statement filings and those which are security interests for purposes of the Personal Property Securities Act of 2009 (Cth)) with respect to bailments, operating leases or consignment or retention of title arrangements entered into by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
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(m) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(c) , to the extent that the Indebtedness being refinanced was originally secured in accordance with this Section 7.01 , provided that such Lien does not apply to any additional property or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than property or assets within the scope of the original granting clause or the proceeds of the property or assets subject to such Lien);
(n) Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations of a non-Guarantor Restricted Subsidiary to the Borrower or a Guarantor;
(o) leases, subleases, licenses and rights-of-use granted to others incurred in the ordinary course of business and that do not materially and adversely affect the use of the property encumbered thereby for its intended purpose;
(p) (i) Liens in favor of a banking institution arising by operation of law or any contract encumbering deposits (including the right of set-off) held by such banking institutions incurred in the ordinary course of business and which are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry or (ii) contractual rights of setoff to the extent constituting Liens;
(q) Liens on Capital Stock of any Unrestricted Subsidiary, solely to the extent such Capital Stock does not constitute Collateral;
(r) Liens on Receivables Assets pursuant to any Permitted Securitization Programs or under any other agreement under which such receivables or rights are transferred in a manner permitted hereunder (to the extent, in each case, that any such Disposition of receivables is deemed to give rise to a Lien);
(s) Liens in favor of an escrow agent arising under an escrow arrangement incurred in connection with the issuance of notes with respect to the proceeds of such notes and anticipated interest expenses with respect to such notes;
(t) Liens securing Incremental Notes, Refinancing Notes or Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of the foregoing; provided that (i) such Liens rank junior or pari passu with the Liens securing the Secured Obligations pursuant to the Security Documents, (ii) the rights of the holders of the Incremental Notes, Refinancing Notes or such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement with respect to such Liens, (iii) such Liens encumber only the assets, or a subset of the assets, that secure the Secured Obligations and (iv) for the avoidance of doubt, Liens shall only be permitted under this Section 7.01(t) to the extent that the Incremental Notes, Refinancing Notes or Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are permitted to be secured under Section 7.03 ;
(u) Permitted Real Estate Encumbrances;
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(w) subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement, Liens on the Collateral in favor of the Collateral Trustee for the benefit of holders of Priority Lien Notes Indebtedness securing the Priority Lien Notes Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(o) ;
(x) Liens on assets of Foreign Subsidiaries securing Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries;
(y) other Liens securing Indebtedness or obligations of the Loan Parties in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding not to exceed $75,000,000;
(z) subject to an ABL Intercreditor Agreement, Liens on assets securing any ABL Facility; and
(aa) (x) Production Payments, royalties, dedication of reserves under supply agreements or similar or related rights or interests granted, taken subject to, or otherwise imposed on properties or (y) cross charges, Liens or security arrangements entered into in respect of a Joint Venture for the benefit of a participant, manager or operator of such Joint Venture, in each case, consistent with normal practices in the mining industry.
7.02 Investments . Make any Investments, except:
(a) Investments held by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents;
(b) advances to officers, directors and employees of the Borrower and Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time outstanding, for travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes;
(c) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss;
(d) Investments (including debt obligations and Capital Stock) received in satisfaction of judgments or in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, such customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business;
(e) (i) Investments in the nature of Production Payments, royalties, dedication of reserves under supply agreements or similar or related rights or interests granted, taken subject to, or otherwise imposed on properties, (ii) cross charges, Liens or security arrangements entered into in respect of a Joint Venture for the benefit of a participant, manager or operator of such Joint Venture or (iii) payments or other arrangements whereby the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary provides a loan, advance payment or guarantee in return for future coal deliveries, in each case consistent with normal practices in the mining industry;
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(f) Investments in existence on the Closing Date and (other than individual Investments the amount of which is less than $2,000,000) listed on Schedule 7.02 and extensions, renewals, modifications, restatements or replacements thereof; provided that no such extension, renewal, modification, restatement or replacement shall increase the amount of such Investment except, in the case of a loan, by an amount equal to any Permitted Refinancing Increase;
(g) (i) promissory notes and other similar non-cash consideration received by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with Dispositions not otherwise prohibited under this Agreement and (ii) Investments received in compromise or resolution of (A) obligations of trade creditors or customers that were incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of any trade creditor or customer, (B) litigation, arbitration or other disputes or (C) the foreclosure with respect to any secured investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured investment;
(h) Investments in any assets constituting a business unit received by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries by virtue of a Permitted Asset Swap or acquired as a Capital Expenditure permitted under Section 7.14 ;
(i) Hedging Agreements or Cash Management Obligations permitted under Section 7.03(e) ;
(j) Investments consisting of purchases of the Priority Lien Notes to the extent not prohibited hereunder;
(k) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in Restricted Subsidiaries, and Investments by any Restricted Subsidiary in the Borrower; provided that Investments in Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, when aggregated with Indebtedness made by any Loan Party to a non-Loan Party pursuant to Section 7.03(f) (other than Indebtedness subject to the second proviso of such Section) and Disqualified Equity Interests issued by a non-Party to a Loan Party pursuant to Section 7.03(f) and Investments made pursuant Section 7.02(n)(iii) , shall not in the aggregate exceed the greater of $100,000,000 and 1.25% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets;
(l) Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in Unrestricted Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of $250,000,000 and 3.5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets;
(m) additional Investments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (i) in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of $100,000,000 and 1.25% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default is continuing immediately prior to making such Investment or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Cumulative Amount;
(n) any acquisition of all or substantially all the assets of, or all of the Equity Interests in, or merger, consolidation or amalgamation with, a Person or division or line of business of a Person if (i) no Event of Default is continuing immediately prior to making such Investment or
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would result therefrom, (ii) each applicable Loan Party and any such newly created or acquired Restricted Subsidiary shall, or will within the times specified therein, have complied with the applicable requirements of Section 6.16 and (iii) in respect of an acquisition of targets that will not become Loan Parties or assets that will not be acquired by Loan Parties, the aggregate amount of such Investments, when taken together with Indebtedness made by any Loan Party to a non-Loan Party pursuant to Section 7.03(f) (other than Indebtedness subject to the second proviso of such Section) and Disqualified Equity Interests issued by a non-Party to a Loan Party pursuant to Section 7.03(f) and Investments in non-Loan Parties made pursuant to Section 7.02(k) , shall not in the aggregate exceed the greater of $100,000,000 and 1.25% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets;
(o) Investments acquired as a capital contribution to the Borrower, or made in exchange for, or out of the net cash proceeds of, a substantially concurrent offering of Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower;
(p) [reserved];
(q) (i) receivables owing to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary if created or acquired in the ordinary course of business, (ii) endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business and (iii) securities, instruments or other obligations received in compromise or settlement of debts created in the ordinary course of business, or by reason of a composition or readjustment of debts or reorganization of another Person, or in satisfaction of claims or judgments;
(r) Investments made pursuant to surety bonds, reclamation bonds, performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds and related letters of credit or similar obligations, in each case, to the extent such surety bonds, reclamation bonds, performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, related letters of credit and similar obligations are permitted under this Agreement;
(s) Investments consisting of indemnification obligations in respect of performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds, reclamation bonds and completion guarantees and similar obligations under any Mining Law or Environmental Law or with respect to workers compensation benefits, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business, and pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in support of obligations under existing coal sales contracts (and extensions or renewals thereof on similar terms); and
(t) Investments arising as a result of any Permitted Securitization Program.
7.03 Indebtedness . Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness except:
(a) Indebtedness arising under the Loan Documents (including any Incremental Facility or Refinancing Facility);
(b) Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof and (other than any individual obligation with respect to such Indebtedness that is less than $2,000,000) listed on Schedule 7.03 ;
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(c) any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(b) or of Indebtedness subsequently incurred under this Section 7.03(c) ;
(d) Guarantees of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(e) Indebtedness in respect of (i) Cash Management Obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and (ii) Hedging Agreements incurred in the ordinary course of business, consistent with prudent business practice;
(f) (i) Indebtedness of the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary to any Restricted Subsidiary and of any Restricted Subsidiary to the Borrower and (ii) Disqualified Equity Interests of a Restricted Subsidiary issued to the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary; provided that, (a) any such Indebtedness extended by any Loan Party or any non-Loan Party to a Loan Party must be subordinated to the Secured Obligations on customary terms and (b) Indebtedness made by any Loan Party to a non-Loan Party pursuant to this Section 7.03(f) and any Disqualified Equity Interests of a non-Loan Party issued to a Loan Party, together with Investments in non-Loan Parties made pursuant to Section 7.02(k) and Investments made pursuant Section 7.02(n)(iii) , shall not in the aggregate exceed the greater of $100,000,000 and 1.25% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; provided further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indebtedness extended pursuant to the PIC Intercompany Loan Agreement and any other Indebtedness extended by any Loan Party to any non-Loan Party shall be permitted (and shall not be subject to the cap in the immediately preceding proviso) so long as such Indebtedness is evidenced by a promissory note, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (it being acknowledged that the PIC Intercompany Note is satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), and such promissory note shall be pledged to the Collateral Trustee as Collateral;
(g) [reserved];
(h) Guarantees by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of borrowings by current or former officers, managers, directors, employees or consultants in connection with the purchase of Equity Interests of the Borrower by any such person in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $2,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
(i) Indebtedness incurred in connection with any Permitted Securitization Program or, subject to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, any ABL Facility;
(j) Indebtedness incurred or assumed in connection with Permitted Acquisitions and other permitted Investments consisting of the purchase of a business unit, line of business or a division of a Person or all or substantially all of the assets or all of the Capital Stock of another Person; provided that, after giving effect to the incurrence thereof on a Pro Forma Basis, (i) if such Indebtedness is (or is intended to be) secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis, the First Lien Leverage Ratio is equal to or less than 1.75 to 1.00 and (ii) if such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a junior-lien basis or unsecured, (a) the Total Leverage Ratio is equal to or less than 2.50 to 1.00 or (b) the Total Leverage Ratio is less than immediately prior to such incurrence; provided that Indebtedness incurred by any non-Loan Party pursuant to this Section 7.03(j) shall not in the aggregate exceed the greater of $100,000,000 and 1.25% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets;
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(k) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurred to finance the acquisition, construction or improvement of any assets, including Capital Lease Obligations and any Indebtedness assumed in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets before the acquisition thereof; provided that the aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause, including all Permitted Refinancing Debt Incurred to refund, refinance or replace any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause, may not exceed the greater of (a) $150 million or (b) 2.0% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; provided that such amount may be increased by the then-outstanding principal amount of any operating lease in existence on the Closing Date that is actually restructured to a Capital Lease after the Closing Date;
(l) Indebtedness of non-Loan Party Restricted Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $75,000,000;
(m) Indebtedness of Loan Parties constituting (A) unsecured senior or senior subordinated debt securities, (B) debt securities that are secured by a Lien ranking junior to the Liens securing the Secured Obligations or (C) debt securities that are secured by a Lien ranking pari passu with the Liens securing the Secured Obligations in an aggregate principal amount, which when all amounts under clauses (A), (B) and (C) above are added to the aggregate principal amount of all the other Incremental Debt outstanding does not exceed the Incremental Debt Cap (such Indebtedness, the Incremental Notes ); provided that (1) with respect to Indebtedness of Loan Parties incurred under clause (m)(C) hereof, (x) the final stated maturity of such Indebtedness shall not be sooner than the Maturity Date, (y) the weighted average life to maturity of such Indebtedness is greater than or equal to the weighted average life to maturity of the Term Loans and any other Incremental Facilities and Refinancing Facilities and (z) such Indebtedness shall not be subject to any mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions, unless the prepayment, repurchase or redemption of such Indebtedness is accompanied by the prepayment of a pro rata portion of the outstanding principal of the Term Loans hereunder pursuant to Section 2.05 hereof, (2) with respect to Indebtedness of Loan Parties incurred under clause (m)(A) or (m)(B) hereof, (x) the final stated maturity of such Indebtedness shall not be sooner than 180 days after the Maturity Date, (y) the weighted average life to maturity of such Indebtedness is greater than the weighted average life to maturity of the Term Loans and any other Incremental Facilities and Refinancing Facilities and (z) such Indebtedness does not have scheduled amortization or payments of principal and shall not be subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligations (other than pursuant to customary asset sale, event of loss, excess cash flow (provided that such excess cash flow sweep does not require the application of any excess cash flow that would otherwise be required to be applied to the prepayment of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(g) hereof), change of control prepayment provisions and a customary acceleration right after an event of default), in each case prior to the Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (3) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing at the time of occurrence of such Indebtedness or would result therefrom, (4) to the extent secured, (x) such Indebtedness shall not be secured by a Lien on any asset of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that
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does not also secure the Term Loan Facility and (y) such Indebtedness shall be subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement and (5) to the extent guaranteed, such Indebtedness shall not be guaranteed by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor of the Secured Obligations;
(n) (i) Indebtedness of Loan Parties constituting (A) unsecured senior or senior subordinated debt securities, (B) debt securities that are secured by a Lien ranking junior to the Liens securing the Secured Obligations or (C) debt securities that are secured by a Lien ranking pari passu with the Liens securing the Secured Obligations in an aggregate principal amount, which Refinances some or all of the Term Loans incurred hereunder and has an aggregate principal amount which does not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans hereunder which are being Refinanced except with respect to any Permitted Refinancing Increase (such Indebtedness, the Refinancing Notes ); provided that (1) with respect to Refinancing Notes incurred under clause (n)(C) hereof, (x) the final stated maturity of such Refinancing Notes shall not be sooner than the Maturity Date, (y) the weighted average life to maturity of such Refinancing Notes is greater than or equal to the weighted average life to maturity of the Term Loans and any other Incremental Facilities and Refinancing Facilities and (z) such Refinancing Notes shall not be subject to any mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions, unless the prepayment, repurchase or redemption of such Indebtedness is accompanied by the prepayment of a pro rata portion of the outstanding principal of the Term Loans hereunder pursuant to Section 2.05 hereof, (2) with respect to Refinancing Notes incurred under clause (n)(A) or (n)(B) hereof, (x) the final stated maturity of such Refinancing Notes shall not be sooner than 180 days after the Maturity Date, (y) the weighted average life to maturity of such Refinancing Notes is greater than the weighted average life to maturity of the Term Loans and any other Incremental Facilities and Refinancing Facilities and (z) such Refinancing Notes do not have scheduled amortization or payments of principal and shall not be subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligations (other than pursuant to customary asset sale, event of loss, excess cash flow (provided that such excess cash flow sweep does not require the application of any excess cash flow that would otherwise be required to be applied to the prepayment of the Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(g) hereof), change of control prepayment provisions and a customary acceleration right after an event of default), in each case prior to the Maturity Date at the time such Refinancing Notes are incurred, (3) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred or be continuing at the time of occurrence of such Refinancing Notes or would result therefrom, (4) to the extent secured, (x) such Indebtedness shall not be secured by a Lien on any asset of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that does not also secure the Term Loan Facility and (y) such Indebtedness shall be subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement, and (5) to the extent guaranteed, such Indebtedness shall not be guaranteed by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor of the Secured Obligations;
(o) Priority Lien Notes Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount, including all Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to renew, refund, refinance, replace, defease or discharge any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this Section 7.03(o) , not to exceed $1,000,000,000 ( plus any Permitted Refinancing Increase in respect thereof) at any one time outstanding; provided that (x) such Indebtedness shall not be secured by a Lien on any asset of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that does not also secure the Term Loan Facility, (y) such Indebtedness shall be subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement and (z) such Indebtedness shall not be guaranteed by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor of the Secured Obligations;
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(p) [reserved];
(q) additional Indebtedness of the Loan Parties in an amount not to exceed the greater of $150,000,000 and 2.0% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets in the aggregate at any time outstanding;
(r) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with one or more standby or trade-related letters of credit, performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, bankers acceptances, insurance obligations, reclamation obligations, bank guarantees, surety bonds, completion guarantees or other similar bonds and obligations, including self-bonding arrangements, issued by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case, in the ordinary course of business or pursuant to self-insurance obligations and not in connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances;
(s) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price, earnouts or similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business, assets or any Subsidiary;
(t) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business;
(u) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums or (ii) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply or other arrangements; and
(v) any transaction permitted under Section 7.16 .
7.04 Fundamental Changes . Merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, or Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of the assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to or in favor of any Person, except that, if no Default exists or would immediately result therefrom:
(a) any Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with (i) the Borrower, provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person or (ii) any one or more other Subsidiaries, provided that (A) when any wholly-owned Subsidiary is merging with another Subsidiary, the wholly-owned Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving Person, (B) when any Restricted Subsidiary is merging with any other Subsidiary, the continuing or surviving Person (unless such surviving Person could otherwise be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary hereunder) shall be a Restricted Subsidiary, (C) when any Foreign Subsidiary is merging with any Domestic Subsidiary, the continuing or surviving Person shall be the Domestic Subsidiary and (D) when any Guarantor is merging with any other Subsidiary, the continuing or surviving Person shall be a Guarantor (and shall not be a Specified Subsidiary);
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(b) any Subsidiary may Dispose of all or substantially all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to the Borrower or to another Subsidiary; provided that (i) if the transferor in such a transaction is a Restricted Subsidiary, then the transferee must either be the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary (unless such Disposition would otherwise be permitted as an Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary), (ii) if the transferor is a Domestic Subsidiary, then the transferee must either be the Borrower or another Domestic Subsidiary and (iii) if the transferor is a Guarantor, then the transferee must either be the Borrower or another Guarantor (and shall not be a Specified Subsidiary);
(c) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may merge or consolidate with any other Person in a transaction in which the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, is the surviving or continuing Person; provided that, (i) the Borrower may not merge or consolidate with a Restricted Subsidiary unless the Borrower is the surviving or continuing Person and (ii) such merger or consolidation is permitted under Section 7.02(n) hereof; and
(d) any Restricted Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower and not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders and the assets, if any, of any Restricted Subsidiary so liquidated or dissolved are transferred (x) to another Restricted Subsidiary or the Borrower and (y) to a Guarantor (that is not a Specified Subsidiary) or the Borrower if such liquidated or dissolved Restricted Subsidiary is a Guarantor.
7.05 Dispositions . Make any Disposition or enter into any agreement to make any Disposition (other than Dispositions permitted pursuant to Sections 7.01 , 7.04(a) - (d) and 7.06 ), except:
(a) Dispositions of surplus, obsolete, used or worn out property or other property that, in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower, is no longer useful in its business (but excluding any real property);
(b) (i) Dispositions of inventory, equipment or accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) Dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with a factoring facility in an aggregate outstanding principal amount not to exceed $25,000,000 at any time entered into by a non-Guarantor Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower undertaken consistent with past practice or in the ordinary course of business;
(c) Dispositions of the assets set forth on Schedule 7.05 ;
(d) Dispositions of cash and Cash Equivalents pursuant to transactions permitted under this Agreement (including pursuant to Section 7.02 ) or otherwise in the ordinary course of business;
(e) Dispositions of Receivables Assets pursuant to Permitted Securitization Programs;
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(f) (A) the sale of defaulted receivables in the ordinary course of business and not as part of a Permitted Securitization Program and (B) Dispositions of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in bankruptcy or similar proceeding;
(g) licensing, sublicensing and cross-licensing arrangements involving any technology or other intellectual property of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business or lapse or abandonment of intellectual property rights in the ordinary course of business that, in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower, is no longer useful in its business;
(h) Permitted Asset Swaps;
(i) (A) the grant in the ordinary course of business of any non-exclusive easements, permits, licenses, rights of way, surface leases or other surface rights or interests and (B) any lease, sublease or license of assets (with a Loan Party as the lessor, sublessor or licensor) in the ordinary course of business;
(j) (i) transfers of condemned property as a result of the exercise of eminent domain or other similar policies or (ii) transfers of properties that have been subject to a casualty event or act of god;
(k) if immediately after giving effect to such Disposition, (i) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) the consideration received for such Disposition shall be in an amount at least equal to the fair market value thereof as reasonably determined by the Borrower in good faith and (iii) at least 75% of the consideration for such Dispositions undertaken pursuant to this Section 7.05(k) shall be paid in cash or Cash Equivalents, provided that, for purposes of this provision, each of the following shall be deemed to be cash:
(A) any securities, notes, other obligations or assets received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days of the receipt thereof, to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in that conversion;
(B) any liabilities of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than contingent liabilities) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets and as a result of which the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary is released from further liability; and
(C) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Disposition; provided that the quantity equal to (1) the aggregate fair market value of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration, as reasonably determined by the Borrower in good faith, taken together with the fair market value at the time of receipt of all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (B) minus (2) the amount of Net Proceeds previously realized in cash from prior Designated Non-Cash Consideration shall not exceed $25,000,000;
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(l) any Investment permitted pursuant to Sections 7.02(l) or 7.02(m) , which constitutes a Disposition;
(m) Dispositions that do not constitute Asset Sales;
(n) to the extent allowable under Section 1031 of the Code, or any comparable or successor provision, any like kind exchange of property for use in a Similar Business;
(o) (i) any surrender or waiver of contractual rights or the settlement, release, or surrender of contractual rights or other litigation claims in the ordinary course of business or (ii) any settlement, discount, write off, forgiveness, or cancellation of any Indebtedness owing by any present or former directors, officers, or employees of the Borrower or` any Restricted Subsidiary or any of their successors or assigns;
(p) the unwinding or termination of any Hedging Obligations; and
(q) the sale of assets by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries consisting of Real Property solely to the extent that such Real Property is not necessary for the normal conduct of operations of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
7.06 Restricted Payments . Declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment except that:
(a) each Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and any other Person that owns an Equity Interest in such Subsidiary, ratably according to their respective holdings of the type of Equity Interest in respect of which such Restricted Payment is being made or as otherwise required pursuant to its Organizational Documents;
(b) the Borrower and each Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in the common stock or other Equity Interests of such Person or another Subsidiary;
(c) the Borrower may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire Equity Interests issued by it with the proceeds received from the substantially concurrent issuance of new shares of common stock or other Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower;
(d) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may purchase (i) Equity Interests in any Loan Party or options with respect thereto held by directors, officers or employees of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (or their estates or authorized representatives) in connection with (A) the death, disability or termination of employment of any such director, officer or employee or (B) any benefit or incentive plans to provide funds for the payment of any Tax or other amounts owing by such directors, officers or employees upon vesting of the Equity Interests or options provided under such plans; and (ii) Equity Interests in any Loan Party for future issuance under any employee stock plan; provided that (a) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such purchase and (b) for both clauses (i) and (ii), the aggregate cash consideration paid therefor in any twelve-month period after the Closing Date shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate;
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(e) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments in an amount not to exceed (i) $50,000,000 plus (ii) the Cumulative Amount; provided that, in the case of clause (ii), the Total Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) shall be less than or equal to 2.00:1.00 after giving effect to such Restricted Payment;
(f) the Borrower may make regularly scheduled payments of interest on any Junior Lien Indebtedness;
(g) the Borrower may make distributions, by dividend or otherwise, of shares of Capital Stock or Convertible Securities to holders of the Convertible Securities;
(h) the repayment, redemption, repurchase, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of unsecured Indebtedness, any Subordinated Indebtedness or any Junior Lien Indebtedness (i) with the net cash proceeds of, or in exchange for, Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness or (ii) in exchange for, or out of the proceeds of, a substantially concurrent issue of new shares of common stock or other Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower;
(i) the Borrower may make regularly scheduled payments of interest in respect of any Subordinated Indebtedness in accordance with the terms thereof and only to the extent required by and subject to the subordination provisions contained therein;
(j) cash payments in lieu of fractional shares upon exercise of options or warrants or conversion or exchange of convertible securities, repurchases of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the exercise of options, warrants or other convertible securities to the extent such securities represent a portion of the exercise price of such options, warrants or other convertible securities and repurchases of Equity Interests in connection with the withholding of a portion of the Equity Interests granted or awarded to a director or an employee to pay for the Taxes payable by such director or employee upon such grant or award;
(k) any payments made in connection with the Transactions in accordance with the Plan of Reorganization;
(l) notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Borrower declares a dividend or distribution in the foregoing clauses (a) through (k), the Borrower can pay any such dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof; and
(m) payments of dividends on the Borrowers common stock or purchases by the Borrower of its common stock in an aggregate amount in any calendar year not to exceed $25,000,000, so long as, the Total Leverage Ratio would not exceed 1.25 to 1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis; provided that no such Restricted Payment shall be made pursuant to this clause (m) until the calendar year commencing on January 1, 2018.
7.07 Change in Nature of Business . Engage in any material line of business other than a Similar Business.
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7.08 Transactions with Affiliates . Enter into, renew or extend any transaction or arrangement, including, without limitation, any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or assets or the rendering of any service, with any Affiliate of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (a Related Party Transaction ) involving an aggregate consideration in excess of $25,000,000, unless the Related Party Transaction is (a) not prohibited by this Agreement and (b) on fair and reasonable terms that are not materially less favorable (as reasonably determined by the Borrower) to the Borrower or any of the relevant Restricted Subsidiaries than those that could be obtained in a comparable arms-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower; provided that (i) any Related Party Transaction or series of Related Party Transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $50,000,000 must first be approved by a majority of the board of directors of the Borrower who are disinterested in the subject matter of the transaction pursuant to a resolution by the board of directors of the Borrower and (ii) with respect to any Related Party Transaction or series of Related Party Transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $100,000,000, the Borrower must deliver to the Administrative Agent an opinion from an accounting, appraisal, or investment banking firm of national standing in the applicable jurisdiction (x) stating that its terms are not materially less favorable to the Borrower or any of the relevant Restricted Subsidiaries that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction with an unrelated Person or (ii) as to the fairness to the Borrower or any of the relevant Restricted Subsidiaries of such Related Party Transaction from a financial point of view. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to the following:
(A) transactions between or among the Borrower and any of its Loan Parties or between and among any Loan Parties;
(B) the payment of reasonable and customary fees and reimbursement of expenses payable to directors of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or to any Plan, Plan administrator or Plan trustee;
(C) loans and advances to directors, officers and employees to the extent permitted by Section 7.02 ;
(D) the arrangements with respect to the procurement of services of directors, officers, independent contractors, consultants or employees in the ordinary course of business and the payment of customary compensation (including bonuses) and other benefits (including retirement, health, stock option and other benefit plans) and reasonable reimbursement arrangements in connection therewith;
(E) payments to directors and officers of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries 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 the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries, respectively, or pursuant to applicable law;
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(F) intercompany Investments permitted pursuant to Section 7.02(k) and intercompany Indebtedness and issuances of Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(f) ;
(G) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 7.06 ; and
(H) transactions arising under any contract, agreement, instrument or other arrangement in effect on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.08 , as amended, modified or replaced form time to time so long as the amended, modified or new arrangements, taken as a whole at the time such arrangements are entered into, are not materially less favorable to the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries than those in effect on the Closing Date.
7.09 [Reserved] .
7.10 Use of Proceeds . Use the proceeds of any Borrowing, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, to purchase or carry margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the FRB) or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock or to refund indebtedness originally incurred for such purpose.
7.11 [Reserved] .
7.12 Burdensome Agreements . Enter into any Contractual Obligation that (x) limits the ability of the Borrower or any Guarantor to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property to secure the Obligations hereunder or (y) limits the ability of any Subsidiary to make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any Guarantor or to otherwise transfer property to the Borrower or any Guarantor; provided , however , that the foregoing clause shall not apply to Contractual Obligations which:
(a) solely in the case of clause (y) of this Section 7.12 , exist on the date hereof and (to the extent not otherwise permitted by this Section 7.12 ) are listed on Schedule 7.12 ;
(b) are binding on a Restricted Subsidiary at the time such Restricted Subsidiary first becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, so long as such Contractual Obligations were not entered into solely in contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower;
(c) arise in connection with any Lien permitted by Section 7.01(i) to the extent such restrictions relate to the assets (and any proceeds in respect thereof) which are the subject of such Lien;
(d) represent Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.03 (other than secured Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.03(k) ); provided that such restrictions (i) apply solely to Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors or (ii) are no more restrictive than the limitations (taken as a whole) set forth in the Loan Documents and do not materially impair the Borrowers ability to grant the security interests to the Collateral Trustee contemplated by the Loan Documents or pay the Obligations under the Loan Documents as and when due (as reasonably determined in good faith by the Borrower);
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(e) [reserved];
(f) arise in connection with any Disposition permitted by Section 7.05 solely with respect to the assets that are the subject of such Disposition;
(g) are customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements applicable solely to such joint venture or the Equity Interests therein (but excluding any such agreement related to the Gibraltar Holdings or any Specified Subsidiary);
(h) are customary restrictions on leases, subleases, licenses or asset sale agreements otherwise permitted hereby so long as such restrictions relate to the assets subject thereto;
(i) are customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a leasehold interest of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(j) are customary limitations (including financial maintenance covenants) existing under or by reason of leases entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(k) are restrictions on cash or other deposits imposed under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(l) are customary provisions restricting assignment of any agreements;
(m) are restrictions imposed by any agreement relating to any Permitted Securitization Program to the extent that such restrictions relate to the assets (and any proceeds in respect thereof) that are the subject of such Permitted Securitization Program; or
(n) are set forth in any agreement evidencing an amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or refinancing of the Contractual Obligations referred to in clauses (a) through (m) above; provided , that such amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or refinancing is, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, not materially less favorable to the Loan Party with respect to such limitations than those applicable pursuant to such Contractual Obligations prior to such amendment, modification, restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or refinancing.
7.13 Restrictions on Specified Subsidiaries . With respect to each Specified Subsidiary, permit such Specified Subsidiary to: (a) retain any cash other than cash necessary to continue to operate in the ordinary course and comply with any Requirement of Law, as reasonably determined by it or the Borrower, (b) incur, directly or indirectly, any Indebtedness (including intercompany Indebtedness) or any other obligation or liability whatsoever other than the Indebtedness and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and, to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder, the Priority Lien Notes Documents and the ABL Credit Documents; (c) create or suffer to exist any Lien upon any property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired, leased or licensed by it other than the Liens created under the Security
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Documents to which it is a party and, to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder, the Priority Lien Notes Documents; (d) engage in any business or activity or own any assets other than (i) holding 100% of the Equity Interests of Gibraltar Holdings and Peabody Investments (Gibraltar) Limited, as applicable, (ii) performing its obligations and activities incidental thereto under the Loan Documents, the Priority Lien Notes Documents and the ABL Credit Documents; and (iii) making Restricted Payments to a Guarantor or the Borrower; (e) consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer, lease or license any of its assets to, any Person; (f) sell or otherwise dispose of any Equity Interests of any of its Subsidiaries; (g) create or acquire any Subsidiary or make or own any Investment in any Person, in each case, after the Closing Date; or (h) fail to hold itself out to the public as a legal entity separate and distinct from all other Persons.
7.14 Maximum Capital Expenditures . Make or incur Capital Expenditures, in any fiscal year indicated below, in an aggregate amount for Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in excess of (a) the sum of (i) the corresponding amount set forth below opposite such fiscal year (the Annual CapEx Amount ) plus (ii) the difference between the Annual CapEx Amount for the immediately preceding fiscal year and the amount of Capital Expenditures actually made in such fiscal year (with the amount of any rollover from the prior fiscal year being deemed to be used first), plus (iii) up to 50% of the Annual CapEx Amount for the immediately succeeding fiscal year (any such amount, a Carry Back Amount ) and less (iv) the amount of any Capital Expenditures made in the immediately preceding fiscal year in reliance on the Carry Back Amount:
Fiscal Year |
Capital Expenditures | |||
Fiscal year ending December 31, 2017 |
$ | 220,000,000 | ||
Fiscal year ending December 31, 2018 |
$ | 220,000,000 | ||
Fiscal year ending December 31, 2019 |
$ | 250,000,000 | ||
Fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 |
$ | 250,000,000 | ||
Fiscal year ending December 31, 2021 and each fiscal year ending thereafter |
$ | 300,000,000 |
, plus (b) so long as no Event of Default is continuing immediately prior to making such Capital Expenditure or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Cumulative Amount. For purposes of this Section 7.14, Capital Expenditures shall not include major component expenditures that are classified as such subsequent to fresh start accounting.
7.15 Fiscal Year . Change its fiscal year-end from December 31.
7.16 Sale and Lease-Backs . Become or remain liable as lessee or as a guarantor or other surety with respect to any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, which the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary (a) has sold or transferred or is to sell or to transfer to any other Person (other than the
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Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), to the extent involving the sale of assets with a fair market value in excess of $100,000,000 in the aggregate and (b) intends to use for substantially the same purpose as any other property which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary to any Person (other than the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) in connection with such lease.
7.17 Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents . Agree to any amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification to, or waiver of, any of its Organizational Documents after the Closing Date, in each case, to the extent the same would reasonably be expected to be material and adverse to any Secured Party (in the good faith determination of the Borrower), without obtaining the prior written consent of Required Lenders to such amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification or waiver.
7.18 Restructuring Transactions. Nothing in this Article VII shall prohibit the Borrower and its Subsidiaries from consummating the Permitted Restructuring Transactions.
ARTICLE VIII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
8.01 Events of Default . Any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default :
(a) Non-Payment . The Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of any Loan, or (ii) within five days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan, or any fee due hereunder, any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document; or
(b) Specific Covenants . The Borrower fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of Sections 6.01(a), 6.01(b), 6.02(b), 6.03(a) , 6.05 , 6.11 or Article VII ; or
(c) Other Defaults . Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in subsection (a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for 30 days; or
(d) Representations and Warranties . Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made; or
(e) Cross-Default . The Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (A) fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness hereunder) in each case having an aggregate principal amount of more than the Threshold Amount, beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness or Guarantee was created, (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition
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relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become due or payable, or (C) fails to observe or perform any agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, as a result of which default or other event, the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) shall have caused, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become due or payable; or
(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. Subject to Section 8.03 , any Loan Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any substantial part of its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for 60 calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any substantial part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for 60 calendar days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or
(g) Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment . Subject to Section 8.03 , (i) the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any substantial part of the property of any such Person and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 60 days after its issue or levy; or
(h) Judgments . There is entered against the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third party insurance), and such judgments or orders shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or
(i) ERISA . The occurrence of any of the following events that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect: (i) an ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in an actual obligation to pay money of the Borrower under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC, or (ii) the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan; or
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(j) Invalidity of Loan Documents . Any Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or Payment In Full, ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party or any other Person contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any Loan Document; or any Security Document ceases to create a valid Lien with the priority required thereby on the Collateral covered thereby (other than as expressly permitted thereunder or solely as a result of the acts or omissions of the Administrative Agent or Collateral Trustee (including failure to maintain possession of any stock certificates, or other instruments delivered to it under any Security Document)); or
(k) Change of Control . There occurs any Change of Control; or
(l) Subordinated Indebtedness . Any Subordinated Indebtedness or any Junior Lien Indebtedness permitted hereunder or the guarantees thereof or, in the case of Junior Lien Indebtedness, the Liens securing such Junior Lien Indebtedness, shall cease, for any reason, to be validly subordinated to the Obligations of the Loan Parties hereunder, as provided in the Collateral Trust Agreement or the indenture governing such Subordinated Indebtedness or Junior Lien Indebtedness, or any Loan Party, any Affiliate of any Loan Party, the trustee in respect of the Subordinated Notes or Junior Lien Indebtedness or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Subordinated Notes or Junior Lien Indebtedness shall so assert.
8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default . If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required Lenders (except with respect to an Event of Default under Section 8.01(b) when such Event of Default does not exist with respect to the Term Loans), take any or all of the following actions:
(a) declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated;
(b) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower;
(c) [reserved]; and
(d) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable law;
provided , however , that upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under Debtor Relief Laws of the United States or any other Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or (g) hereof, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans shall automatically terminate and the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
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8.03 Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries . Solely for the purposes of determining whether an Event of Default has occurred under clause (f) or (g) of Section 8.01 , any reference in any such clause to any Restricted Subsidiary shall be deemed not to include any Restricted Subsidiary affected by any event or circumstance referred to in any such clause that did not, as of the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most recently ended, have assets with a value in excess of 5% of the Tangible Assets or 5% of consolidated total revenues, in each case, of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date; provided that if it is necessary to exclude more than one Restricted Subsidiary from clause (f) or (g) of Section 8.01 pursuant to this Section 8.03 in order to avoid an Event of Default thereunder, all excluded Restricted Subsidiaries shall be considered to be a single consolidated Restricted Subsidiary for purposes of determining whether the condition specified above is satisfied.
8.04 Application of Funds . Subject to the Collateral Trust Agreement, after the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable), any amounts received on account of the Secured Obligations (including proceeds of Collateral) shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:
First , to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Article III ) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;
Second , to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to the Lenders (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Lenders (including fees and time charges for attorneys who may be employees of any Lender) and amounts payable under Article III ), ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;
Third , to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans and other Obligations, ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;
Fourth , to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans and to payment of the unpaid Secured Hedging Obligations, ratably among the Hedge Banks to the Secured Hedging Agreements giving rise to such Secured Hedging Obligations in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them; and
Last , the balance, if any, after all of the Secured Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Law.
ARTICLE IX.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
9.01 Appointment and Authority . Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints Goldman Sachs Bank USA to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder
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and under the other Loan Documents and irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers, rights and remedies as are delegated or granted to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Except with respect to Section 9.06 , Section 9.10 and Section 9.12 , the provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and neither the Borrower, nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions. In performing its functions and duties hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall act solely as an agent of the 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 the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
9.02 Rights as a 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, the Administrative Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender hereunder. With respect to its participation in the Loans, the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term Lender or Lenders shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder, and may accept fees and other considerations from the Borrower for service in connection herewith and otherwise without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
9.03 Exculpatory Provisions . The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent:
(a) shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(b) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may violate the automatic stay under any Debtor Relief Law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any Debtor Relief Law; and
(c) shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity; and
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(d) shall not be responsible or have any liability for or in connection with, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor, maintain, update or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Disqualified Institutions. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not (x) be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant is a Disqualified Institution or (y) have any liability with respect to or arising out of any assignment or participation of Loans, or disclosure of confidential information, to any Disqualified Institution.
Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its officers, partners, directors, employees or agents shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01 and 8.02 ) or (ii) in the absence of its own bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless and until notice describing such Default is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or a Lender.
The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any recital, statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or made in any written or oral statements made in connection with the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, (ii) the contents of any financial or other statements, instruments, certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, whether made by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders or by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, (iii) the financial condition or business affairs of any Loan Party or any other Person liable for the payment of any Obligations, (iv) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the use of proceeds of the Loans or the occurrence or possible occurrence of any Default or Event of Default or to make any disclosures with respect to the foregoing, (iv) the execution, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, genuineness, collectability or sufficiency of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Administrative Agent shall not have any liability arising from confirmation of the amount of outstanding Loans or the component amounts thereof.
9.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent . The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and
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believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely on and may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
9.05 Delegation of Duties . The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory, indemnification and other provisions of this Article and Section 10.04 shall apply to any such sub agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. All of the rights, benefits, and privileges (including the exculpatory and indemnification provisions) of this Article shall apply to any such sub agent and to the Related Parties of any such sub agent, and shall apply to their respective activities as sub agent as if such sub agent and Related Parties were named herein. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, with respect to each sub agent appointed by the 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 Loan Parties and the Lenders, (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, and (iii) such sub agent shall only have obligations to Administrative Agent and not to any Loan Party, Lender or any other Person, and no Loan Party, Lender or any other Person shall have any rights, directly or indirectly, as a third party beneficiary or otherwise, against such sub agent.
9.06 Resignation of Administrative Agent . The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with the approval of the Borrower unless an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or (g) has occurred or is continuing (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld), to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that if the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that no qualifying
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Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (1) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (2) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this Section. Upon the acceptance of a successors appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). Upon the acceptance of a successors appointment as the Administrative Agent, hereunder, and upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the Required Lenders may request, in order to continue the perfection of the Liens granted or purported to be granted by the Security Documents, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After the retiring Administrative Agents resignation hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.
9.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders .
(a) Each Lender represents and warrants that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to make any such investigation or any such analysis on behalf of the 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
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thereafter, and the Administrative Agent shall not have any responsibility with respect to the accuracy of or the completeness of any information provided to the Lenders. Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement or an Assignment and Assumption and funding its Term Loan on the Closing Date, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Loan Document and each other document required to be approved by the Administrative Agent, Required Lenders or Lenders, as applicable on the Closing Date.
(c) Each Lender acknowledges that Borrower and certain Affiliates of the Loan Parties are Eligible Assignees hereunder and may purchase Term Loans hereunder from Lenders from time to time, subject to the restrictions set forth in the definition of Eligible Assignee and Sections 2.19 and 2.20.
9.08 No Other Duties, Etc. Except as expressly set forth herein, none of the bookrunners, Arrangers or other titles listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent or a Lender hereunder. The Administrative Agent shall have only those duties and responsibilities that are expressly specified herein and the other Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent may exercise such powers, rights and remedies and perform such duties by or through its agents or employees. The Administrative Agent shall not have, by reason hereof or any of the other Loan Documents, a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender or any other Person; and nothing herein or any of the other Loan Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Administrative Agent any obligations in respect hereof or any of the other Loan Documents except as expressly set forth herein or therein.
9.09 Administrative Agent 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 any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to file a verified statement pursuant to rule 2019 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure that, in its sole opinion, complies with such rules disclosure requirements for entities representing more than one creditor;
(b) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09 and 10.04 ) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
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(c) to collect and receive any monies 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 each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Section 2.09 and 10.04 . To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agents under Sections 2.09 and 10.04 out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Lenders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
9.10 Guaranty and Collateral Matters .
(a) Each Secured Party hereby authorizes Administrative Agent or Collateral Trustee, as applicable, on behalf of and for the benefit of Secured Parties, to be the agent for and representative of Secured Parties with respect to the Guaranty, the Collateral and the Security Documents, as applicable; provided that neither the Administrative Agent nor Collateral Trustee shall owe any fiduciary duty, duty of loyalty, duty of care, duty of disclosure or any other obligation whatsoever to any holder of Secured Obligations with respect to any Secured Hedging Agreement. Subject to Section 10.01, without further written consent or authorization from any Secured Party, the Administrative Agent or Collateral Trustee, as applicable, may execute any documents or instruments necessary to (i) in connection with a sale or disposition of assets permitted by this Agreement, release any Liens encumbering any item of Collateral that is the subject of such sale or other disposition of assets or to which the Required Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such consent under Section 10.01) have otherwise consented or (ii) release any Guarantor from the Guaranty pursuant to Section 10.21 or with respect to which Required Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such consent under Section 10.01) have otherwise consented.
(b) The Lenders irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty in accordance with the terms of Section 10.21 . Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agents authority to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.10 .
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(c) The Lenders irrevocably authorize the Collateral Trustee, at its option and in its discretion, to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Collateral Trustee under any Loan Document in accordance with the terms of Section 10.21 . Upon request by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Trustee at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Collateral Trustees authority to release its interest in particular types or items of property in accordance with this Section.
9.11 Withholding Tax . To the extent required by any applicable law, the Administrative Agent may withhold from any payment to any Lender an amount equivalent to any applicable withholding tax and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. Without limiting the provisions of Section 3.01 , each Lender shall, and does hereby, indemnify the Administrative Agent, and shall make payable in respect thereof within 30 days after demand therefor, against any and all Taxes and any and all related losses, claims, liabilities and expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent) incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent by the IRS or any other Governmental Authority as a result of the failure of the Administrative Agent to properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender for any reason (including, without limitation, because the appropriate form was not delivered or not properly executed, or because such Lender failed to notify the Administrative Agent of a change in circumstance that rendered the exemption from, or reduction of withholding tax ineffective). A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due the Administrative Agent under this Section 9.11 . The agreements in this Section 9.11 shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other obligations.
9.12 Intercreditor Agreements, Collateral Matters and Specified Amendments .
(a) Each Lender (and each Person that becomes a Lender hereunder pursuant to Section 10.06 ) hereby authorizes and directs the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Trustee to enter into each of the Collateral Trust Agreement and any ABL Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable, on behalf of such Lender needed to effectuate the transactions permitted by this Agreement and agrees that the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Trustee may take such actions on its behalf as is contemplated by the terms of such applicable Intercreditor Agreement. Without limiting the provisions of Sections 9.03 and 10.04 , each Lender hereby consents to (i) Goldman Sachs Bank USA and any successor serving in the capacity of Administrative Agent and agrees not to assert any claim (including as a result of any conflict of interest) against Goldman Sachs Bank USA, or any such successor, arising from the role of the Administrative Agent or other agent under the Security Documents or any such Intercreditor Agreement so long as it is either acting in accordance with the terms of such documents or otherwise has not engaged in bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct and (ii) Wilmington Trust, National Association or any such successor, arising from its role as the Collateral Trustee under the
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Security Documents or any such Intercreditor Agreement so long as it is either acting in accordance with the terms of such documents or otherwise has not engaged in bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct. In addition, each of Goldman Sachs Bank USA and Wilmington Trust, National Association, or any such successors, shall be authorized, without the consent of any Lender, to execute or to enter into amendments of, and amendments and restatements of, the Security Documents, any such Intercreditor Agreement and any additional and replacement intercreditor agreements, in each case, in order to effect the subordination of and to provide for certain additional rights, obligations and limitations in respect of, any Liens required by the terms of this Agreement to be Liens junior to, or pari passu with, the Secured Obligations, that are incurred as permitted by this Agreement, and to establish certain relative rights as between the holders of the Secured Obligations and the holders of the Indebtedness secured by such Liens junior or pari passu with the Secured Obligations, including as contemplated by Section 6.16(g) and Section 7.01 .
(b) The Lenders irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any amendment contemplated by Sections 2.15(f) , 2.16(e) , 6.16(g) , and 7.01(t) and any writing which creates a deemed amendment in connection with a Permitted Amendment.
ARTICLE X.
MISCELLANEOUS
10.01 Amendments, Etc . Except as set forth in Sections 2.15 and 2.16 , no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Borrower, or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by (1) the Required Lenders and the Borrower, or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent (except, in each case, as set forth in clauses (2), (3) and (4) below), (2) [reserved], (3) the Required Facility Lenders and the Borrower and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent in the case of clause (i) below and (4) the parties to the Fee Letters in the case of the proviso after clause (i) below, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided , however , that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(a) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 8.02 ) without the written consent of such Lender;
(b) postpone any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts due to the Lenders (or any of them) (it being understood that the waiver of, or amendment to the terms of, any mandatory prepayment shall not constitute such a postponement) or any mandatory reduction of the Aggregate Commitments hereunder without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;
(c) waive, reduce or postpone the principal of, or the stated rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan, or (subject to clause (z) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01 ) any fees or premiums or other amounts payable hereunder without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; provided , however , that, without limiting the effect of clauses (h) and (i) below or the proviso directly below, only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary (i) to amend the definition of Default Rate or to waive any obligation of the
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Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate, (ii) to amend any financial covenant hereunder (or any defined term used therein) even if the effect of such amendment would be to reduce the rate of interest on any Loan or to reduce any fee payable hereunder or (iii) to waive, reduce or postpone any scheduled prepayment;
(d) change Section 2.13 or Section 8.04 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby;
(e) [reserved];
(f) change any provision of this Section 10.01 or the definitions of Required Lenders or Applicable Percentage or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder without the written consent of each Lender under the applicable Facility affected thereby; provided, with the consent of the Required Lenders, additional extensions of credit pursuant hereto may be included in the determination of Required Lenders or Applicable Percentage on substantially the same basis as the Commitments and the Term Loans are included on the Closing Date;
(g) other than as permitted by Section 9.10 and Section 10.21 , release (i) all or substantially all of the Guarantors from the Guaranty except as expressly provided in the Loan Documents and except in connection with a credit bid undertaken by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Trustee at the direction of the Required Lenders pursuant to Section 363(k), Section 1129(b)(2)(a)(ii) or otherwise of the Bankruptcy Code or other sale or disposition of assets in connection with an enforcement action with respect to the Collateral permitted pursuant to the Loan Documents (in which case only the consent of the Required Lenders will be needed for such release) or (ii) all or substantially all of the collateral covered by the Security Documents without the written consent of each Lender;
(h) consent to the assignment or transfer by any Loan Party of any of its rights and obligations under any Loan Documents without the written consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby; or
(i) amend, waive or otherwise modify any term or provision of a particular Facility in each case with only the consent of the Required Facility Lenders under such Facility, so long as such amendment, waiver or modification does not directly affect the Lenders under any other Facility;
provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, all Lenders shall be deemed directly affected thereby with respect to any amendment described in clauses (f), (g) and (h);
and, provided further , that (x) no amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents, or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, shall amend, modify or waive this Agreement or the Security Agreement so as to alter the ratable treatment of Obligations and Secured Hedging Obligations (including pursuant to Section 8.04) or the definition of Hedging Obligations, Hedging Agreement, Obligations, Secured
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Hedging Agreement, Secured Hedging Obligations or Secured Obligations (as defined herein or in any applicable Security Documents) in each case in a manner adverse to any Hedge Bank with Secured Hedging Obligations then outstanding without the written consent of any such party; (y) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; and (z) each Fee Letter may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties to the applicable Fee Letter. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder, except that (i) the Commitment of such Lender may not be increased or extended and (ii) the principal of any Loan owed to such Lender may not be reduced without the consent of such Lender.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may amend this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (and may authorize the Collateral Trustee to amend the Collateral Trust Agreement) without the consent of any Lender (a) to cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, error, defect or inconsistency (as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent), so long as such amendment, modification or supplement does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender or the Lenders shall have received at least five Business Days prior written notice thereof and the Administrative agent shall not have received, within five Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment, (b) to add a Guarantor with respect to the Loans or collateral to secure the Loans or (c) to make administrative changes that do not adversely affect the rights of any Lender (including as contemplated by Section 2.15(d)(v) , 2.16(d)(v) and the definition of Permitted Amendments). In addition, the Administrative Agent, without the consent of any Lender, shall be permitted to enter into (and direct the Collateral Trustee, as applicable, to enter into) any amendments, waivers, modifications or supplements to any Intercreditor Agreement, if the Administrative Agent would have been permitted hereunder to enter into a new Intercreditor Agreement which contained the terms set forth in such amendment, waiver, modification or supplement, at the time when such amendment, waiver, modification or supplement is entered into.
In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, in situations not otherwise governed by Sections 2.15 and 2.16 , this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent, and the Borrower (x) to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof (collectively, the Additional Extensions of Credit ) to share ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loans and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (y) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders; provided , however , that no such amendment shall permit the Additional Extensions of Credit to share in preference to the Term Loans in the application of any mandatory prepayments without the consent of Required Lenders (without giving effect to such Extensions of Credit).
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The Borrower may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent from time to time, make one or more offers to all Lenders under the applicable Facility to make one or more Permitted Amendments to such Facility pursuant to procedures reasonably specified by the Administrative Agent and reasonably acceptable to the Borrower. Such notice shall set forth (a) the terms and conditions of the requested Permitted Amendments and (b) the date on which responses from the applicable Lenders in respect of such Permitted Amendment are required to be received (which shall not be less than three Business Days after the date of such notice). Only those Lenders that consent to such Permitted Amendment (the Accepting Lenders ) will have the maturity of their applicable Loans and Commitments extended and be entitled to the benefits provided thereby, which shall have effect notwithstanding the pro rata sharing provisions of Section 2.13 . The Borrower and each Accepting Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such documentation as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably specify to evidence the acceptance of the Permitted Amendments and the terms and conditions thereof. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Permitted Amendment. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, upon the effectiveness of any Permitted Amendment, this Agreement shall be deemed amended, as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the terms and provisions of the Permitted Amendment with respect to the Loans and Commitments of the Accepting Lenders (including any amendments necessary to treat the Loans and Commitments of the Accepting Lenders in a manner consistent with the other Loans and Commitments under this Agreement or as contemplated by the Permitted Amendment).
The 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 Loan Party in any case shall entitle any Loan Party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
Any such waiver and any such amendment or modification pursuant to this Section 10.01 shall be binding upon the Borrower, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the Loans. In the case of any waiver, the Borrower, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of Default that is waived pursuant to this Section 10.01 shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing during the period of such waiver.
10.02 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication .
(a) Notices Generally . Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone, all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail, sent by telecopier (except for any notices sent to the Administrative Agent) as follows or sent by electronic communication as provided in subsection (b) below, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:
(i) if to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02 ; and
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(ii) if to any other Lender, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified on Schedule 10.02 or in its Administrative Questionnaire.
Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when received (except that, if not received during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been received at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in subsection (b) below, shall be effective as provided in such subsection (b). Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) no notice to the Administrative Agent shall be effective until received by the Administrative Agent and (b) any such notice or other communication shall at the request of the Administrative Agent be provided to any sub agent appointed pursuant to Section 9.3(c) as designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time.
(b) Electronic Communications . Notices and other communications to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites, including the Platform) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender pursuant to Article II if such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in their discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to the Administrative Agent or the Borrower hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.
Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the senders 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.
(c) The Platform . THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE. THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY
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OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. Each Loan Party 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. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the Agent Parties ) have any liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of the Borrowers or the Administrative Agents transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; provided , however , that in no event shall the Borrower or any Agent Party have any liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages); provided that such waiver shall not limit any Loan Partys reimbursement or indemnification obligations under Sections 10.04(a) or 10.4(b) , respectively. Each Loan Party, each Lender, and the Administrative Agent agrees that the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, store any electronic communication on the Platform in accordance with the Administrative Agents customary document retention procedures and policies.
(d) Defaults . Any notice of Default or Event of Default may be provided by telephone if confirmed promptly thereafter by delivery of written notice thereof.
(e) Change of Address, Etc . The Borrower and the Administrative Agent may change its address, electronic mail address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address, electronic mail address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, telecopier number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender.
(f) Reliance by Administrative Agent and Lenders . The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower, even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.
(g) Private Side Information Contacts . Each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the Private Side Information or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lenders
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compliance procedures and applicable law, including United States federal and state securities laws, to make reference to information that is not made available through the Public-Side Information portion of the Platform and that may contain Private-Side Information. In the event that any Public Lender has determined for itself to not access any information disclosed through the Platform or otherwise, such Public Lender acknowledges that (i) other Lenders may have availed themselves of such information and (ii) neither the Borrower nor the Administrative Agent has any responsibility for such Public Lenders decision to limit the scope of the information it has obtained in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies . No failure by any Lender or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall impair such right, remedy, power or privilege or be construed to be a waiver of any default or acquiescence therein; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided and in the other Loan Documents are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law. 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.
10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver .
(a) Costs and Expenses . The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket legal and other expenses incurred by the Agents and their respective Affiliates and the Collateral Trustee (including the reasonable and documented fees, charges and disbursements of a single counsel for the Agents and the Arrangers, a single local counsel in each relevant jurisdiction and any special counsel reasonably deemed necessary by the Administrative Agent and a separate counsel for the Collateral Trustee), in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, due diligence, negotiation, execution, delivery, administration and enforcement of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) [reserved] and (iii) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket legal and other expenses (including the cost of any investigation or preparation) incurred by any Agent or any Lender or Collateral Trustee (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Agent or any Lender, limited to one firm of counsel for all Indemnitees (as defined below), taken as a whole, and if necessary, by a single firm of local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction for all such Indemnitees, taken as a whole (and, in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest where the Indemnified Party affected by such conflict notifies the Borrower of the existence of such conflict, of another firm of counsel for such affected Indemnitees and local counsel for the conflicted party and a separate counsel for the Collateral Trustee), in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection with the Loans made hereunder, including all such reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans.
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(b) Indemnification by the Borrower . The Borrower shall indemnify the Agents (and any sub-agent thereof), the Arrangers and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an Indemnitee ) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities (including any Environmental Liability) and related reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including the reasonable documented out-of-pocket fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee), incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee (whether or not such investigation, litigation, claim or proceeding is brought by the Borrower, the Borrowers equity holders, affiliates or creditors or an Indemnitee and whether or not any such Indemnitee is otherwise a party thereto) or by the Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, the administration and enforcement of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) any Loan or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom and (iii) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by the Borrower or any other Loan Party, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to (x) have resulted from the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (or any of such Indemnitees controlled affiliates or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, controlling persons or members of any of the foregoing), (y) result from a claim brought by the Borrower or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for material breach of such Indemnitees obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document or (z) have arisen out of or in connection with any claim, litigation, loss or proceeding not involving an act or omission of the Borrower or any of its Related Parties and that is brought by an Indemnitee against another Indemnitee (other than any claims against an Indemnitee in its capacity or in fulfilling its role as an administrative agent or arranger or any similar role under this Agreement or any claims arising out of any act or omission of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates). The Borrower also agrees that no Indemnitee shall have any liability (whether direct or indirect, in contract, tort or otherwise) to the Borrower for or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, any transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or such Indemnitees role or services in connection herewith or therewith, except to the extent that any liability for losses, claims, demands, damages, liabilities or expenses incurred by the Borrower (i) resulted from the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (ii) resulted from a material breach by such Indemnitee (or any of such Indemnitees controlled affiliates or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, controlling persons or members of any of the foregoing) of the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final, non-appealable judgment). This Section 10.04(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.
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(c) Reimbursement by Lenders . To the extent that the Borrower for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under subsection (a) or (b) of this Section to be paid by it to the Agents (or any sub-agent thereof), the Arrangers or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Agents (or any such sub-agent), the Arrangers or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lenders Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Agents (or any such sub-agent) or the Arrangers, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Agents (or any such sub-agent) or the Arrangers in connection with such capacity. The obligations of the Lenders under this subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(d) .
(d) Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no party hereto shall assert, and each hereby waives, any claim against the Borrower and its Affiliates or any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof; provided that such waiver shall not limit any Loan Partys reimbursement or indemnification obligations under Sections 10.04(a) or 10.4(b) , respectively. No Indemnitee referred to in subsection (b) above or the Borrower and its Affiliates shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, except to the extent such damages result from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee.
(e) Payments . All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than ten Business Days after demand therefor.
(f) Survival . The agreements in this Section shall survive the resignation of the Agents and the Arrangers, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations and Secured Hedging Obligations. The reimbursement, indemnity and contribution obligations of the Borrower under this Section 10.04 will be in addition to any liability which the Borrower may otherwise have, will extend upon the same terms and conditions to any affiliate of any Indemnitee and the partners, members, directors, agents, employees, and controlling persons (if any), as the case may be, of any Indemnitee and any such affiliate, and will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of any successors and assigns of the Borrower, any Indemnitee, any such affiliate, and any such Person.
10.05 Marshalling; Payments Set Aside . Neither any Agent nor any Lender or Collateral Trustee shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Loan Party
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or any other Person or against or in payment of any or all of the Obligations. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to the Agents, the Arrangers or any Lender, or the Agents, the Arrangers, any Lender or the Collateral Trustee enforces any security interests or exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such enforcement or setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Agents, the Arrangers or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor or related thereto, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, in the applicable currency of such recovery or payment. The obligations of the Lenders under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive Payment in Full and the termination of this Agreement.
10.06 Successors and Assigns .
(a) Successors and Assigns Generally . The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that no Loan Party may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder, except through a transaction permitted hereunder, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of subsection (f) of this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Agents, the Arrangers and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Assignments by Lenders . Any Lender may at any time sell, assign or transfer to one or more Eligible Assignees, upon the giving of notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it or other Obligations); provided that:
(i) except (a) in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lenders Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it, which such amount is less than the applicable minimum transfer amount set forth below, or (b) in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to a Lender, the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding
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balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if Trade Date is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than $1,000,000, unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) , (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to an assignment unless it shall have objected thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within seven (7) Business Days after having received notice thereof; provided , however , that concurrent assignments to members of an Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from members of an Assignee Group to a single Eligible Assignee (or to an Eligible Assignee and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum amount has been met;
(ii) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or the Commitment assigned;
(iii) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee in the amount of $3,500 ( provided however , that (i) the Administrative Agent may in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment and (ii) the Administrative Agent does hereby waive such processing and recordation fee in connection with an assignment by or to Goldman Sachs Bank USA or any Affiliate thereof or in the case of an assignee which is already a Lender or is an affiliate or Approved Fund of a Lender or a Person under common management with a Lender) and the Eligible Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire and such forms, certificate or other evidence, if any, as the assignee under such Assignment and Assumption may be required to deliver pursuant to Section 3.01; and
(iv) pro rata assignments shall not be required and each assignment shall be of a uniform, and not varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under and in respect of any applicable Loan and related Commitments.
Subject to acceptance and recording thereof in the Register by the Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the closing date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements of Section 3.01(e) ), 3.04 , 3.05 and 10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the closing date of such assignment. Upon request, the Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this
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Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with subsection (d) of this Section.
In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the Assignment and Assumption shall make such additional payments to Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations, or other compensating actions, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent and each other Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon), and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full Applicable Percentage of all Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective under applicable law without compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.
Each Lender, upon execution and delivery hereof or upon succeeding to an interest in the Commitments and Loans, as the case may be, represents and warrants as of the Closing Date or as of the effective date of such Assignment and Assumption that (i) it is an Eligible Assignee; (ii) it has experience and expertise in the making of or investing in commitments or loans such as the applicable Commitments or Loans, as the case may be and (iii) it will make or invest in, as the case may be, its Commitments or Loans for its own account in the ordinary course and without a view to distribution of such Commitments or 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 Commitments or Loans or any interests therein shall at all times remain within its exclusive control).
(c) Register . The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at the Administrative Agents Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts of (and stated interest on) the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the Register ). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. Any assignment of any Loan, whether or not evidenced by a Note, shall be effective only upon appropriate entries with respect thereto being made in the Register (and each Note shall expressly so provide). The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Participations . Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the Borrower or any of the Borrowers Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a
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Participant ) in all or a portion of such Lenders rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lenders obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement.
Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender, to the extent that it has a consent right hereunder, will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in clauses (a), (b), (c), (g) and (h) of the first proviso to Section 10.01 that affects such Participant (it being understood that a waiver of any Default or Event of Default or of a mandatory reduction in the Commitment 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 participants participation is not increased as a result thereof). Subject to subsection (e) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 , 3.04 and 3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment, provided , that in the case of Section 3.01 , such Participant shall have complied with the requirements of such section (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 3.01(e) shall be delivered to the participating Lender). To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender; such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.
Each Lender that sells a participation, acting for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent (solely for tax purposes) of the Borrower, shall maintain a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Participants and principal amount of (and stated interest on) each Participants interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the Participant Register ); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participants interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Loan 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 commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender and each Loan Party shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register pursuant to the terms hereof as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.
(e) Limitation upon Participant Rights . A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01 , 3.04 or 3.05 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 the Borrowers prior written consent. No
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Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 3.01(e) as though it were a Lender.
(f) Certain Pledges . Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note(s), if any) to secure obligations of such Lender to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or other central bank having jurisdiction over such Lender; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto; 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.
(g) Electronic Execution of Assignments . The words execution, signed, signature, and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption 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 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.
(h) [Reserved].
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision in the Loan Documents, any Lender may, at any time, assign all or a portion of its rights and obligations with respect to Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans and Refinancing Term Loans under this Agreement to the Borrower through Dutch auctions in accordance with Section 2.19 and open market purchases in accordance with Section 2.20 .
10.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality . Each of the Agents, Arrangers and the Lenders agrees that it will treat as confidential (to the extent clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential) all information provided to it hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates (collectively, Information ) in accordance with the Agents, Arrangers and the Lenders applicable customary procedures for handling confidential information of such nature, except to the extent such Information (a) is publicly available or becomes publicly available other than by reason of disclosure by the Agents, Arrangers or the Lenders, any of their respective affiliates or representatives in violation of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, (b) was received by the Agents, Arrangers and the Lenders from a source (other than the Borrower or any of its affiliates, advisors, members, directors, employees, agents or other representatives) not known by the Agents, Arrangers and the Lenders to be prohibited from disclosing such Information to such Person by a legal, contractual or fiduciary obligation to the Borrower and (c) was already in the Agents, Arrangers and the Lenders possession from a source other than the Borrower or any of its affiliates, advisors, members, directors, employees, agents or other representatives or is independently developed by such Person without the use of or reference to any such Information; provided, however, that nothing herein will prevent the
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Agents, Arrangers and the Lenders from disclosing any such Information (including Information regarding Disqualified Institutions) (a) pursuant to the order of any court or administrative agency or in any pending legal or administrative proceeding, or otherwise as required by applicable Law or compulsory legal process (in which case such Person agrees to inform the Borrower promptly thereof to the extent not prohibited by law), (b) upon the request or demand of any regulatory authority or any self-regulatory authority having jurisdiction over such Person or any of its affiliates, (c) to such Persons affiliates and their respective officers, directors, partners, members, employees, legal counsel, independent auditors and other experts or agents who need to know such Information and on a confidential basis, (d) to potential and prospective Lenders, assignees, participants and any direct or indirect contractual counterparties to any Hedging Agreement relating to the Borrower or its obligations under this Agreement (other than Disqualified Institutions), in each case, subject to such recipients agreement (which agreement may be in writing or by click through agreement or other affirmative action on the part of the recipient to access such Information and acknowledge its confidentiality obligations in respect thereof pursuant to customary syndication practice) to keep such Information confidential on substantially the terms set forth in this Section 10.07, (e) to ratings agencies who have agreed to keep such Information confidential on terms no less restrictive than this Section 10.07 in any material respect or otherwise on terms acceptable to the Borrower in connection with obtaining ratings of the Term Loans, (f) for purposes of establishing a due diligence defense, (g) on a confidential basis, to the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the issuance and monitoring of CUSIP numbers with respect to the Loans or (h) disclosures in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder. In addition, the Agents may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry, and service providers to the Agents in connection with the administration and management of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
Each of the Agents, the Arrangers and the Lenders acknowledges that (a) the Information may include material non-public information concerning the Borrower or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Laws, including Federal and state securities laws.
10.08 Right of Setoff . 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 or at maturity each Lender is hereby authorized by each Loan Party at any time or from time to time subject to the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), without notice to any Loan Party or to any other Person (other than the 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 Loan Party against and on account of the obligations and liabilities of any Loan Party to such Lender hereunder, including all claims of any nature or description
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arising out of or connected hereto, irrespective of whether or not (a) such 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 II and although such obligations and liabilities, or any of them, may be contingent or unmatured; provided that in the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (x) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Sections 2.18 and 8.04 and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and (y) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff. The rights of each Lender and their respective Affiliates under this Section 10.08 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender or their respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender agrees to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
10.09 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 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, the Borrower shall pay to the 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 the 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 Lenders option be applied to the outstanding amount of the Loans made hereunder or be refunded to the Borrower.
10.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness . This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof; provided that the provisions contained in that certain Commitment Letter dated January 11, 2017, by and among Goldman Sachs Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC,
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Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., Macquarie Capital Funding LLC and Peabody Energy Corporation which by their terms survive the execution and effectiveness of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall survive and not be superseded by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Except as provided in Section 4.01 , this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy or other electronic imaging means (i.e., pdf or tif) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.
10.11 Survival of Representations, Warranties and Agreements . All representations, warranties and agreements made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof and the funding of any Borrowing. Such representations, warranties and agreements have been or will be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Borrowing, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied. Notwithstanding anything herein or implied by law to the contrary, the agreements of each Loan Party set forth in Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, 10.04(a), 10.04(b) and 10.08 and the agreements of Lenders set forth in Sections 2.13, 9.03 and 10.04(c) shall survive the payment of the Loans and the termination hereof.
10.12 Severability . If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any obligation hereunder or under any other Loan Document is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions or obligations with valid provisions or obligations the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions or obligations. The invalidity of a provision or obligation in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction.
10.13 Replacement of Lenders . If (a) any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04 , (b) the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 , (c) any Lender is at such time a Defaulting Lender or has given notice pursuant to Section 3.02 or (d) any Lender becomes a Nonconsenting Lender (hereinafter defined), then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to (and such Lender shall) assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 10.06 ), all of its interest, rights and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an assignee selected by the Borrower that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received the assignment fee specified in Section 10.06(b) ( provided however , that the Administrative Agent may in its sole discretion elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment);
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(b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05 ) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts);
(c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01 , such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter;
(d) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws, and
(e) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall be obligated to be or to find the assignee.
A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. In the event that (x) the Borrower or the Administrative Agent has requested the Lenders to consent to a departure or waiver of any provisions of the Loan Documents or to agree to any amendment thereto and (y) the Required Lenders or Required Facility Lenders, as applicable, have agreed to such consent, waiver or amendment, then any such Lender, who does not agree to such consent, waiver or amendment and whose consent would otherwise be required for such departure, waiver or amendment, shall be deemed a Nonconsenting Lender . Any such replacement shall not be deemed a waiver of any rights that the Borrower shall have against the replaced Lender.
Each Lender agrees that if the Borrower exercises its option hereunder to cause an assignment by such Lender as a Nonconsenting Lender or otherwise pursuant to this Section 10.13, 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 the 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 Nonconsenting Lender or Lender replaced pursuant to this Section 10.13, and any such documentation so executed by the Administrative Agent shall be effective for purposes of documenting an assignment pursuant to Section 10.06.
10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.
(a) GOVERNING LAW . THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CLAIMS SOUNDING IN CONTRACT LAW OR TORT LAW ARISING OUT OF THE
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SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF AND ANY DETERMINATIONS WITH RESPECT TO POST-JUDGMENT INTEREST) SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) 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 LOAN DOCUMENTS, OR ANY OF THE OBLIGATIONS, SHALL BE BROUGHT IN ANY FEDERAL COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN OR, IF THAT COURT DOES NOT HAVE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, IN ANY STATE COURT LOCATED IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK. BY EXECUTING AND DELIVERING THIS AGREEMENT, EACH LOAN PARTY, FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES, IRREVOCABLY (A) ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY THE EXCLUSIVE (SUBJECT TO CLAUSE (E) BELOW) 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 LOAN PARTY AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 10.02; (D) AGREES THAT SERVICE AS PROVIDED IN CLAUSE (C) ABOVE IS SUFFICIENT TO CONFER PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE APPLICABLE LOAN PARTY IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT; AND (E) AGREES THAT THE AGENTS, ARRANGERS, COLLATERAL TRUSTEE AND LENDERS RETAIN THE RIGHT TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO BRING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ANY LOAN PARTY IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXERCISE OF ANY RIGHTS UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR AGAINST ANY COLLATERAL OR THE ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND HEREBY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF, AND CONSENTS TO VENUE IN, ANY SUCH COURT.
10.15 Waiver of Jury Trial . EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN 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
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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 10.15 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 LOAN 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.
10.16 USA PATRIOT Act Notice . Each Lender that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies each Loan Party that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the Act ), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Loan Party in accordance with the Act.
10.17 Time of the Essence . Time is of the essence of the Loan Documents.
[Reserved] .
10.19 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility . Each Loan Party agrees that nothing in the Loan Documents or otherwise will be deemed to create an advisory, fiduciary or agency relationship or fiduciary or other implied duty between any Agent, Arranger or Lender, on the one hand, and such Loan Party, its stockholders or its affiliates, on the other. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates understanding, that: (i) (A) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Agents and the Arrangers and the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents (including the exercise of rights and remedies hereunder and thereunder) are arms-length commercial transactions between the Borrower and their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Agents and the Arrangers, on the other hand, (B) the Borrower has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) the Borrower is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) each Agent, each Arranger and each Lender is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for any Loan Party, its management, stockholders, creditors or any of its affiliates or any other
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Person with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby (or the exercise of rights or remedies with respect thereto) or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether any Lender has advised, is currently advising or will advise any Loan Party, its stockholders or its Affiliates on other matters) or any other obligation to any Loan Party except the obligations expressly set forth in the Loan Documents and (B) neither any of the Agents nor any of the Arrangers nor any Lender has any obligation to the Borrower or any of its respective Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Agents and the Arrangers and the Lenders and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that conflict with those of the Borrower and its respective Affiliates, and neither any of the Agents nor any of the Arrangers has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Borrower or its respective Affiliates. Each Loan Party 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 such Loan Party, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Borrower hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Agents and the Arrangers with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.
10.20 [Reserved]
10.21 Release of Liens and Release from Guaranty .
(a) The Collateral Trust Agreement shall govern the release of security interests in Collateral as security for the Secured Obligations (A) after Payment in Full and the termination or expiration of all Secured Hedging Agreements (other than obligations and liabilities under Secured Hedging Agreements that have been cash collateralized or as to which other arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the applicable counterparties shall have been made) and payment of any obligations due and owing under all Secured Hedging Agreements, (B) upon any sale or other transfer by any Loan Party of any Collateral that is permitted under this Agreement (other than a sale or other transfer to a Loan Party) or upon effectiveness of any written direction by the consent to the release of the security interest created under any Security Document in any Collateral pursuant to Section 10.01, (C) upon a designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary permitted hereunder, with respect to the Collateral owned by such Unrestricted Subsidiary, (D) upon the approval, authorization or ratification in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders whose consent is required by Section 10.01) with respect to the release of such Collateral and (E) upon a Guarantor no longer being a Guarantor by virtue of the definition thereof or a transaction permitted hereunder, with respect to the Collateral owned by such Guarantor. After either (v) Payment in Full and the termination or expiration of all Secured Hedging Agreements (other than obligations and liabilities under Secured Hedging Agreements that have been cash collateralized or as to which other arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the applicable counterparties shall have been made) and payment of any obligations due and owing under all Secured Hedging Agreements, (w) upon any sale or other transfer of a Loan Parry that is permitted under this Agreement (other than a sale or other transfer to a Loan Party), (x) upon a designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary permitted hereunder, (y) upon the approval, authorization or ratification in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders whose consent is
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required by Section 10.01) with respect to the release of any Guarantor under the terms of the Guaranty or (z) upon a Guarantor no longer being a Guarantor by virtue of the definition thereof or a transaction permitted hereunder, each applicable Guarantor (or, in the case of clause (w) above, the applicable Guarantor so sold or transferred) shall automatically be released from the Guaranty, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any Person; provided that any such release of guarantee obligations shall be deemed subject to the provision that such guarantee obligations shall be reinstated if after such release any portion of any payment in respect of the Obligations guaranteed thereby shall be rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the Borrower or any Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, the Borrower or any Guarantor or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, in connection with any termination or release pursuant to this Section 10.21, the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Trustee shall be, and are hereby irrevocably authorized by each Lender (without requirement of notice to or consent of any Lender) to execute and deliver, and shall promptly execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party, at such Loan Partys expense, all documents that such Loan Party shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release (including (1) UCC termination statements and (2) in the case of a release of Mortgages, a partial release) and return to the Borrower, the possessory Collateral that is in the possession of the Collateral Trustee and is the subject of such release.
(c) Any execution and delivery of documents, or the taking of any other action, by the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Trustee pursuant to this Section 10.21 shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Trustee.
10.22 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.
10.23 Independent Nature of Lenders Rights . Nothing contained herein or in any other Loan 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.
10.24 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and
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conversion powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and
(b) the effects of any Bail-in Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:
(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.
10.25 Original Issue Discount . THE TERM LOANS MAY BE TREATED AS ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT FOR UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES. THE ISSUE PRICE, AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT, ISSUE DATE AND YIELD TO MATURITY OF THE LOANS MAY BE OBTAINED BY WRITING TO THE BORROWER AT ITS ADDRESS SPECIFIED HEREIN.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first written above.
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION , as Borrower | ||
By: |
/s/ Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. |
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Name: Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. | ||
Title: Senior Vice President, Finance |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as Administrative Agent and a Lender |
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By: |
/s/ Thomas M. Manning |
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Name: Thomas M. Manning | ||
Title: Authorized Signatory |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
Exhibit 10.4
EXECUTION VERSION
SIXTH AMENDED AND RESTATED RECEIVABLES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF APRIL 3, 2017
BY AND AMONG
P&L RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC,
as Seller,
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION,
as initial Servicer,
PEABODY ARCLAR MINING, LLC,
PEABODY MIDWEST MINING, LLC,
TWENTYMILE COAL, LLC,
PEABODY CABALLO MINING, LLC,
COALSALES II, LLC,
PEABODY WESTERN COAL COMPANY,
PEABODY POWDER RIVER MINING, LLC,
PEABODY HOLDING COMPANY, LLC,
PEABODY BEAR RUN MINING, LLC,
PEABODY WILD BOAR MINING, LLC,
PEABODY GATEWAY NORTH MINING, LLC,
PEABODY COALTRADE, LLC,
PEABODY COALSALES, LLC,
PEABODY COALSALES PACIFIC PTY LTD,
PEABODY COPPABELLA PTY LTD,
MILLENNIUM COAL PTY LTD,
WAMBO COAL PTY LTD,
WILPINJONG COAL PTY LTD and
PEABODY (BOWEN) PTY LTD,
as Sub-Servicers,
THE VARIOUS CONDUIT PURCHASERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
THE VARIOUS COMMITTED PURCHASERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
THE VARIOUS PURCHASER AGENTS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
THE VARIOUS LC PARTICIPANTS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,
and
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrator and as LC Bank
ARTICLE I. |
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE INVESTMENTS | 2 | ||||
Section 1.1 |
Investment Facility |
2 | ||||
Section 1.2 |
Making Investments; Initial Investment; Joinders; Related Agreements |
4 | ||||
Section 1.3 |
Transfer of Receivables and Other Purchased Assets |
5 | ||||
Section 1.4 |
Terms and Conditions for Sale, Assignment and Transfer |
5 | ||||
Section 1.5 |
Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage Computation |
9 | ||||
Section 1.6 |
Settlement Procedures |
9 | ||||
Section 1.7 |
Fees |
14 | ||||
Section 1.8 |
Payments and Computations, Etc. |
14 | ||||
Section 1.9 |
Increased Costs |
16 | ||||
Section 1.10 |
Requirements of Law |
17 | ||||
Section 1.11 |
Inability to Determine Euro-Rate |
18 | ||||
Section 1.12 |
Extension of the Facility Termination Date |
18 | ||||
Section 1.13 |
Letters of Credit |
19 | ||||
Section 1.14 |
Issuance of Letters of Credit |
20 | ||||
Section 1.15 |
Requirements For Issuance of Letters of Credit |
21 | ||||
Section 1.16 |
Disbursements, Reimbursement |
21 | ||||
Section 1.17 |
Repayment of Participation Advances |
22 | ||||
Section 1.18 |
Documentation |
23 | ||||
Section 1.19 |
Determination to Honor Drawing Request |
24 | ||||
Section 1.20 |
Nature of Participation and Reimbursement Obligations |
24 | ||||
Section 1.21 |
Indemnity |
26 | ||||
Section 1.22 |
Liability for Acts and Omissions |
26 | ||||
Section 1.23 |
LC Collateral Accounts |
28 | ||||
ARTICLE II. |
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; COVENANTS; TERMINATION EVENTS |
29 | ||||
Section 2.1 |
Representations and Warranties; Covenants |
29 | ||||
Section 2.2 |
Termination Events |
29 | ||||
ARTICLE III. |
INDEMNIFICATION |
29 | ||||
Section 3.1 |
Indemnities by the Seller |
29 | ||||
Section 3.2 |
Indemnities by the Servicer |
31 |
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ARTICLE IV. |
ADMINISTRATION AND COLLECTIONS |
31 | ||||
Section 4.1 |
Appointment of the Servicer |
31 | ||||
Section 4.2 |
Duties of the Servicer |
32 | ||||
Section 4.3 |
Lock-Box Arrangements |
33 | ||||
Section 4.4 |
Enforcement Rights |
34 | ||||
Section 4.5 |
Responsibilities of the Seller |
36 | ||||
Section 4.6 |
Servicing Fee |
36 | ||||
Section 4.7 |
Agents |
36 | ||||
ARTICLE V. |
MISCELLANEOUS |
41 | ||||
Section 5.1 |
Amendments, Etc. |
41 | ||||
Section 5.2 |
Notices, Etc. |
43 | ||||
Section 5.3 |
Successors and Assigns; Assignability; Participations |
43 | ||||
Section 5.4 |
Costs, Expenses and Taxes |
46 | ||||
Section 5.5 |
No Proceedings; Limitation on Payments |
50 | ||||
Section 5.6 |
Confidentiality |
50 | ||||
Section 5.7 |
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION |
51 | ||||
Section 5.8 |
Execution in Counterparts |
52 | ||||
Section 5.9 |
Survival of Termination; Non-Waiver |
52 | ||||
Section 5.10 |
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
52 | ||||
Section 5.11 |
Entire Agreement |
52 | ||||
Section 5.12 |
Headings |
52 | ||||
Section 5.13 |
Sharing of Recoveries |
53 | ||||
Section 5.14 |
Purchaser Groups Liabilities |
53 | ||||
Section 5.15 |
Right of Setoff |
53 | ||||
Section 5.16 |
USA Patriot Act |
53 | ||||
Section 5.17 |
Severability |
54 | ||||
Section 5.18 |
Mutual Negotiations |
54 | ||||
Section 5.19 |
Currency |
54 | ||||
Section 5.20 |
Currency Equivalence |
55 | ||||
Section 5.21 |
Post-Closing Covenant |
55 |
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EXHIBIT I |
DEFINITIONS |
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EXHIBIT II |
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
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EXHIBIT III |
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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EXHIBIT IV |
COVENANTS |
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EXHIBIT V |
TERMINATION EVENTS |
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SCHEDULE I |
CREDIT AND COLLECTION POLICY |
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SCHEDULE II |
LOCK-BOX BANKS AND LOCK-BOX ACCOUNTS |
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SCHEDULE III |
TRADE NAMES |
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SCHEDULE IV |
OFFICE LOCATIONS |
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SCHEDULE V |
GROUP COMMITMENTS |
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SCHEDULE VI |
NOTICE ADDRESSES |
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SCHEDULE VII |
SELLER ACCOUNT |
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SCHEDULE VIII |
CLOSING MEMORANDUM |
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SCHEDULE IX |
APPROVED CONTRACTS |
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SCHEDULE X |
STANDARD AUSTRALIAN CONTRACTS |
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ANNEX A |
FORM OF INFORMATION PACKAGE |
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ANNEX B |
FORM OF INVESTMENT NOTICE |
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ANNEX C |
FORM OF PAYDOWN NOTICE |
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ANNEX D |
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE |
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ANNEX E |
FORM OF LETTER OF CREDIT APPLICATION |
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ANNEX F |
FORM OF ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT |
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ANNEX G |
FORM OF TRANSFER SUPPLEMENT |
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ANNEX H-1 |
FORM OF WEEKLY REPORT |
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ANNEX H-2 |
FORM OF DAILY REPORT |
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This SIXTH AMENDED AND RESTATED RECEIVABLES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this Agreement ) is entered into as of April 3, 2017, by and among P&L RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as seller (the Seller ), PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation ( Peabody ), as initial servicer (in such capacity, collectively, together with its successors and permitted assigns in such capacity, the Servicer ), MILLENNIUM COAL PTY LTD, a proprietary company organized under the laws of Australia, PEABODY COALSALES PACIFIC PTY LTD, a proprietary company organized under the laws of Australia, WILPINJONG COAL PTY LTD, a proprietary company organized under the laws of Australia, PEABODY (BOWEN) PTY LTD, a proprietary company organized under the laws of Australia, PEABODY COPPABELLA PTY LTD, a proprietary company organized under the laws of Australia and WAMBO COAL PTY LTD, a proprietary company organized under the laws of Australia (in its own right and not in any other capacity, each an Australian Sub-Servicer ), PEABODY ARCLAR MINING, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company, PEABODY MIDWEST MINING, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company, TWENTYMILE COAL, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, PEABODY CABALLO MINING, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, COALSALES II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, PEABODY WESTERN COAL COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, PEABODY POWDER RIVER MINING, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, PEABODY HOLDING COMPANY, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, PEABODY COALTRADE, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, PEABODY COALSALES, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, PEABODY GATEWAY NORTH MINING, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, PEABODY WILD BOAR MINING, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, PEABODY BEAR RUN MINING, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (each a U.S. Sub-Servicer and, together with each Australian Sub-Servicer, collectively the Sub-Servicers ), the various CONDUIT PURCHASERS from time to time party hereto, the various COMMITTED PURCHASERS from time to time party hereto, the various LC PARTICIPANTS from time to time party hereto, the various PURCHASER AGENTS from time to time party hereto, and PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association ( PNC ), as administrator (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the Administrator ) and as issuer of Letters of Credit (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the LC Bank ).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS. Certain terms that are capitalized and used throughout this Agreement are defined in Exhibit I . References in the Exhibits hereto to the Agreement refer to this Agreement, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
The Seller desires to sell, transfer and assign receivables, and the Purchasers desire to acquire such receivables from time to time on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
This Agreement amends and restates in its entirety, as of the Closing Date, the Fifth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 25, 2016 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the Closing Date, the Original Agreement ), among the Seller, the Servicer, the U.S. Sub-Servicers, the various Purchasers and Purchaser Agents party thereto and the Administrator. Notwithstanding the amendment and
restatement of the Original Agreement by this Agreement, (i) the Seller and Servicer shall continue to be liable to the Administrator, the Purchasers and Purchaser Agents party to the Original Agreement and any other Indemnified Party or Affected Person (as such terms are defined in the Original Agreement) for fees and expenses which are accrued and unpaid under the Original Agreement on the Closing Date (collectively, the Original Agreement Outstanding Amounts ) and all agreements to indemnify such parties in connection with events or conditions arising or existing prior to the effective date of this Agreement and (ii) the security interest created under the Original Agreement shall remain in full force and effect as security for such Original Agreement Outstanding Amounts until such Original Agreement Outstanding Amounts shall have been paid in full. Upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, each reference to the Original Agreement in any other document, instrument or agreement shall mean and be a reference to this Agreement. Nothing contained herein, unless expressly herein stated to the contrary, is intended to amend, modify or otherwise affect any other instrument, document or agreement executed and/or delivered in connection with the Original Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, all Capital, Discount, Letters of Credit, Fees and all other amounts outstanding or owing by the Seller under the Original Agreement remain outstanding or owing by the Seller (or the Servicer or U.S. Sub-Servicers, as the case may be) hereunder.
In consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and covenants contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE INVESTMENTS
Section 1.1 Investment Facility .
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On the terms and subject to the conditions hereof, the Seller may, from time to time before the Facility Termination Date, (i) request that the Purchasers ratably make investments with regard to the Purchased Assets from time to time from the date hereof to the Facility Termination Date in accordance with Section 1.2 . Each investment requested by the Seller pursuant to Section 1.2(a) (each, an Investment ) in the Purchased Assets shall be made ratably by the respective Purchaser Groups, and each Purchaser Groups ratable share of each Investment shall be made and funded (x) if such Purchaser Group contains a Conduit Purchaser and such Conduit Purchaser elects (in its sole discretion) to make and fund such portion of such Investment, by such Conduit Purchaser, or (y) if such Purchaser Group does not contain a Conduit Purchaser or if the Conduit Purchaser in such Purchaser Group declines (in its sole discretion) to make or fund such portion of such Investment, by the Committed Purchaser in such Purchaser Group and (ii) request that the LC Bank issue or cause to issue Letters of Credit. Subject to Section 1.6(b) concerning reinvestments, at no time will a Conduit Purchaser have any obligation to make an Investment. Each Committed Purchaser severally hereby agrees, on the terms and subject to the conditions hereof, to make Investments from time to time from the Closing Date to the Facility Termination Date, based on the applicable Purchaser Groups Percentage of each Investment requested pursuant to Section 1.2(a) (and, in the case of each Committed |
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Purchaser, its Commitment Percentage of its Purchaser Groups Percentage of such Investment) and, on the terms of and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, the LC Bank agrees to issue Letters of Credit in return for (and each LC Participant hereby severally agrees to make participation advances in connection with any draws under such Letters of Credit equal to such LC Participants Pro Rata Share of such draws), the Purchased Assets from time to time from the Closing Date to the Facility Termination Date; provided , that under no circumstances shall any Purchaser make any Investment or issue any Letters of Credit hereunder, as applicable, if, after giving effect to such Investment or issuance, the (i) Group Capital of such Purchasers Purchaser Group would exceed (A) its Purchaser Groups Group Commitment (as the same may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 1.1(c) ) minus (B) the related LC Participants Pro Rata Share of the Aggregate LC Participation Amount, (ii) the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate LC Participation Amount would exceed the Purchase Limit, (iii) the Aggregate LC Participation Amount would exceed the aggregate of the Commitments of the LC Bank and the LC Participants or (iv) the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage would exceed 100%. |
The Seller may, subject to the requirements and conditions set forth herein, use the proceeds of any Investment or Reinvestment by the Purchasers hereunder, to satisfy its Reimbursement Obligation to the LC Bank and the LC Participants (ratably, based on the outstanding amounts funded by the LC Bank and each such LC Participant) pursuant to Section 1.16 below.
(b) | [Reserved]. |
(c) | The Seller may, upon at least 30 days written notice to the Administrator, irrevocably reduce the unused portion of the Purchase Limit in whole or in part (but not below the amount that would cause the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate LC Participation Amount to exceed the Purchase Limit or would cause the Group Capital of any Purchaser Group to exceed its Group Commitment, in each case, after giving effect to such reduction); provided , that each partial reduction shall be in the amount of at least $5,000,000, or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, and that, unless terminated in whole, the Purchase Limit shall in no event be reduced below $50,000,000. Each reduction in the Commitments hereunder shall be made ratably among the Purchasers in accordance with their respective Purchaser Groups Percentages and their respective Commitments. The Administrator shall promptly advise the Purchaser Agents of any notice pursuant to this Section 1.1(c) ; it being understood that (in addition to and without limiting any other requirements for termination, prepayment and/or the funding of any LC Collateral Account hereunder) no such reduction shall be effective unless and until (i) in the case of a reduction of the Purchase Limit in whole to zero ($0), the amount on deposit in each LC Collateral Account is at least equal to the then outstanding Aggregate LC Participation Amount and (ii) in the case of a partial reduction, the amount on deposit in each LC Collateral Account is at least equal to the difference between the then outstanding Aggregate LC Participation Amount and the Purchase Limit as so reduced by such partial reduction. |
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In connection with any reduction of the Purchase Limit to zero ($0) pursuant to this Section 1.1(c) , the Seller may elect, upon ten (10) Business Days prior written notice to the Administrator, each Purchaser Agent and each Purchaser, to repurchase the Purchased Assets on the effective date of the termination of the Purchase Limit designated pursuant to this Section 1.1(c) at a price equal to the outstanding Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate LC Participation Amount plus all obligations and other amounts owing to the Administrator, each Purchaser Agent, each Purchaser and the other Affected Persons as of the effective date of such repurchase. Upon the prepayment in whole of the outstanding Aggregate Capital and Aggregate LC Participation Amount in accordance with this Section, (i) all right, title and interest of the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers and the other Affected Persons in, to or under the Purchased Assets shall transfer to the Seller and its successors and assigns, (ii) the right, title and interest of the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers and the other Affected Persons in the Purchased Assets shall thereupon cease, terminate and become void, (iii) the obligations of the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers to pay the unpaid Deferred Purchase Price shall terminate and shall be deemed satisfied and discharged, in each case without an y further action on the part of any Person, (iv) all obligations under the Transaction Documents shall terminate, except those obligations expressly stated to survive termination and (v) each Purchasers Commitment shall be reduced to zero ($0).
Section 1.2 Making Investments; Initial Investment; Joinders; Related Agreements .
(a) | Each request for any Investment hereunder may be made on any day upon the Sellers irrevocable written notice in the form of Annex B (each, an Investment Notice ) delivered to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent in accordance with Section 5.2 (which notice must be received by the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent before 11:00 a.m., New York City time) at least one Business Day before the requested Investment Date, which notice shall specify: (A) the amount requested to be paid to the Seller (such amount, which shall not be less than $300,000 and shall be in integral multiples of $100,000), with respect to each Purchaser Group, (B) the requested date of such Investment (which shall be a Business Day) and (C) the pro forma calculation of the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage after giving effect to the increase in the Capital. |
(b) | On the date of each Investment hereunder, each applicable Purchaser (determined in accordance with Section 1.1(a) ) shall, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Exhibit II , make available to the Seller in same day funds, at the account set forth on Schedule VII , an amount equal to the Capital of the Investment being funded by such Purchaser. |
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Section 1.3 Transfer of Receivables and Other Purchased Assets .
(a) | Sale of Receivables . In consideration of the payment by each applicable Purchaser of the amount of the applicable Purchaser Groups share of the initial Investment on the date of the initial Investment hereunder, the Committed Purchasers assumption of their respective Commitments and the Administrators agreement (on behalf of the applicable Purchasers) to make payments to the Seller from time to time in accordance with Section 1.4 and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which the Seller hereby acknowledges, effective on the Closing Date (without limiting any prior sales pursuant to Section 1.3(a) of the Original Agreement, which prior sales are hereby ratified and affirmed), the Seller hereby sells, conveys, transfers and assigns to the Administrator, on behalf of the Purchasers, all of Sellers right, title and interest in and to (i) all Pool Receivables existing on the Closing Date or thereafter arising or acquired by the Seller from time to time prior to the Facility Termination Date (including the Sellers interest as a trust beneficiary in respect of any Trust Receivables) and (ii) all Related Security, whether existing on the Closing Date or thereafter arising at any time and acquired by the Seller. |
(b) | Purchase of Purchased Assets . Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) hereby purchases and accepts from the Seller the Sellers interest in the Pool Receivables and all other Related Security sold, assigned and transferred pursuant to Section 1.3(a) (collectively, the Purchased Assets ). |
(c) | Obligations Not Assumed . The foregoing sale, assignment and transfer does not constitute and is not intended to result in the creation, or an assumption by the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser, of any obligation of the Seller, any Originator or any other Person under or in connection with the Receivables or any other Related Security, all of which shall remain the obligations and liabilities of the Seller, the Originator and/or such other Person, as applicable. |
Section 1.4 Terms and Conditions for Sale, Assignment and Transfer . Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, including Exhibit II , in consideration for the sale, assignment and transfer of the Purchased Assets by the Seller to the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) hereunder:
(a) | Investments . From time to time prior to the Facility Termination Date, on request of the Seller for an Investment in accordance with Section 1.2(a) , the applicable Purchasers in each Purchaser Group (determined in accordance with Section 1.1(a) ), in accordance with Section 1.2(b) , shall pay to the Seller the applicable Purchaser Groups Percentage of the amount requested by the Seller under Section 1.2(a) . |
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(b) | Reinvestments . On each Business Day prior to the Facility Termination Date, the Servicer, on behalf of the Administrator, shall pay to the Seller, out of Collections of the Pool Receivables, the amount available for reinvestment in accordance with Section 1.6(b)(ii) . Each such payment is herein referred to as a Reinvestment (and Reinvest shall have the correlative meaning). All Reinvestments with respect to the applicable Purchasers shall be made ratably on behalf of the applicable Purchasers in the relevant Purchaser Group in accordance with the respective outstanding portions of the Aggregate Capital funded by them. |
(c) | Deferred Purchase Price . The Servicer, on behalf of the Administrator and the Purchasers, shall pay to the Seller, from Collections, the amounts payable to the Seller from time to time pursuant to Section 1.6(b)(ii) , Section 1.6(b)(iv) and clause sixth of Section 1.6(d)(ii) (such amounts, the Deferred Purchase Price with respect to the Purchased Assets) at the times specified in such Sections, which remittances shall satisfy the obligation (up to the amount actually received by the Seller or Servicer) of the Administrator on behalf of the Purchasers to pay the Deferred Purchase Price with respect to the Purchased Assets to the Seller. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Administrator and the Purchasers shall have the right to, and intend to, set off (i) the Sellers obligation to pay (or cause to be paid) to the Purchasers (or to the Administrator on their behalf) all Collections on the portion of the Purchased Assets attributable to the Deferred Purchase Price against (ii) the Administrators and the Purchasers obligations to pay (or cause to be paid) to the Seller the Deferred Purchase Price. |
(d) | Seller Payments Limited to Collections . Notwithstanding any provision contained in this Agreement to the contrary, none of the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents or the Purchasers shall be obligated to pay any amount to the Seller as the purchase price of the Purchased Assets pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) above except to the extent of Collections on Receivables available for distribution to the Seller in accordance with this Agreement. Any amount that the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser does not pay pursuant to the preceding sentence shall not constitute a claim (as defined in § 101 of the Bankruptcy Code) against or corporate obligation of such Person for any such insufficiency unless and until such amount becomes available for distribution to the Seller in accordance with Section 1.6(d)(ii) . |
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Intent of the Parties . The Seller, the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers intend that the sale, assignment and transfer of Purchased Assets to the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) shall be treated as a sale for all purposes (other than financial accounting purposes and for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes as provided in the following paragraph of this clause (e) ). If notwithstanding the intent of the parties, such sale, transfer and assignment is not treated as a sale for such purposes, such sale, assignment and transfer shall be treated as the grant of, and the Seller does hereby grant to the Administrator (for the benefit of the Purchasers) a security interest in the following property to secure all of the Sellers obligations (monetary or |
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otherwise) under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, whether now or hereafter existing or arising, due or to become due, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent: all of the Sellers right, title (if any) and interest in (including any beneficial interest in), to and under all of the following, whether now or hereafter owned, existing or arising: (i) all Pool Receivables, (ii) all Related Security with respect to such Pool Receivables, (iii) all Collections with respect to such Pool Receivables, (iv) (A) the Lock-Box Accounts and all amounts on deposit therein, and all certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time evidencing such Lock-Box Accounts and amounts on deposit therein and (B) each LC Collateral Account and all amounts on deposit therein, and all certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time evidencing such LC Collateral Account and amounts on deposit therein, (v) all rights (but none of the obligations) of the Seller, including any security interests granted to it, under any Sale Agreement and the Contribution Agreement, (vi) the Servicer Note and (vii) all proceeds of, and all amounts received or receivable under any or all of, the foregoing (collectively, the Pool Assets ). The Seller hereby authorizes the Administrator to file financing statements against it describing as the collateral covered thereby as all assets of the debtor, whether now owned or hereafter created, acquired or arising, and all proceeds of the foregoing or words to that effect, notwithstanding that such wording may be broader in scope than the collateral described in this Agreement. The Administrator, for the benefit of the Purchasers, shall have, with respect to the Pool Assets, and in addition to all the other rights and remedies available to the Administrator and the Purchasers, all the rights and remedies of a secured party under any applicable UCC or PPSA. The Seller hereby acknowledges and agrees that pursuant to the Original Agreement, the Seller granted to the Administrator a security interest in all of the Sellers right, title and interest in, to and under the Purchased Assets (as defined in the Original Agreement). The Seller hereby confirms such security interest and acknowledges and agrees that such security interest is continuing and is supplemented and restated by the security interest granted by the Seller pursuant to this Section 1.4(e) . |
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph of this clause (e) , the Seller, the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers and all other parties to this Agreement intend and agree to treat, for U.S. federal, state and local income and franchise tax (in the nature of income tax) purposes only, the sale, assignment and transfer of the Purchased Assets to the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) as a loan to the Seller secured by the Pool Assets. The provisions of this Agreement and all related Transaction Documents shall be construed to further these intentions of the parties.
(f) | [Reserved] . |
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Additional Purchasers or Purchaser Groups . The Seller may, with the written consent of the Administrator (and, in the case of a new LC Participant, the LC Bank), which consent may be granted or withheld in their sole discretion, add additional Persons as Purchasers (either to an existing Purchaser Group or by |
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creating new Purchaser Groups) or cause an existing Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant to increase its Commitment in connection with a corresponding increase in the Purchase Limit; provided , that the Commitment of any Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant may only be increased with the prior written consent of such Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant. Each new Conduit Purchaser, Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant (or Purchaser Group) shall become a party hereto, by executing and delivering to the Administrator, each Purchaser Agent and the Seller, an Assumption Agreement in the form of Annex F hereto (which Assumption Agreement shall, in the case of any new Conduit Purchaser, Committed Purchaser or LC Participant, be executed by each Person in such new Purchasers Purchaser Group). |
(h) | Nature of Obligations; Defaulting Purchasers . Each Committed Purchasers and related LC Participants obligations hereunder shall be several, such that the failure of any Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant to make a payment in connection with any Investment or drawing under a Letter of Credit hereunder, as the case may be, shall not relieve any other Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant of its obligation hereunder to make payment for any such Investment or drawing. Further, in the event any Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant fails to satisfy its obligation to make an Investment or payment with respect to such drawing as required hereunder, upon receipt of notice of such failure from the Administrator (or any relevant Purchaser Agent), subject to the limitations set forth herein, the non-defaulting Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants in such defaulting Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants Purchaser Group shall fund the defaulting Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants Commitment Percentage of the related Investment or drawing pro rata in proportion to their relative Commitment Percentages (determined without regard to the Commitment Percentage of the defaulting Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant; it being understood that a defaulting Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants Commitment Percentage of any such Investment or drawing shall be first funded by the Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants in such defaulting Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants Purchaser Group and thereafter if there are no other Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants in such Purchaser Group or if such other Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants are also defaulting Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants, then such defaulting Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants Commitment Percentage of such Investment or drawing shall be funded by each other Purchaser Group ratably and applied in accordance with this Section 1.4(h) ). Notwithstanding the foregoing and for the avoidance of doubt, each Committed Purchasers and LC Participants obligation to fund any such Investment or drawing pursuant to this Section 1.4(h) shall be subject in all respects to the limitations set forth in the proviso to Section 1.1(a) . |
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Section 1.5 Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage Computation .
The Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage shall be initially computed under this Agreement on the Closing Date. Thereafter, until the Facility Termination Date, such Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage shall be automatically recomputed (or deemed to be recomputed) on each Business Day other than a Termination Day. From and after the occurrence of any Termination Day, the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage shall (until the event(s) giving rise to such Termination Day are satisfied or are waived in accordance with Section 5.1 ) be deemed to be 100%. The Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage shall become zero when the Final Payout Date has occurred and the Servicer shall have received the accrued Servicing Fee thereon.
Section 1.6 Settlement Procedures .
(a) | The collection of the Pool Receivables shall be administered by the Servicer in accordance with this Agreement. The Seller shall provide to the Servicer on a timely basis all information needed for such administration, including notice of the occurrence of any Termination Day and current computations of the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage. |
(b) | The Servicer shall, on each day on which Collections of Pool Receivables are received (or deemed received) by the Seller or the Servicer, including pursuant to Section 1.6(g) : |
(i) set aside and hold in trust (and shall, at the request of the Administrator, segregate in a separate account approved by the Administrator) for the benefit of the Purchasers, out of such Collections, first , an amount equal to the Aggregate Discount accrued through such day for each Portion of Capital and not previously set aside, second , an amount equal to the Fees accrued and unpaid through such day, and third , to the extent funds are available therefor, an amount equal to the Servicing Fee accrued through such day and not previously set aside,
(ii) subject to Section 1.6(f) , if such day is not a Termination Day, remit to the Seller the remainder of such Collections. Such remainder shall, (x) to the extent representing a return of the Aggregate Capital, be automatically reinvested (ratably among the Purchasers according to each Purchasers Capital) in Pool Receivables, and in the Related Security, Collections and other proceeds with respect thereto and (y) to the extent not representing a return of the Aggregate Capital, be paid to the Seller in respect of the Deferred Purchase Price for the Purchased Assets; provided , however , that if the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage would exceed 100%, then the Servicer shall not reinvest or remit to the Seller, but shall set aside and hold in trust for the benefit of the Purchasers (and shall, at the request of the Administrator, segregate in a separate account approved by the Administrator) a portion of such Collections that, together with the other Collections set aside pursuant to this paragraph, shall equal the amount necessary to reduce the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage to 100% (determined as if such Collections set aside had been applied to reduce the Aggregate Capital or Aggregate
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Adjusted LC Participation Amount, as applicable, at such time), which amount shall either (A) be deposited ratably to the Administration Account (for the benefit of the Purchasers) or (B) be deposited in an LC Collateral Account, in each case, as applicable, on the next Settlement Date in accordance with Section 1.6(c) ; provided , further , that (x) in the case of any Purchaser that is a Conduit Purchaser, if such Purchaser has provided notice (a Declining Notice ) to its Purchaser Agent, the Administrator, and the Servicer that such Purchaser (a Declining Conduit Purchaser ) no longer wishes Collections with respect to any Portion of Capital funded or maintained by such Purchaser to be reinvested pursuant to this clause (ii) , and (y) in the case of any Purchaser that has provided notice (an Exiting Notice ) to its Purchaser Agent of its refusal, pursuant to Section 1.12 , to extend its Commitment hereunder (an Exiting Purchaser ) then in either case (x) or (y), above, such Purchasers ratable share (determined according to outstanding Capital) of such remaining Collections shall not be reinvested or remitted to the Seller and shall instead be held in trust for the benefit of such Purchaser and applied in accordance with clause (iii) below (it being understood and agreed that the foregoing clause (x) shall not limit any obligation of a Committed Purchase in a Declining Conduit Purchasers Purchaser Group to make purchases and reinvestments hereunder),
(iii) if such day is a Termination Day (or any day following the provision of a Declining Notice or an Exiting Notice), set aside, segregate and hold in trust (and shall, at the request of the Administrator, segregate in a separate account approved by the Administrator) for the benefit of the Purchasers the entire remainder of such Collections (or in the case of a Declining Conduit Purchaser or an Exiting Purchaser an amount equal to such Purchasers ratable share (determined according to outstanding Capital) of such Collections; provided , that solely for the purpose of determining such Purchasers ratable share of such Collections, such Purchasers Capital shall be deemed to remain constant from the date of the provision of a Declining Notice or an Exiting Notice, as the case may be, until the date such Purchasers Capital has been paid in full; it being understood that if such day is also a Termination Day, such Declining Conduit Purchasers or Exiting Purchasers Capital shall be recalculated taking into account amounts received by such Purchaser in respect of this parenthetical and thereafter Collections shall be set aside for such Purchaser ratably in respect of its Capital (as recalculated)); provided , further , that if amounts are set aside and held in trust on any Termination Day of the type described in clause (a) of the definition of Termination Day (or any day following the provision of a Declining Notice or an Exiting Notice) and, thereafter, the conditions set forth in Section 2 of Exhibit II are satisfied or waived by the Administrator and the Majority Purchaser Agents (or in the case of a Declining Notice or an Exiting Notice, such Declining Notice or Exiting Notice, as the case may be, has been revoked by the related Declining Conduit Purchaser or Exiting Purchaser, respectively and written notice thereof has been provided to the Administrator, the related Purchaser Agent and the Servicer), such previously set-aside amounts shall, to the extent representing a return of Aggregate Capital (or the Capital of the Declining Conduit Purchaser or Exiting Purchaser, as the case may be) and ratably (determined according to outstanding Capital), be reinvested and/or paid to the Seller in respect of the Deferred Purchase Price for the Purchased Assets in accordance with clause (ii) above on the day of such subsequent satisfaction or waiver of conditions or revocation of Declining Notice or Exiting Notice, as the case may be, and
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(iv) subject to Section 1.6(f) , pay to the Seller (on behalf of the Administrator and the Purchasers) for the Sellers own account and in payment of the Deferred Purchase Price for the Purchased Assets any Collections in excess of: (x) amounts required to be reinvested in accordance with clause (ii) above or the last proviso to clause (iii) above, plus (y) the amounts that are required to be set aside pursuant to clause (i) above, the provisos to clause (ii) and clause (iii) above, plus (z) all reasonable and appropriate out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Servicer for servicing, collecting and administering the Pool Receivables.
(c) | The Servicer shall, in accordance with the priorities set forth in Section 1.6(d) , deposit into the Administration Account (or such other account designated by the Administrator), on each Settlement Date (or, solely with respect to Collections held for the Purchasers pursuant to Section 1.6(f)(iii) , such other date approved by the Administrator with at least five (5) Business Days prior written notice to the Administrator of such payment), Collections held for the Purchasers pursuant to Section 1.6(b)(i) , (ii) or (iii) or 1.6(f) ; provided , that if Peabody or an Affiliate thereof is the Servicer, such day is not a Termination Day and the Administrator has not notified Peabody (or such Affiliate) that the right to retain the portion of Collections set aside pursuant to Section 1.6(b)(i) that represents the Servicing Fee is revoked, Peabody (or such Affiliate) may retain the portion of the Collections set aside pursuant to Section 1.6(b)(i) that represents the Servicing Fee in payment in full of the accrued Servicing Fees so set aside. On the last day of each Settlement Period, each Purchaser (or its Purchaser Agent on its behalf) will notify the Servicer by electronic mail of the amount of Discount accrued with respect to each Portion of Capital during such Settlement Period or portion thereof. |
(d) | Upon receipt of funds deposited into the Administration Account pursuant to clause (c) above, the Administrator shall cause such funds to be distributed as follows: |
(i) if such distribution occurs on a day that is not a Termination Day and the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage does not exceed 100%, first to the Purchaser Agents (for the benefit of the Purchasers in their respective Purchaser Groups) in payment in full of all accrued Discount and Fees, and second , if the Servicer has set aside amounts in respect of the Servicing Fee pursuant to clause (b)(i) above and has not retained such amounts pursuant to clause (c) above, to the Servicer (payable in arrears on each Settlement Date) in payment in full of the accrued Servicing Fees so set aside, and
(ii) if such distribution occurs on a Termination Day or on a day when the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage exceeds 100%, first to the Purchaser Agents (for the benefit of the Purchasers in their respective Purchaser Groups) in payment in full of all accrued Discount and Fees, second to the Purchaser Agents (for the benefit of the
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Purchasers in their respective Purchaser Groups) in payment in full of Capital (or, if such day is not a Termination Day, the amount necessary to reduce the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage to 100%) (determined as if such Collections had been applied to reduce the aggregate outstanding Capital), third , to the LC Collateral Accounts for the benefit of the LC Bank and the LC Participants, (x) the amount (if any) necessary to cause the amount of cash collateral held in the LC Collateral Accounts (other than amounts representing LC Fee Expectation) to equal the aggregate outstanding amount of the Aggregate LC Participation Amount (or, if such day is not a Termination Day, the amount necessary to reduce the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage to 100%) (determined as if such Collections had been applied to reduce the aggregate outstanding amount of the Aggregate LC Participation Amount) and (y) if such day is a Termination Day or a Termination Event is continuing, an amount equal to the LC Fee Expectation at such time (or such portion thereof not currently on deposit in the LC Collateral Accounts), fourth , to the Servicer in payment in full of all accrued Servicing Fees, fifth , if all amounts owing under clauses first through fourth above have been paid in full, to the Purchaser Agents (for the benefit of such Purchaser Agent and the Purchasers in their respective Purchaser Groups), the Administrator and any other Indemnified Party or Affected Person in payment in full of any other amounts owed thereto by the Seller hereunder, and sixth , after the occurrence of the Final Payout Date, all additional Collections with respect to the Purchased Assets shall be paid to the Seller for its own account in payment of the Deferred Purchase Price for such Purchased Assets.
(e) | For the purposes of this Section 1.6 : |
(i) if on any day the Outstanding Balance of any Pool Receivable is reduced or adjusted as a result of any defective, rejected, returned, repossessed or foreclosed goods or services, or any revision, cancellation, allowance, rebate, discount or other adjustment made by the Seller or any Affiliate of the Seller, or any setoff or dispute between the Seller or any Affiliate of the Seller and an Obligor, the Seller shall be deemed to have received on such day a Collection of such Pool Receivable in the amount of such reduction or adjustment;
(ii) if on any day any of the representations or warranties in Section l(g) or (m) of Exhibit III is not true with respect to any Pool Receivable, the Seller shall be deemed to have received on such day a Collection of such Pool Receivable in full and upon receipt of cash payments in full of the amounts specified in this clause (ii) in a Lock-Box Account, all right, title and interest of the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser to the relevant Pool Receivable and Related Security shall pass to the Seller (or, to the extent such interest of the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser is a beneficial interest in the relevant Pool Receivable and Related Security, shall be extinguished); provided, that any such reconveyance or release shall be without representation or warranty, but free and clear of all liens, security interests, charges, and encumbrances created by the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser;
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(iii) except as provided in clause (i) or (ii) above, or as otherwise required by Applicable Law or the relevant Contract, all Collections received from an Obligor (or Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider) of any Receivable shall be applied to the Receivables of such Obligor in the order of the age of such Receivables, starting with the oldest such Receivable, unless such Obligor designates in writing its payment for application to specific Receivables; and
(iv) if and to the extent the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser shall be required for any reason to pay over to an Obligor (or any trustee, receiver, custodian or similar official in any Insolvency Proceeding) any amount received by it hereunder, such amount shall be deemed not to have been so received by the Administrator, such Purchaser Agent or such Purchaser but rather to have been retained by the Seller and, accordingly, the Administrator, such Purchaser Agent or such Purchaser, as the case may be, shall have a claim against the Seller for such amount, payable when and to the extent that any distribution from or on behalf of such Obligor is made in respect thereof.
(f) | If at any time the Seller shall wish to cause the reduction of Aggregate Capital (but not to commence the liquidation, or reduction to zero, of the entire Aggregate Capital), the Seller may do so as follows: |
(i) the Seller shall give the Administrator, each Purchaser Agent and the Servicer written notice in the form of Annex C (the Paydown Notice ) at least two Business Days prior to the date of such reduction for any reduction of Aggregate Capital and such notice shall include the amount of such reduction and the proposed date on which such reduction shall commence;
(ii) on the proposed date of the commencement of such reduction and on each day thereafter, the Servicer shall cause Collections not to be reinvested until the amount thereof not so reinvested shall equal the desired amount of reduction; and
(iii) the Servicer shall hold such Collections in trust for the benefit of the Administrator (for the benefit of each Purchaser), for payment to the Administrator by deposit into the Administration Account on the next Settlement Date immediately following the current Settlement Period or such other date approved by the Administrator and the Majority Purchaser Agents, and Capital shall be deemed reduced in the amount to be paid to the Administrator only when in fact finally so paid;
provided , that the amount of any such reduction shall be not less than $300,000 and shall be an integral multiple of $100,000. Upon receipt by the Administrator in the Administration Account of any amount paid in reduction of the Aggregate Capital pursuant to sub-clause (iii) above, the Administrator shall cause such funds to be distributed to the Purchaser Agents (for the benefit of the Purchasers in their respective Purchaser Groups) in payment of each Purchasers outstanding Capital.
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(g) In accordance with Section 2(l)(iv) of Exhibit IV , the Servicer will deliver an Interim Report to the Administrator once per week, provided , that following the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event or the occurrence and continuance of a Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event, the Servicer will, at the request of the Administrator, deliver an Interim Report to the Administrator on each Business Day. Upon receipt of such Interim Report, the Administrator shall promptly review such Interim Report to determine if such Interim Report constitutes a Qualifying Interim Report. In the event that the Administrator reasonably determines that such Interim Report constitutes a Qualifying Interim Report, so long as no Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event has occurred and is continuing and so long as the Facility Termination Date has not yet occurred and the Administrator is then exercising exclusive dominion and control over the Lock-Box Accounts in accordance with Section 4.3, the Administrator shall promptly remit to the Servicer from the Lock-Box Account (or the LC Collateral Accounts, if applicable) the lesser of (i) the amount identified on such Qualifying Interim Report as Collections on deposit in the Lock-Box Account and/or LC Collateral Accounts in excess of the amount necessary to ensure that the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage does not exceed 100% and (ii) the aggregate amount of available Collections then on deposit in the Lock-Box Accounts and the LC Collateral Accounts. For purposes of this clause (g) , Qualifying Interim Report shall mean any Interim Report that satisfies each of the following conditions: (A) the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage as set forth in such Interim Report shall not exceed 100%; (B) such Interim Report is calculated, in the case of a Weekly Report, as of the last Business Day of the immediately preceding week, and, in the case of a Daily Report, as of the immediately prior Business Day and (C) all of the information and calculations set forth in such Interim Report are true and correct. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrator shall have no obligation to remit funds to the Seller or the Servicer or any Affiliate thereof from the Lock-Box Account (or the LC Collateral Accounts, if applicable) unless the Administrator shall have received a Qualifying Interim Report.
Section 1.7 Fees .
The Seller shall pay to the Administrator, the Purchasers and the Purchaser Agents the fees in the amounts and on the dates set forth in those certain fee letter agreements for each Purchaser Group, in each case, from time to time entered into among Peabody, the Seller and the applicable Purchaser Agent and/or the Administrator (as such letter agreements may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Fee Letters ).
Section 1.8 Payments and Computations, Etc .
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All amounts to be paid or deposited by the Seller or the Servicer hereunder shall be made without reduction for offset or counterclaim and shall be paid or deposited no later than noon (New York City time) on the day when due in same day funds to the Administration Account. All amounts received after noon (New York City time) will be deemed to have been received on the next Business Day. Amounts payable hereunder to or for the benefit of the Administrator, the |
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Purchasers or the Purchaser Agents (or their related Affected Persons or Indemnified Parties) shall be distributed as follows: |
(i) Any amounts to be distributed by or on behalf of the Administrator hereunder to any Purchaser Agent, Purchaser or Purchaser Group shall be distributed to the account specified in writing from time to time by the applicable Purchaser Agent to the Administrator, and the Administrator shall have no obligation to distribute any such amounts unless and until it actually receives payment of such amounts by the Seller or the Servicer, as applicable, in the Administration Account. Except as expressly set forth herein (including, without limitation, as set forth in Section 1.6(b)(iii) with respect to Collections held in trust for Declining Conduit Purchasers and Exiting Purchasers), the Administrator shall distribute (or cause to be distributed) such amounts to the Purchaser Agents for the Purchasers within their respective Purchaser Groups ratably (x) in the case of such amounts paid in respect of Discount and Fees, according to the Discount and Fees payable to the Purchasers and (y) in the case of such amounts paid in respect of Capital (or in respect of any other obligations other than Discount and Fees), according to the outstanding Capital funded by the Purchasers.
(ii) Except as expressly set forth herein (including, without limitation, as set forth in Section 1.6(b)(iii) with respect to Collections held in trust for Declining Conduit Purchasers and Exiting Purchasers), each Purchaser Agent shall distribute the amounts paid to it hereunder for the benefit of the Purchasers in its Purchaser Group to the Purchasers within its Purchaser Group ratably (x) in the case of such amounts paid in respect of Discount and Fees, according to the Discount and Fees payable to such Purchasers and (y) in the case of such amounts paid in respect of Capital (or in respect of any other obligations other than Discount and Fees), according to the outstanding Capital funded by such Purchasers.
(b) | The Seller or the Servicer, as the case may be, shall, to the extent permitted by law, pay to a Lock-Box Account interest on any amount not paid or deposited by the Seller or the Servicer, as the case may be, when due hereunder, at an interest rate equal to 2.0% per annum above the Base Rate, payable on demand. |
(c) | All computations of interest under clause (b) above and all computations of Discount, fees and other amounts hereunder shall be made on the basis of a year of 360 (or 365 or 366, as applicable, with respect to Discount or other amounts calculated by reference to the Base Rate) days for the actual number of days elapsed. Whenever any payment or deposit to be made hereunder shall be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment or deposit shall be made on the next Business Day and such extension of time shall be included in the computation of such payment or deposit. |
(d) | On any day when any computation or calculation hereunder requires the aggregation of amounts denominated in more than one currency, all amounts that are denominated in Australian Dollars shall be deemed to be the U.S. Dollar Equivalent thereof on such day for purposes of such computation or calculation. |
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Section 1.9 Increased Costs .
(a) | If after the Closing Date the Administrator, the LC Bank, any Purchaser Agent, any Purchaser, any Liquidity Bank, any other Program Support Provider or any of their respective Affiliates (each an Affected Person ) reasonably determines that any Change in Law affects or would affect the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by such Affected Person, and such Affected Person determines that the amount of such capital is increased by or based upon the existence of any commitment to make Investments in (or otherwise to maintain the Investments in) Pool Receivables or issue any Letter of Credit related to this Agreement or any related liquidity facility, credit enhancement facility and other commitments of the same type, then, upon demand by such Affected Person or its related Purchaser Agent (with a copy to the Administrator), the Seller shall promptly pay to the Administrator, for the account of such Affected Person, from time to time as specified by such Affected Person or its related Purchaser Agent, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Affected Person in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Affected Person reasonably determines such increase in capital to be allocable to the existence of any of such commitments. |
(b) | If due to any Change in Law there shall be any increase after the Closing Date in the cost to any Affected Person of agreeing to purchase or purchasing, or maintaining the ownership of, the Purchased Assets (or its portion thereof and including, without limitation, funding or maintaining its Capital), then, upon demand by such Affected Person, the Seller shall promptly pay to such Affected Person, from time to time as specified by such Affected Person, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Affected Person for such increased costs. |
(c) | If such increased costs affect the related Affected Persons portfolio of financing transactions, such Affected Person shall use reasonable averaging and attribution methods to allocate such increased costs to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. |
(d) | A certificate of an Affected Person (or its related Purchaser Agent) setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Affected Person as specified in clause (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Seller and the Administrator, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Seller shall pay such Affected Persons related Purchaser Agent (for the account of such Affected Person) the amount shown as due on the first Settlement Date occurring after the Sellers receipt of such certificate. |
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Failure or delay on the part of any Affected Person to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 1.9 shall not constitute a waiver of such Affected Persons right to demand such compensation; provided that the Seller shall not be required to compensate an Affected Person pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 270 days prior to the date that such Affected |
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Person, notifies the Seller of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Affected Persons intention to claim compensation therefor; provided , further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 270-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof. |
Section 1.10 Requirements of Law .
(a) If, after the Closing Date, any Affected Person determines that any Change in Law:
(i) does or shall subject such Affected Person to any Tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, any purchase of or investment in the Purchased Assets or any increase in the amount of Capital relating thereto, or does or shall change the basis of taxation of payments to such Affected Person on account of Collections, Discount or any other amounts payable hereunder (excluding Indemnified Taxes and Excluded Taxes),
(ii) does or shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by, or deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, purchases, advances or loans by, or other credit extended by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Affected Person that are not otherwise included in the determination of the Euro-Rate hereunder, or
(iii) does or shall impose on such Affected Person any other condition,
and the result of any of the foregoing is: (A) to increase the cost to such Affected Person of agreeing to purchase or purchasing or maintaining the ownership of, or issuing any Letter of Credit in respect of, the Purchased Assets (or interests therein) or any Portion of Capital, or (B) to reduce any amount receivable hereunder (whether directly or indirectly), then, in any such case, upon demand by such Affected Person, the Seller shall promptly pay to such Affected Person additional amounts necessary to compensate such Affected Person for such additional cost or reduced amount receivable. All such amounts shall be payable as incurred.
(b) A certificate of an Affected Person (or its related Purchaser Agent) setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Affected Person as specified in clause (a) of this Section and delivered to the Seller and the Administrator, shall be conclusive absent manifest error; provided , however , that no Affected Person shall be required to disclose any confidential or tax planning information in any such certificate. The Seller shall pay such Affected Persons related Purchaser Agent (for the account of such Affected Person) the amount shown as due on each Settlement Date occurring after the Sellers receipt of such certificate.
(c) Failure or delay on the part of any Affected Person to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 1.10 shall not constitute a waiver of such Affected Persons right to demand such compensation; provided that the Seller shall not be required to compensate an
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Affected Person pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 270 days prior to the date that such Affected Person, notifies the Seller of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Affected Persons intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 270-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
Section 1.11 Inability to Determine Euro-Rate .
(a) | If the Administrator (or any Purchaser Agent) determines on any day (which determination shall be final and conclusive) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the interbank eurodollar market generally, deposits in U.S. Dollars (in the relevant amounts for such Settlement Period) are not being offered to banks in the interbank eurodollar market on such day, or adequate means do not exist for ascertaining the Euro-Rate on such day, then, the Administrator or such Purchaser Agent, as applicable, shall give notice thereof to the Seller. Thereafter, until the Administrator or such Purchaser Agent notifies the Seller that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, (i) no Portion of Capital shall be funded at the Alternate Rate determined by reference to the Euro-Rate and (ii) the Discount for any outstanding Portions of Capital then funded at the Alternate Rate determined by reference to the Euro-Rate shall be converted to the Alternate Rate determined by reference to the Base Rate. |
(b) | If, on any day, the Administrator shall have been notified by any Affected Person that, such Affected Person has determined (which determination shall be final and conclusive) that, any enactment, promulgation or adoption of or any change in any Applicable Law or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by a governmental authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by such Affected Person with any guideline, request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency shall make it unlawful or impossible for such Affected Person to fund or maintain any Portion of Capital at the Alternate Rate and based upon the Euro-Rate, the Administrator shall notify the Seller thereof. Upon receipt of such notice, until the Administrator notifies the Seller that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer apply, (i) no Portion of Capital shall be funded at the Alternate Rate determined by reference to the Euro-Rate and (ii) the Discount for any outstanding Portions of Capital then funded at the Alternate Rate determined by reference to the Euro-Rate shall immediately be converted to the Alternate Rate determined by reference to the Base Rate. |
Section 1.12 Extension of the Facility Termination Date .
Provided that no Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event exists and is continuing, the Seller may request the extension of the Facility Termination Date set forth in clause (a) of the definition thereof by providing written notice to the Administrator and each
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Purchaser Agent; provided such request is made not more than 120 days prior to, and not less than 60 days prior to, the then current Facility Termination Date scheduled to occur pursuant to clause (a) of the definition thereof. In the event that the Purchasers are all agreeable to such extension, the Administrator shall so notify the Seller and the Servicer in writing ( it being understood that each Purchaser may accept or decline such a request in its sole discretion and on such terms as it may elect) not less than 30 days prior to the then current Facility Termination Date scheduled to occur pursuant to clause (a) of the definition thereof, and the Seller, the Servicer, the Sub-Servicers, the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers shall enter into such documents as the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers may deem necessary or appropriate to reflect such extension, and all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Purchasers, the Purchaser Agents and the Administrator in connection therewith (including reasonable Attorney Costs) shall be paid by the Seller. In the event any Purchaser declines the request for such extension, such Purchaser (or its Purchaser Agent) shall so notify the Administrator and the Administrator shall so notify the Seller of such determination; provided , that the failure of the Administrator to notify the Seller of the determination to decline such extension shall not affect the understanding and agreement that the applicable Purchasers shall be deemed to have refused to grant the requested extension in the event the Administrator fails to affirmatively notify the Seller, in writing, of their agreement to accept the requested extension. If the Facility Termination Date is extended with respect to one or more, but less than all Purchasers, then the Purchase Limit shall be reduced ratably with respect to the Purchasers in each Purchaser Group by an amount equal to the Commitment(s) of the Exiting Purchaser(s) and the Commitment Percentages and Group Commitments of the Purchasers within each Purchaser Group shall be appropriately adjusted.
Section 1.13 Letters of Credit .
(a) | Subject to the terms and conditions hereof (including the satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Exhibit II ), the LC Bank shall issue or cause the issuance of standby Letters of Credit denominated in either U.S. Dollars or Australian Dollars ( Letters of Credit ) at the Sellers direction, for the account of the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer (or such of the Servicers or any Sub-Servicers designee, which designee shall be a Subsidiary of such Sub-Servicer or the Servicer, as applicable); provided , however , that, for the avoidance of doubt, the LC Banks obligation to issue a Letter of Credit shall be subject in all respects to the limitations set forth in the last sentence of the first paragraph of Section 1.1(a) . |
(b) | Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein or in any other Transaction Document, the LC Bank shall be under no obligation to issue Letters of Credit requested by the Seller which are denominated in Australian Dollars if the LC Bank notifies the Seller on or prior to the date of such issuance that the issuance of such Letter of Credit, or the funding of any draw thereunder has been made or, in the case of a draw, would be made, impracticable or unlawful by compliance by the LC Bank in good-faith with any Applicable Law or any request or directive of any Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law). |
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(c) | Discount shall accrue on all amounts drawn under Letters of Credit for each day on and after the applicable Drawing Date so long as such drawn amounts shall have not been reimbursed to the LC Bank pursuant to the terms hereof. |
Section 1.14 Issuance of Letters of Credit .
(a) | The Seller may request the LC Bank, upon two (2) Business Days prior written notice submitted on or before 11:00 a.m., New York time, to issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to the Administrator an Investment Notice substantially in the form of Annex B attached hereto and the LC Banks form of Letter of Credit Application (the Letter of Credit Application ), substantially in the form of Annex E attached hereto completed to the satisfaction of the Administrator and the LC Bank; and, such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as the Administrator may reasonably request. The Seller also has the right to give instructions and make agreements with respect to any Letter of Credit Application and the disposition of documents, and to agree with the Administrator upon any amendment, extension or renewal of any Letter of Credit. |
(b) | Each Letter of Credit shall, among other things, (i) provide for the payment of sight drafts or other written demands for payment when presented for honor thereunder in accordance with the terms thereof and when accompanied by the documents described therein and (ii) have an expiry date not later than twelve (12) months after such Letter of Credits date of issuance, extension or renewal, as the case may be, and in no event later than twelve (12) months after the Facility Termination Date. The terms of each Letter of Credit may include customary evergreen provisions providing that such Letter of Credits expiry date shall automatically be extended for additional periods not to exceed twelve (12) months unless, not less than thirty (30) days (or such longer period as may be specified in such Letter of Credit) (the Notice Date ) prior to the applicable expiry date, the LC Bank delivers written notice to the beneficiary thereof declining such extension; provided , however , that if (x) any such extension would cause the expiry date of such Letter of Credit to occur after the date that is twelve (12) months after the Facility Termination Date determined pursuant to clause (a) of the definition thereof or (y) the LC Bank determines that any condition precedent to issuing such Letter of Credit hereunder are not satisfied (other than any such condition requiring the Seller to submit an Investment Notice or Letter of Credit Application in respect thereof), then the LC Bank, in the case of clause (x) above, may (or at the written direction of any LC Participant, shall) or, in the case of clause (y) above, shall, use reasonable efforts in accordance with (and to the extent permitted by) the terms of such Letter of Credit to prevent the extension of such expiry date (including notifying the Seller and the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit in writing prior to the Notice Date that such expiry date will not be so extended). Each Letter of Credit shall be subject either to the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (2007 Revision), International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 600, and any amendments or revisions thereof adhered to by the LC Bank or the International Standby Practices (ISP98-International Chamber of Commerce Publication Number 590), and any amendments or revisions thereof adhered to by the LC Bank, as determined by the LC Bank. |
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(c) | Immediately upon the issuance by the LC Bank of any Letter of Credit (or any amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof), the LC Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each LC Participant, and each LC Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from the LC Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation, to the extent of such LC Participants Pro Rata Share, in such Letter of Credit, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Seller hereunder with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto. Upon any change in the Commitments or Pro Rata Shares of the LC Participants pursuant to this Agreement, it is hereby agreed that, with respect to all outstanding Letters of Credit and unreimbursed drawings thereunder, there shall be an automatic adjustment to the participations pursuant to this Section 1.14(c) to reflect the new Pro Rata Shares of the assignor and assignee LC Participant or of all LC Participants with Commitments, as the case may be. In the event that the LC Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit and the Seller shall not have reimbursed such amount in full to the LC Bank pursuant to Section 1.16(a) , each LC Participant shall be obligated to make Participation Advances with respect to such Letter of Credit in accordance with Section 1.16(b) . |
Section 1.15 Requirements For Issuance of Letters of Credit .
The Seller shall authorize and direct the LC Bank to name the Seller, the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer (or such the Servicers or any Sub-Servicers, as applicable, designee, which designee shall be a Subsidiary of such Sub-Servicer or the Servicer, as applicable) as the Applicant or Account Party of each Letter of Credit.
Section 1.16 Disbursements, Reimbursement.
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In the event of any request for a drawing under a Letter of Credit by the beneficiary or transferee thereof, the LC Bank will promptly notify the Administrator and the Seller of such request. The Seller shall reimburse (such obligation to reimburse the LC Bank shall sometimes be referred to as a Reimbursement Obligation ) the LC Bank in U.S. Dollars prior to noon (New York City time), on each date that an amount is paid by the LC Bank under any Letter of Credit (each such date, a Drawing Date ) in an amount equal to the U.S. Dollar Equivalent (determined as of the applicable Drawing Date) of the amount so paid by the LC Bank. Such Reimbursement Obligation shall be satisfied by the Seller (i) first, by the remittance by the Administrator to the LC Bank of any available amounts denominated in the same currency as the Letter of Credit relating to such Reimbursement Obligation then on deposit in any LC Collateral Account, (ii) second, by the remittance by or on behalf of the Seller to |
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the LC Bank of any other funds of the Seller then available for disbursement and (iii) third, by the remittance by the Administrator to the LC Bank of any available amounts then on deposit in the LC Collateral Account denominated in a currency other than the currency of the Letter of Credit relating to such Reimbursement Obligation; provided , that at the time of such remittance, such amounts shall be converted to the currency of the Letter of Credit relating to such Reimbursement Obligation. In the event the Seller fails to reimburse the LC Bank for the full U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the amount of any drawing under any Letter of Credit by noon (New York City time) on the Drawing Date (including because the conditions precedent to an Investment requested by the Seller pursuant to Section 1.2 shall not have been satisfied), the LC Bank will promptly notify each LC Participant thereof. Any notice given by the LC Bank pursuant to this Section may be oral if promptly confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such a prompt written confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such oral notice. |
(b) | Each LC Participant shall upon any notice pursuant to clause (a) above make available to the LC Bank an amount in U.S. Dollars in immediately available funds equal to its Pro Rata Share of the U.S. Dollar Equivalent (determined as of the applicable Drawing Date) of the amount of the drawing (a Participation Advance ), whereupon the LC Participants shall each be deemed to have made an Investment in U.S. Dollars in that amount. If any LC Participant so notified fails to make available to the LC Bank the amount in U.S. Dollars of such LC Participants Pro Rata Share of such U.S. Dollar Equivalent amount by no later than 2:00 p.m., New York time on the Drawing Date, then interest shall accrue on such LC Participants obligation to make such payment, from the Drawing Date to the date on which such LC Participant makes such payment (i) at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate during the first three days following the Drawing Date and (ii) at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate on and after the fourth day following the Drawing Date. The LC Bank will promptly give notice of the occurrence of the Drawing Date, but failure of the LC Bank to give any such notice on the Drawing Date or in sufficient time to enable any LC Participant to effect such payment on such date shall not relieve such LC Participant from its obligation under this clause (b) . Each LC Participants Commitment shall continue until the last to occur of any of the following events: (A) the LC Bank ceases to be obligated to issue or cause to be issued Letters of Credit hereunder; (B) no Letter of Credit issued hereunder remains outstanding and uncancelled or (C) all Persons (other than the Seller) have been fully reimbursed for all payments made under or relating to Letters of Credit. |
Section 1.17 Repayment of Participation Advances .
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Upon (and only upon) receipt by the LC Bank for its account of immediately available funds from the Seller (i) in reimbursement of any payment made by the LC Bank under a Letter of Credit with respect to which any LC Participant has made a Participation Advance to the LC Bank, or (ii) in payment of Discount on |
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the Investments made or deemed to have been made in connection with any such draw, the LC Bank will pay to each LC Participant, ratably (based on the outstanding drawn amounts funded by each such LC Participant in respect of such Letter of Credit), in the same funds as those received by the LC Bank; it being understood , that the LC Bank shall retain a ratable amount of such funds that were not the subject of any payment in respect of such Letter of Credit by any LC Participant. |
(b) | If the LC Bank is required at any time to return to the Seller, or to a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian, or any official in any Insolvency Proceeding, any portion of the payments made by the Seller to the LC Bank pursuant to this Agreement in reimbursement of a payment made under the Letter of Credit or interest or fee thereon, each LC Participant shall, on demand of the LC Bank, forthwith return to the LC Bank the amount of its Pro Rata Share of any amounts so returned by the LC Bank plus interest at the Federal Funds Rate from the date the payment was first made to such LC Participant through, but not including, the date the payment is returned by such LC Participant. |
(c) | If any Letters of Credit are outstanding and undrawn on the Facility Termination Date, the LC Collateral Accounts shall be funded from Collections (or, in the Sellers sole discretion, by other funds available to the Seller) in an amount (which amount may be held in U.S. Dollars or Australian Dollars and is subject to conversion by the Administrator in accordance with Section 1.23 ) equal to the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate undrawn face amount of such Letters of Credit plus the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of all related fees to accrue through the stated expiration dates thereof, including any customary presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of the LC Bank relating to letters of credit (such fees to accrue, as reasonably estimated by the LC Bank, the LC Fee Expectation ). |
Section 1.18 Documentation .
The Seller agrees to be bound by and shall cause the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer (or such the Servicers or any Sub-Servicers, as applicable, designee, which designee shall be a Subsidiary of such Sub-Servicer or the Servicer, as applicable) named as the Applicant or Account Party of any Letter of Credit to agree to be bound by the terms of the Letter of Credit Application and by the LC Banks interpretations of any Letter of Credit issued for the Seller and by the LC Banks written regulations and customary practices relating to letters of credit, though the LC Banks interpretation of such regulations and practices may be different from the Sellers own. In the event of a conflict between the Letter of Credit Application and this Agreement, this Agreement shall govern. It is understood and agreed that, except in the case of gross negligence or willful misconduct by the LC Bank, the LC Bank shall not be liable for any error, negligence and/or mistakes, whether of omission or commission, in following the Sellers instructions or those contained in the Letters of Credit or any modifications, amendments or supplements thereto. In addition to any other fees or expenses owing under the Fee Letter or any other Transaction Document or otherwise pursuant to any Letter of Credit Application, the Seller shall
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pay to the LC Bank for its own account any customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of the LC Bank relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees shall be due and payable upon demand and shall be nonrefundable.
Section 1.19 Determination to Honor Drawing Request.
In determining whether to honor any request for drawing under any Letter of Credit by the beneficiary thereof, the LC Bank shall be responsible only to determine that the documents and certificates required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered and that they comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit and that any other drawing condition appearing on the face of such Letter of Credit has been satisfied in the manner so set forth.
Section 1.20 Nature of Participation and Reimbursement Obligations.
Each LC Participants obligation in accordance with this Agreement to make Participation Advances as a result of a drawing under a Letter of Credit, and the obligations of the Seller to reimburse the LC Bank upon a draw under a Letter of Credit, shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Article I under all circumstances, including the following circumstances:
(i) any set-off, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such LC Participant may have against the LC Bank, the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent, any Purchaser, the Seller or any other Person for any reason whatsoever;
(ii) the failure of the Seller or any other Person to comply with the conditions set forth in this Agreement for the making of an Investment, Reinvestments, requests for Letters of Credit or otherwise, it being acknowledged that such conditions are not required for the making of Participation Advances hereunder;
(iii) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit;
(iv) any claim of breach of warranty that might be made by the Seller, the LC Bank or any LC Participant against the beneficiary of a Letter of Credit, or the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right which the Seller, the LC Bank or any LC Participant may have at any time against a beneficiary, any successor beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter of Credit or the proceeds thereof (or any Persons for whom any such transferee may be acting), the LC Bank, any LC Participant, any Purchaser Agent, any Purchaser or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transaction (including any underlying transaction between the Seller or any Subsidiaries of the Seller or any Affiliates of the Seller and the beneficiary for which any Letter of Credit was procured);
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(v) the lack of power or authority of any signer of, or lack of validity, sufficiency, accuracy, enforceability or genuineness of, any draft, demand, instrument, certificate or other document presented under any Letter of Credit, or any such draft, demand, instrument, certificate or other document proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid, defective or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, even if the Administrator or the LC Bank has been notified thereof;
(vi) payment by the LC Bank under any Letter of Credit against presentation of a demand, draft or certificate or other document which does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit other than as a result of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the LC Bank;
(vii) the solvency of, or any acts or omissions by, any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit, or any other Person having a role in any transaction or obligation relating to a Letter of Credit, or the existence, nature, quality, quantity, condition, value or other characteristic of any property or services relating to a Letter of Credit;
(viii) any failure by the LC Bank or any of the LC Banks Affiliates to issue any Letter of Credit in the form requested by the Seller, unless the LC Bank has received written notice from the Seller of such failure within three Business Days after the LC Bank shall have furnished the Seller a copy of such Letter of Credit and such error is material and no drawing has been made thereon prior to receipt of such notice;
(ix) any Material Adverse Effect on the Seller, any Originator or any Affiliates thereof;
(x) any breach of this Agreement or any Transaction Document by any party thereto;
(xi) the occurrence or continuance of an Insolvency Proceeding with respect to the Seller, any Originator or any Affiliate thereof;
(xii) the fact that a Termination Event or an Unmatured Termination Event shall have occurred and be continuing;
(xiii) the fact that this Agreement or the obligations of Seller or Servicer hereunder shall have been terminated; and
(xiv) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
Nothing in this Section 1.20 shall relieve the LC Bank from liability for its gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
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Section 1.21 Indemnity .
In addition to other amounts payable hereunder, the Seller hereby agrees to protect, indemnify, pay and save harmless the Administrator, the LC Bank, each LC Participant and any of the LC Banks Affiliates that have issued a Letter of Credit from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, penalties, interest, judgments, losses, costs, charges and expenses (including Attorney Costs) which the Administrator, the LC Bank, any LC Participant or any of their respective Affiliates may incur or be subject to as a consequence, direct or indirect, of the issuance of any Letter of Credit (including any losses resulting from the amount of any Australian Dollars purchased by the LC Bank with the proceeds of U.S. Dollars received from the Seller or any LC Participant in connection with any drawing under a Letter of Credit denominated in Australian Dollars for any reason falling short of the amount of the Australian Dollars paid by the LC Bank in connection with such drawing), other than as a result of (a) the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party to be indemnified as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction or (b) the wrongful dishonor by the LC Bank or any of its Affiliates of a proper demand for payment made under any Letter of Credit, except if such dishonor resulted from any act or omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or future de jure or de facto Governmental Authority (all such acts or omissions herein called Governmental Acts ). This Section 1.21 shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim pursuant to this Section 1.21 .
Section 1.22 Liability for Acts and Omissions .
As between the Seller, on the one hand, and the Administrator, the LC Bank, the LC Participants, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers, on the other, the Seller assumes all risks of the acts and omissions of, or misuse of the Letters of Credit by, (x) the respective beneficiaries or (y) the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer (or such the Servicers or any Sub-Servicers, as applicable, designee, which designee shall be a Subsidiary of such Sub-Servicer or the Servicer, as applicable) named as the Applicant or Account Party of such Letters of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the respective foregoing, none of the Administrator, the LC Bank, the LC Participants, the Purchaser Agents or the Purchasers shall be responsible for: (i) the form, validity, sufficiency, accuracy, genuineness or legal effect of any document submitted by any party in connection with the application for an issuance of any such Letter of Credit, even if it should in fact prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged (even if the LC Bank shall have been notified thereof); (ii) the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign any such Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason; (iii) the failure of the beneficiary of any such Letter of Credit, or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred, to comply fully with any conditions required in order to draw upon such Letter of Credit or any other claim of the Seller against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit, or any such transferee, or any dispute between or among the Seller and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any such transferee; (iv) errors, omissions, interruptions or delays in transmission or delivery of any messages, by mail, cable, telegraph, telex or otherwise, whether or not they be in cipher; (v) errors in interpretation of technical terms; (vi) any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise
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of any document required in order to make a drawing under any such Letter of Credit or of the proceeds thereof; (vii) the misapplication by the beneficiary of any such Letter of Credit of the proceeds of any drawing under such Letter of Credit; or (viii) any consequences arising from causes beyond the control of the Administrator, the LC Bank, the LC Participants, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers, including any Governmental Acts, and none of the above shall affect or impair, or prevent the vesting of, any of the LC Banks rights or powers hereunder. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall relieve the LC Bank from liability for its gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, in connection with actions or omissions described in such clauses (i) through (viii) of such sentence. In no event shall the Administrator, the LC Bank, the LC Participants, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers or their respective Affiliates, be liable to the Seller or any other Person for any indirect, consequential, incidental, punitive, exemplary or special damages or expenses (including without limitation attorneys fees), or for any damages resulting from any change in the value of any property relating to a Letter of Credit.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrator, the LC Bank, the LC Participants, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers and each of their respective Affiliates (i) may rely on any written communication believed in good faith by such Person to have been authorized or given by or on behalf of the applicant for a Letter of Credit; (ii) may honor any presentation if the documents presented appear on their face to comply with the terms and conditions of the relevant Letter of Credit; (iii) may honor a previously dishonored presentation under a Letter of Credit, whether such dishonor was pursuant to a court order, to settle or compromise any claim of wrongful dishonor, or otherwise, and shall be entitled to reimbursement to the same extent as if such presentation had initially been honored, together with any interest paid by the LC Bank or its Affiliates; (iv) may honor any drawing that is payable upon presentation of a statement advising negotiation or payment, upon receipt of such statement (even if such statement indicates that a draft or other document is being delivered separately), and shall not be liable for any failure of any such draft or other document to arrive, or to conform in any way with the relevant Letter of Credit; (v) may pay any paying or negotiating bank claiming that it rightfully honored under the laws or practices of the place where such bank is located; and (vi) may settle or adjust any claim or demand made on the Administrator, the LC Bank, the LC Participants, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers or their respective Affiliates, in any way related to any order issued at the applicants request to an air carrier, a letter of guarantee or of indemnity issued to a carrier or any similar document (each an Order ) and honor any drawing in connection with any Letter of Credit that is the subject of such Order, notwithstanding that any drafts or other documents presented in connection with such Letter of Credit fail to conform in any way with such Letter of Credit.
In furtherance and extension and not in limitation of the specific provisions set forth above, any action taken or omitted by the LC Bank under or in connection with the Letters of Credit issued by it or any documents and certificates delivered thereunder, if taken or omitted in good faith and without gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, shall not put the LC Bank under any resulting liability to the Seller, any LC Participant or any other Person.
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Section 1.23 LC Collateral Accounts .
(a) | Provided that no Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event has occurred and is continuing, the Facility Termination Date has not occurred, and a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event has not occurred, the Seller may from time to time advise the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent in writing of its desire to convert certain amounts that are on deposit in an LC Collateral Account and that are denominated in one currency to another currency that is either denominated in U.S. Dollars or Australian Dollars. Following receipt of such request, the Administrator shall notify the Seller in writing whether or not the Administrator is agreeable to such conversion; provided , however , that if the Administrator fails to so notify the Seller within one Business Day, the Administrator shall be deemed to have declined such conversion request. In the event that the Administrator has so notified the Seller in writing that it is agreeable to such conversion, the Seller and the Administrator shall enter into such documents as the Administrator may deem necessary or appropriate to effect such conversion, and such conversion shall occur at such exchange rate as agreed to in writing between the Administrator and the Seller. |
(b) | At any time that a Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event has occurred and is continuing, at any time on or after the occurrence of the Facility Termination Date, at any time on or after the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event or at any time a Reimbursement Obligation is then owing, so long as the Adjusted Australian Dollar LC Participation Amount is greater than zero, the Administrator may, in its sole discretion, convert any amounts that are on deposit in an LC Collateral Account and that are denominated in one currency to U.S. Dollars or Australian Dollars. Any such conversion shall occur at the exchange rate reasonably determined by the Administrator to exist at such time of conversion and which is available to the Administrator at such time of conversion. |
(c) | In connection with any such conversion occurring pursuant to this Section 1.23 , the Seller shall promptly pay the Administrator all customary fees and expenses as well as standard costs and charges of the Administrator in connection with such conversion as well as all out-of-pocket documented costs and expenses incurred by the Administrator in connection therewith. The proceeds of any such conversion shall be deposited by the Administrator into the applicable LC Collateral Account. |
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ARTICLE II.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; COVENANTS; TERMINATION EVENTS
Section 2.1 Representations and Warranties; Covenants .
Each of the Seller, Peabody and the Servicer hereby makes the representations and warranties, and hereby agrees to perform and observe the covenants, applicable to it set forth in Exhibits III and IV , respectively.
Section 2.2 Termination Events .
If any of the Termination Events set forth in Exhibit V shall occur, the Administrator may (with the consent of the Majority Purchaser Agents) or shall (at the direction of the Majority Purchaser Agents), by notice to the Seller, declare the Facility Termination Date to have occurred (in which case the Facility Termination Date shall be deemed to have occurred); provided , that automatically upon the occurrence of any event (without any requirement for the passage of time or the giving of notice) described in paragraph (f) of Exhibit V , the Facility Termination Date shall occur. Upon any such declaration, occurrence or deemed occurrence of the Facility Termination Date, the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers shall have, in addition to the rights and remedies that they may have under this Agreement, all other rights and remedies provided after default under the New York UCC, the PPSA and under other Applicable Law, which rights and remedies shall be cumulative.
ARTICLE III.
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 3.1 Indemnities by the Seller .
Without limiting any other rights that the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers, the Liquidity Banks, any Program Support Provider or any of their respective Affiliates, employees, officers, directors, agents, counsel, successors, transferees or permitted assigns (each, an Indemnified Party ) may have hereunder or under Applicable Law, the Seller hereby agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Party from and against any and all claims, damages, expenses, costs, losses and liabilities (including Attorney Costs) (all of the foregoing being collectively referred to as Indemnified Amounts ) arising out of or resulting from this Agreement (whether directly or indirectly), the use of proceeds of Investments or Reinvestments, the ownership of any portion of the Purchased Assets, or any interest therein, or in respect of any Receivable, Related Security or Contract, excluding, however: (a) Indemnified Amounts to the extent resulting from gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such Indemnified Party or its employees, officers, directors, agents, counsel, successors, transferees or permitted assigns or (b) any indemnification which has the effect of recourse for the non-payment of the Receivables to any indemnitor (except as otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement). Without limiting or being limited by the foregoing, and subject to the exclusions set forth in the preceding sentence, the Seller shall pay on demand (which demand shall be accompanied by documentation of the Indemnified Amounts, in reasonable detail) to each Indemnified Party any
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and all amounts necessary to indemnify such Indemnified Party from and against any and all Indemnified Amounts relating to or resulting from any of the following:
(i) the failure of any Receivable included in the calculation of the Net Receivables Pool Balance as an Eligible Receivable to be an Eligible Receivable, the failure of any information contained in an Information Package or Interim Report to be true and correct on the date thereof (or, if such information is stated therein to be as of a different date, on such different date), or the failure of any other information provided to any Purchaser or the Administrator with respect to Receivables or this Agreement to be true and correct on the date so provided (or, if such information is stated therein to be as of a different date, on such different date),
(ii) the failure of any representation, warranty or statement made or deemed made by the Seller (or any of its officers) under or in connection with this Agreement to have been true and correct as of the date made or deemed made in all respects when made,
(iii) the failure by the Seller to comply with any Applicable Law with respect to any Pool Receivable or the related Contract, or the failure of any Pool Receivable or the related Contract to conform to any such Applicable Law,
(iv) the failure to vest in the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) a valid and enforceable first priority perfected ownership or security interest in the Pool Assets, free and clear of any Adverse Claim,
(v) the failure to have filed, or any delay in filing, financing statements or other similar instruments or documents under the UCC or PPSA of any applicable jurisdiction or other Applicable Laws with respect to any Receivables in, or purporting to be in, the Receivables Pool and the other Pool Assets against Peabody, the Seller or any Originator, whether at the time of any Investment or Reinvestment or at any subsequent time,
(vi) any dispute, claim, offset or defense (other than discharge in bankruptcy of the Obligor) of the Obligor to the payment of any Receivable in, or purporting to be in, the Receivables Pool (including a defense based on such Receivable or the related Contract not being a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Obligor enforceable against it in accordance with its terms), or any other claim resulting from the sale of the goods or services related to such Receivable or the furnishing or failure to furnish such goods or services or relating to collection activities with respect to such Receivable (if such collection activities were performed by the Seller or any of its Affiliates acting as Servicer or by any agent or independent contractor retained by the Seller or any of its Affiliates),
(vii) any failure of the Seller (or any of its Affiliates acting as the Servicer) to perform its duties or obligations in accordance with the provisions hereof or under the Contracts,
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(viii) any products liability or other claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding arising out of or in connection with merchandise, insurance or services that are the subject of any Contract,
(ix) the commingling of Collections at any time with other funds,
(x) the use of proceeds of Investments or Reinvestments, or
(xi) any reduction in Capital as a result of the distribution of Collections pursuant to Section 1.6(d) , if all or a portion of such distributions shall thereafter be rescinded or otherwise must be returned for any reason.
This Section 3.1 shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim pursuant to this Section 3.1 .
Section 3.2 Indemnities by the Servicer .
Without limiting any other rights that any Indemnified Party may have hereunder or under Applicable Law, the Servicer hereby agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Party from and against any and all Indemnified Amounts arising out of or resulting from (whether directly or indirectly): (a) the failure of any information contained in an Information Package or Interim Report to be true and correct on the date thereof (or, if such information is stated therein to be as of a different date, on such different date), or the failure of any other information provided to any such Indemnified Party by, or on behalf of, the Servicer to be true and correct on the date so provided (or, if such information is stated therein to be as of a different date, on such different date), (b) the failure of any representation, warranty or statement made or deemed made by the Servicer (or any of its officers) under or in connection with this Agreement to have been true and correct as of the date made or deemed made in all respects when made, (c) the failure by the Servicer to comply with any Applicable Law with respect to any Pool Receivable or the related Contract, (d) any dispute, claim, offset or defense of the Obligor to the payment of any Receivable in, or purporting to be in, the Receivables Pool resulting from or related to the collection activities with respect to such Receivable, or (e) any failure of the Servicer to perform its duties or obligations in accordance with the provisions hereof.
ARTICLE IV.
ADMINISTRATION AND COLLECTIONS
Section 4.1 Appointment of the Servicer .
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The servicing, administering and collection of the Pool Receivables shall be conducted by the Person so designated from time to time as the Servicer in accordance with this Section. Until the Administrator gives notice to Peabody (in accordance with this Section) of the designation of a new Servicer, Peabody is hereby designated as, and hereby agrees to perform the duties and obligations of, the Servicer pursuant to the terms hereof. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Administrator may designate as Servicer any Person (including itself) |
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to succeed Peabody or any successor Servicer, on the condition in each case that any such Person so designated shall agree to perform the duties and obligations of the Servicer pursuant to the terms hereof. |
(b) | Upon the designation of a successor Servicer as set forth in clause (a) above, Peabody agrees that it will terminate its activities as Servicer hereunder in a manner that the Administrator determines will facilitate the transition of the performance of such activities to the new Servicer, and Peabody shall cooperate with and assist such new Servicer. Such cooperation shall include access to and transfer of related records and use by the new Servicer of all licenses, hardware or software necessary or desirable to collect the Pool Receivables and the Related Security. |
(c) | Peabody acknowledges that, in making their decision to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Administrator and the Purchasers have relied on Peabodys agreement to act as Servicer hereunder. Accordingly, Peabody agrees that it will not voluntarily resign as Servicer. |
(d) | The Servicer may and hereby does delegate its duties and obligations hereunder to the Sub-Servicers; provided , that, in such delegation: (i) each such Sub-Servicer shall and hereby does agree in writing to perform the duties and obligations of the Servicer pursuant to the terms hereof, (ii) the Servicer shall remain primarily liable for the performance of the duties and obligations so delegated, (iii) the Seller, the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers shall have the right to look solely to the Servicer for performance, and (iv) the terms of any agreement with any Sub-Servicer shall and hereby do provide that the Administrator may terminate such agreement upon the termination of the Servicer hereunder by giving notice of its desire to terminate such agreement to the Servicer (and the Servicer shall provide appropriate notice to each such Sub-Servicer); provided , however , that if any such delegation is to any Person other than any Person party hereto as a Sub-Servicer, the Administrator shall have consented in writing in advance to such delegation; provided , further , any Australian Sub-Servicer will not have any duty or obligation with respect to any U.S. Originator Receivable. |
Section 4.2 Duties of the Servicer .
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The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such action as may be necessary or advisable to administer and collect each Pool Receivable from time to time, all in accordance with this Agreement and all Applicable Laws, with reasonable care and diligence, and in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy. The Servicer shall set aside, for the accounts of the Seller, the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers, the amount of the Collections to which each is entitled in accordance with Article I . The Servicer may, in accordance with the applicable Credit and Collection Policy, extend the maturity of any Pool Receivable and extend the maturity or adjust the Outstanding Balance of any |
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Defaulted Receivable as the Servicer may determine to be appropriate to maximize Collections thereof; provided , however , that: for the purposes of this Agreement, (i) such extension shall not change the number of days such Pool Receivable has remained unpaid from the date of the invoice date related to such Pool Receivable, (ii) such extension or adjustment shall not alter the status of such Pool Receivable as a Delinquent Receivable or a Defaulted Receivable or limit the rights of any of the Purchasers, the Purchaser Agents or the Administrator under this Agreement and (iii) if a Termination Event has occurred and is continuing and Peabody or an Affiliate thereof is serving as the Servicer, Peabody or such Affiliate may make such extension or adjustment only upon the prior approval of the Administrator. The Seller shall deliver to the Servicer and the Servicer shall hold for the benefit of the Seller and the Administrator (individually and for the benefit of the Purchasers), in accordance with their respective interests, all records and documents (including computer tapes or disks) with respect to each Pool Receivable. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Administrator may direct the Servicer (whether the Servicer is Peabody or any other Person) to commence or settle any legal action to enforce collection of any Pool Receivable or to foreclose upon or repossess any Related Security. |
(b) | The Servicer shall, as soon as practicable following actual receipt of collected funds, turn over to the Seller the collections of any indebtedness that is not a Pool Receivable, less, if Peabody or an Affiliate thereof is not the Servicer, all reasonable and appropriate out-of-pocket costs and expenses of such Servicer of servicing, collecting and administering such collections. The Servicer, if other than Peabody or an Affiliate thereof, shall, as soon as practicable upon demand, deliver to the Seller all records in its possession that evidence or relate to any indebtedness that is not a Pool Receivable, and copies of records in its possession that evidence or relate to any indebtedness that is a Pool Receivable. |
(c) | The Servicers obligations hereunder shall terminate on the Final Payout Date. |
After such termination, if Peabody or an Affiliate thereof was not the Servicer on the date of such termination, the Servicer shall promptly deliver to the Seller all books, records and related materials that the Seller previously provided to the Servicer, or that have been obtained by the Servicer, in connection with this Agreement.
Section 4.3 Lock-Box Arrangements .
Subject to Section 5.21 , prior to the Closing Date, the Seller shall have entered into Lock-Box Agreements with all of the Lock-Box Banks and delivered executed counterparts thereof to the Administrator. During the continuance of a Termination Event, Unmatured Termination Event or following the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event, the Administrator may (and shall, at the direction of the Majority Purchaser Agents), at any time thereafter give notice to each Lock-Box Bank that the Administrator is exercising its rights under the Lock-Box Agreements to do any or all of the following: (a) to exercise exclusive dominion
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and control (for the benefit of the Purchasers) over each of the Lock-Box Accounts and all funds on deposit therein and (b) to take any or all other actions permitted under the applicable Lock-Box Agreement. The Seller and the Servicer each hereby agree that if the Administrator at any time takes any action set forth in the preceding sentence, the Administrator shall have exclusive control (for the benefit of the Purchasers) of the proceeds (including Collections) of all Pool Receivables and the Seller and the Servicer hereby further agree to take any other action that the Administrator may reasonably request to transfer such control or to ensure that the Administrator maintains such control. Any proceeds of Pool Receivables received by the Seller or the Servicer thereafter shall be sent immediately to, or as otherwise instructed by, the Administrator. Following the occurrence and continuation of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event, so long as the Administrator has taken exclusive dominion and control over each of the Lock-Box Accounts and no Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event exists, the Administrator shall instruct the Lock-Box Banks to transfer all available amounts on deposit in the Lock-Box Accounts as of the end of each Business Day and after giving effect to any distributions to the Servicer on such day pursuant to Section 1.6(g) , to the LC Collateral Accounts.
The Administrator shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over the LC Collateral Accounts. Amounts, if any, on deposit in the LC Collateral Accounts on the Final Payout Date shall be remitted by the Administrator to the Seller.
The Administrator shall, on each Settlement Date (if such date occurs on a Termination Day), remove any available amounts then on deposit in the LC Collateral Accounts and deposit such amounts into each Purchaser Agents account in accordance with the priorities set forth in Section 1.6(d) , to the extent that any amounts are then due and owing under clauses first through second of Section 1.6(d)(ii) after giving effect to the distribution, if any, by the Servicer on such date in accordance with Section 1.6(d) .
Section 4.4 Enforcement Rights .
(a) | At any time following the occurrence and during the continuation of a Termination Event: |
(i) the Administrator may direct the Obligors that payment of all amounts payable under any Pool Receivable is to be made directly to the Administrator or its designee (on behalf of the Purchasers),
(ii) the Administrator may instruct the Seller or the Servicer to give notice of the Purchasers interest in Pool Receivables (other than, in the case of an Australian Originator, Pool Receivables which are Trust Receivables) to each Obligor, which notice shall direct that payments be made directly to the Administrator or its designee (on behalf of the Purchasers), and the Seller or the Servicer, as the case may be, shall give such notice at the expense of the Seller or the Servicer, as the case may be; provided , that if the Seller or the Servicer, as the case may be, fails to so notify each Obligor within two (2) Business Days following instruction by the Administrator, the Administrator (at the Sellers or the Servicers, as the case may be, expense) may so notify the Obligors, and
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(iii) the Administrator may request the Servicer to, and upon such request the Servicer shall: (A) assemble all of the records necessary or desirable to collect the Pool Receivables and the Related Security, and transfer or license to a successor Servicer the use of all software necessary or desirable to collect the Pool Receivables and the Related Security, and make the same available to the Administrator or its designee (for the benefit of the Purchasers) at a place selected by the Administrator, and (B) segregate all cash, checks and other instruments received by it from time to time constituting Collections in a manner acceptable to the Administrator and, promptly upon receipt, remit all such cash, checks and instruments, duly endorsed or with duly executed instruments of transfer, to the Administrator or its designee (on behalf of the Purchasers); and
(iv) the Administrator may replace the Person then acting as Servicer.
(b) | The Seller hereby authorizes the Administrator, and irrevocably appoints the Administrator as its attorney-in-fact with full power of substitution and with full authority in the place and stead of the Seller, which appointment is coupled with an interest, to take any and all steps in the name of the Seller and on behalf of the Seller necessary or desirable following the occurrence and during the continuation of a Termination Event, in the determination of the Administrator, to collect any and all amounts or portions thereof due under any and all Pool Assets, including endorsing the name of the Seller on checks and other instruments representing Collections and enforcing such Pool Assets. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this subsection, none of the powers conferred upon such attorney-in-fact pursuant to the preceding sentence shall subject such attorney-in-fact to any liability if any action taken by it shall prove to be inadequate or invalid, nor shall they confer any obligations upon such attorney-in-fact in any manner whatsoever. |
(c) | For the purposes of the power of attorney granted under Section 8.5 of the Australian Sale Agreement: |
(i) the Contributor nominates each of the Seller and the Administrator as its nominees, and each Australian Originator acknowledges that each of the Seller and the Administrator are the nominees of the Contributor and therefore each of the Contributor, the Seller and the Administrator severally are an attorney of each Australian Originator; and
(ii) at any time following a Title Perfection Event (under and as defined in the Australian Sale Agreement, the Administrator may instruct the Seller or Contributor to enforce any rights granted under Article VIII of the Australian Sale Agreement.
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Section 4.5 Responsibilities of the Seller .
(a) | Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Seller shall: (i) perform all of its obligations, if any, under the Contracts related to the Pool Receivables to the same extent as if such Pool Receivables had not been transferred hereunder, and the exercise by the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser of their respective rights hereunder shall not relieve the Seller from such obligations, and (ii) pay when due any taxes, including any sales taxes payable in connection with the Pool Receivables and their creation and satisfaction. Neither the Administrator nor any Purchaser Agent nor any Purchaser shall have any obligation or liability with respect to any Pool Asset, nor shall any of them be obligated to perform any of the obligations of the Seller, Peabody or any Originator thereunder. |
(b) | Peabody hereby irrevocably agrees that if at any time it shall cease to be the Servicer hereunder, it shall act (if the then-current Servicer so requests) as the data-processing agent of the Servicer and, in such capacity, Peabody shall conduct the data-processing functions of the administration of the Receivables and the Collections thereon in substantially the same way that Peabody conducted such data-processing functions while it acted as the Servicer. |
Section 4.6 Servicing Fee .
(a) | Subject to clause (b) , the Servicer shall be paid a fee equal to 1.00% per annum (the Servicing Fee Rate ) of the daily average aggregate Outstanding Balance of the Pool Receivables. Such fee shall be paid through the distributions contemplated by Section 1.6(d) . |
(b) | If the Servicer ceases to be Peabody or an Affiliate thereof, the servicing fee shall be the greater of: (i) the amount calculated pursuant to clause (a) , and (ii) an alternative amount specified by the successor Servicer not to exceed 110% of the aggregate reasonable costs and expenses incurred by such successor Servicer in connection with the performance of its obligations as Servicer. |
Section 4.7 Agents .
(a) | Appointment and Authorization . |
(i) Each Purchaser and Purchaser Agent hereby irrevocably designates and appoints PNC Bank, National Association, as the Administrator hereunder and authorizes the Administrator to take such actions and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrator hereby and to exercise such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrator shall hold, in its name, for the benefit of each Purchaser, ratably, the Purchased Assets. The Administrator shall not have any duties other than those expressly set forth herein or any fiduciary relationship with any Purchaser or Purchaser Agent, and no implied obligations or liabilities shall be read into
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this Agreement, or otherwise exist, against the Administrator. The Administrator does not assume, nor shall it be deemed to have assumed, any obligation to, or relationship of trust or agency with, the Seller, the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to the contrary, in no event shall the Administrator ever be required to take any action which exposes the Administrator to personal liability or which is contrary to the provision of any Transaction Document or Applicable Law.
(ii) Each Purchaser hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the respective institution identified as the Purchaser Agent for such Purchasers Purchaser Group on the signature pages hereto or in the Assumption Agreement or Transfer Supplement pursuant to which such Purchaser becomes a party hereto, and each authorizes such Purchaser Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to such Purchaser Agent by the terms of this Agreement, if any, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, no Purchaser Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Purchaser or other Purchaser Agent or the Administrator, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities on the part of such Purchaser Agent shall be read into this Agreement or otherwise exist against such Purchaser Agent.
(iii) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement, the provisions of this Section 4.7 are solely for the benefit of the Purchaser Agents, the Administrator and the Purchasers, and none of the Seller, the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer shall have any rights as a third-party beneficiary or otherwise under any of the provisions of this Section 4.7 , except that this Section 4.7 shall not affect any obligations which any Purchaser Agent, the Administrator or any Purchaser may have to the Seller, the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer under the other provisions of this Agreement. Furthermore, no Purchaser shall have any rights as a third-party beneficiary or otherwise under any of the provisions hereof in respect of a Purchaser Agent which is not the Purchaser Agent for such Purchaser.
(iv) In performing its functions and duties hereunder, the Administrator shall act solely as the agent of the Purchasers and the Purchaser Agents and does not assume nor shall be deemed to have assumed any obligation or relationship of trust or agency with or for the Seller, the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer or any of their successors and assigns. In performing its functions and duties hereunder, each Purchaser Agent shall act solely as the agent of its respective Purchaser and does not assume nor shall be deemed to have assumed any obligation or relationship of trust or agency with or for the Seller, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer any other Purchaser, any other Purchaser Agent or the Administrator, or any of their respective successors and assigns.
(b) | Delegation of Duties . The Administrator may execute any of its duties through agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrator shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with reasonable care. |
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(c) | Exculpatory Provisions . None of the Purchaser Agents, the Administrator or any of their respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or omitted (i) with the consent or at the direction of the Majority Purchaser Agents (or in the case of any Purchaser Agent, the Purchasers within its Purchaser Group that have a majority of the aggregate Commitment of such Purchaser Group) or (ii) in the absence of such Persons gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Administrator shall not be responsible to any Purchaser, Purchaser Agent or other Person for (i) any recitals, representations, warranties or other statements made by the Seller, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer, any Originator or any of their Affiliates, (ii) the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of any Transaction Document, (iii) any failure of the Seller, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer, any Originator or any of their Affiliates to perform any obligation hereunder or under the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party (or under any Contract), or (iv) the satisfaction of any condition specified in Exhibit II . The Administrator shall not have any obligation to any Purchaser or Purchaser Agent to ascertain or inquire about the observance or performance of any agreement contained in any Transaction Document or to inspect the properties, books or records of the Seller, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer, any Originator or any of their respective Affiliates. |
(d) | Reliance by Agents . |
(i) Each Purchaser Agent and the Administrator shall in all cases be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any document or other writing or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to the Seller or the Servicer), independent accountants and other experts selected by the Administrator. Each Purchaser Agent and the Administrator shall in all cases be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under any Transaction Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Majority Purchaser Agents (or in the case of any Purchaser Agent, the Purchasers within its Purchaser Group that have a majority of the aggregate Commitment of such Purchaser Group), and assurance of its indemnification, as it deems appropriate.
(ii) The Administrator shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement in accordance with a request of the Majority Purchaser Agents or the Purchaser Agents, and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all Purchasers, the Administrator and Purchaser Agents.
(iii) The Purchasers within each Purchaser Group with a majority of the Commitment of such Purchaser Group shall be entitled to request or direct the related Purchaser Agent to take action, or refrain from taking action, under this Agreement on
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behalf of all of the Purchasers within such Purchaser Group. Each Purchaser Agent also shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement in accordance with a request of the Majority Purchaser Agents, and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all of such Purchaser Agents Purchasers.
(iv) Unless otherwise advised in writing by a Purchaser Agent or by any Purchaser on whose behalf such Purchaser Agent is purportedly acting, each party to this Agreement may assume that (i) such Purchaser Agent is acting for the benefit of each of the Purchasers in respect of which such Purchaser Agent is identified as being the Purchaser Agent in the definition of Purchaser Agent hereto, as well as for the benefit of each assignee or other transferee from any such Person, and (ii) each action taken by such Purchaser Agent has been duly authorized and approved by all necessary action on the part of the Purchasers on whose behalf it is purportedly acting. Each Purchaser Agent and its Purchaser(s) shall agree amongst themselves as to the circumstances and procedures for removal, resignation and replacement of such Purchaser Agent. Each Purchaser shall promptly notify the Seller, the Servicer and the Administrator in writing of any removal, resignation or replacement of such Purchasers Purchaser Agent.
(e) | Notice of Termination Events . Neither any Purchaser Agent nor the Administrator shall be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event unless such Purchaser Agent or the Administrator, as applicable, has received notice from any Purchaser, Purchaser Agent, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer or the Seller stating that a Termination Event or an Unmatured Termination Event has occurred hereunder and describing such Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event. In the event that the Administrator receives such a notice, it shall promptly give notice thereof to each Purchaser Agent whereupon each such Purchaser Agent shall promptly give notice thereof to its related Purchasers. In the event that a Purchaser Agent receives such a notice (other than from the Administrator), it shall promptly give notice thereof to the Administrator. The Administrator shall take such action concerning a Termination Event or an Unmatured Termination Event as may be directed by the Majority Purchaser Agents (unless such action otherwise requires the consent of all Purchasers, the LC Bank and/or the Required LC Participants), but until the Administrator receives such directions, the Administrator may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, as the Administrator deems advisable and in the best interests of the Purchasers and the Purchaser Agents. |
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Non-Reliance on Administrator, Purchaser Agents and Other Purchasers . Each Purchaser expressly acknowledges that none of the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or Affiliates has made any representations or warranties to it and that no act by the Administrator, or any Purchaser Agent hereafter taken, including any review of the affairs of the Seller, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer, |
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any Originator or any of their respective Affiliates, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Administrator or such Purchaser Agent, as applicable. Each Purchaser represents and warrants to the Administrator and the Purchaser Agents that, independently and without reliance upon the Administrator, Purchaser Agents or any other Purchaser and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, it has made and will continue to make its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property, prospects, financial and other conditions and creditworthiness of the Seller, the Servicer, the Sub-Servicers, the Originators and the Receivables and its own decision to enter into this Agreement and to take, or omit, action under any Transaction Document. Except for items specifically required to be delivered hereunder, the Administrator shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser with any information concerning the Seller, the Servicer, the Sub-Servicers, the Originators or any of their Affiliates that comes into the possession of the Administrator or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or Affiliates. |
(g) | Administrators and Affiliates . Each of the Purchasers, the Purchaser Agents and the Administrator and any of their respective Affiliates may extend credit to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, debt, entity or other business with the Seller, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer, any Originator or any of their Affiliates. With respect to the acquisition of the Eligible Receivables pursuant to this Agreement, each of the Purchaser Agents and the Administrator shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any Purchaser and may exercise the same as though it were not such an agent, and the terms Purchaser and Purchasers shall include, to the extent applicable, each of the Purchaser Agents and the Administrator in their individual capacities. |
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Indemnification . Each LC Participant and Committed Purchaser shall indemnify and hold harmless the Administrator (solely in its capacity as Administrator) and the LC Bank (solely in its capacity as LC Bank) and their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents (to the extent not reimbursed by the Seller, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer or any Originator and without limiting the obligation of the Seller, the Servicer, any Sub-Servicer or any Originator to do so), ratably (based on its Commitment) from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, settlements, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever (including in connection with any investigative or threatened proceeding, whether or not the Administrator, the LC Bank or such Person shall be designated a party thereto) that may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrator, the LC Bank or such Person as a result of, or related to, any action taken or omitted by the Administrator or the LC Bank under the Transaction Documents, any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the execution, delivery or performance of the Transaction Documents or any |
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other document furnished in connection therewith (but excluding any such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, settlements, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting solely from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Administrator, the LC Bank or such Person as determined by a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each LC Participant agrees to reimburse the Administrator and the LC Bank, ratably according to its Pro Rata Share, promptly upon demand, for any out of pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) incurred by the Administrator or the LC Bank in connection with the administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of, its rights and responsibilities under this Agreement. |
(i) | Successor Administrator . The Administrator may, upon at least thirty (30) days notice to the Seller, the Servicer and each Purchaser Agent, resign as Administrator. Such resignation shall not become effective until a successor Administrator is appointed by the Majority Purchaser Agents, with the consent of the Seller (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and which consent shall not be required if a Termination Event shall have occurred and is continuing), and has accepted such appointment. Upon such acceptance of its appointment as Administrator hereunder by a successor Administrator, such successor Administrator shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights and duties of the retiring Administrator, and the retiring Administrator shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Transaction Documents. After any retiring Administrators resignation hereunder, the provisions of Sections 3.1 and 3.2 and this Section 4.7 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Administrator. |
(j) | Security Interest Filings . Each of the Seller, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers expressly recognizes and agrees that the Administrator may be listed as the assignee or secured party of record on the various UCC or PPSA filings required to be made hereunder in order to perfect the sale of the Purchased Assets from the Seller to the Purchasers, that such listing shall be for administrative convenience only in creating a record or nominee owner to take certain actions hereunder on behalf of the Purchasers and that such listing will not affect in any way the status of the Purchasers as the owners of the Purchased Assets. In addition, such listing shall impose no duties on the Administrator other than those expressly and specifically undertaken in accordance with this clause (j) . |
ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 5.1 Amendments, Etc .
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Subject to clause (b) of this Section, no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or consent to any departure |
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by the Seller, the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer therefrom, shall be effective unless in a writing signed by the Administrator, the LC Bank, the Majority Purchaser Agents and the Majority LC Participants; provided , however , that no such amendment shall (i) decrease the outstanding amount of, or extend the repayment of or any scheduled payment date for the payment of, any Discount in respect of any Portion of Capital or any Fees owed to a Purchaser without the prior written consent of such Purchaser; (ii) forgive or waive or otherwise excuse any repayment of Capital without the prior written consent of each Purchaser affected thereby; (iii) increase the Commitment of any Purchaser without its prior written consent; (iv) amend or modify the Pro Rata Share of any LC Participant without its prior written consent; (v) amend or modify the provisions of this Section 5.1 or the definition of Majority Purchaser Agents, Majority LC Participants, or Required LC Participants without the prior written consent of all Purchaser Agents, the LC Bank and all LC Participants; (vi) [Reserved]; (vii) without the prior written consent of all Purchasers affected thereby, extend the Facility Termination Date or waive, amend or otherwise modify the definition of Facility Termination Date; (viii) amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or the LC Bank hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrator, such Purchaser Agent or the LC Bank, as the case may be; and (ix) amend, waive or modify any definition or provision expressly requiring the consent of the Required LC Participants without the prior written consent of the LC Bank and the Required LC Participants, and, in the case of any amendment, by the other parties thereto; and then such amendment, waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. No failure on the part of the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser to exercise, and no delay in exercising any right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. |
(b) | At any time during the thirty (30) days following the date on which the Administrator completes its review of the results of an audit described in Section 5.4 , Section 1(h) of Exhibit IV to this Agreement or Section 2(f) of Exhibit IV to this Agreement (such audit, a Field Examination ), the consent of the Seller, the Servicer or any Sub-Servicer shall not be required for any amendment to the definitions of Net Receivables Pool Balance, Eligible Receivables, Total Reserves, Pre-Review Australian Contract, Permitted Australian Contract or any of their components if such amendment is deemed necessary by the Administrator in its sole and reasonable discretion after consultation with the Servicer in order to adjust such definitions and their components to meet the credit standards applied by the Administrator and the Purchasers when they entered into this Agreement in connection with any changes in the composition or characteristics (including, without limitation, credit quality, dilution and loss experience, tenor and terms) of the Pool Receivables since the preceding Field Examination. The Administrator agrees to provide a copy of the final results of the Field Examination to the Servicer within two (2) Business Days of its receipt thereof. |
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Section 5.2 Notices, Etc .
All notices and other communications hereunder shall, unless otherwise stated herein, be in writing (including facsimile or electronic mail communication) and shall be personally delivered or sent by facsimile or electronic mail, or by overnight mail, to the intended party at the mailing address, e-mail address or facsimile number of such party set forth on Schedule VI hereto (or in any other document or agreement pursuant to which it is or became a party hereto), or at such other mailing address, e-mail address or facsimile number as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties hereto. All such notices and communications shall be effective (i) if delivered by overnight mail, when received, and (ii) if transmitted by facsimile or electronic mail, when sent, receipt confirmed by telephone or electronic means.
Section 5.3 Successors and Assigns; Assignability; Participations .
(a) | Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.1(d) , neither the Seller nor the Servicer may assign or transfer any of its rights or delegate any of its duties hereunder or under any Transaction Document without the prior consent of the Administrator, the LC Bank, the Required LC Participants and the Purchaser Agents. |
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Participations . (i) Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, any Purchaser may sell to one or more Persons (each a Participant ) participating interests in the interests of such Purchaser hereunder. Such Purchaser shall remain solely responsible for performing its obligations hereunder, and the Seller, the Servicer, each Purchaser Agent and the Administrator shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Purchaser in connection with such Purchasers rights and obligations hereunder. A Purchaser shall not agree with a Participant to restrict such Purchasers right to agree to any amendment or waiver of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, except such amendments or waivers that require the consent of all Purchasers; provided , that no such agreement between any Purchaser and any such Participant shall be binding upon the other parties hereto. (ii) Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (a) or clause (i) of paragraph (b) of this Section 5.3 , each of the LC Bank and each LC Participant may sell participations in all or any part of any Investment made by such LC Participant to another bank or other entity so long as (i) no such sale of a participation shall, without the consent of the Seller, require the Seller to file a registration statement with the SEC and (ii) no holder of any such participation shall be entitled to require such LC Participant to take or omit to take any action hereunder except that such LC Participant may agree with such participant that, without such Participants consent, such LC Participant will not consent to an amendment, modification or waiver referred to in Section 5.1 . Any such Participant shall not have any rights hereunder or under the Transaction |
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Documents. Each Purchaser that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Seller, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the Investments (and Discount, fees and other similar amounts under this Agreement) of each Participants interest in the interests of such Purchaser under the Transaction Documents (the Participant Register ); provided that no Purchaser shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participants interest in any interest of a Purchaser hereunder or other obligations under any Transaction Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such interest or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Purchaser shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrator (in its capacity as the Administrator) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register. |
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Assignments by Certain Committed Purchasers . Any Committed Purchaser may assign to one or more Persons (each a Purchasing Committed Purchaser ), reasonably acceptable to the Administrator, the LC Bank and the related Purchaser Agent in its sole discretion, any portion of its Commitment (which shall be inclusive of its Commitment as an LC Participant) pursuant to a supplement hereto, substantially in the form of Annex G with any changes as are reasonably acceptable to the Administrator (each, a Transfer Supplement ), executed by each such Purchasing Committed Purchaser, such selling Committed Purchaser, such related Purchaser Agent and the Administrator and with the consent of the Seller ( provided , that the consent of the Seller shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and that no such consent shall be required if a Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event has occurred and is continuing; provided , further , that no consent of the Seller shall be required if the assignment is made by any Committed Purchaser to the Administrator, to any Purchaser Agent, to any other Committed Purchaser, to any Affiliate of the Administrator or any Committed Purchaser, to any Program Support Provider or any Person which (i) is in the business of issuing commercial paper notes and (ii) is associated with or administered by the Administrator or any Affiliate of the Administrator). Any such assignment by Committed Purchaser may not be for an amount less than $10,000,000. Upon (i) the execution of the Transfer Supplement, (ii) delivery of an executed copy thereof to the Seller, the Servicer, such related Purchaser Agent and the Administrator and (iii) payment by the Purchasing Committed Purchaser to the selling Committed Purchaser of the agreed purchase price, if any, such selling Committed Purchaser shall be released from its obligations hereunder to the extent of such assignment and such Purchasing Committed Purchaser shall for all purposes be a Committed Purchaser party hereto and shall have all the rights and obligations of a Committed Purchaser hereunder to the same extent as if it |
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were an original party hereto. The amount of the Commitment of the selling Committed Purchaser allocable to such Purchasing Committed Purchaser shall be equal to the amount of the Commitment of the selling Committed Purchaser transferred regardless of the purchase price, if any, paid therefor. |
(d) | Assignments to Liquidity Banks and other Program Support Providers . Any Conduit Purchaser may at any time grant to one or more of its Liquidity Banks or other Program Support Providers, interests in its portion of the Purchased Assets. In the event of any such grant by such Conduit Purchaser of an interest to a Liquidity Bank or other Program Support Provider, such Conduit Purchaser shall remain responsible for the performance of its obligations hereunder. The Seller agrees that each Liquidity Bank and Program Support Provider of any Conduit Purchaser hereunder shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 1.9 and 1.10 . |
(e) | Other Assignment by Conduit Purchasers . Each party hereto agrees and consents (i) to any Conduit Purchasers assignment, grant of security interests in or other transfers of any portion of its interest in the Purchased Assets, including without limitation to any collateral agent in connection with its commercial paper program and (ii) to the complete assignment by any Conduit Purchaser of all of its rights and obligations hereunder to any other Person, and upon such assignment such Conduit Purchaser shall be released from all obligations and duties, if any, hereunder; provided , that such Conduit Purchaser may not, without the prior consent of its Committed Purchasers, make any such transfer of its rights hereunder unless the assignee (i) is principally engaged in the purchase of assets similar to the assets being purchased hereunder, (ii) has as its Purchaser Agent the Purchaser Agent of the assigning Conduit Purchaser and (iii) issues commercial paper or other Notes with credit ratings substantially comparable to the ratings of the assigning Conduit Purchaser. Any assigning Conduit Purchaser shall deliver to any assignee a Transfer Supplement with any changes as have been approved by the parties thereto, duly executed by such Conduit Purchaser, assigning any portion of its interest in the Purchased Assets to its assignee. Such Conduit Purchaser shall promptly (i) notify each of the other parties hereto of such assignment and (ii) take all further action that the assignee reasonably requests in order to evidence the assignees right, title and interest in such interest in the Purchased Assets and to enable the assignee to exercise or enforce any rights of such Conduit Purchaser hereunder. Upon the assignment of any portion of its interest in the Purchased Assets, the assignee shall have all of the rights hereunder with respect to such interest (except that the Discount therefor shall thereafter accrue at the rates determined with respect to the assigning Conduit Purchaser unless the Seller, the related Purchaser Agent and the assignee shall have agreed upon a different Discount). |
(f) | Opinions of Counsel . If required by the Administrator or the applicable Purchaser Agent, each Transfer Supplement or other assignment and acceptance agreement must be accompanied by an opinion of counsel of the assignee as to such matters as the Administrator or such Purchaser Agent may reasonably request. |
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(g) | In addition to the foregoing and notwithstanding any otherwise applicable limitations on, or requirements for, pledges, assignments and participations set forth in this Section 5.3 , any Purchaser may pledge, participate or assign any of its rights (including, without limitation, rights to payment of Capital and Discount) under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents to any Federal Reserve Bank (including any grant of a security interest in such rights to secure such Purchasers obligations to such Federal Reserve Bank) without notice to or consent of any other party to this Agreement or to the other Transaction Documents; provided that no such pledge, participation or assignment shall release such Purchaser from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledge, participant or assignee for such Purchaser as a party hereto. |
Section 5.4 Costs, Expenses and Taxes .
(a) | In addition to the rights of indemnification granted under Sections 1.21 and 3.1 , the Seller agrees to pay on demand (which demand shall be accompanied by documentation thereof in reasonable detail) all reasonable costs and expenses in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery and administration (including periodic internal audits by the Administrator of Pool Receivables, provided that at any time when no Termination Event exists and is continuing, the Seller shall not be required to pay the costs and expenses of more than one such audit (or, at any time following the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event, two such audits) per year) of this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and the other documents and agreements (including the Confirmation Order and any other court filings in connection therewith) to be delivered hereunder (and all reasonable costs and expenses in connection with any amendment, waiver or modification of any thereof), including: (i) Attorney Costs for the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers and their respective Affiliates and agents with respect thereto and with respect to advising the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers and their respective Affiliates and agents as to their rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, (ii) fees, costs and expenses payable by the Conduit Purchasers or their Affiliates to any nationally recognized statistical rating agency in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and (iii) all reasonable costs and expenses (including Attorney Costs), if any, of the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers and their respective Affiliates and agents in connection with the enforcement of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. |
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(i) The Seller agrees that any and all payments by the Seller under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any and all current or future taxes, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all penalties, interest and other liabilities with respect thereto (collectively, Taxes ), except as required by Applicable Law. If the Seller shall be required by Applicable Law to withhold or
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deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder to any Recipient (as determined in the good faith discretion of the Seller or the Administrator) and such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable shall be increased by the amount necessary to yield to such Recipient (after payment of all Taxes) an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deductions been made. Whenever any such Taxes are payable by the Seller, the Seller agrees that, as promptly as possible thereafter, the Seller shall send to the Administrator for its own account or for the account of any Purchaser or Purchaser Agent a certified copy of an original official receipt showing payment thereof or such other evidence of such payment as may be available to the Seller and acceptable to the taxing authorities having jurisdiction over such Recipient. If any such Recipient pays or is liable for any Indemnified Taxes, the Seller shall reimburse such Recipient for that payment or indemnify such Recipient for such liability, as applicable (increased in either case by Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section), within 10 days after demand therefor, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant tax authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Seller by a Purchaser or Purchaser Agent (with a copy to the Administrator), or by the Administrator on its own behalf or on behalf of a Purchaser or Purchaser Agent, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. If the Seller fails to pay any Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to the Administrator the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, the Seller shall indemnify the Administrator and/or any other Affected Person, as applicable, for any Indemnified Taxes that may become payable by such party as a result of any such failure.
(ii) Any Recipient that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Transaction Document shall deliver to the Servicer (on behalf of the Seller), at the time or times reasonably requested by the Seller or the Administrator and at the time or times required by Applicable Law, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Servicer as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Recipient, if reasonably requested by the Servicer, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by Applicable Law or reasonably requested by such Recipient as will enable the Servicer to determine whether or not such Recipient is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 5.4(b)(ii)(A) , (B) and (D) ) shall not be required if in the Recipients reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Recipient to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Recipient. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
(A) any Recipient that is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code shall deliver to the Servicer and the Administrator on or prior to the date on which such Purchaser becomes a Purchaser under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Servicer or the Administrator and at the time or times required by Applicable Law), executed copies of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Recipient is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;
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(B) any Recipient that is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Servicer and the Administrator (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Recipient becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Seller or the Administrator and at the time or times required by Applicable Law),
(1) in the case of a Recipient claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Transaction Document, executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the interest article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Transaction Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the business profits or other income article of such tax treaty;
(2) executed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI;
(3) in the case of a Recipient claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate to the effect that such Recipient is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a 10 percent shareholder of Peabody within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a controlled foreign corporation described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code and (y) executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable; or
(4) to the extent a Recipient is not the beneficial owner, executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, certifications as to the matters in Section 5.4(b)(ii)(B)(3) on its own behalf and on behalf of its direct or indirect partners claiming the portfolio interest exemption, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable;
(C) any Recipient shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Seller and the Administrator (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Recipient becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Seller or the Administrator and at the time or times required by Applicable Law), executed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Servicer or the Administrator to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D) if a payment made to a Recipient under any Transaction Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Recipient 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
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Recipient shall deliver to the Servicer and the Administrator at the time or times prescribed by Applicable Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Servicer or the Administrator such documentation prescribed by Applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Seller or the Administrator as may be necessary for the Seller and the Administrator to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Recipient has complied with such Recipients obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this Section 5.4(b)(ii)(D) , FATCA shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement. For purposes of determining withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA, from and after the Closing Date, the Seller and the Administrator shall treat (and the Purchasers hereby authorize the Administrator to treat) this Agreement as not qualifying as a grandfathered obligation within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-2(b)(2)(i).
(E) Each Recipient agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Seller and the Administrator in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(iii) The Seller shall pay on demand any and all stamp and other taxes and fees payable in connection with the execution, delivery, filing and recording of this Agreement or the other documents or agreements to be delivered hereunder, and shall save each Indemnified Party harmless from and against any liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay in paying or omission to pay such taxes and fees.
(iv) If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 5.4(b) (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.4(b) ), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section 5.4(b) with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant taxing authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this Section 5.4(b)(iii) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant taxing authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such taxing authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.4(b)(iii) , in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 5.4(b)(iii) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
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(v) If any Recipient requests compensation under Section 1.10 , or requires the Seller to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Recipient or any taxing authority for the account of any Recipient pursuant to this Section 5.4(b) , then such Recipient shall (at the request of the Seller) use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Investments hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Recipient, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 1.10 or this Section 5.4(b) , as the case may be, in the future, and (ii) would not subject such Purchaser to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Recipient. The Seller hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Purchaser in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(vi) The Administrator, on Sellers behalf, shall maintain a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Purchasers, and the Investments (and Discount, fees and other similar amounts under this Agreement) pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the Register ), including any participant and/or assignee. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and to the extent applicable, the parties hereto shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a lender solely for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Purchaser, from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
Section 5.5 No Proceedings; Limitation on Payments .
Each of the Seller, Peabody, the Servicer, the Administrator, each Purchaser Agent, the Purchasers and each assignee of the Purchased Assets or any interest therein, and each Person that enters into a commitment to purchase or make Investments in the Purchased Assets or any interest therein, hereby covenants and agrees that it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, any Conduit Purchaser any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding, or other proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law, for one year and one day after the latest maturing Note issued by such Conduit Purchaser is paid in full. The provision of this Section 5.5 shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
Section 5.6 Confidentiality .
Each of the Seller and the Servicer agrees to maintain the confidentiality of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents (and all drafts thereof) in communications with third parties and otherwise; provided , that this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents may be disclosed to: (a) third parties to the extent such disclosure is made pursuant to a written agreement of confidentiality in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrator, (b) the Sellers legal counsel and auditors if they agree to hold it confidential, and (c) as otherwise required by Applicable Law (including applicable SEC requirements); and provided , further , however , that the Seller and the Servicer may disclose this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents (other than the Fee Letters or any such Transaction Document that discloses the Fees) to other financial institutions and their affiliates in connection with a replacement of the receivables securitization facility represented by this Agreement and the other
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Transaction Documents with a new receivables securitization facility. The Seller and the Servicer shall cause any financial institution and its affiliates described in the foregoing proviso to maintain the confidentiality of the Transaction Documents in accordance with the Sellers and the Servicers obligations under this Section 5.6 ; provided, however, that any such financial institution and its affiliates may disclose this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents it receives in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence to their legal counsel and auditors if they agree to hold them confidential and to any regulatory authorities having jurisdiction over such financial institution or its affiliates. Unless otherwise required by Applicable Law, each of the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers agrees to maintain the confidentiality of non-public financial information regarding Peabody and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates; provided , that such information may be disclosed to: (i) third parties to the extent such disclosure is made pursuant to a written agreement of confidentiality in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Peabody, (ii) legal counsel and auditors of the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the Purchasers if they agree to hold it confidential, (iii) the rating agencies rating the Notes, (iv) any Program Support Provider or potential Program Support Provider (if they agree to hold it confidential), (v) any placement agent placing the Notes (if they agree to hold it confidential) and (vi) any regulatory authorities having jurisdiction over PNC, any Purchaser Agent, any Purchaser or any Program Support Provider.
Section 5.7 GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION .
(a) | THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT MADE UNDER AND GOVERNED BY THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING FOR SUCH PURPOSE SECTIONS 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK) EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THE VALIDITY OR PERFECTION OF A SECURITY INTEREST OR REMEDIES HEREUNDER, IN RESPECT OF ANY PARTICULAR COLLATERAL ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. |
(b) | ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK; AND, BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY DOCUMENT RELATED HERETO. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO WAIVES PERSONAL SERVICE OF ANY SUMMONS, COMPLAINT OR OTHER PROCESS, WHICH SERVICE MAY BE MADE BY ANY OTHER MEANS PERMITTED BY NEW YORK LAW. |
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Section 5.8 Execution in Counterparts .
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed, shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same agreement.
Section 5.9 Survival of Termination; Non-Waiver .
The provisions of Sections 1.9 , 1.10 , 1.21 , 1.22 , 3.1 , 3.2 , 4.7 , 5.4 , 5.5 , 5.6 , 5.7 , 5.10 and 5.14 shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
Section 5.10 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL .
EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO WAIVES THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY OF THE PARTIES AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR PARTIES, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS OR OTHERWISE. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO FURTHER AGREES THAT ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION AS TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING THAT SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF. THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT.
Section 5.11 Entire Agreement .
This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents embody the entire agreement and understanding between the parties hereto, and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements and understandings of such Persons, verbal or written, relating to the subject matter hereof and thereof.
Section 5.12 Headings .
The captions and headings of this Agreement and any Exhibit, Schedule or Annex hereto are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation hereof or thereof.
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Section 5.13 Sharing of Recoveries .
Each Purchaser agrees that if it receives any recovery, through set-off, judicial action or otherwise, on any amount payable or recoverable hereunder in a greater proportion than should have been received hereunder or otherwise inconsistent with the provisions hereof (including, without limitation, Section 1.8(a) hereof), then the recipient of such recovery shall purchase for cash an interest in amounts owing to the other Purchasers (as return of Capital or otherwise), without representation or warranty except for the representation and warranty that such interest is being sold by each such other Purchaser free and clear of any Adverse Claim created or granted by such other Purchaser, in the amount necessary to create proportional participation by the Purchaser in such recovery. If all or any portion of such amount is thereafter recovered from the recipient, such purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.
Section 5.14 Purchaser Groups Liabilities .
The obligations of each Purchaser Agent and each Purchaser under the Transaction Documents are solely the corporate obligations of such Person. Except with respect to any claim arising out of the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser, no claim may be made by the Seller or the Servicer or any other Person against the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser or their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys or agents for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages in respect of any claim for breach of contract or any other theory of liability arising out of or related to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or any act, omission or event occurring in connection therewith; and each of Seller and Servicer hereby waives, releases, and agrees not to sue upon any claim for any such damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor.
Section 5.15 Right of Setoff .
Each Purchaser is hereby authorized (in addition to any other rights it may have) to setoff, appropriate and apply (without presentment, demand, protest or other notice which are hereby expressly waived) any deposits and any other indebtedness held or owing by such Purchaser (including by any branches or agencies of such Purchaser) to, or for the account of, (i) the Seller against amounts owing by the Seller hereunder (even if contingent or unmatured) and (ii) the Servicer against amounts owing by the Servicer hereunder (even if contingent or unmatured).
Section 5.16 USA Patriot Act .
Each of the Administrator and each of the other Purchasers hereby notifies the Seller, the Servicer and each Sub-Servicer that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act, the Administrator and the other Purchasers may be required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Seller, the Originators, the Contributor, the Servicer, the Sub-Servicer and the Performance Guarantor, which information includes the name, address, tax identification number and other information regarding the Seller, the Originators, the Contributor, the Servicer, the
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Sub-Servicer and the Performance Guarantor that will allow the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents and the other Purchasers to identify the Seller, the Originators, the Contributor, the Servicer, the Sub-Servicer and the Performance Guarantor in accordance with the USA Patriot Act. This notice is given in accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act. Each of the Seller, the Servicer and Sub-Servicers agrees to provide the Administrator and each other Purchaser, from time to time, with all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under know your customer and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the USA Patriot Act.
Section 5.17 Severability .
Any provisions of this Agreement which are prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 5.18 Mutual Negotiations .
This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents are the product of mutual negotiations by the parties thereto and their counsel, and no party shall be deemed the draftsperson of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or any provision hereof or thereof or to have provided the same. Accordingly, in the event of any inconsistency or ambiguity of any provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, such inconsistency or ambiguity shall not be interpreted against any party because of such partys involvement in the drafting thereof.
Section 5.19 Currency .
Each reference in this Agreement to U.S. Dollars or to Australian Dollars (the relevant currency ) is of the essence. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the obligation of the Seller in respect of any amount due in the relevant currency under this Agreement shall, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the amount in the relevant currency that the Administrator or any Purchaser entitled to receive such payment may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such other currency (after any premium and costs of exchange) on the Business Day immediately following the day on which such party receives such payment. If the amount in the relevant currency so purchased for any reason falls short of the amount originally due in the relevant currency, the Seller shall pay such additional amounts, in the relevant currency, as may be necessary to compensate for the shortfall. Any obligations of the Seller not discharged by such payment shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, be due as a separate and independent obligation and, until discharged as provided herein, shall continue in full force and effect.
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Section 5.20 Currency Equivalence .
If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a sum due from the Seller on the Sellers obligations in the currency expressed to be payable herein (the specified currency ) into another currency, the parties agree that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrator could purchase the specified currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of the Seller in respect of any such sum due to the Administrator or any Purchaser on the Sellers obligations shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency other than the specified currency, be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrator or such Purchaser, as applicable, of any sum adjudged to be so due in such other currency, the Administrator or such Purchaser, as applicable, may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the specified currency with such other currency. If the amount of the specified currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrator or such Purchaser in the specified currency, the Seller agrees to the extent such amount was originally due from the Seller, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrator or such Purchaser, as the case may be, against such loss, and if the amount of the specified currency so purchased exceeds the amount originally due to the Administrator or such Purchaser in the specified currency, the Administrator or such Purchaser, as the case may be, agrees to remit such excess to the Seller.
Section 5.21 Post-Closing Covenant .
(a) Notwithstanding the requirements set forth in Sections 1(g) and 1(j) of Exhibit III of this Agreement and Sections 1(j) and 2(h) of Exhibit IV of this Agreement, the Servicer shall (i) on or prior to the 60 th day after the Closing Date (or such later day as agreed to in writing by the Administrator) either: (A) (x) transfer ownership of deposit account listed in Schedule II(c) (such account, the New NAB Lock-Box Account ) to the Seller and (y) cease making or permitting payments to be made from the New NAB Lock-Box Account other than in accordance with the Transaction Documents or (B) direct Obligors to cease remitting payments to the New NAB Lock-Box Account and begin remitting payments to another Lock-Box Account and (ii) on or prior to the 120 th day after the Closing Date (or such later day as agreed to in writing by the Administrator), either: (A) (x) deliver to the Administrator a duly executed Lock-Box Agreement entered into with National Australia Bank Limited as Lock-Box Bank, relating to the New NAB Lock-Box Account reasonably satisfactory to the Administrator, and (y) deliver to the Administrator an updated Schedule II hereto or (B) direct Obligors to cease remitting payments to the New NAB Lock-Box Account and begin remitting payments to another Lock-Box Account.
(b) Notwithstanding the requirements set forth in Sections 1(g) and 1(j) of Exhibit III of this Agreement and Sections 1(j) and 2(h) of Exhibit IV of this Agreement, the Servicer shall (i) on or prior to the 60 th day after the Closing Date (or such later day as agreed to in writing by the Administrator) either: (A) (x) transfer ownership of the deposit accounts listed on Schedule II(b) (such account, the New BOA Lock-Box Account ) to the Seller and (y) cease making or permitting payments to be made from the
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New BOA Lock-Box Account other than in accordance with the Transaction Documents or (B) direct Obligors to cease remitting payments to the New BOA Lock-Box Account and begin remitting payments to another Lock-Box Account and (ii) on or prior to the 120 th day after the Closing Date (or such later day as agreed to in writing by the Administrator), either: (A) (x) deliver to the Administrator a duly executed Lock-Box Agreement entered into with Bank of America, N.A. as Lock-Box Bank, relating to the New BOA Lock-Box Account reasonably satisfactory to the Administrator, and (y) deliver to the Administrator an updated Schedule II hereto or (B) direct Obligors to cease remitting payments to the New BOA Lock-Box Account and begin remitting payments to another Lock-Box Account.
(c) Notwithstanding the requirements set forth in Sections 1(j) and 2(h) of Exhibit IV of this Agreement, the Servicer shall on or prior to the 30 th day after the Closing Date (or such later day as agreed to in writing by the Administrator) instruct all Persons to cease making payments of amounts that do not constitute Collections to Lock-Box Accounts.
(d) The Servicer shall on or prior to the 90 th day after the Closing Date (or such later day as agreed in writing by the Administrator) (the CMJV Acknowledgment End Date ) deliver to the Administrator a duly executed acknowledgment substantially in the form agreed with the Administrator on or prior to the Closing Date (the CMJV Acknowledgment ) and the Administrator shall have confirmed its receipt of such CMJV Acknowledgement in writing; provided , that, if such acknowledgment is not substantially in the form agreed upon with the Administrator prior to the Closing Date, the Administrator shall have confirmed its acceptance of such acknowledgment in writing. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that the Servicer does not deliver the CMJV Acknowledgment or the Administrator does not confirm its receipt or acceptance, as applicable, of such CMJV Acknowledgment by the CMJV Acknowledgment End Date, each Pool Receivable originated by Peabody Coppabella from and after the CMJV Acknowledgment End Date shall not be considered an Eligible Receivable notwithstanding such Pool Receivable meets the definition of Eligible Receivable. For the avoidance of doubt, all Pool Receivables originated by Peabody Coppabella from the Closing Date to the CMJV Acknowledgment End Date that meet the criteria for Eligible Receivable shall be considered Eligible Receivables.
(e) Failure by the Servicer to timely satisfy the conditions set forth in clauses (a) , (b) or (c) above shall constitute a breach of a covenant by the Servicer under this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the parties have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.
THE SELLER: | ||||
P&L RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC, as Seller |
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By: |
/s/ James A. Tichenor |
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Name: | James A. Tichenor | |||
Title: | Vice President & Treasurer | |||
THE SERVICER: | ||||
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION, as initial Servicer |
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By: |
/s/ Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. |
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Name: |
Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. |
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Title: |
Senior Vice President, Finance |
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Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement |
THE SUB-SERVICERS: | ||||||
COALSALES II, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY ARCLAR MINING, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY BEAR RUN MINING, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY CABALLO MINING, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY COALSALES, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY COALTRADE, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY GATEWAY NORTH MINING, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY HOLDING COMPANY, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY MIDWEST MINING, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY POWDER RIVER MINING, LLC | ||||||
PEABODY WILD BOAR MINING, LLC | ||||||
TWENTYMILE COAL, LLC | ||||||
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/s/ Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. |
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Name: | Walter L. Hawkins, Jr. | |||||
Title: | Senior Vice President, Finance | |||||
PEABODY WESTERN COAL COMPANY | ||||||
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/s/ Robert F. Bruer |
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Name: | Robert F. Bruer | |||||
Title: | Vice President |
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PNCS PURCHASER GROUP: | ||||
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Purchaser Agent for its Purchaser Group and as Committed Purchaser |
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/s/ Michael Brown |
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Name: | Michael Brown | |||
Title: | Senior Vice President |
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PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as an LC Participant for its Purchaser Group and as the LC Bank |
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/s/ Michael Brown |
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Title: | Senior Vice President |
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PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrator |
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/s/ Michael Brown |
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Name: | Michael Brown | |||
Title: | Senior Vice President |
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EXHIBIT I
DEFINITIONS
As used in the Agreement (including its Exhibits, Schedules and Annexes), the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined). Unless otherwise indicated, all Section, Annex, Exhibit and Schedule references in this Exhibit are to Sections of and Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules to the Agreement.
Adjusted Australian Dollar LC Participation Amount means, at any time of determination, the greater of (i) the Australian Dollar LC Participation Amount less the amount of cash collateral denominated in Australian Dollars held in an LC Collateral Account at such time and (ii) zero (AUD 0).
Adjusted Cash Liquidity means the excess, if any, of (i) Cash Liquidity, over (ii) Qualifying One-Time Sales Proceeds.
Adjusted U.S. Dollar LC Participation Amount means, at any time of determination, the greater of (i) the U.S. Dollar LC Participation Amount less the amount of cash collateral denominated in U.S. Dollars held in an LC Collateral Account at such time and (ii) zero ($0).
Administration Account means the account from time to time designated in writing by the Administrator to the Seller and the Servicer.
Administrator has the meaning set forth in the preamble to the Agreement.
Adverse Claim means a lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance, or any other type of preferential arrangement other than Permitted Liens.
Affected Person has the meaning set forth in Section 1.9 of the Agreement.
Affiliate means, as to any Person: (a) any Person that, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by or is under common control with such Person, or (b) who is a director or officer: (i) of such Person or (ii) of any Person described in clause (a) , except that, with respect to each Conduit Purchaser, Affiliate shall mean the holder(s) of its capital stock or membership interests, as the case may be. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall mean the power, direct or indirect: (x) to vote 25% or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or managers of such Person, or (y) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, in either case whether by ownership of securities, contract, proxy or otherwise.
Affiliate Excluded Receivable means each Receivable (determined without regard to the proviso to the definition thereof), the Obligor of which is any member of the Peabody Group.
Aggregate Adjusted LC Participation Amount means, at any time, the greater of (i) the Aggregate LC Participation Amount less the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of all cash collateral held in the LC Collateral Accounts at such time and (ii) zero ($0).
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Aggregate Capital means at any time the aggregate outstanding Capital of all Purchasers at such time.
Aggregate Discount at any time, means the sum of the aggregate for each Purchaser of the accrued and unpaid Discount with respect to each such Purchasers Capital at such time.
Aggregate LC Participation Amount means, at any time of determination, the aggregate U.S. Dollar Equivalent of all LC Participation Amounts at such time.
Agreement has the meaning set forth in the preamble to the Agreement.
Alternate Rate for any day or for any Portion of Capital on such day means an interest rate per annum equal to: (a) except as otherwise provided in clause (b) below and in the proviso to this definition, the Euro-Rate for such day or (b) when required pursuant to Section 1.11 , the Base Rate in effect on such day; provided , that the Alternate Rate for any day while a Termination Event exists shall be an interest rate equal to the greater of (i) 3.00% per annum above the Base Rate in effect on such day and (ii) the Euro-Rate on such day.
Anti-Terrorism Laws means any Applicable Law or regulation relating to terrorism, trade sanctions programs and embargoes, import/export licensing, money laundering or bribery, and any regulation, order, or directive promulgated, issued or enforced pursuant to such Applicable Laws, all as amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time.
Applicable Law means, with respect to any Person, (x) all provisions of law, statute, treaty, constitution, ordinance, rule, regulation, ordinance, requirement, restriction, permit, executive order, certificate, decision, directive or order of any Governmental Authority applicable to such Person or any of its property and (y) all judgments, injunctions, orders, writs, decrees and awards of all courts and arbitrators in proceedings or actions in which such Person is a party or by which any of its property is bound.
ArcelorMittal Excluded Receivable means each Receivable (determined without regard to the proviso to the definition thereof), the Obligor of which is ArcelorMittal Sourcing SCA and the Originator of which is an Australian Originator.
Assumption Agreement means an agreement substantially in the form set forth in Annex F to this Agreement.
Attorney Costs means and includes all reasonable fees and disbursements of any law firm or other external counsel.
Australian Contract means each Contract with respect to an Australian Originator Receivable.
Australian Dollar or AUD means the lawful currency of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Australian Dollar LC Participation Amount means at any time of determination, the aggregate LC Participation Amount with respect to Letters of Credit denominated in Australian Dollars.
Australian Dollar AR Volatility Reserve means, at any time of determination, the product of (a) the Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables denominated in Australian Dollars, multiplied by (b) the Australian Dollar VaR Percentage.
Australian Dollar LC Volatility Reserve means, at any time of determination, the product of (a) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the Adjusted Australian Dollar LC Participation Amount, multiplied by (b) the Australian Dollar VaR Percentage.
Australian Dollar VaR Percentage means the value at risk percentage determined by the Administrator in its commercially reasonable judgment from time to time with respect to Australian Dollars, and which shall on the Closing Date be 8.00%.
Australian Originator means each Person that is a party to the Australian Sale Agreement as an Originator thereunder.
Australian Originator Excluded Receivable means (i) each Queensland Receivable and (ii) each Receivable (determined without regard to the proviso to the definition thereof) for which the related Contract prohibits such Receivables sale, transfer or assignment and the declaration or creation of a trust in respect of such Receivable pursuant to the Australian Purchase and Sale Agreement; provided that, for purposes of clause (ii), no Receivable identified as an Eligible Receivable in any Information Package or Interim Report shall constitute an Australian Originator Excluded Receivable.
Australian Originator Receivable means each Receivable originated by an Australian Originator.
Australian Sale Agreement means the Australian Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Contributor and the Australian Originators as such agreement may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Australian Sub-Servicer has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
Bankruptcy Code means the United States Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (11 U.S.C. § 101, et seq.), as amended from time to time.
Bankruptcy Court means the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Base Rate means, for any day, a fluctuating interest rate per annum as shall be in effect from time to time, which rate shall be at all times equal to the higher of:
(a) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by the applicable Purchaser Agent (or the applicable Committed Purchaser or, in
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the case of determining the Base Rate for purposes of calculating the Yield Reserve, the Administrator) as its reference rate or prime rate, as applicable. Such reference rate (or prime rate, as applicable) is set by the applicable Purchaser Agent (or the applicable Committed Purchaser or the Administrator) based upon various factors, including the applicable Purchaser Agents (or the applicable Committed Purchasers or the Administrators) costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above or below such announced rate; and
(b) 0.50% per annum above the latest Federal Funds Rate.
BBVA means Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A Paris Branch.
Benefit Plan means any employee benefit pension plan as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA in respect of which the Seller, any Originator, Peabody or any ERISA Affiliate is, or at any time during the immediately preceding six years was, an employer as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
Bill of Exchange Receivable means any indebtedness and other obligations owed to the Seller (as assignee of the Contributor and an Australian Originator), the Contributor or any Australian Originator by, or any right of the Seller, the Contributor or any Australian Originator to payment from or on behalf of, BBVA, arising in connection with the discounting, sale or assignment of any Qualifying Bill of Exchange.
Business Day means any day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which: (a) banks are not authorized or required to close in New York City, New York, or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and (b) if this definition of Business Day is utilized in connection with the Euro-Rate, dealings are carried out in the London interbank market.
Capital means, with respect to any Purchaser, the aggregate amounts (i) paid to (or for the benefit of) the Seller in respect of Investments by such Purchaser pursuant to Section 1.2 of this Agreement, (ii) paid by such Purchaser, as an LC Participant, to the LC Bank in respect of a Participation Advance made by such Purchaser to the LC Bank pursuant to Section 1.16 and (iii) with respect to the Purchaser that is the LC Bank, paid by the LC Bank with respect to all drawings under a Letter of Credit to the extent such drawings have not been reimbursed by the Seller or funded by Participation Advances, in each case, as reduced from time to time by Collections distributed and applied on account of such Capital pursuant to Section 1.6(d) of the Agreement; provided , that if such Capital shall have been reduced by any distribution and thereafter all or a portion of such distribution is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason, such Capital shall be increased by the amount of such rescinded or returned distribution as though it had not been made.
Cash Liquidity means the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of Peabody Groups Unrestricted Cash and Investments permitted by Section 7.02 of the Credit Agreement (each as defined in the Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof without giving effect to any amendments or modifications to the Credit Agreement occurring after the date hereof).
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Cash Liquidity Reporting Date means (a) with respect to each Information Package, the last Business Day of the related calendar month, (b) with respect to each Weekly Report, the last Business day of the related calendar week and (c) with respect to each Daily Report, the previous Business Day.
Change in Control means (a) Peabody ceases to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the membership interests of the Seller free and clear of all Adverse Claims; (b) a Change of Control as defined in the Priority Lien Notes Indenture or (c) with respect to any Originator, Peabody ceases to be the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), directly or indirectly, of at least 75% of the outstanding shares of voting securities of such Originator without the prior written consent of the Administrator, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld. For purposes of this definition, Priority Lien Notes Indenture means the Indenture, dated as of February 15, 2017, among Peabody, the Persons party thereto as Guarantors, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the Priority Lien Notes Trustee and the Collateral Trustee, as in effect on April 3, 2017 without giving effect to any subsequent amendment, modification or termination thereof.
Change in Law means the occurrence, after the Closing Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a Change in Law, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
Chapter 11 Cases means the Chapter 11 cases of the Peabody Group jointly administered under Case No. 16-42529-399 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
Chapter 11 Debtors means Peabody and certain of its Subsidiaries that were debtors in any of the Chapter 11 Cases.
Closing Date means April 3, 2017.
CMJV Acknowledgement has the meaning set forth in Section 5.21 .
CMJV Acknowledgement End Date has the meaning set forth in Section 5.21 .
Collections means, with respect to any Pool Receivable: (a) all funds that are received by any Originator, Peabody, the Seller or the Servicer in payment of any amounts owed in respect of such Receivable (including (i) purchase price, finance charges, interest and all other charges and (ii) discount, sale and assignment proceeds with respect to Bill of Exchange Receivables), or applied to amounts owed in respect of such Receivable (including insurance
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payments and net proceeds of the sale or other disposition of repossessed goods or other collateral or property of the related Obligor or any other Person directly or indirectly liable for the payment of such Pool Receivable and available to be applied thereon), (b) all amounts deemed to have been received pursuant to Section 1.6(e) of the Agreement and (c) all other proceeds of such Pool Receivable (including payments by guarantors and drawings under any Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit or any other letter of credit in favor of any Originator, the Seller or the Servicer with respect to such Receivable).
Commitment means, with respect to any Committed Purchaser, LC Participant or LC Bank, as applicable, the maximum aggregate amount which such Purchaser is obligated to pay hereunder on account of all Investments and all drawings under all Letters of Credit, on a combined basis, as set forth on Schedule V hereto or in the Assumption Agreement or other agreement pursuant to which it became a Purchaser, as such amount may be modified in connection with any subsequent assignment pursuant to Section 5.3(c) or in connection with a change in the Purchase Limit pursuant to Section 1.1(c) . As the context so requires, Commitment with respect to any Committed Purchaser, LC Participant or LC Bank, as applicable, shall also be deemed to include such Committed Purchasers, LC Participants or LC Banks obligation hereunder to make Investments, Reinvestments or Participation Advances to the LC Bank or, in the case of the LC Bank, to issue Letters of Credit, as applicable, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
Commitment Percentage means, for each Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant in a Purchaser Group, the Commitment of such Committed Purchaser or related LC Participant, as the case may be, divided by the total of all Commitments of all Committed Purchasers or related LC Participants, as the case may be, in such Purchaser Group.
Committed Purchaser means each Person listed as such on the signature pages of this Agreement or in any Assumption Agreement or Transfer Supplement.
Concentration Percentage means: (a) for any Group A Obligor, 15.00%, (b) for any Group B Obligor, 12.00%, (c) for any Group C Obligor, 7.00% and (d) for any Group D Obligor, 5.00%.
Concentration Reserve means the product of (a) the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate Adjusted LC Participation Amount, and (b)(i) the Concentration Reserve Percentage divided by (ii) 1 minus the Concentration Reserve Percentage.
Concentration Reserve Percentage means, at any time, the largest of: (a) the sum of the five (5) largest Obligor Percentages of the Group D Obligors at such time, (b) the sum of the three (3) largest Obligor Percentages of the Group C Obligors at such time, (c) the two (2) largest Obligor Percentage of the Group B Obligors at such time and (d) the one (1) largest Obligor Percentage of the Group A Obligors at such time; provided , that , for purposes of determining the Concentration Reserve Percentage, with respect to any Eligible Receivable supported by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, the Obligor thereof (including for purposes of determining such Obligors Obligor Percentage and status as a Group A Obligor, Group B Obligor, Group C Obligor or Group D Obligor) shall be deemed to be the related Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider; provided , further that if any Pool Receivable is partially
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supported by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, then the Obligor thereof shall be deemed to be (i) with respect to the Unsupported Outstanding Balance of such Pool Receivable, the Obligor of such Pool Receivable and (ii) with respect to the Supported Outstanding Balance of such Pool Receivable, the related Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider.
Conduit Purchaser means each commercial paper conduit that is a party to this Agreement, as a purchaser, or that becomes a party to this Agreement, as a purchaser pursuant to an Assumption Agreement or otherwise.
Confirmation Order means the final order confirming the Plan of Reorganization entered by the Bankruptcy Court on March 17, 2017, which, among other things, approves the transactions described in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.
Contract means, with respect to any Receivable, any and all contracts, instruments, agreements, leases, invoices, notes or other writings pursuant to which such Receivable arises or that evidence such Receivable or under which an Obligor becomes or is obligated to make payment in respect of such Receivable.
Contribution Agreement means that certain Amended and Restated Contribution Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and between the Contributor and the Seller, as the same may be amended from time to time.
Contributor means Peabody Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
Covered Entity means (a) the Seller, the Servicer, each Sub-Servicer, the Performance Guarantor, the Contributor and each Originator and (b) each Person that, directly or indirectly, is in control of a Person described in clause (a) above. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall mean the direct or indirect (x) ownership of, or power to vote, 25% or more of the issued and outstanding equity interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or other Persons performing similar functions for such Person, or (y) power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by ownership of equity interests, contract or otherwise.
CP Rate means, for any Conduit Purchaser and for any Settlement Period for any Portion of Capital, (a) the per annum rate equivalent to the weighted average cost (as determined by the applicable Purchaser Agent and which shall include commissions of placement agents and dealers, incremental carrying costs incurred with respect to Notes of such Person maturing on dates other than those on which corresponding funds are received by such Conduit Purchaser, other borrowings by such Conduit Purchaser (other than under any Program Support Agreement) and any other costs associated with the issuance of Notes) of or related to the issuance of Notes that are allocated, in whole or in part, by the applicable Purchaser Agent to fund or maintain such Portion of Capital (and which may be also allocated in part to the funding of other assets of such Conduit Purchaser); provided , that if any component of such rate is a discount rate, in calculating the CP Rate for such Portion of Capital for such Settlement Period, the applicable Purchaser Agent shall for such component use the rate resulting from converting such discount rate to an interest bearing equivalent rate per annum ; provided , further , that notwithstanding anything in the Agreement or the other Transaction Documents to the contrary, the Seller agrees that any
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amounts payable to the Purchasers in respect of Discount for any Settlement Period with respect to any Portion of Capital funded by such Purchaser at the CP Rate shall include an amount equal to the portion of the face amount of the outstanding Notes issued to fund or maintain such Portion of Capital that corresponds to the portion of the proceeds of such Notes that was used to pay the interest component of maturing Notes issued to fund or maintain such Portion of Capital, to the extent that such Purchaser had not received payments of interest in respect of such interest component prior to the maturity date of such maturing Notes (for purposes of the foregoing, the interest component of Notes equals the excess of the face amount thereof over the net proceeds received by such Purchaser from the issuance of Notes, except that if such Notes are issued on an interest-bearing basis its interest component will equal the amount of interest accruing on such Notes through maturity) or (b) any other rate designated as the CP Rate for such Conduit Purchaser in an Assumption Agreement or Transfer Supplement pursuant to which such Person becomes a party as a Conduit Purchaser to this Agreement, or any other writing or agreement provided by such Conduit Purchaser to the Seller, the Servicer and the applicable Purchaser Agent from time to time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the CP Rate for any day while a Termination Event exists shall be an interest rate equal to the greater of (i) 3.00% above the Base Rate in effect on such day and (ii) the Alternate Rate as calculated in the definition thereof.
Credit Agreement means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017, among Peabody, as the borrower, the several lenders and other parties from time to time parties thereto, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as administrative agent, and the other parties party thereto, and shall include, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such agreement as further amended, restated and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, and any extension, replacement, substitution, and/or refinancing thereof.
Credit and Collection Policy means, as the context may require, those receivables credit and collection policies and practices of the Originators in effect on the date of the Agreement and described in Schedule I to the Agreement, as modified in compliance with the Agreement.
Daily Report has the meaning set forth in Section 2(l)(iv) of Exhibit IV to this Agreement.
Days Sales Outstanding means, at any time, an amount computed as of the last day of each calendar month equal to: (a) the average of the Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables as of the last day of each of the three most recent calendar months ended on the last day of such calendar month divided by (b) (i) the aggregate initial Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables originated by the Originators during the three calendar months ended on or before the last day of such calendar month divided by (ii) 90.
Debt means: (a) indebtedness for borrowed money, (b) obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (c) obligations to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services, (d) obligations as lessee under leases that shall have been or should be, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, recorded as capital leases, and (e) obligations under direct or indirect guaranties in respect of, and obligations (contingent or otherwise) to purchase or otherwise acquire, or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss in respect of, indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (a) through (d) above.
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Declining Conduit Purchaser has the meaning set forth in Section 1.6(b)(ii) of the Agreement.
Declining Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 1.6(b)(ii) of the Agreement.
Default Ratio means the ratio (expressed as a percentage and rounded to the nearest 1/100 of 1%, with 5/1000th of 1% rounded upward) computed as of the last day of each calendar month by dividing: (a) the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables that became Defaulted Receivables during such month (other than Receivables that became Defaulted Receivables as a result of an Event of Bankruptcy with respect to the Obligor thereof during such month), by (b) the aggregate initial Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables originated by the Originators during the month that is three calendar months before such month.
Defaulted Receivable means a Receivable:
(a) as to which any payment, or part thereof, remains unpaid for more than 60 days from the due date for such payment (which shall be determined without regard to any credit memos or credit balances available to the Obligor); or
(b) without duplication (i) as to which an Insolvency Proceeding shall have occurred with respect to the Obligor thereof or any other Person obligated thereon or owning any Related Security with respect thereto, or (ii) that has been written off the Sellers books as uncollectible.
Deferred Purchase Price has the meaning set forth in Section 1.4(c) of the Agreement.
Delinquency Ratio means the ratio (expressed as a percentage and rounded to the nearest 1/100 of 1%, with 5/1000th of 1% rounded upward) computed as of the last day of each calendar month by dividing: (a) the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables that were Delinquent Receivables on such day by (b) the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables on such day.
Delinquent Receivable means a Receivable as to which any payment, or part thereof, remains unpaid for more than 60 days from the due date for such payment.
Dilution Component Reserve means at any time the product of (a) the sum of the Aggregate Capital and the Aggregate Adjusted LC Participation Amount multiplied by (b) (i) the Dilution Component Reserve Percentage on such date divided by (ii) 100% minus the Dilution Component Reserve Percentage.
Dilution Component Reserve Percentage means on any date, the product of (a) the average Dilution Ratio for the twelve preceding calendar months multiplied by (b) the Dilution Horizon.
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Dilution Horizon means, for any calendar month, the ratio (expressed as a percentage and rounded to the nearest 1/100th of 1%, with 5/l000th of 1% rounded upward) computed as of the last day of such calendar month of: (a) the sum of (x) the aggregate initial Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables originated by the Originators during the most recent calendar month plus (y) the product of 0.25 and the aggregate initial Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables originated by the Originators during the second most recent calendar month to (b) the Net Receivables Pool Balance at the last day of the most recent calendar month.
Dilution Ratio means the ratio (expressed as a percentage and rounded to the nearest 1/100th of 1%, with 5/1000th of 1% rounded upward), computed as of the last day of each calendar month by dividing: (a) the aggregate U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the amount of payments required to be made by the Seller pursuant to Section 1.6(e)(i) of the Agreement during such calendar month by (b) the aggregate initial Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables originated by the Originators during the month that is one month prior to the current month.
Dilution Reserve means, on any date, an amount equal to: (a) the sum of the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate Adjusted LC Participation Amount at the close of business of the Seller on such date multiplied by (b) (i) the Dilution Reserve Percentage on such date, divided by (ii) 100% minus the Dilution Reserve Percentage on such date.
Dilution Reserve Percentage means on any date, the product of (i) the Dilution Horizon multiplied by (ii) the sum of (x) 2.25 times the average of the Dilution Ratio for the twelve most recent calendar months and (y) the Spike Factor.
Discount means, with respect to any Purchaser, the amount determined pursuant to the applicable formula below:
(a) for any Portion of Capital of such Purchaser for any Settlement Period to the extent such Purchaser will be funding such Portion of Capital during such Settlement Period through the issuance of Notes:
CPR × C × (ED/360)
(b) for any Portion of Capital of such Purchaser for any Settlement Period to the extent such Purchaser will not be funding such Portion of Capital during such Settlement Period through the issuance of Notes:
TF + the sum of the following amounts calculated for each
day in such Settlement Period:
AR × C × (1/Year)
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where:
AR | = the Alternate Rate for such Portion on such day; | |
C | = such Portion of Capital (i) for purposes of clause (a) above, for such Settlement Period, or (ii) for purposes of clause (b) above, on such day; | |
CPR | = the CP Rate for such Portion of Capital for such Settlement Period; | |
ED | = the actual number of days during such Settlement Period; | |
Year | = if such Portion of Capital is funded based upon: (i) the Euro-Rate, 360 days, and (ii) the Base Rate, 365 or 366 days, as applicable; and | |
TF | = the Termination Fee, if any, for the Portion of Capital for such Settlement Period; |
provided , that no provision of the Agreement shall require the payment or permit the collection of Discount in excess of the maximum permitted by Applicable Law; and provided further , that Discount for any Portion of Capital shall not be considered paid by any distribution to the extent that at any time all or a portion of such distribution is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason.
Drawing Date has the meaning set forth in Section 1.16 of the Agreement.
Eligible Assignee means any bank or financial institution acceptable to the LC Bank and the Administrator.
Eligible Foreign Obligor means an Obligor (or (x) with respect to any Receivable that is supported by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider or (y) if such Receivable is unconditionally guaranteed in full by an Affiliate of such Obligor, such Affiliate) which is organized under the laws of any country (or with respect to an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider, the country in which the office from which it is obligated to make payment with respect to such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit is located) (other than the United States) that has (i) a foreign currency rating of at least A by Standard and Poors and A2 by Moodys, and (ii) a transfer and convertibility assessment of at least A by Standard and Poors.
Eligible Receivable means, at any time, (I) any Pool Receivable (other than a Bill of Exchange Receivable):
(a) the Obligor of which is (i) organized under the laws of the United States (or a subdivision thereof) or if such Obligor is not organized under the laws of the United States (or a subdivision thereof): (A) such Pool Receivable results from goods sold and shipped from (x) a U.S. Originator in the United States and payment for such goods is denominated and payable only in U.S. Dollars to a U.S. Originator at a Lock-Box Account or (y) an Australian Originator in Australia and payment for such goods is denominated and payable only in Australian Dollars or U.S. Dollars to an Australian Originator at a Lock-Box Account (or in the case of Peabody Coppabella, payable to its
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agent and transferred to a Lock-Box Account in accordance with Section 1(j) of Exhibit IV), and (B) such Obligor is an Eligible Foreign Obligor, (ii) not subject to any action of the type described in paragraph (f) of Exhibit V to the Agreement, (iii) not an Affiliate of Peabody or any other Originator, (iv) not a Sanctioned Obligor and (v) not an Obligor as to which the Administrator, in its reasonable business judgment, has notified the Seller and the Servicer that such Obligor is not acceptable,
(b) that is denominated and payable (i) if a U.S. Originator Receivable, only in U.S. Dollars to a U.S. Originator at a Lock-Box Account or (ii) if an Australian Originator Receivable, only in U.S. Dollars or Australian Dollars to an Australian Originator at a Lock-Box Account (or in the case of Peabody Coppabella, payable to its agent and transferred to a Lock-Box Account in accordance with Section 1(j) of Exhibit IV),
(c) (i) if a U.S. Originator Receivable does not have a stated maturity which is more than 30 days after the original invoice date of such Receivable, or (ii) if an Australian Originator Receivable, that does not have a stated maturity which is more than 60 days after the original invoice date of such Receivable,
(d) that arises under a duly authorized Contract for the sale and delivery of goods or services in the ordinary course of the Originators business,
(e) that arises under a Contract that has been duly authorized by the relevant Originator that is in full force and effect and that is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the related Obligor, enforceable against such Obligor in accordance with its terms,
(f) that conforms in all material respects with all Applicable Law in effect,
(g) that is not the subject of any asserted dispute, offset, hold back defense, Adverse Claim or other claim, provided , that, with respect to any Receivable which is subject to any such a claim, the amount of such Receivable which shall be treated as an Eligible Receivable shall equal the excess of the amount of such Receivable over the amount of such claim asserted by or available to the account party or other obligor,
(h) that satisfies all applicable requirements of the applicable Credit and Collection Policy,
(i) that has not been modified, waived or restructured since its creation, except as permitted pursuant to Section 4.2 of the Agreement,
(j) if (i) a U.S. Originator Receivable, in which the Seller owns good and marketable title, free and clear of any Adverse Claims, and that is freely assignable by the Seller (including without any consent of the related Obligor) or (ii) an Australian Originator Receivable, in which the Seller holds a beneficial interest, free and clear of any Adverse Claims, and such beneficial interest (or any other interest of the Seller, if applicable) is freely assignable by the Seller (including without any consent of the related Obligor),
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(k) if (i) a U.S. Originator Receivable, for which the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) shall have a valid and enforceable ownership or security interest and a valid and enforceable first priority perfected ownership or security interest therein and in the Related Security and Collections with respect thereto, in each case free and clear of any Adverse Claim or (ii) an Australian Originator Receivable, for which the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) shall have a valid and enforceable first priority perfected ownership or security interest in the beneficial interest (or any other interest of the Seller, if applicable) in such Receivable and in the Related Security and Collections with respect thereto, in each case free and clear of any Adverse Claim,
(l) that constitutes an account as defined in the UCC, and that is not evidenced by instruments or chattel paper,
(m) that is neither a Defaulted Receivable nor a Delinquent Receivable,
(n) for which neither the Originator thereof, the Seller nor the Servicer has established any offset arrangements with the related Obligor,
(o) for which Defaulted Receivables of the related Obligor do not exceed 25% of the Outstanding Balance of all such Obligors Receivables,
(p) that represents amounts earned and payable by the Obligor that are not subject to the performance of additional services by the Originator thereof,
(q) that if such Receivable has not yet been billed, the related coal has been shipped within the last 60 days,
(r) if an Australian Originator Receivable, the related Contract for which is a Permitted Australian Contract, and
(s) if the Originator of which is Peabody Coppabella, (i) at any time after the CMJV Acknowledgement End Date, the CMJV Acknowledgement shall not have been amended, modified, supplemented or terminated without the prior written consent of the Administrator and (ii) the Administrator has not delivered five days written notice to the Seller and Servicer that Peabody Coppabella Receivable shall cease to constitute Eligible Receivables, which determination shall be made at the reasonable discretion of the Administrator.
and (II) any Pool Receivable constituting a Bill of Exchange Receivable:
(a) the Obligor of which is BBVA and BBVA is not then either (i) a Sanctioned Obligor or (ii) subject to any action of the type described in paragraph (f) of Exhibit V to the Agreement,
(b) that is denominated and payable only in U.S. Dollars to the applicable Australian Originator at a Lock-Box Account,
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(c) that does not have a stated maturity exceeding 55 days after the date on which such Bill of Exchange has been discounted without recourse to BBVA,
(d) that arises under a duly authorized contract or instrument that is in full force and effect and that is a legal, valid and binding obligation of BBVA, enforceable against BBVA in accordance with its terms,
(e) that conforms in all material respects with all Applicable Law in effect,
(f) that is not subject to revocation by BBVA, not the subject of any asserted dispute, offset, hold back defense, Adverse Claim or other claim,
(g) that has not been modified, waived or restructured since its creation, except as permitted pursuant to Section 4.2 of the Agreement,
(h) in which the Seller holds a beneficial interest, free and clear of any Adverse Claims, and such beneficial interest is freely assignable by the Seller (including without any consent of BBVA),
(i) for which the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) shall have a valid and enforceable first priority perfected ownership or security interest in the beneficial interest in such Receivable and in the Related Security and Collections with respect thereto, in each case free and clear of any Adverse Claim,
(j) that constitutes an account or payment intangible as defined in the UCC, and that is not evidenced by instruments or chattel paper,
(k) that is neither a Defaulted Receivable nor a Delinquent Receivable,
(l) for which neither the Originator thereof, the Seller nor the Servicer has established any offset arrangements with BBVA,
(m) for which Defaulted Receivables of BBVA do not exceed 25% of the Outstanding Balance of all BBVAs Receivables,
(n) that represents amounts earned and payable by BBVA that are not subject to the performance of additional services by the Originator thereof, and
(o) with respect to which the Servicer maintains records sufficient (as determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion) to permit the daily identification and segregation of such Bill of Exchange Receivables and ArcelorMittal Excluded Receivables.
Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit means, with respect to any Pool Receivables of an Obligor, an unconditional (except for any draft or documentation required to be presented as a condition to drawings thereunder), irrevocable standby or commercial letter of credit, at all times in form and substance acceptable to the Administrator in its sole discretion, issued or confirmed by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider, which letter of credit (i) supports the
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payment of such Pool Receivables, (ii) names the Originator of such Pool Receivables as the sole beneficiary thereof and (iii) is payable in (a) with respect to any Pool Receivable denominated in U.S. Dollars, U.S. Dollars and (b) with respect to any Pool Receivable denominated in Australian Dollars, Australian Dollars.
Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider means a bank so designated in writing by the Administrator to the Servicer (in the sole discretion of the Administrator); provided , at any time after the long-term unsecured senior debt obligation of such bank is withdrawn or falls below a rating of (a) BBB- by Standard & Poors on its long-term senior unsecured and uncredit-enhanced debt securities, or (b) Baa3 by Moodys on its long-term senior unsecured and uncredit-enhanced debt securities, that the Administrator may revoke (in the sole discretion) any such designation by written notice, which revocation shall be effective on the date so designated, and on such effective date, each letter of credit issued or confirmed by such bank shall cease to be an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit.
Encumbrance means any:
(a) security for the payment of money or performance of obligations, including a mortgage, charge, lien, pledge, trust, power or title retention or flawed deposit arrangement and any security interest as defined in sections 12(1) or (2) of the PPSA;
(b) right, interest or arrangement which has the effect of giving another person a preference, priority or advantage over creditors including any right of set-off;
(c) right that a person (other than the owner) has to remove something from land (known as a profit à prendre), easement, public right of way, restrictive or positive covenant, lease, or licence to use or occupy; or
(d) third party right or interest or any right arising as a consequence of the enforcement of a judgment, or
(e) any agreement to create any of preceding or allow any of preceding to exist.
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute of similar import, together with the regulations thereunder, in each case as in effect from time to time. References to sections of ERISA also refer to any successor sections.
ERISA Affiliate means: (a) any corporation that is a member of the same controlled group of corporations (within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Internal Revenue Code) as the Seller, any Originator or Peabody, (b) a trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control (within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Internal Revenue Code) with the Seller, any Originator or Peabody, or (c) a member of the same affiliated service group (within the meaning of Section 414(m) of the Internal Revenue Code) as the Seller, any Originator, Peabody, any corporation described in clause (a) or any trade or business described in clause (b) .
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Euro-Rate means with respect to any day, the greater of (a) 0.00% and (b) the interest rate per annum determined by the applicable Purchaser Agent (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) by dividing (the resulting quotient rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1% per annum) (i) the one-month Eurodollar rate for U.S. Dollar deposits as reported by Bloomberg Finance L.P. and shown on US0001M Screen as the composite offered rate for London interbank deposits for such period or on any successor or substitute page of such service, or any successor or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such service, as determined by such Purchaser Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to U.S. Dollar deposits in the London interbank market, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such date, or if such day is not a Business Day, then the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, changing when and as such rate changes, by (ii) a number equal to 1.00 minus the Euro-Rate Reserve Percentage. The Euro-Rate determined pursuant to this clause (a) for any day may also be expressed by the following formula:
Euro-Rate = | Composite of London interbank offered rates | |
shown on Bloomberg Finance L.P. Screen | ||
US0001M or appropriate successor | ||
1.00 - Euro-Rate Reserve Percentage |
As used in this definition, Euro-Rate Reserve Percentage for any day means the maximum effective percentage in effect on such day as prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the reserve requirements (including without limitation, supplemental, marginal, and emergency reserve requirements) with respect to eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as Eurocurrency Liabilities).
Event of Bankruptcy means (a) any case, action or proceeding before any court or other governmental authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of debtors or (b) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors of a Person or any composition, marshalling of assets for creditors of a Person, or other similar arrangement in respect of its creditors generally or any substantial portion of its creditors; in each of cases (a) and (b) undertaken under U.S. Federal, state or foreign law, including the Bankruptcy Code.
Excess Concentration means the sum of the following, without duplication:
(a) the sum of the amounts (if any) by which the aggregate Outstanding Balance of Eligible Receivables of each Obligor, then in the Receivables Pool exceeds an amount equal to the product of (i) the Concentration Percentage for such Obligor, multiplied by (ii) the Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool; plus
(b) the amount (if any) by which the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool, the Obligors of which are organized under the laws of any single country (other than United States of America), exceeds (i) in the case of Australia, 15.00%, (ii) in the case of any country (other than Australia) that has a foreign currency rating of at least AA by Standard and Poors and Aa2 by Moodys, 20.00%, or (iii) in any other case, 15.00% , in each case, of the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool; plus
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(c) the amount (if any) by which the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool, the Obligors of which are Eligible Foreign Obligors but which are not organized under the laws of Australia (or a subdivision thereof), exceeds 30.00% of the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool; plus
(d) the amount (if any) by which the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool, the Obligors of which are governments, governmental subdivisions, affiliates or agencies other than the TVA, exceeds 5.00% of the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool; plus
(e) the amount (if any) by which the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables considered to be quality accruals (as reported on the monthly Information Package), exceeds 5.00% of the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool; plus
(f) the amount (if any) by which the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool the coal with respect to which has been shipped but not yet billed, exceeds 15.00% of the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool;
provided , that , for purposes of determining the Excess Concentration Amount pursuant to clauses (a) and (d) above, with respect to any Eligible Receivable supported by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, the Obligor thereof shall be deemed to be the related Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider, provided , further that , for purposes of determining the Excess Concentration Amount pursuant to clauses (b) and (c) above, with respect to any Eligible Receivable supported by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit or unconditionally guaranteed in full by an Affiliate of such Obligor, the Obligor thereof shall be deemed to be the related Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider or such Affiliate guarantor (and, with respect to any Eligible Receivable supported by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, such Obligor shall be deemed to be organized under the laws of the country in which the office from which it is obligated to make payment with respect to such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit is located) and provided , further that if any Pool Receivable is partially supported by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, then the Obligor thereof shall be deemed to be (i) with respect to the Unsupported Outstanding Balance of such Pool Receivable, the Obligor of such Pool Receivable and (ii) with respect to the Supported Outstanding Balance of such Pool Receivable, the related Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider.
Excluded Taxes means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to any Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to any Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Purchaser, its applicable lending
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office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Purchaser, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Purchaser with respect to an applicable interest in an Investment or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Purchaser acquires such interest in the Investment or Commitment or (ii) such Purchaser changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 5.4 , amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Purchasers assignor immediately before such Purchaser became a party hereto or to such Purchaser immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipients failure to comply with Section 5.4(b)(ii) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
Exiting Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 1.6(b)(ii) of the Agreement.
Exiting Purchaser has the meaning set forth in Section 1.6(b)(ii) of the Agreement.
Facility Termination Date means the earliest to occur of: (a) with respect to each Purchaser, April 3, 2020, subject to any extension thereof pursuant to Section 1.12 , (b) the date determined pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Agreement, (c) the date the Purchase Limit reduces to zero pursuant to Section 1.1(c) of the Agreement, (d) with respect to each Purchaser Group, the date that the commitment of all of the Committed Purchasers of such Purchaser Group terminate pursuant to Section 1.12 and (e) at any time during a Minimum Cash Liquidity Optional Termination Period, any date so designated by the Administrator at its sole and absolute discretion ( provided , that such date shall not be less than 364 days following the Administrators designation of such date).
FATCA means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Internal Revenue Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, and any intergovernmental agreement between the United States of America and any non-U.S. jurisdiction with respect to the foregoing and any law, regulation, or practice adopted pursuant to such intergovernmental agreement.
Federal Funds Rate means, for any day, the per annum rate set forth in the weekly statistical release designated as H.15(519), or any successor publication, published by the Federal Reserve Board (including any such successor, H.15(519)) for such day opposite the caption Federal Funds (Effective). If on any relevant day such rate is not yet published in H. 15(519), the rate for such day will be the rate set forth in the daily statistical release designated as the Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities, or any successor publication, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (including any such successor, the Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations) for such day under the caption Federal Funds Effective Rate. If on any relevant day the appropriate rate is not yet published in either H.15(519) or the Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations, the rate for such day will be the arithmetic mean as determined by the Administrator of the rates for the last transaction in overnight Federal funds arranged before 9:00 a.m. (New York time) on that day by each of three leading brokers of Federal funds transactions in New York City selected by the Administrator.
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Federal Reserve Board means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or any entity succeeding to any of its principal functions.
Fee Letters has the meaning set forth in Section 1.7 of the Agreement.
Fees means the fees payable by the Seller pursuant to the Fee Letters. For the avoidance of doubt, Fees excludes any Servicing Fees.
Final Payout Date means the date on or after the Facility Termination Date on which (i) the Purchase Limit and all Commitments have been reduced to zero ($0), (ii) the Aggregate Capital has been reduced to zero ($0), (iii) the Aggregate Discount has been paid in full, (iv) all accrued Fees have been paid in full, (v) the Aggregate Adjusted LC Participation Amount has been reduced to zero ($0) and no Letters of Credit issued hereunder remain outstanding and undrawn (unless backstopped or cash-collateralized in a manner agreed to in writing by the LC Bank and the Majority LC Participants in their sole and absolute discretion) and (vi) all other amounts owing by the Seller and the Servicer to the Administrator, the Purchaser Agents, the Purchasers, the Indemnified Parties and the other Affected Persons hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents have been paid in full.
Governmental Authority means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, body or entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including any court and any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank.
Group A Obligor means any Obligor with a short-term rating of at least: (a) A1 by Standard & Poors, or if such Obligor does not have a short-term rating from Standard & Poors, a rating of A+ or better by Standard & Poors on its long-term senior unsecured and uncredit-enhanced debt securities, and (b) P-1 by Moodys, or if such Obligor does not have a short-term rating from Moodys, Al or better by Moodys on its long-term senior unsecured and uncredit-enhanced debt securities, and any Special Group A Obligor.
Group B Obligor means an Obligor, not a Group A Obligor, with a short-term rating of at least: (a) A-2 by Standard & Poors, or if such Obligor does not have a short-term rating from Standard & Poors, a rating of BBB+ to A by Standard & Poors on its long-term senior unsecured and uncredit-enhanced debt securities, and (b) P-2 by Moodys, or if such Obligor does not have a short-term rating from Moodys, Baal to A2 by Moodys on its long-term senior unsecured and uncredit-enhanced debt securities, and any Special Group B Obligor.
Group C Obligor means an Obligor, not a Group A Obligor or a Group B Obligor, with a short-term rating of at least: (a) A-3 by Standard & Poors, or if such Obligor does not have a short-term rating from Standard & Poors, a rating of BBB- to BBB by Standard & Poors on its long-term senior unsecured and uncredit-enhanced debt securities, and (b) P-3 by Moodys, or if such Obligor does not have a short-term rating from Moodys, Baa3 to Baa2 by Moodys on its long-term senior unsecured and uncredit-enhanced debt securities, and any Special Group C Obligor.
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Group Capital means with respect to any Purchaser Group, an amount equal to the aggregate of all Capital of the Purchasers within such Purchaser Group.
Group Commitment means, with respect to any Purchaser Group at any time, the aggregate Commitments of all Committed Purchasers (solely in such capacity) within such Purchaser Group.
Group D Obligor means any Obligor that is not a Group A Obligor, Group B Obligor or Group C Obligor, and any Special Group D Obligor.
Indemnified Amounts has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1 of the Agreement.
Indemnified Party has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1 of the Agreement.
Indemnified Taxes means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment or disbursement by the Seller or Servicer under any Transaction Document and (b) any incremental U.S. federal income or withholding Taxes or state or local Taxes arising because an Investment or the Purchased Assets is not treated for U.S. federal, state and local income and franchise Tax purposes as intended under Section 1.4(e) and any reasonable expenses (other than Taxes) arising out of, relating to, or resulting from, the foregoing.
Independent Director has the meaning set forth in paragraph 3(c) of Exhibit IV to the Agreement.
Information Package means a report, in substantially the form of Annex A to the Agreement, furnished to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent pursuant to the Agreement.
Insolvency Proceeding means: (a) any case, action or proceeding before any court or other Governmental Authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of debtors, or (b) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors of a Person, composition, marshaling of assets for creditors of a Person, or other, similar arrangement in respect of its creditors generally or any substantial portion of its creditors, in each of cases (a) and (b) undertaken under U.S. Federal, state or foreign law, including the Bankruptcy Code.
Interim Report means each Daily Report and Weekly Report.
Internal Revenue Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute of similar import, together with the regulations thereunder, in each case as in effect from time to time. References to sections of the Internal Revenue Code also refer to any successor sections.
Investment has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1(a) of the Agreement.
Investment Date means the date on which an Investment or a Reinvestment is made pursuant to this Agreement.
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Investment Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 1.2(a) of this Agreement.
LC Bank has the meaning set forth in the preamble to the Agreement.
LC Collateral Account means each account designated as an LC Collateral Account established and maintained by the Administrator (for the benefit of the LC Bank and the LC Participants), or such other account(s) as may be so designated as such by the Administrator.
LC Commitment means the Commitment of each LC Participant party hereto as set forth on Schedule V hereto or as set forth in any Assumption Agreement pursuant to which it became a party hereto.
LC Fee Expectation has the meaning set forth in Section 1.17(c) of the Agreement.
LC Participant means each Person listed as such (and its respective Commitment) for each Purchaser Group as set forth on the signature pages of this Agreement or in any Assumption Agreement or Transfer Supplement.
LC Participation Amount means at any time of determination, and with respect to any currency, the sum of the amounts then available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit denominated in such currency.
LCR Security means any commercial paper or security (other than equity securities issued to Parent or any Originator that is a consolidated subsidiary of Parent under GAAP) within the meaning of Paragraph .32(e)(viii) of the final rules titled Liquidity Coverage Ratio: Liquidity Risk Measurement Standards, 79 Fed. Reg. 197, 61440 et seq. (October 10, 2014).
Letter of Credit shall mean any stand-by letter of credit issued by the LC Bank for the account of the Seller pursuant to the Agreement.
Letter of Credit Application has the meaning set forth in Section 1.14 of the Agreement.
Liquidity Agreement means any agreement entered into in connection with this Agreement pursuant to which a Liquidity Bank agrees to make purchases or advances to, or purchase assets from, any Conduit Purchaser in order to provide liquidity for such Conduit Purchasers Investments.
Liquidity Bank means each bank or other financial institution that provides liquidity support to any Conduit Purchaser pursuant to the terms of a Liquidity Agreement.
LLC Agreement means the Second Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of P&L Receivables Company, LLC.
Lock-Box Account means an account in the name of the Seller (or that will be transferred to the Seller or established by the Seller pursuant to Section 5.21 within the time period specified therein) and maintained by the Seller at a bank or other financial institution for the purpose of receiving Collections.
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Lock-Box Agreement means an agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrator, among the Seller, the Servicer, the Administrator and a Lock-Box Bank.
Lock-Box Bank means any of the banks or other financial institutions holding one or more Lock-Box Accounts; provided , however , that such bank or other financial institution shall be a Permitted Lock-Box Bank.
Loss Reserve means, on any date, an amount equal to: (a) the sum of the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate Adjusted LC Participation Amount at the close of business of the Seller on such date multiplied by (b) (i) the Loss Reserve Percentage on such date divided by (ii) 100% minus the Loss Reserve Percentage on such date.
Loss Reserve Percentage means, on any date, the product of (i) 2.25 times (ii) the highest average of the Default Ratios for any three consecutive calendar months during the twelve most recent calendar months and (iii) (A) the sum of (x) the aggregate initial Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables originated by the Originators during the four most recent calendar months plus (y) the product of 0.25 and the aggregate initial Outstanding Balance of all Pool Receivables originated by the Originators during the fifth most recent calendar months divided by (B) the Net Receivables Pool Balance as of such date.
Majority LC Participants means, at any time, LC Participants whose Pro Rata Shares aggregate 51% or more.
Majority Purchaser Agents means, at any time, the Purchaser Agents which in their related Purchaser Group have Committed Purchasers whose Commitments aggregate more than 50% of the aggregate of the Commitments of all Committed Purchasers in all Purchaser Groups; provided , that so long as any one Committed Purchasers Commitment is greater than 50% of the aggregate Commitments and there is more than one Purchaser Group, then Majority Purchaser Agents shall mean a minimum of two Purchaser Agents which in their related Purchaser Group have Committed Purchasers whose Commitments aggregate more than 50% of the aggregate Commitment of all Committed Purchasers in all Purchaser Groups.
Material Adverse Effect means with respect to any event or circumstance, a material adverse effect on:
(a) the assets, operations, business or financial condition of (i) the Seller, or (ii) Peabody and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
(b) the ability of any of the Originators, the Contributor, the Servicer, any of the Sub-Servicers, Peabody or the Seller to perform its obligations under the Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party,
(c) the validity or enforceability of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or the validity, enforceability or collectibility of a material portion of the Pool Receivables, or
(d) the status, perfection, enforceability or priority of the Administrators, the Purchasers or the Sellers interest in the Pool Assets.
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Member shall have the meaning set forth in Schedule A to the LLC Agreement.
Minimum Cash Liquidity Event means the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Trigger Event for a period of thirty consecutive days during which no Information Package or Interim Report is delivered on any Cash Liquidity Reporting Date during such period showing Adjusted Cash Liquidity equal to or greater than $500,000,000 as of the applicable Cash Liquidity Reporting Date.
Minimum Cash Liquidity Optional Termination Period means any period of thirty consecutive days immediately following any Minimum Cash Liquidity Optional Termination Period Event.
Minimum Cash Liquidity Optional Termination Period Event means the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Optional Period Trigger Event for a period of thirty consecutive days during which no Information Package or Interim Report is delivered on any Cash Liquidity Reporting Date during such period showing Cash Liquidity equal to or greater than $450,000,000 as of the applicable Cash Liquidity Reporting Date.
Minimum Cash Liquidity Optional Termination Period Trigger Event means, with respect to any Cash Liquidity Reporting Date, the Information Package or Interim Report with respect thereto shows Cash Liquidity is less than $450,000,000 as of such date.
Minimum Cash Liquidity Trigger Event means, with respect to any Cash Liquidity Reporting Date, the Information Package or Interim Report with respect thereto shows Adjusted Cash Liquidity is less than $500,000,000 as of such date.
Monthly Settlement Date means the twenty-third day of each calendar month occurring after the Closing Date (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day).
Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc.
Navajo Project means that certain joint venture that developed, built and operates the Navajo Electric Generating Station located in Page, Arizona, which joint venture is owned by Nevada Power Company, Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, United States of America Bureau of Reclamation - Lower Colorado Region, Arizona Public Service Co., and Tucson Gas and Electric Co.
Net Receivables Pool Balance means, at anytime: (a) the Outstanding Balance of Eligible Receivables then in the Receivables Pool minus (b) Excess Concentration.
New NAB Lock-Box Account has the meaning set forth in Section 5.21(a) of this Agreement.
New BOA Lock-Box Account has the meaning set forth in Section 5.21(b) of this Agreement.
Notes means short-term promissory notes issued, or to be issued, by any Conduit Purchaser to fund its investments in accounts receivable or other financial assets.
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Notice Date has the meaning set forth in Section 1.14 of this Agreement.
Obligor means, with respect to any Receivable, the Person obligated to make payments pursuant to the Contract relating to such Receivable.
Obligor Group means any of the following: Group A Obligor, Group B Obligor, Group C Obligor or Group D Obligor.
Obligor Percentage means, at any time, for each Obligor, a fraction, expressed as a percentage, (a) the numerator of which is the aggregate Outstanding Balance of the Eligible Receivables of such Obligor at such time less the amount (if any) then included in the calculation of the Excess Concentration pursuant to clause (a) of the definition thereof with respect to such Obligor, and (b) the denominator of which is the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Receivables at such time.
Order has the meaning set forth in Section 1.22 of the Agreement.
Original Agreement has the meaning set forth in the preliminary statements of the Agreement.
Original Agreement Outstanding Amounts has the meaning set forth in the preliminary statements of the Agreement.
Originator means any Australian Originator or U.S. Originator, as applicable.
Originator Performance Guaranty means the Amended and Restated Originator Performance Guaranty, dated as of the Closing Date, by the U.S. Originators in favor of the Administrator for the benefit of the Purchasers, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Other Connection Taxes means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Transaction Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Investment or Transaction Document).
Other Material Financing Agreement has the meaning set forth in paragraph (j) of Exhibit V of the Agreement.
Outstanding Balance of any Receivable at any time means the then U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the outstanding principal balance thereof.
Participant has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(b) of this Agreement.
Participant Register has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(b) of this Agreement.
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Participation Advance has the meaning set forth in Section 1.16(b) of this Agreement.
Paydown Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 1.6(f)(i) of the Agreement.
Peabody has the meaning set forth in the preamble to the Agreement.
Peabody Coppabella means Peabody Coppabella Pty Ltd.
Peabody Group means, collectively, Peabody together with the rest of its consolidated subsidiaries.
Percentage means, for each Purchaser Group, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), (a) the numerator of which is such Purchaser Groups Group Commitment and (b) the denominator of which is the aggregate Group Commitments of all Purchaser Groups.
Performance Guarantor means Peabody.
Performance Guaranty means the Amended and Restated Performance Guaranty, dated as of the Closing Date, by the Performance Guarantor in favor of the Administrator for the benefit of the Purchasers, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Performance Reserve means the sum of the Loss Reserve and the Dilution Reserve.
Permitted Australian Contract means, as of any date of determination, each Australian Contract that (a) as of the Closing Date is set forth on Schedule IX hereto, is a Standard Australian Contract, is not a Pre-Review Australian Contract or has been approved in writing by the Administrator in its sole discretion and (b) at any time after the Closing Date, (i) is a Standard Australian Contract, (ii) if not a Standard Australian Contract, (A) if a Pre-Review Australian Contract, is set forth on Schedule IX hereto or the Administrator has otherwise consented to such Contract in writing in its sole discretion, and in each case, with the exception of Permitted Amendments, has not subsequently been amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified in any respect without the prior written consent of the Administrator and (B) if not a Pre-Review Australian Contract, the Administrator has not provided written notice to the Seller and the Servicer within 15 days after knowledge by the Administrator of such Contract (including, disclosure by the Servicer of such Contract in an Information Package or Interim Report) that such Contract is not permitted. Solely for purposes of this definition, Permitted Amendments shall mean amendments and modifications (i) solely with respect to pricing, (ii) solely with respect to modification of length of payments terms, provided that the payment terms as amended shall not be longer than 60 days after the original invoice date or (iii) that could not reasonably be expected to have an adverse effect on any of the following: (a) the validity or enforceability of such Contract, (b) the validity, enforceability or collectability of the related Receivables or any Related Rights or (c) the status, perfection, enforceability or priority of the Administrators, the Purchasers or the Sellers interest in such Contract, the related Receivables or the Related Rights; provided, that no amendment or modification affecting (x) the related Originators, Contributors or Sellers right to sell, assign, transfer, pledge or otherwise deal with its rights under such Contract, (y) the identity of the related Obligor or (z) the governing law of such Contract, shall constitute a Permitted Amendment.
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Permitted Liens means (i) a lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance, or any other type of preferential arrangement in favor of, or assigned to, the Administrator (for the benefit of the Purchasers), (ii) the retention by the Australian Originators of legal title to Australian Originator Receivables and Related Security (but not a beneficial interest therein) in accordance with the Australian Sale Agreement shall not constitute an Adverse Claim; provided , that, at any time after the occurrence of a Title Perfection Event (under and as defined in the Australian Sale Agreement), any such retention of legal title to Australian Originator Receivables not constituting Trust Receivables contrary to the instructions of the Administrator, the Seller or the Contributor, shall constitute an Adverse Claim and (iii) solely to the extent relating to Related Security, each of (a) any Encumbrance granted by Peabody Coppabella Pty Ltd pursuant to the deed entitled Deed of Cross Charge (Coppabella and Moorvale Joint Venture) originally between Peabody Coppabella Pty Ltd, CITIC Australia Coppabella Pty Ltd, Mapella Pty Ltd, Winview Pty Ltd, KC Resources Pty Ltd, NS Coal Pty Ltd, Peabody Energy Australia PCI (C&M Management) Pty Ltd, dated December 11, 2003, and currently between Peabody Coppabella Pty Ltd ACN 095 976 042, CITIC Australia Coppabella Pty Ltd ACN 067 547 442, Mapella Pty Ltd ACN 082 873 961, KC Resources Pty Ltd ACN 081 887 130, NS Coal Pty Ltd ACN 082 900 972 and Peabody Energy Australia PCI (C&M Management) Pty Ltd and (b) any Encumbrance granted by Wilpinjong Coal Pty Ltd pursuant to the deed entitled Step-in Deed originally between Wilpinjong Coal Pty Ltd and Macquarie Generation (and subsequently vested in AGL Macquarie Pty Limited), dated January 11, 2012, as amended by the Support and Amendment Deed dated 27 May 2016; it being understood and agreed that any Encumbrance described in this clause (iii) shall not constitute a Permitted Lien to the extent such Encumbrance relates to any Receivable.
Permitted Lock-Box Bank means (i) PNC or an Affiliate thereof, (ii) Bank of America, National Association, (iii) National Australia Bank Limited or (iv) any other bank approved by the Administrator.
Person means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency thereof.
Plan of Reorganization shall mean the chapter 11 plan of reorganization of the Chapter 11 Debtors confirmed by the Confirmation Order.
PNC has the meaning set forth in the preamble to the Agreement.
Pool Assets has the meaning set forth in Section 1.4(e) of the Agreement.
Pool Receivable means a Receivable in the Receivables Pool.
Portion of Capital means, with respect to any Purchaser and its Capital, any separate portion of such Capital being funded or maintained by such Purchaser (or its successors or permitted assigns) by reference to a particular interest rate basis. In addition, at any time when such Capital is not divided into two or more such portions, Portion of Capital means 100% of such Capital.
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PPSA means the Australian Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) and includes any regulations made at any time under that Act.
Pre-Review Australian Contract means, at any time of determination, any Australian Contract that satisfies both of the following: (i) any related Receivable has a stated maturity that is more than 15 days after the original invoice date of such Receivable and (ii) such Australian Contract relates to two or more deliveries of goods.
Pro Rata Share means, as to any LC Participant, a fraction, the numerator of which equals the Commitment of such LC Participant at such time and the denominator of which equals the aggregate of the Commitments of all LC Participants at such time.
Program Support Agreement means and includes any Liquidity Agreement and any other agreement entered into by any Program Support Provider providing for: (a) the issuance of one or more letters of credit for the account of any Conduit Purchaser, (b) the issuance of one or more surety bonds for which any Conduit Purchaser is obligated to reimburse the applicable Program Support Provider for any drawings thereunder, (c) the sale by any Conduit Purchaser to any Program Support Provider of the Purchased Assets (or portions thereof) and/or (d) the making of loans and/or other extensions of credit to any Conduit Purchaser in connection with such Conduit Purchasers securitization program contemplated in the Agreement, together with any letter of credit, surety bond or other instrument issued thereunder.
Program Support Provider means and includes, with respect to any Conduit Purchaser, any Liquidity Bank and any other Person (other than any customer of such Conduit Purchaser) now or hereafter extending credit or having a commitment to extend credit to or for the account of, or to make purchases from, such Conduit Purchaser pursuant to any Program Support Agreement.
Purchase Limit means $250,000,000, as such amount may be reduced pursuant to Sections 1.1(c) or 1.12 of the Agreement. References to the unused portion of the Purchase Limit shall mean, at any time, the Purchase Limit minus the sum of the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate LC Participation Amount.
Purchased Assets has the meaning set forth in Section 1.3(b) of the Agreement.
Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage means, at any time and subject to Section 1.5 of the Agreement, the percentage computed as:
Aggregate Capital + Aggregate Adjusted LC Participation Amount + Total Reserves
Net Receivables Pool Balance
The Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage shall be determined from time to time in accordance with Section 1.5 of the Agreement.
Purchaser means each Conduit Purchaser, each Committed Purchaser, the LC Bank and each LC Participant.
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Purchaser Agent means each Person acting as agent on behalf of a Purchaser Group and designated as a Purchaser Agent for such Purchaser Group on the signature pages to this Agreement or any other Person who becomes a party to this Agreement as a Purchaser Agent pursuant to an Assumption Agreement or a Transfer Supplement.
Purchaser Group means, (i) for any Conduit Purchaser, such Conduit Purchaser, together with such Conduit Purchasers Committed Purchasers, related Purchaser Agent and related LC Participants and (ii) for any other Purchaser that does not have a related Conduit Purchaser, such Purchaser, together with its Purchaser Agent and each other Purchaser for which such Purchaser Agent acts as a Purchaser Agent hereunder and, in the case of PNC as a Purchaser, the LC Bank.
Purchasing Committed Purchaser has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(c) of the Agreement.
Qualifying Bill of Exchange means a bill of exchange (i) the drawer of which is an Australian Originator, (ii) the drawee of which is ArcelorMittal SCA, (iii) which has been duly accepted by the drawee in favor of the drawer and duly endorsed by the drawer to the order of BBVA, (iv) which has been discounted without recourse (or otherwise sold, conveyed or transferred) to BBVA and (v) relates to ArcelorMittal Excluded Receivables.
Qualifying One-Time Sale Proceeds means the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the sum of the net cash proceeds received by the Peabody Group from the sale of Peabodys Australian Subsidiary, Metropolitan Mine, net of transaction costs, any related repayment of debt in connection with such disposition and net of taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof.
Queensland Receivable means a Receivable in respect of which the Obligor resides in Queensland for the purposes of the Duties Act 2001 (Qld).
Receivable means (i) any Bill of Exchange Receivable and (ii) any indebtedness and other obligations owed to the Seller (as assignee of the Contributor and each Originator), the Contributor or any Originator by, or any right of the Seller, the Contributor or any Originator to payment from or on behalf of, an Obligor, whether constituting an account, chattel paper, instrument or general intangible, arising in connection with the sale of goods or the rendering of services by any Originator, and includes the obligation to pay any finance charges, fees and other charges with respect thereto; provided , that (x) no ArcelorMittal Excluded Receivable shall constitute a Receivable, (y) no Affiliate Excluded Receivable shall constitute a Receivable and (z) no Australian Originator Excluded Receivable shall constitute a Receivable. Indebtedness and other obligations arising from any one transaction, including indebtedness and other obligations represented by an individual invoice or agreement, shall constitute a Receivable separate from a Receivable consisting of the indebtedness and other obligations arising from any other transaction.
Receivables Pool means, at any time, all of the then outstanding Receivables purchased by or held on trust for the Seller pursuant to the Contribution Agreement prior to the Facility Termination Date.
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Recipient means any Administrator, Purchaser or Purchaser Agent, as applicable.
Register has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(b)(vi) of the Agreement.
Reimbursement Obligation has the meaning set forth in Section 1.16 of the Agreement.
Reinvestment has the meaning set forth in Section 1.4(b) of the Agreement.
Related Security means,
(a) | all of the Sellers, the Contributors and each Originators interest in any goods (including returned goods), and documentation of title evidencing the shipment or storage of any goods (including returned goods), relating to any sale giving rise to such Receivable, |
(b) | all instruments and chattel paper that may evidence such Receivable, |
(c) | all other security interests or liens and property subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure payment of such Receivable (including any Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit and any other supporting letter of credit or any proceeds of any drawings thereunder), whether pursuant to the Contract related to such Receivable or otherwise, together with all UCC financing statements, PPSA financing statements or similar filings made against the relevant Obligor relating thereto, and |
(d) | all of the Sellers, the Contributors and each Originators rights, interests and claims under the Contracts and all guaranties, indemnities, insurance and other agreements (including the related Contract) or arrangements of whatever character from time to time supporting or securing payment of such Receivable or otherwise relating to such Receivable, whether pursuant to the Contract related to such Receivable or otherwise. |
Reportable Compliance Event means that any Covered Entity becomes a Sanctioned Person, or is charged by indictment, criminal complaint or similar charging instrument, arraigned, or custodially detained in connection with any Anti-Terrorism Law or any predicate crime to any Anti-Terrorism Law, or has knowledge of facts or circumstances to the effect that it is reasonably likely that any aspect of its operations is in actual or probable violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law.
Required LC Participants means, at any time, the LC Participants whose Pro Rata Shares aggregate 66 2 ⁄ 3 % or more.
Responsible Officer means, with respect to each Originator, the Contributor, the Servicer, and the Seller, any president, vice president, treasurer, assistant treasurer, secretary, assistant secretary, chief financial officer, controller or any other officer or director of any such Person charged with the responsibility for administration of any Transaction Document.
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Restricted Payments has the meaning set forth in Section 1(n) of Exhibit IV of the Agreement.
Sale Agreements means the Australian Sale Agreement and the U.S. Sale Agreement.
Sanctioned Country means a country subject to a sanctions program maintained under any Anti-Terrorism Law.
Sanctioned Obligor means an Obligor which (i) if a natural person, is either (A) organized in or maintains its principal place of business in a Sanctioned Country or (B) a Sanctioned Person or (ii) if a corporation or other business organization, is organized under the laws of a Sanctioned Country or any political subdivision thereof.
Sanctioned Person means any individual person, group, regime, entity or thing listed or otherwise recognized as a specially designated, prohibited, sanctioned or debarred person, group, regime, entity or thing, or subject to any limitations or prohibitions (including but not limited to the blocking of property or rejection of transactions), under any Anti-Terrorism Law.
Seller has the meaning set forth in the preamble to the Agreement.
Servicer has the meaning set forth in the preamble to the Agreement.
Servicer Note means that certain Amended and Restated Promissory Note, dated as of January 25, 2010, made by Peabody in favor of the Seller, as the same may be amended from time to time.
Servicing Fee means the fee referred to in Section 4.6 of the Agreement.
Servicing Fee Rate means the rate referred to in Section 4.6 of the Agreement.
Settlement Date means with respect to any Portion of Capital for any Settlement Period, (i) prior to the Facility Termination Date, the Monthly Settlement Date and (ii) on and after the Facility Termination Date, each day selected from time to time by the Administrator (with the consent or at the direction of the Majority Purchaser Agents); it being understood that the Administrator may select such Settlement Date to occur as frequently as daily, or, in the absence of such selection, the Monthly Settlement Date.
Settlement Period means: (a) before the Facility Termination Date, each period commencing on the second Business Day prior to each Monthly Settlement Date and ending on (but not including) the second Business Day prior to the next Monthly Settlement Date, and (b) on and after the Facility Termination Date, such period (including a period of one day) as shall be selected from time to time by the Administrator or, in the absence of any such selection, each period of 30 days from the last day of the preceding Settlement Period.
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Solvent means, with respect to any Person at any time, a condition under which:
(i) | the fair value and present fair saleable value of such Persons total assets is, on the date of determination, greater than such Persons total liabilities (including contingent and unliquidated liabilities) at such time; |
(ii) | the fair value and present fair saleable value of such Persons assets is greater than the amount that will be required to pay such Persons probable liability on its existing debts as they become absolute and matured (debts, for this purpose, includes all legal liabilities, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, absolute, fixed, or contingent); |
(iii) | such Person is and shall continue to be able to pay all of its liabilities as such liabilities mature; and |
(iv) | such Person does not have unreasonably small capital with which to engage in its current and in its anticipated business. |
For purposes of this definition:
(A) the amount of a Persons contingent or unliquidated liabilities at any time shall be that amount which, in light of all the facts and circumstances then existing, represents the amount which can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability;
(B) the fair value of an asset shall be the amount which may be realized within a reasonable time either through collection or sale of such asset at its regular market value;
(C) the regular market value of an asset shall be the amount which a capable and diligent business person could obtain for such asset from an interested buyer who is willing to purchase such asset under ordinary selling conditions; and
(D) the present fair saleable value of an asset means the amount which can be obtained if such asset is sold with reasonable promptness in an arms-length transaction in an existing and not theoretical market.
Special Member has the meaning set forth in Schedule A to the LLC Agreement.
Special Obligor means the Navajo Project, for so long as, with respect to such Navajo Project, (a) the agreement among the project participants requires that upon the default of any participant, the non-defaulting participants are required to cure any such default, and (b) Peabody represents and warrants that, to its knowledge, the statement set forth in subsection (a) above is true, complete and correct. The Navajo Project shall be deemed to be a Special Group A Obligor hereunder for so long as such Navajo Project has at least one project participant with the rating of a Group A Obligor; the Navajo Project shall be deemed to be a Special Group B Obligor hereunder for so long as such Navajo Project has at least one project participant with the rating of a Group B Obligor (but no project participants with the rating of a Group A Obligor); the Navajo Project shall be deemed to be a Special Group C Obligor hereunder for so long as such Navajo Project has at least one project participant with the rating of a Group C Obligor (but no project participants with the rating of a Group A Obligor or a Group B Obligor);
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and the Navajo Project shall be deemed to be a Special Group D Obligor hereunder for so long as such Navajo Project has no project participants with the rating of a Group A Obligor, a Group B Obligor or a Group C Obligor.
Special Obligor Group means any one of the following: Special Group A Obligor, Special Group B Obligor, Special Group C Obligor, or Special Group D Obligor.
Spike Factor means, for any calendar month, (a) the positive difference, if any, between: (i) the highest Dilution Ratio for any one calendar month during the twelve most recent calendar months and (ii) the arithmetic average of the Dilution Ratios for such twelve months times (b) (i) the highest Dilution Ratio for any one calendar month during the twelve most recent calendar months divided by (ii) the arithmetic average of the Dilution Ratios for such twelve months.
Spot Rate means, on any day, for the purpose of determining the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of any amount denominated in Australian Dollars, the exchange rate at which Australian Dollars may be exchanged into U.S. Dollars as set forth at approximately 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on such day as published on the Bloomberg Key Cross-Currency Rates Page for Australian Dollars. In the event that such rate does not appear on any Bloomberg Key Cross Currency Rates Page, the Spot Rate shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be selected by the Administrator or, in the absence of such a selection or publicly available service, such Spot Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrator in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of Australian Dollars are then being conducted, at or about 11:00 a.m. New York time, on such date for the purchase of U.S. Dollars with the applicable currency for delivery two (2) Business Days later; provided that if at the time of any such determination, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the Administrator may use any reasonable method it deems appropriate to determine such rate, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
Standard Australian Contract means a contract in substantially the form of the Standard Coal Trading Agreement or the Peabody Standard Terms, copies of each of which are attached hereto as Schedule X , or a contract in substantially such other form as the Administrator approves in writing in its sole discretion.
Standard & Poors means S&P Global Ratings, and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.
Sub-Servicer has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
Subsidiary means, as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which shares of stock of each class or other interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or other interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the Board of Directors or other managers of such entity are at the time owned, or management of which is otherwise controlled: (a) by such Person, (b) by one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or (c) by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
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Supported Outstanding Balance means, for any Receivable at any time that is supported in whole or in part by an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, the lesser of (a) the Outstanding Balance of such Receivable and (b) the U.S. Dollar Equivalent of the face amount of such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit.
Taxes has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(b)(i) of this Agreement.
Termination Day means: (a) each day on which the conditions set forth in Section 2 of Exhibit II to the Agreement are not satisfied or (b) each day that occurs on or after the Facility Termination Date.
Termination Event has the meaning specified in Exhibit V to the Agreement.
Termination Fee means, for any Settlement Period during which a Termination Day occurs, the amount, if any, by which: (a) the additional Discount (calculated without taking into account any Termination Fee or any shortened duration of such Settlement Period pursuant to the definition thereof) that would have accrued during such Settlement Period on the reductions of Capital relating to such Settlement Period had such reductions not been made, exceeds (b) the income, if any, received by the applicable Purchaser from investing the proceeds of such reductions of Capital, as determined by the applicable Purchaser Agent, which determination shall be binding and conclusive for all purposes, absent manifest error.
Total Reserves means, at any time the sum of: (a) the Yield Reserve, plus (b) the greater of (i) the Performance Reserve or (ii) the sum of the Concentration Reserve plus the Dilution Component Reserve, plus (c) the Australian Dollar AR Volatility Reserve plus (d) the Australian Dollar LC Volatility Reserve.
Transaction Documents means the Agreement, the Lock-Box Agreements, the Fee Letters, the Sale Agreements, the Contribution Agreement, the Originator Performance Guaranty, the Performance Guaranty, the Servicer Note, and all other certificates, instruments, UCC financing statements, PPSA financing statements, reports, notices, agreements and documents executed or delivered under or in connection with the Agreement, in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the Agreement.
Transfer Supplement has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(c) of the Agreement.
Trust Receivable has the meaning given thereto in the Australian Sale Agreement.
TVA means Tennessee Valley Authority, an Obligor of the Originators.
UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the applicable jurisdiction.
Unmatured Termination Event means an event that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute a Termination Event.
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Unsupported Outstanding Balance means, for any Receivable at any time, (a) the then Outstanding Balance of such Receivable, less (b) the Supported Outstanding Balance for such Receivable.
U.S. Dollar Equivalent means, on any date on which a determination thereof is to be made, with respect to (a) any amount denominated in U.S. Dollars, such amount and (b) any amount denominated in Australian Dollars, the U.S. Dollar equivalent of such amount of Australian Dollars determined by reference to the Spot Rate determined as of such determination date.
U.S. Dollar LC Participation Amount means at any time of determination, the aggregate LC Participation Amount with respect to Letters of Credit denominated in U.S. Dollars.
U.S. Dollars , Dollars and $ each mean the lawful currency of the United States of America.
U.S. Originator means each Person that is a party to the U.S. Sale Agreement as an Originator thereunder.
U.S. Originator Receivable means each Receivable originated by a U.S. Originator.
U.S. Sale Agreement means the Amended and Restated U.S. Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, between the Contributor and the U.S. Originators as such agreement may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
U.S. Sub-Servicer has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
USA Patriot Act means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56, as the same has been, or shall hereafter be, renewed, extended, amended or replaced.
Weekly Report has the meaning set forth in Section 2(l)(iv) of Exhibit IV to the Agreement.
Yield Reserve means, on any date, an amount equal to: (a) the sum of the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate Adjusted LC Participation Amount at the close of business of the Seller on such date multiplied by (b) (i) the Yield Reserve Percentage on such date divided by (ii) 100% minus the Yield Reserve Percentage on such date.
Yield Reserve Percentage means at any time:
(BR+SFR) |
× l.5 × DSO |
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360 |
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BR |
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the Base Rate computed for the most recent Settlement Period, |
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Days Sales Outstanding, and |
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SFR |
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the Servicing Fee Rate |
Other Terms . All accounting terms not specifically defined herein shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. All terms used in Article 9 of the UCC in the State of New York, and not specifically defined herein, are used herein as defined in such Article 9. Unless the context otherwise requires, or means and/or, and including (and with correlative meaning include and includes) means including without limiting the generality of any description preceding such term.
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EXHIBIT II
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
1. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of this Agreement . The effectiveness of this Agreement is subject to condition precedent that:
(a) the Confirmation Order shall have been entered and shall not be subject to a stay or have been reversed, modified or amended in a manner materially adverse to PNC and its Affiliates (other than as otherwise consented to in writing by the Administrator and each Purchaser);
(b) simultaneously with the effectiveness of this Agreement the Plan of Reorganization shall have become effective and there shall not be any supplement, modification, waiver or amendment to Peabodys debt and capital structure as contemplated by the Plan of Reorganization that is adverse in any material respect to the rights or interests of PNC and its Affiliates, unless the Administrator has consented thereto in writing;
(c) the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent shall have received, on or before the Closing Date, each of the documents, instruments and opinions listed on the closing memorandum attached to this Agreement as Schedule VIII , each in form and substance (including the date thereof) reasonably satisfactory to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent; and
(d) the Administrator shall have received, on or before the Closing Date, evidence of payment by the Seller of all accrued and unpaid fees (including those contemplated by the Fee Letters), costs and expenses to the extent then due and payable on the date thereof, including any such costs, fees and expenses arising under or referenced in Section 5.4 of the Agreement (including all Attorney Costs that have been invoiced at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date) and the Fee Letters.
2. Conditions Precedent to All Investments, Issuances of Letters of Credit and Reinvestments . Each Investment and the issuance of any Letters of Credit and each Reinvestment shall be subject to the further conditions precedent that:
(a) in the case of each Investment and the issuance of any Letters of Credit, the Servicer shall have delivered to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent on or before such Investment or issuance, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent, a completed pro forma Information Package to reflect the level of Aggregate Capital, the Aggregate LC Participation Amount and related reserves and the calculation of the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage after such subsequent Investment or issuance, as the case may be, and a completed Investment Notice in the form of Annex B ; and
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(b) on the date of such Investment, issuance or Reinvestment, as the case may be, the following statements shall be true (and acceptance of the proceeds of such Investment, issuance or Reinvestment shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Seller that such statements are then true):
(i) the representations and warranties contained in Exhibit III to the Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Investment, issuance or Reinvestment as though made on and as of such date (except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, and in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date);
(ii) no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Investment, issuance or Reinvestment, that constitutes a Termination Event;
(iii) solely in the case of any Investment (but not Reinvestment) or any such issuance, no Unmatured Termination Event shall exist and be continuing;
(iv) the sum of the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate LC Participation Amount, after giving effect to any such Investment, issuance or Reinvestment, as the case may be, shall not exceed the Purchase Limit;
(v) after giving effect to any such Investment, issuance or Reinvestment, as the case may be, the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage shall not exceed 100%; and
(vi) the Facility Termination Date shall not have occurred.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein or in any other Transaction Document, the LC Bank shall be under no obligation to issue Letters of Credit requested by the Seller which are denominated in Australian Dollars if the LC Bank notifies the Seller on or prior to the date of such issuance that the issuance of such Letter of Credit, or the funding of any draw thereunder has been made or, in the case of a draw, would be made, impracticable or unlawful by compliance by the LC Bank in good-faith with any Applicable Law or any request or directive of any Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law).
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EXHIBIT III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
1. Representations and Warranties of the Seller . The Seller represents and warrants as follows:
(a) The Seller is a limited liability company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign limited liability company in every jurisdiction where the nature of its business requires it to be so qualified, except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Seller of the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, including its use of the proceeds of Investments and Reinvestments: (i) are within its organizational powers; (ii) have been duly authorized by all necessary organizational action; (iii) do not contravene or result in a default under or conflict with: (A) its certificate of formation or any other organizational document of the Seller, (B) any law, rule or regulation applicable to it, (C) any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other material agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or (D) any order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree binding on or affecting it or any of its property; and (iv) do not result in or require the creation of any Adverse Claim upon or with respect to any of its properties. The Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party have been duly executed and delivered by the Seller.
(c) No authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or other Person is required for its due execution, delivery and performance by the Seller of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party, other than the Uniform Commercial Code filings referred to in Exhibit II to the Agreement, all of which shall have been filed on or before the Closing Date.
(d) Each of the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Seller is a party constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against the Seller in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws from time to time in effect affecting the enforcement of creditors rights generally and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
(e) There is no pending or, to Sellers best knowledge, threatened action or proceeding affecting Seller or any of its properties before any Governmental Authority or arbitrator.
(f) No proceeds of any Investment or Reinvestment will be used to acquire any equity security of a class that is registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
(g) The Seller is the beneficial owner of, and, except with respect to any Australian Originator Receivable, is the legal owner and has good and marketable title to, the Pool
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Receivables, the Lock-Box Accounts (and related lock-boxes) (except as permitted by Section 5.21 ) and Related Security, free and clear of any Adverse Claim. Upon each Investment or Reinvestment, the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) shall acquire a valid and enforceable perfected ownership or security interest in each Pool Receivable then existing or thereafter arising and in the Related Security, Collections and other proceeds with respect thereto, free and clear of any Adverse Claim. The Agreement creates a valid and continuing ownership or security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC or PPSA) in favor of the Administrator in the Pool Assets and the Lock-Box Accounts (and related lock-boxes), which ownership or security interest is prior to all other Adverse Claims, and is enforceable as such against creditors of and purchasers from the Seller. The Pool Assets constitute accounts, general intangibles or tangible chattel paper within the meaning of the applicable UCC. Each Lock-Box Account constitutes a deposit account within the meaning of the applicable UCC. The Seller has caused or will have caused, within ten (10) days, the filing of all appropriate UCC or PPSA financing statements in the proper filing offices in the appropriate jurisdictions under Applicable Laws in order to perfect the ownership or security interest in the Pool Assets and the Lock-Box Accounts (and related lock-boxes) (except as permitted by Section 5.21 ) granted to the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) hereunder. Other than the ownership or security interest granted to the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) pursuant to this Agreement, Seller has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Pool Assets or the Lock-Box Accounts (and related lock-boxes). Seller has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any UCC financing statements against Seller that include a description of collateral covering the Pool Assets, other than any UCC financing statement relating to the security interest granted to the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers) hereunder or that has been terminated. Seller is not aware of any judgment, ERISA or tax lien filings against the Seller. With respect to any Pool Receivable that constitutes tangible chattel paper, the Servicer is in possession of the original copies of the tangible chattel paper that constitutes or evidences such Pool Receivables, and the Seller has filed the financing statements described in this section above, each of which will contain a statement that A purchase of or a grant of a security interest in any property described in this financing statement will violate the rights of the Administrator. The Pool Receivables to the extent they are evidenced by tangible chattel paper do not have any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Seller or the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers).
(h) Each Information Package and Interim Report (if prepared by the Seller or one of its Affiliates, or to the extent that information contained therein is supplied by the Seller or one of its Affiliates), information, exhibit, financial statement, document, book, record or report furnished or to be furnished at any time by or on behalf of the Seller to the Administrator or any Purchaser Agent in connection with the Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party is or will be complete and accurate in all material respects as of its date or (except as otherwise disclosed to the Administrator or such Purchaser Agent, as applicable, at such time) as of the date so furnished.
(i) The Sellers principal place of business, chief executive office and state of formation (as such terms are used in the UCC) and the office where it keeps its records concerning the Receivables are located at the address referred to in Sections l(b) and 2(b) of Exhibit IV to the Agreement.
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(j) The names and addresses of all the Lock-Box Banks, together with the account numbers of the Lock-Box Accounts at such Lock-Box Banks, are specified in Schedule II to the Agreement (or at such other Lock-Box Banks and/or with such other Lock-Box Accounts as have been notified to the Administrator in accordance with the Agreement) and all Lock-Box Accounts are subject to Lock-Box Agreements (or will be subject to Lock-Box Agreements in accordance with Section 5.21 within the time period specified therein). Except as set forth in Section 5.21 , with respect to all Lock-Box Accounts (and related lock-boxes), the Seller has delivered to the Administrator, on behalf of the Purchasers, a fully executed Lock-Box Agreement pursuant to which the applicable Lock-Box Bank has agreed to comply with all instructions given by the Administrator with respect to all funds on deposit in such Lock-Box Account (and all funds sent to the respective lock-box), without further consent by the Seller or the Servicer. Except as set forth in Section 5.21 , none of the Lock-Box Accounts (and the related lock-boxes) are in the name of any Person other than the Seller or the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers). The Seller has not consented to any Lock-Box Banks complying with instructions of any person other than the Administrator.
(k) The Seller is not in violation of any order of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority.
(l) No proceeds of any Investment or Reinvestment will be used for any purpose that violates any Applicable Law, including Regulations T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
(m) Each Pool Receivable included as an Eligible Receivable in the calculation of the Net Receivables Pool Balance is an Eligible Receivable.
(n) No event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from an Investment or Reinvestment or from the application of the proceeds therefrom, that constitutes a Termination Event or an Unmatured Termination Event.
(o) On the Closing Date, the Purchased Assets will be included on the consolidated balance sheet of Peabody for purposes of GAAP.
(p) The Seller has complied in all material respects with the Credit and Collection Policy of the Originators with regard to each Receivable originated by the Originators.
(q) The Seller has complied in all material respects with all of the terms, covenants and agreements contained in the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents that are applicable to it.
(r) The Sellers complete organizational name is set forth in the preamble to the Agreement, and it does not use and has not during the last six years used any other organizational name, trade name, doing-business name or fictitious name, except as set forth on Schedule III to the Agreement and except for names first used after the date of the Agreement and set forth in a notice delivered to the Administrator pursuant to Section 1(1)(iv) of Exhibit IV to the Agreement.
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(s) The Seller is not (i) required to register as an investment company or a company controlled by an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the Investment Company Act ), or (ii) a covered fund under Section 13 of the U.S. Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder. In reaching such determination, the Seller is entitled to rely on the exemption from the definition of investment company set forth in Section 3(c)(5) of the Investment Company Act.
(t) No Covered Entity is a Sanctioned Person. No Covered Entity, either in its own right or through any third party, (i) has any of its assets in a Sanctioned Country or in the possession, custody or control of a Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (ii) does business in or with, or derives any of its income from investments in or transactions with, any Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; or (iii) engages in any dealings or transactions prohibited by any Anti-Terrorism Law.
(u) The Seller has not issued any LCR Securities, and the Seller is a consolidated subsidiary of Peabody under GAAP.
(v) There are no mortgages that are effective as financing statements covering as-extracted collateral that constitutes Purchased Assets and that name any Originator (or, if such Originator is not the record owner of the underlying property, any record owner with respect to such as-extracted collateral, as such term is used in the UCC) as grantor, debtor or words of similar effect filed or recorded in any jurisdiction.
(w) The Seller is not required to account to any Governmental Authority for any value added or similar Tax in respect of the sale by it of any Receivable and no withholding or other Tax is deductible or payable on any payment made by an Obligor with respect to any Receivable.
2. Representations and Warranties of Peabody (including in its capacity as the Servicer) . Peabody, individually and in its capacity as the Servicer, represents and warrants jointly and severally as follows:
(a) Peabody is a corporation duly formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in every jurisdiction where the nature of its business requires it to be so qualified, except where the failure to be so qualified would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) The execution, delivery and performance by Peabody of the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, including the Servicers use of the proceeds of Investments and Reinvestments: (i) are within its organizational powers; (ii) have been duly authorized by all necessary organizational action; (iii) do not contravene or result in a default under or conflict with: (A) its certificate of incorporation or any other organizational document of Peabody, (B) any law, rule or regulation applicable to it, (C) any indenture, loan agreement, mortgage, deed of trust or other material agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by
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which it is bound, or (D) any order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree binding on or affecting it or any of its property; and (iv) do not result in or require the creation of any Adverse Claim upon or with respect to any of its properties. The Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which Peabody is a party have been duly executed and delivered by Peabody.
(c) No authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with any Governmental Authority or other Person, is required for the due execution, delivery and performance by Peabody of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party.
(d) Each of the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which Peabody is a party constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of Peabody enforceable against Peabody in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws from time to time in effect affecting the enforcement of creditors rights generally and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
(e) The consolidated balance sheets of Peabody and its Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2016, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, change in stockholders equity, and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, copies of which have been furnished to the Administrator, fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of Peabody and its Subsidiaries as at such date and the consolidated results of operations of Peabody and its Subsidiaries for the period ended on such date, all in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied.
(f) Except as disclosed in the most recent audited financial statements of Peabody furnished to the Administrator, there is no pending or, to its best knowledge, threatened action or proceeding affecting it or any of its Subsidiaries before any Governmental Authority or arbitrator that is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(g) No proceeds of any Investment or Reinvestment will be used to acquire any equity security of a class that is registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. No proceeds of any Investment or Reinvestment will be used for any purpose that violates any Applicable Law, including Regulations T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
(h) Each Information Package and Interim Report (if prepared by Peabody or one of its Affiliates, or to the extent that information contained therein is supplied by Peabody or an Affiliate), information, exhibit, financial statement, document, book, record or report furnished or to be furnished at any time by or on behalf of the Servicer to the Administrator or any Purchaser Agent in connection with the Agreement is or will be complete and accurate in all material respects as of its date or (except as otherwise disclosed to the Administrator or such Purchaser Agent, as applicable, at such time) as of the date so furnished.
(i) The principal place of business, chief executive office and state of formation (as such terms are used in the UCC) of Peabody and the office where it keeps its records concerning the Receivables are located at the address referred to in Section 2(b) of Exhibit IV to the Agreement.
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(j) Peabody is not in violation of any order of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority, which is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(k) The Servicer has complied in all material respects with the Credit and Collection Policy of the Originators with regard to each Receivable originated by the Originators.
(l) Peabody has complied in all material respects with all of the terms, covenants and agreements contained in the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents that are applicable to it.
(m) Peabody is not an investment company, or a company controlled by an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(n) No Covered Entity is a Sanctioned Person. No Covered Entity, either in its own right or through any third party, (i) has any of its assets in a Sanctioned Country or in the possession, custody or control of a Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (ii) does business in or with, or derives any of its income from investments in or transactions with, any Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; or (iii) engages in any dealings or transactions prohibited by any Anti-Terrorism Law.
(o) The agreement among the project participants of the Navajo Project requires that upon the default of any participant, the non-defaulting participants are required to cure any such default.
(p) There are no mortgages that are effective as financing statements covering as-extracted collateral that constitutes Purchased Assets and that name any Originator (or, if such Originator is not the record owner of the underlying property, any record owner with respect to such as-extracted collateral, as such term is used in the UCC) as grantor, debtor or words of similar effect filed or recorded in any jurisdiction.
(q) The Confirmation Order is in full force and effect and has not been vacated or reversed, is not subject to a stay, and has not been modified or amended in a manner adverse to PNC and its Affiliates in any material respect (other than any amendment or modification approved in writing by the Administrator and the Majority Purchaser Agents (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned)).
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EXHIBIT IV
COVENANTS
1. Covenants of the Seller . Until the Final Payout Date:
(a) Compliance with Laws, Etc. The Seller shall comply in all material respects with all Applicable Laws and preserve and maintain its organizational existence, rights, franchises, qualifications and privileges, except to the extent that the failure so to comply with such laws, rules, regulations and orders or the failure so to preserve and maintain such rights, franchises, qualifications and privileges would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Offices, Records and Books of Account, Etc. The Seller: (i) shall keep its principal place of business, chief executive office and state of formation (as such terms or similar terms are used in the UCC) and the office where it keeps its records concerning the Receivables at the address of the Seller set forth on Schedule IV or, pursuant to clause (1)(iv) below, at any other locations in jurisdictions where all actions reasonably requested by the Administrator to protect and perfect the interest of the Administrator in the Receivables and related items (including the Pool Assets) have been taken and completed and (ii) shall provide the Administrator with at least 30 days written notice before making any change in the Sellers name or making any other change in the Sellers identity or organizational structure (including a Change in Control) that could render any UCC financing statement filed in connection with this Agreement seriously misleading as such term (or similar term) is used in the UCC; each notice to the Administrator pursuant to this sentence shall set forth the applicable change and the effective date thereof. The Seller also will maintain and implement (or cause the Servicer to maintain and implement) administrative and operating procedures (including an ability to recreate records evidencing Receivables and related Contracts in the event of the destruction of the originals thereof), and keep and maintain (or cause the Servicer to keep and maintain) all documents, books, records, computer tapes and disks and other information reasonably necessary or advisable for the collection of all Receivables (including records adequate to permit the daily identification of each Receivable and all Collections of and adjustments to each existing Receivable). Notwithstanding the above, in no event shall the Seller have or maintain, or be a partner in any partnership that has or maintains, its jurisdiction of organization, principal place of business or principal assets in any of the states of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah or Wyoming.
(c) Performance and Compliance with Contracts and Credit and Collection Policy . The Seller shall (and shall cause the Servicer to), at its expense, timely and fully perform and comply with all material provisions, covenants and other promises required to be observed by it under the Contracts related to the Receivables, and timely and fully comply in all material respects with the applicable Credit and Collection Policy with regard to each Receivable and the related Contract.
(d) Ownership Interest, Etc . The Seller shall (and shall cause the Servicer to), at its expense, take all action necessary or desirable to establish and maintain a valid and enforceable ownership or security interest in the Pool Receivables, the Related Security and Collections with respect thereto (or with respect to any Australian Originator Receivable, the Sellers beneficial
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interest in the Pool Receivables, the Related Security and Collections with respect thereto), and a first priority perfected ownership or security interest in the Pool Assets, in each case free and clear of any Adverse Claim, in favor of the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers), including taking such action to perfect, protect or more fully evidence the interest of the Administrator (on behalf of the Purchasers), as the Administrator, may reasonably request. The Seller shall from time to time and within the time limits established by law prepare and present to the Administrator for the Administrators authorization and approval all financing statements, amendments, continuations or initial financing statements in lieu of a continuation statement, or other filings necessary to continue, maintain and perfect the Administrators (on behalf of the Purchasers) ownership or security interest in the Pool Assets as a first-priority interest. The Administrators approval of such filings shall authorize the Seller to file such financing statements under the UCC without the signature of the Seller, or the Administrator, any Purchaser Agent or any Purchaser where allowed by Applicable Law. Notwithstanding anything else in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, neither the Seller, the Servicer nor any other Person shall have any authority to file a termination, partial termination, release or partial release or any amendment that deletes the name of a debtor or excludes collateral of any such financing statements without the prior written consent of the Administrator.
(e) Sales, Liens, Etc . The Seller shall not sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise) or otherwise dispose of, or create or suffer to exist any Adverse Claim upon or with respect to, any or all of its right, title or interest in, to or under any Pool Assets (including the Sellers interest in any Receivable, Related Security or Collections, or upon or with respect to any account to which any Collections of any Receivables are sent), or assign any right to receive income in respect of any items contemplated by this paragraph.
(f) Extension or Amendment of Receivables . Except as provided in the Agreement, the Seller shall not, and shall not permit the Servicer to, alter the delinquency status or adjust the Outstanding Balance or otherwise modify the terms of any Pool Receivable in any material respect, or amend, modify or waive, in any material respect, any term or condition of any related Contract (which term or condition relates to payments under, or the enforcement of, such Contract).
(g) Change in Business or Credit and Collection Policy . Without the prior written consent of the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent, the Seller shall not make (or permit the Originators to make) any material change in the character of its business or in any Credit and Collection Policy, or any change in any Credit and Collection Policy that would have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Receivables. The Seller shall not make (or permit the Originators to make) any other change in any Credit and Collection Policy without giving 30 days prior written notice thereof to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent.
(h) Audits . The Seller shall (and shall cause the Originators to), from time to time during regular business hours as reasonably requested in advance (unless a Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event exists) by the Administrator, permit the Administrator or its agents or representatives: (i) to examine and make copies of and abstracts from all books, records and documents (including computer tapes and disks) in the possession or under the control of the Seller (or the Originators) relating to Receivables and the Related Security,
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including the related Contracts, (ii) to examine Australian Originator Contracts and the Related Security to determine whether the related Receivables identified as Eligible Receivables in the Information Packages and Interim Reports delivered under this Agreement satisfy each of the applicable eligibility criteria, (iii) to visit the offices and properties of the Seller and the Originators for the purpose of examining such materials described in clause (i) and (ii) above, and to discuss matters relating to Receivables and the Related Security or the Sellers, Peabodys or any Originators performance under the Transaction Documents or under the Contracts with any of the officers, employees, agents or contractors of the Seller, Peabody or any Originator having knowledge of such matters and (iv) without limiting the clauses (i) , (ii) and (iii) above, to engage certified public accountants or other auditors acceptable to the Seller and the Administrator to conduct, at the Sellers expense, a review of the Sellers books and records with respect to such Receivables, provided , that at any time when no Termination Event exists and is continuing, the Seller shall be required to reimburse the Administrator for only one (1) such audit (or, at any time following the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event, two (2) such audits) per year.
(i) Change in Lock-Box Banks, Lock-Box Accounts and Payment Instructions to Obligors . The Seller shall not, and shall not permit the Servicer or any Originator to, add or terminate any bank as a Lock-Box Bank or any account as a Lock-Box Account from those listed in Schedule II to the Agreement (other than as permitted by Section 5.21 ), or make any change in its instructions to Obligors regarding payments to be made to the Seller, any Originator, the Servicer or any Lock-Box Account (or related post office box), unless the Administrator shall have received ten (10) days prior written notice of assignment to a Permitted Lock-Box Bank and the Administrator shall have received copies of all agreements and documents (including Lock-Box Agreements) that it may request in connection therewith.
(j) Deposits to Lock-Box Accounts . Subject to Section 5.21 , the Seller shall (or shall cause the Servicer to): (i) instruct all Obligors (or in the case of Peabody Coppabella, its agent) to make payments of all Receivables to one or more Lock-Box Accounts or to post office boxes to which only Lock-Box Banks have access (and shall instruct the Lock-Box Banks to cause all items and amounts relating to such Receivables received in such post office boxes to be removed and deposited into a Lock-Box Account on a daily basis), and (ii) deposit, or cause to be deposited, any Collections received by it, the Servicer or any Originator into Lock-Box Accounts not later than two (2) Business Days after receipt thereof (or in the case of Peabody Coppabella, cause Peabody Coppebella or its agent to deposit any Collections received by Peabody Coppabella or its agent into a Lock-Box Account as soon as possible and not later than five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof). Each Lock-Box Account shall at all times be subject to a Lock-Box Agreement. The Seller will, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Administrator, instruct each Originator, in its capacity as the beneficiary (or prospective beneficiary) of an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, to instruct the related Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider to make payments in respect of Eligible Supporting Letters of Credit issued (or confirmed by) such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider directly to a Lock-Box Account if the Servicer fails to do so and, if an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider fails to so deliver payments to a Lock-Box Account, the Seller will, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Administrator, use all reasonable efforts to cause the applicable Originator to cause such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider to deliver subsequent payments (if any)
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in respect of Eligible Supporting Letters of Credit issued (or confirmed by) such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider directly to a Lock-Box Account if the Servicer fails to do so. Subject to Section 5.21 , the Seller will not (and will not permit the Servicer to) deposit or otherwise credit, or cause or permit to be so deposited or credited, to any Lock-Box Account cash or cash proceeds other than Collections.
(k) Marking of Records . At its expense, the Seller shall: (i) mark (or cause the Servicer to mark) its master data processing records relating to Pool Receivables and related Contracts, including with a legend evidencing that the Receivables and Related Security included in the Purchased Assets have been sold in accordance with the Agreement, and (ii) cause each Originator so to mark its master data processing records pursuant to the applicable Sale Agreement.
(l) Reporting Requirements . The Seller will provide to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent (in multiple copies, if requested by the Administrator or any Purchaser Agent) the following:
(i) as soon as available and in any event within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Seller, a copy of the financial statements for such year for the Seller, certified as to accuracy by a Responsible Officer of the Seller;
(ii) as soon as possible and in any event within five days after the occurrence of each Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event, a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Seller setting forth details of such Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event and the action that the Seller has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(iii) promptly after the filing or receiving thereof, copies of all reports and notices that the Seller or any ERISA Affiliate files under ERISA with the Internal Revenue Service, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or the U.S. Department of Labor or that the Seller or any ERISA Affiliate receives from any of the foregoing or from any multiemployer plan (within the meaning of Section 400l(a)(3) of ERISA) to which the Seller or any of its ERISA Affiliates is or was, within the preceding five years, a contributing employer, in each case in respect of the assessment of withdrawal liability or an event or condition that could, in the aggregate, result in the imposition of liability on the Seller and/or any such ERISA Affiliate;
(iv) at least thirty days before any change in the Sellers name or any other change requiring the amendment of UCC financing statements, a notice setting forth such changes and the effective date thereof;
(v) promptly after any Responsible Officer of the Seller obtains knowledge thereof, notice of any: (A) material litigation, investigation or proceeding that may exist at any time between the Seller and any Person or (B) material litigation or proceeding relating to any Transaction Document;
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(vi) promptly after the occurrence thereof, notice of a material adverse change in the business, operations, property or financial or other condition of the Seller, the Servicer or the Originator;
(vii) at least forty-five (45) days prior written notice if the Purchased Assets will not be included on the consolidated balance sheet of Peabody for purposes of GAAP and
(viii) such other information respecting the Receivables or the condition or operations, financial or otherwise, of the Seller or any of its Affiliates as the Administrator or any Purchaser Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
(m) Certain Agreements . Without the prior written consent of the Administrator and the Majority Purchaser Agents, the Seller will not (and will not permit the Originators to) amend, modify, waive, revoke or terminate any Transaction Document to which it is a party or any provision of Sellers certificate of formation or other organizational document of the Seller.
(n) Restricted Payments . (i) Except pursuant to clause (ii) below, the Seller will not: (A) purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock, (B) declare or pay any dividend or set aside any funds for any such purpose, (C) prepay, purchase or redeem any Debt, (D) lend or advance any funds or (E) repay any loans or advances to, for or from any of its Affiliates (the amounts described in clauses (A) through (E) being referred to as Restricted Payments ).
(ii) Subject to the limitations set forth in clause (iii) below, the Seller may make Restricted Payments so long as such Restricted Payments are made only in the following way: the Seller may declare and pay distributions and make loans and advances to Peabody (provided that any such loans and advances shall be treated as a dividend within no less than 30 days following the making thereof).
(iii) The Seller may make Restricted Payments only out of the funds it receives pursuant to Sections 1.6(b)(ii) and (iv) and 1.6(d) of the Agreement. Furthermore, the Seller shall not pay, make or declare: (A) any distributions, loans or advances if, after giving effect thereto, the Sellers tangible net worth would be less than $10,000,000, or (B) any Restricted Payment (including any dividend) if, after giving effect thereto, any Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event shall have occurred and be continuing.
(o) Other Business . The Seller will not: (i) engage in any business other than the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents; (ii) create, incur or permit to exist any Debt of any kind (or cause or permit to be issued for its account any letters of credit or bankers acceptances) other than pursuant to this Agreement or any Company Note; or (iii) form any Subsidiary or make any investments in any other Person; provided , however , that the Seller shall be permitted to incur minimal obligations to the extent necessary for the day-to-day operations of the Seller (such as expenses for stationery, audits, maintenance of legal status, etc.).
(p) Use of Collections . The Seller shall apply the Collections that are available to the Seller in accordance with the Agreement to make payments in the following order of priority:
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(i) the payment of its expenses (including all obligations payable to the Purchasers, the Purchaser Agents and the Administrator under the Agreement and under the Fee Letters); (ii) the payment of accrued and unpaid interest on any Company Note; and (iii) other legal and valid organizational purposes.
(q) Tangible Net Worth . The Seller will not permit its tangible net worth, at any time, to be less than $10,000,000.
(r) Anti-Money Laundering/International Trade Law Compliance . No Covered Entity will become a Sanctioned Person. No Covered Entity, either in its own right or through any third party, will (a) have any of its assets in a Sanctioned Country or in the possession, custody or control of a Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (b) do business in or with, or derive any of its income from investments in or transactions with, any Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (c) engage in any dealings or transactions prohibited by any Anti-Terrorism Law or (d) use the proceeds of any Investment to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in, or, make any payments to, a Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law. The funds used to repay Sellers obligations under this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents will not be derived from any unlawful activity. Each Covered Entity shall comply with all Anti-Terrorism Laws. Seller shall promptly notify the Administrator in writing upon the occurrence of a Reportable Compliance Event.
(s) LCR Security . The Seller shall not issue any LCR Security.
2. Covenants of the Servicer and Peabody . Until the Final Payout Date:
(a) Compliance with Laws, Etc. The Servicer and, to the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody shall comply (and shall cause the Originators to comply) in all material respects with all Applicable Law and preserve and maintain its organizational existence, rights, franchises, qualifications and privileges, except to the extent that the failure so to comply with such laws, rules and regulations or the failure so to preserve and maintain such existence, rights, franchises, qualifications and privileges would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Offices, Records and Books of Account, Etc. The Servicer and, to the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody, (i) shall keep its principal place of business, chief executive office and state of formation (as such terms or similar terms are used in the applicable UCC) and the office where it keeps its records concerning the Receivables at the address of the Servicer set forth on Schedule IV and (ii) shall cause Peabody Holding Company, LLC and each U.S. Originator to keep its state of formation (as such term is defined in the applicable UCC) and the office where it keeps its records concerning the Receivables at the applicable address set forth on Schedule IV , in the case of Peabody Holding Company, LLC, and Exhibit E to the U.S. Sale Agreement, in the case of any U.S. Originator, or, in the case of either sub-clause (i) or (ii) of this clause (b) , upon at least 30 days prior written notice of a proposed change to the Administrator, at any other locations in jurisdictions where all actions reasonably requested by the Administrator to protect and perfect the interest of the Administrator in the Receivables and related items (including the Pool Assets) have been taken and completed. The Servicer and, to
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the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody, also will (and will cause the Originators to) maintain and implement administrative and operating procedures (including an ability to recreate records evidencing Receivables and related Contracts in the event of the destruction of the originals thereof), and keep and maintain all documents, books, records, computer tapes and disks and other information reasonably necessary or advisable for the collection of all Receivables (including records adequate to permit the daily identification of each Receivable and all Collections of and adjustments to each existing Receivable).
(c) Performance and Compliance with Contracts and Credit and Collection Policy . The Servicer and, to the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody, shall (and shall cause the Originators to), at its expense, timely and fully perform and comply with all material provisions, covenants and other promises required to be observed by it under the Contracts related to the Receivables, and timely and fully comply in all material respects with the Credit and Collection Policy with regard to each Receivable and the related Contract.
(d) Extension or Amendment of Receivables . Except as provided in the Agreement, the Servicer and, to the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody, shall not alter the delinquency status or adjust the Outstanding Balance or otherwise modify the terms of any Pool Receivable in any material respect, or amend, modify or waive, in any material respect, any term or condition of any related Contract, in each case which term or condition relates to payments under, or the enforcement of, such Contract.
(e) Change in Business or Credit and Collection Policy . The Servicer and, to the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody, shall not make (and shall not permit the Originators to make) any material change in the character of its business, other than Similar Businesses, or any change in any Credit and Collection Policy that would have a Material Adverse Effect. The Servicer and, to the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody, shall not make (and shall not permit the Originators to make) any other change in any Credit and Collection Policy without giving prior written notice thereof to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent.
(f) Audits . The Servicer and, to the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody, shall (and shall cause the Originators to), from time to time during regular business hours as reasonably requested in advance (unless a Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event exists) by the Administrator or any Purchaser Agent, permit the Administrator or its agents or representatives: (i) to examine and make copies of and abstracts from all books, records and documents (including computer tapes and disks) in its possession or under its control relating to Receivables and the Related Security, including the related Contracts; (ii) to examine Australian Originator Contracts and the Related Security to determine whether the related Receivables identified as Eligible Receivables in the Information Packages and Interim Reports delivered under this Agreement satisfy each of the applicable eligibility criteria, (iii) to visit its offices and properties for the purpose of examining such materials described in clause (i) and (ii) above, and to discuss matters relating to Receivables and the Related Security or its performance hereunder or under the Contracts with any of its officers, employees, agents or contractors having knowledge of such matters and (iv), without limiting the clauses (i) , (ii) and (ii) above, to engage certified public accountants or other auditors acceptable to the Servicer and the Administrator to
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conduct, at the Servicers expense, a review of the Servicers books and records with respect to such Receivables, provided , that at any time when no Termination Event exists and is continuing, the Servicer shall be required to reimburse the Administrator for only one (1) such audit (or, at any time following the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event, two (2) such audits) per year.
(g) Change in Lock-Box Banks, Lock-Box Accounts and Payment Instructions to Obligors . The Servicer and, to the extent that it ceases to be the Servicer, Peabody, shall not (and shall not permit the Originators to) add or terminate any bank as a Lock-Box Bank or any account as a Lock-Box Account from those listed in Schedule II to the Agreement (other than as permitted by Section 5.21 ), or make any change in its instructions to Obligors regarding payments to be made to the Servicer or any Lock-Box Account (or related post office box), unless the Administrator shall have received ten (10) days advance written notice of assignment to a Permitted Lock-Box Bank and the Administrator shall have received copies of all agreements and documents (including Lock-Box Agreements) that it may request in connection therewith.
(h) Deposits to Lock-Box Accounts . Subject to Section 5.21 , the Servicer shall: (i) instruct all Obligors (or in the case of Peabody Coppabella, its agent) to make payments of all Receivables to one or more Lock-Box Accounts or to post office boxes to which only Lock-Box Banks have access (and shall instruct the Lock-Box Banks to cause all items and amounts relating to such Receivables received in such post office boxes to be removed and deposited into a Lock-Box Account on a daily basis); and (ii) deposit, or cause to be deposited, any Collections received by it into Lock-Box Accounts not later than two (2) Business Days after receipt thereof (or in the case of Peabody Coppabella, cause Peabody Coppebella or its agent to deposit any Collections received by Peabody Coppabella or its agent into a Lock-Box Account as soon as possible and not later than five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof). The Servicer will (on behalf of the Seller), unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Administrator, instruct each Originator, in its capacity as the beneficiary of an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit, to instruct each Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider to make payments in respect of Eligible Supporting Letters of Credit issued (or confirmed by) such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider directly to a Lock-Box Account if the applicable Originator fails to do so and, if an Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider fails to so deliver payments to a Lock-Box Account, the Servicer will, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Administrator, use all reasonable efforts to cause the applicable Originator to cause such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider to deliver subsequent payments (if any) in respect of Eligible Supporting Letters of Credit issued (or confirmed by) such Eligible Supporting Letter of Credit Provider directly to a Lock-Box Account if the applicable Originator fails to do so. Except as permitted pursuant to Section 5.21 , each Lock-Box Account shall at all times be subject to a Lock-Box Agreement.
(i) Preservation of Security Interest. The Servicer shall (and shall cause the Seller to) take any and all action as the Administrator may require to preserve and maintain the perfection and priority of the ownership or security interest of the Administrator in the Pool Assets pursuant to this Agreement.
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(j) Marking of Records . At its expense, the Servicer shall mark its master data processing records relating to Pool Receivables and related Contracts with a legend evidencing that such Receivables and Related Security have been sold in accordance with the Agreement.
(k) Navajo Project . Peabody shall notify the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent if a Responsible Officer of Peabody obtains actual knowledge that the documents and agreements governing the Navajo Project are amended in any manner which would cause the representations and warranties set forth in Section 2(o) of Exhibit III to be incorrect or untrue in any respect.
(l) Reporting Requirements . Peabody shall provide to the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent (in multiple copies, if requested by the Administrator or any Purchaser Agent) the following:
(i) as soon as available and in any event within 60 days after the end of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of Peabody balance sheets of Peabody and the consolidated Subsidiaries of Peabody as of the end of such quarter and statements of income, retained earnings and cash flow of Peabody and the consolidated Subsidiaries of Peabody for the period commencing at the end of the previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, certified by the chief financial officer of Peabody; provided , that any financial statements or other material required to be delivered pursuant to this Section (2)(l)(i) shall be deemed to have been furnished to each of the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent on the date that such financial statements or other material is posted on the SECs website at www.sec.gov ;
(ii) as soon as available and in any event within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of Peabody, a copy of the annual report for such year for Peabody and its consolidated Subsidiaries, containing financial statements for such year audited by independent certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing; provided , that any such material required to be delivered pursuant to this Section (2)(l)(ii) shall be deemed to have been furnished to each of the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent on the date that such material are posted on the SECs website at www.sec.gov ;
(iii) together with the financial statements required in (i) and (ii) above, a compliance certificate in substantially the form of Annex D signed by the senior financial officer of the Seller or Peabody, or such other Person as may be acceptable to the Administrator;
(iv) as to the Servicer only, (A) as soon as available and in any event not later than two Business Days prior to the Monthly Settlement Date, an Information Package as of the most recently completed calendar month, which shall include, among other things, the Cash Liquidity and Adjusted Cash Liquidity as of the applicable Cash Liquidity Reporting Date, (B) as soon as available and in any event no later than the second Business Day of each calendar week, a report substantially in the form of Annex H-1 (each, a Weekly Report ) as of the last Business Day of the prior calendar week, which shall include, among other things, the Cash Liquidity and Adjusted Cash Liquidity as of
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the applicable Cash Liquidity Reporting Date, and (C) if requested by the Administrator or any Purchaser at any time following the occurrence and during the continuance of a Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event or following the occurrence of a Minimum Cash Liquidity Event, a report substantially in the form of Annex H-2 (each, a Daily Report ) on each Business Day as of date that is one Business Day prior to such date, which shall include, among other things, the Cash Liquidity and Adjusted Cash Liquidity as of the applicable Cash Liquidity Reporting Date.
(v) as soon as possible and in any event within five days after becoming aware of the occurrence of each Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event, a statement of the chief financial officer of Peabody setting forth details of such Termination Event or Unmatured Termination Event and the action that such Person has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(vi) promptly after the sending or filing thereof, copies of all reports that Peabody sends to any of its security holders, and copies of all reports and registration statements that Peabody or any Subsidiary files with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any national securities exchange; provided , that any filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that have been granted confidential treatment shall be provided promptly after such filings have become publicly available; provided , that any material required to be delivered pursuant to this Section (2)(l)(vi) shall be deemed to have been furnished to each of the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent on the date that such material is posted on the SECs website at www.sec.gov ;
(vii) promptly after the filing or receiving thereof notice of and, upon the request of the Administrator, copies of all reports and notices that Peabody or any ERISA Affiliate of Peabody files under ERISA with the Internal Revenue Service, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or the U.S. Department of Labor or that such Person or any of its ERISA Affiliates receives from any of the foregoing or from any multiemployer plan (within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) to which such Person or any ERISA Affiliate of Peabody is or was, within the preceding five years, a contributing employer, in each case in respect of the assessment of withdrawal liability or an event or condition that could, in the aggregate, result in the imposition of liability on Peabody and/or any such ERISA Affiliate;
(viii) at least thirty days before any change in Peabody or any U.S. Originators name or any ACN of any Australian Originator other change requiring the amendment of UCC financing statements or PPSA financing statements, a notice setting forth such changes and the effective date thereof;
(ix) promptly after a Responsible Officer of Peabody obtains knowledge thereof, notice of any: (A) litigation, investigation or proceeding that may exist at any time between Peabody or any of its Subsidiaries and any Governmental Authority that is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; (B) litigation or proceeding adversely affecting such Person or any of its Subsidiaries that is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; or (C) litigation or proceeding relating to any Transaction Document;
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(x) promptly after the occurrence thereof, notice of a material adverse change in the business, operations, property or financial or other condition of Peabody and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or any individual Originator;
(xi) the occurrence of a default or any event of default under any other financing arrangement evidencing $75,000,000 or more of indebtedness pursuant to which Peabody is a debtor or an obligor;
(xii) such other information respecting the Receivables or the condition or operations, financial or otherwise, of Peabody or any of its Affiliates as the Administrator or any Purchaser Agent may from time to time reasonably request; and
(xiii) the occurrence of any Title Perfection Event (as defined in the Australian Sale Agreement).
(m) Anti-Money Laundering/International Trade Law Compliance . No Covered Entity will become a Sanctioned Person. No Covered Entity, either in its own right or through any third party, will (i) have any of its assets in a Sanctioned Country or in the possession, custody or control of a Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (ii) do business in or with, or derive any of its income from investments in or transactions with, any Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (iii) engage in any dealings or transactions prohibited by any Anti-Terrorism Law or (iv) use the proceeds of any Investment to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in, or, make any payments to, a Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law. The funds used to repay Servicers obligations under this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents will not be derived from any unlawful activity. Each Covered Entity shall comply with all Anti-Terrorism Laws. Servicer shall promptly notify the Administrator in writing upon the occurrence of a Reportable Compliance Event.
3. Separate Existence . Each of the Seller and Peabody hereby acknowledges that the Purchasers, the Purchaser Agents and the Administrator are entering into the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents in reliance upon the Sellers identity as a legal entity separate from Peabody and its Affiliates. Therefore, from and after the date hereof, each of the Seller and Peabody shall take all steps specifically required by the Agreement or reasonably required by the Administrator to continue the Sellers identity as a separate legal entity and to make it apparent to third Persons that the Seller is an entity with assets and liabilities distinct from those of Peabody and any other Person, and is not a division of Peabody, its Affiliates or any other Person. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and in addition to and consistent with the other covenants set forth herein, each of the Seller and Peabody shall take such actions as shall be required in order that:
(a) The Seller will be a limited purpose limited liability company whose activities are restricted in its certificate of formation to: (i) purchasing or otherwise acquiring from the
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Originators or Peabody (or their Affiliates), owning, holding, granting security interests or selling interests in Pool Assets (or other receivables originated by the Originators or their Affiliates, and certain related assets), (ii) entering into agreements for the selling and servicing of the Receivables Pool (or other receivables pools originated by the Originators or their Affiliates), and (iii) conducting such other activities as are necessary or appropriate to carry out such activities;
(b) The Seller shall not engage in any business or activity except as set forth in this Agreement nor incur any indebtedness or liability, other than as expressly permitted by the Transaction Documents;
(c) Not less than one of the Sellers Directors (the Independent Director ) shall be a natural person who (A) for the five-year period prior to his or her appointment as Independent Director has not been, and during the continuation of his or her service as Independent Director is not: (i) an employee, director, stockholder, member, manager, partner or officer of the Seller, Peabody or any of their respective Affiliates (other than his or her service as an Independent Director of the Seller); (ii) a customer or supplier of the Seller, Peabody or any of their respective Affiliates (other than his or her service as an Independent Director of Seller); or (iii) any member of the immediate family of a person described in clause (i) or (ii) above, and (B) has, (i) prior experience as an Independent Director for a corporation or limited liability company whose charter documents required the unanimous consent of all independent directors thereof before such corporation or limited liability company could consent to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it or could file a petition seeking relief under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy and (ii) at least three years of employment experience with one or more entities that provide, in the ordinary course of their respective businesses, advisory, management or placement services to issuers of securitization or structured finance instruments, agreements or securities. Such Independent Director of the Seller shall have been appointed as such in strict compliance with the Sellers LLC Agreement. The Sellers LLC Agreement shall provide that (i) the Sellers Board of Directors shall not approve, or take any other action to cause the filing of, or join in any filing of, a voluntary bankruptcy or insolvency petition, dissolution, liquidation, consolidation, merger, sale of all or substantially all of its assets, assignment for the benefit of creditors, admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or to engage in any other business or activity with respect to the Seller unless (x) there is at least one Independent Director then serving as a director of the Seller and appointed pursuant to and in strict compliance with the Sellers LLC Agreement, and (y) all such Independent Directors of the Seller shall have approved the taking of such action in writing prior to the taking of such action and (ii) such provision cannot be amended without the prior written consent of the Independent Director and the Administrator;
(d) Upon the occurrence of any event that causes the Member to cease to be a member of the Seller (other than (i) upon an assignment by the Member of all of its limited liability company interest in the Seller and the admission of the transferee pursuant to Sections 21 and 23 of the LLC Agreement, or (ii) the resignation of the Member and the admission of an additional member of the Seller pursuant to Sections 22 and 23 of the LLC Agreement), each person acting as an Independent Director pursuant to Section 10 of the LLC Agreement shall, without any action of any Person and simultaneously with the Member ceasing to be a member
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of the Seller, automatically be admitted to the Seller as a Special Member and shall continue the Seller without dissolution. No Special Member may resign from the Seller or transfer its rights as a Special Member unless (i) a successor Special Member has been admitted to the Seller as Special Member by executing a counterpart to the LLC Agreement, and (ii) such successor has also accepted its appointment as Independent Director pursuant to Section 10 of the LLC Agreement; provided , however , the Special Members shall automatically cease to be members of the Seller upon the admission to the Seller of a substitute Member.
(e) The Independent Director shall not at any time serve as a trustee in bankruptcy for the Seller, Peabody or any Affiliate thereof;
(f) Any employee, consultant or agent of the Seller will be compensated from the Sellers funds for services provided to the Seller. The Seller will not engage any agents other than its attorneys, auditors and other professionals, and a servicer and any other agent contemplated by the Transaction Documents for the Receivables Pool, which servicer will be fully compensated for its services by payment of the Servicing Fee, and a manager, which manager will be fully compensated from the Sellers funds;
(g) The Seller will contract with the Servicer to perform for the Seller all operations required on a daily basis to service the Receivables Pool. The Seller will pay the Servicer the Servicing Fee pursuant hereto. The Seller will not incur any material indirect or overhead expenses for items shared with Peabody (or any other Affiliate thereof) that are not reflected in the Servicing Fee. To the extent, if any, that the Seller (or any Affiliate thereof) shares items of expenses not reflected in the Servicing Fee or the managers fee, such as legal, auditing and other professional services, such expenses will be allocated to the extent practical on the basis of actual use or the value of services rendered, and otherwise on a basis reasonably related to the actual use or the value of services rendered; it being understood that Peabody shall pay all expenses relating to the preparation, negotiation, execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents, including legal, agency and other fees;
(h) The Sellers operating expenses will be paid by the Seller and not by Peabody or any other Affiliate thereof;
(i) All of the Sellers business correspondence and other communications shall be conducted in the Sellers own name and on its own separate stationery;
(j) The Sellers books and records will be maintained separately from those of Peabody and any other Affiliate thereof and any other Person;
(k) All financial statements of Peabody or any Affiliate thereof that are consolidated to include Seller will contain detailed notes clearly stating that: (i) a special purpose limited liability company exists as a Subsidiary of Peabody, and (ii) the Originators have sold receivables (or beneficial interests therein) and other related assets to the Contributor, which has contributed such receivables (or beneficial interests therein) and other related assets to such special purpose Subsidiary that, in turn, has sold such receivables (or beneficial interests therein) and other related assets to certain financial institutions and other entities;
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(l) The Sellers assets will be maintained in a manner that facilitates their identification and segregation from those of Peabody or any Affiliate thereof and any other Person;
(m) The Seller will strictly observe organizational formalities in its dealings with Peabody or any Affiliate thereof, and funds or other assets of the Seller will not be commingled with those of Peabody or any Affiliate thereof except as permitted by the Agreement in connection with servicing the Pool Receivables. The Seller shall not maintain joint bank accounts or other depository accounts to which Peabody or any Affiliate thereof or any other Person has independent access, and the Seller shall use separate invoices and checks from any other Person. The Seller is not named, and has not entered into any agreement to be named, directly or indirectly, as a direct or contingent beneficiary or loss payee on any insurance policy with respect to any loss relating to the property of Peabody or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate of Peabody (other than the Seller). The Seller will pay to the appropriate Affiliate the marginal increase or, in the absence of such increase, the market amount of its portion of the premium payable with respect to any insurance policy that covers the Seller and such Affiliate;
(n) The Seller will maintain arms-length relationships with Peabody (and any Affiliate thereof). Any Person that renders or otherwise furnishes services to the Seller will be compensated by the Seller at market rates for such services it renders or otherwise furnishes to the Seller. Neither the Seller nor Peabody will be or will hold itself out to be responsible for the debts of the other or the decisions or actions respecting the daily business and affairs of the other. The Seller and Peabody will immediately correct any known misrepresentation with respect to the foregoing, and they will not operate or purport to operate as an integrated single economic unit with respect to each other or in their dealing with any other entity;
(o) Peabody shall not pay the salaries of Sellers employees, if any;
(p) The Seller does not and will not hold itself responsible for the obligations of any other Person, and shall not guarantee or become liable for the debts of any other Person;
(q) The Seller will conduct its business in its own name and shall hold itself out as a separate entity from any other Person;
(r) The Seller shall maintain a sufficient number of employees and adequate capital in light of its contemplated business activities;
(s) The Seller shall not acquire the obligations or securities of any of its members;
(t) The Seller will remain a wholly-owned subsidiary of a United States person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code) and not be subject to withholding under Section 1446 of the Internal Revenue Code, and no action will be taken that would cause the Seller to (i) be treated other than as a disregarded entity within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulation § 301.7701-3 for U.S. federal income tax purposes or (ii) become an association taxable as a corporation or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes; and
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(u) The Seller shall not pledge its assets for the benefit of any other Person or make any loans or advances to any other Person, except pursuant to the Transaction Documents.
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EXHIBIT V
TERMINATION EVENTS
Each of the following shall be a Termination Event :
(a) (i) the Seller, Peabody, any Originator or the Servicer (if Peabody or any of its Affiliates) shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement under the Agreement (other than those terms, covenants or agreements contained in Exhibit IV , Sections 1(a) , 1(l) (except clause (iv) thereof), 2(a) , and 2(l) (except clause (viii) thereof)) or any other Transaction Document and, except as otherwise provided herein, such failure shall continue for five consecutive Business Days after knowledge or notice thereof, (ii) the Seller or the Servicer shall fail to make when due any payment or deposit to be made by it under the Agreement and such failure shall continue unremedied for two (2) Business Days, (iii) Peabody shall resign as Servicer, and no successor Servicer reasonably satisfactory to the Administrator shall have been appointed, or (iv) the Seller, Peabody, any Originator or the Servicer (if Peabody or any of its Affiliates) shall fail to perform or observe any term covenant or agreement in any of Exhibit IV , Sections 1(a) , 1(l) (except clause (iv) thereof), 2(a) , or 2(l) (except clause (viii) thereof) and, except as otherwise provided herein, such failure shall continue for thirty days after knowledge or notice thereof;
(b) Peabody (or any Affiliate thereof) shall fail to transfer to any successor Servicer when required any rights pursuant to the Agreement that Peabody (or such Affiliate) then has as Servicer;
(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by the Seller, Peabody or any Originator (or any of their respective officers) under or in connection with the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or any information or report delivered by the Seller, Peabody or any Originator or the Servicer pursuant to the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, shall prove to have been incorrect or untrue in any material respect when made or deemed made or delivered, and shall remain incorrect or untrue for 10 Business Days after notice to the Seller or the Servicer of such inaccuracy;
(d) the Seller or the Servicer shall fail to deliver the Information Package or Interim Report pursuant to the Agreement, and such failure shall remain unremedied for two Business Days;
(e) the Agreement or any Investment or Reinvestment pursuant to the Agreement shall for any reason: (i) cease to create a valid and enforceable perfected ownership (or with respect to any Australian Originator Receivable, a beneficial interest) or security interest in each Pool Receivable, the Related Security and Collections with respect thereto, free and clear of any Adverse Claim, or (ii) cease to create with respect to the Pool Assets, or the interest of the Administrator with respect to such Pool Assets shall cease to be, a valid and enforceable first priority perfected ownership or security interest, free and clear of any Adverse Claim;
(f) the Seller, Peabody or any Originator shall generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or any proceeding shall be instituted by or against
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the Seller, Peabody or any Originator seeking to adjudicate it as bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief or composition of it or its debts under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for it or for any substantial part of its property and, in the case of any such proceeding instituted against it (but not instituted by it), either such proceeding shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of 60 days, or any of the actions sought in such proceeding (including the entry of an order for relief against, or the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for, it or for any substantial part of its property) shall occur; or the Seller, Peabody or any Originator shall take any corporate or organizational action to authorize any of the actions set forth above in this paragraph;
(g) (i) the (A) Default Ratio shall exceed 2.25% or (B) the Delinquency Ratio shall exceed 4.50% or (ii) the average for three consecutive calendar months of: (A) the Default Ratio shall exceed 1.75%, (B) the Delinquency Ratio shall exceed 3.50% or (C) the Dilution Ratio shall exceed 2.50%;
(h) a Change in Control shall occur;
(i) at any time the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage exceeds 100%, and such circumstance shall not have been cured within two Business Days;
(j) (i) the occurrence of any Event of Default under and as defined in the Credit Agreement, provided that if the Credit Agreement is terminated but not replaced, the covenants in effect in the Credit Agreement immediately prior to termination of the Credit Agreement shall be deemed to be effective for the purposes of the Agreement; (ii) any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under the Credit Agreement and shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such Credit Agreement if, in either case: (A) the effect of such non-payment, event or condition is to give the applicable debtholders the right (whether acted upon or not) to accelerate the maturity of such Debt, or (B) any such Debt shall be declared to be due and payable, or required to be prepaid (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment), redeemed, purchased or defeased, or an offer to repay, redeem, purchase or defease such Debt shall be required to be made, in each case before the stated maturity thereof; or (iii) in the event that the Credit Agreement shall have terminated, and there exists any other financing arrangement evidencing $75,000,000 or more of indebtedness pursuant to which Peabody is a debtor or an obligor (an Other Material Financing Agreement ); either (A) the occurrence of any event of default under such Other Material Financing Agreement, or (B) any other event shall occur or condition shall exist under and shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such Other Material Financing Agreement, if, in either case of (A) or (B): (I) the effect of such non-payment, event or condition is to give the applicable debtholders the right (whether acted upon or not) to accelerate the maturity of such Other Material Financing Agreement, or (II) any such Other Material Financing Agreement shall be declared to be due and payable, or required to be prepaid (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment), redeemed, purchased or defeased, or an offer to repay, redeem, purchase or defease such Debt shall be required to be made, in each case before the stated maturity thereof;
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(k) except as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, either: (i) a contribution failure shall occur with respect to any Benefit Plan sufficient to give rise to a lien on any of the assets of Seller, any Originator, Peabody or any ERISA Affiliate under Section 303(k) of ERISA, (ii) the Internal Revenue Service shall file a notice of lien asserting a claim or claims pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code with regard to any of the assets of Seller, any Originator, Peabody or any ERISA Affiliate and such lien shall have been filed and not released within 10 days, or (iii) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation shall, or shall indicate its intention in writing to the Seller, any Originator, Peabody or any ERISA Affiliate to, either file a notice of lien asserting a claim pursuant to ERISA with regard to any assets of the Seller, any Originator, Peabody or any ERISA Affiliate or terminate any Benefit Plan that has unfunded benefit liabilities, or any steps shall have been taken to terminate any Benefit Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA so as to result in any liability and such lien shall have been filed and not released within 10 days;
(l) the Days Sales Outstanding exceed 40.0 days;
(m) [RESERVED];
(n) any Letter of Credit is drawn upon and, unless as a result of the LC Banks failure to provide the notice required by Section 1.16(a) , not fully reimbursed pursuant to Section 1.16 (including, if applicable, with the proceeds of any funding by any Purchaser) within two Business Days from the date of such draw;
(o) an order of the Bankruptcy Court shall be entered in any of the Chapter 11 Cases (i) staying, reversing or vacating the Confirmation Order, or any member of the Peabody Group shall apply for authority to do so, or (ii) amending, supplementing or otherwise modifying the Confirmation Order in a manner materially adverse to PNC and its Affiliates or any member of the Peabody Group shall apply for authority to do so, in each case without the prior written consent of the Administrator and the Majority Purchaser Agents; or
(p) a member of the Peabody Group shall file a pleading seeking or consenting to the matters described in clause (o) above.
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ANNEX A
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF INFORMATION PACKAGE
Annex A-1
(Attached)
ANNEX B
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF INVESTMENT NOTICE
, [20 ]
PNC Bank, National Association
Three PNC Plaza, 4th Floor
255 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2707
[Each Purchaser Agent]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is hereby made to the Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017 (as heretofore amended or supplemented, the Receivables Purchase Agreement ), among P&L Receivables Company, LLC ( Seller ), Peabody Energy Corporation, as Servicer, the Persons from time to time party thereto as Sub-Servicers, the Persons from time to time party thereto as Conduit Purchasers, Committed Purchasers, Purchaser Agents and LC Participants, and PNC Bank National Association, as administrator (in such capacity, the Administrator ) and as the issuer of letters of credit thereunder (in such capacity, the LC Bank ). Capitalized terms used in this Investment Notice and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the Receivables Purchase Agreement.
[This letter constitutes an Investment Notice pursuant to Section 1.2(a) of the Receivables Purchase Agreement. Seller requests that the Purchasers make an Investment in a pool of receivables on , [20 ], in the amount of $ . Subsequent to this Investment, the Aggregate Capital will be $ .] 1
[This letter constitutes a notice pursuant to Section 1.14(a) of the Receivables Purchase Agreement. Seller desires that LC Bank issue a Letter of Credit with a face amount of [$][AUD] . Subsequent to this issuance, the Aggregate LC Participation Amount will be $ and the Aggregate Capital will be $ .] 2 [After giving effect to such issuance, (i) the U.S. Dollar LC Participation Amount will be $[ ] and (ii) the Australian Dollar Participation Amount will be AUD [ ]].
Seller hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof, and as of the date of such [Investment] [issuance], as follows:
(i) | the representations and warranties contained in Exhibit III to the Receivables Purchase Agreement are true and correct in all material respects (except to the |
1 | In the case of a Borrowing Request. |
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In the case of a request for an issuance of a Letter of Credit. In the event of a request for the issuance of a Letter of Credit, a Letter of Credit Application in the form of Annex E to the Receivables Purchase Agreement must also be delivered by the Seller. |
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extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, and in which case such representations and warranties are true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date); |
(ii) | no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from the Investment or issuance requested hereby that constitutes a Termination Event; |
(iii) | no Unmatured Termination Event exists and is continuing; |
(iv) | the sum of the Aggregate Capital plus the Aggregate LC Participation Amount, after giving effect to the Investment or issuance requested hereby, will not exceed the Purchase Limit; |
(v) | after giving effect to the Investment or issuance requested hereby, the Purchased Assets Coverage Percentage shall not exceed 100%; and |
(vi) | the Facility Termination Date has not occurred. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Investment Notice to be executed by its duly authorized officer as of the date first above written.
P&L RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: |
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ANNEX C
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF PAYDOWN NOTICE
, 20
PNC Bank, National Association
Three PNC Plaza, 4th Floor
255 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2707
[Each Purchaser Agent]
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is hereby made to the Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the Receivables Purchase Agreement ), among P&L Receivables Company, LLC, as Seller, Peabody Energy Corporation, as Servicer, the Persons from time to time party thereto as Sub-Servicers, the Persons from time to time party thereto as Conduit Purchasers, Committed Purchasers, Purchaser Agents and LC Participants, and PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrator and as the LC Bank. Capitalized terms used in this paydown notice and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the Receivables Purchase Agreement.
This letter constitutes a paydown notice pursuant to Section 1.6(f)(i) of the Receivables Purchase Agreement. The Seller desires to reduce the Aggregate Capital on , 3 by the application of $ in cash to pay Capital and Discount to accrue (until such cash can be used to pay commercial paper notes) with respect to such Capital, together with all costs related to such reduction of the Aggregate Capital. Subsequent to this Paydown, the Aggregate Capital will be $ .
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this paydown notice to be executed by its duly authorized officer as of the date first above written.
P&L RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: |
3 | Notice must be given at least two Business Days prior to the requested paydown date. |
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ANNEX D
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
To: PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrator, and [each Purchaser Agent]
This Compliance Certificate is furnished pursuant to that certain Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017, by and among P&L Receivables Company, LLC ( Seller ), Peabody Energy Corporation (the Servicer ), the Persons from time to time party thereto as Sub-Servicers, the Persons from time to time party thereto as Conduit Purchasers, Committed Purchasers, Purchaser Agents and LC Participants, and PNC Bank, National Association (the Administrator ) and as the LC Bank (the Agreement ). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Agreement.
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT:
1. I am the duly elected of Seller.
2. I have reviewed the terms of the Agreement and I have made, or have caused to be made under my supervision, a detailed review of the transactions and condition of Seller during the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements.
3. The examinations described in paragraph 2 did not disclose, and I have no knowledge of, the existence of any condition or event which constitutes a Termination Event or an Unmatured Termination Event, as each such term is defined under the Agreement, during or at the end of the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements or as of the date of this Certificate, except as set forth in paragraph 5 below.
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4. Described below are the exceptions, if any, to paragraph 3 by listing, in detail, the nature of the condition or event, the period during which it has existed and the action which Seller 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 financial statements delivered with this Certificate in support hereof, are made and delivered this day of , 20 .
P&L RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: |
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ANNEX E
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF LETTER OF CREDIT APPLICATION
Annex E-1
(Attached)
ANNEX F
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
Dated as of [ , 20 ]
THIS ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT (this Agreement ), dated as of [ , ], is among P&L RECEIVABLES COMPANY, LLC (the Seller), [ ], as purchaser (the [ ] Conduit Purchaser), [ ], as the related committed purchaser (the [ ] Committed Purchaser), [ ], as related lc participant (the [ ] LC Participant and together with the Conduit Purchaser and the Committed Purchaser, the [ ] Purchasers), and [ ], as agent for the [ ] Purchasers (the [ ] Purchaser Agent and together with the [ ] Purchasers, the [ ] Purchaser Group).
BACKGROUND
The Seller and various others are parties to that certain Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified through the date hereof, the Receivables Purchase Agreement ). Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meaning assigned to such terms in the Receivables Purchase Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1. This Agreement constitutes an Assumption Agreement pursuant to Section 1.4(g) of the Receivables Purchase Agreement. The Seller desires [the [ ] Purchasers] [the [ ] Committed Purchaser] [the [ ] related LC Participant] to [become Purchasers under] [increase its existing Commitment under] the Receivables Purchase Agreement and upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Receivables Purchase Agreement, the [ ] Purchasers agree to [become Purchasers thereunder] [increase its Commitment in an amount equal to the amount set forth as the Commitment under the signature of such [ ] Committed Purchaser hereto] [increase its Commitment in an amount equal to the amount set forth as the Commitment under the signature of such [ ] related LC Participant hereto].
Seller hereby represents and warrants to the [ ] Purchasers as of the date hereof, as follows:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Seller contained in Exhibit III of the Receivables Purchase Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as the date hereof as though made on and as of such date (except for representations and warranties which apply as to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such earlier date);
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(ii) no event has occurred and is continuing that constitutes a Termination Event or an Unmatured Termination Event; and
(iii) the Facility Termination Date has not occurred.
SECTION 2. Upon execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Seller and each member of the [ ] Purchaser Group, satisfaction of the other conditions to assignment specified in Section 1.4(g) of the Receivables Purchase Agreement (including the written consent of the Administrator and each Purchaser Agent) and receipt by the Administrator and Seller of counterparts of this Agreement (whether by electronic mail or otherwise) executed by each of the parties hereto, [the [ ] Purchasers shall become a party to, and have the rights and obligations of Purchasers under, the Receivables Purchase Agreement][the [ ] Committed Purchaser shall increase its Commitment in the amount set forth as the Commitment under the signature of the [ ] Committed Purchaser hereto][the [ ] related LC Participant shall increase its Commitment in the amount set forth as the Commitment under the signature of the [ ] related LC Participant hereto].
SECTION 3. Each party hereto hereby covenants and agrees that it will not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, any Conduit Purchaser, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding, or other proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law, for one year and one day after the latest maturing Note issued by such Conduit Purchaser is paid in full. The covenant contained in this paragraph shall survive any termination of the Receivables Purchase Agreement.
SECTION 4. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT MADE UNDER AND GOVERNED BY THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (INCLUDING FOR SUCH PURPOSE SECTIONS 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK) EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT THE VALIDITY OR PERFECTION OF A SECURITY INTEREST OR REMEDIES HEREUNDER, IN RESPECT OF ANY PARTICULAR COLLATERAL ARE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This Agreement may not be amended, supplemented or waived except pursuant to a writing signed by the party to be charged. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, and by the different parties on different counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement by their duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.
[ ], as a Conduit Purchaser | ||
By: | ||
Name Printed: | ||
Title: | ||
[Address] | ||
[ ], as a Committed Purchaser | ||
By: |
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Title: | ||
[Address] | ||
[Commitment] | ||
[ ], as a related LC Participant | ||
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Title: | ||
[Address] | ||
[Commitment] | ||
[ ], as Purchaser Agent for [ ] | ||
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[Address] |
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P&L RECEIVABLES COMPANY, as Seller | ||
By: | ||
Name Printed: | ||
Title: | ||
Consented and Agreed: | ||
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrator | ||
By: | ||
Name Printed: | ||
Title: |
Address: | PNC Bank, National Association | |
Three PNC Plaza | ||
255 Fifth Avenue | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2707 |
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as LC Bank | ||
By: | ||
Name Printed: | ||
Title: |
Address: | PNC Bank, National Association | |
500 First Avenue | ||
Third Floor | ||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 |
[THE PURCHASER AGENTS] | ||
By: | ||
Name Printed: | ||
Title: | ||
[Address] |
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ANNEX G
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF TRANSFER SUPPLEMENT
Dated as of [ , 20 ]
Section 1 .
Commitment assigned: |
$ | |||
Assignors remaining Commitment: |
$ | |||
Capital allocable to Commitment assigned: |
$ | |||
Assignors remaining Capital: |
$ | |||
Discount (if any) allocable to Capital assigned: |
$ | |||
Discount (if any) allocable to Assignors remaining Capital: |
$ |
Section 2 .
Effective Date of this Transfer Supplement: [ ]
Upon execution and delivery of this Transfer Supplement by transferee and transferor and the satisfaction of the other conditions to assignment specified in Section 5.3(c) of the Receivables Purchase Agreement (as defined below), from and after the effective date specified above, the transferee shall become a party to, and have the rights and obligations of a Committed Purchaser under, the Sixth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 3, 2017 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified through the date hereof, the Receivables Purchase Agreement), among P&L Receivables Company, LLC, as Seller, Peabody Energy Corporation, as initial Servicer, the various Sub-Servicers, Purchasers and Purchaser Agents from time to time party thereto, and PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrator and as LC Bank.
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ASSIGNOR: [ ], as a Committed Purchaser
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[ ], as Purchaser Agent for
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ANNEX H-1
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF WEEKLY REPORT
Annex H-1-1
(Attached)
ANNEX H-2
to Receivables Purchase Agreement
FORM OF DAILY REPORT
Annex H-2-1
(Attached)
Exhibit 10.5
FORM OF
DIRECTOR AND OFFICER INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT
Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody) entered into an Indemnification Agreement identical to the form attached hereto with each of the following Peabody directors and executive officers on the dates indicated:
Date |
Name |
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04/03/2017 | Glenn L. Kellow | |
04/03/2017 | A. Verona Dorch | |
04/03/2017 | Charles Meintjes | |
04/03/2017 | Amy Schwetz | |
04/03/2017 | George Schuller | |
04/03/2017 | Kemal Williamson |
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INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT
This Indemnification Agreement, dated as of [ ], is made by and between PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the Corporation) and [ ] (the Indemnitee).
RECITALS
A. The Corporation recognizes that competent and experienced persons are increasingly reluctant to serve or to continue to serve as directors or officers of corporations unless they are protected by comprehensive liability insurance or indemnification, or both, due to increased exposure to litigation costs and risks resulting from their service to such corporations, and due to the fact that the exposure frequently bears no reasonable relationship to the compensation of such directors and officers;
B. The statutes and judicial decisions regarding the duties of directors and officers are often difficult to apply, ambiguous, or conflicting, and therefore fail to provide such directors and officers with adequate, reliable knowledge of legal risks to which they are exposed or information regarding the proper course of action to take;
C. The Corporation and Indemnitee recognize that plaintiffs often seek damages in such large amounts and the costs of litigation may be so enormous (whether or not the case is meritorious), that the defense and/or settlement of such litigation is often beyond the personal resources of directors and officers;
D. The Corporation believes that it is unfair for its directors and officers to assume the risk of huge judgments and other expenses which may occur in cases in which the director or officer received no personal profit and in cases where the director or officer was not culpable;
E. The Corporation, after reasonable investigation, has determined that the liability insurance coverage presently available to the Corporation may be inadequate in certain circumstances to cover all possible exposure for which Indemnitee should be protected. The Corporation believes that the interests of the Corporation and its stockholders would best be served by a combination of such insurance and the indemnification by the Corporation of the directors and officers of the Corporation;
F. The Corporations Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the Certificate of Incorporation) and Amended and Restated By-Laws require the Corporation to indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL). The Certificate of Incorporation expressly provides that the indemnification provisions set forth therein are not exclusive, and contemplates that contracts may be entered into between the Corporation and its directors and officers with respect to indemnification;
G. Section 145 of the DGCL (Section 145), under which the Corporation is organized, empowers the Corporation to indemnify its officers, directors, employees and agents by agreement and to indemnify persons who serve, at the request of the Corporation, as the directors, officers, employees or agents of other corporations or enterprises, and expressly provides that the indemnification provided by Section 145 is not exclusive;
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H. The Board of Directors has determined that contractual indemnification as set forth herein is not only reasonable and prudent but also promotes the best interests of the Corporation and its stockholders;
I. The Corporation desires and has requested Indemnitee to serve or continue to serve as a director or officer of the Corporation free from undue concern for unwarranted claims for damages arising out of or related to such services to the Corporation; and
J. Indemnitee is willing to serve, continue to serve or to provide additional service for or on behalf of the Corporation on the condition that he is furnished the indemnity provided for herein.
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth below, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
Section 1. Generally .
To the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware:
(a) The Corporation shall indemnify Indemnitee if Indemnitee was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was or has agreed to serve at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or while serving as a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving or has agreed to serve at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent (which, for purposes hereof, shall include a trustee, partner or manager or similar capacity) of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in such capacity.
(b) The indemnification provided by this Section 1 shall be from and against expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitees behalf in connection with such action, suit or proceeding and any appeal therefrom, but shall only be provided if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action, suit or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe Indemnitees conduct was unlawful.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1, in the case of any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or while serving as a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving or has agreed to serve at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or
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agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which Indemnitee shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless, and only to the extent that, the Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, Indemnitee is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
(d) The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that Indemnitees conduct was unlawful.
Section 2. Successful Defense; Partial Indemnification . To the extent that Indemnitee has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Section 1 hereof or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, Indemnitee shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys fees) actually and reasonably incurred in connection therewith. For purposes of this Agreement and without limiting the foregoing, if any action, suit or proceeding is disposed of, on the merits or otherwise (including a disposition without prejudice), without (i) the disposition being adverse to Indemnitee, (ii) an adjudication that Indemnitee was liable to the Corporation, (iii) a plea of guilty or nolo contendere by Indemnitee, (iv) an adjudication that Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and (v) with respect to any criminal proceeding, an adjudication that Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe Indemnitees conduct was unlawful, Indemnitee shall be considered for the purposes hereof to have been wholly successful with respect thereto.
If Indemnitee is entitled under any provision of this Agreement to indemnification by the Corporation for some or a portion of the expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines or amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitees behalf in connection with any action, suit, proceeding or investigation, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, and any appeal therefrom but not, however, for the total amount thereof, the Corporation shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee for the portion of such expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines or amounts paid in settlement to which Indemnitee is entitled.
Section 3. Determination That Indemnification Is Proper . Any indemnification hereunder shall (unless otherwise ordered by a court) be made by the Corporation unless a determination is made that indemnification of such person is not proper in the circumstances because he or she has not met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 1(b) hereof. Any such determination shall be made (i) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to the action, suit or proceeding in question (disinterested directors), even if less than a quorum, (ii) by a majority vote of a committee of disinterested directors designated by majority vote of disinterested directors, even if less than a quorum, (iii) by a majority vote of a quorum of the outstanding shares of stock of all classes entitled to vote on the matter, voting as a single class, which quorum shall consist of stockholders who are not at that time parties to the action, suit or proceeding in question, (iv) by independent legal counsel, or (v) by a court of competent jurisdiction.
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Section 4. Advance Payment of Expenses; Notification and Defense of Claim .
(a) Expenses (including attorneys fees) incurred by Indemnitee in defending a threatened or pending civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding within twenty (20) days after receipt by the Corporation of (i) a statement or statements from Indemnitee requesting such advance or advances from time to time, and (ii) an undertaking by or on behalf of Indemnitee to repay such amount or amounts, only if, and to the extent that, it shall ultimately be determined that Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized by this Agreement or otherwise. Such undertaking shall be accepted without reference to the financial ability of Indemnitee to make such repayment. Advances shall be unsecured and interest-free.
(b) Promptly after receipt by Indemnitee of notice of the commencement of any action, suit or proceeding, Indemnitee shall, if a claim thereof is to be made against the Corporation hereunder, notify the Corporation of the commencement thereof. The failure to promptly notify the Corporation of the commencement of the action, suit or proceeding, or Indemnitees request for indemnification, will not relieve the Corporation from any liability that it may have to Indemnitee hereunder, except to the extent the Corporation is prejudiced in its defense of such action, suit or proceeding as a result of such failure.
(c) In the event the Corporation shall be obligated to pay the expenses of Indemnitee with respect to an action, suit or proceeding, as provided in this Agreement, the Corporation, if appropriate, shall be entitled to assume the defense of such action, suit or proceeding, with counsel reasonably acceptable to Indemnitee, upon the delivery to Indemnitee of written notice of its election to do so. After delivery of such notice, approval of such counsel by Indemnitee and the retention of such counsel by the Corporation, the Corporation will not be liable to Indemnitee under this Agreement for any fees of counsel subsequently incurred by Indemnitee with respect to the same action, suit or proceeding, provided that (1) Indemnitee shall have the right to employ Indemnitees own counsel in such action, suit or proceeding at Indemnitees expense and (2) if (i) the employment of counsel by Indemnitee has been previously authorized in writing by the Corporation, (ii) counsel to the Corporation or Indemnitee shall have reasonably concluded that there may be a conflict of interest or position, or reasonably believes that a conflict is likely to arise, on any significant issue between the Corporation and Indemnitee in the conduct of any such defense or (iii) the Corporation shall not, in fact, have employed counsel to assume the defense of such action, suit or proceeding, then the fees and expenses of Indemnitees counsel shall be at the expense of the Corporation, except as otherwise expressly provided by this Agreement. The Corporation shall not be entitled, without the consent of Indemnitee, to assume the defense of any claim brought by or in the right of the Corporation or as to which counsel for the Corporation shall have reasonably made the conclusion provided for in clause (ii) above.
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(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, to the extent that Indemnitee is, by reason of Indemnitees corporate status with respect to the Corporation or any corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise which Indemnitee is or was serving or has agreed to serve at the request of the Corporation, a witness or otherwise participates in any action, suit or proceeding at a time when Indemnitee is not a party in the action, suit or proceeding, the Corporation shall indemnify Indemnitee against all expenses (including attorneys fees) actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on Indemnitees behalf in connection therewith.
Section 5. Procedure for Indemnification .
(a) To obtain indemnification, Indemnitee shall promptly submit to the Corporation a written request, including therein or therewith such documentation and information as is reasonably available to Indemnitee and is reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification. The Corporation shall, promptly upon receipt of such a request for indemnification, advise the Board of Directors in writing that Indemnitee has requested indemnification.
(b) The Corporations determination whether to grant Indemnitees indemnification request shall be made promptly, and in any event within 60 days following receipt of a request for indemnification pursuant to Section 5(a). The right to indemnification as granted by Section 1 of this Agreement shall be enforceable by Indemnitee in any court of competent jurisdiction if the Corporation denies such request, in whole or in part, or fails to respond within such 60-day period. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for the advance of costs, charges and expenses under Section 4 hereof where the required undertaking, if any, has been received by the Corporation) that Indemnitee has not met the standard of conduct set forth in Section 1 hereof, but the burden of proving such defense by clear and convincing evidence shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors or one of its committees, its independent legal counsel, and its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of Indemnitee is proper in the circumstances because Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Section 1 hereof, nor the fact that there has been an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board of Directors or one of its committees, its independent legal counsel, and its stockholders) that Indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that Indemnitee has or has not met the applicable standard of conduct. The Indemnitees expenses (including attorneys fees) incurred in connection with successfully establishing Indemnitees right to indemnification, in whole or in part, in any such proceeding or otherwise shall also be indemnified by the Corporation.
(c) The Indemnitee shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification under this Agreement upon submission of a request for indemnification pursuant to this Section 5, and the Corporation shall have the burden of proof in overcoming that presumption in reaching a determination contrary to that presumption. Such presumption shall be used as a basis for a determination of entitlement to indemnification unless the Corporation overcomes such presumption by clear and convincing evidence.
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Section 6. Insurance and Subrogation .
(a) The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of Indemnitee who is or was or has agreed to serve at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise against any liability asserted against, and incurred by, Indemnitee or on Indemnitees behalf in any such capacity, or arising out of Indemnitees status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify Indemnitee against such liability under the provisions of this Agreement. If the Corporation has such insurance in effect at the time the Corporation receives from Indemnitee any notice of the commencement of a proceeding, the Corporation shall give prompt notice of the commencement of such proceeding to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the policy. The Corporation shall thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of the Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policy.
(b) In the event of any payment by the Corporation under this Agreement, the Corporation shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee with respect to any insurance policy, who shall execute all papers required and take all action necessary to secure such rights, including execution of such documents as are necessary to enable the Corporation to bring suit to enforce such rights in accordance with the terms of such insurance policy. The Corporation shall pay or reimburse all expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such subrogation.
(c) The Corporation shall not be liable under this Agreement to make any payment of amounts otherwise indemnifiable hereunder (including, but not limited to, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties, and amounts paid in settlement) if and to the extent that Indemnitee has otherwise actually received such payment under this Agreement or any insurance policy, contract, agreement or otherwise.
Section 7. Certain Definitions . For purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) The term action, suit or proceeding shall be broadly construed and shall include, without limitation, the investigation, preparation, prosecution, defense, settlement, arbitration and appeal of, and the giving of testimony in, any threatened, pending or completed claim, action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative.
(b) The term by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or while serving as a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving or has agreed to serve at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise shall be broadly construed and shall include, without limitation, any actual or alleged act or omission to act.
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(c) The term expenses shall be broadly and reasonably construed and shall include, without limitation, all direct and indirect costs of any type or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, all attorneys fees and related disbursements, appeal bonds, other out-of-pocket costs and reasonable compensation for time spent by Indemnitee for which Indemnitee is not otherwise compensated by the Corporation or any third party, provided that the rate of compensation and estimated time involved is approved by the Board, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld), actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with either the investigation, defense or appeal of a proceeding or establishing or enforcing a right to indemnification under this Agreement, Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or otherwise.
(d) The term judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement shall be broadly construed and shall include, without limitation, all direct and indirect payments of any type or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, all penalties and amounts required to be forfeited or reimbursed to the Corporation, as well as any penalties or excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan).
(e) The term Corporation shall include, without limitation and in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Agreement with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he or she would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.
(f) The term other enterprises shall include, without limitation, employee benefit plans.
(g) The term serving at the request of the Corporation shall include, without limitation, any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries.
(h) The term independent legal counsel shall mean a law firm, or a member of a law firm, that is experienced in matters of corporation law and neither presently is, nor in the past three years has been, retained to represent: (i) the Corporation or Indemnitee in any matter material to either such party (other than with respect to matters concerning Indemnitee under this Agreement, or of other indemnitees under similar indemnification agreements) unless, in the case of the Corporation, the Indemnitee consents to the Corporations use of such legal counsel, or (ii) any other named (or, as to a threatened matter, reasonably likely to be named) party to the action, suit or proceeding giving rise to a claim for indemnification hereunder, other than the Indemnitees of the Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term independent legal counsel shall not include any person who, under the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing, would have a conflict of interest in representing either the Corporation or Indemnitee in an action to determine Indemnitees rights under this Agreement.
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(i) A person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation as referred to in this Agreement.
Section 8. Limitation on Indemnification . Notwithstanding any other provision herein to the contrary, the Corporation shall not be obligated pursuant to this Agreement:
(a) Claims Initiated by Indemnitee . To indemnify or advance expenses to Indemnitee with respect to an action, suit or proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by Indemnitee, except with respect to an action, suit or proceeding brought to establish or enforce a right to indemnification (which shall be governed by the provisions of Section 8(b) of this Agreement), unless such action, suit or proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
(b) Action for Indemnification . To indemnify Indemnitee for any expenses incurred by Indemnitee with respect to any action, suit or proceeding instituted by Indemnitee to enforce or interpret this Agreement, unless Indemnitee is successful in establishing Indemnitees right to indemnification in such action, suit or proceeding, in whole or in part, or unless and to the extent that the court in such action, suit or proceeding shall determine that, despite Indemnitees failure to establish their right to indemnification, Indemnitee is entitled to indemnity for such expenses; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 8(b) is intended to limit the Corporations obligation with respect to the advancement of expenses to Indemnitee in connection with any such action, suit or proceeding instituted by Indemnitee to enforce or interpret this Agreement, as provided in Section 4 hereof.
(c) Section 16 Violations . To indemnify Indemnitee on account of any proceeding with respect to which final judgment is rendered against Indemnitee for payment or an accounting of profits arising from the purchase or sale by Indemnitee of securities in violation of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any similar successor statute.
(d) Non-compete and Non-disclosure . To indemnify Indemnitee in connection with proceedings or claims involving the enforcement of non-compete and/or non-disclosure agreements or the non-compete and/or non-disclosure provisions of employment, consulting or similar agreements the Indemnitee may be a party to with the Corporation, or any subsidiary of the Corporation or any other applicable foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, if any.
Section 9. Certain Settlement Provisions . The Corporation shall have no obligation to indemnify Indemnitee under this Agreement for amounts paid in settlement of any action, suit or proceeding without the Corporations prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Corporation shall not settle any action, suit or proceeding in any manner that would impose any fine or other obligation on Indemnitee without Indemnitees prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld.
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Section 10. Savings Clause . If any provision or provisions of this Agreement shall be invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the Corporation shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee as to costs, charges and expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement with respect to any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, including an action by or in the right of the Corporation, to the full extent permitted by any applicable portion of this Agreement that shall not have been invalidated and to the full extent permitted by applicable law.
Section 11. Contribution . In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in circumstances in which the indemnification provided for herein is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to Indemnitee in whole or in part, it is agreed that, in such event, the Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, contribute to the payment of Indemnitees costs, charges and expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement with respect to any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, in an amount that is just and equitable in the circumstances, taking into account, among other things, contributions by other directors and officers of the Corporation or others pursuant to indemnification agreements or otherwise; provided, that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such contribution shall not be required where such holding by the court is due to (i) the failure of Indemnitee to meet the standard of conduct set forth in Section 1 hereof, or (ii) any limitation on indemnification set forth in Section 6(c), Section 8 or Section 9 hereof.
Section 12. Form and Delivery of Communications . Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given to the parties under this Agreement shall be in writing and either delivered in person or sent by telecopy, telex, telegram, overnight mail or courier service, or certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, to the parties at the following addresses (or at such other addresses for a party as shall be specified by like notice):
If to the Corporation:
Peabody Energy Corporation
701 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63101
Attn: Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
Facsimile: (314) 342-3419
If to Indemnitee:
Facsimile:
Section 13. Subsequent Legislation . If the DGCL is amended after adoption of this Agreement to expand further the indemnification permitted to directors or officers, then the Corporation shall indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.
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Section 14. Nonexclusivity . The provisions for indemnification and advancement of expenses set forth in this Agreement shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights which Indemnitee may have under any provision of law, the Corporations Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws, in any court in which a proceeding is brought, the vote of the Corporations stockholders or disinterested directors, other agreements or otherwise, and Indemnitees rights hereunder shall continue after Indemnitee has ceased acting as an agent of the Corporation and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of Indemnitee. However, no amendment or alteration of the Corporations Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws or any other agreement shall adversely affect the rights provided to Indemnitee under this Agreement.
Section 15. Enforcement . The Corporation shall be precluded from asserting in any judicial proceeding that the procedures and presumptions of this Agreement are not valid, binding and enforceable. The Corporation agrees that its execution of this Agreement shall constitute a stipulation by which it shall be irrevocably bound in any court of competent jurisdiction in which a proceeding by Indemnitee for enforcement of his rights hereunder shall have been commenced, continued or appealed, that its obligations set forth in this Agreement are unique and special, and that failure of the Corporation to comply with the provisions of this Agreement will cause irreparable and irremediable injury to Indemnitee, for which a remedy at law will be inadequate. As a result, in addition to any other right or remedy Indemnitee may have at law or in equity with respect to breach of this Agreement, Indemnitee shall be entitled to injunctive or mandatory relief directing specific performance by the Corporation of its obligations under this Agreement.
Section 16. Interpretation of Agreement . It is understood that the parties hereto intend this Agreement to be interpreted and enforced so as to provide indemnification to Indemnitee to the fullest extent now or hereafter permitted by law.
Section 17. Entire Agreement . This Agreement and the documents expressly referred to herein constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the matters covered hereby, and any other prior or contemporaneous oral or written understandings or agreements with respect to the matters covered hereby are expressly superceded by this Agreement.
Section 18. Modification and Waiver . No supplement, modification or amendment of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by both of the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver of any other provision hereof (whether or not similar) nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver.
Section 19. Successor and Assigns . All of the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon, shall inure to the benefit of and shall be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective successors, assigns, heirs, executors, administrators and legal representatives. The Corporation shall require and cause any direct or indirect successor (whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Corporation, by written agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Indemnitee, expressly to assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Corporation would be required to perform if no such succession had taken place.
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Section 20. Service of Process and Venue . For purposes of any claims or proceedings to enforce this agreement, the Corporation consents to the jurisdiction and venue of any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction in the states of Delaware and Missouri, and waives and agrees not to raise any defense that any such court is an inconvenient forum or any similar claim.
Section 21. Governing Law . This Agreement shall be governed exclusively by and construed according to the laws of the State of Delaware, as applied to contracts between Delaware residents entered into and to be performed entirely within Delaware. If a court of competent jurisdiction shall make a final determination that the provisions of the law of any state other than Delaware govern indemnification by the Corporation of its officers and directors, then the indemnification provided under this Agreement shall in all instances be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted under such law, notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary.
Section 22. Employment Rights . Nothing in this Agreement is intended to create in Indemnitee any right to employment or continued employment.
Section 23. Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which together shall be deemed to be one and the same instrument, notwithstanding that both parties are not signatories to the original or same counterpart.
Section 24. Headings . The section and subsection headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered to be effective as of the date first above written.
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION | ||
By: |
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A. Verona Dorch | ||
Executive Vice President, | ||
Chief Legal Officer, Government Affairs and Corporate Secretary | ||
INDEMNITEE: | ||
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Exhibit 10.7
PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION
2017 INCENTIVE PLAN
RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT (the Agreement ), effective as of [ ], 2017, is made by and between PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation (the Company ), and the undersigned employee of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company (the Grantee ). The Grant Date for the Restricted Stock Units evidenced by this Agreement is [ ], 2017 (the Grant Date ).
WHEREAS , the Company wishes to carry out the Peabody Energy Corporation 2017 Incentive Plan (the Plan ), the terms of which are hereby incorporated by reference and made a part of this Agreement;
WHEREAS , the Company deems it essential to the protection of its confidential information and competitive standing in its market to have its key employees have reasonable restrictive covenants in place;
WHEREAS , Grantee agrees and acknowledges that the Company has a legitimate interest to protect its confidential information and competitive standing;
WHEREAS , the Company deems it essential to the optimal functioning of its business to have its key employees provide advance notice to the Company of their termination of employment; and
WHEREAS , the Committee has determined that, subject to the provisions of this Agreement and the Plan, it would be to the advantage and best interest of the Company and its shareholders to grant the Restricted Stock Units evidenced hereby to the Grantee as an incentive for his or her efforts during his or her term of service with the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, and has advised the Company thereof and instructed the undersigned officer to enter into this Agreement to evidence such Restricted Stock Units.
NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Whenever the following terms are used in this Agreement, they shall have the meanings specified below. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings specified in the Plan.
Section 1.1 - Affiliate shall mean any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Company. For the purposes of this definition, the term 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 and policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
Section 1.2 - Award shall mean the number of Restricted Stock Units evidenced by this Agreement.
Section 1.3 - Cause shall mean (a) any willful fraud, dishonesty or misconduct of the Grantee that can reasonably be expected to have a detrimental effect on (i) the reputation or business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or Affiliates or (ii) the Grantees reputation or performance of his or her duties to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or Affiliates; (b) willful refusal or failure of the Grantee to comply with the Companys Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, the Companys Anti-Corruption and Bribery policy or any other material corporate policy of the Company; (c) the Grantees willful or repeated failure to meet documented performance objectives or to perform his or her duties or to follow reasonable and lawful directives of his or her manager (other than due to death or Disability); (d) the Grantees conviction of, or plea of nolo contendere to (i) any felony or (ii) any other criminal charge that may reasonably be expected to have a material detrimental effect on the reputation or business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or Affiliates; or (e) the Grantees willful failure to cooperate with a bona fide internal investigation or an investigation by regulatory or law enforcement authorities, whether or not related to the Grantees employment with the Company, after being instructed to cooperate by the Chairman of the Board and/or Companys Chief Executive Officer or by the Board, or the willful destruction of or willful failure to preserve documents or other material known to be relevant to any such investigation; provided , that with respect to clause (b), or (c) above, the Grantee shall have 15 business days following written notice of the conduct which is the basis for the potential termination for Cause within which to cure such conduct, to the extent it can be cured, to prevent termination for Cause by the Company. If the Grantee cures the conduct that is the basis for the potential termination for Cause within such period, the Companys notice of termination shall be deemed withdrawn.
Section 1.4 - Change in Control shall mean the occurrence of any one or more of the following: (a) any corporation, person or other entity (other than the Company, a majority-owned subsidiary of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or an employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries), including a group as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act, becomes the beneficial owner of stock representing more than 50% of the combined voting power of the Companys then outstanding securities; (b) there is consummated (i) a merger, consolidation, plan of arrangement, reorganization or similar transaction or series of transactions in which the Company is involved, other than such a transaction or series of transactions which would result in the shareholders of the Company immediately prior thereto continuing to own (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) more than 50% of the combined voting power of the securities of the Company or such surviving entity (or the parent, if any) outstanding immediately after such transaction(s) in substantially the same proportions as their ownership immediately prior to such transaction(s); (ii) a sale or other disposition of all or
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substantially all of the Companys assets; or (iii) approval by the Companys shareholders of a plan of liquidation for the Company; or (c) within any period of 24 consecutive months, persons who were members of the Board immediately prior to such 24-month period, together with persons who were first elected as directors (other than as a result of any settlement of a proxy or consent solicitation contest or any action taken to avoid such a contest) during such 24-month period by or upon the recommendation of persons who were members of the Board immediately prior to such 24-month period and who constituted a majority of the Board at the time of such election, cease to constitute a majority of the Board. To the extent required for these Restricted Stock Units (to the extent they represent a Deferred Compensation Award) to comply with Section 409A of the Code, no transaction will be a Change in Control unless it is also a change in the ownership or effective control of the Company, or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the Companys assets, as provided in Code Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(v) and Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-3(i)(5). For the avoidance of doubt, (x) any issuance, transfer, or acquisition of common stock, preferred stock, or other securities upon the Effective Date pursuant to the Plan or in connection with the Restructuring, including, but not limited to, any purchase of shares by any party or parties pursuant to the Private Placement or the Section 1145 Rights Offering, (y) entry into any agreement, including the Backstop Commitment Agreement and the Private Placement Agreement in connection with such proposed issuance, transfer, or acquisition, and (z) revesting of assets in the Company as of the Effective Date pursuant to the Plan, shall not, and shall not be deemed to, result in a Change in Control under the Plan and this Agreement (with terms Restructuring, Private Placement, Section 1145 Rights Offering, Backstop Commitment Agreement, Private Placement Agreement and Plan having the meanings given for such terms in the Companys plan of reorganization, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented).
Section 1.5 - Disability means a mental or physical illness that entitles the Grantee to receive benefits under the long-term disability plan of an Employer, or if the Grantee is not covered by such a plan or the Grantee is not an employee of an Employer, a mental or physical illness that renders a Grantee totally and permanently incapable of performing the Grantees duties for the Company or a Subsidiary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) an illness shall not qualify as a Disability if it is the result of (i) a willfully self-inflicted injury or willfully self-induced sickness; or (ii) an injury or disease contracted, suffered, or incurred while participating in a felony criminal offense; and (b) with respect to a Deferred Compensation Award, Disability shall mean a Grantees inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.
Section 1.6 - Good Reason shall mean (a) Good Reason as defined in the Grantees employment agreement with the Company, if any; or (b) if the Grantee does not have an employment agreement with the Company or such agreement does not define Good Reason, then: (i) a reduction, other than a reduction that generally affects all similarly-situated executives and does not exceed 10% in one year or 20% in the aggregate over three consecutive years, by the Company in the Grantees base salary from that in effect immediately prior to the reduction; (ii) a material reduction, other than a reduction that generally affects all similarly-situated executives, by the Company in the Grantees target or maximum annual cash incentive award opportunity or target or maximum annual equity-based compensation award opportunity from those in effect immediately prior to any such reduction; (iii) relocation, other than through
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mutual agreement in writing between the Company and the Grantee or a secondment or temporary relocation for a reasonably finite period of time, of the Grantees primary office by more than 50 miles from the location of the Grantees primary office as of the Agreement date; or (iv) any material diminution or material adverse change in the Grantees duties or responsibilities as they exist as of the Agreement date; provided , that (x) if the Grantee terminates Grantees employment for Good Reason, the Grantee shall provide written notice to the Company at least 30 days in advance of the date of termination, such notice shall describe the conduct the Grantee believes to constitute Good Reason and the Company shall have the opportunity to cure the Good Reason event within 30 days after receiving such notice, (y) if the Company cures the conduct that is the basis for the potential termination for Good Reason within such 30-day period, the Grantees notice of termination shall be deemed withdrawn and (z) if the Grantee does not give notice to the Company as described herein within 90 days after an event giving rise to Good Reason, the Grantees right to claim Good Reason termination on the basis of such event shall be deemed waived.
Section 1.7 - Section 409A shall mean Section 409A of the Code and the applicable regulations or other guidance issued thereunder.
ARTICLE II
GRANT OF RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS
Section 2.1 - Grant of Restricted Stock Units . Pursuant to Section 9 of the Plan, the Company has granted to the Grantee an Award consisting of the number of Restricted Stock Units set forth on the signature page hereof upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and the Plan. The grant of the Restricted Stock Units was made in consideration of the services to be rendered by the Grantee to the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates.
Section 2.2 - No Obligation of Employment . Nothing in this Agreement or in the Plan shall confer upon the Grantee any right to continue in the employ of the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate or interfere with or restrict in any way the rights of the Company and its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, which rights are hereby expressly reserved, to terminate the employment of the Grantee at any time for any reason whatsoever, with or without Cause.
Section 2.3 - Adjustments in Restricted Stock Units . In the event of the occurrence of one of the corporate transactions or other events listed in Section 4.2 of the Plan, the Committee shall make such substitution or adjustment as provided in Sections 4.2 or 13.2 of the Plan or otherwise in the terms of the Restricted Stock Units in order to equitably reflect such corporate transaction or other event. Any such adjustment made by the Committee shall be final and binding upon the Grantee, the Company and all other interested persons.
Section 2.4 - Change in Control . Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, in the event of a Change in Control: (a) in which the Restricted Stock Units are continued, assumed or replaced by the acquiring or surviving entity, unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the Committee shall either (i) make such adjustment to the Restricted Stock Units then outstanding as the Committee deems appropriate to reflect such Change in Control, or (ii) cause any such outstanding Restricted Stock Units to be replaced or substituted by new rights by the acquiring or surviving entity after such Change in Control; and (b) in which the
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Restricted Stock Units are not to be continued, assumed or replaced by the acquiring or surviving entity, the Committee may convert the outstanding Restricted Stock Units to a cash-settled award based on the value of the consideration the Companys shareholders receive in the Change in Control, as determined by the Committee; provided , that such action complies with Code Section 409A.
ARTICLE III
VESTING AND FORFEITURE OF RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS
Section 3.1 - Normal Vesting . Subject to Sections 2.4, 3.2 and 3.3, the Restricted Stock Units evidenced by this Agreement shall become nonforfeitable and payable to the Grantee pursuant to Article IV in three substantially equal installments (in each case rounded to the nearest whole Restricted Stock Unit) on each of the first, second and third anniversaries of the Grant Date, conditioned upon the Grantees continuous employment with the Company or a Subsidiary through each such date. For purposes of this Agreement, continuously employed (or substantially similar terms) means the absence of any interruption or termination of the Grantees employment with the Company or a Subsidiary. Continuous employment shall not be considered interrupted or terminated in the case of transfers between locations of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Each installment of Restricted Stock Units that becomes nonforfeitable and payable hereunder is a separate payment for purposes of Code Section 409A.
Section 3.2 - Accelerated Vesting Events . Notwithstanding Section 3.1, upon (a) the Grantees Termination of Service by the Company or a Subsidiary without Cause or by the Grantee for Good Reason or (b) the Grantees Termination of Service due to death or by the Grantee due to Disability, 100% of the unvested Restricted Stock Units evidenced by this Agreement shall, to the extent not already forfeited, become immediately nonforfeitable on the date of such Termination of Service and shall be settled in accordance with Article IV below.
Section 3.3 - Effect of Certain Terminations of Service . A Grantee will forfeit any and all unvested Restricted Stock Units upon (a) the Grantees voluntary Termination of Service or (b) the Grantees Termination of Service by the Company or a Subsidiary for Cause. Except as provided in Section 3.2, no Restricted Stock Unit shall become nonforfeitable and payable in accordance with Article IV following a Grantees Termination of Service, and any such non-vested and forfeitable Restricted Stock Units shall be immediately and automatically forfeited upon such Termination of Service.
ARTICLE IV
SETTLEMENT OF RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS
Section 4.1 - Settlement of Vested Restricted Stock Units . Subject to Sections 4.2 and 13.2 of the Plan and to any withholding obligations described in Section 6.3 of this Agreement, one share of Common Stock will be issued or delivered for each nonforfeitable Restricted Stock Unit evidenced by this Agreement as soon as practicable following the date on which the Restricted Stock Unit becomes nonforfeitable as set forth in Section 3.1 or Section 3.2, as applicable, but in all cases within the short term deferral period determined under Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(4). For the sake of clarity, the settlement of shares in respect of nonforfeitable Restricted Stock Units is intended to comply with Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(4) and will be construed and administered in such a manner. As a result, the shares
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will be issued no later than the date that is the 15 th day of the third calendar month of the applicable year following the year in which the shares subject to the Restricted Stock Units are no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(d).
Section 4.2 - Forfeiture of Unvested Restricted Stock Units . To the extent that the Grantee does not vest in all or any portion of the Restricted Stock Units subject to the Award, all interest in such unvested Restricted Stock Units shall be forfeited upon the Grantees Termination of Service. The Grantee has no right or interest in any Restricted Stock Unit that is forfeited.
Section 4.3 - Treatment of Fractional Shares of Common Stock . To the extent rounding to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of nonforfeitable Restricted Stock Units pursuant to Section 4.1 above results in fractional shares of Common Stock which are not issued or delivered to a Grantee, all such fractional shares of Common Stock shall be settled in cash based on the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the payment date.
ARTICLE V
CONDITION TO GRANT OF AWARD; OTHER PROVISIONS
Section 5.1 - Restrictive Covenant Agreement . The Grantee shall not be entitled to receive the Award unless the Grantee shall have executed and delivered the Restrictive Covenant Agreement, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A , and such shall be in full force and effect.
Section 5.2 - Notice Period . The Grantee may terminate the Grantees employment with the Company or a Subsidiary at any time for any reason by delivery of notice to the Company at least 90 days in advance of the date of termination (the Notice Period ); provided , however , that no communication, statement or announcement shall be considered to constitute such notice of termination of Grantees employment unless it complies with Section 6.4 hereof and specifically recites that it is a notice of termination of employment for purposes of this Agreement; and provided , further , that the Company may waive any or all of the Notice Period, in which case Grantees employment with the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate will terminate on the date determined by the Company.
Section 5.3 - Breach of Restrictive Covenant Agreement or Section 5.2 . If the Grantee materially breaches any provision of the Restrictive Covenant Agreement or Section 5.2 hereof, the Company may, among other available remedies, determine that the Grantee (a) will forfeit any unpaid portion of the Restricted Stock Units evidenced by this Agreement and (b) will repay to the Company any portion of the Restricted Stock Units evidenced by this Agreement previously paid to Grantee.
Section 5.4 - Conditions to Issuance of Shares . The Shares deliverable hereunder may be either previously authorized but unissued shares or issued shares that have been reacquired by the Company. Such Shares shall be fully paid and nonassessable. The Company shall not be
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required to issue or deliver any certificate or certificates (or other documentation that indicates ownership) for Shares paid hereunder prior to the fulfillment of both of the following conditions:
(a) The obtaining of approval or other clearance from any state or federal governmental agency that the Committee, in its absolute discretion, determines to be necessary or advisable; and
(b) The lapse of such reasonable period of time following the grant as the Committee may establish from time to time for administrative convenience (subject to, and in compliance with the requirements of Section 409A, including any requirements necessary to comply with Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(4)).
Section 5.5 - Rights as a Shareholder; Dividend Equivalents . The Grantee shall not be, and shall not have any of the rights or privileges of, a shareholder of the Company in respect of any Shares underlying Restricted Stock Units evidenced by this Agreement unless and until certificates representing such shares shall have been issued by the Company to Grantee or such ownership has otherwise been indicated and documented by the Company. From and after the Grant Date and until the earlier of (a) the time when the Restricted Stock Units become nonforfeitable and are paid in accordance with Article IV hereof or (b) the time when the Grantees right to receive payment for the Restricted Stock Units is forfeited in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, on the date that the Company pays a cash dividend (if any) to holders of Shares generally, the Grantee shall be credited with additional Restricted Stock Units equal to the quotient of (x) the product of (i) the dividend declared per Share multiplied by (ii) the number of Restricted Stock Units evidenced by this Agreement (plus any previously-credited dividend equivalents), divided by (y) the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date such dividend is paid to shareholders, with any fractional Restricted Stock Units to be credited in cash. Any amounts credited pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence shall be subject to the same applicable terms and conditions (including vesting, payment and forfeitability) as apply to the Restricted Stock Units based on which the dividend equivalents were credited, and such additional Restricted Stock Units shall be paid in Shares, and any fractional Restricted Stock Units shall be paid in cash, in each case, at the same time as the Restricted Stock Units to which they relate are paid.
Section 5.6 - Restrictions . Restricted Stock Units granted pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to Section 5.9 of the Plan and all applicable policies and guidelines of the Company that relate to (a) share ownership requirements, or (b) recovery of compensation (i.e., clawbacks).
ARTICLE VI
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.1 - Administration . The Committee has the power to interpret the terms of the Restricted Stock Units, the Plan and this Agreement and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret or revoke any such rules. All actions taken and all interpretations and determinations made by the Committee shall be final and binding upon the Grantee, the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Committee shall be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or the Restricted Stock Units. In its absolute discretion, the Board may at any time and from time to time exercise any and all rights and duties of the Committee under the Plan and this Agreement.
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Section 6.2 - Restricted Stock Units Not Transferable . Neither the Restricted Stock Units nor any interest or right therein or part thereof shall be liable for the debts, contracts or engagements of the Grantee or his or her successors in interest or shall be subject to disposition by transfer, alienation, anticipation, pledge, encumbrance, assignment or any other means whether such disposition is voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law by judgment, levy, attachment, garnishment or any other legal or equitable proceedings (including bankruptcy), and any attempted disposition thereof shall be null and void and of no effect; provided , however , that this Section 6.2 shall not prevent transfers by will or by the applicable laws of descent and distribution.
Section 6.3 - Withholding . As of the date that all or a portion of the Restricted Stock Units become settled pursuant to Section 4.1 hereof, the Company will, in accordance with Section 16.1(a) of the Plan, withhold a number of shares of Common Stock underlying the then vested Restricted Stock Units with a fair market value equal to the aggregate amount required by law to be withheld by the Company in connection with such vesting for applicable federal, state, local and foreign taxes of any kind. To the extent taxes are to be withheld upon vesting for purposes of federal FICA, FUTA or Medicare taxes, such withholding shall be taken from other income owed by the Company to the Grantee and the Grantee hereby agrees to such withholding. For all purposes, the amount withheld by the Company pursuant to this Section 6.3 shall be deemed to have first been paid to the Grantee.
Section 6.4 - Notices . Any notice to be given under the terms of this Agreement to the Company shall be provided to the Companys Human Resources department, with a copy to the Grantees supervisor, and any notice to be given to the Grantee shall be addressed to him or her at the address set forth in the records of the Company. By a notice given pursuant to this Section 6.4, either party may hereafter designate a different address for notices to be given to him, her or it. Any notice which is required to be given to the Grantee shall, if the Grantee is then deceased, be given to the Grantees personal representative if such representative has previously informed the Company of his, her or its status and address by written notice under this Section 6.4. Any notice shall be deemed duly given when enclosed in a properly sealed envelope or wrapper addressed as aforesaid, deposited (with postage prepaid) in a post office or branch post office regularly maintained by the United States Postal Service. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any notice required or permitted hereunder from the Company to the Grantee may be made by electronic means, including by electronic mail to the Company-maintained electronic mailbox of the Grantee, and the Grantee hereby consents to receive such notice by electronic delivery. To the extent permitted in an electronically delivered notice described in the previous sentence, the Grantee shall be permitted to respond to such notice or communication by way of a responsive electronic communication, including by electronic mail.
Section 6.5 - Titles . Titles are provided herein for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Agreement.
Section 6.6 - Pronouns . The masculine pronoun shall include the feminine and neuter, and the singular the plural, where the context so indicates.
Section 6.7 - Applicability of Plan . The Restricted Stock Units and the Shares issued to the Grantee, if any, shall be subject to all of the terms and provisions of the Plan, to the extent applicable to the Restricted Stock Units and such Shares. In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and the Plan, the terms of the Plan shall control.
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Section 6.8 - Amendment . The Committee may amend this Agreement at any time, provided that no such amendment shall materially impair the rights of the Grantee unless reflected in a writing executed by the parties hereto that specifically states that it is amending this Agreement.
Section 6.9 - Severability . The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of the Plan or this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of the Plan or this Agreement, and each provision of the Plan and this Agreement shall be severable and enforceable to the extent permitted by law.
Section 6.10 - Dispute Resolution . Any dispute or controversy arising under or in connection with this Agreement shall be resolved by arbitration in St. Louis, Missouri. Arbitrators shall be selected, and arbitration shall be conducted, in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association. The Company shall pay or reimburse any legal fees in connection with such arbitration in the event that the Grantee prevails on a material element of his or her claim or defense. Payments or reimbursements of legal fees made under this Section 6.10 that are provided during one calendar year shall not affect the amount of such payments or reimbursements provided during a subsequent calendar year, payments or reimbursements under this Section 6.10 may not be exchanged or substituted for another form of compensation to the Grantee, and any such reimbursement or payment will be paid within 60 days after the Grantee prevails, but in no event later than the last day of the Grantees taxable year following the taxable year in which he incurred the expense giving rise to such reimbursement or payment. This Section 6.10 shall remain in effect throughout the Grantees employment with the Company or any Subsidiary and for a period of five (5) years following the Grantees Termination of Service.
Section 6.11 - Section 409A .
(a) The Award is intended to comply with the short-term deferral rule set forth in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(4) and, to the maximum extent permitted, this Agreement shall be construed and administered consistent with such intent. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if the Award fails to satisfy the requirements of the short-term deferral rule and is otherwise not exempt from, and therefore deemed to be deferred compensation subject to, Section 409A, references in this Agreement (including in Section 4.1), to payment or settlement of amounts under this Agreement within the short-term deferral period determined under Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(b)(4), shall not apply, and instead payments will be made on the applicable payment date or a later date within the same taxable year of the Grantee, or if such timing is administratively impracticable, by the 15 th day of the third calendar month following the date specified herein. For clarity, the Grantee is not permitted to designate the taxable year of payment. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if the Grantee is a specified employee (within the meaning set forth Section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code) as of the date of the Grantees separation from service (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(h)), then the issuance of any Shares that would otherwise be made on the date of the separation from service or
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within the first six months thereafter will not be made on the originally scheduled dates and will instead be issued in a lump sum on the date that is six months and one day after the date of the separation from service (or upon death, if earlier), with the balance of the Shares issued thereafter in accordance with the original vesting and issuance schedule set forth above, but if and only if such delay in the issuance of the Shares is necessary to avoid the imposition of taxation in respect of the shares under Section 409A. A termination of employment or service shall not be deemed to have occurred for purposes of this Agreement providing for the payment of any amounts that are considered deferred compensation under Section 409A upon or following a termination of employment or service, unless such termination is also a separation from service (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(h)) and the payment thereof prior to a separation from service would violate Section 409A. Each installment of Shares that becomes payable in respect of vested Restricted Stock Units subject to the Award is a separate payment for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-2(b)(2). In no event shall the Company be liable for all or any portion of any taxes, penalties, interest or other expenses that may be incurred by the Grantee on account of Section 409A.
(b) In the event that the Company determines that any amounts payable hereunder may be taxable to the Grantee under Code Section 409A prior to the payment and/or delivery to the Grantee of such amount, the Committee may adopt such amendments to the Agreement, and appropriate policies and procedures, including amendments and policies with retroactive effect, that the Committee determines necessary or appropriate to preserve the intended tax treatment of the benefits provided by the Restricted Stock Units and this Agreement.
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in light of the uncertainty with respect to the proper application of Section 409A of the Code, the Company reserves the right to make amendments to this Agreement and the terms of the Restricted Stock Units as the Company deems necessary or desirable to avoid the imposition of taxes or penalties under Section 409A. In any case, neither the Company nor any of its affiliates will have any obligation to indemnify or otherwise hold the Grantee harmless from any or all of such taxes or penalties.
Section 6.12 - Governing Law . The laws of the State of Delaware shall govern the interpretation, validity and performance of the terms of this Agreement regardless of the law that might be applied under principles of conflicts of laws.
Section 6.13 - Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument. Counterpart signatures to this Agreement transmitted by facsimile, electronic mail, or by any other electronic means intended to preserve the original graphic and pictorial appearance of a document, will have the same effect as physical delivery of the paper document bearing an original signature.
Section 6.14 - Acceptance of the Plan . The Grantee hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Plan and this Agreement. The Grantee has read and understands the terms and provisions thereof, and accepts the Restricted Stock Units subject to all the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Agreement. The Grantee acknowledges that there may be adverse tax consequences upon the vesting or settlement of the Restricted Stock Units and that the Grantee has been advised to consult a tax advisor prior to such vesting or settlement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , this Agreement has been executed and delivered by the parties hereto.
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EXHIBIT A
RESTRICTIVE COVENANT AGREEMENT
(See attached)
Exhibit 10.8
EXHIBIT A
RESTRICTIVE COVENANT AGREEMENT
THIS RESTRICTIVE COVENANT AGREEMENT (the RCA ) dated April 3, 2017, is by and between PEABODY ENERGY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the Company ), and ( Grantee ).
WHEREAS , the Grantee is a recipient of a 2017 Restricted Stock Unit Grant (Award) under the Companys Peabody Energy Corporation 2017 Incentive Plan, as amended from time to time (the Plan , and such award, the Award );
WHEREAS , Grantee acknowledges and agrees that he or she has access to and/or knowledge of certain trade secrets and other Confidential Information regarding the Company;
WHEREAS , the Company has spent and will continue to expend substantial amounts of time, money, and effort to develop its Confidential Information and Grantee acknowledges benefitting from these efforts;
WHEREAS , the Company deems it essential to the protection of its Confidential Information and competitive standing in its market to have recipients of Awards subject to reasonable restrictive covenants;
WHEREAS , Grantee agrees and acknowledges that the Company has a legitimate interest to protect its confidential information and competitive standing; and
NOW THEREFORE , in consideration for the provisions stated below, and intending to be legally bonded thereby, the parties agree as follows.
1. Grantee has been informed and is aware that the execution of this RCA is a necessary term and condition of the Grantees receipt of the Award.
2. The term Confidential Information as used in this RCA shall be broadly interpreted to include, without limitation, materials and information (whether in written, electronic or other form and whether or not identified as confidential at the time of disclosure) concerning technical matters, business matters, business plans, operations, opportunities, plans, processes, procedures, standards, strategies, policies, programs, software, schematics, models, systems, results, studies, analyses, compilations, forecasts, data, figures, projections, estimates, components, records, methods, criteria, designs, quality control, research, samples, work-in-progress, prototypes, data, materials, clients and prospective clients, customer lists, contracts, projects, suppliers, referral sources, sales, marketing, bidding, purchasing, personnel, financial condition, assets, inventory, accounts payable, accounts receivable, tax matters, books of account, financing, collections, intellectual property, trade secrets and all other know-how and information of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company which has not been published or disclosed to the general public.
a. While employed by the Company and at all times thereafter, Grantee will keep Confidential Information, including trade secrets, confidential and shall not, directly or indirectly, use for himself or herself or use for, or disclose to, any party other than the Company, or any subsidiary of the Company (other than in the ordinary course of Grantees duties for the benefit of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company), any Confidential Information.
b. At the termination of Grantees employment or at any other reasonable time the Company or any of its subsidiaries may request, Grantee shall promptly deliver to the Company all memoranda, notes, records, plats, sketches, plans or other documents (including, without limitation, any soft copies or computerized or electronic versions thereof) containing Confidential Information, including trade secrets or any other information concerning Companys business, including all copies, then in Grantees possession or under Grantees control whether prepared by Grantee or others.
c. Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs, Company employees, contractors, and consultants may disclose trade secrets in confidence, either directly or indirectly, to a Federal, State or local government official or to an attorney, solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of law, or in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding if such filing is made under seal. Additionally, Company employees, contractors, and consultants who file retaliation suits for reporting a suspected violation of law may disclose related trade secrets to their attorney and use them in related court proceedings, as long as the individual files documents containing the trade secret under seal and does not otherwise disclose the trade secret except pursuant to Court Order.
3. In consideration of the Companys obligations under the Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (the Agreement), Grantee agrees that while employed by the Company and for a period of one year thereafter, without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors of the Company (the Board ), he or she shall not, directly or indirectly, as principal, manager, agent, consultant, officer, director, stockholder, partner, investor, lender or employee or in any other capacity, carry on, be engaged in or have any financial interest in, any entity which is in competition with the business of the Company or its subsidiaries.
4. In consideration of the Companys obligations under the Agreement, Grantee agrees that while employed by the Company and for a period of one year thereafter, without the prior written consent of the Board, he or she shall not, on his or her own behalf or on behalf of any person, firm or company, directly or indirectly, (a) solicit or offer employment to or hire any person who is or has been employed by the Company or its subsidiaries at any time during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding such solicitation or (b) solicit or entice away or in any manner attempt to persuade any client, vendor, partner, customer or prospective customer of the Company to discontinue or diminish his, her or its relationship or prospective relationship with the Company or to otherwise provide his, her or its business to any corporation, partnership or other business entity which engages in any line of business in which the Company is engaged (other than the Company).
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5. For purposes of this RCA, an entity shall be deemed to be in competition with the Company if it enters into or engages in any business or activity that substantially and directly competes with the business of the Company. For purposes of this paragraph 5, the business of the Company is defined to be: active metallurgical and thermal coal mining, preparation and sale; the marketing, brokering and trading of metallurgical and thermal coal; and the optimization of our metallurgical and thermal coal reserves; in each case by the Company and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or affiliated or related companies. Notwithstanding this paragraph 5 or paragraph 8, nothing herein shall be construed so as to preclude Grantee from investing in any publicly or privately held company, provided that no such investment in the equity securities of an entity with publicly traded equity securities may exceed one percent (1%) of the equity of such entity, and no such investment in any other entity may exceed five percent (5%) of the equity of such entity, without the prior written approval of the Board.
6. Grantee agrees that he or she will not at any time make, directly or indirectly, any negative, derogatory, disparaging or defamatory comment, whether written, oral or in electronic format, to any reporter, author, producer or similar person or entity or to any general public media in any form (including, without limitation, books, articles or writings of any other kind, as well as film, videotape, audio tape, computer/Internet format or any other medium) that concerns directly or indirectly the Company its business or operations, or any of its current or former agents, employees, officers, directors, customers or clients. Grantee understands that nothing in this section or this RCA limits Grantees ability to communicate with any government agencies or otherwise participate or cooperate with an investigation conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or other similar agency, including providing documents or other information, without notice to the Company.
7. Upon the termination of Grantees employment for any reason, Grantee or his or her estate shall surrender to the Company all correspondence, letters, files, contracts, mailing lists, customer lists, advertising materials, ledgers, supplies, equipment, checks, and all other materials and records of any kind that are the property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, that may be in Grantees possession or under his control, including, without limitation, any soft copies or computerized or electronic versions thereof.
8. Grantee agrees that the covenant not to compete, the covenants not to solicit and the covenant not to make disparaging comments are reasonable under the circumstances and will not interfere with his or her ability to earn a living or otherwise to meet his or her financial obligations. Grantee and the Company agree that if in the opinion of any court of competent jurisdiction such restraint is not reasonable in any respect, such court shall have the right, power and authority to excise or modify such provision or provisions of this covenant which appear unreasonable and to enforce the remainder of the covenant as so amended. Grantee agrees that any breach of the covenants contained in this RCA would irreparably injure the Company. Accordingly, Grantee agrees that, in the event that a court enjoins Grantee from any activity prohibited by this RCA, the Company may, in addition to pursuing any other remedies it may have in law or in equity, cease making any payments otherwise required under the agreements evidencing the Award, cancel and recoup any portion of the Award already paid to the extent required by law, regulation or listing requirement, or by any Company policy adopted pursuant thereto, and obtain and injunction against Grantee from any court having jurisdiction over the matter restraining any further violation of this RCA by Grantee.
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9. No waiver or modification of all or any part of this RCA will be effective unless set forth in a written document signed by both the Company and Grantee expressly indicating their intention to waive or modify the specified provisions of this RCA. If the Company chooses not to enforce its rights in the event Grantee or any other recipient of an Award breaches some or all of the terms of this RCA, the Companys rights with respect to any such breach shall not be considered a waiver of a future breach by Grantee of this RCA, regardless of whether the breach is of a similar nature or not.
10. This RCA accurately sets forth and entirely sets forth the understandings reached between Grantee and the Company with respect to the matters treated herein. If there are any prior written or oral understandings or agreements pertaining to the subject matter addressed in this RCA, they are specifically superseded by this RCA and have no effect, except, should the Grantee be subject to non-compete and non-solicitation obligations (Restrictive Covenants) pursuant to an employment agreement or other agreement between the Grantee and Company or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates, Grantee shall continue to be bound by the terms of those Restrictive Covenants and they shall run concurrently with those set forth in this RCA. This RCA is binding on Grantee and the Company, and our respective successors, assigns and representatives.
11. Because of Companys and Grantees substantial contacts with the State of Missouri, the fact that Companys headquarters is located in Missouri, the parties interests in ensuring that disputes regarding the interpretation, validity, and enforceability of this RCA are resolved on a uniform basis, and Companys making and execution of this Agreement in Missouri, the parties agree that the RCA shall be interpreted and governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, without regard for any conflict of law principles. The parties agree that the exclusive venue and jurisdiction for any litigation concerning or arising out of or based on this RCA shall be the federal and state courts located in Missouri. The parties expressly consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of said courts. The provisions of this paragraph shall not restrict the ability of Company or Grantee to enforce in any court any judgment obtained in Missouri federal or state court.
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Exhibit 99.1
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 3, 2017
PEABODY EMERGES FROM CHAPTER 11 PROTECTION,
TO LIST ON NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE UNDER TICKER SYMBOL NYSE: BTU
ST. LOUIS, April 3 Peabody announced today that it has emerged from Chapter 11 protection with a transformed capital structure, including new equity that is expected to begin trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BTU.
We believe that The New BTU is well positioned to create substantial value for shareholders and other stakeholders over time, said Peabody President and Chief Executive Officer Glenn Kellow. Peabody is the only global pure-play coal investment, and we have the scale, quality of assets and people, and diversity of geography and products to be highly competitive. We also have taken significant steps to create a capital structure to succeed through all cycles. Our financial focus will now be on reducing debt, targeting high-return investments and returning cash to shareholders over time.
In accordance with the companys prior announcements and, as required by the plan of reorganization confirmed by the bankruptcy court, the companys common stock that had been trading under the ticker symbol BTUUQ was extinguished with no value effective at 4 p.m. EDT on April 3, 2017.
In the past year, Peabody has reduced debt by more than $5 billion from pre-filing levels at March 2016. In addition, Peabody achieved record safety this past year; protected jobs; served global customers; reduced costs and built cash and liquidity; strengthened the Australia platform; accelerated coal mine restoration; provided third-party bonding assurances; and was recognized globally for sustainability.
We thank our 6,700 employees and all stakeholders for their widespread support for the company and our plan of reorganization, said Kellow. We look forward to this next phase in our companys history. Coal remains an essential part of the energy mix, and Peabody is the largest U.S. coal producer while our Australian platform has access to the higher-growth Asia-Pacific region.
Peabody is the worlds largest private-sector coal company and a Fortune 500 company. The company is also a leading voice in advocating for sustainable mining, energy access and clean coal technologies. Peabody serves metallurgical and thermal coal customers in more than 25 countries on five continents. For further information, visit PeabodyEnergy.com.
Investor Relations Contact:
Vic Svec
314.342.7768
Media Contact:
Beth Sutton
928.221.6792
Certain statements included in this release are forward-looking as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The Company uses words such as anticipate, believe, expect, may, forecast, project, should, estimate, plan, outlook, target, likely, will, to be or other similar words to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date the release was filed and are based on numerous assumptions that the Company believes are reasonable, but these assumptions are open to a wide range of uncertainties and business risks that may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. These factors are difficult to accurately predict and may be beyond the Companys control. Factors that could affect the Companys results include, but are not limited to: the Companys ability to obtain bankruptcy court approval with respect to motions or other requests made to the bankruptcy court in connection with the Companys voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the U.S. Code (the Chapter 11 Cases), including maintaining strategic control as debtor-in-possession; the Companys ability to consummate its plan of reorganization (the Plan); the effects of the Chapter 11 Cases on the operations of the Company, including customer, supplier, banking, insurance and other relationships and agreements; bankruptcy court rulings in the Chapter 11 Cases as well as the outcome of all other pending litigation and the outcome of the Chapter 11 Cases in general; the length of time that the Company will operate under Chapter 11 protection and the continued availability of operating capital during the pendency of the proceedings; risks associated with third-party motions in the Chapter 11 Cases, which may interfere with the Companys ability to consummate the Plan and restructuring generally; increased advisory costs to execute the Plan; the volatility of the trading price of the Companys common stock and the absence of correlation between any increases in the trading price and the Companys expectation that the common stock will be cancelled and extinguished upon the effective date of the Plan with no payments made to the holders of the Companys common stock; the Companys ability to continue as a going concern including the Companys ability to consummate the Plan; the risk that the Plan does not become effective, in which case there can be no assurance that the Chapter 11 Cases will continue rather than be converted to Chapter 7 liquidation cases or that any alternative plan of reorganization would be on terms as favorable to holders of claims and interests as the terms of the Plan; the Companys ability to use cash collateral and the possibility that the Company may be required to post additional collateral; the effect of the Chapter 11 Cases on the Companys relationships with third parties, regulatory authorities and employees; the potential adverse effects of the Chapter 11 Cases on the Companys liquidity, results of operations, or business prospects; the Companys ability to execute its business and restructuring plan; increased administrative and legal costs related to the Chapter 11 Cases and other litigation and the inherent risks involved in a bankruptcy process; the cost, availability and access to capital and financial markets, including the ability to secure new financing after emerging from the Chapter 11 Cases; the risk that the Chapter 11 Cases will disrupt or impede the Companys international operations, including the Companys business operations in Australia; competition in the energy market and supply and demand for the Companys products, including the impact of alternative energy sources, such as natural gas and renewables; global steel demand and the downstream impact on metallurgical coal prices, and lower demand for the Companys products by electric power generators; the Companys ability to successfully consummate planned divestitures, including the planned sale of the Metropolitan Mine; the Companys ability to appropriately secure its requirements for reclamation, federal and state workers compensation, federal coal leases and other obligations related to the Companys operations, including its ability to utilize self-bonding and/or successfully access the commercial surety bond market; customer procurement practices and contract duration; the impact of weather and natural disasters on demand, production and transportation; reductions and/or deferrals of purchases by major customers and the Companys ability to renew sales contracts; credit and performance risks associated with customers, suppliers, contract miners, co-shippers, and trading, bank and other financial counterparties; geologic, equipment, permitting, site access, operational risks and new technologies related to mining; transportation availability, performance and costs; availability, timing of delivery and costs of key supplies, capital equipment or commodities such as diesel fuel, steel, explosives and tires; impact of take-or-pay arrangements for rail and port commitments for the delivery of coal; successful implementation of business strategies, including, without limitation, the actions the Company is implementing to improve its organization; negotiation of labor contracts, employee relations and workforce availability, including, without limitation, attracting and retaining key personnel; changes in postretirement benefit and pension obligations and their related funding requirements; replacement and development of coal reserves; effects of changes in interest rates and currency exchange rates (primarily the Australian dollar); effects of acquisitions or divestitures; economic strength and political stability of countries in which the Company has operations or serves customers; legislation, regulations and court decisions or other government actions, including, but not limited to, new environmental and mine safety requirements, changes in income tax regulations, sales-related royalties, or other regulatory taxes and changes in derivative laws and regulations; the Companys ability to obtain and renew permits necessary for the Companys operations; litigation or other dispute resolution, including, but not limited to, claims not yet asserted; terrorist attacks or security threats, including, but not limited to, cybersecurity threats; impacts of pandemic illnesses; the lack of an established market for the shares of new common stock (Reorganized PEC Common Stock) or the preferred stock (Preferred Equity) to be issued pursuant to the Plan on the Plan Effective Date, and potential dilution of Reorganized PEC Common Stock due to future issuances of equity securities; the Companys ability to generate sufficient cash to service all of our expected post-emergence indebtedness; our post-emergence debt instruments and capital structure will place certain limits on the Companys ability to pay dividends and repurchase common stock; the Companys ability to comply with financial and other restrictive covenants in various agreements, including the credit facility proposed in connection with the Plan; and other risks detailed in the Companys reports filed with the SEC. The Company does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements except as required by law. As outlined in the Plan, our equity securities under the ticker symbol BTUUQ were cancelled and extinguished upon the effective date of the Plan, and holders thereof will not be entitled to receive, and will not receive or retain, any property or interest in property on account of such equity interests.