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): December 21, 2018

 

 

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Yukon, Canada   001-33614   N/A

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400

Englewood, Colorado 80112

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

303-708-9740

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

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Item 1.01.

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. 

Exchange Agreement

As previously disclosed, on December 17, 2018, Ultra Petroleum Corp. (the “Company”) and its subsidiaries entered into an Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) pursuant to which the holders named therein (the “Supporting Noteholders”) agreed to exchange (i) approximately $505 million aggregate principal amount, or 72.1%, of the 6.875% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “2022 Notes”) and (ii) $275.0 million aggregate principal amount, or 55%, of the 7.125% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes” and, together with the 2022 Notes, the “Old Notes”) of Ultra Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Ultra Resources”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, for (a) approximately $545 million aggregate principal amount of new 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due July 2024 of Ultra Resources (the “New Notes”) and (b) an aggregate of 10,919,499 new warrants of the Company each entitling the holder thereof to purchase one common share of the Company (each a “Warrant” and, collectively, the “Warrants”). The exchange of the Old Notes for the New Notes and the Warrants, referred to herein as the “Exchange Transaction,” was completed as of December 21, 2018 (the “Closing Date”).

As of the Closing Date, pursuant to the terms of the Exchange Agreement, each Supporting Noteholder received (x) for each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of 2022 Notes validly exchanged by such Supporting Noteholder, (i) $720 aggregate principal amount of New Notes issued by Ultra Resources and (ii) 14.0 Warrants issued by the Company, and (y) for each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of 2025 Notes validly exchanged by such Supporting Noteholder, (i) $660 aggregate principal amount of New Notes issued by Ultra Resources and (ii) 14.0 Warrants issued by the Company.

The New Notes and the Warrants issued in the Exchange Transaction were offered and sold pursuant to the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). This offer was made by the Company to a limited number of persons, each of which is an accredited investor (within the meaning of Rule 501 promulgated under the Securities Act). The Company did not receive any cash proceeds from the issuance of the New Notes or the Warrants in the Exchange Transaction.

The foregoing description of the Exchange Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Exchange Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.

Second Lien Notes and Indenture

As of the Closing Date, in connection with the consummation of the Exchange Transaction, Ultra Resources issued New Notes with an aggregate principal amount of approximately $545 million. The terms of the New Notes include those stated in the Indenture, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Indenture”), among Ultra Resources, as issuer, the Company and its other subsidiaries, as guarantors, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee and collateral agent (the “Trustee”).

The New Notes are senior secured obligations of Ultra Resources and rank senior in right of payment to all of its existing and future unsecured senior debt, to the extent of the value of the collateral to be pledged under the Indenture and related collateral arrangements, and senior in right of payment to all of its future subordinated debt, and junior in right of payment to all of its existing and future secured debt of senior priority, to the extent of the value of the collateral pledged thereby. The New Notes are secured by second priority security interests in substantially all assets of the Company. Payment by Ultra Resources of all amounts due on or in respect of the New Notes and the performance of Ultra Resources under the Indenture are initially guaranteed by the Company.

The New Notes will mature on July 12, 2024. Interest on the New Notes will accrue at (i) an annual rate of 9.00% payable in cash and (ii) an annual rate of 2.00% payable in kind (“PIK”). The interest payment dates for the New Notes are January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing on July 15, 2019.

Prior to December 21, 2021, Ultra Resources may, at any time or from time to time, redeem in the aggregate up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of the New Notes in an amount no greater than the net cash proceeds of certain equity offerings at a redemption price of 111.000% of the principal amount of the New Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including PIK interest), if any, to the date of redemption, if at least 65% of the original principal amount of the New Notes remains outstanding and the redemption occurs within 180 days of the closing of such equity offering. In addition, before December 21, 2019, Ultra Resources may redeem all or a part of the New Notes at a redemption price equal to the sum of (i) the principal amount thereof, plus (ii) a make-whole premium at the redemption date, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including PIK interest), if any, to the redemption date. In addition, on or after December 21, 2021, Ultra Resources may redeem all or a part of the New Notes at redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) equal to 105.500% for the twelve-month period beginning on December 21, 2021, 102.750% for the twelve-month period beginning December 21, 2022, and 100.000% for the twelve-month period beginning December 21, 2023 and at any time thereafter, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including PIK interest), if any, to the applicable redemption date on the New Notes.


If Ultra Resources experiences certain change of control triggering events set forth in the Indenture, each holder of the New Notes may require the Issuer to repurchase all or a portion of its Notes for cash at a price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes, plus any accrued but unpaid interest (including PIK interest) to the date of repurchase.

The Indenture contains customary covenants that restrict the ability of Ultra Resources and the guarantors and certain of its subsidiaries to: (i) sell assets and subsidiary equity; (ii) incur or redeem indebtedness; (iii) create or incur certain liens; (iv) enter into affiliate agreements; (v) pay cash dividends, (vi) change the nature of its business or operations, (vii) make certain types of investments, (ix) enter into agreements that restrict distributions from certain restricted subsidiaries and the consummation of mergers and consolidations; (x) consolidate, merge or transfer all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (as defined in the Indenture); and (xi) create unrestricted and foreign subsidiaries. The covenants in the Indenture are subject to important exceptions and qualifications. Subject to conditions, the Indenture provides that the Company and its subsidiaries will no longer be subject to certain covenants when the New Notes receive investment grade ratings from any two of S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and Fitch Ratings, Inc.

The Indenture contains customary events of default (each, an “Event of Default”). Unless otherwise noted in the Indenture, upon a continuing Event of Default, the Trustee, by notice to the Company, or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, by notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare the New Notes immediately due and payable, except that an Event of Default resulting from entry into a bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization with respect to the Company, any Significant Subsidiary (as defined in the Indenture) or group of Restricted Subsidiaries (as defined in the Indenture), that taken together would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, will automatically cause the New Notes to become due and payable.

The foregoing description of the Indenture does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Indenture, which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.

Supplemental Indenture to Unsecured Indenture

On the Closing Date, following receipt of the requisite consents of the Supporting Holders pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, Ultra Resources, the Company and its other subsidiaries, as guarantors, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, entered into the First Supplemental Indenture (the “Supplemental Indenture”) to the Indenture dated April 12, 2017, among Ultra Resources, the Company, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Unsecured Indenture”). Pursuant to the Supplemental Indenture, the parties amended the Unsecured Indenture to, among other things, eliminate or amend substantially all of the restrictive covenants contained in the Indenture governing the Old Notes, other than those relating to the payment of principal and interest. The Supplemental Indenture is binding on all Old Notes that remain outstanding.

The foregoing description of the Supplemental Indenture does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Supplemental Indenture, which is filed as Exhibit 4.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.

Warrant Agreement

On the Closing Date, in connection with the consummation of the Exchange Transaction, the Company entered into a Warrant Agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”), between the Company, Computershare Inc. and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., which provided for the Company’s issuance of up to an aggregate of 10,919,499 Warrants in accordance with the terms of the Exchange Agreement and the Warrant Agreement.

The Warrants are initially exercisable for one common share of the Company, no par value (the “Common Shares”), per Warrant at an initial exercise price of $0.01 per Warrant (the “Exercise Price”). No Warrants will be exercisable until the date on which the volume-weighted average price of the Common Shares is at least $2.50 per Common Share for 30 consecutive trading days (the “Trading Price Condition”). Subject to the Trading Price Condition, the Warrants are exercisable at the option of the holders thereof from the Closing Date until 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on July 14, 2025, at which time all unexercised Warrants will expire and the rights of the holders of such Warrants to purchase Common Shares will terminate. In the aggregate, if all Warrants are exercised, total shareholder dilution will be approximately 6% based on 197,053,583 Common Shares outstanding as of October 25, 2018.

Pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, no holder of a Warrant, by virtue of holding or having a beneficial interest in a Warrant, will have the right to vote, consent, receive dividends, receive notice as shareholders with respect to any meeting of shareholders for the election of the Company’s directors or any other matter, or exercise any rights whatsoever as a shareholder of the Company unless, until and only to the extent such holders become holders of record of Common Shares issued upon settlement of Warrants.

The number of Common Shares for which a Warrant is exercisable, and the Exercise Price, are subject to adjustment from time to time upon the occurrence of certain events, including: (1) stock splits, reverse stock splits or stock dividends to all or substantially all of the holders of Common Shares; (2) any combination or subdivision in respect of Common Shares; or (3) certain special dividends issued to all holders of Common Shares.


The foregoing description of the Warrant Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Warrant Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.

Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement

On the Closing Date, in connection with the consummation of the Exchange Transaction, the Company and its subsidiaries (the “Grantors”) entered into a Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement (the “Guaranty and Collateral Agreement”) in favor of Wilmington Trust, National Association, as collateral agent (the “Second Lien Collateral Agent”), for the benefit of the Second Lien Collateral Agent, as collateral agent for the holders of the New Notes, pursuant to which the obligations of the Grantors under the Indenture are secured by the Grantors granting a second priority security interest in all of the collateral described in the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement.

The foregoing description of the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.

Third Amendment to Revolving Credit Agreement

As previously disclosed, on April 12, 2017, Ultra Resources, as borrower, entered into a Credit Agreement (as amended prior to the Closing Date, the “RBL Credit Agreement”) with Company and UP Energy Corporation, as parent guarantors, Bank of Montreal, as administrative agent (the “RBL Administrative Agent”), and the other lenders party thereto (collectively, the “RBL Lenders”), providing for a revolving credit facility for an aggregate amount of $400.0 million (the “RBL Facility”).

On the Closing Date, in connection with the consummation of the Exchange Transaction, Ultra Resources and the parent guarantors entered into a Third Amendment to Credit Agreement (the “RBL Amendment”) with the RBL Administrative Agent and the RBL Lenders party thereto. Pursuant to the RBL Amendment, the parties agreed, among other things, to amend the RBL Credit Agreement to permit the issuance of the New Notes and the Exchange Transaction and to revise certain covenants and other provisions of the RBL Credit Agreement, including, but not limited to:

 

   

increasing collateral coverage from 85% to 95% of total PV-9 of Proven Reserves (as defined in the RBL Credit Agreement);

 

   

removing the ability to create, invest in and utilize unrestricted subsidiaries; and

 

   

further limiting the Company’s ability to incur unsecured debt, repay junior debt, and make restricted payments and investments as more thoroughly described in the RBL Amendment.

The Company paid a fee to each consenting RBL Lender equal to 0.25% of such RBL Lender’s commitment under the Credit Agreement. The total fee paid to the RBL Lenders was approximately $0.8 million.

The foregoing description of the RBL Amendment does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the RBL Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.4 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.

First Amendment to Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement

As previously disclosed, on April 12, 2017, Ultra Resources, as borrower, entered into a Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement (the “Term Loan Agreement”) with Company and UP Energy Corporation, as parent guarantors, Barclays Bank PLC, as administrative agent (the “Term Loan Administrative Agent”), and the other lenders party thereto (collectively, the “Term Loan Lenders”), providing for senior secured first lien term loan. At September 30, 2018, Ultra Resources had $975.0 million in outstanding borrowings under the Term Loan Agreement, including current maturities.

On the Closing Date, in connection with the consummation of the Exchange Transaction, Ultra Resources and the parent guarantors entered into a First Amendment to Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement (the “Term Loan Amendment”) with the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Lenders party thereto. Pursuant to the Term Loan Amendment, the parties agreed, among other things, to amend the Term Loan Agreement to permit the issuance of the New Notes and the Exchange Transaction, to increase the interest rate payable by 100 basis points, such increase comprising 75 basis points payable in cash and 25 basis points payable in kind, and to revise certain covenants and other provisions of the Term Loan Agreement, including, but not limited to:

 

   

introducing call protection of 102% until the first anniversary of the Exchange Transaction and 101% until the second anniversary of the Exchange Transaction;


   

introducing additional restrictions on the RBL Facility, including amendments and refinancings of the RBL Facility as more thoroughly described in the Term Loan Amendment;

 

   

deleting the ability to increase commitments under the Term Loan;

 

   

increasing collateral coverage from 85% to 95% of total PV-9 of Proven Reserves (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement);

 

   

removing the ability to create, invest in and utilize unrestricted subsidiaries; and

 

   

further limiting the Company’s ability to incur unsecured debt, repay junior debt, and make restricted payments and investments as more thoroughly described in the Term Loan Amendment.

The Company paid a fee to each consenting Term Loan Lender equal to 0.60% of such Term Loan Lender’s commitment under the Term Loan Agreement. The total fee paid to the Term Loan Lenders was approximately $5.8 million.

The foregoing description of the Term Loan Amendment does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Term Loan Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.5 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.

Intercreditor Agreement

On the Closing Date, in connection with the consummation of the Exchange Transaction, Ultra Resources and the other Grantors, including the Company, entered into a First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement (the “Intercreditor Agreement”), with the RBL Administrative Agent, the Term Loan Administrative Agent, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent. The Intercreditor Agreement sets forth agreements relating to collateral priority, among other intercreditor matters, with respect to the Credit Agreement, the Term Loan Agreement, the Indenture and the New Notes.

The foregoing description of the Intercreditor Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Intercreditor Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.6 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.

Director Nomination Agreement

On the Closing Date, in connection with the consummation of the Exchange Transaction, the Company and certain of the Supporting Noteholders entered into a Director Nomination Agreement (the “Director Nomination Agreement”), providing for the nomination by the majority of certain Supporting Noteholders (the “Nominating Holders”) of one independent director (a “New Director”) as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) (i) in the event of a vacancy caused by the resignation of one of certain current members of the Board or (ii) at the Company’s 2019 annual meeting, subject to the approval by the holders of Common Shares of an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Reorganization expanding the size of the Board from seven to eight members.

Nominations of New Directors pursuant to the Director Nomination Agreement are subject to Board approval (not to be unreasonably withheld). The Company also agreed that, in the event a New Director resigns or can no longer serve on the Board due to death, disability or other reasons prior to the expiration of his or her term, the Nominating Holders will have the right to recommend for appointment a replacement director, subject to such candidate meeting certain criteria as set forth in the Director Nomination Agreement.

The Director Nomination Agreement will terminate on the date that the Nominating Holders cease to own at least 50% of the New Notes, or such earlier time that the Nominating Holders elect to terminate.

The foregoing description of the Director Nomination Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Director Nomination Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.7 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.01.


Item 2.03.

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

The relevant information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference in this Item 2.03.

 

Item 3.02.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The relevant information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference in this Item 3.02.

 

Item 7.01.

Regulation FD Disclosure.

On December 26, 2018, the Company issued a press release announcing the consummation of the Exchange Transaction. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference.

The information contained or incorporated in this Item 7.01 shall not be deemed to be “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 section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any of the Company’s 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.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1 hereto, includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. Any statement, including any opinions, forecasts, projections or other statements, other than statements of historical fact, are or may be forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements herein are reasonable, the Company can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct and actual results may differ materially from those projected or reflected in such statements. Certain risks and uncertainties inherent in the Company’s business as well as risks and uncertainties related to its operational and financial results are set forth in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), particularly in the section entitled “Risk Factors” included in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year, its most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and from time to time in other filings made by the Company with the SEC. Some of these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the Company’s ability to decrease its leverage or fixed charges, increased competition, the timing and extent of changes in prices for oil and gas, particularly in the areas where the Company owns properties, conducts operations, and markets its production, as well as the timing and extent of the Company’s success in discovering, developing, producing and estimating oil and gas reserves, weather and government regulation, and the availability of oil field services, personnel and equipment. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K. All forward-looking statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K are qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future results or otherwise.


Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit

Number

  

Description

  4.1    Indenture, dated as of December 21, 2018, by and among Ultra Petroleum Corp., Ultra Resources, Inc., the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
  4.2    First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 21, 2018, to Indenture dated as of April  12, 2017, by and among Ultra Petroleum Corp., Ultra Resources, Inc., the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
10.1    Exchange Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2018, by and among Ultra Petroleum Corp., Ultra Resources, Inc., certain subsidiary guarantors thereto and certain noteholders.
10.2    Warrant Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018, by and among Ultra Petroleum Corp., Computershare Inc. and Computershare Trust Company N.A., as warrant agent.
10.3    Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, dated as of December  21, 2018, by and among Ultra Petroleum Corp. and the other parties signatory thereto, as grantors, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as collateral agent for and on behalf of the secured parties.
10.4    Third Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of December  21, 2018, among Ultra Resources Inc., as borrower, Bank of Montreal, as administrative agent, and the lenders and other parties party thereto.
10.5    First Amendment to Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of December  21, 2018, among Ultra Petroleum Corp. and UP Energy Corporation, as parent guarantor, Ultra Resources Inc., as borrower, Barclays Bank PLC, as administrative agent and the lenders and other parties party thereto.
10.6    First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of December  21, 2018, by and among Bank of Montreal, as revolving administrative agent and as collateral agent for the senior secured parties, Barclays Bank PLC, as term loan administrative agent, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the second lien collateral agent for the junior priority parties, Ultra Resources Inc., as borrower, and the other grantors party thereto.
10.7    Director Nomination Agreement, dated as of December  21, 2018, by and among Ultra Petroleum Corp. and the holders of 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 of Ultra Resources, Inc. signatory thereto.
99.1    Press Release of Ultra Petroleum Corp., dated December 26, 2018.


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.

December 26, 2018

 

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.
By:   /s/ Andrew C. Kidd
Name:   Andrew C. Kidd
Title:  

Senior Vice President, General Counsel

and Corporate Secretary

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

 

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.,

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO

AND

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

AS TRUSTEE AND COLLATERAL AGENT

 

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of December 21, 2018

 

 

9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024

 

 

 


Table of Contents

 

              Page  

Article I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     6  
  SECTION 1.1    Definitions      6  
  SECTION 1.2    Other Definitions      48  
  SECTION 1.3    Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act      49  
  SECTION 1.4    Rules of Construction      49  

Article II THE NOTES

     50  
  SECTION 2.1    Form, Dating and Terms      50  
  SECTION 2.2    Execution and Authentication      57  
  SECTION 2.3    Registrar and Paying Agent      58  
  SECTION 2.4    Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust      58  
  SECTION 2.5    Noteholder Lists      59  
  SECTION 2.6    Transfer and Exchange      59  
  SECTION 2.7    [Reserved]      61  
  SECTION 2.8    [Reserved]      61  
  SECTION 2.9    [Reserved]      61  
  SECTION 2.10    Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes      61  
  SECTION 2.11    Outstanding Notes      62  
  SECTION 2.12    Temporary Notes      63  
  SECTION 2.13    Cancellation      63  
  SECTION 2.14    Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest      64  
  SECTION 2.15    Computation of Interest      65  
  SECTION 2.16    CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN Numbers      65  
  SECTION 2.17    Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar Not Responsible for Depositary      65  
  SECTION 2.18    Payment of Additional Amounts      66  

Article III COVENANTS

     68  
  SECTION 3.1    Payment of Notes      68  
  SECTION 3.2    Limitation on Indebtedness and Preferred Stock      69  
  SECTION 3.3    Limitation on Restricted Payments      73  
  SECTION 3.4    Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries      78  
  SECTION 3.5    Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock      81  
  SECTION 3.6    Limitation on Liens      85  
  SECTION 3.7    Stay, Extension and Usury Laws      85  
  SECTION 3.8    Limitation on Affiliate Transactions      85  
  SECTION 3.9    Purchase of Notes Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event      87  
  SECTION 3.10    Provision of Financial Information      90  
  SECTION 3.11    Future Subsidiary Guarantors      92  
  SECTION 3.12    Maintenance of Office or Agency      92  
  SECTION 3.13    Corporate Existence      93  
  SECTION 3.14    Payment of Taxes      93  

 

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  SECTION 3.15    Compliance Certificate      93  
  SECTION 3.16    Further Instruments and Acts      93  
  SECTION 3.17    Statement by Officers as to Default      94  
  SECTION 3.18    Covenant Termination      94  
  SECTION 3.19    Limitation on Layering      94  
  SECTION 3.20    Subsidiaries      94  
  SECTION 3.21    Nature of Business; International Operations      95  

Article IV SUCCESSOR COMPANY

     95  
  SECTION 4.1    Merger and Consolidation      95  

Article V REDEMPTION OF NOTES

     97  
  SECTION 5.1    Redemption      97  
  SECTION 5.2    Applicability of Article      98  
  SECTION 5.3    Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee      98  
  SECTION 5.4    Selection by Trustee of Notes to Be Redeemed      98  
  SECTION 5.5    Notice of Redemption      98  
  SECTION 5.6    Deposit of Redemption Price      100  
  SECTION 5.7    Notes Payable on Redemption Date      100  
  SECTION 5.8    Notes Redeemed in Part      100  
  SECTION 5.9    Tax Redemption      101  

Article VI DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

     102  
  SECTION 6.1    Events of Default      102  
  SECTION 6.2    Acceleration      105  
  SECTION 6.3    Other Remedies      106  
  SECTION 6.4    Waiver of Past Defaults      107  
  SECTION 6.5    Control by Majority      107  
  SECTION 6.6    Limitation on Suits      107  
  SECTION 6.7    Rights of Holders to Receive Payment      108  
  SECTION 6.8    Collection Suit by Trustee      108  
  SECTION 6.9    Trustee May File Proofs of Claim      108  
  SECTION 6.10    Priorities      108  
  SECTION 6.11    Undertaking for Costs      109  

Article VII TRUSTEE

     109  
  SECTION 7.1    Duties of Trustee      109  
  SECTION 7.2    Rights of Trustee      110  
  SECTION 7.3    Individual Rights of Trustee      112  
  SECTION 7.4    Trustee’s Disclaimer      112  
  SECTION 7.5    Notice of Defaults      112  
  SECTION 7.6    Reports by Trustee to Holders      112  
  SECTION 7.7    Compensation and Indemnity      113  
  SECTION 7.8    Replacement of Trustee      114  

 

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  SECTION 7.9    Successor Trustee by Merger      114  
  SECTION 7.10    Eligibility; Disqualification      115  
  SECTION 7.11    Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer      115  
  SECTION 7.12    Trustee’s Application for Instruction from the Issuer      115  

Article VIII DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE

     115  
  SECTION 8.1    Discharge of Liability on Notes; Defeasance      115  
  SECTION 8.2    Conditions to Defeasance      117  
  SECTION 8.3    Application of Trust Money      119  
  SECTION 8.4    Repayment to the Issuer      119  
  SECTION 8.5    Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations      119  
  SECTION 8.6    Reinstatement      119  

Article IX AMENDMENTS

     119  
  SECTION 9.1    Without Consent of Holders      119  
  SECTION 9.2    With Consent of Holders      121  
  SECTION 9.3    [Reserved]      123  
  SECTION 9.4    Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers      123  
  SECTION 9.5    Notation on or Exchange of Notes      123  
  SECTION 9.6    Trustee to Sign Amendments      124  

Article X GUARANTEE

     124  
  SECTION 10.1    Guarantee      124  
  SECTION 10.2    Limitation on Liability; Termination, Release and Discharge      126  
  SECTION 10.3    Right of Contribution      126  
  SECTION 10.4    No Subrogation      127  

Article XI COLLATERAL AND SECURITY

     127  
  SECTION 11.1    Security Interest      127  
  SECTION 11.2    Post-Issue Date Collateral Requirements      128  
  SECTION 11.3    Further Assurances; Liens on Additional Property      129  
  SECTION 11.4    Intercreditor Agreement and Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement      132  
  SECTION 11.5    Release of Liens in Respect of Notes      133  
  SECTION 11.6    Insurance      134  
  SECTION 11.7    Suits to Protect the Collateral      134  
  SECTION 11.8    Purchaser Protected      134  
  SECTION 11.9    Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee      135  
  SECTION 11.10    Collateral Agent      135  

Article XII MISCELLANEOUS

     143  
  SECTION 12.1    [Reserved]      143  
  SECTION 12.2    Notices      143  
  SECTION 12.3    Communication by Holders with other Holders      144  

 

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  SECTION 12.4    Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent      144  
  SECTION 12.5    Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion      144  
  SECTION 12.6    When Notes Disregarded      145  
  SECTION 12.7    Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar      145  
  SECTION 12.8    Legal Holidays      145  
  SECTION 12.9    GOVERNING LAW      145  
  SECTION 12.10    No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders      145  
  SECTION 12.11    Successors      145  
  SECTION 12.12    Multiple Originals      145  
  SECTION 12.13    Force Majeure      146  
  SECTION 12.14    Table of Contents; Headings      146  
  SECTION 12.15    WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL      146  
  SECTION 12.16    Consent to Jurisdiction      146  
  SECTION 12.17    Waiver of Immunity      146  
  SECTION 12.18    Judgment Currency      147  
  SECTION 12.19    Severability      147  

 

EXHIBIT A      Form of the Notes
EXHIBIT B      Form of Indenture Supplement to Add Subsidiary Guarantors
EXHIBIT C      Form of Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement

 

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This INDENTURE dated as of December 21, 2018, is among ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Issuer ”), ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP., a Yukon, Canada corporation (the “ Parent Guarantor ”), the Subsidiary Guarantors (as defined herein, together with the Parent Guarantor, the “ Guarantors ”) party hereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (in such capacity together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Trustee ”) and collateral agent (in such capacity together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Collateral Agent ”).

Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

SECTION 1.1 Definitions .

2022 Notes ” means the 6.875% Senior Notes due 2022 issued by the Issuer on April 12, 2017, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $700,000,000.

2025 Notes ” means the 7.125% Senior Notes due 2025 issued by the Issuer on April 12, 2017, in an initial aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000.

Acquired Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness (i) of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes or is merged with and into a Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person, in each case whether or not Incurred by such Person in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary or such acquisition or (iii) secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person. Acquired Indebtedness shall be deemed to have been Incurred, with respect to clause (i) of the preceding sentence, on the date such Person becomes or is merged with and into a Restricted Subsidiary and, with respect to clause (ii) or (iii) of the preceding sentence, on the date of consummation of such acquisition of assets.

Additional Assets ” means:

(1) any properties or assets to be used by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary in the Oil and Gas Business;

(2) capital expenditures by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary in the Oil and Gas Business;

(3) the Capital Stock of a Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the acquisition of such Capital Stock by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary; or

 

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(4) Capital Stock constituting a minority interest in any Person that at such time is a Restricted Subsidiary;

provided , however , that, in the case of clauses (3) and (4), such Restricted Subsidiary is primarily engaged in the Oil and Gas Business.

Additional Notes ” means the Issuer’s 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024, if and when issued from time to time subsequent to the Issue Date in exchange for 2022 Notes in accordance with Section  3.3(b)(13) .

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

Applicable Premium ” means, with respect to a Note on any Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Note or (ii) the excess, if any, of (A) the present value at such time of (1) the redemption price of such Note on December 21, 2021 plus (2) all required interest payments (excluding accrued and unpaid interest to such Redemption Date) due on such Note through December 21, 2021, computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate with respect to such Redemption Date plus 50 basis points discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day calendar months), over (B) the principal amount of such Note. The Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the calculation of the Applicable Premium.

Approved RBL Lender ” means a commercial bank or other financial institution that customarily provides reserve based revolving credit financing to companies operating in the Oil and Gas Business in the ordinary course of its business.

Asset Disposition ” means any direct or indirect sale, lease (including by means of Production Payments and Reserve Sales and a Sale/Leaseback Transaction but excluding an operating lease entered into in the ordinary course of the Oil and Gas Business), transfer, issuance or other disposition, or a series of related sales, leases, transfers, issuances or dispositions that are part of a common plan, of (A) any Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Preferred Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries issued in compliance with Section 3.2 and directors’ qualifying shares or shares required by applicable law to be held by a Person other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary), (B) all or substantially all the assets of any division or line of business of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (excluding any division or line of business the assets of which are owned by an Unrestricted Subsidiary) or (C) any other assets of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary outside of the ordinary course of business of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary (each referred to for the purposes of this definition as a “ disposition ”), in each case by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including any disposition by means of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction.

 

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Notwithstanding the preceding, the following items shall not be deemed to be Asset Dispositions:

(1) a disposition by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Parent Guarantor or by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary to a Restricted Subsidiary;

(2) a disposition of cash, Cash Equivalents or other financial assets in the ordinary course of business;

(3) a disposition of Hydrocarbons or mineral products inventory in the ordinary course of business;

(4) a disposition of damaged, unserviceable, obsolete or worn out equipment or equipment that is no longer necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries and that is disposed of in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(5) transactions in accordance with Section  4.1 ;

(6) an issuance of Capital Stock by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Parent Guarantor or to a Restricted Subsidiary;

(7) the making of a Permitted Investment or a Restricted Payment (or a disposition that would constitute a Restricted Payment but for the exclusions from the definition thereof) permitted by Section  3.3 ;

(8) an Asset Swap;

(9) [reserved];

(10) Permitted Liens;

(11) dispositions of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in bankruptcy or similar proceedings and exclusive of factoring or similar arrangements;

(12) the licensing or sublicensing of intellectual property (including, without limitation, the licensing of seismic data) or other general intangibles and licenses, leases or subleases of other property in the ordinary course of business which do not materially interfere with the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(13) foreclosure on assets;

(14) any Production Payments and Reserve Sales; provided that any such Production Payments and Reserve Sales, other than incentive compensation programs on terms that are reasonably customary in the Oil and Gas Business for geologists, geophysicists and other providers of technical services to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, shall have been created, Incurred, issued, assumed or guaranteed in connection with the financing of, and within 60 days after the acquisition of, the property that is subject thereto;

 

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(15) surrender or waiver of contract rights, oil and gas leases, or the settlement, release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind;

(16) the abandonment, farmout, lease or sublease of developed or undeveloped Oil and Gas Properties in the ordinary course of business; and

(17) a disposition (whether or not in the ordinary course of business) of any Oil and Gas Property or interest therein to which no proved reserves are attributable at the time of such disposition.

Asset Swap ” means any substantially contemporaneous (and in any event occurring within 180 days of each other) purchase and sale or exchange of any oil or natural gas properties or assets or interests therein between the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and another Person; provided , that any cash received must be applied in accordance with Section  3.5 as if the Asset Swap were an Asset Disposition.

Average Life ” means, as of the date of determination, with respect to any Indebtedness or Preferred Stock, the quotient obtained by dividing (1) the sum of the products of the numbers of years from the date of determination to the dates of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Indebtedness or redemption or similar payment with respect to such Preferred Stock multiplied by the amount of such payment by (2) the sum of all such payments.

Bankruptcy Law ” means Title 11 of the United States Code or similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors, including Canadian Insolvency Laws.

Beneficial Owner ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such “person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only after the passage of time. The terms “ Beneficially Owns ” and “ Beneficially Owned ” have a corresponding meaning. For purposes of this definition, a Person shall not be deemed to Beneficially Own securities that are the subject of a stock purchase agreement, merger agreement or similar agreement until consummation of the transactions or, as applicable, series of related transactions contemplated thereby.

Board of Directors ” means, as to any Person that is a corporation, the board of directors of such Person or any duly authorized committee thereof or as to any Person that is not a corporation, the board of managers or such other individual or group serving a similar function.

Board Resolution ” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of a Person to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification.

 

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Borrowing Base ” means the maximum amount in United States dollars determined or re-determined by the lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility as the aggregate lending value in the aggregate under the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term Loan Credit Agreement to be ascribed to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Issuer and the Guarantors against which such lenders are prepared to provide loans or other Indebtedness to the Issuer and the Guarantors under the Revolving Credit Facility, using customary practices and standards for Approved RBL Lenders in determining borrowing base loans and which are generally applied at such time by the Approved RBL Lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility to borrowers in the Oil and Gas Business, as determined semi-annually during each year and/or on such other occasions as may be provided for by the Revolving Credit Facility, and which is based upon, inter alia, the review by such lenders of the Hydrocarbon reserves, royalty interests and assets and liabilities of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Business Day ” means each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banking institutions in New York, New York or a place of payment are authorized or required by law to close.

Canadian Insolvency Laws ” means any of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), the CCAA and the Winding-Up and Restructuring Act (Canada), and any proceeding under applicable federal or provincial corporate law seeking an arrangement or compromise of some or all of the debts of a Person or a stay of proceedings to enforce some or all claims of creditors against a Person.

Capital Stock ” of any Person means any and all shares, units, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, such equity.

Capitalized Lease Obligations ” means an obligation that is required to be classified and accounted for as a capitalized lease for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP, and the amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligation will be the capitalized amount of such obligation at the time any determination thereof is to be made as determined in accordance with GAAP, and the Stated Maturity thereof will be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date such lease may be terminated without penalty. Notwithstanding the preceding, (1) obligations under the LGS Lease shall not constitute Capitalized Lease Obligations and (2) any lease (whether entered into before or after the Issue Date) that would have been classified as an operating lease pursuant to GAAP as in effect on the Issue Date will be deemed not to represent a Capitalized Lease Obligation.

Cash Equivalents ” means:

(1) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States Government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States ( provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof), having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition;

 

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(2) marketable general obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition and, at the time of acquisition, having a credit rating of “A” (or the equivalent thereof) or better from any of S&P, Moody’s or Fitch;

(3) certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits, overnight bank deposits or bankers’ acceptances having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued by any commercial bank the short-term deposit of which is rated at the time of acquisition thereof at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof by S&P, “P-2” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s or “F-2” or the equivalent thereof by Fitch, and having combined capital and surplus in excess of $100.0 million;

(4) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (1), (2) and (3) entered into with any bank meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;

(5) commercial paper rated at the time of acquisition thereof at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof by S&P, “P-2” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s or “F-2” or the equivalent thereof by Fitch, or carrying an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized rating agency, if each of the three named Rating Agencies cease publishing ratings of investments, and in any case maturing within one year after the date of acquisition thereof; and

(6) interests in any investment company or money market fund which invests 95% or more of its assets in instruments of the type specified in clauses (1) through (5) above.

Cash Management Obligations ” means, with respect to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, any obligations of such Person to any lender in respect of treasury management arrangements, depositary or other cash management services, including any treasury management line of credit.

CCAA ” means Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada).

Change of Control Triggering Event ” means, with respect to the Notes:

(1) (A) any “person” or “group” of related persons (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Parent Guarantor (or its successor by merger, consolidation or purchase of all or substantially all of its assets) (for the purposes of this clause (1), such person or group shall be deemed to Beneficially Own any Voting Stock of the Parent Guarantor held by a parent entity, if such person or group Beneficially Owns, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such parent entity) and (B) a Rating Decline with respect to the Notes occurs within 90 days after the earlier of (x) the occurrence of the event set forth in clause (A) and (y) public notice of the intention to effect the event set forth in clause (A) (which 90-day period shall be extended so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by S&P or Moody’s (or any other Rating Agency substituted therefor));

 

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(2) (A) the sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) and (B) a Rating Decline with respect to the Notes occurs within 90 days after the earlier of (x) the occurrence of the event set forth in clause (A) and (y) public notice of the intention to effect the event set forth in clause (A) (which 90-day period shall be extended so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by S&P or Moody’s (or any other Rating Agency substituted therefor));

(3) the adoption by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor of a plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Parent Guarantor; or

(4) the Parent Guarantor shall cease to beneficially own at least 80% of the Voting Stock of the Issuer.

Notwithstanding the preceding, a conversion of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from a limited liability company, corporation, limited partnership or other form of entity to a limited liability company, corporation, limited partnership or other form of entity or an exchange of all of the outstanding Capital Stock in one form of entity for Capital Stock for another form of entity shall not constitute a Change of Control Triggering Event, so long as following such conversion or exchange the “persons” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) who Beneficially Owned the Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor immediately prior to such transactions continue to Beneficially Own in the aggregate more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity, or continue to Beneficially Own sufficient Equity Interests in such entity to elect a majority of its directors, managers, trustees or other persons serving in a similar capacity for such entity, and, in either case no “person” Beneficially Owns more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity.

Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Collateral ” means all property wherever located and whether now owned or at any time acquired after the date of this Indenture by the Issuer or any Guarantor as to which a Lien is granted, or purported to be granted, under the Note Security Documents to secure the Notes or any Note Guarantee.

Collateral Agent ” means the collateral agent for all holders of Parity Lien Obligations. Wilmington Trust, National Association will initially serve as the Collateral Agent.

Commodity Agreements ” means, in respect of any Person, any forward contract, commodity swap agreement, commodity option agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement in respect of Hydrocarbons used, produced, processed or sold by such Person that are customary in the Oil and Gas Business and designed to protect such Person against fluctuation in Hydrocarbon prices.

 

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Common Stock ” means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests or other participations in, and other equivalents (however designated and whether voting or nonvoting) of such Person’s common stock whether or not outstanding on the Issue Date, and includes, without limitation, all series and classes of such common stock.

Consolidated Coverage Ratio ” means as of any date of determination, the ratio of (x) the aggregate amount of Consolidated EBITDAX of the Parent Guarantor for the period of the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the date of such determination for which internal financial statements are available to (y) Consolidated Interest Expense for such four fiscal quarters, provided , however , that:

(1) if the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary:

(a) has Incurred any Indebtedness since the beginning of such period that remains outstanding on such date of determination or if the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio is an Incurrence of Indebtedness, Consolidated EBITDAX and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period will be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof as if such Indebtedness had been Incurred on the first day of such period and such proceeds had been applied as of such date (except that in making such computation, the amount of Indebtedness under any revolving Credit Facility outstanding on the date of such calculation will be deemed to be (i) the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during such four fiscal quarters or such shorter period for which such facility was outstanding or (ii) if such revolving Credit Facility was created after the end of such four fiscal quarters, the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the period from the date of creation of such revolving Credit Facility to the date of such calculation, in each case, provided that such average daily balance shall take into account any repayment of Indebtedness under such revolving Credit Facility as provided in clause (b)); or

(b) has repaid, repurchased, defeased or otherwise discharged any Indebtedness since the beginning of the period, including with the proceeds of such new Indebtedness, that is no longer outstanding on such date of determination or if the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio involves a discharge of Indebtedness (in each case other than Indebtedness Incurred under any revolving Credit Facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and the related commitment terminated), Consolidated EBITDAX and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period will be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such discharge of such Indebtedness as if such discharge had occurred on the first day of such period;

(2) if, since the beginning of such period, the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary has made any Asset Disposition or if the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio is such an Asset Disposition, the Consolidated EBITDAX for such period will be reduced by an amount equal to the

 

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Consolidated EBITDAX (if positive) directly attributable to the assets which are the subject of such Asset Disposition for such period or increased by an amount equal to the Consolidated EBITDAX (if negative) directly attributable thereto for such period and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Consolidated Interest Expense directly attributable to any Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary repaid, repurchased, defeased or otherwise discharged with respect to the Parent Guarantor and its continuing Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with or with the proceeds from such Asset Disposition for such period (or, if the Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary is sold, the Consolidated Interest Expense for such period directly attributable to the Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary to the extent the Parent Guarantor and its continuing Restricted Subsidiaries are no longer liable for such Indebtedness after such sale);

(3) if, since the beginning of such period, the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (by merger or otherwise) has made an Investment in any Restricted Subsidiary (or any Person which becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged with or into the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary) or an acquisition (or will have received a contribution) of assets, including any acquisition or contribution of assets occurring in connection with a transaction causing a calculation to be made under this Indenture, which constitutes all or substantially all of a company, division, operating unit, segment, business, group of related assets or line of business, Consolidated EBITDAX and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period will be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto (including the Incurrence of any Indebtedness) as if such Investment or acquisition or contribution had occurred on the first day of such period; and

(4) if, since the beginning of such period, any Person (that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged with or into the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such period) made any Asset Disposition or any Investment or acquisition of assets that would have required an adjustment pursuant to clause (2) or (3) above if made by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary during such period, Consolidated EBITDAX and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period will be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Asset Disposition or Investment or acquisition of assets had occurred on the first day of such period.

For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any calculation under this definition, the pro forma calculations will be determined in accordance with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act. If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest expense on such Indebtedness will be calculated as if the average rate in effect from the beginning of such period to the date of determination had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Interest Rate Agreement applicable to such Indebtedness, but if the remaining term of such Interest Rate Agreement is less than 12 months, then such Interest Rate Agreement shall only be taken into account for that portion of the period equal to the remaining term thereof). If any Indebtedness that is being given pro forma effect bears an interest rate at the option of the Parent Guarantor, the interest rate shall be calculated by applying such optional rate chosen by the Parent Guarantor. Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be deemed to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or, if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Parent Guarantor may designate.

 

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Consolidated EBITDAX ” for any period means, without duplication, the Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus the following, without duplication and to the extent deducted (and not added back) in calculating such Consolidated Net Income:

(1) Consolidated Interest Expense;

(2) Consolidated Income Tax Expense;

(3) consolidated depletion and depreciation expense of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(4) consolidated amortization expense or impairment charges of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries recorded in connection with the application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ ASC ”) Topic No. 350, Intangibles — Goodwill and Others , and FASB ASC Topic No. 360, Property, Plant and Equipment ”;

(5) other non-cash charges of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding any such non-cash charge to the extent it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash charges in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period not included in the calculation);

(6) consolidated exploration (including all drilling, completion, geological and geophysical costs) and abandonment expense of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(7) the amount of any non-controlling interest consisting of income attributable to non-controlling interests of third parties in any non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary that is not included or deducted (and not added back) in calculating such Consolidated Net Income, but excluding cash distributions made in respect of such non-controlling interests; and

(8) transactions costs, expenses and charges with respect to the acquisition or disposition of Oil and Gas Properties, not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year,

if applicable for such period; and less, to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income and in excess of any costs or expenses attributable thereto that were deducted (and not added back) in calculating such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (x) the amount of deferred revenues that are amortized during such period and are attributable to reserves that are subject to Volumetric Production Payments, (y) amounts recorded in accordance with GAAP as repayments of principal and interest pursuant to Dollar-Denominated Production Payments and (z) other non-cash gains, including cancellation of debt income (excluding any non-cash gain to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDAX in any prior period).

 

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Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, clauses (2) through (6) relating to amounts of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor will be added to Consolidated Net Income to compute Consolidated EBITDAX of the Parent Guarantor only to the extent (and in the same proportion) that the net income (loss) of such Restricted Subsidiary was included in calculating the Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Guarantor and, to the extent the amounts set forth in clauses (2) through (6) are in excess of those necessary to offset a net loss of such Restricted Subsidiary or if such Restricted Subsidiary has net income for such period included in Consolidated Net Income, only if a corresponding amount would be permitted at the date of determination to be dividended to the Parent Guarantor by such Restricted Subsidiary (unless it is the Issuer or a Subsidiary Guarantor) without prior approval (that has not been obtained), pursuant to the terms of its charter and all agreements, instruments, judgments, decrees, orders, statutes, rules and governmental regulations applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or the holders of its Capital Stock.

Consolidated Income Tax Expense ” means, with respect to any period, the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes (including state franchise taxes) of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period as determined in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Interest Expense ” means, for any period, the total consolidated interest expense (less interest income) of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, whether paid or accrued, plus, to the extent not included in such interest expense and without duplication:

(1) interest expense attributable to Capitalized Lease Obligations and the interest component of any deferred payment obligations;

(2) amortization of debt discount and debt issuance cost ( provided that any amortization of bond premium will be credited to reduce Consolidated Interest Expense unless, pursuant to GAAP, such amortization of bond premium has otherwise reduced Consolidated Interest Expense);

(3) non-cash interest expense;

(4) commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing;

(5) the interest expense on Indebtedness of another Person that is guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries or secured by a Lien on assets of the Parent Guarantor or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries, to the extent such guarantee becomes payable or such Lien becomes subject to foreclosure;

(6) cash costs associated with Interest Rate Agreements (including amortization of fees); provided , however , that if Interest Rate Agreements result in net cash benefits rather than costs, such benefits shall be credited to reduce Consolidated Interest Expense unless, pursuant to GAAP, such net benefits are otherwise reflected in Consolidated Net Income;

 

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(7) the consolidated interest expense of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period; and

(8) all dividends paid or payable in cash, Cash Equivalents or Indebtedness or accrued during such period on any series of Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor or on Preferred Stock of its Restricted Subsidiaries payable to a party other than the Parent Guarantor or a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary,

minus, to the extent included above, any interest attributable to Dollar-Denominated Production Payments.

For the purpose of calculating the Consolidated Coverage Ratio in connection with the Incurrence of any Indebtedness described in the final paragraph of the definition of “Indebtedness,” the calculation of Consolidated Interest Expense shall include all interest expense (including any amounts described in clauses (1) through (8) above) relating to any Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary described in the final paragraph of the definition of “Indebtedness.”

Consolidated Net Debt ” means, at any date, the positive remainder (if any) of (a) Consolidated Total Debt minus (b) the unrestricted and unencumbered cash and Cash Equivalents of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries on such date; provided that cash and Cash Equivalents that would appear as “restricted” on a consolidated balance sheet solely because such cash or Cash Equivalents are subject to a control agreement shall be deemed to be unrestricted and unencumbered for purposes hereof.

Consolidated Net Income ” means, for any period, the aggregate net income (loss) attributable to the Parent Guarantor and its consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock dividends of such Person; provided , however , that there will not be included (to the extent otherwise included therein) in such Consolidated Net Income:

(1) any net income (loss) of any Person (other than the Parent Guarantor) if such Person is not a Restricted Subsidiary, except that:

(a) subject to the limitations contained in clauses (3) and (4) below, the Parent Guarantor’s equity in the net income of any such Person for such period will be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash actually distributed by such Person during such period to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend or other distribution to a Restricted Subsidiary, to the limitations contained in clause (2) below); and

(b) the Parent Guarantor’s equity in a net loss of any such Person for such period will be included in determining such Consolidated Net Income to the extent such loss has been funded with cash from the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary during such period;

 

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(2) any net income (but not loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Issuer or a Subsidiary Guarantor) if such Restricted Subsidiary is subject to restrictions, directly or indirectly, on the payment of dividends or the making of distributions by such Restricted Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to the Parent Guarantor, except that:

(a) subject to the limitations contained in clauses (3), (4) and (5) below, the Parent Guarantor’s equity in the net income of any such Restricted Subsidiary for such period will be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash that could have been distributed by such Restricted Subsidiary during such period to the Parent Guarantor or another Restricted Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend or other distribution paid to another Restricted Subsidiary, to the limitation contained in this clause); and

(b) the Parent Guarantor’s equity in a net loss of any such Restricted Subsidiary for such period will be included in determining such Consolidated Net Income;

(3) any gain (loss) realized upon the sale or other disposition of any property, plant or equipment of the Parent Guarantor or its consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (including pursuant to any Sale/Leaseback Transaction) which is not sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business and any gain (loss) realized upon the sale or other disposition of any Capital Stock of any Person;

(4) any extraordinary gains or losses, together with any related provision for taxes on such gains or losses and all related fees and expenses;

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

(6) any asset impairment writedowns and any non-cash charges associated with full cost ceiling test impairments or other similar tests resulting in non-cash charges on Oil and Gas Properties under GAAP or SEC guidelines;

(7) any unrealized non-cash gains or losses or charges in respect of Hedging Obligations (including those resulting from the application of FASB ASC Topic No. 815, Derivatives and Hedging ) and any cash gains or losses in respect of Hedging Obligations outside of the ordinary course of business;

(8) income or loss attributable to discontinued operations (including, without limitation, operations disposed of during such period whether or not such operations were classified as discontinued);

(9) all deferred financing costs written off, and premiums paid, in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness; and

(10) any non-cash compensation charge arising from any grant of stock, stock options or other equity based awards.

 

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Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio ” means, as of any date of calculation, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Net Debt as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDAX for the period of the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the date of such determination for which internal financial statements are available.

Consolidated Total Debt ” means, at any date, the principal amount of all Indebtedness (without duplication) of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) described in clauses (1), (3), (5) and (6) of the definition of “Indebtedness” herein, other than Indebtedness with respect to letters of credit to the extent such letters of credit have not been drawn and (b) described in clause (8) of the definition herein of “Indebtedness” to the extent such Indebtedness is comprised of guaranty obligations in respect of Indebtedness of others of the type described in clauses (1), (3), (5) and (6) of the definition herein of “Indebtedness.”

Credit Facility ” means, with respect to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, one or more debt facilities (including, without limitation, the Senior Secured Credit Agreements), indentures or commercial paper facilities providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, capital markets financings, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables) or letters of credit, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time (and whether or not with the original administrative agent and lenders or another administrative agent or agents or other lenders and whether provided under the Senior Secured Credit Agreements or any other credit or other agreement or indenture).

Currency Agreement ” means in respect of a Person any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract or other similar agreement as to which such Person is a party or a beneficiary.

Custodian ” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

Customary Recourse Exceptions ” means, with respect to any Non-Recourse Debt of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, exclusions from the exculpation provisions with respect to such Non-Recourse Debt for the voluntary bankruptcy of such Unrestricted Subsidiary, fraud, misapplication of cash, environmental claims, waste, willful destruction and other circumstances, in each case, customarily excluded by lenders from exculpation provisions or included in separate indemnification agreements in non-recourse financings.

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

Definitive Notes ” means the Notes substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  A (but without the Global Notes Legend thereon and without the “Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note” attached thereto).

 

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Disqualified Stock ” means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock of such Person which by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock or upon the happening of any event:

(1) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than redeemable only for Capital Stock of such Person which is not itself Disqualified Stock) pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise;

(2) is convertible or exchangeable for Disqualified Stock or other Indebtedness (excluding Capital Stock which is convertible or exchangeable solely at the option of such Person or a Subsidiary thereof);

(3) is redeemable at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock in whole or in part; or

(4) has mandatory cash dividends, distributions or payments,

in each case on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the earlier of the date (a) of the Stated Maturity of the Notes or (b) on which there are no Notes outstanding; provided that only the portion of Capital Stock which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such date will be deemed to be Disqualified Stock; provided further , that any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders thereof have the right to require the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale (each defined in a substantially identical manner to the corresponding definitions in this Indenture) shall not constitute Disqualified Stock if the terms of such Capital Stock (and all such securities into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) provide that (i) the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries may not repurchase or redeem any such Capital Stock (and all such securities into which it is convertible or for which it is ratable or exchangeable) pursuant to such provision prior to compliance by the Issuer with Section  3.5 and Section  3.9 and (ii) such repurchase or redemption will be permitted solely to the extent also permitted in accordance with Section  3.3 .

Dollar-Denominated Production Payments ” means production payment obligations recorded as liabilities in accordance with GAAP, together with all undertakings and obligations in connection therewith.

Domestic Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

DTC ” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors and assigns, or such other depository institution hereinafter appointed by the Parent Guarantor.

Equity Interests ” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).

 

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Equity Offering ” means a public or private offering for cash by the Parent Guarantor (or any direct or indirect parent company of the Parent Guarantor to the extent such cash is received by or contributed to the Parent Guarantor) of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock), other than public offerings registered on Form S-8.

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.

Fair Market Value ” means, with respect to any asset or property, the sale value that would be obtained in an arm’s-length free market transaction between an informed and willing seller under no compulsion to sell and an informed and willing buyer under no compulsion to buy. Fair Market Value of an asset or property in excess of $20.0 million shall be determined by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor acting in good faith, whose determination shall be conclusive and evidenced by a Board Resolution, and any lesser Fair Market Value may be determined by an officer of the Parent Guarantor acting in good faith.

First Lien Collateral Agent Controlled Account ” has the meaning set forth in Section  11.2(c) .

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

Foreign Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary, and any Subsidiary of such Restricted Subsidiary.

GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time. All ratios and computations based on GAAP contained in this Indenture will be computed in conformity with GAAP. If there occurs a change in generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America occurring after the Issue Date (including with respect to the treatment of leases and revenue recognition) and such change would cause a change in the method of calculation of standards or terms used in this Indenture (an “ Accounting Change ”), then the Parent Guarantor may elect, as evidenced by a written notice to the Trustee, that such standards or terms shall be calculated as if such Accounting Change had not occurred. Any such election with respect to such Accounting Change may not thereafter be changed.

Global Note ” means one or more permanent global notes that are substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A , bearing the Global Notes Legend, and which are deposited with DTC or its custodian and registered in the name of DTC or its nominee.

Global Notes Legend ” means the legend set forth in Section  2.1(d)(2) .

Grantor ” means, for purposes of the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer and each Subsidiary Guarantor that has granted any Lien in favor of any of the Priority Lien Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Junior Lien Agent on any of its assets or properties to secure any of the Priority Lien Obligations, the Parity Lien Obligations or the Junior Lien Obligations.

 

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Guarantee ” means, individually, any guarantee of payment of the Notes by a Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and any supplemental indenture thereto, and, collectively, all such guarantees.

guarantee ” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person:

(i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise); or

(ii) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part);

provided , however , that the term “ guarantee ” will not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business or any obligation to the extent it is payable only in Capital Stock of the Guarantor that is not Disqualified Stock. The term “ guarantee ” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

Guarantors ” has the meaning ascribed to it in the first introductory paragraph of this Indenture.

Guarantor Subordinated Obligation ” means, with respect to a Guarantor, any Indebtedness of such Guarantor (whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter Incurred) which is unsecured, expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes pursuant to a written agreement or secured by a Lien on Collateral that is junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes. For the avoidance of doubt, the Subsidiary Guarantors’ Guarantee of the Senior Notes and Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness shall be deemed Guarantor Subordinated Obligations.

Hedging Obligations ” of any Person means the obligations of such Person pursuant to any Interest Rate Agreement, Currency Agreement or Commodity Agreement.

Holder ” or “ Noteholder ” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered in the Securities Register.

Hydrocarbons ” means oil, natural gas, casing head gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, condensate, distillate, liquid hydrocarbons, gaseous hydrocarbons and all constituents, elements or compounds thereof and products refined or processed therefrom.

IAI ” means an institutional “accredited investor” as described in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act.

 

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Immaterial Subsidiary ” means, as of any date, any Restricted Subsidiary whose total assets, as of the end of the most recent month for which internal financial statements are available, are less than $1,000,000 and whose total revenues for the most recent 12-month period for which internal financial statements are available do not exceed $1,000,000; provided that a Restricted Subsidiary will not be considered to be an Immaterial Subsidiary if it, directly or indirectly, guarantees or otherwise provides direct credit support for any Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any Subsidiary Guarantor; provided further , that (i) the aggregate total assets of all Immaterial Subsidiaries as of the end of the most recent month for which internal financial statements are available and (ii) the aggregate total revenues of all Immaterial Subsidiaries for the most recent 12-month period for which internal financial statements are available shall not, in each case of (i) and (ii), exceed 5.0% of the Parent Guarantor’s consolidated total assets as of such date or Parent Guarantor’s consolidated total revenues for such 12-month period, as the case may be.

Incur ” means issue, create, assume, guarantee, incur or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable for, contingently or otherwise; provided , however , that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) will be deemed to be Incurred by such Restricted Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary; and the terms “Incurred” and “Incurrence” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person on any date of determination (without duplication, whether or not contingent):

(1) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money;

(2) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments;

(3) the principal component of all obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments (including reimbursement obligations with respect thereto except to the extent such reimbursement obligation relates to a trade payable, and except to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent drawn upon, such obligation is satisfied within 30 days of payment on the letter of credit);

(4) the principal component of all obligations of such Person (other than obligations payable solely in Capital Stock that is not Disqualified Stock) to pay the deferred and unpaid purchase price of property (except as described in clause (8) of the penultimate paragraph of this definition of “Indebtedness”), which purchase price is due more than six months after the date of placing such property in service or taking delivery and title thereto to the extent such obligations would appear as a liabilities upon the consolidated balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP;

 

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(5) Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person to the extent such Capitalized Lease Obligations would appear as liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP;

(6) the principal component or liquidation preference of all obligations of such Person with respect to the redemption, repayment or other repurchase of any Disqualified Stock or, with respect to any Subsidiary of such Person, any Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case, any accrued dividends);

(7) the principal component of all Indebtedness of other Persons secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person; provided , however , that the amount of such Indebtedness will be the lesser of (a) the Fair Market Value of such asset at such date of determination and (b) the amount of such Indebtedness of such other Persons;

(8) the principal component of Indebtedness of other Persons to the extent guaranteed by such Person; and

(9) to the extent not otherwise included in this definition, net obligations of such Person under Commodity Agreements, Currency Agreements and Interest Rate Agreements (the amount of any such obligations to be equal at any time to the termination value of such agreement or arrangement giving rise to such obligation that would be payable by such Person at such time);

provided , however , that any indebtedness which has been defeased in accordance with GAAP or defeased pursuant to the deposit of cash or Cash Equivalents (in an amount sufficient to satisfy all such indebtedness obligations at maturity or redemption, as applicable, and all payments of interest and premium, if any) in a trust or account created or pledged for the sole benefit of the holders of such indebtedness, and subject to no other Liens, shall not constitute “Indebtedness.”

The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any date will be the outstanding balance at such date of all unconditional obligations as described above and the maximum liability, upon the occurrence of the contingency giving rise to the obligation, of any contingent obligations at such date.

Notwithstanding the preceding, “Indebtedness” of a Person shall not include:

(1) Production Payments and Reserve Sales;

(2) any obligation of such Person in respect of a farm-in agreement or similar arrangement whereby such Person agrees to pay all or a share of the drilling, completion or other expenses of an exploratory or development well (which agreement may be subject to a maximum payment obligation, after which expenses are shared in accordance with the working or participation interest therein or in accordance with the agreement of the parties) or perform the drilling, completion or other operation on such well in exchange for an ownership interest in an oil or gas property;

 

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(3) any obligations under Currency Agreements, Commodity Agreements and Interest Rate Agreements; provided that such Agreements are entered into for bona fide hedging purposes of such Person or its Subsidiaries (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors or senior management of such Person, whether or not accounted for as a hedge in accordance with GAAP) and, in the case of Currency Agreements or Commodity Agreements, such Currency Agreements or Commodity Agreements are related to business transactions of such Person or its Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business and, in the case of Interest Rate Agreements, such Interest Rate Agreements substantially correspond in terms of notional amount, duration and interest rates, as applicable, to Indebtedness of such Person or its Subsidiaries Incurred without violation of this Indenture;

(4) any obligation arising from agreements of such Person or a Subsidiary providing for indemnification, guarantees, adjustment of purchase price, holdbacks, contingency payment obligations or similar obligations, in each case, Incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business, assets or Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, provided that such Indebtedness is not reflected on the face of the balance sheet of such Person or any Subsidiary;

(5) any obligation arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument (including daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business, provided that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of Incurrence;

(6) in-kind obligations relating to net oil or natural gas balancing positions arising in the ordinary course of business;

(7) all contracts and other obligations, agreements, instruments or arrangements described in clause (19), (20), (21) or (28)(a) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”;

(8) accrued expenses and trade payables and other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue by 90 days past the invoice or billing date or more or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted;

(9) any repayment or reimbursement obligation of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to Customary Recourse Exceptions, unless and until an event or circumstance occurs that triggers the Person’s or such Subsidiary’s direct repayment or reimbursement obligation (as opposed to contingent or performance obligations) to the lender or other Person to whom such obligation is actually owed, in which case the amount of such direct payment or reimbursement obligation shall constitute Indebtedness; and

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In addition, “Indebtedness” of any Person shall include Indebtedness described in the first paragraph of this definition of “Indebtedness” that would not appear as a liability on the balance sheet of such Person if:

(1) such Indebtedness is the obligation of a partnership or joint venture that is not a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person (a “ Joint Venture ”);

(2) such Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person is a general partner of the Joint Venture or otherwise liable for all or a portion of the Joint Venture’s liabilities (a “ General Partner ”); and

(3) there is recourse, by contract or operation of law, with respect to the payment of such Indebtedness to property or assets of such Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person; and then such Indebtedness shall be included in an amount not to exceed:

(a) the lesser of (i) the net assets of the General Partner and (ii) the amount of such obligations to the extent that there is recourse, by contract or operation of law, to the property or assets of such Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person; or

(b) if less than the amount determined pursuant to clause (a) immediately above, the actual amount of such Indebtedness that is with recourse to such Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person, if the Indebtedness is evidenced by a writing and is for a determinable amount and the related interest expense shall be included in Consolidated Interest Expense to the extent actually paid by such Person and its Subsidiaries.

Indenture ” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time.

Initial Notes ” means the Issuer’s 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 issued under this Indenture on December 21, 2018, in an aggregate principal amount of $545,000,000.

Intercreditor Agreement ” means that certain First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018, by and among Bank of Montreal, as Revolving Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for the Senior Secured Parties, Barclays Bank PLC, as Term Loan Administrative Agent, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as the Second Lien Collateral Agent for the Junior Priority Parties, and acknowledged and agreed to by the Issuer and the other Grantors (as defined therein) from time to time party therein.

Interest Rate Agreement ” means with respect to any Person any interest rate protection agreement, interest rate future agreement, interest rate option agreement, interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedge agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement as to which such Person is party or a beneficiary.

 

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Investment ” means, with respect to any Person, all investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of any direct or indirect advance, loan or other extensions of credit (including by way of guarantee or similar arrangement, but excluding any debt or extension of credit represented by a bank deposit other than a time deposit and advances or extensions of credit to customers in the ordinary course of business) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or use of others), or any purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other similar instruments (excluding any interest in a crude oil or natural gas leasehold to the extent constituting a security under applicable law) issued by, such other Person and all other items that are or would be classified as investments on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided that none of the following will be deemed to be an Investment:

(1) Hedging Obligations entered into in the ordinary course of business and in compliance with this Indenture;

(2) endorsements of negotiable instruments and documents in the ordinary course of business; and

(3) an acquisition of assets, Capital Stock or other securities by such Person or a Subsidiary for consideration to the extent such consideration consists of Common Stock of such Person.

The amount of any Investment shall not be adjusted for increases or decreases in value, write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment.

For purposes of the definition of “ Unrestricted Subsidiary ” and Section  3.3 ,

(1) “ Investment ” will include the portion (proportionate to the Parent Guarantor’s equity interest in a Restricted Subsidiary to be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such Restricted Subsidiary at the time that such Restricted Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided , however , that upon a re-designation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Parent Guarantor will be deemed to continue to have a permanent “ Investment ” in an Unrestricted Subsidiary in an amount (if positive) equal to (a) the Parent Guarantor’s “ Investment ” in such Subsidiary at the time of such re-designation less (b) the portion (proportionate to the Parent Guarantor’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at the time that such Subsidiary is so re-designated a Restricted Subsidiary;

(2) any property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be valued at its Fair Market Value at the time of such transfer; and

(3) if the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary sells or otherwise disposes of any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary such that, after giving effect to any such sale or disposition, such entity is no longer a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, then the Parent Guarantor shall be deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the Fair Market Value of the Capital Stock of such former Subsidiary not sold or disposed of.

 

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Investment Grade Rating ” means a rating equal to or higher than:

(1) Baa3 (or the equivalent) with a stable or better outlook by Moody’s;

(2) BBB- (or the equivalent) with a stable or better outlook by S&P; or

(3) BBB- (or the equivalent) with a stable or better outlook by Fitch;

or, if any such entity ceases to make a rating on the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Parent Guarantor’s control, the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any other Rating Agency.

Investment Grade Rating Event ” means the first day on which the Notes have an Investment Grade Rating from any two of the three named Rating Agencies, and no Default has occurred and is then continuing under this Indenture.

Issue Date ” means the first date on which any Initial Notes are issued under this Indenture.

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

Junior Lien Agent ” means the collateral trustee or other representative of lenders or holders of Junior Lien Obligations designated pursuant to the terms of the Junior Lien Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, if applicable.

Junior Lien ” means a Lien, junior to the Priority Liens and junior to the Parity Liens as provided in the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, granted by any Issuer or any Guarantor in favor of holders of Junior Lien Debt (or any collateral agent or representative in connection therewith), at any time, upon any Property of any Issuer or any Guarantor to secure Junior Lien Obligations.

Junior Lien Debt ” means the Indebtedness Incurred in accordance with this Indenture (including Section  3.2 ) secured by a Junior Lien that is permitted to be Incurred under this Indenture; provided that the holders of such Junior Lien Debt shall be subject to the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

Junior Lien Document ” means, collectively, any indenture, credit agreement, intercreditor agreement or other agreement or instrument pursuant to which Junior Lien Debt is incurred, the documents pursuant to which Junior Lien Obligations are granted and the Junior Lien Security Documents, in each case, as amended, modified, renewed, restated or replaced, in whole or in part, from time to time.

Junior Lien Obligations ” means Junior Lien Debt and all other Obligations in respect thereof.

 

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Junior Lien Security Documents ” means all security agreements, pledge agreements, intercreditor agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages, deeds of trust, collateral trust or collateral agency agreements, control agreements or other grants or transfers for security executed and delivered by any Issuer or any Guarantor creating (or purporting to create) a Lien upon Collateral in favor of the Junior Lien Collateral Agent, in each case, as amended, modified, renewed, restated or replaced, in whole or in part, from time to time.

LGS Lease ” means the lease agreement pursuant to which the Parent Guarantor or a Subsidiary leases the liquids gathering system used for the purposes of gathering, separating, collecting, and delivering for sale or transport, condensate and water, together with associated natural gas, produced from natural gas and oil wells located in the Pinedale field in Sublette County, Wyoming, as amended, restated, modified, renewed or replaced in whole or in part from time to time.

Lien ” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien (statutory or otherwise), pledge, hypothecation, charge, security interest, preference, priority or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law, including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code or PPSA (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction; provided that in no event shall an operating lease be deemed to constitute a Lien.

Midstream, Disposal and Electrical Assets ” means (i) assets used primarily for gathering, transmission, storage, processing or treatment of natural gas, natural gas liquids or other hydrocarbons or carbon dioxide, (ii) assets used primarily for the gathering, processing and disposal of saltwater, including disposal wells, gathering pipelines, processing and disposal facilities, well connections and related infrastructure, (iii) assets used primarily for transmission and delivery of electricity, including electrical substations, power lines and other electrical infrastructure assets, and (iv) equity interests of any Person (including an Unrestricted Subsidiary) that has no substantial assets other than assets referred to in clauses (i) through (iii).

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

Net Available Cash ” from an Asset Disposition means cash payments received (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise and net proceeds from the sale or other disposition of any securities received as consideration, but only as and when received, but excluding any other consideration received in the form of assumption by the acquiring Person of Indebtedness or other obligations relating to the properties or assets that are the subject of such Asset Disposition or received in any other non-cash form), including consideration deemed to be cash pursuant to the Section  3.5(g) , in each case net of:

(1) all legal, accounting, investment banking, title and recording tax expenses, commissions and other fees and expenses Incurred, and all federal, state, provincial, foreign and local taxes required to be paid or accrued as a liability under GAAP (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing agreements), as a consequence of such Asset Disposition;

 

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(2) all payments made on any Indebtedness (including any Hedging Obligation but excluding Permitted Third Lien Debt and Junior Lien Debt) which is secured by any assets subject to such Asset Disposition, in accordance with the terms of any Lien upon such assets that is a Permitted Lien, or which must by applicable law be repaid out of the proceeds from such Asset Disposition;

(3) all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders in Subsidiaries or joint ventures or to holders of royalty or similar interests as a result of such Asset Disposition;

(4) the deduction of appropriate amounts to be provided by the seller as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with the assets disposed of in such Asset Disposition and retained by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary after such Asset Disposition; and

(5) all relocation expenses incurred as a result thereof and all related severance and associated costs, expenses and charges of personnel related to assets and related operations disposed of;

provided , however , that if any consideration for an Asset Disposition (that would otherwise constitute Net Available Cash) is required to be held in escrow pending determination of whether or not a purchase price adjustment will be made, such consideration (or any portion thereof) shall become Net Available Cash only at such time as it is released to the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from escrow.

Net Cash Proceeds ” with respect to any issuance or sale of Capital Stock or any contribution to equity capital, means the cash proceeds of such issuance, sale or contribution net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, listing fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees and charges actually Incurred in connection with such issuance, sale or contribution and net of taxes paid or payable as a result of such issuance or sale (after taking into account any available tax credit or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements).

Non-Recourse Debt ” means Indebtedness of a Person:

(1) as to which neither the Parent Guarantor nor any Restricted Subsidiary (a) provides any guarantee or credit support of any kind (including any undertaking, guarantee, indemnity, agreement or instrument that would constitute Indebtedness) or (b) is directly or indirectly liable (as a guarantor or otherwise), except for Customary Recourse Exceptions;

(2) no default with respect to which (including any rights that the holders thereof may have to take enforcement action against an Unrestricted Subsidiary) would permit (upon notice, lapse of time or both) any holder of any other Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary to declare a default under such other Indebtedness or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to its stated maturity; and

 

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(3) as to which the lenders have no recourse against any of the assets of the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries, except for Customary Recourse Exceptions.

Non-U.S. Person ” means a Person who is not a U.S. Person (as defined in Regulation S).

Note Documents ” means, collectively, this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

Note Security Documents ” means all security agreements, pledge agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages, deeds of trust, collateral agency agreements, control agreements or other grants or transfers for security executed and delivered by any Issuer or any Guarantor creating (or purporting to create) a Lien upon Collateral in favor of the Collateral Agent, in each case, as amended, modified, renewed, restated or replaced, in whole or in part, from time to time, in accordance with its terms.

Notes ” means, collectively, the Initial Notes, any Additional Notes, any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with PIK Payments and PIK Notes. The Initial Notes, any Additional Notes and any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with the PIK Payments and PIK Notes will be treated as a single class under the Indenture and, unless the context otherwise requires, all references to the Notes shall include the Initial Notes, any Additional Notes and any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with PIK Payments and PIK Notes.

Obligations ” means any principal, interest (including any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in the documentation with respect thereto, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under applicable state, federal or foreign law), other monetary obligations, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and banker’s acceptances), damages and other liabilities, and guarantees of payment of such principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities, payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.

Officer ” means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer or the Secretary of the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any other Person, as the case may be.

Officers’ Certificate ” means a certificate signed by two Officers on behalf of the Parent Guarantor (where specified), another Guarantor (where specified) or the Issuer.

Oil and Gas Business ” means:

(1) the business of acquiring, exploring, exploiting, developing, producing, operating and disposing of interests in oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas and other Hydrocarbon and mineral properties or products produced in association with any of the foregoing;

 

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(2) the business of gathering, marketing, distributing, treating, processing, storing, refining, selling and transporting of any production from such interests or properties and products produced in association therewith and the marketing of oil, natural gas, other Hydrocarbons and minerals obtained from unrelated Persons; and

(3) any business or activity relating to, arising from, or necessary, appropriate or incidental to the activities described in the foregoing clauses (1) and (2) of this definition.

Oil and Gas Properties ” means all properties, including equity or other ownership interests therein, owned by a Person which contain or are believed to contain oil and gas reserves.

Opinion of Counsel ” means a written opinion from legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer, a Guarantor or the Trustee.

Parent Guarantor ” means Ultra Petroleum Corp., a Yukon, Canada corporation, and parent of the Issuer.

Parity Lien ” means a Lien granted by the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any Subsidiary Guarantor in favor of the Collateral Agent pursuant to a Note Security Document, at any time, upon any property of the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any Subsidiary Guarantor to secure Parity Lien Obligations.

Parity Lien Debt ” means the Notes, any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with PIK Payments, PIK Notes, and any related Guarantees and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof.

Parity Lien Document ” means, collectively, the Note Security Documents and any additional indenture, supplemental indenture, credit agreement or other agreement governing any other Parity Lien Debt.

Parity Lien Obligations ” means Parity Lien Debt and all other Obligations in respect thereof.

Patriot Act ” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Pub. L. 107-56, as amended, and signed into law October 26, 2001.

Permitted Acquisition Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness (including Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent such Indebtedness was Indebtedness:

(1) of an acquired Person prior to the date on which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary that was not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition; or

 

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(2) of a Person that was merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary that was not incurred in contemplation of such merger, consolidation or amalgamation,

provided that on the date such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or the date such Person was merged, consolidated and amalgamated with or into the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, after giving pro forma effect thereto,

(a) (i) the Consolidated Coverage Ratio for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be at least 2.00 to 1.00 and in any event no lower than the Consolidated Coverage Ratio for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries prior to the consummation of such transaction and (ii) no Default would occur as a consequence of, and no Default or Event of Default would be continuing following such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary or such Person being merged, consolidated and amalgamated with or into the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, or

(b) the Consolidated Coverage Ratio for the Parent Guarantor would be greater than the Consolidated Coverage Ratio for the Parent Guarantor immediately prior to such transaction.

Permitted Business Investment ” means any Investment made in the ordinary course of, and of a nature that is or shall have become customary in, the Oil and Gas Business including investments or expenditures for actively exploiting, exploring for, acquiring, developing, producing, processing, gathering, marketing or transporting oil, natural gas or other Hydrocarbons and minerals through agreements, transactions, interests or arrangements which permit one to share risks or costs, comply with regulatory requirements regarding local ownership or satisfy other objectives customarily achieved through the conduct of the Oil and Gas Business jointly with third parties including:

(1) ownership interests in oil, natural gas, other Hydrocarbons and minerals properties, liquefied natural gas facilities, processing facilities, gathering systems, pipelines, storage facilities or related systems or ancillary real property interests;

(2) Investments in the form of or pursuant to operating agreements, working interests, royalty interests, mineral leases, processing agreements, farm-in agreements, farm-out agreements, contracts for the sale, transportation or exchange of oil, natural gas, other Hydrocarbons and minerals, production sharing agreements, participation agreements, development agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, unitization agreements, pooling agreements, joint bidding agreements, service contracts, joint venture agreements, partnership agreements (whether general or limited), subscription agreements, stock purchase agreements, stockholder agreements and other similar agreements (including for limited liability companies) with third parties; and

 

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(3) direct or indirect ownership interests in drilling rigs and related equipment, including, without limitation, transportation equipment;

in each case, excluding (i) Investments in publicly traded corporations or publicly traded limited partnerships and (ii) Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries, Foreign Subsidiaries or any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor; provided , that Investments in publicly traded corporations and publicly traded limited partnerships that do not own material assets other than Midstream, Disposal and Electrical Assets shall be permitted.

Permitted Investment ” means an Investment by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in:

(1) the Parent Guarantor, a Restricted Subsidiary or a Person which will, upon the making of such Investment, become a Restricted Subsidiary; provided , however , that the primary business of such Restricted Subsidiary is the Oil and Gas Business;

(2) another Person whose primary business is the Oil and Gas Business if as a result of such Investment such other Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged or consolidated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all its assets to, the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary and, in each case, any Investment held by such Person; provided that such Investment was not acquired by such Person in contemplation of such acquisition, merger, consolidation or transfer;

(3) cash and Cash Equivalents;

(4) receivables owing to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary created or acquired in the ordinary course of business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade terms; provided , however , that such trade terms may include such concessionary trade terms as the Parent Guarantor or any such Restricted Subsidiary deems reasonable under the circumstances;

(5) payroll, commission, travel, relocation and similar advances to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances ultimately to be treated as expenses for accounting purposes and that are made in the ordinary course of business;

(6) loans or advances to employees (other than executive officers) made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary;

(7) Capital Stock, obligations or securities received in settlement of debts (x) created in the ordinary course of business and owing to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or in satisfaction of judgments or (y) pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement in a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding;

(8) any Person as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from an Asset Disposition that was made pursuant to and in compliance with Section  3.5 ;

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(10) Commodity Agreements, Currency Agreements, Interest Rate Agreements and related Hedging Obligations, which transactions or obligations are Incurred in compliance with Section  3.2 ;

(11) guarantees issued in accordance with Section  3.2 ;

(12) Permitted Business Investments in an aggregate amount (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (12) that are at the time outstanding not to exceed $25 million;

(13) any Person where such Investment was acquired by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) in exchange for any other Investment or accounts receivable held by the Parent Guarantor or any such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with or as a result of a bankruptcy, workout, reorganization or recapitalization of the issuer of such other Investment or accounts receivable or (b) as a result of a foreclosure by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in default;

(14) any Person to the extent such Investments consist of prepaid expenses, negotiable instruments held for collection and lease, utility and workers’ compensation, performance and other similar deposits made in the ordinary course of business by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(15) guarantees of performance or other obligations (other than Indebtedness) arising in the ordinary course in the Oil and Gas Business, including obligations under oil and natural gas exploration, development, joint operating, and related agreements and licenses, concessions or operating leases related to the Oil and Gas Business; and

(16) Investments in the Notes.

Permitted Liens ” means, with respect to any Person:

(1) Liens securing Indebtedness under (a) the Term Loan Credit Agreement incurred in accordance with clause (1)(i) of Section  3.2(b) and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof, (b) the Revolving Credit Facility incurred in accordance with clause (1)(ii) of Section  3.2(b) and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof and (c) the Notes, including any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with PIK Payments and PIK Notes, Guarantees and other obligations under this Indenture, in each case incurred in accordance with clause (1)(iv) of Section  3.2(b) and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;

(2) pledges or deposits by such Person under workers’ compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws, social security or old age pension laws or similar legislation, or good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Indebtedness) or leases to which such Person is a party, or deposits (which may be secured by a Lien) to secure public or statutory obligations of such Person including letters of credit and bank guarantees required or requested by the United States,

 

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any State thereof or any foreign government or any subdivision, department, agency, organization or instrumentality of any of the foregoing in connection with any contract or statute (including lessee or operator obligations under statutes, governmental regulations, contracts or instruments related to the ownership, exploration and production of oil, natural gas, other Hydrocarbons and minerals on State, Federal or foreign lands or waters), or deposits of cash or United States government bonds to secure indemnity performance, surety or appeal bonds or other similar bonds to which such Person is a party, or deposits as security for contested taxes or import or customs duties or for the payment of rent, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(3) statutory and contractual Liens of landlords and Liens imposed by law, including carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s and repairmen’s Liens, in each case for sums not yet due or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings if a reserve or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made in respect thereof;

(4) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or claims not yet subject to penalties for non-payment or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; provided that appropriate reserves, if any, required pursuant to GAAP have been made in respect thereof;

(5) Liens in favor of issuers of surety or performance bonds or bankers’ acceptances issued pursuant to the request of and for the account of such Person in the ordinary course of its business;

(6) survey exceptions, encumbrances, ground leases, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights of way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning, building codes or other restrictions (including, without limitation, minor defects or irregularities in title and similar encumbrances) as to the use of real properties or Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or to the ownership of its properties which do not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of the assets of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of such Person;

(7) Liens securing Hedging Obligations;

(8) leases, licenses, subleases and sublicenses of assets (including, without limitation, real property and intellectual property rights) which do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(9) prejudgment Liens and judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default so long as such Lien is adequately bonded and any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment have not been finally terminated or the period within which such proceedings may be initiated has not expired;

 

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(10) Liens for the purpose of securing the payment of all or a part of the purchase price of, or Capitalized Lease Obligations, purchase money obligations or other payments Incurred to finance the acquisition, lease, improvement or construction of or repairs or additions to, assets or property acquired or constructed in the ordinary course of business; provided that:

(a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness secured by such Liens is otherwise permitted to be Incurred under this Indenture and does not exceed the cost of the assets or property so acquired or constructed; and

(b) such Liens are created within 360 days of the later of the acquisition, lease, completion of improvements, construction, repairs or additions or commencement of full operation of the assets or property subject to such Lien and do not encumber any other assets or property of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary other than such assets or property and assets affixed or appurtenant thereto and the proceeds and the products thereof; provided , however , that individual financings of equipment provided by one lender may be cross collateralized to other financings of equipment provided by such lender;

(11) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provisions relating to banker’s Liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a depositary institution; provided that:

(a) such deposit account is not a dedicated cash collateral account and is not subject to restrictions against access by the Parent Guarantor in excess of those set forth by regulations promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board; and

(b) such deposit account is not intended by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary to provide collateral to the depository institution;

(12) Liens arising from Uniform Commercial Code or PPSA financing statement filings regarding operating leases entered into by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(13) Liens existing on the Issue Date (other than Liens permitted under clause (1) of this definition);

(14) Liens on property or Capital Stock of a Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary; provided , however , that such Liens are not created or Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary; provided further , however , that any such Lien may not extend to any other property owned by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than assets or property affixed or appurtenant thereto and the proceeds and the products thereof);

(15) Liens on property at the time the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries acquired the property, including any acquisition by means of a merger or consolidation with or into the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

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provided, however, that such Liens are not created or Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such acquisition; provided further , however , that such Liens may not extend to any other property owned by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than assets or property affixed or appurtenant thereto and the proceeds and the products thereof);

(16) Liens securing Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness in an aggregate amount not to exceed $240,000,000 incurred in accordance with clause (10) of Section  3.2(b) and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided that the Liens securing such Indebtedness are junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes;

(17) Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to refinance Indebtedness that was previously so secured pursuant to clauses (10), (13), (14), (15) and (17) of this definition, provided that any such Lien is limited to all or part of the same property or assets (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof) that secured (or, under the written arrangements under which the original Lien arose, could secure) the Indebtedness being refinanced or is in respect of property or assets that is the security for a Permitted Lien hereunder; provided further that such Liens are pari passu with or junior in priority to the Liens securing the Indebtedness being refinanced;

(18) any interest or title of a lessor under the LGS Lease or any Capitalized Lease Obligation or operating lease;

(19) Liens in respect of Production Payments and Reserve Sales, which Liens shall be limited to the property that is the subject of such Production Payments and Reserve Sales;

(20) Liens arising under farm-out agreements, farm-in agreements, division orders, contracts for the sale, purchase, exchange, transportation, gathering or processing of Hydrocarbons, unitizations and pooling designations, declarations, orders and agreements, development agreements, joint venture agreements, partnership agreements, operating agreements, royalties, working interests, net profits interests, joint interest billing arrangements, participation agreements, production sales contracts, area of mutual interest agreements, gas balancing or deferred production agreements, injection, repressuring and recycling agreements, salt water or other disposal agreements, seismic or geophysical permits or agreements, and other agreements which are customary in the Oil and Gas Business; provided , however , in all instances that such Liens are limited to the assets that are the subject of the relevant agreement, program, order or contract;

(21) Liens on pipelines or pipeline facilities that arise by operation of law;

(22) [reserved];

(23) Liens in favor of the Issuer or any Guarantor;

(24) deposits made in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance carriers;

 

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(25) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the ordinary course of business;

(26) Liens deemed to exist in connection with Investments in repurchase agreements permitted under Section  3.3 ; provided that such Liens do not extend to any assets other than those that are the subject of such repurchase agreement;

(27) Liens encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;

(28) any (a) interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under any lease, liens reserved in oil, gas or other Hydrocarbons, minerals, leases for bonus, royalty or rental payments and for compliance with the terms of such leases; (b) restriction or encumbrance that the interest or title of such lessor or sublessor may be subject to (including, without limitation, ground leases or other prior leases of the demised premises, mortgages, mechanics’ liens, tax liens, and easements); or (c) subordination of the interest of the lessee or sublessee under such lease to any restrictions or encumbrance referred to in the preceding clause (b);

(29) Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;

(30) Liens arising under this Indenture in favor of the Trustee for its own benefit and similar Liens in favor of other trustees, agents and representatives arising under instruments governing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under this Indenture, provided , however , that such Liens are solely for the benefit of the trustees, agents or representatives in their capacities as such and not for the benefit of the holders of such Indebtedness;

(31) Liens arising from the deposit of funds or securities in trust for the purpose of satisfaction and discharge or defeasance of Indebtedness so long as such deposit of funds or securities and such satisfaction and discharge or defeasance of Indebtedness are permitted under Section  3.3 ; and

(32) Liens in favor of collecting or payer banks having a right of setoff, revocation, or charge back with respect to money or instruments of the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor on deposit with or in possession of such bank.

In each case set forth above, notwithstanding any stated limitation on the assets that may be subject to such Lien, a Permitted Lien on a specified asset or group or type of assets may include Liens on all improvements, additions and accessions thereto and all products and proceeds thereof (including dividends, distributions and increases in respect thereof) and may include accrued interest on Indebtedness permitted to be secured by such Permitted Lien.

 

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For purposes of determining compliance with this definition, (i) a Lien need not be incurred solely by reference to one category of Permitted Liens described in this definition but are permitted to be incurred in part under any combination thereof and of any other available exemption and (ii) in the event that a Lien (or any portion thereof) meets the criteria of one or more of the categories of Permitted Liens, the Parent Guarantor shall, in its sole discretion, classify or reclassify such Lien (or any portion thereof) in any manner that complies with this definition.

Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness ” means any Indebtedness of the Issuer or its Restricted Subsidiaries issued in exchange for or the net proceeds of the issuance of which are used solely to refinance the Indebtedness under the Senior Notes, including any accrued and unpaid interest on such Senior Notes; provided (i) that the annual aggregate cash interest expense payable with respect to any Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness shall not exceed the annual aggregate cash interest expense that would have been payable with respect to the Indebtedness under the Senior Notes refinanced thereby (for the avoidance of doubt counting only Senior Notes refinanced with Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness or Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or any combination of them, and specifically excluding any portion of Senior Notes retired for cash in connection with any such refinancing, excluding for the purposes of this calculation, any cash payment of accrued and unpaid interest) during the 12-month period preceding such refinancing and (ii) the Liens securing such Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness shall be junior and subordinated to the Liens securing the Notes pursuant to the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

Person ” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, limited liability company, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.

PIK Interest ” means interest payable by increasing the principal amount of the Notes or by issuing PIK Notes.

PIK Notes ” means additional Notes issued in certificated form in connection with a payment of PIK Interest.

PIK Payment ” means, in connection with a payment of PIK Interest, any increase in the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes or any issuance of PIK Notes.

PPSA ” means the Personal Property Security Act (Yukon); provided , however , if attachment, perfection, priority or opposability of the Collateral Agent’s security interests in any Collateral are governed by the personal property security laws of any jurisdiction other than the Province of the Yukon, “PPSA” shall include those personal property security laws in such other jurisdiction for the purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such attachment, perfection, priority or opposability.

Preferred Stock ” as applied to the Capital Stock of any corporation or other Person, means Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such corporation or other Person, over Capital Stock of any other class of such corporation or other Person.

 

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Priority Lien ” means a Lien granted by the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any Subsidiary Guarantor in favor of the Priority Lien Agent at any time, upon any property of any Subsidiary Guarantor to secure Priority Lien Obligations.

Priority Lien Agent ” means the administrative agent under the Revolving Credit Facility (or other Person designated by the administrative agent under the Revolving Credit Facility), or if the Revolving Credit Facility ceases to exist, the collateral agent or other representative of lenders or holders of Priority Lien Obligations designated pursuant to the terms of the Priority Lien Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement.

Priority Lien Debt ” means Indebtedness under the Term Loan Credit Agreement (including payment-in-kind interest Incurred in respect thereof, if any) and Revolving Credit Facility and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof.

Priority Lien Document ” means, collectively, the Revolving Credit Facility, the Term Loan Credit Agreement, the Priority Lien Security Documents and all other loan documents, notes, guarantees, instruments and agreements governing or evidencing, or executed or delivered in connection with, any Credit Facility pursuant to which any Priority Lien Debt is Incurred.

Priority Lien Obligations ” means Priority Lien Debt and all other Obligations in respect thereof and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof.

Priority Lien Security Documents ” means all security agreements, pledge agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages, deeds of trust, collateral trust or collateral agency agreements, control agreements or grants or transfers for security executed and delivered by any Issuer or any Guarantor creating (or purporting to create) a Lien upon Collateral in favor of the Priority Lien Agent, in each case, as amended, modified, renewed, restated or replaced in whole or in part from time to time.

Production Payments and Reserve Sales ” means the grant or transfer by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary to any Person of a royalty, overriding royalty, net profits interest, production payment (whether volumetric or dollar denominated), partnership or other interest in Oil and Gas Properties, reserves or the right to receive all or a portion of the production or the proceeds from the sale of production attributable to such properties where the holder of such interest has recourse solely to such production or proceeds of production, subject to the obligation of the grantor or transferor to operate and maintain, or cause the subject interests to be operated and maintained, in a reasonably prudent manner or other customary standard or subject to the obligation of the grantor or transferor to indemnify for environmental, title or other matters customary in the Oil and Gas Business, including any such grants or transfers pursuant to incentive compensation programs on terms that are reasonably customary in the Oil and Gas Business for geologists, geophysicists or other providers of technical services to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary.

QIB ” means any “qualified institutional buyer” as such term is defined in Rule 144A.

 

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Rating Agency ” means each of S&P, Moody’s and Fitch, or if any of S&P, Moody’s or Fitch shall not make a rating on the Notes publicly available, a nationally recognized statistical rating agency or agencies, as the case may be, selected by the Parent Guarantor (as certified by a Board Resolution of the Parent Guarantor) which shall be substituted for S&P, Moody’s or Fitch, or any combination, as the case may be.

Rating Decline ” means the occurrence of a decrease of one or more gradations (including gradations within rating categories as well as between rating categories) in the rating of the Notes by either S&P or Moody’s (or any Rating Agency substituted therefor).

Redemption Date ” means, with respect to any redemption of Notes, the date of redemption with respect thereto.

Redomestication Transaction ” means a bona fide redomestication of the Parent Guarantor from a corporation incorporated under the Yukon Business Corporations Act to a corporation organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State of the United States or the District of Columbia; provided that such redomestication does not adversely affect the Collateral or would not be reasonably expected to have material adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to a significant portion of the Noteholders.

Refinancing Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness that is Incurred to refund, refinance, replace, exchange, renew, repay, extend, prepay, redeem or retire (including pursuant to any defeasance or discharge mechanism) (collectively, “refinance” and “refinances” and “refinanced” shall have correlative meanings) any Indebtedness (including Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary and Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or another Restricted Subsidiary, but excluding Indebtedness of an Unrestricted Subsidiary that refinances Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary and Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not the Issuer or a Subsidiary Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Guarantor), including Indebtedness that refinances Refinancing Indebtedness, provided , however , that:

(1) (a) if the Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced is the same as or earlier than the Stated Maturity of the Notes, the Refinancing Indebtedness has a Stated Maturity no earlier than the Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced or (b) if the Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced is later than the Stated Maturity of the Notes, the Refinancing Indebtedness has a Stated Maturity at least 91 days later than the Stated Maturity of the Notes;

(2) the Refinancing Indebtedness has an Average Life at the time such Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred that is equal to or greater than the Average Life of the Indebtedness being refinanced;

(3) such Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred in an aggregate principal amount (or if issued with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) that is equal to or less than the sum of the aggregate principal amount (or if issued with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted value) then outstanding of the Indebtedness being

 

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refinanced (plus, without duplication, any additional Indebtedness Incurred to pay interest, premiums or defeasance costs required by the instruments governing such existing Indebtedness and fees and expenses Incurred in connection therewith); provided that any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of Priority Lien Debt shall also be subject to the Intercreditor Agreement;

(4) if the Indebtedness being refinanced is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or a Guarantee, such Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Guarantee on terms at least as favorable to the holders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being refinanced; and

(5) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall not (a) be secured by a Lien on or otherwise have recourse to any assets that did not secure the Indebtedness being refinanced (unless, in the case of a refinancing of any Priority Lien Debt, such asset also becomes Collateral substantially concurrently therewith), (b) be secured by a Lien unless the Indebtedness being refinanced is secured and such Lien is pari passu with or junior in priority to the Lien securing the Indebtedness being refinanced and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement or Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, (c) be guaranteed by or otherwise have recourse to any obligors not obligated on the Indebtedness being refinanced (unless, in the case of a refinancing of any Priority Lien Debt, such obligors also become Guarantors substantially concurrently therewith) or (d) otherwise have a payment priority senior in any way to the Indebtedness being refinanced.

Regulation S ” means Regulation S under the Securities Act.

Reporting Failure ” means the failure of the Parent Guarantor to file with the SEC and make available or otherwise deliver to the Trustee and each Holder of the Notes, within the time periods specified in Section  3.10 , the periodic reports, information, documents or other reports which the Parent Guarantor may be required to file with the SEC pursuant to such provision.

Restricted Investment ” means any Investment other than a Permitted Investment.

Restricted Notes ” means Notes bearing the Restricted Notes Legend substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  A of this Indenture.

Restricted Notes Legend ” means the legend set forth in Section  2.1(d)(1) .

Restricted Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary, including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Issuer.

Revolving Credit Facility ” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, as the same has been or may be amended, supplemented or modified, among the Issuer, as borrower, the Parent Guarantor and UP Energy Corporation, as parent guarantor, Bank of Montreal, as administrative agent, and the lenders and other parties party thereto from time to time, including any guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and any amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals, restatements, refundings or refinancings thereof and any indentures or credit facilities or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders or investors that replace,

 

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refund or refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or commitments and amounts outstanding thereunder, including any such replacement, refunding or refinancing facility or indenture; provided that the commitments and amounts outstanding thereunder, along with any increase in borrowings, shall not exceed the amount of borrowings that are permitted under Section  3.2(b)(1)(ii) ; provided further that (a) the Borrower shall not consent to any assignment of a lender’s rights and obligations under the Revolving Credit Facility to a lender that is not an Approved RBL Lender, (b) in any event the lenders holding at least 75% of the aggregate principal amount of the loans under the Revolving Credit Facility shall at all times be Approved RBL Lenders and (c) at all times the Revolving Credit Facility shall be a single credit facility.

Rule 144A ” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

S&P ” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global, Inc., or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

Sale/Leaseback Transaction ” means an arrangement relating to property now owned or hereafter acquired whereby the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary transfers such property to a Person and the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such Person.

SEC ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Secured Indebtedness ” means any Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries secured by a Lien.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77a-77aa), as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.

Securities Custodian ” means the custodian with respect to the Global Notes (as appointed by DTC), or any successor Person thereto and shall initially be the Trustee.

Senior Notes ” means, collectively, the 2022 Notes and the 2025 Notes.

Senior Secured Credit Agreements ” means the Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan Credit Agreement.

Significant Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that would be a “Significant Subsidiary” of the Parent Guarantor within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC, as in effect on the Issue Date.

Stated Maturity ” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision, but shall not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or repurchase any such principal prior to the date originally scheduled for the payment thereof.

 

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Subordinated Obligation ” means any Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor (whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter Incurred) which is unsecured, expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes pursuant to a written agreement or secured by a Lien on Collateral that is junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes. For the avoidance of doubt, the Senior Notes and Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness shall be deemed Subordinated Obligations.

Subsidiary ” of any Person means (a) any corporation, association or other business entity (other than a partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or similar entity) of which more than 50% of the total ordinary voting power of its Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof (or Persons performing similar functions) or (b) any partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or similar entity of which more than 50% of the capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting interests or general or limited partnership interests, as applicable, that is, in the case of clauses (a) and (b), at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (1) such Person, (2) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or (3) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person. Unless otherwise specified in this Indenture or the context indicates otherwise, each reference to a Subsidiary (other than in this definition) will refer to a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor.

Subsidiary Guarantor ” means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that is a guarantor of the Notes, including any Person that is required after the Issue Date to guarantee the Notes pursuant to Section  3.11 , in each case until a successor replaces such Person pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and, thereafter, means such successor; provided that upon the release or discharge of such Restricted Subsidiary from its Guarantee in accordance with this Indenture, such Restricted Subsidiary ceases to be a Guarantor.

Term Loan Credit Agreement ” means the Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, as the same has been or may be amended, supplemented or modified, among the Issuer, as borrower, the Parent Guarantor and UP Energy Corporation, as parent guarantor, Barclays Bank PLC, as administrative agent, and the lenders and other parties party thereto from time to time, including any guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and any amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals, restatements, refundings or refinancings thereof and any indentures or credit facilities or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders or investors that replace, refund or refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or commitments and amounts outstanding thereunder; provided that the commitments and amounts outstanding thereunder, along with any increase in borrowings, shall not exceed the amount of borrowings that are permitted under Section  3.2(b)(1)(i ) (including payment-in-kind interest Incurred in respect of such borrowings, if any); provided further that the initial principal amount of any Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to refinance the Term Loan Credit Agreement shall be no less than the sum of (i) the lesser of (a) $250 million and (b) the aggregate principal amount outstanding under the Term Loan Credit Agreement at such time, and (ii) any payment-in-kind interest Incurred in respect of the aggregate principal amount outstanding under the Term Loan Credit Agreement at such time.

 

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Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement ” means an Intercreditor Agreement among Bank of Montreal, as Collateral Agent for the Senior Secured Parties (as defined in the Priority Lien Debt Documents) and as Administrative Agent under the Revolving Credit Facility, Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent under the Term Loan Credit Agreement, the Collateral Agent, and the authorized representative named therein for the lenders of any Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness, substantially in the form of Exhibit  C .

TIA ” or “ Trust Indenture Act ” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb), as in effect on the date of this Indenture.

Trustee ” means the party named as such in this Indenture until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.

Trust Officer ” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who, in each case, shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

Unrestricted Subsidiary ” means (a) any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that at the time of determination shall be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor in the manner provided below; and (b) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

The Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor may designate any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor (including any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary or a Person becoming a Subsidiary through merger or consolidation or Investment therein) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary only if:

(1) such Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries does not own any Capital Stock or Indebtedness of or have any Investment in, or own or hold any Lien on any property of, the Parent Guarantor or any other Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor which is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated or otherwise an Unrestricted Subsidiary;

(2) all the Indebtedness of such Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries shall, at the date of designation, and will at all times thereafter, consist of Non-Recourse Debt;

(3) on the date of such designation, such designation and the Investment of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary in such Subsidiary complies with Section  3.3 ;

(4) such Subsidiary is a Person with respect to which neither the Parent Guarantor nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has any direct or indirect obligation to subscribe for additional Capital Stock of such Person;

 

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(5) there is a bona fide business reason for such Subsidiary to be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and such Subsidiary, either alone or in the aggregate with all other Unrestricted Subsidiaries, does not operate, directly or indirectly, all or a material portion of the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries; and

(6) on the date such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary and at all times thereafter, any agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding such Subsidiary is party to with the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary shall comply with Section  3.8 .

Any such designation by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor shall be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a Board Resolution of the Parent Guarantor giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complies with the foregoing conditions. If, at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the foregoing requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it shall thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be incurred as of such date. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Issuer shall not be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary at any time.

The Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that immediately after giving effect to such designation, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof and the Consolidated Coverage Ratio for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be at least 2.00 to 1.00 on a pro forma basis taking into account such designation and in any event no lower than the Consolidated Coverage Ratio for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries prior to the consummation of such transaction.

U.S. Government Obligations ” means securities that are (a) direct obligations of the United States of America for the timely payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (b) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the timely payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of the United States of America, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act), as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligations or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligations held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt; provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligations or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S. Government Obligations evidenced by such depositary receipt.

Volumetric Production Payments ” means production payment obligations recorded as deferred revenue in accordance with GAAP, together with all undertakings and obligations in connection therewith.

 

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Voting Stock ” of an entity means all classes of Capital Stock of such entity then outstanding and normally entitled to vote in the election of members of such entity’s Board of Directors.

Wholly-Owned Subsidiary ” means a Restricted Subsidiary, all of the Capital Stock of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares) is owned by the Parent Guarantor or another Wholly-Owned Subsidiary.

SECTION 1.2 Other Definitions .

 

Term

   Defined in Section  

Accounting Change

     1.1  

Additional Amounts

     2.18(b)  

Agent Members

     2.1(e)(iii)  

Alternate Offer

     3.9  

Asset Disposition Offer

     3.5  

Asset Disposition Offer Amount

     3.5  

Asset Disposition Offer Period

     3.5  

Asset Disposition Purchase Date

     3.5  

Authenticating Agent

     2.2  

Change of Control Offer

     3.9  

Change of Control Payment

     3.9(b)(1)  

Change of Control Payment Date

     3.9(b)(2)  

covenant defeasance option

     8.1(b)  

cross acceleration provision

     6.1(6)(b)  

Defaulted Interest

     2.14  

Eliminated Covenants

     3.18  

Event Default

     6.1  

Excess Proceeds

     3.5  

Exchange Agreement

     2.1(b)  

Excluded Holder

     2.18(b)  

General Partner

     1.1  

Issuer Order

     2.2  

Joint Venture

     1.1  

judgment currency

     12.18  

judgment default provision

     6.1(8)  

legal defeasance option

     8.1(b)  

Legal Holiday

     12.8  

Notice of Default

     6.1(5), 6.1(4)  

Paying Agent

     2.3  

payment default

     6.1(6)(a)  

protected purchaser

     2.10  

Registrar

     2.3  

Reimbursed Payment

     2.18(d)  

Restricted Payment

     3.3(4)  

Securities Register

     2.3  

Special Interest Payment Date

     2.14(a)  

Special Record Date

     2.14(a)  

Successor Company

     4.1(a)(1)  

Taxes

     2.18(a)  

Taxing Authority

     2.18(a)  

 

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SECTION 1.3 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act . The Issuer and the Guarantors, if any, shall not be required to qualify this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, and this Indenture shall not be governed by the Trust Indenture Act, except as specifically provided for herein. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the Trust Indenture Act, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA term has the following meanings:

“obligor” means the Issuer, the Guarantors and any other obligor on the Notes and the Guarantees.

All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined in the TIA by reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.

SECTION 1.4 Rules of Construction . Unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;

(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;

(3) “or” is not exclusive;

(4) including” means including without limitation;

(5) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular;

(6) all amounts expressed in this Indenture or in any of the Notes in terms of money refer to the lawful currency of the United States of America;

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

(8) all references to “interest” shall also be deemed to be references to PIK Interest, if any, unless the context otherwise requires; and

(9) all references to “second lien” or “second priority” Liens means Liens that may be junior in priority to the Liens securing Priority Lien Obligations, to the extent permitted to be Incurred or to exist under the Intercreditor Agreement, and to certain Permitted Liens.

 

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ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

SECTION 2.1 Form, Dating and Terms .

(a) The Initial Notes shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $545,000,000. In addition, the Issuer may issue, from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, Additional Notes, subject to compliance with Section  3.3(b)(13) . Any Additional Notes that are not fungible with the Initial Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes shall have a separate CUSIP number and ISIN from the Initial Notes. Furthermore, the Notes and any related PIK Notes may be authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer, exchange or in lieu of, other Notes and any related PIK Notes pursuant to Section  2.2 , 2.6 , 2.10 , 2.12 , 5.8 or 9.5 , in connection with an Asset Disposition Offer pursuant to Section  3.5 or in connection with a Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section  3.9 . The Notes shall be known and designated as “9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024” of the Issuer.

(b) With respect to any Additional Notes, the Issuer shall set forth in (i) a Board Resolution of the Issuer and (ii)(x) an Officers’ Certificate and (y) one or more indentures supplemental hereto, the following information:

(1) The aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture; and

(2) the issue price, the issue date of such Additional Notes, including the date from which interest shall accrue, the initial interest payment date of such Additional Notes and, if different from the Initial Notes of the applicable series, the CUSIP number and ISIN of such Additional Notes.

In authenticating and delivering Additional Notes, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the Opinion of Counsel and Officers’ Certificate required by Section  12.4 , an Officers’ Certificate stating that the issuance of such Additional Notes complies with the terms of this Indenture, including, without limitation, Section  3.3(b)(13) and an Opinion of Counsel as to the due authorization, execution, delivery, validity and enforceability of such Additional Notes. The Initial Notes, any Additional Notes, any PIK Notes and any increase in the principal amount of Notes to pay PIK Interest shall be considered collectively as a single class for all purposes of this Indenture. Holders of the Initial Notes, any Additional Notes, any PIK Notes and any increase in the principal amount of Notes to pay PIK Interest will vote and consent together on all matters to which such Holders are entitled to vote or consent as one class, and none of the Holders of the Initial Notes, any Additional Notes, any PIK Notes and any increase in the principal amount of Notes to pay PIK Interest shall have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on any matter to which such Holders are entitled to vote or consent.

 

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A copy of an appropriate record of the terms of any Additional Notes that are established by action taken pursuant to Board Resolutions of the Issuer shall be certified by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate and the indenture supplemental hereto setting forth the terms of the Additional Notes.

All of the Initial Notes are being issued by the Issuer pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, dated December 17, 2018, among the Issuer, the Guarantors and the parties identified on Schedule I thereto (the “ Exchange Agreement ”), in exchange for Senior Notes. The Initial Notes and any Additional Notes issued in exchange for 2022 Notes in accordance with Section  3.3(b)(13) shall be issued in the form of a permanent global Note substantially in the form of Exhibit A , which is hereby incorporated by reference and made a part of this Indenture. Except to the extent provided in Section  2.6(c) hereof, all Notes will be represented by one or more Global Notes.

Notes that are Global Notes will bear the Global Notes Legend and the “Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note” attached thereto. Each Global Note will represent the aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Notes endorsed thereon and provide that it represents such aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Notes, which aggregate principal amount may, from time to time, be reduced or increased to reflect transfers, exchanges, conversions, redemptions or repurchases by the Company.

The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes shall be payable at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section  2.3 ; provided, however , that, at the option of the Issuer, each installment of cash interest may be paid by check mailed to addresses of the Persons entitled thereto as such addresses shall appear on the Securities Register. Payments of principal (and premium, if any) and cash interest in respect of Notes represented by a Global Note (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by DTC.

On any interest payment date on which the Issuer pays PIK Interest with respect to a Global Note, upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Trustee or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee, shall (i) increase the principal amount of such Global Note by an amount equal to the PIK Interest payable, rounded up to the nearest $1.00, for the relevant interest period on the principal amount of such Global Note, to the credit of the Holders on the relevant record date and (ii) adjust the books and records of the Trustee with respect to such Global Note to reflect such increase. On any interest payment date on which the Issuer makes a PIK Payment by issuing PIK Notes, the principal amount of any such PIK Note issued to any Holder, for the relevant interest period as of the relevant record date for such interest payment date, shall be rounded up to the nearest $1.00.

The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage, in addition to those set forth on Exhibit A and in Section  2.1(d) . The Issuer shall approve any notation, endorsement or legend on the Notes. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication, and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form set forth on Exhibit A . The terms of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A are part of the terms of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Issuer, the Guarantors and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to be bound by such terms.

 

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(c) Denominations. The Notes shall be issuable only in fully registered form, without coupons, and only in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1.00 in excess thereof (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment).

(d) Legends.

(1) Notes that are Restricted Notes shall bear the following legend on the face thereof (the “ Restricted Notes Legend ”):

THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ SECURITIES ACT ”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION. NEITHER THIS NOTE NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED, OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION.

THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED NOTES, TO OFFER, SELL, OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH NOTE, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “ RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE ”) THAT IS ONE YEAR (IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES) AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE ISSUER OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE ISSUER WAS THE OWNER OF THIS NOTE (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH NOTE) OR 40 DAYS (IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES) AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE DATE ON WHICH THIS NOTE (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH NOTE) WAS FIRST OFFERED TO PERSONS OTHER THAN DISTRIBUTORS (AS DEFINED IN RULE 902 OF REGULATION S) IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S, ONLY (A) TO THE PARENT GUARANTOR OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “ QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER ” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ ACCREDITED INVESTOR ” WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3), OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR ACQUIRING THE NOTE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE NOTES OF $250,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE

 

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SECURITIES ACT, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE ISSUER’S AND THE REGISTRAR’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE, OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (D), (E), OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THE HOLDER AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE OR AN INTEREST HEREIN IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER OR THE ISSUER ON OR AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

BY ITS ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF THIS NOTE, THE HOLDER THEREOF WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED, WARRANTED AND AGREED THAT EITHER (1) NO PORTION OF THE ASSETS USED BY SUCH HOLDER TO ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS NOTE (OR ANY INTEREST IN THIS NOTE) CONSTITUTES THE ASSETS OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE U.S. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), A PLAN, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT THAT IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE U.S. INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “ CODE ”), OR ANY GOVERNMENTAL PLAN, CHURCH PLAN, NON-U.S. PLAN, OR OTHER PLAN SUBJECT TO OTHER FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER LAWS OR REGULATIONS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO SUCH PROVISIONS OF ERISA OR THE CODE (“ SIMILAR LAWS ”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS ARE CONSIDERED TO INCLUDE “ PLAN ASSETS ” OF SUCH PLAN, ACCOUNT OR ARRANGEMENT, OR (2) THE ACQUISITION, HOLDING AND DISPOSITION OF THIS NOTE (OR ANY INTEREST IN THIS NOTE) WILL NOT CONSTITUTE A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A SIMILAR VIOLATION UNDER ANY APPLICABLE SIMILAR LAWS.

IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

UNLESS PERMITTED UNDER CANADIAN SECURITIES LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE MUST NOT TRADE THIS NOTE BEFORE THE DATE THAT IS FOUR MONTHS AND A DAY AFTER THE LATER OF (I) DECEMBER 21, 2018 AND (II) THE DATE THE ISSUER BECAME A REPORTING ISSUER IN ANY PROVINCE OR TERRITORY.

(2) Each Global Note shall bear the following legend on the face thereof (the “ Global Notes Legend ”):

 

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

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

(3) Each Note issued hereunder that has a de minimis amount or more of original issue discount for U.S. federal income tax purposes shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS SUPPLIED SOLELY FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES. THIS NOTE IS ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT UNDER SECTIONS 1272, 1273 AND 1275 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED. A HOLDER OR BENEFICIAL OWNER MAY OBTAIN THE ISSUE PRICE, AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT, ISSUE DATE AND YIELD TO MATURITY FOR THIS NOTE BY SUBMITTING A REQUEST FOR SUCH INFORMATION TO THE ISSUER AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., 116 INVERNESS DRIVE EAST, SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112, ATTENTION: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.

(e) Book-Entry Provisions .

(i) This Section  2.1(e) shall apply only to Global Notes deposited with the Trustee, as Securities Custodian.

(ii) Each Global Note initially shall (x) be registered in the name of Cede & Co. as the nominee of DTC and (y) be delivered to the Trustee as Securities Custodian. Transfers of a Global Note (but not a beneficial interest therein) will be limited to transfers thereof in whole, but not in part, to DTC, its successors or their respective nominees, except as set forth in Sections 2.1(e)(v) and 2.1(f) . If a beneficial interest in a Global Note is transferred or exchanged for a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Trustee will (A) record a decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note being transferred or exchanged equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange and (B) record a like increase in the principal amount of the other Global Note. Any beneficial interest in one Global Note that is transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in another Global Note, or exchanged for an interest in

 

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another Global Note, will, upon transfer or exchange, cease to be an interest in such Global Note and become an interest in the other Global Note and, accordingly, will thereafter be subject to all transfer and exchange restrictions, if any, and other procedures applicable to beneficial interests in such other Global Note for as long as it remains such an interest.

(iii) Members of, or participants in, DTC (“ Agent Members ”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by DTC or by the Trustee as the Securities Custodian or under such Global Note, and DTC may be treated by the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantors or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantors or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by DTC or impair, as between DTC and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of DTC governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note.

(iv) In connection with any transfer of a portion of the beneficial interest in a Global Note pursuant to Section  2.1(f) to Beneficial Owners who are required to hold Definitive Notes, the Securities Custodian shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be transferred, and the Issuer shall execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, one or more Definitive Notes of like tenor and amount.

(v) In connection with the transfer of an entire Global Note to Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section  2.1(f) , such Global Note shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Issuer shall execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, to each Beneficial Owner identified by DTC in exchange for its beneficial interest in such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations.

(vi) The registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any person, including Agent Members and persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.

(vii) Any Holder of a Global Note shall, by acceptance of such Global Note, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Note may be effected only through a book-entry system maintained by (a) the Holder of such Global Note (or its agent) or (b) any holder of a beneficial interest in such Global Note, and that ownership of a beneficial interest in such Global Note shall be required to be reflected in a book entry.

 

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(f) Definitive Notes .

(i) Except as provided below, owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes will not be entitled to receive Definitive Notes. If required to do so pursuant to any applicable law or regulation, Beneficial Owners may obtain Definitive Notes in exchange for their beneficial interests in a Global Note upon written request in accordance with DTC’s and the Registrar’s procedures. In addition, Definitive Notes shall be transferred to all Beneficial Owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in a Global Note if (A) DTC notifies the Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for such Global Note or DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, at a time when DTC is required to be so registered in order to act as depositary, and in each case a successor depositary is not appointed by the Issuer within 90 days of such notice or (B) the Issuer, in its sole discretion, executes and delivers to the Trustee and Registrar an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Global Note shall be so exchangeable. In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in the preceding sentence or in clause (A) or (B) of the preceding sentence, Definitive Notes delivered in exchange for any Global Note or beneficial interests therein will be registered in the names, and issued in any approved denominations, requested by or on behalf of DTC (in accordance with its customary procedures).

(ii) [Reserved].

(iii) If a Definitive Note is transferred or exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note, the Trustee will (x) cancel such Definitive Note, (y) record an increase in the principal amount of such Global Note equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange and (z) in the event that such transfer or exchange involves less than the entire principal amount of the canceled Definitive Note, the Issuer shall execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, to the transferring Holder a new Definitive Note representing the principal amount not so transferred.

(iv) If a Definitive Note is transferred or exchanged for another Definitive Note, (x) the Trustee will cancel the Definitive Note being transferred or exchanged, (y) the Issuer shall execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, one or more new Definitive Notes in authorized denominations having an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such transfer or exchange to the transferee (in the case of a transfer) or the Holder of the canceled Definitive Note (in the case of an exchange), registered in the name of such transferee or Holder, as applicable, and (z) if such transfer or exchange involves less than the entire principal amount of the canceled Definitive Note, the Issuer shall execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder thereof, one or more Definitive Notes in authorized denominations having an aggregate principal amount equal to the untransferred or unexchanged portion of the canceled Definitive Notes, registered in the name of the Holder thereof.

 

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(g) Euroclear and Clearstream Procedures Applicable . The provisions of the “Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System” and “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear” and the “General Terms and Conditions of Clearstream Banking” and “Customer Handbook” of Clearstream will be applicable to transfers of beneficial interests in any Global Note that is held by participants through Euroclear or Clearstream.

SECTION 2.2 Execution and Authentication . One Officer shall sign the Notes for the Issuer by manual or facsimile signature. If the Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid nevertheless.

A Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee manually authenticates the Note. The signature of the Trustee on a Note shall be conclusive evidence that such Note has been duly and validly authenticated and issued under this Indenture. A Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery: (1) the Initial Notes for original issue on the Issue Date in an aggregate principal amount of $545,000,000 in the form of unrestricted Global Notes, (2) subject to the terms of this Indenture, Additional Notes for original issue in exchange for 2022 Notes in accordance with Section  3.3(b)(13) and (3) PIK Notes for original issue in accordance with Section  2.4 and paragraph  1 of the form of Note set forth in Exhibit  A , in each case upon a written order of the Issuer signed by one Officer of the Issuer (the “ Issuer Order ”). Such Issuer Order shall specify whether the Notes will be in the form of Definitive Notes or Global Notes, the amount of the Notes to be authenticated, whether the Notes will be Initial Notes, Additional Notes or PIK Notes and the date on which such Notes are to be authenticated.

The Trustee may appoint an agent (the “ Authenticating Agent ”) reasonably acceptable to the Issuer to authenticate the Notes. Any such instrument shall be evidenced by an instrument signed by a Trust Officer, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Issuer. Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, any such Authenticating Agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by the Authenticating Agent. An Authenticating Agent has the same rights as any Registrar, Paying Agent or agent for delivery of notices and demands.

In case the Issuer or any Guarantor shall be consolidated or merged with or into any other Person or shall convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and the successor Person resulting from such consolidation, or surviving such merger, or into which the Issuer or any Guarantor shall have been merged, or the Person which shall have received a conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition as aforesaid, shall have executed an indenture supplemental hereto with the Trustee in accordance with Article  IV , as applicable, any of the Notes authenticated or delivered prior to such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition may, from time to time, at the request of the successor Person, be exchanged for other Notes executed in the name of the successor Person (in the case of Global Notes, subject to the applicable procedures of DTC) with such changes in phraseology and form as may be appropriate, but otherwise in

 

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substance of like tenor as the Notes surrendered for such exchange and of like principal amount; and the Trustee, upon Issuer Order of the successor Person, shall authenticate and make available for delivery Notes as specified in such order for the purpose of such exchange. If Notes shall at any time be authenticated and delivered in any new name of a successor Person pursuant to this Section  2.2 in exchange or substitution for or upon registration of transfer of any Notes, such successor Person, at the option of the Holders but without expense to them, shall provide for the exchange of all Notes at the time outstanding for Notes authenticated and delivered in such new name.

SECTION 2.3 Registrar and Paying Agent . The Issuer shall maintain in the continental United States an office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the “ Registrar ”), and an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment (the “ Paying Agent ”). The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange (the “ Securities Register ”). The Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may act as Registrar or Paying Agent. The Issuer may have one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents. The term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent and the term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar.

The Issuer shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar or Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Issuer shall notify the Trustee of the name and address of each such agent. If the Issuer fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section  7.7 . The Parent Guarantor or any of its wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiaries organized in the United States may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or transfer agent.

The Issuer initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar for the Notes at its corporate trust office in the United States, and as Paying Agent for the Notes at its corporate trust office in the United States. The Issuer may remove any Registrar or Paying Agent upon written notice to such Registrar or Paying Agent and to the Trustee; provided, however, that no such removal shall become effective until (i) acceptance of any appointment by a successor as evidenced by an appropriate agreement entered into by the Issuer and such successor Registrar or Paying Agent, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee or (ii) notification to the Trustee that the Trustee shall serve as Registrar or Paying Agent until the appointment of a successor in accordance with clause (i) above. The Registrar or Paying Agent may resign at any time upon written notice to the Issuer and the Trustee.

SECTION 2.4 Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust . By no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the date on which any principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note is due and payable, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient in immediately available funds to pay such principal, premium, cash interest amount, and increase the principal amount of the Notes to pay PIK Interest or issue PIK Notes to pay PIK Interest pursuant to an Issuer Order delivered to the Trustee specifying the PIK Note amount to be issued or the increase in the amount of principal, as applicable, on the applicable interest payment date, when so becoming due. The Issuer shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that such Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Noteholders or the Trustee all money held by such Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, premium, if any,

 

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or interest on the Notes (whether such assets have been distributed to it by the Issuer or other obligors on the Notes), shall notify the Trustee in writing of any default by the Issuer or any Guarantor in making any such payment and shall during the continuance of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment in respect of the Notes, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith deliver to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the Notes together with a full accounting thereof. If the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held by it as Paying Agent and hold it as a separate trust fund. The Issuer at any time may require a Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and to account for any funds or assets disbursed by such Paying Agent. Upon complying with this Section 2.4, the Paying Agent (if other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary) shall have no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee. Upon any bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding with respect to the Issuer or the Parent Guarantor, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Notes.

SECTION 2.5 Noteholder Lists . The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Noteholders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, each of the Issuer and the Parent Guarantor, on its own behalf and on behalf of each of the Subsidiary Guarantors, shall furnish or cause the Registrar to furnish to the Trustee, in writing at least five Business Days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Noteholders.

SECTION 2.6 Transfer and Exchange .

(a) A Holder may transfer a Note (or a beneficial interest therein) to another Person or exchange a Note (or a beneficial interest therein) for another Note or Notes of any authorized denomination by presenting to the Trustee a written request therefor stating the name of the proposed transferee or requesting such an exchange, accompanied by any certification, opinion or other document required by this Section  2.6 . The Trustee shall promptly register any transfer or exchange that meets the requirements of this Section  2.6 by noting the same in the register maintained by the Trustee for the purpose, and no transfer or exchange shall be effective until it is registered in such register. The transfer or exchange of any Note (or a beneficial interest therein) may only be made in accordance with this Section  2.6 and Sections  2.1(e) and (f) , as applicable, and, in the case of a Global Note (or a beneficial interest therein), the applicable rules and procedures of DTC. Subject to Section  2.6(h) , the Trustee shall refuse to register any requested transfer or exchange that does not comply with this Section  2.6(a) .

(b) [Reserved] .

(c) [Reserved] .

(d) Restricted Notes Legend . Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes not bearing a Restricted Securities Legend, the Registrar shall deliver Notes that do not bear a Restricted Securities Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing a Restricted Securities Legend, the Registrar shall deliver only Notes that bear a

 

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Restricted Securities Legend unless (i) a Note is being transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement or (ii) there is delivered to the Issuer and the Registrar an Opinion of Counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Issuer and the Registrar to the effect that neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act. Neither the Initial Notes nor any Additional Notes issued in exchange for 2022 Notes in accordance with Section  3.3(b)(13) shall be required to bear the Restricted Securities Legend.

(e) [Reserved] .

(f) Retention of Written Communications . The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to Section  2.1 or this Section  2.6 in accordance with its customary procedures. The Issuer shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable prior written notice to the Registrar.

(g) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes .

(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Issuer shall, subject to the other terms and conditions of this Article II , execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Registrar’s request.

(ii) No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require the Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax assessments or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charges payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections 2.2 , 2.12 , 3.5 , 3.9 , 5.8 or 9.5 ).

(iii) The Issuer (and the Registrar) shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Note (A) for a period (1) of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or (2) beginning 15 days before an interest payment date and ending on such interest payment date or (B) selected for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

(iv) Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuer, any Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar may deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to paragraph  2 of the form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A ) interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, including without limitation the transfer or exchange of such Note, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Issuer, any Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

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(vi) All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

(h) No Obligation of the Trustee . The Trustee (in each of its capacities) shall have no responsibility or obligation to any Beneficial Owner of a Global Note, Agent Member or other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of DTC or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, Beneficial Owner or other Person (other than DTC) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or purchase) or the payment of any amount or delivery of any Notes (or other security or property) under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders in respect of the Notes shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered Holders (which shall be DTC or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights of Beneficial Owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through DTC subject to the applicable rules and procedures of DTC. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by DTC with respect to its Agent Members and any Beneficial Owners. The Trustee (in each of its capacities) shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Agent Members or Beneficial Owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

(i) Affiliate Holders . By accepting a beneficial interest in a Global Note, any Person that is an Affiliate of the Issuer agrees to give notice to the Issuer, the Trustee and the Registrar of the acquisition of such interest and its Affiliate status.

SECTION 2.7 [Reserved] .

SECTION 2.8 [Reserved].

SECTION 2.9 [Reserved].

SECTION 2.10 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes . If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder of a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Issuer shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note if the Trustee’s requirements are met, such that the Noteholder (a) satisfies the Issuer or the Trustee that such Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken within a reasonable time after such Noteholder has notice of such loss, destruction or wrongful taking and the Registrar has not registered a transfer prior to receiving such notification, (b) makes such request to the Issuer or Trustee prior to the Note being acquired by a protected purchaser as defined in Section 8-303 of the Uniform Commercial Code (a “ protected purchaser ”) and (c) satisfies any other customary requirements of the Trustee; provided , however , if after the delivery of such replacement Note, a protected purchaser of the Note for which such replacement

 

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Note was issued presents for payment or registration such replaced Note, the Trustee or the Issuer shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note from the Person to whom it was issued and delivered or any Person taking therefrom, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Trustee in connection therewith. If required by the Trustee or the Issuer, such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the Trustee to protect the Trustee and the Issuer to protect the Issuer, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced, and, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, any Guarantor or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Issuer shall execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange for any such mutilated Note or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or wrongfully taken Note, a new Note of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

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

Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section  2.10 , the Issuer may require that such Holder pay a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of counsel and of the Trustee) in connection therewith.

Subject to the proviso in the initial paragraph of this Section  2.10 , every new Note issued pursuant to this Section  2.10 in lieu of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or wrongfully taken Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, any Guarantor and any other obligor upon the Notes, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or wrongfully taken Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

The provisions of this Section  2.10 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or wrongfully taken Notes.

SECTION 2.11 Outstanding Notes . Notes outstanding at any time are all Notes authenticated by the Trustee except for those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation and those described in this Section 2.11 as not outstanding. A Note does not cease to be outstanding in the event the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer holds the Note; provided , however , that (i) for purposes of determining which are outstanding for consent or voting purposes hereunder, the provisions of Section 12.6 shall apply and (ii) in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making a determination whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Notes are present at a meeting of Holders of Notes for quorum purposes or have consented to or voted in favor of any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, amendment or modification hereunder, or relying upon any such quorum, consent or vote, only Notes which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be held by the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer shall not be considered outstanding.

 

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If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section  2.10 (other than a mutilated Note surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee and the Issuer receive proof satisfactory to them that the replaced Note is held by a protected purchaser. A mutilated Note ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of such Note and replacement pursuant to Section  2.10 .

If the Paying Agent segregates and holds in trust, in accordance with this Indenture, by 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on a Redemption Date or other maturity date money sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest payable on that date with respect to the Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or otherwise maturing, as the case may be, then on and after that date such Notes (or portions thereof) cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.

SECTION 2.12 Temporary Notes . In the event that Definitive Notes are to be issued under the terms of this Indenture, until such Definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Issuer may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes. Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form, and shall carry all rights, of Definitive Notes but may have variations that the Issuer consider appropriate for temporary Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Issuer shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes. After the preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at any office or agency maintained by the Issuer for that purpose and such exchange shall be without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor, one or more Definitive Notes representing an equal principal amount of Notes. Until so exchanged, the Holder of temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as a Holder of Definitive Notes.

SECTION 2.13 Cancellation . The Issuer at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation and dispose of such Notes in accordance with its internal policies and customary procedures including delivery of a certificate describing such Notes disposed (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act). If the Issuer or any Guarantor acquires any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to this Section 2.13 . The Issuer may not issue new Notes to replace Notes they have paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for any reason other than in connection with a transfer or exchange.

At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by DTC or the Securities Custodian to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Securities Custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Securities Custodian, to reflect such reduction.

 

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SECTION 2.14 Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest . Interest on any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such payment at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 2.3 .

Any interest on any Note which is payable, but is not paid when the same becomes due and payable and such nonpayment continues for a period of 30 days shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the regular record date, and such defaulted interest and (to the extent lawful) interest on such defaulted interest in cash at the rate borne by the Notes (such defaulted interest and interest thereon herein collectively called “ Defaulted Interest ”) shall be paid by the Issuer, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:

(a) The Issuer may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date (as defined below) for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Issuer shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (the “ Special Interest Payment Date ”), and at the same time the Issuer shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Issuer shall fix a record date (the “ Special Record Date ”) for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which date shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the Special Interest Payment Date and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee of such Special Record Date, and shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date and Special Interest Payment Date therefor to be given in the manner provided for in Section  12.2 , not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date and Special Interest Payment Date therefor having been so given, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid on the Special Interest Payment Date to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (b).

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

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section  2.14 , each Note delivered under this Indenture upon registration of, transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.

 

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SECTION 2.15 Computation of Interest .

(a) Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

(b) Solely for the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada), whenever any interest is calculated using a rate based on a year of 360 days, such rate determined pursuant to such calculation, when expressed as an annual rate, is equivalent to (i) the applicable rate based on a year of 360 days, multiplied by (ii) the actual number of days in the calendar year in which the period for such interest is payable (or compounded) ends, divided by (iii) 360. The principle of deemed reinvestment of interest shall not apply to any interest calculation under this Indenture; all interest payments to be made under this Indenture shall be paid without allowance or deduction for deemed reinvestment or otherwise, before and after demand, default and judgment. The rates of interest specified in this Indenture are intended to be nominal rates and not effective rates, and any interest calculated hereunder shall be calculated using the nominal rate method and not the effective rate method of calculation.

SECTION 2.16 CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN Numbers . The Issuer in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP”, “Common Code” and “ISIN” numbers and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP”, “Common Code” and “ISIN” numbers in notices of redemption or purchase as a convenience to Holders; provided , however , that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption or purchase and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption or purchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN numbers. The Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN numbers.

SECTION 2.17 Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar Not Responsible for Depositary . None of the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Registrar shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in any Global Note or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests. The Trustee, any Paying Agent and the Registrar shall be entitled to deal with any depositary, and any nominee thereof, that is the Holder of any Global Note for all purposes of this Indenture relating to such Global Note (including the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest, the giving of instructions or directions by or to the owner or holder of a beneficial ownership interest in such Global Note) as the sole Holder of such Global Note and shall have no obligations to the Beneficial Owners thereof. None of the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Registrar shall have any responsibility or liability for any acts or omissions of any such depositary with respect to any Global Note, for the records of any depositary, including records in respect of beneficial ownership interests in respect of any Global Note, for any transactions between such depositary and any participant in such depositary or between or among any such depositary, any such participant or any holder or owner of a beneficial interest in any Global Note or for any transfers of beneficial interests in any Global Note.

 

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SECTION 2.18 Payment of Additional Amounts .

(a) All payments made (or deemed to be made) to a holder of the Notes by a Guarantor pursuant to any Guarantee shall be made free and clear of and without withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other governmental charge (including penalties, interest and other liabilities related thereto) (collectively, “ Taxes ”) imposed or levied by or on behalf of any Canadian government (or, with respect to any Guarantor (or any successor thereof) incorporated or organized outside the United States or Canada, the government of the country in which such Guarantor (or any successor thereof) is incorporated, organized or a tax resident) or political subdivision or territory or authority or agency therein or thereof having the power to tax (each a “ Non-U.S. Taxing Authority ”), unless the obligor thereon is required to withhold or deduct Taxes under any law or by the interpretation, application or administration thereof.

(b) If any such obligor is so required to withhold or deduct any amount of or on account of Taxes imposed by a Non-U.S. Taxing Authority from any payment made with respect to any Guarantee, such obligor shall pay, as additional interest, to each Holder or beneficial owner of the Notes that are outstanding on the date of the required payment such additional amounts (“ Additional Amounts ”) as may be necessary so that the net amount received by such Holder or beneficial owner (including the Additional Amounts) after such withholding or deduction (including withholdings and deductions on Additional Amounts) shall not be less than the amount such Holder or beneficial owner would have received if such Taxes had not been withheld or deducted; provided that no Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to a payment made to a Holder or beneficial owner of the Notes (an “ Excluded Holder ”):

(1) which is subject to such Taxes by reason of the fact that it does not deal at arm’s length (within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada)) with the Parent Guarantor or any other Guarantor resident in Canada for tax purposes at the time of payment, if such payment is made by the Parent Guarantor or such other Canadian Guarantor;

(2) which is subject to such Taxes by reason of its being or having been connected with any Non-U.S. Taxing Authority other than by the mere holding or ownership, or deemed holding or ownership of the Notes or the receipt of payments thereunder or under any Guarantee or the enforcement of rights under the Notes, this Indenture or any Guarantee (as a matter of, for example, citizenship, nationality, residence, domicile, or existence of a business or permanent establishment, a dependent agent, a place of business or a place of management present or deemed present within the Non-U.S. Taxing Authority);

(3) where such Taxes are on account of any Tax imposed pursuant to Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement between a non-U.S. jurisdiction and the United States, with respect to the forgoing or any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code;

 

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(4) which failed to duly and timely comply with a timely request of the Issuer or any Guarantor in writing to provide information, documents or other evidence concerning such Holder’s or beneficial owner’s nationality, residence, entitlement to treaty benefits or identity, if and to the extent that (i) such Holder and/or beneficial owner was legally able to comply with such request and (ii) due and timely compliance with such request is required by applicable law or administrative policy as a precondition to reduction or elimination of, and would have reduced or eliminated, any Taxes as to which Additional Amounts would have otherwise been payable to such Holder or beneficial owner but for this clause;

(5) which is a fiduciary or a partnership or not the sole beneficial owner of the relevant Note, if and to the extent that any beneficiary or settlor with respect to such fiduciary, any partner with respect to such partnership or any beneficial owner of such Note (as the case may be) would not have been entitled to receive Additional Amounts with respect to the payment in question had such beneficiary, settlor, partner or beneficial owner been the actual Holder of such Note;

(6) in respect of any estate, gift, inheritance, value added, excise, transfer, or similar tax; or

(7) any combination of the above clauses in this proviso.

For the avoidance of doubt, no Additional Amounts will be owed for Taxes imposed by the United States government or any political subdivision or territory or authority or agency therein or thereof having the power to tax.

(c) The applicable obligor on the Notes, this Indenture or any Guarantee, as the case may be, shall also be entitled to make any withholding or deduction required by a Non-U.S. Taxing Authority or other taxing authority and remit the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant authority in accordance with applicable law. The applicable obligor on the Notes, this Indenture or any Guarantee, as the case may be, shall furnish to the Holders, within 30 days after the date the payment of any Taxes is due pursuant to applicable law, copies of tax receipts, if any, evidencing that such payment has been made by such obligor, as applicable.

(d) In addition, the Issuer and the Guarantors shall jointly and severally indemnify and hold harmless each Holder or beneficial owner (without duplication) of the Notes that are outstanding on the date of the required payment and upon written request reimburse each such Holder or beneficial owner for the amount of: (i) any Taxes so levied or imposed by a Non-U.S. Taxing Authority and paid by such Holder or beneficial owner (without duplication) as a result of payments made under or with respect to the Notes, this Indenture or any Guarantee (including, for greater certainty, any Taxes payable under Section 803 of the regulations under the Income Tax Act (Canada)), but excluding any Taxes with respect to which such Holder or beneficial owner is an Excluded Holder; and (ii) any Taxes imposed on such Holder or beneficial owner by a Non-U.S. Tax Authority (other than any Taxes with respect to which such Holder or beneficial owner is an Excluded Holder) with respect to any reimbursement under clause (i) immediately above (collectively, a “ Reimbursement Payment ”).

 

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(e) At least 30 days prior to each date on which any payment under or with respect to any Note is due and payable, if any Guarantor becomes obligated to pay Additional Amounts with respect to such payment, such Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee (or other applicable paying agent) an Officers’ Certificate stating the fact that such Additional Amounts shall be payable and the amounts so payable and shall set forth such other information as is necessary to enable the Trustee (or other applicable paying agent) to pay such Additional Amounts to Holders on the payment date.

(f) Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, (i) the payment of principal (and premium, if any), (ii) purchase prices in connection with a repurchase or a redemption of the Notes, (iii) interest or (iv) any other amount payable on or with respect to any of the Notes, this Indenture or the Guarantees, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts and Reimbursement Payments provided for in this Section  2.18 to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts or Reimbursement Payments are, were or would be payable in respect thereof.

(g) The Issuer and the Guarantors will pay any present or future stamp, court or documentary Taxes, or any other excise, property or similar Taxes that are imposed by any Non-U.S. Taxing Authority from the execution, delivery, issuance, initial resale, registration or enforcement of any Notes, this Indenture, the Guarantee or any other document or instrument in relation thereto (other than a transfer of the Notes). The obligations described in this Section  2.18 shall survive any termination, defeasance or discharge of this Indenture and shall apply mutatis mutandis to any successor person to the Issuer or any Guarantor and to any jurisdiction in which such successor is organized or is otherwise resident or doing business for tax purposes or any jurisdiction from or through which payment is made by such successor or its respective agents.

ARTICLE III

COVENANTS

SECTION 3.1 Payment of Notes . The Issuer shall promptly pay the principal of, premium, if any, and cash interest, and increase the principal amount of the Notes or issue PIK Notes to pay PIK Interest, on the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes and in this Indenture. Principal, premium, if any, and cash interest, and any increased principal amount of Notes or PIK Notes sufficient to pay PIK Interest, shall be considered paid on the date due if by 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent holds in accordance with this Indenture money sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and cash interest then due, and upon any increased principal amount of the applicable Global Notes and delivery of an Issuer Order to the Trustee to authenticate any PIK Notes or increase the principal amount of Global Notes, as applicable, sufficient to pay all PIK Interest then due, and the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, is not prohibited from paying such money to the Noteholders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.

 

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The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate specified therefor in the Notes, and it shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, and subject to Section  2.18 , the Issuer may, to the extent it is required to do so by law, deduct or withhold income or other similar taxes imposed by the United States of America from principal or interest payments hereunder.

SECTION 3.2 Limitation on Indebtedness and Preferred Stock .

(a) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness), and the Parent Guarantor will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to issue Preferred Stock.

(b) Section 3.2(a) will not prohibit the Incurrence of the following Indebtedness:

(1) Indebtedness under (i) the Term Loan Credit Agreement in an aggregate amount not to exceed $975,000,000 together with any payment-in-kind interest Incurred in respect thereof and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; provided that such amount shall decrease on a dollar-for-dollar basis for any payments or prepayments, including in connection with any sales of assets and excluding only payments with the proceeds of permitted Refinancing Indebtedness; (ii) the Revolving Credit Facility in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of (a) the Borrowing Base then in effect minus the principal amount outstanding under the Term Loan Credit Agreement at such time (but in no event to exceed $425,000,000) and (b) $325,000,000 and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; (iii) Senior Notes in an aggregate amount not to exceed $420,035,000 and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof; and (iv) the Notes, the Guarantees and other obligations under this Indenture in an aggregate amount not to exceed (a) $545,000,000, plus (b) the aggregate principal amount of any Additional Notes issued in exchange for 2022 Notes in accordance with Section  3.3(b)(13) , together with any payment-in-kind interest Incurred in respect thereof, any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with PIK Payments and PIK Notes, and Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this Section  3.2(b)(1)(iv) ; provided that in no event shall the Parent Guarantor (and the Parent Guarantor shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to) enter into, cause or permit to exist or become effective any amendment, restatement, supplement, modification or refinancing (or successive amendments, restatements, supplements, modifications or refinancings) of any Senior Secured Credit Agreement (or any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) (for the avoidance of doubt excluding any amendments, supplements, modifications or refinancings entered into on or prior to the Issuance Date) that increases (1) the interest rate or yield, including by increasing the “applicable margin” or similar component of the interest rate (including to provide for additional compounded or PIK Interest), through original issue discount or by modifying the method of computing interest, or (2) a letter of credit, commitment, facility, utilization, makewhole or similar

 

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fee (but excluding any customary consent, amendment, arrangement or similar fees) so that the combined interest rate and fees are increased by more than 2.50% per annum with respect to such Senior Secured Credit Facility as in effect as of the date hereof, in each instance in the aggregate at any level of pricing, but excluding increases from (A) increases in an underlying reference rate not caused by a modification or refinancing of such Senior Secured Credit Agreement, (B) accrual of interest at the “default rate” defined in such Senior Secured Credit Agreement at the date hereof or, for a refinancing, a rate that corresponds to the default rate, or (C) application of a pricing grid set forth in such Senior Secured Credit Agreement at the date hereof; provided further , that the Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, (1) Incur Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be Incurred under Section  3.2(b)(1)(ii) in an amount in excess of $50,000,000 for purposes of funding any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Subordinated Obligations, or (2) use the proceeds of Indebtedness Incurred in reliance on Section  3.2(b)(1)(ii) in an amount in excess of $50,000,000 for purposes of funding any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Subordinated Obligations.

(2) guarantees of Indebtedness Incurred in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture; provided that in the event such Indebtedness that is being guaranteed is a Subordinated Obligation or a Guarantor Subordinated Obligation, then the related guarantee shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Guarantee to at least the same extent as the Indebtedness being guaranteed, as the case may be;

(3) Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor owing to and held by any Restricted Subsidiary or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to and held by the Parent Guarantor or any other Restricted Subsidiary; provided , however , that (i)(a) if the Issuer is the obligor on such Indebtedness and the obligee is not a Guarantor, such Indebtedness must be expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all obligations with respect to the Notes and (b) if a Guarantor is the obligor of such Indebtedness and the obligee is neither the Issuer nor another Guarantor, such Indebtedness must be expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all obligations of such Guarantor with respect to its Guarantee, and (ii)(a) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Capital Stock or any other event which results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary and (b) any sale or other transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute an Incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that was not permitted by this Section  3.2(b)(3) ;

(4) Indebtedness represented by (i) any Indebtedness (other than the Indebtedness of the type described in Section  3.2(b)(1) , (2) and (4) ) outstanding on the Issue Date and (ii) any Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred in respect of any Indebtedness of the type described in Section  3.2(b)(1) , this Section  3.2(b)(4) or Section  3.2(b)(5) or (7) ;

 

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(5) (i) Permitted Acquisition Indebtedness and (ii) Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred or issued to finance or assumed in connection with an acquisition or Investment in an aggregate principal amount, together with all other outstanding Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock issued under this clause (ii) of Section  3.2(b)(5) and any outstanding Indebtedness under Section  3.2(b)(4) incurred to refinance Indebtedness initially incurred in reliance on this clause (ii) of Section  3.2(b)(5) , not to exceed $25 million as of the date of Incurrence of such Indebtedness, after giving effect to such Incurrence and the application of the proceeds therefrom;

(6) Indebtedness Incurred in respect of (i) self-insurance obligations, bid, appeal, reimbursement, performance, surety and similar bonds and completion guarantees provided by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business and any guarantees or letters of credit functioning as or supporting any of the foregoing bonds or obligations and (ii) obligations represented by letters of credit for the account of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary in order to provide security for workers’ compensation claims (in the case of clauses (i) and (ii) other than for an obligation for money borrowed);

(7) Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary represented by Capitalized Lease Obligations (whether or not incurred pursuant to Sale/Leaseback Transactions) or other Indebtedness Incurred in connection with the acquisition, construction, improvement or development of real or personal, movable or immovable, property, in each case Incurred for the purpose of financing, refinancing, renewing, defeasing or refunding all or any part of the purchase price or cost of acquisition, construction, improvement or development of property used in the business of the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that the outstanding Indebtedness Incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to this Section  3.2(b)(7) , and any outstanding Indebtedness under Section  3.2(b)(4) incurred to refinance Indebtedness initially incurred in reliance on this Section  3.2(b)(7) , shall not exceed $25 million; and provided further that the principal amount of any Indebtedness permitted under this Section  3.2(b)(7) did not in each case at the time of incurrence exceed the Fair Market Value, as determined in accordance with the definition of such term, of the acquired or constructed asset or improvement or development so financed;

(8) Preferred Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Issuer and any Subsidiary Guarantor that is either issued in exchange for outstanding Indebtedness of the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary or the proceeds of which is reinvested in the Issuer or a Restricted Subsidiary;

(9) Cash Management Obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor in an aggregate amount not to exceed $15 million as of the date of Incurrence of such Indebtedness, after giving effect to such Incurrence and the application of proceeds therefrom; and

(10) Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $240.0 million and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof plus any increase to such principal amount resulting from interest that is paid-in-kind on such Indebtedness.

 

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(c) For purposes of determining compliance with, and the outstanding principal amount of any particular Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to and in compliance with, this Section  3.2 :

(1) in the event an item of that Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in Section  3.2(b) , the Parent Guarantor, in its sole discretion, will classify such item of Indebtedness on the date of Incurrence and, subject to Section  3.2(c)(2) below, may later classify, reclassify or redivide all or a portion of such item of Indebtedness, in any manner that complies with this Section  3.2 ;

(2) all Indebtedness outstanding on the date of this Indenture or subsequently Incurred under the Senior Secured Credit Agreements, the Senior Notes and the Notes shall be deemed Incurred on the Issue Date or the date of such Incurrence, respectively, under Section  3.2(b)(1) ;

(3) guarantees of, or obligations in respect of letters of credit supporting, Indebtedness which is otherwise included in the determination of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be included;

(4) if obligations in respect of letters of credit are Incurred pursuant to a Credit Facility and are being treated as Incurred pursuant to Section  3.2(b)(1) and the letters of credit relate to other Indebtedness, then such other Indebtedness shall not be included;

(5) the principal amount of any Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, will be equal to the greater of the maximum mandatory redemption or repurchase price (not including, in either case, any redemption or repurchase premium) or the liquidation preference thereof;

(6) Indebtedness permitted by this Section  3.2 need not be permitted solely by reference to one provision permitting such Indebtedness but may be permitted in part by one such provision and in part by one or more other provisions of this Section  3.2 permitting such Indebtedness; and

(7) the amount of Indebtedness issued at a price that is less than the principal amount thereof will be equal to the amount of the liability in respect thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.

Accrual of interest, accrual of dividends, the amortization of debt discount or the accretion of accreted value, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness, the payment of dividends in the form of additional Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock and unrealized losses or charges in respect of Hedging Obligations (including those resulting from the application of FASB ASC Topic No. 815, Derivatives and Hedging ) will not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section  3.2 .

 

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The Parent Guarantor will not permit any of its Foreign Subsidiaries, Subsidiaries that are not Subsidiary Guarantors or Unrestricted Subsidiaries to Incur any Indebtedness (including to issue any Disqualified Stock) other than Non-Recourse Debt. If at any time an Unrestricted Subsidiary becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be Incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary as of such date (and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be Incurred as of such date under this Section  3.2 , the Parent Guarantor shall be in Default of this Section  3.2 ).

For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the Incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar-equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was Incurred, in the case of term Indebtedness, or first committed, in the case of revolving credit Indebtedness; provided that if such Indebtedness is Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section  3.2 , the maximum amount of Indebtedness that any Person may Incur pursuant to this Section  3.2 shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rates of currencies. The principal amount of any Indebtedness Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness, if Incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced, shall be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable to the currencies in which such Refinancing Indebtedness is denominated that is in effect on the date of such refinancing.

This Indenture shall not treat (1) unsecured Indebtedness as subordinated or junior to secured Indebtedness merely because it is unsecured or (2) senior Indebtedness as subordinated or junior to any other senior Indebtedness merely because it has a junior priority with respect to the same collateral.

SECTION 3.3 Limitation on Restricted Payments .

(a) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, to:

(1) declare or pay any dividend or make any payment or distribution on or in respect of the Parent Guarantor’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s Capital Stock (including any payment or distribution in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) except:

(A) dividends or distributions by the Parent Guarantor payable solely in Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock but including options, warrants or other rights to purchase such Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor); and

 

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(B) dividends or distributions payable to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary and if such Restricted Subsidiary is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, to minority stockholders (or owners of an equivalent interest in the case of a Subsidiary that is an entity other than a corporation) so long as the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary receives at least its pro rata share of such dividend or distribution;

(2) purchase, repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any direct or indirect parent of the Parent Guarantor held by Persons other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than in exchange for Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock));

(3) purchase, repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to scheduled maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment, any Subordinated Obligations or Guarantor Subordinated Obligations (other than (x) Indebtedness permitted under Section  3.2(b)(3) or (y) the purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Subordinated Obligations or Guarantor Subordinated Obligations purchased in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case due within one year of the date of purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value); or

(4) make any Restricted Investment;

(any such dividend, distribution, purchase, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, other acquisition, retirement or Restricted Investment referred to in clauses (1) through (4) is referred to herein as a “ Restricted Payment ”).

(b) The provisions of Section  3.3(a) will not prohibit:

(1) any Restricted Payment made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock and other than Capital Stock issued or sold to a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor or an employee stock ownership plan or similar trust to the extent such sale to an employee stock ownership plan or similar trust is financed by loans from or guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary unless such loans have been repaid with cash on or prior to the date of determination) or a substantially concurrent cash capital contribution received by the Parent Guarantor from its shareholders; provided , however , that such Restricted Payment will be excluded from subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments;

(2) any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Subordinated Obligations of the Issuer or Guarantor Subordinated Obligations of any Guarantor made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Subordinated Obligations of the Issuer or Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other

 

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acquisition or retirement for value of Guarantor Subordinated Obligations made by exchange for or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of Guarantor Subordinated Obligations that, in each case, is permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Section  3.2 ; provided , however , that such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance, acquisition or retirement for value will be excluded from subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments;

(3) any purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that, in each case, is permitted to be Incurred pursuant to Section  3.2 ; provided , however , that such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance, acquisition or retirement for value will be excluded from subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments;

(4) dividends paid or distributions made within 60 days after the date of declaration if at such date of declaration such dividend or distribution would have complied with this Section  3.3 ; provided , however , that such dividends and distributions will be included in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments; and provided further , however , that for purposes of clarification, this clause (4) shall not include cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares included in clause (9) below;

(5) so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, (a) the repurchase or other acquisition of Capital Stock (including options, warrants, equity appreciation rights or other rights to purchase or acquire Capital Stock) of the Parent Guarantor held by any existing or former employees, management or directors of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor or their assigns, estates or heirs, in each case pursuant to the repurchase or other acquisition provisions under employee stock option or stock purchase plans or agreements or other agreements to compensate management, employees or directors, in each case approved by the Parent Guarantor’s Board of Directors; provided that such repurchases or other acquisitions pursuant to this subclause (a) during any calendar year will not exceed $2.0 million in the aggregate (with unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to succeeding calendar years without limitation); provided further , that such amount in any calendar year may be increased by an amount not to exceed (A) the cash proceeds received by the Parent Guarantor from the sale of Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor to members of management or directors of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries that occurs after the Issue Date, plus (B) the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date, less (C) the amount of any Restricted Payments made pursuant to clauses (A) and (B) of this clause (5)(a); provided further , however , that the amount of any such repurchase or other acquisition under this subclause (a) will be excluded in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments; and (b) loans or advances to employees or directors of the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, in each case as permitted by Section 402 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the proceeds of which are used to

 

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purchase Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor, or to refinance loans or advances made pursuant to this clause (5)(b), in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $2.0 million at any one time outstanding; provided , however , that the amount of such loans and advances will be excluded in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments;

(6) purchases, repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions or retirements for value of Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options, warrants, rights to acquire Capital Stock or other convertible securities if such Capital Stock represents a portion of the exercise or exchange price thereof, and any purchases, repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions or retirements for value of Capital Stock made in lieu of withholding taxes in connection with any exercise or exchange of warrants, options or rights to acquire Capital Stock; provided , however , that such acquisitions or retirements will be excluded from subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments;

(7) the purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Subordinated Obligation at a purchase price not greater than 101% of the principal amount of such Subordinated Obligation in the event of a Change of Control Triggering Event in accordance with provisions similar to Section  3.9 ; provided that, prior to or simultaneously with such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement, the Issuer has made the Change of Control Offer as provided in such Section  3.9 with respect to the Notes and has completed the repurchase or redemption of all Notes validly tendered for payment in connection with such Change of Control Offer; provided , however , that such acquisitions or retirements will be included in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments;

(8) payments or distributions to dissenting stockholders pursuant to applicable law or in connection with the settlement or other satisfaction of legal claims made pursuant to or in connection with a consolidation, merger or transfer of assets; provided , however , that any payment pursuant to this clause (8) will be excluded in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments;

(9) cash payments in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares; provided , however , that any payment pursuant to this clause (9) will be excluded in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments;

(10) on or after September 1, 2019, Restricted Payments by the Parent Guarantor pursuant to Section  3.3(a)(2) , if at the time the Parent Guarantor makes such Restricted Payment, the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than 2.25 to 1.00; provided the amount of any Restricted Payments made at any time pursuant to this clause (10) shall not exceed the excess of (i) the amount of cash offered by the Issuer to all Holders within the 180 days prior to the applicable Restricted Payments to purchase the Notes at an offer price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest over (ii) the amount of cash used by the Issuer within the 180 days prior to the applicable Restricted Payments to purchase the Notes;

 

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(11) on or after September 1, 2019, purchases, repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions or retirements of the Senior Notes or Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness at a price in cash equal to no greater than 35% of the principal amount of such Senior Notes or Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness to be purchased, repurchased, redeemed, acquired or retired, if at the time the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary makes such Restricted Payment, the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than 3.25 to 1.00; provided that if, on any date during the 30 consecutive calendar day period immediately preceding the effective date of such transaction, the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes (as reported by Bloomberg Financial Markets or any successor thereto) has been less than $900, then the amount of any Restricted Payments made at any time pursuant to this clause (11) shall not exceed the excess of (i) the amount of cash offered by the Issuer to all Holders within the 180 days prior to the applicable Restricted Payments to purchase the Notes at an offer price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest over (ii) the amount of cash used by the Issuer within the 180 days prior to the applicable Restricted Payments to purchase the Notes;

(12) purchases, repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions or retirements of the Senior Notes with the proceeds of or in exchange for (a) Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness or (b) Equity Interests in the Parent Guarantor; and

(13) from the Issue Date to, and including, the one-year anniversary of the Issue Date, redemptions or retirements of 2022 Notes in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $55,035,000 that are effected solely in exchange for the issuance of Additional Notes pursuant to this Indenture at a price per each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of 2022 Notes validly exchanged not to exceed (a) $720 aggregate principal amount of Additional Notes, plus (b) 14.0 warrants with economic terms identical to those of the warrants issued in the transactions contemplated by the Exchange Agreement, plus (c) an amount of cash necessary to pay any accrued and unpaid interest on any 2022 Notes redeemed or retired pursuant to this clause (13).

The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) shall be the Fair Market Value on the date of such Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be paid, transferred or issued by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to such Restricted Payment, except that the Fair Market Value of any non-cash dividend or distribution made within 60 days after the date of declaration shall be determined as of such date. The Fair Market Value of any cash Restricted Payment shall be its face amount and the Fair Market Value of any non-cash Restricted Payment shall be determined in accordance with the definition of that term. Not later than the date of making any Restricted Payment in excess of $5.0 million that will be included in subsequent calculations of the amount of Restricted Payments, the Parent Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Restricted Payment is permitted and setting forth the basis upon which the calculations required by this Section  3.3 were computed.

In the event that a Restricted Payment meets the criteria of more than one of the exceptions described in clauses (1) through (13) above, the Parent Guarantor shall, in its sole discretion, classify or reclassify such Restricted Payment.

 

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The Parent Guarantor shall not permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary to become a Restricted Subsidiary except pursuant to the last sentence of the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary.” For purpose of designating any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, all outstanding Investments by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries (except to the extent such Investments are repaid) in the Subsidiary so designated will be deemed to be Restricted Payments in an amount determined as set forth in the last sentence of the definition of “Investment.” Such designation will be permitted only if a Restricted Payment in such amount would be permitted at such time pursuant to the definition of “Permitted Investments,” and if such Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary.”

SECTION 3.4 Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries .

(a) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create or otherwise cause or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or consensual restriction on the ability of any such Restricted Subsidiary that is not the Issuer or a Subsidiary Guarantor to:

(1) pay dividends or make any other distributions on its Capital Stock or pay any Indebtedness or other obligations owed to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (it being understood that the priority of any Preferred Stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being paid on Common Stock shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make distributions on Capital Stock);

(2) make any loans or advances to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (it being understood that the subordination of loans or advances made to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary to other Indebtedness Incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to make loans or advances); or

(3) sell, lease or transfer any of its property or assets to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary.

(b) The preceding provisions will not prohibit:

(1) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to or by reason of an agreement in effect at or entered into on the Issue Date, including, without limitation, this Indenture as in effect on such date;

(2) any encumbrance or restriction with respect to a Person pursuant to or by reason of an agreement relating to any Capital Stock or Indebtedness Incurred by a Person on or before the date on which such Person was acquired by the Parent Guarantor or another Restricted Subsidiary (other than Capital Stock or Indebtedness Incurred as consideration in, or to provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to consummate, the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person was acquired by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary or in contemplation of the transaction) and outstanding on such date; provided that any such encumbrance or restriction shall not extend to any assets or property of the Parent Guarantor or any other Restricted Subsidiary other than the assets and property of such acquired Person;

 

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(3) encumbrances and restrictions contained in contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, not relating to any Indebtedness, and that do not, individually or in the aggregate, detract from the value of, or from the ability of the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries to realize the value of, property or assets of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in any manner material to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(4) any encumbrance or restriction with respect to an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to or by reason of an agreement that the Unrestricted Subsidiary is a party to entered into before the date on which such Unrestricted Subsidiary became a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such agreement was not entered into in anticipation of the Unrestricted Subsidiary becoming a Restricted Subsidiary and any such encumbrance or restriction shall not extend to any assets or property of the Parent Guarantor or any other Restricted Subsidiary other than the assets and property of such Unrestricted Subsidiary;

(5) with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary, any encumbrance or restriction contained in the terms of any Indebtedness or any agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness was Incurred if either (1) the encumbrance or restriction applies to such Foreign Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries only in the event of a payment default or a default with respect to a financial covenant in such Indebtedness or agreement or (2) the Parent Guarantor determines that any such encumbrance or restriction will not materially affect the Parent Guarantor’s ability to make principal or interest payments on the Notes, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor, whose determination shall be conclusive;

(6) any encumbrance or restriction with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to an agreement effecting a refunding, replacement or refinancing of Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to an agreement referred to in clauses (1) through (5) or clause (12) of this Section  3.4(b) or this clause (6) or contained in any amendment, restatement, modification, renewal, supplemental, refunding, replacement or refinancing of an agreement referred to in clauses (1) through (5) or clause (12) of this Section  3.4(b) or this clause (6); provided that the encumbrances and restrictions with respect to such Restricted Subsidiary contained in any such agreement taken as a whole are no less favorable in any material respect to the Holders than the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the agreements governing the Indebtedness being refunded, replaced or refinanced;

(7) in the case of Section  3.4(a)(3) , any encumbrance or restriction:

(A) that restricts in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is subject to a lease (including leases governing leasehold interests or farm-in agreements or farm-out agreements relating to leasehold interests in Oil and Gas Properties), license or similar contract, or the assignment or transfer of any such lease (including leases governing leasehold interests or farm-in agreements or farm-out agreements relating to leasehold interests in Oil and Gas Properties), license (including, without limitation, licenses of intellectual property) or other contract;

 

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(B) contained in mortgages, pledges or other security agreements permitted under this Indenture securing Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary to the extent such encumbrances or restrictions restrict the transfer of the property subject to such mortgages, pledges or other security agreements;

(C) contained in any agreement creating Hedging Obligations permitted from time to time under this Indenture;

(D) pursuant to customary provisions restricting dispositions of real property interests set forth in any reciprocal easement agreements of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(E) restrictions on cash or other deposits imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business; or

(F) provisions with respect to the disposition or distribution of assets or property in operating agreements, joint venture agreements, development agreements, area of mutual interest agreements and other agreements that are customary in the Oil and Gas Business and entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(8) any encumbrance or restriction contained in (a) purchase money obligations for property acquired in the ordinary course of business and (b) Capitalized Lease Obligations permitted under this Indenture, in each case, that impose encumbrances or restrictions of the nature described in Section  3.4(a)(3) on the property so acquired;

(9) any encumbrance or restriction with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary (or any of its property or assets) imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the direct or indirect sale or disposition of all or a portion of the Capital Stock or assets of such Restricted Subsidiary (or the property or assets that are subject to such restriction) pending the closing of such sale or disposition;

(10) any customary encumbrances or restrictions imposed pursuant to any agreement of the type described in the definition of “Permitted Business Investment”;

(11) encumbrances or restrictions arising or existing by reason of applicable law or any applicable rule, regulation or order;

(12) encumbrances or restrictions contained in agreements governing Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted to be Incurred pursuant to an agreement entered into subsequent to the Issue Date in accordance with Section  3.2 ; provided that the provisions relating to such encumbrance

 

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or restriction contained in such Indebtedness are not materially less favorable to the Parent Guarantor taken as a whole, as determined by the Board of Directors or a responsible financial officer of the Parent Guarantor in good faith, than the provisions contained in the Senior Secured Credit Agreements and in this Indenture as in effect on the Issue Date;

(13) the issuance of Preferred Stock by a Restricted Subsidiary or the payment of dividends thereon in accordance with the terms thereof; provided that issuance of such Preferred Stock is permitted pursuant to Section  3.2 and the terms of such Preferred Stock do not expressly restrict the ability of a Restricted Subsidiary to pay dividends or make any other distributions on its Capital Stock (other than requirements to pay dividends or liquidation preferences on such Preferred Stock prior to paying any dividends or making any other distributions on such other Capital Stock);

(14) supermajority voting requirements existing under corporate charters, bylaws, stockholders agreements and similar documents and agreements;

(15) restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business; and

(16) any encumbrance or restriction contained in the Senior Secured Credit Agreements and the Senior Notes as in effect as of the Issue Date, and in any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings thereof; provided that such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings shall not modify such encumbrances or restrictions contained in the Senior Secured Credit Agreements and the Senior Notes as in effect on the Issue Date.

SECTION 3.5 Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock .

(a) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any Asset Disposition unless:

(1) the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries receives consideration at the time of such Asset Disposition at least equal to the Fair Market Value (such Fair Market Value to be determined on the date of contractually agreeing to such Asset Disposition) of the Capital Stock or other assets subject to such Asset Disposition;

(2) except in the case of an Asset Swap, at least 75% of the consideration (determined on the date of contractually agreeing to such Asset Disposition) received by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from such Asset Disposition and all other Asset Dispositions since the Issue Date, on a cumulative basis, is in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents, or any combination thereof; provided that any consideration other than cash or Cash Equivalents received by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from such Asset Disposition shall only be permitted if it consists solely of the right to receive earnout payments, production payments, overrides or drilling participation arrangements or in seller notes (or a similar form of customary seller financing);

 

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(3) except as provided in Section  3.5(b) , an amount equal to 100% of the Net Available Cash from such Asset Disposition is applied, within 365 days from the later of the date of such Asset Disposition or the receipt of such Net Available Cash, by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be:

(A) to prepay, repay, redeem or purchase Indebtedness under the Senior Secured Credit Agreements;

(B) to prepay, repay, redeem or purchase Notes by, at its option, (x) redeeming Notes as provided under paragraph  5 of the form of Note set forth in Exhibit  A , (y) purchasing Notes through open-market purchases or in privately negotiated transactions at market prices (which shall be at or above par) and/or (z) making an offer (in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Section  3.5 for an Asset Disposition Offer) to all Holders to purchase their Notes (which offer shall be deemed to be an Asset Disposition Offer for purposes hereof); or

(C) to invest in Additional Assets; provided that without limitation to the provisions described in Section  11.3 , to the extent any Additional Assets received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in such Asset Sale consists of assets of a type that would constitute Collateral under the Note Security Documents, such Additional Assets, including Capital Stock of any Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction, are added to the Collateral within the time periods set forth in Section  11.3 or the applicable Note Security Documents; and

(4) without limitation to the provisions described in Section  11.3 , to the extent any consideration received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in such Asset Sale consists of assets of a type that would constitute Collateral under the Note Security Documents, such assets, including assets of any Person that becomes a Guarantor as a result of such transaction, are added to the Collateral within the time periods set forth in Section  11.3 or the applicable Note Security Documents;

provided that pending the final application of any such Net Available Cash in accordance with clauses (A), (B) or (C) above, the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries may temporarily reduce Indebtedness or otherwise invest such Net Available Cash in any manner not prohibited by this Indenture. The requirement of clause (C) above shall be deemed to be satisfied if an agreement (including a lease, whether a capital lease or an operating lease) committing to make the acquisitions or expenditures referred to therein is entered into by the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiary within the specified time period and such Net Available Cash is subsequently applied in accordance with such agreement within six months following such agreement.

(b) Any Net Available Cash from Asset Dispositions that is not applied or invested as provided in Section  3.5(a)(3) will be deemed to constitute “ Excess Proceeds .” Not later than the 366th day from the later of the date of such Asset Disposition or the receipt of such Net Available Cash, if the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $5.0 million, the Issuer will be required to make an offer (“ Asset Disposition Offer ”) to all Holders (with a copy to the

 

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Trustee) to purchase the maximum principal amount of the Notes that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds, at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section  3.5 in integral multiples of $1.00 in excess of $2,000 (or in excess of $1.00 after a PIK Payment), provided that the unpurchased portion of each Note must be equal to a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1.00 in excess of $2,000 (or in excess of $1.00 after a PIK Payment). If the aggregate principal amount of the Notes surrendered by Holders thereof exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Issuer shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro rata basis on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of tendered Notes. To the extent that the aggregate principal amount of the Notes so validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to an Asset Disposition Offer is less than the Excess Proceeds, the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries may use any remaining Excess Proceeds for general corporate purposes, subject to the other covenants contained in this Indenture. Upon completion of such Asset Disposition Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds shall be reset at zero.

(c) The Asset Disposition Offer will remain open for a period of 20 Business Days following its commencement, except to the extent that a longer period is required by applicable law (the “ Asset Disposition Offer Period ”). No later than five Business Days after the termination of the Asset Disposition Offer Period (the “ Asset Disposition Purchase Date ”), the Issuer will purchase the principal amount of the Notes required to be purchased pursuant to this Section  3.5 (the “ Asset Disposition Offer Amount ”) or, if less than the Asset Disposition Offer Amount has been so validly tendered and not properly withdrawn, all Notes validly tendered and not properly withdrawn in response to the Asset Disposition Offer.

(d) If the Asset Disposition Purchase Date is on or after an interest record date and on or before the related interest payment date, any accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on such record date, and no further interest will be payable to Holders who tender the Notes pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer.

(e) On or before the Asset Disposition Purchase Date, the Issuer will, to the extent lawful, accept for payment, on a pro rata basis to the extent necessary, the Asset Disposition Offer Amount of Notes or portions of Notes so validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer, or if less than the Asset Disposition Offer Amount has been validly tendered and not properly withdrawn, all Notes so validly tendered and not properly withdrawn, in each case in integral multiples of $1.00 in excess of $2,000 (or in excess of $1.00 after a PIK Payment), provided that the unpurchased portion of each Note must be equal to a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1.00 in excess of $2,000 (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment). The Issuer will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Notes or portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Issuer in accordance with the terms of this Section  3.5 . The Issuer or the paying agent, as the case may be, will promptly (but in any case not later than five Business Days after the termination of the Asset Disposition Offer Period) mail or deliver to each tendering Holder of the Notes an amount equal to the purchase

 

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price of the Notes so validly tendered and not properly withdrawn by such holder or lender, as the case may be, and accepted by the Issuer for purchase, and the Issuer will promptly issue a new Note, and the Trustee, upon delivery of an Issuer Order and Officers’ Certificate from the Issuer, will authenticate and mail or deliver such new Note to such Holder, in a principal amount equal to any unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered; provided that each such new Note will be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1.00 in excess of $2,000 (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment). Any Note not so accepted will be promptly mailed or delivered by the Issuer to the Holder thereof. The Issuer will publicly announce the results of the Asset Disposition Offer on the Asset Disposition Purchase Date.

(f) The Issuer will comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 of the Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in connection with the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to an Asset Disposition Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this Section  3.5 , the Issuer will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Indenture by virtue of its compliance with such securities laws or regulations.

(g) For the purposes of Section  3.5(a)(2) , the following will be deemed to be cash:

(1) the assumption by the transferee of Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor (other than Subordinated Obligations, Guarantor Subordinated Obligations or Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor) or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Subordinated Obligations, Guarantor Subordinated Obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor or Disqualified Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary) and the release of the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary from all liability on such Indebtedness in connection with such Asset Disposition (in which case the Parent Guarantor will, without further action, be deemed to have applied such deemed cash to Indebtedness in accordance with Section  3.5(a)(3) ;

(2) with respect to any Asset Disposition of Oil and Gas Properties by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in which the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary still retains an interest, any agreement by the transferee (or any Affiliate thereof) to pay all or a portion of the costs and expenses related to the exploration, development, completion or production of such properties and activities related thereto; and

(3) securities, notes or other obligations received by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary from the transferee that are converted by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash within 180 days after receipt thereof.

 

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(h) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, engage in any Asset Swaps, unless:

(1) at the time of entering into such Asset Swap and immediately after giving effect to such Asset Swap, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof; and

(2) in the event such Asset Swap involves the transfer by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of assets having an aggregate Fair Market Value in excess of $10.0 million, the terms of such Asset Swap have been approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor.

(i) Other than as specifically provided in this Section  3.5 , any purchase pursuant to this Section  3.5 shall be made pursuant to the applicable provisions of Article V.

SECTION 3.6 Limitation on Liens . The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, Incur or suffer to exist any Lien other than Permitted Liens upon any of its property or assets (including Capital Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries), including any income or profits therefrom, whether owned on the date of this Indenture or acquired after that date.

SECTION 3.7 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws . The Parent Guarantor and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries covenant (to the extent that they may lawfully do so) that they shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Parent Guarantor and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries (to the extent that they may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waive all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenant that they shall not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

SECTION 3.8 Limitation on Affiliate Transactions .

(a) The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into, make, amend or conduct any transaction (including making a payment to, the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service), contract, agreement or understanding with or for the benefit of any Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor (an “ Affiliate Transaction ”) unless:

(1) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable to the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction at the time of such transaction in arm’s-length dealings with a Person who is not such an Affiliate; and

(2) either:

(A) if such Affiliate Transaction involves an aggregate consideration in excess of $5.0 million but not greater than $10.0 million, the Parent Guarantor delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction satisfies the criteria in clause (1) above; or

 

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(B) if such Affiliate Transaction involves an aggregate consideration in excess of $10.0 million, the Parent Guarantor delivers to the Trustee a Board Resolution adopted by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor having no personal stake in such transaction approving the terms of such transaction and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction satisfies the criteria in clause (1) above.

(b) Section 3.8(a) will not apply to:

(3) any Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section  3.3 or any Permitted Investment;

(4) any issuance of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock), or other payments, awards or grants in cash, Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment or severance agreements and other compensation arrangements, options to purchase Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor, restricted stock plans, long-term incentive plans, stock appreciation rights plans, participation plans or similar employee benefits plans and/or insurance and indemnification arrangements provided to or for the benefit of directors and employees approved by the Board of Directors or properly designated committee of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor;

(5) loans or advances to employees, officers or directors in the ordinary course of business of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(6) advances to or reimbursements of employees for moving, entertainment and travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures in the ordinary course of business of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(7) any transaction between the Parent Guarantor and a Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries, and guarantees issued by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary for the benefit of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in accordance with Section  3.2 ;

(8) any transaction with a joint venture or similar entity which would constitute an Affiliate Transaction solely because the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary owns, directly or indirectly, an Equity Interest in or otherwise controls such joint venture or similar entity;

(9) the issuance or sale of any Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor to an Affiliate, or the receipt by the Parent Guarantor of any capital contribution from its shareholders;

(10) indemnities of officers, directors and employees of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted by bylaw or statutory provisions and any employment agreement or other employee compensation plan or arrangement entered into in the ordinary course of business by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

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(11) the payment of reasonable compensation and fees paid to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, officers or directors of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(12) the performance of obligations of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries under the terms of any agreement to which the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a party as of or on the Issue Date, as these agreements may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time; provided , however , that any future amendment, modification, supplement, extension or renewal entered into after the Issue Date will be permitted only to the extent that its terms are not materially more disadvantageous, taken as a whole, to the Holders than the terms of the agreements in effect on the Issue Date;

(13) transactions with customers, clients, suppliers, or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture, provided that in the reasonable determination of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor or the senior management of the Parent Guarantor, such transactions are on terms not materially less favorable to the Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction at such time on an arm’s-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor;

(14) transactions with a Person (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) that is an Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor solely because the Parent Guarantor owns, directly or through a Restricted Subsidiary, an Equity Interest in such Person; and

(15) transactions between the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Person, a director of which is also a director of the Parent Guarantor or any direct or indirect parent of the Parent Guarantor, and such director is the sole cause for such Person to be deemed an Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided , however , that such director shall abstain from voting as a director of the Parent Guarantor or such direct or indirect parent, as the case may be, on any matter involving such other Person.

SECTION 3.9 Purchase of Notes Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event .

(a) If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs with respect to the Notes, unless one of the three exceptions described in Section  3.9(f) applies, each Holder will have the right to require the Issuer to repurchase all or any part of such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

 

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(b) Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event, unless one of the three exceptions described below in Section  3.9(f) applies, the Issuer will send a notice (the “ Change of Control Offer ”) to each Holder of the Notes, with a copy to the Trustee, stating:

(1) that a Change of Control Offer is being made and that such Holder has the right to require the Issuer to purchase such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount of such Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on a record date to receive interest on the relevant interest payment date) (the “ Change of Control Payment ”);

(2) the repurchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is sent) (the “ Change of Control Payment Date ”); provided , that the Change of Control Payment Date may be delayed, in the Issuer’s discretion, until such time (including more than 60 days after the date such notice is sent (subject to the applicable procedures of DTC)) as any or all such conditions referred to in clause (9) below shall be satisfied;

(3) that any Note not properly tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest;

(4) that unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the Change of Control Payment, all Notes accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer will cease to accrue interest on the Change of Control Payment Date;

(5) that Holders electing to have any Definitive Notes purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender such Notes, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of such Notes in certificated form completed, to the Paying Agent specified in the notice at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the third Business Day preceding the Change of Control Payment Date;

(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their tendered Notes and their election to require the Issuer to purchase such Notes, provided that the Paying Agent receives, not later than the close of business on the third Business Day preceding the Change of Control Payment Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder of the Notes, the principal amount of the Notes tendered for purchase, and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its tendered Notes and its election to have such Notes purchased;

(7) that if the Issuer is repurchasing a portion of the Note of any Holder, the Holder will be issued a new Note equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered, provided that the unpurchased portion of the Note must be equal to a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1.00 in excess of $2,000 (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment);

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(9) if such notice is sent prior to the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, stating that the Change of Control Offer is conditional on the occurrence of such Change of Control Triggering Event or such other conditions specified therein and shall describe each such condition, and, if applicable, shall state that, in the Issuer’s discretion, the Change of Control Payment Date may be delayed until such time as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or that such purchase may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that the Issuer reasonably believes that any or all such conditions (including the occurrence of such Change of Control Triggering Event) will not be satisfied by the Change of Control Payment Date, or by the Change of Control Payment Date as so delayed.

(c) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Issuer will, to the extent lawful:

(1) accept for payment all Notes or portions of the Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer and not properly withdrawn, provided that the unpurchased portion of the Note must be equal to a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1.00 in excess of $2,000 (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment);

(2) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions of the Notes accepted for payment; and

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

(d) The Paying Agent will promptly mail or deliver to each Holder of the Notes accepted for payment the Change of Control Payment for such Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, if any; provided that each such new Note will be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1.00 in excess of $2,000 (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment).

(e) If the Change of Control Payment Date is on or after an interest record date and on or before the related interest payment date, any accrued and unpaid interest, will be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on such record date, and no further interest will be payable to Holders who tender pursuant to the Change of Control Offer.

(f) The Issuer is not required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control Triggering Event if (i) any other Person makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with this Section  3.9 applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Issuer and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not properly withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer, (ii) notice of redemption of all outstanding Notes has been given pursuant to Section  5.5 of this Indenture, unless and until there is a default in payment of the applicable redemption price or (iii) in connection with or in contemplation of any Change of Control Triggering Event, the Issuer has made an offer to purchase (an “ Alternate Offer ”) any and all Notes validly tendered at a cash price equal to or higher than the Change of Control Payment and has purchased all Notes properly tendered in accordance with the terms of such Alternate Offer.

 

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(g) A Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control Triggering Event, and conditioned upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control Triggering Event at the time of making the Change of Control Offer.

(h) The Issuer will comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 of the Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in connection with the repurchase of the Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this Section  3.9 , the Issuer will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section  3.9 by virtue of its compliance with such securities laws or regulations.

(i) If Holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in a Change of Control Offer or Alternate Offer and the Issuer, or any other Person making a Change of Control Offer or Alternate Offer in lieu of the Issuer as described above, purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Issuer will have the right, upon not less than 15 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, given not more than 30 days following such purchase pursuant to the Change of Control Offer or Alternate Offer, as applicable, to redeem all Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase at a redemption price in cash equal to the applicable Change of Control Payment plus, to the extent not included in the Change of Control Payment, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

(j) The Issuer’s obligation to make a Change of Control Offer with respect to the Notes pursuant to this Section  3.9 may be waived or modified or terminated with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes) prior to the occurrence of such Change of Control Triggering Event.

(k) Other than as specifically provided in this Section  3.9 , any purchase pursuant to this Section  3.9 shall be made pursuant to the applicable provisions of Article V .

SECTION 3.10 Provision of Financial Information .

(a) Whether or not the Parent Guarantor is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act, to the extent not prohibited by the Exchange Act, the Parent Guarantor will file with the SEC, and deliver to the Trustee and make available to the Holders without cost to any Holder, the annual reports and the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) that are specified in Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange

 

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Act and applicable to a U.S. corporation within the time periods specified therein with respect to a non-accelerated filer. In the event that the Parent Guarantor is not permitted to file such reports, documents and information with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act, the Parent Guarantor will nevertheless deliver such Exchange Act information to the Trustee and make available to the Holders without cost to any Holder as if the Parent Guarantor were subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and applicable to a U.S. corporation within the time periods specified therein with respect to a non-accelerated filer.

(b) If the Parent Guarantor has designated any of its Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries, then the financial information required will include a reasonably detailed presentation, either on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes thereto, or in any accompanying Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, of the financial condition and results of operations of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial condition and results of operations of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

(c) Any direct or indirect parent entity of the Parent Guarantor may satisfy the obligations of the Parent Guarantor set forth in this Section  3.10 by providing the requisite financial and other information of such parent entity instead of the Parent Guarantor so long as (i) the Parent Guarantor is a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of such parent entity and (ii) such parent entity does not conduct any business other than the holding of Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor, does not have any material liabilities other than liabilities of the Parent Guarantor, does not own any material assets other than the Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor and does not generate or derive any material revenues other than the revenues of the Parent Guarantor; provided that to the extent such parent entity holds assets (other than its direct or indirect interest in the Parent Guarantor) that exceeds the lesser of (x) 0.5% of the total assets of such parent entity and (y) 0.5% of the total revenue for the preceding fiscal year of such parent entity, then such information related to such parent entity shall be accompanied by consolidating information, which may be unaudited, that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information of such parent entity, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries on a stand-alone basis, on the other hand.

(d) The availability of the foregoing materials on the SEC’s website or on the Parent Guarantor’s (or its parent entity’s) website shall be deemed to satisfy the foregoing delivery obligations to the Holders.

(e) For so long as any Notes remain outstanding and constitute “restricted securities” under Rule 144, if the Parent Guarantor is not subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Parent Guarantor will furnish to the Holders, and to securities analysts and bona fide prospective investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.

(f) In addition, no later than five Business Days after the date the annual and quarterly financial information for the prior fiscal period have been filed or furnished pursuant to Section  3.10(a) (or customary earnings releases in respect thereof), the Parent Guarantor (or its parent entity) shall also hold live quarterly conference calls (which may be the same call held by the Parent Guarantor (or its parent entity) for its public equity holders).

 

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(g) The Trustee shall have no obligation to determine if and when the reports, information and documents of the Parent Guarantor are filed with the SEC via the EDGAR system and available on the SEC’s EDGAR website or available on the Issuer’s website.

(h) Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuer’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely conclusively on Officers’ Certificates). The Trustee is under no duty to examine such reports, information or documents to ensure compliance with the provision of this Indenture or to ascertain the correctness or otherwise of the information or the statements contained therein.

SECTION 3.11 Future Subsidiary Guarantors .

(a) The Parent Guarantor will cause (i) each of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries (other than a Foreign Subsidiary formed in connection with a Redomestication Transaction) formed or acquired after the Issue Date and (ii) any other Domestic Subsidiary (other than the Issuer) that is not already a Subsidiary Guarantor that guarantees any of the Parent Guarantor’s or the Issuer’s Indebtedness or any Indebtedness of a Subsidiary Guarantor, in each case to execute and deliver to the Trustee within 30 days a supplemental indenture (in substantially the form specified in Exhibit  B to this Indenture) pursuant to which such Subsidiary will unconditionally guarantee, on a joint and several basis, the full and prompt payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes on a senior basis; provided that any Restricted Subsidiary that constitutes an Immaterial Subsidiary need not become a Subsidiary Guarantor until such time as it ceases to be an Immaterial Subsidiary.

(b) Each Person that becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor after the Issue Date shall also become a party to the applicable Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, if applicable, and shall as promptly as practicable execute and deliver such security instruments, financing statements, mortgages, deeds of trust (in substantially the same form as those executed and delivered with respect to the Collateral on the Issue Date or on the date first delivered in the case of any such documents to be delivered after the Issue Date) as may be necessary to vest in the Collateral Agent a perfected second-priority security interest (subject to Permitted Liens) in properties and assets that constitute Collateral as security for the Notes or the Guarantees and as may be necessary to have such property or asset added to the applicable Collateral as required under the Note Security Documents and this Indenture, and thereupon all provisions of this Indenture relating to the Collateral shall be deemed to relate to such properties and assets to the same extent and with the same force and effect.

SECTION 3.12 Maintenance of Office or Agency . The Issuer shall maintain an office or agency where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment, where, if applicable, the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be made. The corporate trust office of the Trustee indicated in Section 2.3 shall be such office or agency of the Issuer, unless the Issuer shall designate and maintain some other office or agency for one or

 

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more of such purposes. The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the location of any such office or agency. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the corporate trust office of the Trustee indicated in Section 12.2, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no service of legal process may be made on the Issuer at any office of the Trustee.

The Issuer may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind any such designation. The Issuer shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

SECTION 3.13 Corporate Existence . Except as otherwise provided in Article IV, the Parent Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence, rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises; provided , however , that the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise if it shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Parent Guarantor.

SECTION 3.14 Payment of Taxes . The Parent Guarantor shall, and shall cause each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary; provided , however , that the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment or charge the amount, applicability or validity of which is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.

SECTION 3.15 Compliance Certificate . The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer ending after the Issue Date a statement (which need not be an Officers’ Certificate) signed by the principal executive officer, the principal accounting officer or the principal financial officer of the Issuer, stating that a review of the activities of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether the Issuer and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries has performed their respective obligations under this Indenture, and further stating whether or not the signers know of any Default or Event of Default that occurred during such period. If they do, the certificate shall describe such Default or Event of Default, its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

SECTION 3.16 Further Instruments and Acts . Upon request of the Trustee, the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

 

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SECTION 3.17 Statement by Officers as to Default . The Issuer shall, so long as any Note is outstanding, deliver to the Trustee within 10 Business Days after the occurrence of a Default, a written notice setting forth the details of such Default, or Events of Default, and what action the Issuer is taking or proposing to take with respect thereto.

SECTION 3.18 Covenant Termination .

(a) From and after the occurrence of an Investment Grade Rating Event, the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries will no longer be subject to the provisions of this Indenture described above in Sections 3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 3.5 , 3.8 and Section  4.1(a)(3) hereof (collectively, the “ Eliminated Covenants ”).

(b) After the Eliminated Covenants have been terminated, the Parent Guarantor may not designate any of its Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries pursuant to the second sentence of the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary.” After the Eliminated Covenants have been terminated, the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be entitled to incur Liens permitted under Section  3.6 (including, without limitation, Permitted Liens). To the extent Section  3.6 and any Permitted Liens refer to one or more Eliminated Covenants, such Section  3.6 or definition shall be interpreted as though such applicable Eliminated Covenant(s) continued to be applicable following such termination (but solely for purposes of Section  3.6 and the “Permitted Liens” definition and for no other section of this Indenture).

(c) On the date of the occurrence of an Investment Grade Rating Event, the Issuer shall deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee, specifying (i) that a termination of the foregoing covenants under this Section  3.18 has occurred and (ii) the date of the commencement of any termination of the foregoing covenants under this Section  3.18 . The Trustee shall not have any duty to monitor the ratings of the Notes or whether or not an Investment Grade Rating Event or the termination of the foregoing covenants has occurred, nor any duty to notify the Noteholders of any of the foregoing.

SECTION 3.19 Limitation on Layering . The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, or suffer to exist any Lien that is (a) senior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes and junior to any other Lien or (b)  junior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes (other than Liens securing Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness incurred under Section 3.2(b)(10) and clause  (16) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”).

SECTION 3.20 Subsidiaries . The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, sell, assign or otherwise dispose of any Equity Interests in the Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary except (a) to the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary or (b)  in compliance with Section 3.5 . None of the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer nor any Restricted Subsidiary will have any Foreign Subsidiaries, other than Foreign Subsidiary formed in connection with a Redomestication Transaction. Parent Guarantor and the Issuer will not permit any Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary to be directly owned by any Person other than the Issuer or another Restricted Subsidiary. Parent Guarantor shall not permit any Subsidiary that is not owned by the Issuer to own any Oil and Gas Property.

 

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SECTION 3.21 Nature of Business; International Operations . The Parent Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, undertake or allow any material change in the character of its business as a company engaged in the Oil and Gas Business. From and after the date hereof, Parent Guarantor, the Issuer and the Restricted Subsidiaries will not acquire or commit to acquire any Oil and Gas Properties not located within the geographical boundaries of the United States of America. Parent Guarantor shall not directly own any interest in any Oil and Gas Property. Any Oil and Gas Properties of the Issuer or any of its subsidiaries will at all times be owned by the Issuer or a Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Restricted Subsidiary.

ARTICLE IV

SUCCESSOR COMPANY

SECTION 4.1 Merger and Consolidation .

(a) Neither the Parent Guarantor nor the Issuer will consolidate with or merge with or into or amalgamate or wind up into (whether or not it is the surviving Person), or sell, lease, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all its assets in one or more related transactions to, any Person, unless:

(1) (A) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “ Successor Company ”) will be a corporation, partnership, trust or limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State of the United States or the District of Columbia; provided that in the case where the Successor Company of the Issuer is not a corporation, a co-issuer of the Notes is a corporation; and (B) the Successor Company (if not the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as the case may be) will expressly assume, by supplemental indenture, joinder or other documents or instruments, executed and delivered to the Trustee, all the obligations of the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as the case may be, under this Indenture, the Notes, the Priority Lien Security Documents, the Note Security Documents, the Junior Lien Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the relevant Guarantee, as applicable, and the Successor Company shall cause such amendments, supplements or other instruments to be executed, filed and recorded in such jurisdictions as may be required by applicable law to preserve and protect the Lien on the Collateral owned by or transferred to such Successor Company, together with such financing statements or comparable documents as may be required to perfect any security interests in such Collateral which may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement or a similar document under the Uniform Commercial Code or other similar statute or regulation of the relevant states or jurisdictions; provided further that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parent Guarantor may consummate a Redomestication Transaction if all other conditions of this Section  4.1(a) are satisfied;

(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the Successor Company or any Subsidiary of the Successor Company as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by the Successor Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

 

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(3) immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis and any related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four quarter period, the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of the Parent Guarantor is equal to or greater than the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of the Parent Guarantor immediately before such transaction;

(4) if the Successor Company of the Issuer is not the Issuer, each Guarantor (unless it is the other party to the transactions, in which case clause (1) shall apply) shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that its Guarantee shall apply to the Successor Company’s obligations in respect of this Indenture and the Notes and that its Guarantee shall continue to be in effect; and

(5) the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as the case may be, shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such transaction and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture; and

(6) any Collateral owned by or transferred to the Successor Company formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger or the Person to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition has been made continues to constitute Collateral under the Indenture and the Note Security Documents, subject to the Liens on the Collateral securing Priority Obligations, except as permitted by the Indenture or the Note Security Documents.

For purposes of this Section  4.1 , the sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as the case may be, which assets, if held by the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as applicable, on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as applicable.

The Successor Company will succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as the case may be, under this Indenture and the other Notes Documents; and its predecessor, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all its assets, will be released from all obligations under this Indenture, the other Notes Documents, the Notes or the relevant Guarantee, as applicable.

Notwithstanding Section  4.1(a)(3) , (x) any Restricted Subsidiary may consolidate with, merge with or into, amalgamate or wind up into, or dispose of all or part of its assets to, the Parent Guarantor, and the Parent Guarantor may consolidate with, merge into, amalgamate or wind up into, or dispose of all or part of its assets to, the Issuer or a Subsidiary Guarantor and (y) the Parent Guarantor and the Issuer may merge with or into an Affiliate incorporated solely for the purpose of reorganizing the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as the case may be, in a State of the United States or the District of Columbia or other jurisdiction; provided that, in the case of a Restricted Subsidiary that consolidates with, merges with or into, amalgamates or winds up into or disposes of all or part of its properties and assets to the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as the case may be, will not be required to comply with the preceding Section  4.1(a)(5) .

 

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(b) In addition, the Parent Guarantor will not permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to consolidate with, merge with or into, amalgamate or wind up into, and will not permit the disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of any Subsidiary Guarantor to, any Person (other than the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or another Subsidiary Guarantor) unless:

(1) (i) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person will be a corporation, partnership, trust or limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state of the United States or the District of Columbia and such Person (if not such Subsidiary Guarantor) will expressly assume, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, all the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture, the Notes, the Priority Lien Security Documents, the Note Security Documents, the Junior Lien Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the relevant Guarantee, as applicable, and the surviving Person shall cause such amendments, supplements or other instruments to be executed, filed and recorded in such jurisdictions as may be required by applicable law to preserve and protect the Lien on the Collateral owned by or transferred to such surviving Person, together with such financing statements or comparable documents as may be required to perfect any security interests in such Collateral which may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement or a similar document under the Uniform Commercial Code or other similar statute or regulation of the relevant states or jurisdictions; and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the resulting, surviving or transferee Person or any Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having been Incurred by such Person or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default shall have occurred and be continuing; or

(2) the transaction results in the release of the Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under this Indenture and its Guarantee after and in compliance with the provisions of Section  10.2 and

(3) the Parent Guarantor will have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such transaction and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture.

ARTICLE V

REDEMPTION OF NOTES

SECTION 5.1 Redemption . The Notes may be redeemed (a) as a whole or from time to time in part, subject to the conditions and at the redemption prices specified in paragraph 5 of the form of Note set forth in Exhibit A hereto, which is hereby incorporated by reference and made a part of this Indenture, or (b)  as a whole, and not less than as a whole, subject to the conditions and at the redemption price specified in Section 3.9(i) or Section 5.9 , as applicable, in each case together with accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date.

 

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SECTION 5.2 Applicability of Article . Redemption of Notes at the election of the Issuer, as permitted by any provision of this Indenture, shall be made in accordance with such provision and this Article V.

SECTION 5.3 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee . The election of the Issuer to redeem any Notes pursuant to Section 5.1 shall be evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer. In case of any redemption at the election of the Issuer, the Issuer shall, not later than five Business Days prior to giving notice of any redemption pursuant to Section 5.5 (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee in writing of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and, in the case of any redemption of less than all Notes, shall deliver to the Trustee such documentation and records as shall enable the Trustee to select the Notes to be redeemed pursuant to Section 5.4 . Any such notice may be cancelled at any time prior to notice of such redemption being sent to any Holder and shall thereby be void and of no effect.

SECTION 5.4 Selection by Trustee of Notes to Be Redeemed . If less than all Notes are to be redeemed at any time pursuant to an optional redemption, the particular Notes to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption, in compliance with the requirements, as set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee, of the principal national securities exchange, if any, on which such Notes are listed, or, if such Notes are not so listed, then on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion shall deem to be fair and appropriate (or, in the case of Global Notes, the Trustee will select Notes for redemption based on such method as DTC may prescribe); provided , however , that no such partial redemption shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Note not redeemed to less than $2,000 (or $1.00 after a PIK Payment).

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Notes selected for partial redemption, the method it has chosen for the selection of Notes and the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

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

SECTION 5.5 Notice of Redemption .

(a) Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided for in Section  12.2 , not less than 15 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed, except that that redemption notices may be sent more than 60 days prior to a Redemption Date if the notice is issued in connection with a legal defeasance or covenant defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Article  VIII or except as set forth in the penultimate sentence of Section  5.5(b) . At the Issuer’s request, the Trustee shall give notice of redemption in the Issuer’s name and at the Issuer’s expense; provided , however , that the Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, at least five Business Days prior to the giving of such notice (unless a shorter period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), an Officers’ Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice at the Issuer’s expense and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in the following items.

 

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All notices of redemption shall state:

(1) the Redemption Date,

(2) the redemption price, if then determinable, and otherwise the method for its determination and the amount of accrued interest to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section  5.7 , if any,

(3) if less than all outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the identification of the particular Notes (or portion thereof) to be redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be outstanding after such partial redemption,

(4) in case any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to such Note shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, the Holder will receive, without charge, a new Note or Notes of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed,

(5) that on the Redemption Date, the redemption price (and accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date payable as provided in Section  5.7 ) will become due and payable upon each such Note, or the portion thereof, to be redeemed, and, unless the Issuer defaults in making the redemption payment, that interest on Notes called for redemption (or the portion thereof) will cease to accrue on and after said date,

(6) the place or places where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the redemption price and accrued interest, if any,

(7) the name and address of the Paying Agent,

(8) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price,

(9) the CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN numbers, if applicable, and that no representation is made as to the accuracy or correctness of the CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN numbers, if applicable, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes,

(10) the Section of this Indenture or the paragraph of the Notes pursuant to which the Notes are to be redeemed, and

(11) if in connection with any conditional notice of redemption pursuant to the Issuer’s right to redeem all of the Notes upon a Change of Control Triggering Event, and in compliance with Section  5.5(b) , that such redemption is conditional upon such Change of Control Triggering Event occurring.

 

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(b) Any redemption or notice of redemption may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent and, in the case of a redemption with the Net Cash Proceeds of an Equity Offering, be given prior to the completion of the related Equity Offering. If such redemption is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and if applicable, shall state that, in the Issuer’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the date the notice of redemption was mailed or delivered, including by electronic transmission (subject to the applicable procedures of DTC)) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied, or such redemption or purchase may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied by the redemption or by the Redemption Date as so delayed, or such notice may be rescinded at any time in the Issuer’s discretion if the Issuer reasonably believes that any or all of such conditions will not be satisfied. In addition, the Issuer may provide in such notice that payment of the redemption and performance of the Issuer’s obligations with respect to such redemption may be performed by another Person.

SECTION 5.6 Deposit of Redemption Price . Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Redemption Date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Issuer or any of the Issuer’s Restricted Subsidiaries is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 2.4 ) an amount of money sufficient (as determined by the Issuer) to pay the redemption price of and accrued and unpaid cash interest together with an amount of cash equal to all accrued and unpaid PIK Interest on, all Notes which are to be redeemed on that date (including any PIK Notes or any increased principal amount of Notes in connection with a PIK Payment), other than Notes or portions of Notes called for redemption that are beneficially owned by the Issuer and have been delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee for cancellation.

SECTION 5.7 Notes Payable on Redemption Date . Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Notes or portions of Notes so to be redeemed without a condition precedent shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the redemption price therein specified (together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date), and from and after such date (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest) such Notes shall cease to bear interest and the only right of the Holders thereof will be to receive payment of the redemption price and, subject to the next sentence, unpaid interest on such Notes to the Redemption Date. Upon surrender of any such Note for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Note shall be paid by the Issuer at the redemption price, together with accrued interest, if any, to, but not including, the Redemption Date, provided , however , that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holder of such Note, or one or more predecessor Notes, registered as such as of the relevant record date.

If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the unpaid principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Notes.

SECTION 5.8 Notes Redeemed in Part . Any Note which is to be redeemed only in part (pursuant to the provisions of this Article V ) shall be surrendered at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 3.12 (with, if the Issuer or the Trustee

 

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so require, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder of such Note at the expense of the Issuer, a new Note or Notes, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in an aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Note so surrendered; provided , that each such new Note will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or integral multiple of $1.00 in excess thereof (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment).

SECTION 5.9 Tax Redemption .

(a) The Issuer may, at its option, upon providing not less than 30 days’ notice to the Trustee and the Holders, redeem, in whole but not in part, the outstanding Notes at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption if any Guarantor has become or would become obligated to pay any Additional Amounts or any Reimbursement Payments in respect of any Guarantee as a result of:

(1) any change in or amendment to the laws (or regulations promulgated thereunder) of any Non-U.S. Taxing Authority, or

(2) any change in or amendment to any official position regarding the application, administration or interpretation of such laws, regulations, rulings, technical interpretations, income tax folios, interpretation bulletins, information circulars or equivalent documents issued by a Non-U.S. Taxing Authority (including a holding, judgment or order by a court of competent jurisdiction), which change or amendment is announced and becomes effective after the Issue Date (without regard to whether the Issuer or any Guarantor is or has been making any payments under the Notes prior to, at or after the time such change or amendment is announced or effective).

(b) It shall be a condition to the Issuer’s right to redeem the Notes pursuant to the provisions of Section  5.9(a) that, prior to giving any notice of redemption of the Notes, the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee (i) an Officers’ Certificate stating that the Issuer has determined in its reasonable judgment that the obligations to pay such Additional Amounts or Reimbursement Payments cannot be avoided by such Guarantor taking reasonable measures available to it and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel that such Guarantor has or will become obligated to pay Additional Amounts or Reimbursement Payments as a result of an amendment or change described in Section  5.9(a) .

(c) No such notice of redemption may be given more than 60 days before or more than 180 days after any Guarantor first becomes liable (or, if later, the earlier of the date on which such Guarantor first becomes aware of its liability or the date on which it reasonably should have become aware of its liability) to pay any Additional Amounts or Reimbursement Payments as a result of a change or amendment described in Section  5.9(a) .

 

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ARTICLE VI

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

SECTION 6.1 Events of Default .

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

(1) default in any payment of interest on any Note when due, continued for 30 days;

(2) default in the payment of principal of or premium, if any, on any Note when due at its Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

(3) failure by the Issuer or any Guarantor to comply with its obligations under Article IV ;

(4) failure by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary to comply for 30 days (or 180 days in the case of a Reporting Failure) after notice has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Parent Guarantor by the Trustee or to the Parent Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “ Notice of Default ” hereunder with Sections 3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 3.5 , 3.6 , 3.8 , 3.9 , 3.10 , 3.11 , 3.19 , 3.20 and 3.21 (in each case, other than a failure to purchase Notes which will constitute an Event of Default under clause (2) above and other than a failure to comply with Article  IV which is covered by clause (3));

(5) failure by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary to comply with any agreement in this Indenture or the Notes (other than an agreement, a default in or failure to comply with that is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with) and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Parent Guarantor by the Trustee or to the Parent Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “ Notice of Default ” hereunder;

(6) default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), other than Indebtedness owed to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, whether such Indebtedness or guarantee existed at the Issue Date, or was created thereafter, which default:

 

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(A) is caused by a failure to pay principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on such Indebtedness prior to the expiration of the grace period provided in such Indebtedness (and any extensions of any grace period) (“ payment default ”); or

(B) results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity (the “ cross acceleration provision ”);

and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has been a payment default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates $50.0 million or more;

(7) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or a Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries), would constitute a Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including any Canadian Insolvency Law) or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or a Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries), would constitute a Significant Subsidiary bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, compromise, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or a Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries) would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or a Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries) would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, or of any substantial part of its or their property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its or their affairs, and the continuance of any decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days;

(8) the commencement by the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or a Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries) would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar law (including any Canadian Insolvency Law) or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it or them to the entry of a decree or order for relief or in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including any

 

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Canadian Insolvency Law) or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it or them, or the filing by it or them of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it or them to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or a Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries) would constitute a Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its or their property, or the making by it or them of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it or them in writing of its or their inability to pay its or their debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or a Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries) would constitute a Significant Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action;

(9) failure by the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries), would constitute a Significant Subsidiary to pay final judgments aggregating in excess of $50.0 million (to the extent not covered by insurance by a reputable and creditworthy insurer as to which the insurer has not disclaimed coverage), which judgments are not paid or discharged, and there shall be any period of 60 consecutive days following entry of such final judgment or decree during which a stay of enforcement of such final judgment or decree, by reason of pending appeal or otherwise, shall not be in effect (the “ judgment default provision ”); or

(10) any Guarantee of the Parent Guarantor or a Significant Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements for the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries) would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, ceases to be in full force and effect (except as contemplated by the terms of this Indenture) or is declared null and void in a judicial proceeding or the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary or group of Subsidiary Guarantors that, taken together (as of the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries) would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, denies or disaffirms its obligations under this Indenture or its Guarantee; or

(11) (x) any Note Security Document ceases to be in full force and effect (except as permitted by the terms of the Indenture or the Note Security Documents) for a period of 30 days after the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any Guarantor receives notice thereof, (y) any of the Note Security Documents ceases to give the Holders a valid, perfected security interest (except as permitted by the terms of the Indenture or the Note Security Documents) for a period of 30 days after the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any Guarantor receives notice thereof or (z) the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer or any Guarantor fails to grant and perfect any security interest required by the Note Security Documents to be so granted and perfected, in each case with respect to Collateral having a fair market value in excess of $50.0 million in the aggregate with respect to clauses (x), (y) and (z) above.

 

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(b) However, a default under clauses (4) and (5) of Section  6.1(a) will not constitute an Event of Default until the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes notify the Parent Guarantor in writing and, in the case of a notice given by the Holders, the Trustee of the default and the Parent Guarantor does not cure such default within the time specified in clauses (4) and (5) of Section  6.1(a) after receipt of such notice.

SECTION 6.2 Acceleration . If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in clauses (7) and (8) of Section 6.1(a) with respect to the Issuer) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of outstanding Notes by notice to the Issuer (and the Trustee in the case of a notice provided by the Holders), may declare the principal of, premium (including the Applicable Premium) and accrued but unpaid interest on all the Notes to be due and payable. Upon such a declaration, such principal, premium (including the Applicable Premium) and interest shall be due and payable immediately. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of an Event of Default specified in clauses  (7) and (8)  of Section  6.1(a), all outstanding Notes will become immediately due and payable without any declaration or other action or notice on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.  The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes by notice to the Trustee may rescind an acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of acceleration. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

If the Notes are accelerated or otherwise become due prior to July 12, 2024 for any reason (including the acceleration of claims by operation of law), in each case, as a result of an Event of Default prior to December 21, 2021, the amount of principal of, accrued and unpaid interest and premium on the Notes that becomes due and payable shall equal 100% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed plus the Applicable Premium in effect on the date of such acceleration, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the applicable Notes as of the date of acceleration, as if such acceleration were an optional redemption of the Notes pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Notes accelerated. If the Notes are accelerated or otherwise become due prior to July 12, 2024, in each case, as a result of an Event of Default on or after December 21, 2021, the amount of principal of, accrued and unpaid interest and premium on the Notes that becomes due and payable shall equal the redemption price applicable with respect to an optional redemption of the Notes pursuant to paragraph 5, in effect on the date of such acceleration, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the applicable Notes as of the date of acceleration, as if such acceleration were an optional redemption pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Notes accelerated.

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redeemed and shall constitute part of the Obligations, in view of the impracticability and extreme difficulty of ascertaining actual damages and by mutual agreement of the parties as to a reasonable calculation of each Holder’s lost profits as a result thereof. Any premium (including the Applicable Premium) payable above shall be presumed to be the liquidated damages sustained by each Holder as the result of the early redemption and the Issuer agrees that it is reasonable under the circumstances currently existing. The premium (including the Applicable Premium) shall also be payable in the event the Notes (and/or this Indenture) are satisfied or released by foreclosure (whether by power of judicial proceeding), deed in lieu of foreclosure or by any other means. THE ISSUER EXPRESSLY WAIVES (TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY LAWFULLY DO SO) THE PROVISIONS OF ANY PRESENT OR FUTURE STATUTE OR LAW THAT PROHIBITS OR MAY PROHIBIT THE COLLECTION OF THE FOREGOING PREMIUM (INCLUDING THE APPLICABLE PREMIUM) IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUCH ACCELERATION. The Issuer expressly agrees (to the fullest extent it may lawfully do so) that: (A) the premium (including the Applicable Premium) is reasonable and is the product of an arm’s length transaction between sophisticated business people, ably represented by counsel; (B) the premium (including the Applicable Premium) shall be payable notwithstanding the then prevailing market rates at the time payment is made; (C) there has been a course of conduct between Holders and the Issuer giving specific consideration in this transaction for such agreement to pay the premium (including the Applicable Premium); and (D) the Issuer shall be estopped hereafter from claiming differently than as agreed to in this paragraph. The Issuer expressly acknowledges that its agreement to pay the premium (including the Applicable Premium) to Holders as herein described is a material inducement to Holders to purchase the Notes.

In the event of any Event of Default specified in clause (6) of Section 6.1(a) , such Event of Default and all consequences thereof (excluding, however, any resulting payment default) shall be annulled, waived and rescinded, automatically and without any action by the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes, if within 30 days after such Event of Default arose the Issuer delivers an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee stating that (x) the Indebtedness or guarantee that is the basis for such Event of Default has been discharged or (y) the requisite number of Holders thereof have rescinded or waived the acceleration, notice or action (as the case may be) giving rise to such Event of Default or (z) the default that is the basis for such Event of Default has been cured, it being understood that in no event shall an acceleration of the principal amount of the Notes as described above be annulled, waived or rescinded upon the happening of any such events.

SECTION 6.3 Other Remedies . If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Notes, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the payment of principal of (or premium) or interest on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes, this Indenture or the Guarantees with respect to such Notes.

The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Noteholder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy. All available remedies are cumulative.

 

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SECTION 6.4 Waiver of Past Defaults . The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee (with a copy to the Issuer, but the applicable waiver or rescission shall be effective when the notice is given to the Trustee) may (a) waive, by their consent (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes), an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences except (i) a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on a Note or (ii) a Default or Event of Default in respect of a provision that under Section 9.2 cannot be amended without the consent of each Noteholder affected and (b) rescind any acceleration with respect to the Notes and its consequences if (1) such rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) all existing Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes that have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived. When a Default or Event of Default is waived, it is deemed cured, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any consequent right.

SECTION 6.5 Control by Majority . The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees or, subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.2 , that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Noteholders or would involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided , however , that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. Prior to taking any such action hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnification or security satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses, liabilities and expenses caused or that may be caused by taking or not taking such action.

SECTION 6.6 Limitation on Suits . Subject to Section 6.7 , a Noteholder may not pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture, the Note Security Documents or the Notes unless:

(1) such Holder has previously given to the Trustee written notice stating that an Event of Default with respect to the Notes is continuing;

(2) Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes have requested that the Trustee pursue the remedy;

(3) such Holders have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, against any loss, liability or expense;

(4) the Trustee has not complied with such request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity; and

(5) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes have not waived such Event of Default or otherwise given the Trustee a direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such request during such 60-day period.

 

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A Noteholder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Noteholder or to obtain a preference or priority over another Noteholder.

SECTION 6.7 Rights of Holders to Receive Payment . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture (including, without limitation, Section 6.6 ), the contractual right expressly set forth in this Indenture or the Notes of any Holder to receive payment of principal of, premium (if any) or interest on the Notes held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in the Notes, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be amended without the consent of such Holder.

SECTION 6.8 Collection Suit by Trustee . If an Event of Default specified in clauses (1) or (2) of Section 6.1(a) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Issuer for the whole amount then due and owing (together with interest on any unpaid interest to the extent lawful) and the amounts provided for in Section 7.7 .

SECTION 6.9 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the Noteholders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor or the Subsidiary Guarantors or its or their respective creditors or properties and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, may be entitled and empowered to participate as a member of any official committee of creditors appointed in such matter and may vote on behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or other Person performing similar functions, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the compensation and reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7 .

No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

SECTION 6.10 Priorities . If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article VI , it shall, subject to the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, pay out the money in the following order:

FIRST: to the Collateral Agent and the Trustee for amounts due to it under Section  7.7 , including payment of all compensation, expense and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the Collateral Agent the costs and expenses of collection;

 

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SECOND: to Holders of Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and

THIRD: to the Issuer or to such party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders of Notes pursuant to this Section  6.10 .

SECTION 6.11 Undertaking for Costs . In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section 6.11 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by the Parent Guarantor or its Subsidiaries, a suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 6.7 or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in outstanding principal amount of the Notes.

ARTICLE VII

TRUSTEE

SECTION 7.1 Duties of Trustee .

(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates, opinions or orders furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees, as applicable. However, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees, as the case may be (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

 

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(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

(1) this Section  7.1(c) does not limit the effect of Section  7.1(b) ;

(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section  6.5 ; and

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

(d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section  7.1 .

(e) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer. The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers or duties under the Indenture.

(f) Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

(g) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the Issuer shall be sufficient if signed by one Officer of the Issuer.

SECTION 7.2 Rights of Trustee . Subject to Section  7.1:

(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely on any document (whether in its original or facsimile form) reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. The Trustee shall receive and retain financial reports and statements of the Issuer as provided herein, but shall have no duty to review or analyze such reports or statements to determine compliance with covenants or other obligations of the Issuer.

(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate and/or an Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on an Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

 

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(c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care.

(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers, unless the Trustee’s conduct constitutes willful misconduct or negligence.

(e) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and the advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder or under the Notes or the Guarantees in good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

(f) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default or whether any entity or group of entities constitutes a Significant Subsidiary unless a Trust Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a Default or of any such Significant Subsidiary is received by the Trustee at the corporate trust office of the Trustee specified in Section  12.2 , and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture.

(g) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder (including without limitation as Collateral Agent), and to each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

(h) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees at the request, order or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered (and if requested, provided) to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the losses, costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby.

(i) Whenever in the administration of this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder or thereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may request and in the absence of bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, rely upon an Officers’ Certificate.

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

(k) The parties hereto acknowledge, in accordance with Section 326 of the Patriot Act, that the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The Issuer and the Guarantors agree that they will provide the Trustee with all such information as it may reasonably request in order to satisfy the requirements or its obligations under the Patriot Act.

 

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(l) Any discretion, permissive right or privilege in favor of the Trustee, if any, shall not be construed as a duty or obligation.

(m) [Reserved].

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

SECTION 7.3 Individual Rights of Trustee . The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer, the Guarantors or their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Paying Agent or Registrar may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11 . In addition, the Trustee shall be permitted to engage in transactions with the Issuer; provided , however , that if the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest under the TIA, the Trustee must (i)  eliminate such conflict within 90 days of acquiring such conflicting interest, (ii)  apply to the SEC for permission to continue acting as Trustee or (iii)  resign.

SECTION 7.4 Trustee s Disclaimer . The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture, the Guarantees or the Notes, shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the sale of the Notes, shall not be responsible for the use or application of any money received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee or any money paid to the Issuer pursuant to the terms of this Indenture and shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in this Indenture or in any document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication.

SECTION 7.5 Notice of Defaults . If a Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes occurs and is continuing and if a Trust Officer has actual knowledge thereof, the Trustee shall send to each Noteholder in the manner provided in Section 12.02 , notice of the Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of, premium (if any), or interest on any Note (including payments pursuant to the optional redemption or required repurchase provisions of such Note), the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as the Trustee in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Noteholders.

SECTION 7.6 Reports by Trustee to Holders .

A copy of each report at the time it is sent to Noteholders shall be filed with the SEC and each stock exchange (if any) on which the Notes are listed. The Issuer agrees to notify promptly the Trustee whenever the Notes become listed on any stock exchange and of any delisting thereof and the Trustee shall comply with TIA § 313(d).

 

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SECTION 7.7 Compensation and Indemnity . The Issuer shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services hereunder and under the Notes and the Guarantees as the Issuer and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuer shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including, but not limited to, costs of collection, costs of preparing reports, certificates and other documents, costs of preparation and sending of notices to Noteholders. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuer and the Guarantors shall, jointly and severally, indemnify the Trustee (including its officers, directors, agents and employees) against any and all loss, liability, damages, claims or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by it without willful misconduct or gross negligence on its part (as determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction) in connection with the administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder and under the Notes and the Guarantees, including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture (including this Section 7.7 ), the Notes and the Guarantees and of defending itself against any claims (whether asserted by any Noteholder, the Issuer or otherwise). The Trustee shall notify the Issuer promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity of which it has received written notice. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Issuer shall not relieve the Issuer of its obligations hereunder. The Issuer shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall provide reasonable cooperation at the Issuer’s expense in the defense. The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel; provided that the Issuer shall not be required to pay the fees and expenses of such separate counsel if it assumes the Trustee’s defense, and, in the reasonable judgment of outside counsel to the Trustee, there is no conflict of interest between the Issuer and the Trustee in connection with such defense.

To secure the Issuer’s payment obligations in this Section  7.7 , the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee other than money or property held in trust to pay principal of, premium, if any, and interest on particular Notes. Such lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. The Trustee’s right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section  7.7 shall not be subordinate to any other liability or Indebtedness of the Issuer.

The Issuer’s payment obligations pursuant to this Section  7.7 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in clause (7) or clause (8) of Section  6.1 , the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law. “Trustee” for purposes of this Section  7.7 shall include any predecessor Trustee; provided, however, the gross negligence or willful misconduct of any Trustee hereunder shall not affect the rights of any other Trustee hereunder.

 

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SECTION 7.8 Replacement of Trustee . The Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer in writing. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may remove the Trustee by so notifying the removed Trustee in writing and may appoint a successor Trustee with the Issuer’s written consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. The Issuer shall remove the Trustee if:

(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section  7.10 hereof or TIA § 310;

(2) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;

(3) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

(4) the Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

If the Trustee resigns or is removed by the Issuer or by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes and such Holders do not reasonably promptly appoint a successor Trustee as described in the preceding paragraph, or if a vacancy exists in the office of the Trustee for any other reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee.

A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Trustee shall send a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided for in Section  7.7 .

If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Notes may petition, at the Issuer’s expense, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

If the Trustee fails to comply with Section  7.10 , unless the Trustee’s duty to resign is stayed as provided in TIA § 310(b), any Noteholder, who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section  7.8 , the Issuer’s obligations under Section  7.7 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.

SECTION 7.9 Successor Trustee by Merger . If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.

In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may

 

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authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Trustee; provided that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall only apply to its successor or successors by merger, consolidation or conversion.

SECTION 7.10 Eligibility; Disqualification . This Indenture shall always have a Trustee that satisfies the requirements of TIA §  310(a)(1), (2) and (5)  in every respect. The Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100  million as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA  §  310(b); provided , however , that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA  §  310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities or certificates of interest or participation in other securities of the Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA  §  310(b)(1) are met.

SECTION 7.11 Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Issuer . The Trustee shall comply with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA §  311(a) to the extent indicated.

SECTION 7.12 Trustee s Application for Instruction from the Issuer . Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Issuer may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three Business Days after the date any Officer of the Issuer actually receives such application, unless any such Officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.

ARTICLE VIII

DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE

SECTION 8.1 Discharge of Liability on Notes; Defeasance .

(a) Subject to Section  8.1(c) , when (i) either (x) all Notes that have been authenticated (other than Notes replaced or paid pursuant to Section  2.10 and such Notes for whose payment money has been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust), have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation or (y) all outstanding Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable by reason of the making of a notice of redemption or otherwise, will become due and payable within one year or may be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Issuer, and the Issuer or any Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee, as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or

 

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a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing, without consideration of any reinvestment of interest, to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest to the date of final maturity or redemption ( provided that if such redemption is made as provided in the fifth paragraph of paragraph 5 of the form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit  A , (1) the amount of cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof, that must be irrevocably deposited will be determined using an assumed Applicable Premium calculated as of the date of such deposit and (2) the depositor must irrevocably deposit or cause to be deposited additional money in trust on the Redemption Date as necessary to pay the Applicable Premium as determined by such date); (ii) in respect of clause (i)(y), no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of the deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit and any similar deposit relating to other Indebtedness and, in each case, the granting of Liens to secure such borrowings) and the deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other instrument to which either the Issuer or any Guarantor is a party or by which either the Issuer or any Guarantor is bound (other than with respect to the borrowing of funds to be applied concurrently to make the deposit required to effect such satisfaction and discharge and any similar concurrent deposit relating to other Indebtedness, and in each case the granting of Liens to secure such borrowings); (iii) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it under this Indenture; and (iv) the Issuer has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee under this Indenture to apply the deposited money toward the payment of such Notes at final maturity or the Redemption Date, as the case may be, then the Trustee shall acknowledge satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture on demand of the Issuer (accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, which may be subject to customary assumptions and exclusions, stating that all conditions precedent specified herein relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with) and at the cost and expense of the Issuer. If U.S. Government Obligations shall have been deposited in connection with such satisfaction and discharge, then as a further condition to such satisfaction and discharge, the Trustee shall have received a certificate from a nationally recognized firm of independent accountants to the effect set forth in Section  8.2(1) .

(b) Subject to Sections  8.1(c) and 8.2 , the Issuer at any time may terminate (i) all of its obligations under the Notes and this Indenture (“ legal defeasance option ”), and Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes will be released, and after giving effect to such legal defeasance, any omission to comply with such obligations shall no longer constitute a Default or Event of Default or (ii) its obligations under Sections  3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 3.5 , 3.6 , 3.8 , 3.9 , 3.10 , 3.11 , 3.19 , 3.20 and 3.21, and clause (a)(3) of Section  4.1 , and the Issuer may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply with such Sections shall no longer constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section  6.1(a)(3) (as it relates to Section  4.1(a)(3 ) only), Section  6.1(a)(4) (to the extent applicable to such other defeased covenants), Section  6.1(a)(6) , Section  6.1(a)(7) (only with respect to Significant Subsidiaries and a group of Restricted Subsidiaries constituting a Significant Subsidiary), Section  6.1(a)(8) (only with respect to Significant Subsidiaries and a group of Restricted Subsidiaries constituting a Significant

 

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Subsidiary), Section  6.1(a)(9) and Section  6.1(a)(10) (other than with respect to the Guarantee of the Parent Guarantor), and the events specified in such Sections shall no longer constitute an Event of Default and the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes will be released (clause (ii) being referred to as the “ covenant defeasance option ”), but except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and the Notes shall be unaffected thereby. The Issuer may exercise its legal defeasance option notwithstanding its prior exercise of its covenant defeasance option. If the Issuer exercises its legal defeasance or its covenant defeasance option, the Guarantees in effect at such time shall terminate.

If the Issuer exercises its legal defeasance option, payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default. If the Issuer exercises its covenant defeasance option, payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified in Section  6.1(a)(3) (as it relates to Section  4.1(a)(3) only), Section  6.1(a)(4) (to the extent applicable to Sections  3.2 , 3.3 , 3.4 , 3.5 , 3.6 , 3.8 , 3.9 , 3.10 , 3.11 , 3.19 , 3.20 and 3.21 ), Section  6.1(a)(6) , Section  6.1(a)(7) (only with respect to Significant Subsidiaries and a group of Restricted Subsidiaries constituting a Significant Subsidiary), Section  6.1(a)(8) (only with respect to Significant Subsidiaries and a group of Restricted Subsidiaries constituting a Significant Subsidiary), Section  6.1(9) or Section  6.1(10) (other than with respect to the Guarantee of the Parent Guarantor).

Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein and upon request and expense of the Issuer, the Trustee shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of those obligations that the Issuer terminates.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections  8.1(a) and (b)  to the extent relating to a satisfaction and discharge or a legal defeasance, the Issuer’s obligations in Sections  2.2 , 2.3 , 2.4 , 2.5 , 2.6 , 2.10 , 2.11 , 2.12 , 2.13 , 2.18 , 7.7 and 7.8 and in this Article  VIII shall survive until the Notes have been paid in full. Thereafter, the Issuer’s obligations in Sections  7.7 , 8.4 and 8.5 shall survive.

SECTION 8.2 Conditions to Defeasance . The Issuer may exercise its legal defeasance option or its covenant defeasance option with respect to Notes only if:

(1) in accordance with Section  8.1 , the Issuer irrevocably deposits with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders of Notes, cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and U.S. Government Obligations, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of national standing, to pay the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, due on the outstanding Notes on the Stated Maturity or on the applicable Redemption Date, as the case may be, and the Issuer must specify whether such Notes are being defeased to Stated Maturity or to a particular Redemption Date ( provided that if such redemption is made as provided in the fifth paragraph of paragraph  5 of the form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit  A , (x) the amount of cash in U.S. dollars, U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof, that must be irrevocably deposited will be determined using an assumed Applicable Premium calculated as of the date of such deposit and (y) the depositor must irrevocably deposit or cause to be deposited additional money in trust on the Redemption Date as necessary to pay the Applicable Premium as determined on such date);

 

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(2) in the case of legal defeasance, the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (subject to customary assumptions and exclusions) confirming that, subject to customary assumptions and exclusions, (a) the Issuer has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (b) since the Issue Date, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel will confirm that, the Beneficial Owners of the respective outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such legal defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such legal defeasance had not occurred;

(3) in the case of covenant defeasance, the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (subject to customary assumptions and exclusions) confirming that the Beneficial Owners of the respective outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred;

(4) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such deposit or will occur as a result of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit (and any similar concurrent deposit relating to other Indebtedness), and the grant of any Lien securing such borrowings);

(5) such legal defeasance or covenant defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture and the agreements governing any other Indebtedness being defeased, discharged or replaced) to which the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries are bound;

(6) the Issuer must deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Issuer with the intent of preferring the Holders of the respective outstanding Notes over the creditors of the Issuer or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding creditors of the Issuer or others;

(7) the Issuer must deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel may be subject to customary assumptions and exclusions), each stating that all conditions precedent relating to the legal defeasance or the covenant defeasance have been complied with; and

(8) the Issuer has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at maturity or the Redemption Date, as the case may be (which instructions may be contained in the Officers’ Certificate referred to in clause (7) above).

 

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SECTION 8.3 Application of Trust Money . The Trustee shall hold in trust all money or U.S. Government Obligations (including proceeds thereof) deposited with it pursuant to this Article VIII . It shall apply the deposited money and the money from U.S. Government Obligations through the Paying Agent and in accordance with this Indenture and the Notes to the Holders of all sums due in respect of the payment of principal of, premium, if any, and accrued interest on the Notes.

SECTION 8.4 Repayment to the Issuer . The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall promptly turn over to the Issuer upon request any excess money, U.S. Government Obligations or other Notes held by them upon payment of all the Obligations under this Indenture.

Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Issuer upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes that remains unclaimed by the Holders thereof for two years, and, thereafter, Noteholders entitled to the money must look to the Issuer for payment as unsecured general creditors unless an abandoned property law designates another Person and the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall have no further liability with respect to such money.

SECTION 8.5 Indemnity for U.S. Government Obligations . The Issuer shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against deposited U.S. Government Obligations or the principal and interest received on such U.S. Government Obligations.

SECTION 8.6 Reinstatement . If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article VIII by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the obligations of the Issuer and each Guarantor under this Indenture, the Notes and the Guarantees shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article VIII until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article VIII ; provided , however , that, if the Issuer or the Guarantors have made any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on any Notes because of the reinstatement of their obligations, the Issuer or Guarantors, as the case may be, shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money or U.S.  Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

The Trustee’s rights under this Article  VIII shall survive termination of this Indenture.

ARTICLE IX

AMENDMENTS

SECTION 9.1 Without Consent of Holders . The Issuer, the Guarantors (in the case of the Subsidiary Guarantors, with respect to its Guarantee), the Collateral Agent (if applicable) and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the related Guarantees without notice to or consent of any Noteholder:

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(2) to provide for the assumption by a successor corporation, partnership, trust or limited liability company of the obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor under this Indenture and the Notes or the applicable Guarantee in accordance with Article  IV ;

(3) to provide for or facilitate the issuance of uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes; provided , however , that such uncertificated Notes are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code;

(4) to add Guarantors with respect to the Notes, or release a Guarantor from its Guarantee and terminate such Guarantee; provided that the release and termination is in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture;

(5) to provide additional collateral securing the Notes or the related Guarantees;

(6) to add covenants of the Issuer or a Guarantor for the benefit of, or to make changes that would provide additional rights to, the Holders or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer or a Guarantor;

(7) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights under this Indenture of any Noteholder;

(8) to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with any qualification of this Indenture under the TIA;

(9) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of an appointment under this Indenture of a successor Trustee, or under this Indenture and the Note Security Documents of a successor Collateral Agent; provided that the successor Trustee is otherwise qualified and eligible to act as such under the terms of this Indenture;

(10) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes and PIK Notes in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture;

(11) to modify this Indenture solely for the purpose of providing the removal of the Restricted Securities Legend, if any, on any Note and to allow for the transfer of a Definitive Note or a beneficial interest in a Global Note to a Note that has an unrestricted CUSIP number, in each case in accordance with applicable securities laws.

(12) to make, complete or confirm any grant of Liens on Collateral permitted or required by this Indenture or any of the Note Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement; or

(13) to release or subordinate Liens on Collateral in accordance with this Indenture, the Note Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

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After an amendment, supplement, or waiver under this Section  9.1 becomes effective, the Parent Guarantor shall send to Noteholders (with a copy to the Trustee) a notice briefly describing such amendment. The failure to give such notice to all Noteholders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section.

In addition, the Holders will be deemed to have consented to, and shall be deemed to have directed the Trustee and/or the Collateral Agent (as applicable), to execute and deliver any of the following amendments, waivers and other modifications to the Note Security Documents, in each case, as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section  12.4 and Section  12.5 hereof:

(1) to add other parties (or any authorized agent thereof or trustee therefor) holding Priority Obligations that are incurred in compliance with the Revolving Credit Facility, this Indenture and the Security Documents and (B) to establish that the Liens on any Collateral securing such Priority Obligations shall rank equally under the Intercreditor Agreement with the Liens on such Collateral securing the obligations under the Senior Secured Credit Agreements and senior to the Liens on such Collateral securing any obligations under this Indenture, the Notes and the Guarantees, all on the terms provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement as in effect immediately prior to such amendment;

(2) to establish that the Liens on any Collateral securing any Indebtedness replacing the Senior Secured Credit Agreements permitted to be Incurred under Section  3.2 that represent Priority Obligations shall be senior to the Liens on such Collateral securing any obligations under this Indenture, the Notes and the Guarantees, which obligations shall continue to be secured on a second-priority basis on the Collateral; and

(3) upon any cancellation or termination of the Senior Secured Credit Agreements and all other Priority Obligations without a replacement thereof, to establish that the Collateral securing the Notes and the Guarantees shall become first priority Collateral, except as set forth below under Section  11.5 .

SECTION 9.2 With Consent of Holders . The Issuer, the Guarantors, the Collateral Agent (as applicable) and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement and any other Note Security Documents and the related Guarantees without notice to any Noteholder but with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes). Except as provided in Section 6.4 , any past default or compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Notes or the related Guarantees may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes). However, without the consent of each Noteholder affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

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(2) reduce the stated rate of interest or extend the stated time for payment of interest on any Note;

(3) reduce the principal of or extend the Stated Maturity of any Note;

(4) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes (except a rescission of acceleration of the Notes by the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes with respect to a nonpayment default and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);

(5) (i) reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any Note as described in Article  V hereof or paragraph  5 of any Note, (ii) change the time at which any Note may be redeemed as described in Article  V hereof or paragraph  5 of any Note (except provisions relating to minimum required notice of optional redemption) or (iii) make any change relative to the Issuer’s obligation to make an offer to repurchase the Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event as described in Section  3.9 after (but not before) the occurrence of such Change of Control Triggering Event; provided that the Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration to or for the benefit of any holder of any Notes for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment relating to the obligations set forth in clause (iii) of this Section  9.2(5) unless such consideration is offered to be paid and is paid to all holders of the Notes that consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in the solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or amendment;

(6) make any Note payable other than that stated in such Note;

(7) amend the contractual right expressly set forth in this Indenture with respect to the Notes or any Note of any Holder to institute a suit for the enforcement of any payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on such Holder’s Notes on or after the due dates therefor;

(8) make any change to this Section  9.2 which requires the consent of each Holder of the Notes;

(9) modify the Guarantees in any manner adverse to the Holders of Notes; or

(10) make any change to or modify the ranking or the priority of the Liens securing the Notes that would adversely affect the Holders of such Notes.

In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section  9.2 , the consent of Holders representing at least 66 2 3 % of outstanding Notes will be required to release the Liens for the benefit of the holders of the Notes on all or substantially all of the Collateral, other than in accordance with this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (as applicable).

 

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It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement, or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof. A consent to any amendment, supplement or waiver under this Indenture by any Holder of the Notes given in connection with a tender or exchange of such Holder’s Notes will not be rendered invalid by such tender or exchange.

After an amendment, supplement, or waiver under this Section becomes effective, the Parent Guarantor shall send to Noteholders (with a copy to the Trustee) a notice briefly describing such amendment. The failure to give such notice to all Noteholders, or any defect therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section  9.2 .

SECTION 9.3 [Reserved] .

SECTION 9.4 Revocation and Effect of Consents and Waivers . A consent to an amendment, supplement or a waiver by a Holder of a Note shall bind the Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Note or portion of the Note that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation of the consent or waiver is not made on the Note. Any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent or waiver as to such Holder’s Note or portion of the Note if the Trustee and the Issuer receive the notice of revocation before the date the amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective or otherwise in accordance with any related solicitation documents. After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Noteholder unless it makes a change described in any of clauses (1) through (10)  of Section 9.2 , and in that case the amendment, supplement, waiver or other action shall bind each Noteholder who has consented to it and every subsequent Noteholder that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Notes. An amendment, supplement or waiver under Section 9.2 shall become effective upon receipt by the Issuer of the requisite number of consents, and in relation to any Notes evidenced by Global Notes, such consents need not be in written form and may be evidenced by any electronic transmissions that comport with the applicable procedures of DTC.

The Issuer may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Noteholders entitled to give their consent or take any other action described above or required or permitted to be taken pursuant to this Indenture. If a record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were Noteholders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent previously given or to take any such action, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record date. No such consent shall become valid or effective more than 120 days after such record date.

SECTION 9.5 Notation on or Exchange of Notes . If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Note, the Issuer or the Trustee may require the Holder of the Note to deliver it to the Trustee. The Issuer may instruct the Trustee to place a notation designated by the Issuer on the Note regarding the changed terms and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Issuer or the Trustee so determines, the Issuer in exchange for the Note shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a new Note that reflects the changed terms. Failure to make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Note shall not affect the validity of such amendment.

 

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SECTION 9.6 Trustee to Sign Amendments . The Trustee or the Collateral Agent (as applicable) shall sign any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article IX if the amendment, supplement or waiver does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent (as applicable). If it does, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent (as applicable) may but need not sign it. In signing any amendment, supplement or waiver the Trustee or the Collateral Agent (as applicable) shall be entitled to receive indemnity satisfactory to it and shall be provided with, and (subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.2 ) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such amendment, supplement or waiver is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such amendment, supplement or waiver is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Issuer and any Guarantors, enforceable against them in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions, and complies with the provisions hereof.

ARTICLE X

GUARANTEE

SECTION 10.1 Guarantee . Subject to the provisions of this Article X , each Guarantor hereby fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, jointly and severally with each other Guarantor, to each Holder of the Notes, to the extent lawful, and the Collateral Agent and the Trustee the full and punctual payment when due, whether at final maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, of the Obligations under this Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the Issuer hereunder or thereunder. Each Guarantor agrees that the Obligations will rank equally in right of payment with all other existing and future Indebtedness of such Guarantor, except to the extent such other Indebtedness is subordinate to the Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees (to the extent permitted by law) that the Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound under this Article X notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Obligation.

Each Guarantor waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest to the Issuer of any of the Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. Each Guarantor waives notice of any default under the Notes or the Obligations.

Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein constitutes a guarantee of payment when due (and not a guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder to any security held for payment of the Obligations.

Except as set forth in Section  10.2 , the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than payment of the Obligations in full), including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the

 

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Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Guarantor herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by (a) the failure of any Holder to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Issuer or any other person under this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement or otherwise; (b) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement; (d) the release of any security held by any Holder for the Obligations or any of them; (e) the failure of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy against any other Guarantor; (f) any change in the ownership of the Issuer; (g) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Obligations; or (h) any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor or would otherwise operate as a discharge of such Guarantor as a matter of law or equity.

Each Guarantor agrees that its Guarantee herein shall remain in full force and effect until payment in full of all the Obligations or such Guarantor is released from its Guarantee upon the merger or the sale of all the Capital Stock or assets of the Guarantor or otherwise in compliance with Article  IV , Section  10.2 or Article  VIII , as applicable. Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any of the Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Issuer or otherwise.

In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Issuer to pay any of the Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at final maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, each Guarantor hereby promises to and will, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Trustee or the Trustee on behalf of the Collateral Agent or the Holders an amount equal to the sum of (i) the unpaid amount of such Obligations then due and owing and (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on such Obligations then due and owing (but only to the extent not prohibited by law).

Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between such Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in this Indenture for the purposes of its Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Obligations guaranteed hereby and (y) in the event of any such declaration of acceleration of such Obligations, such Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantor for the purposes of this Guarantee.

Each Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or the Holders in enforcing any rights under this Section  10.1 .

Neither the Issuer nor the Guarantors shall be required to make a notation on the Notes to reflect any Guarantee or any release, termination or discharge thereof and any such notation shall not be a condition to the validity of any Guarantee.

 

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SECTION 10.2 Limitation on Liability; Termination, Release and Discharge .

(a) Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder will be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Subsidiary Guarantor (including, without limitation, any guarantees under the Senior Secured Credit Agreements) and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Subsidiary Guarantor under its Guarantee or pursuant to its contribution obligations under this Indenture, result in the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under federal or state law and not otherwise being void or voidable under any similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.

(b) Upon the sale or disposition of a Subsidiary Guarantor, whether by merger, consolidation, the sale of a sufficient amount of its Capital Stock so that it no longer qualifies as a “Subsidiary” of the Issuer or the sale of all or substantially all of its assets (other than by lease) and whether or not such Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving entity in such transaction, to a Person which is not the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, such Subsidiary Guarantor will be released from all its obligations under this Indenture and its Guarantee if the sale or other disposition does not violate Section  3.5 .

(c) [Reserved].

(d) Each Subsidiary Guarantor will be released from its obligations under this Indenture and its Guarantee if the Parent Guarantor designates such Subsidiary Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary and such designation complies with the other applicable provisions of this Indenture.

(e) Each Subsidiary Guarantor will be deemed released from all its obligations under this Indenture and its Guarantee, and such Guarantee will terminate, upon any covenant defeasance of the Notes.

(f) Each Guarantor will be deemed released from all its obligations under this Indenture and its Guarantee, and such Guarantee will terminate, upon any legal defeasance or upon satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, in each case pursuant to the provisions of Article  VIII hereof.

(g) The release of any Guarantor from its obligations pursuant to this Section  10.2 shall be conditioned upon such Guarantor delivering to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the transactions specified in clauses (b), (c), (d) (e), or (f) of this Section  10.2 have been complied with.

SECTION 10.3 Right of Contribution . Each Guarantor hereby agrees that to the extent that any Guarantor shall have paid more than its proportionate share of any payment made on the obligations under the Guarantees, such Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution from and against the Issuer or any other Guarantor who has not paid its proportionate share of such payment. The provisions of this Section 10.3 shall in no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of each Guarantor to the Trustee and the Holders and each Guarantor shall remain liable to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders for the full amount guaranteed by such Guarantor hereunder.

 

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SECTION 10.4 No Subrogation . Notwithstanding any payment or payments made by each Guarantor hereunder, no Guarantor shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Trustee or any Holder against the Issuer or any other Guarantor or guarantee or right of offset held by the Trustee or any Holder for the payment of the Obligations, nor shall any Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from the Issuer or any other Guarantor in respect of payments made by such Guarantor hereunder, until all amounts owing to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders by the Issuer on account of the Obligations are paid in full. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held by such Guarantor in trust for the Trustee and the Holders, segregated from other funds of such Guarantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Guarantor, be turned over to the Trustee in the exact form received by such Guarantor (duly indorsed by such Guarantor to the Trustee, if required), to be applied against the Obligations.

ARTICLE XI

COLLATERAL AND SECURITY

SECTION 11.1 Security Interest .

(a) The due and punctual payment of the Obligations on the Notes and the Obligations of the Guarantors under the Guarantees, when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether on an interest payment date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of, premium on, if any, and interest, if any (to the extent permitted by law), on the Notes, the Guarantees and performance of all other obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantors to the Holders of Notes, the Collateral Agent or the Trustee under the Note Security Documents, according to the terms hereunder or thereunder (collectively, the “ Notes Obligations ”), are secured, as provided in the Note Security Documents. The Issuer and each of the Guarantors consent and agree to be bound by the terms of the Note Security Documents to which they are parties, as the same may be in effect from time to time, and agree to perform their obligations thereunder in accordance therewith. The Issuer and the Guarantors hereby agree that the Collateral Agent shall hold the Collateral on behalf of and for the benefit of all of the Holders and the other holders of Parity Lien Obligations.

(b) Each Holder, by its acceptance thereof and of the Guarantees, consents and agrees to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents (including, without limitation, the provisions providing for foreclosure and release of Collateral and amendments to the Note Security Documents) as the same may be in effect or may be amended or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with their terms and authorizes and appoints Wilmington Trust, National Association (and its successors and assigns) as the Trustee and as the Collateral Agent. Each Holder directs the Collateral Agent to enter into the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor

 

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Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and to perform its obligations and exercise its rights thereunder in accordance therewith, subject to the terms and conditions thereof. The Trustee, the Collateral Agent and each Holder, by accepting the Notes and the Guarantees of the Guarantors, acknowledges that, as more fully set forth in the Note Security Documents, the Collateral as now or hereafter constituted shall be held for the benefit of all the holders of Parity Lien Obligations, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), the Collateral Agent and the Trustee, and the Lien of this Indenture and the Note Security Documents is subject to and qualified and limited in all respects by the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents and actions that may be taken thereunder.

SECTION 11.2 Post-Issue Date Collateral Requirements .

(a) (i) On or prior to the Issue Date, the Issuer shall, or shall cause the applicable Guarantor to, execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent, as mortgagee or beneficiary, as applicable, such mortgages or other Note Security Documents, together with satisfactory evidence of the completion (or satisfactory arrangements for the completion) of all recordings and filings of such mortgages or other Note Security Documents in the proper recorders’ offices or appropriate public records (and payment of any recording taxes or fees in connection therewith) as may be necessary to create a valid, perfected second-priority Lien (subject in priority to the Priority Liens and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and to Permitted Liens) against proven Oil and Gas Properties that are subject to Liens under the Priority Debt Documents, but in any event constituting not less than 95% of the total discounted present value of proved reserves attributable to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as evaluated in the Parent Guarantor’s most recent consolidated reserve report (which such total discounted present value shall, during any such time as any Priority Lien Obligations are outstanding or commitments therefor remain outstanding, be determined using the total discounted present value methodology then in effect under the Priority Lien Debt Documents, and, at any time thereafter, using the total discounted present value methodology in effect under the Term Loan Credit Agreement in place on the Issue Date during a Term Loan Exclusive Period (as such term is defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement on the Issue Date), after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production since the date of such reserve report and (ii) on the date that each such mortgage is so filed or recorded, cause its counsel for the jurisdiction in which the relevant Oil and Gas Properties are located to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent a favorable legal opinion with respect thereto in form and substance substantially consistent with the opinion delivered pursuant to the applicable Priority Lien Debt Documents.

(b) Any Note Security Documents entered into on or after the Issue Date shall be substantially in the form of the corresponding security document securing the Priority Lien Obligations, or to the extent there is no such corresponding security document, the corresponding security documents securing the Priority Lien Obligations in place on the Issue Date, in each case, with such changes as are reasonably necessary to reflect the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and with such deletions or modifications of representations, warranties and covenants as are customary with respect to security documents establishing Liens securing publicly traded debt securities, all as certified to the Collateral Agent pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer (and upon which the Collateral Agent may conclusively rely).

 

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(c) Within 60 days of the Issue Date (or as such period may be extended by the Credit Facility Agent but in no event later than 90 days of the Issue Date), the Issuer and the Guarantors shall execute and deliver, and cause all other required parties thereto to execute and deliver, to the Collateral Agent the control agreements required by the Note Security Documents, and shall otherwise comply with the requirements of all Note Security Documents with respect to control agreements; provided that, (i) at any time prior to the Discharge of Senior Obligations (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement), with respect to any account for which a control agreement with the First Lien Collateral Agent (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) is in effect (any such account, a “ First Lien Collateral Agent Controlled Account ”), the Issuer shall only be required to use commercially reasonable efforts to execute and deliver and cause all other required parties to execute and deliver such control agreements and otherwise comply with such requirements within such time period and (ii) with respect to any such First Lien Collateral Agent Controlled Account, upon the Discharge of Senior Obligations or such account otherwise ceasing to be a First Lien Collateral Agent Controlled Account, the Issuer shall execute and deliver, and cause all other required parties thereto to execute and deliver, such control agreements and otherwise comply with such requirements within 60 days of the date of the Discharge of Senior Obligations or such account otherwise ceasing to be a First Lien Collateral Agent Controlled Account.

(d) [Reserved].

(e) Each Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor shall become a party to all Note Security Documents as a “Debtor” thereunder by thereupon executing a supplemental agreements substantially in the form attached to the Note Security Documents.

(f) Within 60 days of the Issue Date, the Issuer will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Collateral Agent to be named as an additional insured on all liability insurance policies of the Issuer and the Guarantors that insure the Collateral, and at any time after the Discharge of Senior Obligations (as defined in the Note Security Documents) the Collateral Agent to be named as loss payee on all property and casualty insurance policies of the Issuer and the Guarantors that insure the Collateral.

SECTION 11.3 Further Assurances; Liens on Additional Property .

(a) The Issuer and each of the Guarantors shall do or cause to be done all acts and things that may be required, or that the Collateral Agent from time to time may reasonably request, to assure and confirm that the Collateral Agent holds, for the benefit of the holders of Parity Lien Obligations, duly created and enforceable and perfected second priority Liens (subject in priority to the Priority Liens and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and to Permitted Liens) upon the Collateral (including any acquired property or other property required by any Parity Lien Document to become, Collateral after the Issue Date), in each case, as contemplated by, and with the Lien priority required under, the Parity Lien Documents, and in connection with any merger, consolidation or sale of assets of any Issuer or any Guarantor, the property and assets of the

 

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Person which is consolidated or merged with or into any Issuer or any Guarantor, to the extent that they are property or assets of the types which would constitute Collateral under the Note Security Documents, shall be treated as after-acquired property and such Issuer or such Guarantor shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to cause such property and assets to be made subject to the Parity Liens, in the manner and to the extent required under the Parity Lien Documents.

(b) Each Issuer and each of the Guarantors shall promptly execute, acknowledge and deliver such Note Security Documents, instruments, certificates, financing statements, notices and other documents, and take such other actions as shall be reasonably required, or that the Collateral Agent or any Parity Lien Representative may reasonably request, to create, perfect, protect, assure or enforce the Liens and benefits intended to be conferred, in each case as contemplated by the Parity Lien Documents for the benefit of the holders of Parity Lien Obligations and, prior to the Discharge of Senior Obligations, only if delivered pursuant to the applicable Priority Lien Debt Documents, cause its counsel to deliver a favorable legal opinion with respect thereto in form and substance substantially consistent with the opinions delivered pursuant to the applicable Priority Lien Debt Documents; provided , that no such Note Security Document, instrument or other document shall be materially more burdensome upon the Issuer and the Guarantors than the Parity Lien Documents executed and delivered (or required to be executed and delivered promptly after the date of this Indenture by the Issuer and the Guarantors in connection with the issuance of the Notes on or about the Issue Date).

(c) In addition to the Collateral, from and after the Issue Date, if any Issuer or any Guarantor acquires any property that constitutes collateral for the Priority Lien Debt or Junior Lien Debt, if and to the extent that any Priority Lien Document or Junior Lien Document, as applicable, requires any supplemental security document for such collateral or other actions to achieve a perfected Lien on such collateral, the Issuer shall, or shall cause the applicable Guarantor to, promptly (but not in any event no later than the date that is 20 Business Days after which such supplemental security documents are executed and delivered (or other action taken) under such Priority Lien Documents or Junior Lien Documents, as applicable), to the extent permitted by applicable law, execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent appropriate Note Security Documents (or amendments thereto) in such form as shall be necessary to grant the Collateral Agent a valid and enforceable perfected second-priority Lien (subject in priority to the Priority Liens and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and to Permitted Liens) on such Collateral or take such other actions in favor of the Collateral Agent as shall be reasonably necessary to grant a valid and enforceable perfected second-priority Lien (subject in priority to the Priority Liens and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and to Permitted Liens) on such Collateral to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes and holders of any other Parity Lien Obligations, subject to the terms of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement and the other Note Documents. Additionally, subject to this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement and the other Note Documents, if any Issuer or any Guarantor creates any additional Lien upon any property that would constitute Collateral, or takes any additional actions to perfect any existing Lien on Collateral, in each case for the benefit of the holders of the Priority Lien Debt or the holders of Junior Lien Debt, after the Issue Date, such Issuer or such Guarantor, as applicable, must, to the extent permitted by applicable law, within 20 Business Days after such Lien is granted or other action taken, grant a valid and enforceable

 

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perfected second-priority Lien (subject in priority to the Priority Liens and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and to Permitted Liens) upon such property or asset, or take such additional perfection actions, as applicable, for the benefit of the Holders and obtain all related deliverables as those delivered to the Priority Lien Representative or Junior Lien Agent, as applicable, in each case as security for the Notes Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that any Lien on any Collateral is perfected by the possession of such Collateral, and if such Collateral is in fact in the possession of the Priority Lien Representative or of bailees of the Priority Lien Representative, the perfection actions and related deliverables described in this clause (c) shall not be required.

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Note Documents to the contrary, neither the Issuer nor the Guarantors will be required to grant a security interest in, and the Collateral shall not include, any collateral securing Priority Lien Obligations that is or may be provided to certain issuers or providers of Hedging Obligations or cash management services pursuant to the Priority Lien Documents rather than generally to the holders of Priority Lien Obligations or to the Priority Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of the holders of Priority Lien Obligations as a whole.

(e) The Issuer will deliver to the Collateral Agent semi-annually on or before January 1 and July 1 in each calendar year, beginning July 1, 2019, an Officers’ Certificate certifying that, as of the date of such certificate, the Collateral includes proven Oil and Gas Properties that include not less than 95% of the total discounted present value of proved reserves attributable to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Parent Guarantor, on a consolidated basis, as evaluated in the Parent Guarantor’s most recent consolidated reserve report (which such total discounted present value shall, during any such time as any Priority Lien Obligations are outstanding or commitments therefor remain outstanding, be determined using the total discounted present value methodology then in effect under the Priority Lien Debt Documents, and, at any time thereafter, using the total discounted present value methodology in effect under the Term Loan Credit Agreement in place on the Issue Date during a Term Loan Exclusive Period (as such term is defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement on the Issue Date), after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production since the date of such reserve report (the “ minimum mortgage requirement ”). In the event that the Collateral does not represent the minimum mortgage requirement and, in any event, at any time at which a mortgage for Oil and Gas Properties is delivered pursuant to or in connection with the Priority Lien Debt Documents, then the Company shall, or shall cause the applicable Guarantor to, at the time of delivery of such mortgage or within 30 days of delivery of the certificate required under this clause (e) (or as such period may be extended by the Credit Facility Agent but in no event later than 90 days after delivery of the certificate required under this clause (e)), as applicable, execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent: (i) such executed mortgages or amendments or supplements to prior mortgages naming the Collateral Agent, as mortgagee or beneficiary, as may be necessary to cause the minimum mortgage requirement to be satisfied and (ii) satisfactory evidence of the completion (or satisfactory arrangements for the completion) of all recordings and filings of such mortgages, amendments or supplements in the proper recorders’ offices or appropriate public records (and payment of any recording taxes or fees in connection therewith).

 

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(f) The Issuer will deliver to the Trustee copies of all documents delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Note Security Documents.

SECTION 11.4 Intercreditor Agreement and Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement . This Article XI and the provisions of each other Note Security Document are subject to the terms, conditions and benefits set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement. Each Issuer and each Guarantor consents to, and agrees to be bound by, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, as the same may be in effect from time to time, and to perform its obligations thereunder in accordance with the terms thereof. Each Holder, by its acceptance of the Notes (a) consents to the subordination of Liens provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) agrees that it will be bound by, and will take no actions contrary to, the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and (c) authorizes and instructs the Collateral Agent on behalf of each Holder to enter into the Intercreditor Agreement as Parity Lien Collateral Agent (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) on behalf of such Holders of Notes as Parity Lien Secured Parties (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement). In addition, each Holder authorizes and instructs the Collateral Agent to enter into any amendments or joinders to the Intercreditor Agreement, without the consent of any Holder or the Trustee, to add additional Indebtedness as Priority Lien Debt, or permitted Refinancing Indebtedness constituting Secured Debt, and add other parties (or any authorized agent or trustee therefor) holding such Indebtedness thereto and to establish that the Lien on any Collateral securing such Indebtedness ranks equally with the Liens on such Collateral securing the other Priority Lien Debt, Parity Lien Debt (if any) or Junior Lien Debt (if any), as applicable. The foregoing provisions are intended as an inducement to the lenders under the Credit Agreement to extend credit to the Company and certain of its Subsidiaries, and such lenders are intended third party beneficiaries of such provisions and the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.

In connection with the incurrence by the Issuer or any Guarantor thereof of any Junior Lien Debt or Permitted Third Lien Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to the terms hereof and of any other then outstanding Priority Lien Documents, Parity Lien Documents and Junior Lien Documents, Holders, by their acceptance of the Notes, authorize and direct the Collateral Agent on behalf of each Holder to enter into the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C of this Indenture. In addition, each Holder (a) agrees that it will be bound by, and will take no actions contrary to, the provisions of the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, (b) authorizes and instructs the Collateral Agent to, without the consent of any Holder or the Trustee, enter into any supplements, joinders or confirmations to the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement and any amendments, amendments and restatements, restatements or waivers of or supplements to or other modifications to any Security Document to add additional Indebtedness as Third Lien Indebtedness, or permitted Refinancing Indebtedness constituting Secured Debt, and add other parties (or any authorized agent or trustee therefor) holding such Indebtedness thereto and to establish that the Lien on any Collateral securing such Indebtedness ranks third in priority with the Liens on such Collateral securing the other Priority Lien Debt, Parity Lien Debt (if any) or Junior Lien Debt (if any), as applicable, and (c) to make or consent to any filings or take any other actions in connection therewith, as may be reasonably deemed by the Issuer to be necessary or reasonably desirable for any Lien on the assets of the Issuer or any Subsidiary permitted to secure such Indebtedness to become a valid, perfected lien (with such priority as may be designated by the Issuer, the relevant Guarantor or Subsidiary, to the extent such priority is permitted by the Note Documents) pursuant to the Security Documents being so amended, amended and restated, restated, waived, supplemented or otherwise modified or otherwise, and, in each case, as set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Collateral Agent.

 

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SECTION 11.5 Release of Liens in Respect of Notes . The Collateral Agent’s other Liens upon the Collateral will no longer secure the Notes outstanding under this Indenture or any other Obligations, and the right of the Holders of the Notes to the benefits and proceeds of the Collateral Agent’s Liens on the Collateral will automatically terminate and be discharged:

(1) upon satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture in accordance with Article  VIII hereof;

(2) upon a legal defeasance or covenant defeasance of the Notes in accordance with Article  VIII hereof;

(3) upon payment in full in cash and discharge of all Notes outstanding under this Indenture and all other Obligations that are outstanding, due and payable under this Indenture and the other Note Documents at the time the Notes are paid in full and discharged;

(4) as to any Collateral of an Issuer or a Guarantor that is sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Issuer or any Guarantor to a Person that is not (either before or after such sale, transfer or disposition) the Issuer or a Guarantor in a transaction or other circumstance that complies with Section 3.5 hereof and is permitted by the other Note Documents, at the time of such sale, transfer or other disposition or to the extent of the interest sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of; provided that the Collateral Agent’s Liens upon the Collateral will not be released if the sale, transfer or disposition is subject to Section  4.1 hereof;

(5) in whole or in part, with the consent of the Holders of the requisite percentage of Notes in accordance with Article  IX hereof;

(6) with respect to the assets of any Guarantor, at the time that such Guarantor is released from its Guarantee in accordance with Section  10.2 ;

(7) if and to the extent required by Section  5.01 of the Intercreditor Agreement; or

(8) the release of Excess Proceeds that remain unexpended after the conclusion of an Asset Disposition Offer conducted in accordance with Section  3.5 .

With respect to any release of Collateral, upon receipt of (a) an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent under this Indenture and the Note Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement, if any, to such release have been met and (b) any necessary or proper instruments of termination, satisfaction or release prepared by the Company, the Collateral Agent shall execute, deliver, authorize or acknowledge (at the Company’s expense) such instruments or releases to evidence the release of any Collateral permitted to be released pursuant to this Indenture or the Note Security Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement. Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be liable for any such

 

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release undertaken in reliance upon any such Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, and notwithstanding any term hereof or in any Note Security Document or in the Intercreditor Agreement to the contrary, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to release any such Lien and security interest, or execute and deliver any such instrument of release, satisfaction or termination, unless and until it receives such Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel.

SECTION 11.6 Insurance .

(a) The Issuer and the Guarantors shall:

(1) maintain insurance with respect to their properties and business at all times by financially sound and reputable insurers, to such extent and against such risks as is customarily insured against by Persons in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations, and of such types and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances; and

(2) maintain such other insurance as may be required by law.

(b) Upon the request of the Collateral Agent, the Issuer and the Guarantors will furnish to the Collateral Agent information as to their property and liability insurance carriers.

SECTION 11.7 Suits to Protect the Collateral . Subject to the provisions of Article VI and the Note Documents, the Trustee may or may direct the Collateral Agent to take all actions it determines in order to:

(a) enforce any of the terms of the Note Security Documents; and

(b) Subject to the provisions of the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall have power to institute and to maintain such suits and proceedings as the Trustee may determine to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts which may be unlawful or in violation of any of the Note Security Documents or this Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee may determine to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Holders in the Collateral. Nothing in this Section  11.7 shall be considered to impose any such duty or obligation to act on the part of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent.

SECTION 11.8 Purchaser Protected . In no event shall any purchaser in good faith of any property purported to be released hereunder be bound to ascertain the authority of the Collateral Agent or the Trustee to execute the release or to inquire as to the satisfaction of any conditions required by the provisions hereof for the exercise of such authority or to see to the application of any consideration given by such purchaser or other transferee; nor shall any purchaser or other transferee of any property or rights permitted by this Article XI to be sold be under any obligation to ascertain or inquire into the authority of the Issuer or the applicable Guarantor to make any such sale or other transfer.

 

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SECTION 11.9 Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee . In case the Collateral shall be in the possession of a receiver or trustee, lawfully appointed, the powers conferred in this Article XI upon the Issuer or a Guarantor with respect to the release, sale or other disposition of such property may be exercised by such receiver or trustee, and an instrument signed by such receiver or trustee shall be deemed the equivalent of any similar instrument of the Issuer or a Guarantor or of any Officer or Officers thereof required by the provisions of this Article XI; and if the Trustee shall be in the possession of the Collateral under any provision of this Indenture, then such powers may be exercised by the Trustee.

SECTION 11.10 Collateral Agent .

(a) The Issuer, the Trustee and each of the Holders by acceptance of the Notes hereby designates and appoints the Collateral Agent as its agent under this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Issuer, the Trustee and each of the Holders by acceptance of the Notes hereby irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent to take such action on their behalf under the provisions of this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Collateral Agent by the terms of this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), and consents and agrees to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and each Note Security Document, as the same may be in effect or may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with their respective terms. The Collateral Agent hereby accepts such designation and appointment and agrees to act as such on the express conditions contained in this Section  11.10 . Each Holder agrees that any action taken by the Collateral Agent in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents, and the exercise by the Collateral Agent of any rights or remedies set forth herein and therein shall be authorized and binding upon all Holders. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere in this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), the duties of the Collateral Agent shall be ministerial and administrative in nature, and the Collateral Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein and in the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) to which the Collateral Agent is a party, nor shall the Collateral Agent have or be deemed to have any trust or other fiduciary relationship with the Trustee, any Holder or any Grantor, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) or otherwise exist against the Collateral Agent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” in this Indenture or the other Note Documents with reference to the Collateral Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties.

 

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(b) The Collateral Agent may perform any of its duties under this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) by or through receivers, agents, employees, attorneys-in-fact or with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates, and the respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors and attorneys-in-fact of such Person and its Affiliates (a “ Related Person ”), and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties, and shall be entitled to act upon, and shall be fully protected in taking action in reliance upon, any advice or opinion given by legal counsel. The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any receiver, agent, employee, attorney-in-fact or Related Person that it selects as long as such selection was made in good faith and with due care, but such receiver, agent, employee, attorney-in-fact or Related Person shall be liable to the Issuer for any losses caused by their gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction).

(c) None of the Collateral Agent or any of its respective Related Persons shall (i) be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction)) or under or in connection with any Note Security Document, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) or the transactions contemplated thereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction)), or (ii) be responsible in any manner to any of the Trustee or any Holder for any recital, statement, representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by the Issuer or any other Grantor or Affiliate of any Grantor, or any Officer or Related Person thereof, contained in this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Collateral Agent under or in connection with, this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), or the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), or for any failure of any Grantor or any other party to this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. None of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any of its respective Related Persons shall be under any obligation to the Trustee or any Holder to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) or to inspect the properties, books, or records of any Grantor or any Grantor’s Affiliates.

(d) The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, certification, telephone message, statement, or other communication, document or conversation (including those by telephone or e-mail) believed by it in good faith to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent, or made by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including, without limitation, counsel to the Issuer or any

 

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other Grantor), independent accountants and other experts and advisors selected by the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, or other paper or document. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Collateral Agent shall act solely pursuant to the instructions of the Holders and the Trustee with respect to the Notes Security Documents and the Collateral. The Collateral Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Trustee or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes as it determines and, if it so requests, it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Holders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. Except as otherwise provided in the Note Security Documents, the Collateral Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) in accordance with a request, direction, instruction or consent of the Trustee or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all of the Holders.

(e) The Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, unless a Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have received written notice of such Default or Event of Default from the Trustee or the Issuer referring to this Indenture, describing such Default or Event of Default. The Collateral Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as may be requested by the Trustee in accordance with Section  6.1 or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes (subject to this Section  11.10 ), subject to the terms of the Note Security Documents.

(f) The Collateral Agent may resign at any time by notice to the Trustee and the Issuer, such resignation to be effective upon the acceptance of a successor agent to its appointment as Collateral Agent. If the Collateral Agent resigns under this Indenture, the Issuer shall appoint a successor collateral agent. If no successor collateral agent is appointed prior to the intended effective date of the resignation of the Collateral Agent (as stated in the notice of resignation, which date shall not be earlier than 20 Business Days following the date on which such notice is delivered to the Issuer), the Trustee, at the direction of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, may appoint a successor collateral agent, subject to the consent of the Issuer (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld and which shall not be required during a continuing payment or bankruptcy Event of Default). If no successor collateral agent is appointed and consented to by the Issuer pursuant to the preceding sentence within 30 days after the intended effective date of resignation (as stated in the notice of resignation) the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as successor collateral agent hereunder, such successor collateral agent shall succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of the retiring Collateral Agent, and the term “Collateral Agent” shall mean such successor collateral agent, and the retiring Collateral Agent’s appointment, powers and duties as the Collateral Agent shall be terminated. After the retiring Collateral Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of Section  7.7 and this Section  11.10 shall continue to inure to its benefit and the retiring Collateral Agent shall not by reason of such resignation be deemed to be released from liability as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Collateral Agent under this Indenture.

 

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(g) Except as otherwise explicitly provided herein or in the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its respective officers, directors, employees or agents or other Related Persons shall be liable for failure to demand, collect or realize upon any of the Collateral or for any delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation to sell or otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any other Person or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to the Collateral or any part thereof. The Collateral Agent shall be accountable only for amounts that it actually receives as a result of the exercise of such powers, and neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees or agents shall be responsible for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction).

(h) The Collateral Agent is authorized and directed to (i) enter into the Note Security Documents to which it is party, whether executed on or after the Issue Date, (ii) enter into the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), (iii) make the representations of the Holders set forth in the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), (iv) bind the Holders on the terms as set forth in the Note Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and (v) perform and observe its obligations under the Note Documents the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable).

(i) Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall have any obligation whatsoever to the Trustee or any of the Holders to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by any Grantor or is cared for, protected, or insured or has been encumbered, or that the Collateral Agent’s Liens have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected, maintained or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or to determine whether all of the Grantor’s property constituting collateral intended to be subject to the Lien and security interest of the Note Security Documents has been properly and completely listed or delivered, as the case may be, or the genuineness, validity, marketability or sufficiency thereof or title thereto, or to exercise at all or in any particular manner or under any duty of care, disclosure, or fidelity, or to continue exercising, any of the rights, authorities, and powers granted or available to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Indenture, any Note Security Document, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) other than pursuant to the instructions of the Trustee or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes accompanied by indemnity satisfactory to the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion or as otherwise provided in the Note Security Documents.

(j) No provision of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) or any Note Security Document shall require the Collateral Agent (or the Trustee) to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or thereunder or to take or omit to take any action hereunder or thereunder or take any action at the request or direction of Holders (or

 

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the Trustee in the case of the Collateral Agent) unless it shall have received indemnity satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and the Trustee against potential costs and liabilities incurred by the Collateral Agent relating thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) or the Note Security Documents, in the event the Collateral Agent is entitled or required to commence an action to foreclose or otherwise exercise its remedies to acquire control or possession of the Collateral, the Collateral Agent shall not be required to commence any such action or exercise any remedy or to inspect or conduct any studies of any property under the mortgages or take any such other action if the Collateral Agent has determined that the Collateral Agent may incur personal liability as a result of the presence at, or release on or from, the Collateral or such property, of any hazardous substances. The Collateral Agent shall at any time be entitled to cease taking any action described in this clause if it no longer reasonably deems any indemnity, security or undertaking from the Issuer or the Holders to be sufficient. The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to the same protections as the Trustee specified in Article  VII .

(k) The Collateral Agent (i) shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in connection with this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents or instrument referred to herein or therein, except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from its own gross negligence or willful misconduct, (ii) shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Collateral Agent may agree in writing with the Issuer (and money held in trust by the Collateral Agent need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law) and (iii) may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice or opinion of such counsel as to matters of law shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered by it in good faith in reliance upon the advice or opinion of such counsel. The grant of permissive rights or powers to the Collateral Agent shall not be construed to impose duties to act.

(l) Neither the Collateral Agent nor the Trustee shall be liable for delays or failures in performance resulting from acts beyond its control. Such acts shall include but not be limited to acts of God, strikes, lockouts, riots, acts of war, epidemics, governmental regulations superimposed after the fact, fire, communication line failures, computer viruses, power failures, earthquakes or other disasters. Neither the Collateral Agent nor the Trustee shall be liable for any indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages (included but not limited to lost profits) whatsoever, even if it has been informed of the likelihood thereof and regardless of the form of action.

(m) The Collateral Agent does not assume any responsibility for any failure or delay in performance or any breach by the Issuer or any other Grantor under this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents. The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible to the Holders or any other Person for any recitals, statements, information, representations or warranties contained in this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) or in any certificate, report, statement, or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Collateral Agent under or in connection with, this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if

 

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applicable) or any Note Security Document; the execution, validity, genuineness, effectiveness or enforceability of the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and any Note Security Documents of any other party thereto; the genuineness, enforceability, collectability, value, sufficiency, location or existence of any Collateral, or the validity, effectiveness, enforceability, sufficiency, extent, perfection or priority of any Lien therein; the validity, enforceability or collectability of any Obligations; the assets, liabilities, financial condition, results of operations, business, creditworthiness or legal status of any obligor; or for any failure of any obligor to perform its Obligations under this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents. The Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to any Holder or any other Person to ascertain or inquire into the existence of any Default or Event of Default, the observance or performance by any obligor of any terms of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents, or the satisfaction of any conditions precedent contained in this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and any Note Security Documents. The Collateral Agent shall not be required to initiate or conduct any litigation or collection or other proceeding under this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents unless expressly set forth hereunder or thereunder. The Collateral Agent shall have the right at any time to seek instructions from the Holders (with indemnities) with respect to the administration of this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable).

(n) The parties hereto and the Holders hereby agree and acknowledge that neither the Collateral Agent nor the Trustee shall assume, be responsible for or otherwise be obligated for any liabilities, claims, causes of action, suits, losses, allegations, requests, demands, penalties, fines, settlements, damages (including foreseeable and unforeseeable), judgments, expenses and costs (including but not limited to, any remediation, corrective action, response, removal or remedial action, or investigation, operations and maintenance or monitoring costs, for personal injury or property damages, real or personal) of any kind whatsoever, pursuant to any environmental law as a result of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), the Note Security Documents or any actions taken pursuant hereto or thereto. Further, the parties hereto and the Holders hereby agree and acknowledge that in the exercise of its rights under this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents, the Collateral Agent or the Trustee may hold or obtain indicia of ownership primarily to protect the security interest of the Collateral Agent or the Trustee in the Collateral and that any such actions taken by the Collateral Agent or the Trustee shall not be construed as or otherwise constitute any participation in the management of such Collateral. In the event that the Collateral Agent or the Trustee is required to acquire title to an asset for any reason, or take any managerial action of any kind in regard thereto, in order to carry out any fiduciary or trust obligation for the benefit of another, which in the Collateral Agent’s or the Trustee’s sole discretion may cause the Collateral Agent or the Trustee to be considered an “owner or operator” under the provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“ CERCLA ”), 42 U.S.C. §9601, et seq ., or otherwise cause the Collateral Agent or the Trustee to incur liability under CERCLA or any other federal, state or local law, the Collateral Agent and the Trustee reserves the right, instead of taking such action, to either resign as the Collateral Agent or the

 

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Trustee or arrange for the transfer of the title or control of the asset to a court-appointed receiver. Neither the Collateral Agent nor the Trustee shall be liable to the Issuer, the Company, the Guarantors or any other Person for any environmental claims or contribution actions under any federal, state or local law, rule or regulation by reason of the Collateral Agent’s or the Trustee’s actions and conduct as authorized, empowered and directed hereunder or relating to the discharge, release or threatened release of hazardous materials into the environment. If at any time it is necessary or advisable for property to be possessed, owned, operated or managed by any Person (including the Collateral Agent or the Trustee) other than the Issuer or the Guarantors, subject to the terms of the Note Security Documents, a majority in interest of Holders shall direct the Collateral Agent or the Trustee to appoint an appropriately qualified Person (excluding the Collateral Agent or the Trustee) who they shall designate to possess, own, operate or manage, as the case may be, the property.

(o) Subject to the provisions of the applicable Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, each Holder, by acceptance of the Notes, agrees that the Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and the Note Security Documents to which it is a party and all agreements, documents and instruments incidental thereto, and act in accordance with the terms thereof. For the avoidance of doubt, except as otherwise provided in the Note Security Documents, the Collateral Agent shall have no discretion under this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) or the Note Security Documents and shall not be required to make or give any determination, consent, approval, request or direction without the written direction of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes or the Trustee, as applicable.

(p) After the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee, acting in accordance with the terms of the Indenture at the direction of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, may direct the Collateral Agent in connection with any action required or permitted by this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable).

(q) The Collateral Agent is authorized to receive any funds for the benefit of itself, the Trustee and the Holders distributed under the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) and to the extent not prohibited under the Intercreditor Agreement, for turnover to the Trustee to make further distributions of such funds to itself, the Trustee and the Holders in accordance with the provisions of Section  6.10 and the other provisions of this Indenture.

(r) In each case that the Collateral Agent may or is required hereunder or under any Note Security Document, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) to take any action (an “ Action ”), including without limitation to make any determination, to give consents, to exercise rights, powers or remedies, to release or sell Collateral or otherwise to act hereunder or under any Note Security Document, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), the Collateral Agent may seek direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then

 

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outstanding Notes. The Collateral Agent shall not be liable with respect to any Action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes. If the Collateral Agent shall request direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes with respect to any Action, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such Action unless and until the Collateral Agent shall have received direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, and the Collateral Agent shall not incur liability to any Person by reason of so refraining.

(s) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or in any Note Security Document, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable), in no event shall the Collateral Agent or the Trustee be responsible for, or have any duty or obligation with respect to, the recording, filing, registering, perfection, protection or maintenance of the security interests or Liens intended to be created by this Indenture, the Note Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement (if applicable) (including without limitation the filing or continuation of any Uniform Commercial Code or PPSA financing or continuation statements or similar documents or instruments), nor shall the Collateral Agent or the Trustee be responsible for, and neither the Collateral Agent nor the Trustee makes any representation regarding, the validity, effectiveness or priority of any of the Note Security Documents or the security interests or Liens intended to be created thereby.

(t) Before the Collateral Agent acts or refrains from acting in each case at the request or direction of the Issuer or the Guarantors, it may require an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, which shall conform to the provisions of Section  12.5 . The Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such certificate or opinion.

(u) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein but subject to the Note Security Documents, the Collateral Agent shall act pursuant to the instructions of the Holders and the Trustee solely with respect to the Note Security Documents and the Collateral.

(v) The Collateral Agent, in executing and performing its duties under the Note Security Documents, shall be entitled to all of the rights, protections, immunities and indemnities granted to it hereunder.

(w) The Issuer and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, will pay to the Collateral Agent such compensation, reimburse the Collateral Agent for expenses, and indemnify the Collateral Agent, all as set forth in Section  7.7 hereof (as though references to the Trustee therein were references to the Collateral Agent).

 

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ARTICLE XII

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 12.1 [Reserved] .

SECTION 12.2 Notices . Any notice or communication shall be in writing in the English language and delivered in person, sent by facsimile, other electronic means, delivered by commercial courier service or mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:

if to the Issuer or to any Guarantor:

Ultra Resources, Inc.

116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400

Englewood, Colorado 80112

Attention: Chief Financial Officer

Telecopy: 281-876-2831

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

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

609 Main Street, Suite 4500

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Matthew R. Pacey

Telecopy: (713) 836-3601

if to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, at its corporate trust office in the United States, which corporate trust office for purposes of this Indenture is at the date hereof located at:

Wilmington Trust, National Association

15950 N. Dallas Parkway, Suite 550

Dallas, Texas 75248

Attention: Ultra Resources, Inc. Notes Administrator

Telecopy: (888) 316-6238

The Issuer, any Guarantor, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent by written notice to the others may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

Any notice or communication to the Issuer or the Guarantors shall be deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally delivered; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and five calendar days after mailing if sent by U.S. Postal Service registered or certified mail, postage prepaid (except that a notice of change of address shall not be deemed to have been given until actually received by the addressee). Any notice or communication to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent shall be deemed delivered upon actual receipt by a Trust Officer. Notices given by publication will be deemed given on the first date on which publication is made.

Any notice or communication sent to a Noteholder shall be mailed to the Noteholder at the Noteholder’s address as it appears in the Securities Register and shall be sufficiently given if so mailed within the time prescribed; provided, however, that in any case where DTC or its nominee is the Noteholder, any notice or communication sent to it shall be given in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, notwithstanding any contrary indication in this Indenture.

 

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Failure to send a notice or communication to a Noteholder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Noteholders. If a notice or communication is sent in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it, except that notices to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent shall be effective only upon actual receipt by a Trust Officer.

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

SECTION 12.3 Communication by Holders with other Holders . Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Noteholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes. The Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).

SECTION 12.4 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent . Upon any request or application by the Issuer to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent to take or refrain from taking any action under this Indenture (except for an Opinion of Counsel in connection with the original issuance of Notes on the date hereof), the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent:

(1) an Officers’ Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

(2) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

SECTION 12.5 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion . Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture shall include:

(1) a statement that the individual making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

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

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

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In giving such Opinion of Counsel, counsel may rely as to factual matters on an Officers’ Certificate or on certificates of public officials.

SECTION 12.6 When Notes Disregarded . In determining whether the Holders of the required aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the Issuer, any Guarantor or any Affiliate of them shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Notes which the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Also, subject to the foregoing, only Notes outstanding at the time shall be considered in any such determination.

SECTION 12.7 Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar . The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by, or at meetings of, Noteholders. The Registrar and the Paying Agent may make reasonable rules for their functions.

SECTION 12.8 Legal Holidays . A “ Legal Holiday ” is a Saturday, a Sunday or other day on which commercial banking institutions are authorized or required to be closed in New York, New York or a place of payment. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period. If a regular record date is a Legal Holiday, the record date shall not be affected.

SECTION 12.9 GOVERNING LAW . THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

SECTION 12.10 No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders . No director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder, member, partner or trustee of the Issuer or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor under the Notes, this Indenture or the Guarantees or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.

SECTION 12.11 Successors . All agreements of the Issuer and each Guarantor in this Indenture and the Notes shall bind their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.

SECTION 12.12 Multiple Originals . The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. One signed copy is enough to prove this Indenture. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

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SECTION 12.13 Force Majeure . In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

SECTION 12.14 Table of Contents; Headings . The table of contents and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be considered a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

SECTION 12.15 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL . EACH OF THE ISSUER, THE GUARANTORS AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES, THE GUARANTEES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

SECTION 12.16 Consent to Jurisdiction . Each party agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this Indenture will be tried exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if that court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, in any state court located in the City and County of New York and each party agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of, and to venue in, such courts. Each party agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding each party, as applicable, and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which each party, as applicable, is subject by a suit upon such judgment. The Issuer and the Guarantors irrevocably appoint CT Corporation System, located at 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10011, as its authorized agent in the City of New York upon which process may be served in any such suit or proceeding, and agrees that service of process upon such authorized agent, and written notice of such service to such party by the person serving the same to the address provided in this Section  12.16 , shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon such party in any such suit or proceeding. The Issuers and the Guarantors represent and warrant that such authorized agent has accepted such appointment and has agreed to act as such authorized agent for service of process. The Issuers and the Guarantors further agree to take any and all action as may be necessary to maintain such designation and appointment of such authorized agent in full force and effect for a period of eight years from the date of this Indenture.

SECTION 12.17 Waiver of Immunity . To the extent that any party has or hereafter may acquire any immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from jurisdiction of any court of (i) Canada, or any political subdivision thereof, (ii) the United States or the State of New York, (iii) any jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or assets or from any legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution, set-off or otherwise) with respect to such party’s property and assets or this Indenture, each party hereby irrevocably waives such immunity in respect of each of their obligations under this Indenture to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

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SECTION 12.18 Judgment Currency . Each of the Issuer and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify each Holder, its directors, officers, affiliates and each person, if any, who controls such Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any loss incurred by such Holder as a result of any judgment or order being given or made for any amount due hereunder and such judgment or order being expressed and paid in a currency (the “ judgment currency ”) other than U.S. dollars and as a result of any variation as between (i) the rate of exchange at which the U.S. dollar amount is converted into the judgment currency for the purpose of such judgment or order, and (ii) the rate of exchange at which such indemnified person is able to purchase U.S. dollars with the amount of the judgment currency actually received by the indemnified person. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent obligation of the Issuer and the Guarantors and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “rate of exchange” shall include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or conversion into, the relevant currency.

SECTION 12.19 Severability . In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability.

 

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

 

Issuer:
ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.
By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Parent Guarantor:
ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.
By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   Interim Chief Executive Officer

 

Subsidiary Guarantors:
UP ENERGY CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
KEYSTONE GAS GATHERING, LLC
By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

ULTRA WYOMING, LLC

By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

[Signature Page to Indenture]


UPL PINEDALE, LLC

By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

UPL THREE RIVERS HOLDINGS, LLC

By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

ULTRA WYOMING LGS, LLC

By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

[Signature Page to Indenture]

 

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Trustee:
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION , as Trustee
By:   /s/ Shawn Goffinet
Name:  

Shawn Goffinet

Title:  

Assistant Vice President

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Collateral Agent
By:   /s/ Shawn Goffinet
Name:  

Shawn Goffinet

Title:  

Assistant Vice President

[Signature Page to Indenture]

 

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EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]

GLOBAL NOTE

[Restricted Securities Legend, if applicable]

[Global Notes Legend, if applicable]

[Original Issue Discount Legend, if applicable]

 

No. [    ]

  

Principal Amount $[                ][, as
revised by the Schedule of Increases
and Decreases in Global Note      

attached hereto]              

 

CUSIP NO 1 :

ISIN 2 :

9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024

Ultra Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of [    ] Dollars[, as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note attached hereto,] on July 12, 2024.

Interest Payment Dates: January 15 and July 15

Record Dates: January 1 and July 1

Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note.

 

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.
By:     
Name:  
Title:  

 

1  

to be inserted as appropriate: unrestricted Note – 90400G AE1

2  

to be inserted as appropriate: unrestricted Note – US90400G AE17

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes described in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Trustee

By:          
  Authorized Officer     Dated:    

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF NOTE]

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.

9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024

 

1.

Interest

Ultra Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (such corporation, and its successors and assigns under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, being herein called the “ Issuer ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note (including any PIK Notes and increases in principal amount as a result of the payment of PIK Interest) at the rate per annum shown above.

The Issuer will pay interest semiannually on January 15 and July 15 of each year commencing July 15, 2019. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid on the Notes or, if no interest has been paid, from December 21, 2018. The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal, and on overdue premium (plus interest on such interest to the extent lawful), at the rate borne by the Notes to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The Issuer shall pay Additional Amounts or Reimbursement Payments with respect to payments on the Notes in the circumstances set forth in Section  2.18 of the Indenture.

Interest on the Notes will accrue at (1) the annual rate of 9.00% and be payable in cash (“ Cash Interest ”), and (2) an annual rate of 2.00% (the “ PIK Interest ”) payable by increasing the principal amount of the outstanding Notes represented by one or more book entry Notes or Global Notes or, with respect to Notes represented by individual certificates, if any, by issuing additional “PIK Notes” in certificated form, in each case by rounding up to the nearest $1.00.

Any PIK Notes issued in certificated form will be dated as of the applicable interest payment date and will bear interest from and after such date. Following an increase in the principal amount of the outstanding Securities as a result of a PIK Payment, the Notes will accrue interest on such increased principal amount from and after the related interest payment date of such PIK Payment. References herein and in the Indenture to the “principal amount” of the Notes include any increases in the principal amount of the outstanding Notes as a result of a PIK Payment.

 

2.

Method of Payment

By no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the date on which any principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note is due and payable, the Issuer shall irrevocably deposit with the Trustee or the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, and/or interest. The Issuer will pay interest (except Defaulted Interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the January 1 and July 1 next preceding the interest payment date even if Notes are cancelled, repurchased or redeemed after the record date and on or before the interest payment date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Issuer will pay principal, premium, if any, and interest in

 

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money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments in respect of Notes represented by a Global Note (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) will be made by the transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by The Depository Trust Company or any successor depository. The Issuer will make all payments in respect of a Definitive Note (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof.

 

3.

Paying Agent and Registrar

Initially, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”) will act as Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar. The Issuer may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar without notice to any Noteholder. The Parent Guarantor or any of its wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiaries organized in the United States may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

At all times, PIK Interest on Notes will be payable, without the consent of the Holders: (i) with respect to book entry Notes or Notes represented by one or more Global Notes registered in the name of, or held by, DTC (or any successor depositary) or its nominee on the relevant record date, by increasing the principal amount of the outstanding book entry Notes or Global Notes, effective as of the applicable interest payment date, by an amount equal to the amount of PIK Interest for the applicable interest period (rounded up to the nearest $1.00) (“ PIK Payment ”) and the Trustee shall, at the request and direction of the Issuer set forth in an Issuer Order, authenticate or increase the principal amount of the book entry Note or Global Notes by the amount of the PIK Payment and (ii) with respect to Notes represented by individual certificates, if any, by issuing PIK Notes in certificated form, dated as of the applicable interest payment date, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the amount of PIK Interest for the applicable interest period (rounded up to the nearest $1.00), and the Trustee shall, at the request and direction of the Issuer set forth in an Issuer Order, authenticate and deliver such PIK Notes in certificated form for original issuance to the Holders on the relevant record date, as shown by the records of the register of holders.

 

4.

Indenture

The Issuer issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as of December 21, 2018 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “ Indenture ”), among the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture. The Issuer is not required to offer to exchange the Notes for notes registered under the Securities Act or otherwise register or qualify by prospectus the Notes for resale under the Securities Act. The Indenture will not be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) (as in effect on the date of the Indenture, the “ Act ”). Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. The Notes are subject to all terms and provisions of the Indenture, and Noteholders are referred to the Indenture for a statement of those terms. In the event of a conflict between the terms of this Note and the Indenture, the terms of the Indenture shall govern and control.

 

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The Notes are senior obligations of the Issuer. This Note is one of the Issuer’s 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 referred to in the Indenture. The Notes include (i) $545,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Issuer’s 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 issued under the Indenture on December 21, 2018 (herein called “ Initial Notes ”), and (ii) if and when issued from time to time subsequent to December 21, 2018 in exchange for the Issuer’s 6.875% Senior Notes due 2022 in accordance with Section  3.3(b)(13) , additional 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 (the “ Additional Notes ”). The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the incurrence of indebtedness, the making of restricted payments, the sale of assets and subsidiary stock, the incurrence of certain liens, the entering into of affiliate transactions, the entering into of agreements that restrict distribution from certain restricted subsidiaries and the consummation of mergers and consolidations. The Indenture also imposes requirements with respect to the provision of financial information and the provision of guarantees of the Notes by certain subsidiaries.

The Initial Notes issued on the Issue Date, any Additional Notes, any PIK Notes and any increase in the aggregate principal amount of Notes to pay PIK Interest will be treated as a single class for all purposes under the Indenture.

To guarantee the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest (including post-filing or post-petition interest) on the Notes and all other amounts payable by the Issuer under the Indenture and the Notes when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Notes and the Indenture, the Guarantors have unconditionally guaranteed (and future guarantors, together with the Guarantors, will unconditionally Guarantee), jointly and severally, such obligations on a senior basis pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.

 

5.

Redemption

Except as set forth below or in Section  3.9(i) or Section  5.9 of the Indenture, the Notes will not be redeemable at the option of the Issuer prior to December 21, 2021. On and after such date, the Notes will be redeemable, at the Issuer’s option, in whole or in part, at any time upon notice as provided in the Indenture, at the following redemption prices (expressed in percentages of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid Cash Interest together with an amount of cash equal to all accrued and unpaid PIK Interest on the Notes to be redeemed to, but excluding, the applicable Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on December 21 of the years set forth below:

 

Period

   Redemption Price  

2021

     105.500

2022

     102.750

2023 and thereafter

     100.000

In addition, at any time and from time to time on or prior to December 21, 2021, upon notice as provided in the Indenture, the Issuer may redeem in the aggregate up to 35% of the original principal amount of the Notes (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of Additional Notes and any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection

 

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with PIK Payments and PIK Notes), but in an amount not greater than the Net Cash Proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) of 111.000% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date); provided , that:

(1) at least 65% of the original principal amount of the Notes (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of Additional Notes and any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with PIK Payments and PIK Notes) must remain outstanding after each such redemption; and

(2) each such redemption occurs within 180 days of the date of closing of such Equity Offering.

The amount of Net Cash Proceeds from an Equity Offering being used to effect any redemption of the Notes pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph shall not exceed the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds from such Equity Offering.

In addition, at any time prior to December 21, 2021, upon notice as provided in the Indenture, the Issuer may redeem the Notes (which includes any Additional Notes and any increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes in connection with PIK Payments and PIK Notes, if any), in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus the Applicable Premium, plus Cash Interest together with an amount of cash equal to all accrued and unpaid interest and PIK Interest on the Notes to be redeemed, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date).

Applicable Premium ” means, with respect to a Note on any Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of such Note or (ii) the excess, if any, of (A) the present value at such time of (1) the redemption price of such Note on December 21, 2021 (such redemption price being described in the first paragraph of this paragraph 5 ) plus (2) all required interest payments (excluding accrued and unpaid interest to such Redemption Date) due on such Note through December 21, 2021, computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate with respect to such Redemption Date plus 50 basis points discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day calendar months), over (B) the principal amount of such Note. The Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the calculation of the Applicable Premium.

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the yield to maturity at the time of computation of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) which has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to December 21, 2021; provided , however , that if the period from the Redemption Date to December 21, 2021 is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security for which a weekly average yield is given, the Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth

 

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of a year) from the weekly average yields of United States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from the Redemption Date to December 21, 2021 is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.

The Issuer will (a) calculate the Treasury Rate as of a date no later than the second Business Day preceding the applicable Redemption Date and (b) prior to such Redemption Date file with the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the Applicable Premium and the Treasury Rate and showing the calculation of each in reasonable detail.

The Notes are also subject to tax redemption at the Issuer’s option as set forth in Section  5.9 of the Indenture.

 

6.

Repurchase Provisions

The Notes may be the subject of a Change of Control Offer and/or an Asset Disposition Offer, as further described in the Indenture. The Issuer shall not be required to make any mandatory redemptions or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

 

7.

Denominations; Transfer; Exchange

The Notes are in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of principal amount of $2,000 and whole multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment). A Holder may transfer or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay a sum sufficient to cover any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Issuer or the Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Note (A) for a period (1) of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or (2) beginning 15 days before an interest payment date and ending on such interest payment date or (B) selected for redemption, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

 

8.

Persons Deemed Owners

The registered Holder of this Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

9.

Amendment, Supplement, Waiver

The Indenture, the Notes and the related Guarantees may be amended or supplemented as provided in the Indenture.

 

10.

Defaults and Remedies

The Events of Default relating to the Notes are defined in Section  6.1 of the Indenture. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default relating to the Notes, the rights and obligations of the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders shall be as set forth in the applicable provisions in the Indenture.

 

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11.

Authentication

This Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee (or an Authenticating Agent acting on its behalf) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Note.

 

12.

Abbreviations

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Noteholder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entirety), JT TEN (= joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= custodian) and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

 

13.

CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN Numbers

The Issuer has caused CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN numbers, if applicable, to be printed on the Notes and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP, Common Code and ISIN numbers, if applicable, in notices of redemption or purchase as a convenience to Noteholders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption or purchase and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

 

14.

Governing Law

This Note shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

The Issuer will furnish to any Noteholder upon written request and without charge to the Noteholder a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to:

Ultra Resources, Inc.

116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400

Englewood, Colorado 80112

Attention: Chief Financial Officer

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

I or we assign and transfer this Note to:

 

 

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

 

 

(Insert assignee’s Social Security or Tax I.D. No.)

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

 

Date:            Your
Signature:
    
Signature Guarantee:                                                                                                                                                                                              
(Signature must be guaranteed)
 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.

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

The undersigned hereby certifies that it ☐ is / ☐ is not an Affiliate of the Issuer and that, to its knowledge, the proposed transferee ☐ is / ☐ is not an Affiliate of the Issuer.

In connection with any transfer or exchange of any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the date that is one year (or 40 days in the case of any Regulation S Notes) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Issuer or any Affiliate of the Issuer, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW:

 

           (1)        ☐        acquired for the undersigned’s own account, without transfer; or
  (2)        ☐        transferred to the Issuer; or
  (3)        ☐        transferred pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”); or

 

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  (4)          ☐        transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or
  (5)          ☐        transferred pursuant to and in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act; or
  (6)          ☐        transferred to an institutional “ accredited investor ” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act), that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing certain representations and agreements (the form of which letter appears as Section  2.8 of the Indenture); or
           (7)          ☐        transferred pursuant to another available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

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

 

 

   

 

    Signature
Signature Guarantee:    
     

 

(Signature must be guaranteed)     Signature

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

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

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

 

   

 

    Dated:

 

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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL NOTES]

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:

 

Date of
increase/
decrease

  

Amount of decrease
in Principal
Amount
of this Global Note

  

Amount of increase
in Principal
Amount of this

Global Note

  

Principal Amount
of this Global Note
following such
decrease or increase

  

Signature of
authorized
signatory of Trustee
or Securities
Custodian

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

If you elect to have this Note purchased by the Issuer pursuant to Section  3.5 or 3.9 of the Indenture, check either box:

 

☐            ☐

3.5            3.9

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Issuer pursuant to Section  3.5 or Section  3.9 of the Indenture, state the amount in principal amount (any remaining portion of such Note must be in minimum denominations of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1.00 in excess thereof (or minimum denominations of $1.00 and integral multiples of $1.00 in excess thereof after a PIK Payment)): $                and specify the denomination or denominations (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized denomination) of the Notes to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the within Note not being repurchased (in the absence of any such specification, one such Note will be issued for the portion not being repurchased): $                .

 

Date:                     Your Signature:                                                                                                                                                                     

 Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.

 

Signature Guarantee:                                                                                                                                                                                     
                (Signature must be guaranteed)

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

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF INDENTURE SUPPLEMENT TO ADD SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS

This [_______] Supplemental Indenture, dated as of [                ], 20__ (this “ Supplemental Indenture ” or “ Guarantee ”), is among [ name of future Subsidiary Guarantor ] (the “ Guaranteeing Subsidiary ”), Ultra Resources, Inc. (together with its successors and assigns, the “ Issuer ”), Ultra Petroleum Corp. (the “ Parent Guarantor ” and together with the existing Subsidiary Guarantors under the Indenture referred to below, the “ Guarantors ”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (in such capacity together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Trustee ”) and collateral agent (in such capacity together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Collateral Agent ”) under the Indenture referred to below.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Issuer, the Guarantors and the Trustee have heretofore executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of December 21, 2018 (as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified, the “ Indenture ”), providing for the issuance of an aggregate principal amount of $545,000,000 of 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 of the Issuer (the “ Notes ”);

WHEREAS, Section  3.11 of the Indenture provides that after the Issue Date the Issuer is required to cause (a) each Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Issuer (other than a Foreign Subsidiary) formed or acquired after the Issue Date and (b) any other Domestic Subsidiary that is not already a Subsidiary Guarantor that guarantees any Indebtedness of the Issuer or a Subsidiary Guarantor, in each case to execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which such Subsidiary will unconditionally guarantee, on a joint and several basis with the other Subsidiary Guarantors, the full and prompt payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section  9.1 of the Indenture, the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, the Guaranteeing Subsidiary and the Trustee are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture to amend or supplement the Indenture, without the consent of any Noteholder.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, the Guaranteeing Subsidiary and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

SECTION 1.1.  Defined Terms . As used in this Supplemental Indenture, terms defined in the Indenture or in the preamble or recital hereto are used herein as therein defined. The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereby” and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular section hereof.

 

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ARTICLE II

Agreement to Be Bound; Guarantee

SECTION 2.1.  Agreement to Be Bound . The Guaranteeing Subsidiary hereby becomes a party to the Indenture as a Subsidiary Guarantor and as such will have all of the rights and be subject to all of the obligations and agreements of a Subsidiary Guarantor under the Indenture. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary agrees to be bound by all of the provisions of the Indenture applicable to a Subsidiary Guarantor and to perform all of the obligations and agreements of a Subsidiary Guarantor under the Indenture.

SECTION 2.2.  Guarantee . The Guaranteeing Subsidiary agrees, on a joint and several basis with all the existing Guarantors, to fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee to each Holder of the Notes and the Trustee the Obligations pursuant to Article X of the Indenture.

ARTICLE III

Miscellaneous

SECTION 3.1.  Notices . All notices and other communications to the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall be given as provided in the Indenture to any Guarantor, at its address set forth therein.

SECTION 3.2.  Parties . Nothing expressed or mentioned herein is intended or shall be construed to give any Person, firm or corporation, other than the Holders and the Trustee, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture or any provision herein or therein contained.

SECTION 3.3.  Governing Law . This Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

SECTION 3.4.  Severability Clause . In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability.

SECTION 3.5.  Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part 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. The Trustee makes no representation or warranty as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or with respect to the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the other parties hereto.

 

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SECTION 3.6.  The Trustee . 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 Subsidiary and the Issuer.

SECTION 3.7.  Counterparts . The parties hereto may sign one or more copies of this Supplemental Indenture in counterparts, all of which together shall constitute one and 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

SECTION 3.8.  Headings . The headings of the Articles and the Sections in this Supplemental Indenture are for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to alter or affect the meaning or interpretation of any provisions hereof.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

[GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY],
as a Subsidiary Guarantor
By:    
  Name:
  Title:
  [Address]

 

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

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EXHIBIT C

Form of Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement

[attached]

 

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[FORM OF]

THIRD LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

Dated as of [___],

among

BANK OF MONTREAL,

as Revolving Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for the

First Lien Secured Parties,

BARCLAYS BANK PLC,

as Term Loan Administrative Agent,

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Second Lien Collateral Agent for the

Second Lien Parties

and

[___],

as Third Lien [Agent][Trustee] and Collateral [Agent][Trustee] for the Third Lien Parties

and acknowledged and agreed to by

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.,

as the Borrower

and the other Grantors referred to herein


THIRD LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of [___] (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “ Agreement ”), among BANK OF MONTREAL, as Collateral Agent for the First Lien Secured Parties referred to below (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ First Lien Collateral Agent ”) and as Administrative Agent under the First Lien Revolving Credit Agreement (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Revolving Administrative Agent ”), BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as Administrative Agent under the First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Term Loan Administrative Agent ”), WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Collateral Agent for the Second Lien Parties (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Second Lien Collateral Agent ”), [___], as Collateral [Agent][Trustee] for the Third Lien Parties (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] ”) and as [Agent][Trustee] under the Third Lien Debt Agreement (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Third Lien [Agent][ Trustee] ”) and acknowledged and agreed to by ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”) and the other Grantors (as defined below) from time to time party hereto.

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, the Borrower, UP Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “ Parent Guarantor ”), the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the Revolving Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto have entered into that certain Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017 (as amended by that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2017 and that Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2018, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance therewith and the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement (as defined below), the “ Revolving Credit Agreement ”);

WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto have entered into that certain Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance therewith and the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the “ Term Loan Credit Agreement ” and, together with the Revolving Credit Agreement, the “ First Lien Facilities ”);

WHEREAS, the Borrower is the issuer of 9.00% Cash/2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 (the “ Second Lien Notes ”) under that certain Indenture, dated as of December 21, 2018, among the Borrower, as Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, as trustee (as amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance therewith and the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the “ Second Lien Notes Indenture ”);

WHEREAS, [ Insert recitals with respect to Third Lien Obligations ];


WHEREAS, the First Lien Collateral Agent and Term Loan Administrative Agent, on behalf of itself and the other First Lien Secured Parties, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the other the Second Lien Parties, have agreed as to their respective rights and remedies with respect to the Shared Collateral and certain other matters in a separate First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “ First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement ”);

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the First Lien Collateral Agent and Term Loan Administrative Agent (in each case for itself and on behalf of the First Lien Secured Parties), the Second Lien Collateral Agent (for itself and on behalf of the Second Lien Parties) and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] (for itself and on behalf of the Third Lien Parties) agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

Section 1.01 Certain Defined Terms . Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Revolving Credit Agreement or, if defined in the New York UCC, the meanings specified therein. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.

Bankruptcy Code ” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended.

Bankruptcy Law ” means the Bankruptcy Code and any other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

Borrower ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.

Collateral Documents ” means the First Lien Collateral Documents, the Second Lien Collateral Documents and the Third Lien Collateral Documents.

Debt Documents ” means the First Lien Debt Documents, the Second Lien Debt Documents and the Third Lien Debt Documents.

Designated Priority Agent ” means (i) until the Discharge of First Lien Obligations, the First Lien Collateral Agent, (ii) from and after the Discharge of First Lien Obligations and until the Discharge of Second Lien Obligations, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and (iii) from and after the Discharge of Second Lien Obligations and until the Excess Senior Obligations have been paid in full in cash, the First Lien Collateral Agent.

 

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DIP Financing ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.01.

Discharge of First Lien Obligations ” has the meaning assigned to the term “Discharge of Senior Obligations” in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

Discharge of Priority Obligations ” means the date on which each of the following has occurred:

(a) the Discharge of First Lien Obligations;

(b) the Discharge of Second Lien Obligations; and

(c) the payment in full in cash of all Excess Senior Obligations.

Discharge of Second Lien Obligations ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

Enforcement Action ” means any action to:

(a) foreclose, execute, levy, or collect on, take possession or control of (other than for purposes of perfection), sell or otherwise realize upon (judicially or non-judicially), or lease, license, or otherwise dispose of (whether publicly or privately), Shared Collateral, or otherwise exercise or enforce remedial rights with respect to Shared Collateral (including by way of setoff, recoupment, notification of a public or private sale or other disposition pursuant to the UCC or other applicable law, notification to account debtors, notification to depositary banks under deposit account control agreements, or exercise of rights under landlord consents, if applicable);

(b) solicit bids from third Persons, approve bid procedures for any proposed disposition of Shared Collateral, conduct the liquidation or disposition of Shared Collateral or engage or retain sales brokers, marketing agents, investment bankers, accountants, appraisers, auctioneers, or other third Persons for the purposes of valuing, marketing, promoting, and selling Shared Collateral;

(c) receive a transfer of Shared Collateral in satisfaction of Indebtedness or any other Obligation secured thereby;

(d) otherwise enforce a security interest or exercise another right or remedy, as a secured creditor or otherwise, pertaining to the Shared Collateral at law, in equity, or pursuant to the First Lien Debt Documents, Second Lien Debt Documents or Third Lien Debt Documents (including the commencement of applicable legal proceedings or other actions with respect to all or any portion of the Shared Collateral to facilitate the actions described in the preceding clauses, and exercising voting rights in respect of equity interests comprising Shared Collateral); or

 

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(e) effectuate or cause the sale or other disposition of Shared Collateral by any Grantor after the occurrence and during the continuation of an event of default under any of the First Lien Debt Documents, the Second Lien Debt Documents or Third Lien Debt Documents with the consent of the First Lien Collateral Agent (or the First Lien Secured Parties), the Second Lien Collateral Agent (or the Second Lien Parties) or the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] (or the Third Lien Parties).

Excess Senior Obligations ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

First Lien Collateral ” means any “Collateral” (or similar term) as defined in any First Lien Debt Document or any other assets of the Borrower or any other Grantor with respect to which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted pursuant to a First Lien Collateral Document as security for any First Lien Obligations.

First Lien Collateral Agent ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agency Agreement.

First Lien Collateral Documents ” means the “Security Instruments” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement and/or the Term Loan Credit Agreement and any other collateral agreements, security agreements and other instruments and documents executed and delivered by the Borrower or any other Grantor for purposes of providing collateral security for any First Lien Obligation, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

First Lien Debt Documents ” means the Revolving Loan Documents and the Term Loan Documents, in each case, as may be amended, restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

First Lien ” means the Liens on the First Lien Collateral in favor of the First Lien Secured Parties under the First Lien Collateral Documents.

First Lien Facilities ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

First Lien Obligations ” means the Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations and the Term Loan Credit Agreement Obligations.

First Lien Secured Parties ” means the Revolving Credit Agreement Secured Parties and the Term Loan Credit Agreement Secured Parties.

Grantors ” means the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other Guarantors, and each of their respective Subsidiaries and each direct or indirect parent company of the Borrower, in each case that has granted a security interest pursuant to any Collateral Documents to secure any Secured Obligations. The Grantors existing on the date hereof are listed on the signature pages hereto as Grantors.

 

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Guarantors ” means the Parent Guarantor and each other Subsidiary of the Borrower that guarantees the Secured Obligations.

Indebtedness ” means and includes “Debt” under the Revolving Credit Agreement or Term Credit Agreement, “Indebtedness” under the Second Lien Notes Indenture, or “Indebtedness” (or similar term) under the Third Lien Debt Agreement, as applicable

Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding ” means:

(1) a voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to the Borrower or any other Grantor;

(2) any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency, reorganization, or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization, or other similar case or proceeding with respect to the Borrower or any other Grantor or a material portion of the property of the Borrower or any other Grantor;

(3) a liquidation, dissolution, reorganization, or winding up of the Borrower or any other Grantor, whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy; or

(4) any other proceeding of any type or nature in which substantially all claims of creditors of the Borrower or any other Grantor are determined and any payment or distribution is or may be made on account of such claims.

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

Majority Third Lien Parties ” means the Third Lien Parties holding of a majority in principal amount of the Third Lien Obligations issued under the Third Lien Debt Agreement then outstanding.

New York UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.

Parent Guarantor ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

 

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

Plan of Reorganization ” means any plan of reorganization, plan of liquidation, agreement for composition, or other type of plan of arrangement proposed in or in connection with any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

Pledged or Controlled Collateral ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section  5.05(a) .

Priority Agents ” means the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent.

Priority Collateral Documents ” means the First Lien Collateral Documents and the Second Lien Collateral Documents.

Priority Debt Documents ” means the First Lien Debt Documents, the Second Lien Debt Documents and the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

Priority Facilities ” means the First Lien Facilities and the Second Lien Notes.

Priority Lien ” means (a) the Liens on the First Lien Collateral in favor of the First Lien Secured Parties under the First Lien Collateral Documents and (b) the Liens on the Second Lien Collateral in favor of the Second Lien Parties under the Second Lien Collateral Documents.

Priority Obligations ” means the First Lien Obligations and the Second Lien Obligations.

Priority Secured Parties ” means the First Lien Secured Parties and the Second Lien Parties.

Proceeds ” means the proceeds of any sale, collection or other liquidation of Shared Collateral and any payment or distribution made in respect of Shared Collateral in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and any amounts received by any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party from a Third Lien Party in respect of Shared Collateral pursuant to this Agreement and all other Proceeds (as defined in the New York UCC) of Shared Collateral.

Purchase Event ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.07.

Recovery ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.04.

Refinance ” means, in respect of any indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew, defease, amend, increase, modify, supplement, restructure, refund, replace or repay such indebtedness, or to issue other indebtedness or enter into alternative financing arrangements, in exchange or replacement for such indebtedness (in whole or in part), including by adding or replacing lenders, creditors, agents, borrowers and/or guarantors, and including, in each case, but not limited to, after the original instrument giving rise to such indebtedness has been terminated and including, in each case, through any credit agreement, indenture or other agreement. “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” have correlative meanings.

 

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Representatives ” means the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee].

Revolving Administrative Agent ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Administrative Agent under the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Revolving Credit Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations ” means the “Obligations” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement and any equivalent term in any Refinancing thereof.

Revolving Credit Agreement Secured Parties ” means the “Secured Parties” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Revolving Loan Documents ” means the Revolving Credit Agreement and the other “Loan Documents” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

SEC ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any successor agency thereto.

Second Lien ” means the Liens on the Second Lien Collateral in favor of Second Lien Parties under Second Lien Collateral Documents.

Second Lien Collateral ” means any “Collateral” (or similar term) as defined in any Second Lien Document or any other assets of the Borrower or any other Grantor with respect to which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted pursuant to a Second Lien Collateral Document as security for any Second Lien Obligation.

Second Lien Collateral Agent ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Collateral Trustee under the [Second Lien Security Agreement].

Second Lien Collateral Documents ” means the “Note Security Documents” as defined in the Second Lien Notes Indenture and any other collateral agreements, security agreements and other instruments and documents executed and delivered by the Borrower or any other Grantor for purposes of providing collateral security for any Second Lien Obligation, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Second Lien Debt Documents ” means the Second Lien Notes Indenture and the other “Note Documents” as defined in the Second Lien Notes Indenture, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

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Second Lien Notes ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

Second Lien Notes Indenture ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

Second Lien Obligations ” means the “Secured Obligations” (or similar term) as defined in the Second Lien Security Agreement and any equivalent term in any Refinancing thereof.

Second Lien Parties ” means the “Secured Parties” as defined in the Second Lien Security Agreement.

Second Lien Security Agreement ” means the Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018, by and among the Grantors party thereto and the Second Lien Collateral Agent,, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Secured Obligations ” means the Priority Obligations and the Third Lien Obligations.

Secured Parties ” means the First Lien Secured Parties, the Second Lien Parties and the Third Lien Parties.

Shared Collateral ” means the First Lien Collateral, Second Lien Collateral and Third Lien Collateral.

Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, (a) any other Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, or (b) any other Person of which Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power (irrespective of whether or not at the time Equity Interests of any other class or classes of such Person shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) are, as of such date, owned, Controlled or held by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent. Unless otherwise specified, references to “Subsidiary” will be deemed to refer to a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor (other than the Borrower).

Term Loan Administrative Agent ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Administrative Agent under the Term Loan Credit Agreement.

Term Loan Credit Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

 

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Term Loan Credit Agreement Obligations ” means the “Obligations” as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement and any equivalent term in any Refinancing thereof.

Term Loan Credit Agreement Secured Parties ” means the “Secured Parties” as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement.

Term Loan Documents ” means the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the other “Loan Documents” as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Third Lien ” means the Liens on the Third Lien Collateral in favor of Third Lien Parties under Third Lien Collateral Documents.

Third Lien [Agent][Trustee] ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Trustee under the Second Lien Notes Indenture.

Third Lien Collateral ” means any “Collateral” (or similar term) as defined in any Third Lien Debt Document or any other assets of the Borrower or any other Grantor with respect to which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted pursuant to a Third Lien Collateral Document as security for any Third Lien Obligation.

Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Collateral [Agent][Trustee] under the Third Lien Security Agreement.

Third Lien Collateral Documents ” means the [“Security Instruments”] as defined in the Third Lien Notes Indenture and any other collateral agreements, security agreements and other instruments and documents executed and delivered by the Borrower or any other Grantor for purposes of providing collateral security for any Third Lien Obligation, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Third Lien Debt Agreement ” means that certain [Indenture][Credit Agreement][Other Agreement], dated as of [___], among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, and [___], as [trustee][administrative agent], as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Third Lien Debt Documents ” means the Third Lien Debt Agreement and the other “[Debt Documents]” as defined in the Third Lien Debt Agreement, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Third Lien Obligations ” means the “[Obligations]” as defined in the Third Lien Debt Agreement and any equivalent term in any Refinancing thereof.

 

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Third Lien Parties ” means the “[Secured Parties]” as defined in the Third Lien Debt Agreement.

Third Lien Priority Enforcement Date ” means, with respect to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent] [Trustee], the date which is 365 days after the occurrence of both (i) an Event of Default (under and as defined in the Third Lien Debt Agreement) and (ii) the Designated Priority Agent’s receipt of written notice from the Third Lien Collateral [Agent] [Trustee] that (x) an Event of Default (under and as defined in the Third Lien Debt Agreement) has occurred and is continuing, (y) the Third Lien Obligations are currently due and payable in full (whether as a result of acceleration thereof, at final maturity thereof or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of the Third Lien Debt Documents and (z) the Third Lien Collateral [Agent] [Trustee] intends to exercise any rights or remedies; provided that the Third Lien Priority Enforcement Date shall be stayed and shall not occur and shall be deemed not to have occurred with respect to any Shared Collateral (1) at any time any Priority Agent has commenced and is actively pursuing any Enforcement Action with respect to all or any material portion of such Shared Collateral or (2) at any time with respect to Enforcement Actions against any Grantor that has granted a security interest in such Shared Collateral, if such Grantor is then a debtor under or with respect to (or otherwise subject to) any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

Third Lien Security Agreement ” means the [security][collateral] agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Borrower, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other parties thereto, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Uniform Commercial Code ” or “UCC” means, unless otherwise specified, the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.

Section 1.02 Terms Generally; Rules of Construction . 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” as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “or” is not exclusive. The word “shall” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “will”. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, (b) any reference herein to any law shall be construed as referring to such law as amended, modified, codified or reenacted, in whole or in part, and in effect from time to time, (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to the restrictions contained in the Debt Documents), (d) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (e) with respect to the determination of any time period, the word “from” means “from and including” and the word “to” means “to and including” and (f) any reference herein to Articles, Sections, Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted or construed against any Person solely because such Person or its legal representative drafted such provision.

 

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ARTICLE II

Priorities and Agreements with Respect to Shared Collateral

Section 2.01 Subordination .

(a) Notwithstanding the date, time, manner or order of filing or recordation of any document or instrument or grant, attachment or perfection of any Liens granted to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Parties on the Shared Collateral or of any Liens granted to any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party on the Shared Collateral (or any actual or alleged defect in any of the foregoing) and notwithstanding any provision of the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction, any applicable law, any Third Lien Debt Document or any Priority Debt Document or any other circumstance whatsoever, the Third Lien Collateral Trustee, on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, hereby agrees that (a) any Lien on the Shared Collateral securing any Priority Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party or other agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall have priority over and be senior in all respects and prior to any Lien on the Shared Collateral securing any Third Lien Obligations and (b) any Lien on the Shared Collateral securing any Third Lien Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], any Third Lien Parties or other agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be junior and subordinate in all respects to all Liens on the Shared Collateral securing any Priority Obligations. All Liens on the Shared Collateral securing any Priority Obligations shall be and remain senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the Shared Collateral securing any Third Lien Obligations for all purposes, whether or not such Liens securing any Priority Obligations are subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of the Borrower, any other Grantor or any other Person or otherwise subordinated, voided, avoided, invalidated or lapsed.

Section 2.02 Nature of Senior Lender Claims . The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, acknowledges that (a) a portion of the Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations are revolving in nature and that the amount thereof that may be outstanding at any time or from time to time may be increased or reduced and subsequently reborrowed, (b) the terms of the Priority Debt Documents and the Priority Obligations may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, and the Priority Obligations, or a portion thereof, may be Refinanced in whole or in part from time to time and (c) the aggregate amount of the Priority Obligations may be increased, in each case, without notice to or consent by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or the other Third Lien Parties and without affecting the provisions hereof. The Lien priorities provided for in Section  2.01 shall not be altered or otherwise affected by any amendment, restatement, amendment and restatement, supplement or other modification, or any Refinancing, of either the Priority Obligations or the Third Lien Obligations, or any portion thereof. As between the Borrower and the other Grantors and the Third Lien Parties, the foregoing provisions will not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower and the other Grantors contained in any Third Lien Debt Document with respect to the incurrence of additional Priority Obligations.

 

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Section 2.03 Prohibition on Contesting Liens . The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agrees that it shall not (and hereby waives any right to) contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), the validity, extent, perfection, priority or enforceability of any Lien securing any Priority Obligations held (or purported to be held) by or on behalf of any Priority Agent or any of the other Priority Secured Parties or other agent or trustee therefor in any First Lien Collateral or Second Lien Collateral, as applicable, and that each Priority Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Priority Secured Party, agrees that it shall not (and hereby waives any right to) contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), the validity, extent, perfection, priority or enforceability of any Lien securing any Third Lien Obligations held (or purported to be held) by or on behalf of the Third Lien Collateral Trustee or any of the other Third Lien Parties in the Third Lien Collateral. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent, Second Lien Collateral Agent or Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] to enforce this Agreement (including the priority of the Liens securing the Priority Obligations as provided in Section  2.01 ) or any of the First Lien Debt Documents, Second Lien Debt Documents or Third Lien Debt Documents.

Section 2.04 No Other Liens . The parties hereto (including the Borrower, on behalf of the Grantors) agree that it is their intention that the First Lien Collateral, Second Lien Collateral and Third Lien Collateral be identical, except to the extent set forth in Section 2.06 . The parties hereto further agree that, so long as the Discharge of Priority Obligations has not occurred, (a) none of the Grantors shall, or shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, grant or permit any Lien on any asset to secure any Third Lien Obligation unless it has granted, or concurrently therewith grants, a Lien on such asset to secure the Priority Obligations (however, the refusal or failure of any Priority Agent to accept such Lien will not prevent the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or the other Third Lien Parties from taking the Lien), and (b) if the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party shall hold any Lien on any assets or property of any Grantor securing any Third Lien Obligations that are not also subject to the Liens securing all Priority Obligations under the Priority Collateral Documents, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or Third Lien Party (i) shall notify each Priority Agent promptly upon becoming aware thereof and, unless such Grantor shall promptly grant a similar Lien on such assets or property to each Priority Agent, for the benefit of the Priority Secured Parties, as security for the Priority Obligations, shall assign such Lien to each Priority Agent as security for the Priority Obligations for the benefit of the Priority Secured Parties (but may retain a junior Lien on such assets or property subject to the terms hereof) and (ii) until such assignment or such grant of a similar Lien to each Priority Agent (however, the refusal or failure of any Priority Agent to accept such Lien will not prevent the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or the other Third Lien Parties from taking the Lien), shall be deemed to hold and have held such Lien for the benefit of each Priority Agent and the other Priority Secured Parties as security for the Priority Obligations. To the extent that the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence are not complied with for any reason, without limiting any other right or remedy available to the Priority Agents or any other Priority Secured Party, the Third Lien Collateral Agent agrees, for itself and on behalf of the other Third Lien Debt Parties, that any amounts received by or distributed to any Third Lien Debt Party pursuant to or as a result of any Lien granted in contravention of this Section 2.04 shall be subject to the provisions of this Agreement (including Sections 4.01 and 4.02 ). The parties hereto further

 

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agree that, so long as the Discharge of Third Lien Obligations has not occurred, (a) none of the Grantors shall, or shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, grant or permit any Lien on any asset to secure any Priority Obligation unless it has granted, or concurrently therewith grants, a Lien on such asset to secure the Third Lien Obligations (however, the refusal or failure of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] to accept such Lien will not prevent any Priority Agent or the other Priority Secured Parties from taking the Lien), and (b) if any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party shall hold any Lien on any assets or property of any Grantor securing any Priority Obligations that are not also subject to the Liens securing all Third Lien Obligations under the Third Lien Collateral Documents, such Priority Agent or Priority Secured Party shall notify the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] promptly upon becoming aware thereof ( provided that the failure by the Priority Agent or such Priority Secured Party to provide such notice shall not result in the impairment or invalidity of such Liens) and such Grantor shall promptly grant a similar Lien on such assets to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] (except with respect to any Lien with respect to which the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] has declined or failed to accept such grant on behalf of the Third Lien Parties) for the benefit of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties as security for the Third Lien Obligations. The First Lien Collateral Agent, Second Lien Collateral Agent and Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] each agrees that the documents and agreements creating or evidencing the First Lien Collateral, Second Lien Collateral and Third Lien Collateral and guarantees for the Priority Obligations and the Third Lien Obligations shall be in all material respects the same forms of documents other than with respect to the relative seniority of the Obligations thereunder.

Section 2.05 Perfection of Liens . Except for the limited agreements of the Priority Agents pursuant to Section  5.05 hereof, none of the Priority Agents or the other Priority Secured Parties shall be responsible for perfecting and maintaining the perfection of Liens with respect to the Shared Collateral for the benefit of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or the other Third Lien Parties. The provisions of this Agreement are intended to govern the respective Lien priorities as between the Priority Secured Parties on the one hand and the Third Lien Parties on the other hand, and shall not impose on any Priority Agent, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], the other Third Lien Parties or any agent or trustee therefor any obligations in respect of the disposition of Proceeds of any Shared Collateral which would conflict with prior perfected claims therein in favor of any other Person or any order or decree of any court or governmental authority or any applicable law.

Section 2.06 Certain Cash Collateral . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any other Priority Debt Documents or Third Lien Debt Documents to the contrary, collateral consisting of cash and cash equivalents pledged to secure Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations consisting of reimbursement obligations in respect of Letters of Credit or otherwise held by the First Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to Section  2.08(j) of the Revolving Credit Agreement (or any corresponding successor provisions) shall be applied as specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement and will not constitute Shared Collateral.

 

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ARTICLE III

Enforcement

Section 3.01 Exercise of Remedies .

(a) So long as the Discharge of Priority Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Borrower or any other Grantor, (i) neither the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] nor any Third Lien Party will (w) file or commence any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding against the Borrower or any other Guarantor, (x) exercise or seek to exercise any Enforcement Action (including the rights to set off or credit bid their debt) with respect to any Shared Collateral in respect of any Third Lien Obligations, or institute (or join with any Person in instituting) any action or proceeding with respect to such Enforcement Action, (y) contest, protest or object to any Enforcement Action with respect to the Shared Collateral or any foreclosure proceeding or action brought with respect to any other First Lien Collateral or Second Lien Collateral by any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party in respect of any Priority Obligations, the exercise of any right by any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party (or any agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the Priority Obligations under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party either is a party or may have rights as a third party beneficiary, or any other exercise by any such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Shared Collateral under any Priority Debt Documents or otherwise in respect of the Shared Collateral, the First Lien Collateral or Second Lien Collateral or the Priority Obligations, or (z) object to the forbearance by any Priority Secured Party from bringing or pursuing any Enforcement Action (including any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies) relating to the Shared Collateral in respect of Priority Obligations and (ii) the Priority Agents and the Priority Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to take an Enforcement Action or otherwise enforce rights, exercise remedies (including the rights to set off or credit bid their debt) and make determinations regarding the release, disposition or restrictions with respect to the Shared Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party; provided , however , that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Borrower or any other Grantor, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] may file a claim, proof of claim, or statement of interest with respect to the Third Lien Obligations, (B) the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Priority Obligations or the rights of any Priority Agent or the other Priority Secured Parties to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien on, the Shared Collateral, (C) the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties may exercise their rights and remedies as unsecured creditors, solely to the extent provided in Section  5.04 , (D) the Third Lien Parties may file any responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims or Liens of the Third Lien Parties or the avoidance of any Third Lien to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, (E) the Third Lien Parties may vote with respect to any Plan of Reorganization in a manner that is consistent with and otherwise in accordance with this Agreement (including Section 6.10(b)), and (F) subject to the following

 

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proviso, from and after the Third Lien Priority Enforcement Date, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent] [Trustee] may exercise or seek to exercise Enforcement Action (including the rights to set off or credit bid their debt) with respect to any Shared Collateral in respect of any Third Lien Obligations, or institute (or join with any Person instituting) any action or proceeding with respect to such Enforcement Action; provided that, notwithstanding the occurrence of the Third Lien Priority Enforcement Date, at any time prior to the commencement by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent] [Trustee] of the exercise of any such rights or remedies with respect to all or a material portion of the Shared Collateral following the Third Lien Priority Enforcement Date, in the event that any of the Priority Agents is commenced and is actively pursuing any Enforcement Action with respect to all or a material portion of such Shared Collateral, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent] [Trustee] shall not be permitted to exercise or seek to exercise any Enforcement Action (including the rights to set off or credit bid their debt) with respect to any Shared Collateral in respect of any Third Lien Obligations, or institute (or join with any Person in instituting) any action or proceeding with respect to such Enforcement Action (in each case of (A) through (F) above, solely to the extent such action is not inconsistent with, or could not result in a resolution inconsistent with, the terms of this Agreement). In exercising rights and remedies with respect to the First Lien Collateral or Second Lien Collateral, as applicable, the Priority Agents and the other Priority Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the Priority Debt Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Shared Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition and to exercise all of the rights and remedies of a secured lender under the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

(b) So long as the Discharge of Priority Obligations has not occurred, except as expressly provided in clause (F) of the proviso in Section  3.01(a)(ii) and in Section  6.03 , the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, agrees that it will not, in any context, including in its role as secured creditor, take or receive any Shared Collateral or any Proceeds of Shared Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including setoff) with respect to any Shared Collateral in respect of Third Lien Obligations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in clause (F) of the proviso in Section  3.01(a)(ii) and in Section  6.03 , the sole right of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties with respect to the Shared Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Shared Collateral in respect of Third Lien Obligations pursuant to the Third Lien Debt Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the Proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred.

(c) The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agrees that neither the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] nor any other Third Lien Party will take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies (including an Enforcement Action) undertaken by any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party with respect to the Shared Collateral, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Shared Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, and (ii) hereby waives any and all rights it or any Third Lien Party may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which any Priority Agent or the other Priority Secured Parties seek to enforce or collect the Priority Obligations or the Liens granted on any of the First Lien Collateral or Second Lien Collateral, as applicable, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party is adverse to the interests of the Third Lien Parties.

 

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(d) The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in any Third Lien Debt Document shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of any Priority Agent or the other Priority Secured Parties with respect to the First Lien Collateral or Second Lien Collateral, as applicable, as set forth in this Agreement and the Priority Debt Documents.

(e) Subject to clause (F) of the proviso in Section  3.01(a)(ii) , the Priority Agents shall have the exclusive right to exercise any right or remedy with respect to the Shared Collateral and shall have the exclusive right to determine and direct the time, method and place for exercising such right or remedy or conducting any proceeding with respect thereto. Following the Discharge of Priority Obligations, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] shall have the exclusive right to exercise any right or remedy with respect to the Shared Collateral, and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] shall have the exclusive right to direct the time, method and place of exercising or conducting any proceeding for the exercise of any right or remedy available to the Third Lien Parties with respect to the Shared Collateral, or of exercising or directing the exercise of any trust or power conferred on the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], or for the taking of any other action authorized by the Third Lien Collateral Documents.

Section 3.02 [Reserved] .

Section 3.03 Actions upon Breach . Should the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party, contrary to this Agreement, in any way take, attempt to take or threaten to take any action with respect to the Shared Collateral (including any attempt to realize upon or enforce any remedy with respect to this Agreement) or fail to take any action required by this Agreement, any Priority Agent or other Priority Secured Party (in its or their own name or in the name of the Borrower or any other Grantor) or the Borrower or any other Grantor may obtain relief against the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or such other Third Lien Party by injunction, specific performance or other appropriate equitable relief. The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, hereby (i) agrees that the Priority Secured Parties’ damages from the actions of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party may at that time be difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable and waives any defense that the Priority Secured Parties cannot demonstrate damage or be made whole by the awarding of damages, (ii) agrees that the Borrower’s and the other Grantors’ damages from the actions of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party may at that time be difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable and waives any defense that the Borrower or any other Grantor cannot demonstrate damage or be made whole by the awarding of damages, and (iii) irrevocably waives any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other defense that might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance in any action that may be brought by any Priority Agent, any other Priority Secured Party, or the Borrower or any other Grantor.

 

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ARTICLE IV

Payments

Section 4.01 Application of Proceeds . After an event of default under any Priority Debt Document has occurred and until such event of default is cured or waived, so long as the Discharge of Priority Obligations has not occurred and regardless of whether an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced, the Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof received in connection with the sale or other disposition of, or collection on, such Shared Collateral or upon the exercise of any other remedies (including an Enforcement Action) shall be applied by the Designated Priority Agent to the Priority Obligations in such order as specified in the relevant Priority Debt Documents until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred. Upon the Discharge of Priority Obligations, the Designated Priority Agent shall deliver promptly to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] any Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof held by it in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, to be applied by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] to the Third Lien Obligations in such order as specified in the relevant Third Lien Debt Documents until the Third Lien Obligations have been paid in full in cash. Upon the payment in full in cash of the Third Lien Obligations, any Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof shall be distributed to the relevant Grantor or, to the extent directed by such Grantor or a court of competent jurisdiction, to whomever may be lawfully entitled to receive the then remaining amount to be distributed.

Section 4.02 Payments Over . Subject to Section  6.03 hereof, unless and until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, (a) regardless of whether an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced, any Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof received by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including setoff) relating to the Shared Collateral, whether or not in contravention of this Agreement or otherwise, and (b) any distributions received by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party with respect to its secured claims pursuant to an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, shall, in the case of clauses  (a) and (b) , be segregated and held in trust for the benefit of and forthwith paid over to the Designated Priority Agent for the benefit of the Priority Secured Parties in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. The Designated Priority Agent is hereby authorized to make any such endorsements as agent for the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any such other Third Lien Party. This authorization is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable. For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement provides for Lien priorities as between the Priority Secured Parties with respect to the Priority Obligations, on the one hand, and the Third Lien Parties with respect to the Third Lien Obligations, on the other hand, and does not subordinate the Third Lien Obligations to the Priority Obligations in right of payment.

 

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ARTICLE V

Other Agreements

Section 5.01 Releases and Related Matters .

(a) The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agrees that, in the event of (i) a sale, transfer or other disposition of any Shared Collateral (including all or substantially all of the equity interests of any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor) or (ii) a termination and release of a Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its guaranty of Priority Obligations, in each case, (A) by, or with the consent of, the Priority Agents and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent] [Trustee], (B) permitted under the Priority Debt Documents and the Third Lien Debt Documents or (C) pursuant to an Enforcement Action, the Liens granted to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties upon such Shared Collateral to secure Third Lien Obligations and/or the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its guaranty of the Third Lien Obligations, as applicable, shall (whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding is pending at such time) terminate and be released, immediately and automatically and without any further action, concurrently with the termination and release of all Liens granted upon such Shared Collateral to secure Priority Obligations and/or the termination and release of all obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its guaranty of Priority Obligations, as applicable; provided that the Liens securing the Priority Obligations and the Third Lien Obligations will attach to the Proceeds of the sale, transfer or other disposition on the same basis of priority as the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Priority Obligations rank to the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Third Lien Obligations pursuant to this Agreement. Upon delivery to a Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] of an executed certificate of a responsible officer stating that any such termination and release of Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Priority Obligations and/or such termination and release of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its guaranty of Priority Obligations, as the case may be, has become effective and is in compliance with this Agreement (or shall become effective concurrently with such termination and release of the Liens granted to the Third Lien Parties and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and/or such termination and release of such Subsidiary Guaranty under its guaranty of Third Lien Obligations, as applicable, and will be in compliance with this Agreement), and any necessary or proper instruments of termination or release prepared by the Borrower or any other Grantor, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] will promptly execute, deliver or acknowledge, at the Borrower’s or the other applicable Grantor’s sole cost and expense, such instruments necessary or proper to evidence such termination and release of the Liens or of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its guaranty of Third Lien Obligations. Nothing in this Section  5.01(a) will be deemed to affect any agreement of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of the other Third Lien Parties, to release the Liens on the Third Lien Collateral as set forth in the relevant Third Lien Debt Documents.

(b) Other than for purposes of clause (A) of Section  5.01(a), the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the Designated Priority Agent and any officer or agent of the Designated Priority Agent, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or other Third Lien Party or in the Designated Priority Agent’s own name, from

 

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time to time in the Designated Priority Agent’s discretion, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of Section  5.01(a) , to take any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments that may be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of Section  5.01(a) , including any termination statements, endorsements or other instruments of transfer or release. The Designated Priority Agent hereby agrees to take action reasonably requested by the Grantors to carry out the terms of this Section  5.01(b) or to accomplish the purposes of Section  5.01(a) .

(c) Unless and until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, hereby consents to the application, whether prior to or after an event of default under any Priority Debt Document, of Proceeds of Shared Collateral to the repayment of Priority Obligations pursuant to the Priority Debt Documents, provided that nothing in this Section  5.01(c) shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or the other Third Lien Parties to receive proceeds in connection with the Third Lien Obligations not otherwise in contravention of this Agreement; provided further , that the immediately preceding proviso shall not apply and such proceeds shall be subject to Section  4.02 in the event the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any Third Lien Party receives proceeds of Shared Collateral in connection with the exercise by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] of its rights under Section 3.01(a)(ii)(F).

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Third Lien Collateral Document, in the event the terms of a Priority Collateral Document and a Third Lien Collateral Document each require any Grantor to (i) make any payments in respect of any item of Shared Collateral to, (ii) deliver or afford control over any item of Shared Collateral to, or deposit any item of Shared Collateral with, (iii) register ownership of any item of Shared Collateral in the name of or make an assignment of ownership of any Shared Collateral or the rights thereunder to, (iv) cause any securities intermediary, commodity intermediary or other Person acting in a similar capacity to agree to comply, in respect of any item of Shared Collateral, with instructions or orders from, or to treat, in respect of any item of Shared Collateral, as the entitlement holder, (v) hold any item of Shared Collateral in trust for (to the extent such item of Shared Collateral cannot be held in trust for multiple parties under applicable law), (vi) obtain the agreement of a bailee or other third party to hold any item of Shared Collateral for the benefit of or subject to the control of or, in respect of any item of Shared Collateral, to follow the instructions of or (vii) obtain the agreement of a landlord with respect to access to leased premises where any item of Shared Collateral is located or waivers or subordination of rights with respect to any item of Shared Collateral in favor of, in any case, any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party, on the one hand, and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party, on the other hand, such Grantor may, until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, comply with such requirement under any applicable Third Lien Collateral Document as it relates to such Shared Collateral by taking any of the actions set forth above only with respect to, or in favor of, the applicable Priority Agent or other Priority Secured Party; provided, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any action or compliance with respect to the foregoing by any Grantor shall not cause a default or event of default to exist under any Priority Debt Document or any Third Lien Debt Document.

 

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Section 5.02 Insurance and Condemnation Awards . Unless and until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, the Designated Priority Agent and the other Priority Secured Parties under the Priority Facility shall have the sole and exclusive right, subject to the rights of the Grantors under the Priority Debt Documents, to (a) adjust settlement for any insurance policy covering the Shared Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder and (b) approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding affecting the Shared Collateral. Unless and until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, all proceeds of any such policy and any such award, if in respect of the Shared Collateral, shall be paid (i) first, prior to the occurrence of the Discharge of Priority Obligations, to the Designated Priority Agent for the benefit of Priority Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of the Priority Debt Documents, (ii) second, after the occurrence of the Discharge of Priority Obligations, to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] for the benefit of the Third Lien Parties pursuant to the terms of the applicable Third Lien Debt Documents, and (iii) third, to the owner of the subject property, such other Person as may be entitled thereto or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. If the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party shall, at any time, receive any proceeds of any such insurance policy or any such award in contravention of this Agreement, it shall pay such proceeds over to the Designated Priority Agent in accordance with the terms of Section  4.02 to be applied in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence.

Section 5.03 Amendments to Debt Documents .

(a) The Priority Debt Documents may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, extended, renewed, replaced, restructured and/or otherwise modified in accordance with their terms and the Indebtedness under the Priority Facilities may be Refinanced or replaced, in whole or in part, in each case, without the consent of the Third Lien Parties, so long as not prohibited by the Third Lien Debt Documents in effect on the date hereof, all without affecting the Lien priorities provided for herein and the other provisions of this Agreement; ; provided, however , that, without the consent of the Majority Third Lien Parties, no such amendment, restatement, supplement, modification or Refinancing (or successive amendments, restatements, supplements, modifications or Refinancings) shall (i) contravene the provisions of this Agreement or (ii) solely to the extent that the stated maturity date of the Indebtedness outstanding under the Third Lien Debt Documents is earlier than the stated maturity date of the Priority Obligations, contractually restrict or otherwise directly and adversely affect the payment at or following (and, for the avoidance of doubt, solely at or following, and not prior to) the stated maturity date of the Indebtedness under the Third Lien Debt Agreement.

(b) Without the prior written consent of each Priority Agent, no Third Lien Debt Document may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, extended, renewed, replaced, restructured, or otherwise modified, or entered into, and no Third Lien Obligations may be Refinanced, to the extent such amendment, restatement, supplement or modification or Refinancing, or the terms of such new Third Lien Debt Document, would (i) contravene the provisions of this Agreement, (ii) change to earlier dates any scheduled (other than mandatory prepayments) dates for payment of principal (including the final maturity date) on Indebtedness under such Third Lien Debt Document or cause any additional scheduled payments (other than mandatory prepayments) of principal on indebtedness to be paid, in each case, only to the extent such payment is scheduled to be paid prior to the final maturity date of any applicable Priority Obligation, (iii) modify any covenants, defaults or events of default to make them materially more restrictive as to any Grantor or its property, than the corresponding covenants, defaults, or events of default in any Priority Lien Document or (iv) reduce the capacity to incur indebtedness for

 

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borrowed money constituting Priority Obligations to an amount less than the amount of such Priority Obligations permitted to be incurred in accordance with the terms of the Third Lien Debt Documents in effect on the date hereof or such later date to the extent such amount has been increased. No Third Lien Collateral Document may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified or entered into to the extent such amendment, supplement or modification, or the terms of any new Third Lien Collateral Document, would be prohibited by or inconsistent with any of the terms of this Agreement.

(c) The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agrees that the Borrower shall cause each Third Lien Collateral Document to include the following language (or language to similar effect reasonably approved by the Priority Agents and reasonably acceptable to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee]):

“Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the liens and security interests granted to the [Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee]] pursuant to this Agreement are expressly subject and subordinate to the liens and security interest granted in favor of the Priority Secured Parties (as defined in the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement referred to below), including liens and security interests granted to (A) Bank of Montreal, as collateral agent (or permitted successor collateral agent), pursuant to or in connection with (1) the Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the Bank of Montreal, as Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2017 and that Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2018, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and (2) the Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, Barclays Bank PLC, Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and (B) Wilmington Trust, National Association, as collateral agent (or permitted successor collateral trustee) pursuant to or in connection with that certain Indenture, dated as of [•] among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee and collateral agent and (ii) the exercise of any right or remedy by the [Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee]] hereunder is subject to the limitations and provisions of the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement dated as of [___] (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement ”), among Bank of Montreal, as First Lien Collateral Agent, [___], as Second Lien Collateral Agent, [___], as Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor and the Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor from time to time party thereto and affiliated and other entities from time to time party thereto. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall govern.”

 

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(d) In the event that any Priority Agent and/or the Priority Secured Parties enter into any amendment, waiver or consent in respect of any of the Priority Collateral Documents for the purpose of adding to or deleting from, or waiving or consenting to any departures from any provisions of, any Priority Collateral Document or changing in any manner the rights of the Priority Agents, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Borrower or any other Grantor thereunder (excluding any amendment, waiver or consent resulting in the release of any Liens in First Lien Collateral and/or Second Lien Collateral or having a substantially similar effect of a release), then such amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless such amendment, waiver or consent would be prejudicial to the rights of the Third Lien Parties to a greater extent than to the rights of the Priority Secured Parties (other than with respect to the Lien priorities with respect to the Third Lien Parties and the Priority Secured Parties set forth herein), apply automatically to any comparable provision of each comparable Third Lien Collateral Document without the consent of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party and without any action by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], the Borrower or any other Grantor; provided , however , that (i) no such amendment, waiver or consent shall (A) remove assets subject to the Third Liens or release any such Liens, except to the extent that such release is permitted or required by Section  5.01(a) and provided that there is a release of the corresponding Priority Liens, (B) amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] in its role as Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] without its prior written consent or (C) permit any additional Liens on any Shared Collateral that are not permitted under the terms of the Third Lien Debt Documents or ARTICLE VI of this Agreement, and (ii) written notice of such amendment, waiver or consent shall have been given by the Borrower to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] within 10 Business Days after the effectiveness of such amendment, waiver or consent; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the effectiveness and validity thereof.

(e) The Borrower agrees to deliver to each of the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] copies of (i) any amendments, supplements or other modifications to the Priority Debt Documents or the Third Lien Debt Documents and (ii) any new Priority Debt Documents or Third Lien Debt Documents promptly after effectiveness thereof.

Section 5.04 Rights as Unsecured Creditors . The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties may exercise their rights and remedies, if any, as unsecured creditors they may have against the Borrower and any other Grantor in accordance with the terms of the Third Lien Debt Documents and applicable law so long as such rights and remedies do not violate, or are not otherwise inconsistent with, any provision of this Agreement (it being understood that any express provision of this Agreement that requires any party hereto to act or refrain from acting shall be applicable to such party in its respective capacities as a secured creditor and as an unsecured creditor). Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party of the required payments of principal, premium, interest, fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts due under the Third Lien Debt Documents so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by a Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party of rights or remedies as a

 

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secured creditor in respect of Shared Collateral in contravention of this Agreement or is not otherwise subject to turnover pursuant to Section  4.02 or Section  6.03 . In the event the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party becomes a judgment lien creditor in respect of Shared Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor in respect of Third Lien Obligations, such judgment lien shall be subordinated to the Liens securing Priority Obligations and any DIP Financing (and all obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Third Lien Obligations are so subordinated to such Liens securing Priority Obligations under this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall impair or otherwise adversely affect any rights or remedies the Priority Agents or the other Priority Secured Parties may have with respect to the First Lien Collateral or Second Lien Collateral, as applicable.

Section 5.05 Gratuitous Bailee for Perfection .

(a) Each Priority Agent acknowledge and agree that if it shall at any time hold a Lien securing any Priority Obligations on any Shared Collateral (including for avoidance of doubt, deposit accounts subject to control agreements) that can be perfected by the possession, control (including as defined in Section 9-104 of the UCC) or notation of such Shared Collateral or of any account in which such Shared Collateral is held, and if such Shared Collateral or any such account is in fact in the possession or under the control of, or notated in the name of, such Priority Agent, or of agents or bailees of such Person (such Shared Collateral being referred to herein as the “ Pledged or Controlled Collateral ”), or if it shall at any time obtain any landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or any similar agreement or arrangement granting it rights or access to Shared Collateral, such Priority Agent shall also hold, control or notate such Pledged or Controlled Collateral, or take such actions with respect to such landlord waiver, bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement, as sub-agent or gratuitous bailee for the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], in each case solely for the purpose of perfecting the Liens granted under the Third Lien Collateral Documents or granting rights or access to any Shared Collateral subject to such landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or any similar agreement or arrangement and subject to the terms and conditions of this Section  5.05 .

(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, the Priority Agents and the Priority Secured Parties shall be entitled to deal with the Pledged or Controlled Collateral in accordance with the terms of the Priority Debt Documents as if the Liens under the Third Lien Collateral Documents did not exist. The rights of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties with respect to the Pledged or Controlled Collateral shall at all times be subject to the terms of this Agreement.

(c) The Priority Agents and the other Priority Secured Parties shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party to assure that any of the Pledged or Controlled Collateral is genuine or owned by the Grantors or to protect or preserve rights or benefits of any Person or any rights pertaining to the Shared Collateral, except as expressly set forth in this Section  5.05 . The duties or responsibilities of the Priority Agents under this Section  5.05 shall be limited solely to holding, controlling or being notated on the Shared Collateral and the related Liens referred to in paragraph  (a) of this Section  5.05 as sub-agent and gratuitous bailee for the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] for purposes of perfecting the Lien held by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] on behalf of the Third Lien Parties.

 

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(d) No Priority Agent shall have, by reason of the Third Lien Collateral Documents or this Agreement, or any other document, a fiduciary relationship in respect of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party, and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, hereby waives and releases the Priority Agents from all claims and liabilities arising pursuant to the Priority Agents’ roles under this Section  5.05 as sub-agents and gratuitous bailees with respect to the Shared Collateral.

(e) Upon the Discharge of Priority Obligations, the Designated Priority Agent shall, at the Grantors’ sole cost and expense, (i)(A) deliver to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], to the extent that it is legally permitted to do so, all Shared Collateral, including all proceeds thereof, held or controlled by such Designated Priority Agent or any of its agents or bailees, including the transfer of possession and control, or the notation of, as applicable, of the Pledged or Controlled Collateral, together with any necessary endorsements or notices to depositary banks, securities intermediaries and commodities intermediaries, and assign its rights under any landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or any similar agreement or arrangement granting it rights in or access to Shared Collateral, or (B) direct and deliver such Shared Collateral as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, (ii) notify any applicable insurance carrier that it is no longer entitled to be a loss payee or additional insured under the insurance policies of any Grantor issued by such insurance carrier and (iii) notify any governmental authority involved in any condemnation or similar proceeding involving any Grantor that the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] is entitled to approve any awards granted in such proceeding. The Borrower and the other Grantors shall take such further action as is required to effectuate the transfer contemplated hereby and shall indemnify the Designated Priority Agent for any loss or damage suffered by the Designated Priority Agent as a result of such transfer, except for any loss or damage suffered by any such Person that is determined by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Person or (to the extent involved in or aware of such transfer) any of its Controlling Persons or Controlled Affiliates or any of the officers, directors, employees, partners or agents of any of the foregoing. The Designated Priority Agent shall have no obligations to follow instructions from the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party in contravention of this Agreement.

(f) None of the Priority Agents nor any of the other Priority Secured Parties shall be required to marshal any present or future collateral security for any obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to the Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party under the Priority Debt Documents or any assurance of payment in respect thereof or to any Third Lien Party, or to resort to such collateral security or other assurances of payment in any particular order, and all of their rights in respect of such collateral security or any assurance of payment in respect thereof shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights, however existing or arising. Without limiting any of the foregoing, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each Third Lien Party, hereby agrees that it will not, and hereby waives any right to, assert any marshaling, appraisal, valuation or other similar right that may otherwise be available to a junior secured creditor.

 

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Section 5.06 When Discharge of Priority Obligations Deemed To Not Have Occurred . If, at any time substantially concurrently with or after the occurrence of the Discharge of Priority Obligations, the Borrower or any Subsidiary consummates any Refinancing of or incurs any Priority Obligations, then such Discharge of Priority Obligations shall automatically be deemed not to have occurred for all purposes of this Agreement (other than with respect to any actions taken prior to the date of such consummation or incurrence as a result of the occurrence of such first Discharge of Priority Obligations) and the applicable agreement governing such Priority Obligations shall automatically be treated as a Priority Debt Document for all purposes of this Agreement, including for purposes of the Lien priorities and rights in respect of Shared Collateral set forth herein, and the agent, representative or trustee for the holders of such Priority Obligations shall be a Priority Agent for all purposes of this Agreement. Upon receipt of notice of such incurrence (including the identity of the new Priority Agent) from the Borrower and the new Priority Agent under the agreement governing such Priority Obligations, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] shall promptly (a) enter into such documents and agreements (at the expense of the Borrower), including amendments or supplements to this Agreement, as the Borrower or such new Priority Agent shall reasonably request in writing in order to provide the new Priority Agent the rights of a Priority Agent contemplated hereby, (b) deliver to such Priority Agent, to the extent that it is legally permitted to do so, all Shared Collateral, including all proceeds thereof, held or controlled by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any of its agents or bailees, including the transfer of possession and control, or the notation, as applicable, of the Pledged or Controlled Collateral, together with any necessary endorsements and notices to depositary banks, securities intermediaries and commodities intermediaries, and assign its rights under any landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or any similar agreement or arrangement granting it rights in or access to Shared Collateral, (c) notify any applicable insurance carrier that the new Priority Agent is entitled to be the loss payee or additional insured under the insurance policies of any Grantor issued by such insurance carrier and (d) notify any governmental authority involved in any condemnation or similar proceeding involving a Grantor that the new Priority Agent is entitled to approve any awards granted in such proceeding.

ARTICLE VI

Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings

Section 6.01 Financing Issues . Until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, if the Borrower or any other Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party shall consent (or not object) to the use of cash or the sale or use of other collateral or consent (or not object) to the Borrower’s or any other Grantor’s obtaining financing under Section 363 or Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law (“ DIP Financing ”), then the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agrees that it will raise no objection to and will not otherwise contest (a) such use of such cash or other collateral, unless the Priority Agents shall oppose or object to such use of cash collateral (in which case, no Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] nor any other Third Lien Party shall seek any relief in connection therewith that is inconsistent with the relief being sought by the Priority Secured Parties); (b) such DIP Financing, so long as the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] retains its Liens on the Third Lien Collateral, for the benefit of the Third Lien Parties, with the same priority relative to the Priority Obligations as is set forth in Section  2.01 , and, except to the extent permitted

 

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by Section  6.03 , will not request adequate protection or any other relief in connection therewith and, to the extent the Liens securing any Priority Obligations are subordinated to or pari passu with such DIP Financing, will subordinate (and will be deemed hereunder to have subordinated) its Liens in the Shared Collateral to (x) such DIP Financing (and all obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the Liens securing the Third Lien Obligations are so subordinated to Liens securing Priority Obligations under this Agreement, (y) any adequate protection Liens provided to the Priority Secured Parties, and (z) any “carve-out” for professional and United States Trustee fees agreed to by the First Lien Collateral Agent; (c) any motion for relief from the automatic stay or from any injunction against foreclosure or enforcement in respect of Priority Obligations or the Shared Collateral made by any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party; (d) any exercise by any Priority Secured Party of the right to credit bid Priority Obligations at any sale in foreclosure of Shared Collateral, First Lien Collateral and/or Second Lien Collateral or under Section 363(k) of the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable law; (e) any other request for judicial relief made in any court by any Priority Secured Party relating to the lawful enforcement of any Lien on First Lien Collateral or Second Lien Collateral; or (f) any order (including orders to retain professionals or set bid procedures) relating to a sale or other disposition of any Shared Collateral of any Grantor to which any Priority Agent has consented or not objected; provided that (1) the Liens securing the Priority Obligations and the Third Lien Obligations will attach to the Proceeds of the sale or other disposition on the same basis of priority as the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Priority Obligations rank to the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Third Lien Obligations pursuant to this Agreement and (2) in the event that the proceeds of any such sale or other disposition shall not be applied (to the extent applicable) in accordance with Section  4.01 or to permanently reduce the obligations owing pursuant to any DIP Financing, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, may object to or contest such use of proceeds to the extent applied other than in accordance with Section  4.01 or to permanently reduce the obligations owing pursuant to any DIP Financing (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, to such sale or disposition itself); provided , however , that the Third Lien Parties are not deemed to have waived any rights to credit bid on the Shared Collateral in any such sale or disposition in accordance with Section 363(k) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision under any other applicable Bankruptcy Law), so long as any such credit bid provides for Discharge of Priority Obligations (including the payment in full in cash of the Priority Obligations) concurrently with the consummation of such credit bid. The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agrees that notice received two Business Days prior to the entry of an order approving such usage of cash or other collateral or approving such DIP Financing shall be adequate notice. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any Third Lien Party may provide or offer to provide any DIP Financing unless (x) in the case of any such DIP Financing that is secured by Liens on the Shared Collateral senior or pari passu with the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Priority Obligations, such DIP Financing shall result in the Discharge of Priority Obligations substantially concurrently with the making or funding of the initial extensions of credit thereunder and/or (y) in the case of any such DIP Financing secured by Liens on the Shared Collateral that are junior and subordinated to the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Priority Obligations, none of the Priority Secured Parties are providing or have offered to provide, or have consented to any third-party providing, any DIP Financing (and any such DIP Financing provided by such Third Lien Parties shall otherwise be treated as Third Lien Obligations for purposes of this Agreement).

 

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Section 6.02 Relief from the Automatic Stay . Until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agrees that none of them shall seek relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or take any action in derogation thereof, in each case in respect of any Shared Collateral, without the prior written consent of the Priority Agents; provided that in the event that the Priority Agents, for themselves and on behalf of the other Priority Secured Parties, are granted relief from the automatic stay or any other such stay, then the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of the other Third Lien Parties, may seek relief from such stay, solely on terms substantially identical to those granted to the Priority Agents and subject to the terms of this Agreement (including without limitation, Section 3.01(a)).

Section 6.03 Adequate Protection . The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agrees that none of them shall (A) object, contest or support any other Person objecting to or contesting (a) any request by any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Parties for adequate protection in any form, (b) any objection by any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Parties to any motion, relief, action or proceeding based on such Priority Agent’s or other Priority Secured Party’s claiming a lack of adequate protection or (c) the payment of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts of any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party as adequate protection or otherwise under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law or (B) assert or support any claim for costs or expenses of preserving or disposing of any Shared Collateral under Section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section  6.03 or in Section  6.01 , in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, (i) if the Priority Secured Parties (or any subset thereof) are granted adequate protection in the form of additional or replacement collateral or superpriority claims in connection with any DIP Financing or use of cash collateral under Section 363 or 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law, then the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, may seek or request adequate protection in the form of a Lien on such additional or replacement collateral and/or a superpriority claim (as applicable), which (A) Lien is subordinated to the Liens securing all Priority Obligations and all adequate protection Liens granted to the Priority Secured Parties, on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Third Lien Obligations are subordinated to the Liens securing Priority Obligations under this Agreement and/or (B) superpriority claim is subordinated to all superpriority claims of the Priority Secured Parties on the same basis as the other claims of the Third Lien Parties are subordinated to the claims of the Priority Secured Parties under this Agreement; provided that each Third Lien Party shall have irrevocably agreed, pursuant to Section 1129(a)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code in any stipulation and/or order granting such adequate protection, that such junior superpriority claims may be paid under any Plan of Reorganization in any combination of cash, debt, equity or other property having a value on the effective date of such plan equal to the allowed amount of such claims, (ii) in the event the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of the other Third Lien Parties, are granted adequate protection (in each instance, to the extent such grant is otherwise permissible under the terms and conditions of this Agreement) in the form of a Lien on additional or replacement collateral, then the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agree that each Priority Agent shall also be granted a senior Lien on such additional or replacement collateral as adequate protection and security for the Priority

 

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Obligations and that any Lien on such additional or replacement collateral securing and granted as adequate protection with respect to the Third Lien Obligations shall be subordinated to the Liens on such collateral securing the Priority Obligations and any other Liens granted to the Priority Secured Parties as adequate protection on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Third Lien Obligations are subordinated to such Liens securing Priority Obligations under this Agreement (and, to the extent the Priority Secured Parties are not granted such adequate protection in such form, any amounts recovered by or distributed to any Third Lien Party pursuant to or as a result of any Lien on such additional or replacement collateral so granted to the Third Lien Parties shall be subject to Section  4.02 ), and/or (iii) in the event the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of the other Third Lien Parties, are granted adequate protection (in each instance, to the extent such grant is otherwise permissible under the terms and conditions of this Agreement) in the form of a superpriority claim, then the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, agree that each Priority Agent shall also be granted adequate protection in the form of a superpriority claim, which superpriority claim shall be senior to the superpriority claim of the Third Lien Parties (and, to the extent the Priority Secured Parties are not granted such adequate protection in such form, any amounts recovered by or distributed to any Third Lien Party pursuant to or as a result of any such superpriority claim so granted to the Third Lien Parties shall be subject to Section  4.02 ). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to the extent that the Priority Secured Parties are granted adequate protection in the form of payments in the amount of current post-petition interest, fees and expenses, and/or other cash payments, then the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, shall not be prohibited from seeking and accepting adequate protection in the form of payments in the amount of current post-petition interest, incurred fees and expenses, and/or other cash payments (as applicable), subject to the right of the Priority Secured Parties to object to the reasonableness of the amounts of fees and expenses or other cash payments so sought by the Third Lien Parties; provided that if the Third Lien Parties received such adequate protection payments prior to the Discharge of Priority Obligations, then upon the effective date of any Plan of Reorganization or the conclusion or dismissal of the applicable Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, the Third Lien Parties shall turn over to the Designated Priority Agent (for application in accordance with Section  4.01 ) an amount equal to the lesser of (A) such adequate protection payments (other than on account of incurred legal fees and expenses) received by the Third Lien Parties and (B) the amount necessary to cause the Discharge of Priority Obligations, unless such Plan of Reorganization is proposed or supported by the number of Priority Secured Parties required under Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Section 6.04 Preference Issues . If any Priority Secured Party is required in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to disgorge, turn over or otherwise pay any amount to the estate of the Borrower or any other Grantor (or any trustee, receiver or similar Person therefor), because the payment of such amount was declared to be fraudulent or preferential in any respect or for any other reason, any amount (a “ Recovery ”), whether received as proceeds of security, enforcement of any right of setoff or otherwise, then the Priority Obligations shall be reinstated to the extent of such Recovery and deemed to be outstanding as if such payment had not occurred and the Priority Secured Parties shall be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement until a Discharge of Priority Obligations with respect to all such recovered amounts. If this Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the parties hereto. The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself

 

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and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, hereby agrees that none of them shall be entitled to benefit from any avoidance action affecting or otherwise relating to any distribution or allocation made in accordance with this Agreement, whether by preference or otherwise, it being understood and agreed that the benefit of such avoidance action otherwise allocable to them shall instead be allocated and turned over for application in accordance with the priorities set forth in this Agreement.

Section 6.05 Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classifications . The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, acknowledges and agrees that (a) the grants of Liens pursuant to the Priority Collateral Documents and the Third Lien Collateral Documents constitute separate and distinct grants of Liens and (b) because of, among other things, their differing rights in the Shared Collateral, the Third Lien Obligations are fundamentally different from the Priority Obligations and must be separately classified in any Plan of Reorganization proposed, confirmed, or adopted in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, if it is held that any claims of the Priority Secured Parties and the Third Lien Parties in respect of the Shared Collateral constitute a single class of claims (rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, hereby acknowledges and agrees that all distributions from the Shared Collateral shall be made as if there were separate classes of first lien, second lien and third lien secured claims against the Grantors in respect of the Shared Collateral, with the effect being that, to the extent that the aggregate value of the Shared Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the Third Lien Parties), the Priority Secured Parties shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed to them in respect of principal, pre-petition interest, fees, and expenses, and other claims, all amounts owing in respect of post-petition interest, fees, and expenses (whether or not allowed or allowable in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) before any distribution from the Shared Collateral is made in respect of the Third Lien Obligations, and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, hereby acknowledges and agrees to turn over to the Designated Priority Agent amounts otherwise received or receivable by them from the Shared Collateral to the extent necessary to effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such turnover has the effect of reducing the claim or recovery of the Third Lien Parties.

Section 6.06 No Waivers of Rights of Priority Secured Parties . Nothing contained herein shall, except as expressly provided herein, prohibit or in any way limit any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party from objecting in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to any action taken by any Third Lien Party, including the seeking by any Third Lien Party of adequate protection or the assertion by any Third Lien Party of any of its rights and remedies under the Third Lien Debt Documents or otherwise.

Section 6.07 Application . This Agreement, which the parties hereto expressly acknowledge is a “subordination agreement” under Section  510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law, shall be effective before, during and after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. The relative rights set forth herein as to the Shared Collateral and proceeds thereof shall continue after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding on the same basis as prior to the date of the petition therefor, subject to any court order approving the financing of, or use of cash collateral by, any Grantor. All references herein to any Grantor shall include such Grantor as a debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for such Grantor.

 

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Section 6.08 Other Matters . To the extent that the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party has or acquires rights under Section 363 or Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law with respect to any of the Shared Collateral, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, agrees not to assert any such rights, except as expressly provided in this Agreement, without the prior written consent of the Priority Agents, provided that if requested by the Designated Priority Agent, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] shall timely exercise such rights in the manner requested by the Designated Priority Agent, including any rights to payments in respect of such rights.

Section 6.09 506(c) Claims . Until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, agrees that it will not assert or enforce any claim under Section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law senior to or on a parity with the Liens securing the Priority Obligations for costs or expenses of preserving or disposing of any Shared Collateral.

Section 6.10 Reorganization Securities .

(a) If, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, debt obligations of the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon any property of the reorganized debtor are distributed, pursuant to a Plan of Reorganization, on account of both the Priority Obligations and the Third Lien Obligations, then, to the extent the debt obligations distributed on account of the Priority Obligations and on account of the Third Lien Obligations are secured by Liens upon the same assets or property, the provisions of this Agreement will survive the distribution of such debt obligations pursuant to such plan and will apply with like effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations.

(b) No Third Lien Party (whether in the capacity of a secured creditor or an unsecured creditor) shall propose, vote in favor of, or otherwise directly or indirectly support any Plan of Reorganization that is inconsistent with the lien priorities set forth in this Agreement or any other provision of this Agreement unless any such Plan of Reorganization (i) results in the Discharge of Priority Obligations, including the repayment in cash, in full of the Priority Obligations (other than with respect to unasserted contingent indemnification obligations and contingent reimbursement obligations), by a date that is no later than the effective date of such Plan of Reorganization or (ii) is proposed or supported by the number of Priority Secured Parties required under Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Section 6.11 Section  1111(b) of the Bankruptcy Code . The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, shall not object to, oppose, support any objection to, or take any other action to impede, the right of any Priority Secured Party to make an election under Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code. The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], for itself and on behalf of each other Third Lien Party, waives any claim it may hereafter have against any senior claimholder arising out of the election by any Priority Secured Party of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

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Section 6.12 Post-Petition Interest .

(a) None of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party shall oppose or seek to challenge any claim by any Priority Agent or any other Priority Secured Party for allowance in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of Priority Obligations consisting of claims for post-petition interest, fees, or expenses, under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the Third Lien Parties).

(b) None of the Priority Agents or any or other Priority Secured Party shall oppose or seek to challenge any claim by the Third Lien Collateral [Agent] [Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party for allowance in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of Third Lien Obligations consisting of claims for post-petition interest, fees, or expenses, under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, to the extent of the value of the Lien of the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] on behalf of the Third Lien Parties on the Shared Collateral (after taking into account the Priority Obligations).

ARTICLE VII

Reliance; Etc.

Section 7.01 Reliance . All loans and other extensions of credit made or deemed made on and after the date hereof by the Priority Secured Parties to the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall be deemed to have been given and made in reliance upon this Agreement. The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, acknowledges that it and such other Third Lien Parties have, independently and without reliance on the Priority Agents or other Priority Secured Party, and based on documents and information deemed by them appropriate, made their own credit analysis and decision to enter into the Third Lien Debt Documents to which they are party or by which they are bound, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and they will continue to make their own credit decisions in taking or not taking any action under the Third Lien Debt Documents or this Agreement; provided, that the foregoing shall not impose any obligation on the Second Lien Collateral Agent [and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee]] to make any such credit analysis.

Section 7.02 No Warranties or Liability . The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, acknowledges and agrees that no Priority Agent nor any other Priority Secured Party has made any express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectability or enforceability of any of the Priority Debt Documents, the ownership of any Shared Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens thereon. The Priority Secured Parties will be entitled to manage and supervise their respective loans and extensions of credit under the Priority Debt Documents in accordance with law and as they may otherwise, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate, and the Priority Secured Parties may manage their loans and extensions of credit without regard to any rights or interests that the Third Lien Collateral

 

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[Agent][Trustee] and the Third Lien Parties have in the Shared Collateral or otherwise, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement. No Priority Agent nor any other Priority Secured Party shall have any duty to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party to act or refrain from acting in a manner that allows, or results in, the occurrence or continuance of an event of default or default under any agreement with the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including the Third Lien Debt Documents), regardless of any knowledge thereof that they may have or be charged with. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, the Priority Agents, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties have not otherwise made to each other, nor do they hereby make to each other, any warranties, express or implied, nor do they assume any liability to each other with respect to (a) the enforceability, validity, value or collectability of any of the Priority Obligations, the Third Lien Obligations or any guarantee or security which may have been granted to any of them in connection therewith, (b) any Grantor’s title to or right to transfer any of the Shared Collateral or (c) any other matter except as expressly set forth in this Agreement.

Section 7.03 Obligations Unconditional . All rights, interests, agreements and obligations of the Priority Agents, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties hereunder shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of:

(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Priority Debt Document or any Third Lien Debt Document;

(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other terms of, all or any of the Priority Obligations or Third Lien Obligations, or any amendment or waiver or other modification, including any increase in the amount thereof, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, of the terms of the Priority Facilities or any other Priority Debt Document or of the terms of the Third Lien Debt Agreement or any other Third Lien Debt Document;

(c) any exchange of any security interest in any Shared Collateral or any other collateral or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether in writing or by course of conduct or otherwise, of all or any of the Priority Obligations or Third Lien Obligations or any guarantee thereof;

(d) the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the Borrower or any other Grantor; or

(e) any other circumstances that otherwise might constitute a defense available to (i) the Borrower or any other Grantor in respect of the Priority Obligations (other than the Discharge of Priority Obligations subject to Sections  5.06 and  6.04 ) or (ii) the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or other Third Lien Party in respect of this Agreement.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

Miscellaneous

Section 8.01 Conflicts . Subject to Section  8.22 , in the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of any Priority Debt Document or any Third Lien Debt Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the relative rights and obligations of the Priority Agents and the other Priority Secured Parties (as amongst themselves) with respect to the Shared Collateral shall be governed by the terms of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and in the event of any conflict between the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement as to such relative rights and obligations, the provisions of this First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall control.

Section 8.02 Continuing Nature of this Agreement; Severability . Subject to Section  6.04 , this Agreement shall continue to be effective until the Discharge of Priority Obligations shall have occurred. This is a continuing agreement of Lien subordination, and the Priority Secured Parties may continue, at any time and without notice to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party, to extend credit and other financial accommodations and lend monies to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any Subsidiary constituting Priority Obligations in reliance hereon. The terms of this Agreement shall survive and continue in full force and effect in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate 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. The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.

Section 8.03 Amendments; Waivers .

(a) No failure or delay on the part of any party hereto in exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the parties hereto are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by any party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph  (b)  of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. No notice or demand on any party hereto in any case shall entitle such party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.

(b) This Agreement may be amended in writing signed by each Representative (in each case, acting in accordance with the documents governing the Revolving Credit Agreement, Term Loan Credit Agreement, the Second Lien Notes or the Third Lien Debt Agreement, as applicable) and the Borrower. Any such amendment, supplement or waiver shall be in writing and shall be binding upon the Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Parties and the Grantors and their respective successors and assigns[;provided that any such amendment, supplement or waiver which is materially adverse to the interests of the Borrower or which by the terms of this Agreement expressly requires the Borrower’s consent or which increases the obligations or reduces the rights of the Borrower or any Grantor, shall require the consent of the Borrower.]

 

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Section 8.04 Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries . Without imposing any duty on any Representative beyond what is set forth in the applicable Debt Documents, the Priority Agents, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties shall each be responsible for keeping themselves informed of (a) the financial condition of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and all endorsers or guarantors of the Priority Obligations or the Third Lien Obligations and (b) all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Priority Obligations or the Third Lien Obligations. The Priority Agents, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties shall have no duty to advise any other party hereunder of information known to it or them regarding such condition or any such circumstances or otherwise. In the event that any Priority Agent, any other Priority Secured Party, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] or any other Third Lien Party, in its sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to any other party, it shall be under no obligation to (i) make, and the Priority Agents, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties shall not make or be deemed to have made, any express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or validity of any such information so provided, (ii) provide any additional information or to provide any such information on any subsequent occasion, (iii) undertake any investigation or (iv) disclose any information that, pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial finance practices, such party wishes to maintain confidential or is otherwise required to maintain confidential.

Section 8.05 Subrogation . The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, hereby agrees not to assert any rights of subrogation it may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder until the Discharge of Priority Obligations has occurred.

Section 8.06 Application of Payments . Except as otherwise provided herein, all payments received by the Priority Secured Parties may be applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to such part of the Priority Obligations as the Priority Secured Parties, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate and consistent and in accordance with the terms of the Priority Debt Documents. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, assents to any such extension or postponement of the time of payment of the Priority Obligations or any part thereof and to any other indulgence with respect thereto, to any substitution, exchange or release of any security that may at any time secure any part of the Priority Obligations and to the addition or release of any other Person primarily or secondarily liable therefor.

Section 8.07 Additional Grantors . The Borrower agrees that, if any Restricted Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary shall become a Grantor after the date hereof pursuant to the requirements set forth in Section  8.14 of the Revolving Credit Agreement, Section  8.14 of the Term Loan Credit Agreement, Section 3.11 of the Second Lien Notes Indenture and Section [___] of the Third Lien Debt Agreement, it will promptly cause such Restricted Subsidiary to become party hereto by executing and delivering an instrument in the form of Annex  I . Upon such execution and delivery, such Restricted Subsidiary will become a Grantor hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Grantor herein. The execution and delivery of such instrument shall not require the consent of any other party hereunder, and will be acknowledged by the First Lien Collateral Agent, Second Lien Collateral Agent and Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee]. The rights and obligations of each Grantor hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any new Grantor as a party to this Agreement.

 

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Section 8.08 Dealings with Grantors . Upon any application or demand by the Borrower or any other Grantor to any Representative to take any action under any of the provisions of this Agreement or under any Collateral Document (if such action is subject to the provisions hereof), at the reasonable written request of such Representative, such Borrower or such other Grantor, as appropriate, shall furnish to such Representative a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that all conditions precedent, if any, expressly provided for in this Agreement or such Collateral Document, as the case may be, relating to the proposed action have been complied with or waived, except (a) that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Agreement or any Collateral Document relating to such particular application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished or (b) for conditions that require the approval or satisfaction of any other Person or require actions not in the Borrower’s or any Grantor’s control.

Section 8.09 [Reserved.]

Section 8.10 [ Reserved ].

Section 8.11 Consent to Jurisdiction; Waivers . Each Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Secured Parties for which it is acting, irrevocably and unconditionally:

(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the Collateral Documents, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that any Representative or Secured Party may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any Collateral Document against any Grantor or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction;

(b) consents and agrees that any such action or proceeding shall be brought in such courts and waives (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to such Person (or its Representative) at the address referred to in Section  8.12 ;

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(e) waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section  8.11 any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.

Section 8.12 Notices . All notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sent:

 

  (i)

if to any Borrower or any other Grantor, to the Borrower, at its address at:

Ultra Resources, Inc.

116 Inverness Drive E. #400

Englewood, CO 80112

Attention: Andrew Kidd

Email: akidd@ultrapetroleum.com

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

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

609 Main Street

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Mary Kogut Brawley

Email: mary.kogut@kirkland.com

 

  (ii)

if to the First Lien Collateral Agent, to it at:

Bank of Montreal

700 Louisiana Street, Suite 200

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Gumaro Tijerina

Email: gumaro.tijerina@bmo.com

With copies to:

Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP

600 Travis Street, Suite 5400

Houston, Texas 5400

Attention: Richard Sitton

Email: rsitton@stblaw.com

 

  (iii)

if to the Second Lien Collateral Agent to it at:

Wilmington Trust, National Association

15950 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 550

Dallas, Texas 75248

Attention: Ultra Resources Second Lien Administrator

Facsimile: (888) 316-6238

 

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With copies to:

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Attention: Damian S. Schaible

        Eli J. Vonnegut

Email:        damian.schaible@davispolk.com

        eli.vonnegut@davispolk.com

and (which shall not constitute notice):

Shipman & Goodwin LLP

One Constitution Plaza

Hartford, Connecticut 06103

Attention: Marie C. Pollio, Esq.

Fax: (860) 251-5212

Email: mpollio@goodwin.com

 

  (iii)

if to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], to it at:

[___]

[___]

Attention: [___]

Email: [___]

With copies to:

[___]

[___]

Fax: [___]

Attention: [___]

Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally served, telecopied, electronically mailed or sent by courier service or U.S. mail and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service, upon receipt of a telecopy or electronic mail or upon receipt via U.S. mail (registered or certified, with postage prepaid and properly addressed).

Section 8.13 Further Assurances . Each Priority Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Priority Secured Party, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], on behalf of itself and each other Third Lien Party, agrees that it will take such further action and shall execute and deliver such additional documents and instruments (in recordable form, if requested), at the Borrower’s sole cost and expense, as the other parties hereto may reasonably request to effectuate the terms of, and the Lien priorities contemplated by, this Agreement.

 

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Section 8.14 GOVERNING LAW; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL .

(A) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

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

Section 8.15 Binding on Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall be binding upon the Priority Agents, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], the other Third Lien Parties, the Borrower, the other Grantors party hereto, and their respective successors and assigns.

Section 8.16 Section Titles . The section titles contained in this Agreement are and shall be without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are not a part of this Agreement.

Section 8.17 Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, including by means of facsimile or other electronic method, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall together constitute one and the same document. Delivery of an executed signature page to this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Agreement.

Section 8.18 Authorization . By its signature, each Person (other than an individual) executing this Agreement on behalf of a party hereto represents and warrants to the other parties hereto that it is duly authorized to execute this Agreement, and by accepting the benefits of this Agreement, each Priority Secured Party and Third Lien Party shall be deemed to have authorized the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee], as applicable, to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder. Each Priority Agent represents and warrants that this Agreement is binding upon the Priority Secured Parties. The Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] represents and warrants that this Agreement is binding upon the Third Lien Parties.

 

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Section 8.19 No Third Party Beneficiaries; Successors and Assigns . The lien priorities set forth in this Agreement and the rights and benefits hereunder in respect of such lien priorities shall inure solely to the benefit of the Priority Agents, the other Priority Secured Parties, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Third Lien Parties, the Grantors, and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and no other Person (including any trustee, receiver, debtor in possession or bankruptcy estate in a bankruptcy or like proceeding) shall have or be entitled to assert such rights. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall impair the rights or obligations of the Borrower or any other Grantor, which obligations are absolute and unconditional, to pay the Priority Obligations and the Third Lien Obligations as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms.

Section 8.20 Effectiveness . This Agreement shall become effective when executed and delivered by the parties hereto.

Section 8.21 Collateral Agent and Representative . It is understood and agreed that (a) the First Lien Collateral Agent is entering into this Agreement in its capacity as administrative agent under the Revolving Credit Agreement and collateral agent for the Priority Secured Parties and the provisions of Article XI of the Revolving Credit Agreement and Article XI of the Term Loan Credit Agreement applicable to the Agents (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement) thereunder shall also apply to the First Lien Collateral Agent hereunder, (b) the Second Lien Collateral Agent is entering into this Agreement in its capacity as collateral agent under the Second Lien Debt Documents and the provisions of Article VII and Article XI of the Second Lien Notes Indenture applicable to the [Trustees] (as defined therein) thereunder shall also apply to the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereunder, and (c) the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] is entering into this Agreement in its capacity as [agent][trustee and collateral trustee] under the Third Lien Debt Documents and the provisions of Section [___] of the Third Lien Debt Agreement applicable to the [Agents][Trustees] (as defined therein) thereunder shall also apply to the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] hereunder. It is understood that any determination, request, direction, consent or election, deeming any action or document reasonable, appropriate or satisfactory, exercising discretion, or exercising any right or duty under this Agreement to be made by the Second Lien Collateral Agent [and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] shall be pursuant to written direction from the Second Lien Notes Trustee or the requisite percentage of holders of Second Lien Obligations under the Second Lien Notes Indenture [or the Third Lien [Trustee] or the requisite percentage of holders of Third Lien Obligations, as applicable].

Section 8.22 Relative Rights . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary (except to the extent contemplated by Section  5.01(a), 5.01(d) or 5.03(d) ), nothing in this Agreement is intended to or will (a) amend, waive or otherwise modify the provisions of the Priority Facilities, any other Priority Debt Document, the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Third Lien Debt Agreement or any other Third Lien Debt Documents, (b) change the relative priorities of the Priority Obligations or the Liens granted under the Priority Collateral Documents or the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement on the Shared Collateral (or any other assets) as among the Priority Secured Parties, (c) otherwise change the relative rights of the

 

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Priority Secured Parties in respect of the Shared Collateral as among such Priority Secured Parties or (d) obligate the Borrower or any other Grantor to take any action, or fail to take any action, that would otherwise constitute a breach of, or default under, the Priority Facilities, any other Priority Debt Document, the Third Lien Debt Agreement or any other Third Lien Debt Document.

Section 8.23 Survival of Agreement . All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by any party in this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

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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 above written.

 

BANK OF MONTREAL ,
as Revolving Administrative Agent and First Lien Collateral Agent
By:     
  Name:
  Title:

 

BARCLAYS BANK PLC ,
as Term Loan Administrative Agent
By:     
  Name:
  Title:

 

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
As Second Lien Notes Trustee and Second Lien Collateral Agent
By:     
  Name:
  Title:

 

[ _______ ],
as Third Lien [Agent][Trustee] and Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee]
By:     
  Name:
  Title:

[Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement]


Acknowledged and Agreed to by:
ULTRA RESOURCES, INC. ,
as a Grantor
By:     
  Name:
  Title:

[Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement]


Acknowledged and Agreed to by:
[_____]
as a Grantor
By:    
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

  [_____],
  as Grantor
         By:     
    Name:  
    Title:  

 

  [_____],
  as Grantor
         By:     
    Name:  
    Title:  

 

  [_____],
  as Grantor
         By:     
    Name:  
    Title:  

 

  [_____],
  as Grantor
         By:     
    Name:  
    Title:  

[Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement]


ANNEX I

SUPPLEMENT NO. [    ] (“ Supplement ”) dated as of [_________], 20[__], to the THIRD LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of [___] (the “ Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement ”), among BANK OF MONTREAL, as Revolving Administrative Agent and as First Lien Collateral Agent under the First Lien Facilities, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as Term Loan Administrative Agent, WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Second Lien Collateral Agent under the Second Lien Debt Documents, [___], as Third Lien [Agent][Trustee] and as Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] under the Third Lien Debt Documents and acknowledged and agreed to by ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”), UP ENERGY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “ Parent Guarantor ”), and the other Grantors (as defined therein) from time to time party thereto.

A. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

B. The Grantors have entered into the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement. Pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement, the Term Loan Credit Agreement, the Second Lien Notes Indenture and the Third Lien Debt Agreement, as applicable, certain newly acquired or organized Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Excluded Subsidiaries are required to enter into the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement. Section  8.07 of the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement provides that such Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Excluded Subsidiaries may become party to the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement by execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Supplement. The undersigned Restricted Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary (the “ New Grantor ”) is executing this Supplement in accordance with the requirements of the Revolving Credit Agreement, the Term Loan Credit Agreement, the Second Lien Notes Indenture and the Third Lien Debt Agreement, as applicable.

Accordingly, the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the New Grantor agree as follows:

SECTION 1. In accordance with Section  8.07 of the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the New Grantor by its signature below becomes a Grantor under the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement with the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Grantor, and the New Grantor hereby agrees to all the terms and provisions of the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement applicable to it as a Grantor thereunder. Each reference to a “Grantor” in the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall be deemed to include the New Grantor. The Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

SECTION 2. The New Grantor represents and warrants on the date hereof to the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] and the other Secured Parties that this Supplement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Bankruptcy Laws and by general principles of equity.

 

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SECTION 3. This Supplement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Supplement shall become effective when the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] shall have received a counterpart of this Supplement that bears the signature of the New Grantor. Delivery of an executed signature page to this Supplement by facsimile transmission or other electronic method shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Supplement.

SECTION 4. Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 5. THIS SUPPLEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

SECTION 6. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Supplement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, no party hereto shall be required to comply with such provision for so long as such provision is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, but the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and in the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired. The parties hereto shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.

SECTION 7. All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given as provided in Section  8.12 of the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement. All communications and notices hereunder to the New Grantor shall be given to it in care of the Borrower as specified in the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

SECTION 8. The New Grantor agrees to reimburse each of the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] for its reasonable out-of-pocket and documented expenses in connection with this Supplement (including the reasonable and out-of-pocket and documented fees, other charges and disbursements of counsel for the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee]), in each case, to the extent required by the applicable Priority Debt Documents and Third Lien Debt Documents, respectively.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Grantor, the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Third Lien Collateral [Agent][Trustee] have duly executed this Supplement to the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

[NAME OF NEW GRANTOR]
By:    
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

Acknowledged by:
[                ], as First Lien Collateral Agent
By:    
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

[                ], as Second Lien Collateral Agent
By:    
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

[                ], as Third Lien Collateral  [Agent][Trustee]
By:    
  Name:  
  Title:  

 

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Exhibit 4.2

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

This FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “ Supplemental Indenture ”), dated as of December 21, 2018, is among ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Issuer ”), ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP., a Yukon, Canada corporation (the “ Parent Guarantor ”), the Subsidiary Guarantors party hereto (together with the Parent Guarantor, the “ Guarantors ”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Guarantors have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture (as amended or supplemented to the date hereof, the “ Indenture ”), dated as of April 12, 2017, providing for the issuance of 6.875% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “ 2022 Notes ”) and 7.125% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “ 2025 Notes ” and, together with the 2022 Notes, the “ Existing Notes ”);

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.2 of the Indenture, subject to certain exceptions, the Issuer, the Guarantors and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture, the Securities of a series and the related Guarantees without notice to any Securityholder but with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of such series then outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Securities of such series);

WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Guarantors have entered into an Exchange Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2018 (the “ Exchange Agreement ”), with certain Holders (the “ Exchanging Holders ”), pursuant to which the Exchanging Holders agreed to consent to certain proposed amendments (the “ Amendments ”) to the Indenture and the Existing Notes;

WHEREAS, the Exchanging Holders hold approximately 72.1% in aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Notes outstanding and approximately 55.0% in aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes outstanding;

WHEREAS, (i) pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, the Issuer and the Guarantors have received the consent to the Amendments of (x) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding 2022 Notes and (y) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding 2025 Notes, all as certified by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, (ii) the Issuer and the Guarantors have delivered to the Trustee simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture an Opinion of Counsel relating to this Supplemental Indenture as contemplated by Section 9.6 and Section 12.4 of the Indenture and (iii) the Issuer and the Guarantors have satisfied all other conditions required under Article IX of the Indenture to enable the Issuer, the Guarantors and the Trustee to enter into this Supplemental Indenture; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.2 of the Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture, and the Issuer and the Guarantors have requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Issuer and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of all Holders of the Existing Notes as follows:


ARTICLE 1

AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE I, DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

SECTION 1.01. For purposes of this Supplemental Indenture, the terms defined in the recitals shall have the meanings therein specified; any capitalized terms used and not defined herein shall have the same respective meanings as assigned to them in the Indenture; and references to Articles or Sections shall, unless the context indicates otherwise, be references to Articles or Sections of the Indenture.

SECTION 1.02. Any definitions used exclusively in the provisions of the Indenture or the Existing Notes that are deleted pursuant to the Amendments as set forth under this Supplemental Indenture, and any definitions used exclusively within such definitions, are hereby deleted in their entirety from the Indenture and the Existing Notes, and all textual references in the Indenture and the Existing Notes exclusively relating to paragraphs, Sections, Articles or other terms or provisions of the Indenture that have been otherwise deleted pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture are hereby deleted in their entirety. The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereby” and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular section hereof.

ARTICLE 2

AMENDMENTS TO THE INDENTURE AND THE NOTES

SECTION 2.01. The Indenture and the Existing Notes are hereby amended by:

(a) deleting Sections 3.2 ( Limitation on Indebtedness and Preferred Stock ), 3.3 ( Limitation on Restricted Payments ), 3.4 ( Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries ), 3.5 ( Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock ), 3.6 ( Limitation on Liens ), 3.8 ( Limitation on Affiliate Transactions ), 3.9 ( Purchase of Securities Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event ), 3.10 ( Provision of Financial Information ), 3.11 ( Future Subsidiary Guarantors ), 3.15 ( Compliance Certificate ) and 3.18 ( Covenant Termination ) of the Indenture and all references thereto in the Indenture and the Existing Notes in their entirety, and replacing such Sections 3.2 through 3.6, 3.8 through 3.11, 3.15 and 3.18 of the Indenture with the phrase “[Intentionally Omitted]”;

(b) deleting clauses (2) and (3) of Section 4.1(a) ( Merger and Consolidation ) of the Indenture and all references thereto in the Indenture and the Existing Notes in their entirety, and replacing such clauses (2) and (3) of Section 4.1(a) with the phrase “[Intentionally Omitted]”; and

(c) deleting clauses (4) through (6) and (9) of Section 6.1(a) ( Events of Default ) of the Indenture and replacing all references thereto in the Indenture and the Existing Notes in their entirety, and replacing such clauses (4) through (6) and (9) of Section 6.1(a) with the phrase “[Intentionally Omitted]”.

SECTION 2.02. Any and all additional provisions of the Indenture and the Existing Notes are hereby deemed to be amended to reflect the intentions of the Amendments provided for in this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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ARTICLE 3

EFFECTIVENESS

SECTION 3.01. Upon the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture by the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Trustee, the Indenture shall be supplemented in accordance herewith, and this Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder holding Notes that have been heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered under the Indenture shall be bound thereby; provided, however, that Article 2 hereof shall not become operative, and all terms and conditions as set forth in the Indenture immediately prior to the execution of this Supplemental Indenture shall continue to govern, unless and until the date set forth in a notice from the Issuer to the Trustee, stating that the Closing Date (as defined in the Exchange Agreement) has occurred or shall occur simultaneously therewith. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall this Supplemental Indenture become effective or operative, and the Amendments will not bind any Holder or the Trustee, or any other person, prior to the Closing Date.

ARTICLE 4

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 4.01. Amendments to the Indenture pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture shall also apply to the Existing Notes, including, without limitation, provisions of the Existing Notes amended as set forth in the amendments to the Exhibits or Appendices to the Indenture.

SECTION 4.02. The Trustee accepts the trusts created by the Indenture, as amended and supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 4.03. The terms and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be incorporated in and made a part of the terms and conditions of the Indenture for any and all purposes, and all the terms and conditions of both shall be read, taken and construed together as though they constitute one and the same instrument, except that in the case of conflict, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture will control.

SECTION 4.04. 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 Existing Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.

SECTION 4.05. All covenants and agreements in this Supplemental Indenture by the Issuer or the Trustee shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 4.06. In case any provisions in this Supplemental Indenture shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

SECTION 4.07. Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors under the Indenture and the Holders of the Existing Notes, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under the Indenture.

 

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SECTION 4.08. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together shall represent the same agreement. One signed copy is enough to prove this Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 4.09. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

SECTION 4.10. 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 are made solely by the Issuer.

SECTION 4.11. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction thereof.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

Issuer:    
ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.
By:    /s/ Brad Johnson
  Name:    Brad Johnson
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
Parent Guarantor:
ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.
By:    /s/ Brad Johnson
  Name:   Brad Johnson
  Title:   Interim Chief Executive Officer
Subsidiary Guarantors:
UP ENERGY CORPORATION
By:    /s/ Brad Johnson
  Name:   Brad Johnson
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
KEYSTONE GAS GATHERING, LLC
By:    /s/ Brad Johnson
  Name:   Brad Johnson
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]


ULTRA WYOMING, LLC
By:    /s/ Brad Johnson
  Name:    Brad Johnson
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
UPL PINEDALE, LLC
By:    /s/ Brad Johnson
  Name:   Brad Johnson
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
UPL THREE RIVERS HOLDINGS, LLC
By:    /s/ Brad Johnson
  Name:   Brad Johnson
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
ULTRA WYOMING LGS, LLC
By:    /s/ Brad Johnson
  Name:   Brad Johnson
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]


WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
By:   /s/ Shawn Goffinet
  Name: Shawn Goffinet
  Title: Assistant Vice President

[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]

Exhibit 10.1

EXCHANGE AGREEMENT

THIS EXCHANGE AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”) is made and entered into as of December 17, 2018 by and among Ultra Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Issuer ”), the Obligors (as defined herein) and the holders, or investment advisors for the account of holders of the Old Notes (as defined below), named in Schedule  I hereto (each, a “ Holder ” and, collectively, the “ Holders ”) of the Issuer’s (i) 6.875% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “ 2022 Notes ”) and (ii) 7.125% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “ 2025 Notes ” and, together with the 2022 Notes, the “ Old Notes ”), which were issued pursuant to the indenture, dated as of April 12, 2017 (the “ Old Indenture ”), among the Issuer, Ultra Petroleum Corp., a company incorporated under the laws of the territory of Yukon, Canada (the “ Company ”), the subsidiary guarantors party thereto (the “ Guarantors ” and together with the Company and the Issuer, the “ Obligors ”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “ Old Notes Trustee ”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Notes are issued and outstanding and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes are issued and outstanding;

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions and other limitations set forth herein, the Issuer and the Company desire to issue to the Holders in exchange for the Exchanged Notes (as defined herein), (a) new Senior Secured Second Lien PIK Notes due 2024 of the Issuer (the “ New Notes ”), which will be issued pursuant to an indenture to be dated the Closing Date (as defined herein), by and among the Issuer, the Company, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “ New Notes Trustee ”), substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  A (the “ New Indenture ”) and (b) new warrants of the Company entitling each holder thereof to purchase one common share of the Company, at a price of $0.01 per share (the “ Warrants ”), in accordance with the terms of a warrant agreement to be dated the Closing Date by and between the Company, Computershare Inc. and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as warrant agent (the “ Warrant Agent ”), substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  B (the “ Warrant Agreement ”);

WHEREAS, the New Notes will be secured by a second priority lien on all of the Collateral (as such term is defined in the Security Documents (as defined herein) listed on Exhibit  C -1 , by and among the grantors thereunder, the Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as collateral agent (the “ Collateral Agent ”)) and in accordance with an intercreditor agreement to be dated the Closing Date by and among the Issuer, Bank of Montreal, as Revolving Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for the Senior Secured Parties, Barclays Bank plc, as Term Loan Administrative Agent, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Second Lien Notes Trustee and Second Lien Collateral Trustee for the Junior Priority Parties, and the other Grantors party thereto, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D (the “ Intercreditor Agreement );

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company and Avenue Capital Management II, L.P., Capital Research and Management Company, Oaktree Opportunities Fund X Holdings (Delaware), L.P., Oaktree Opportunities Fund Xb Holdings (Delaware), L.P. and J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. (the “ Ad Hoc Group of Holders ”) desire to enter into an agreement on the Closing Date providing for the nomination by the Ad Hoc Group of Holders of one member to the Board of Directors of the Company at the Company’s annual meeting, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  E (the “ Director Nomination Agreement ”); and


WHEREAS, the payment by the Issuer of all amounts due on or in respect of the New Notes and the performance of the Issuer under the New Indenture will be initially guaranteed (the “ New Guarantees ” and, together with the New Notes and the Warrants, the “ Securities ”) by the Company and each of the Guarantors.

NOW, THEREFORE, subject to the premises and other conditions contained herein, the Obligors and the Holders hereby agree as follows:

Article I:

EXCHANGE

Section  1.1 Exchange of Exchanged Notes . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, at the Closing (as defined herein) each of the Holders shall assign, transfer and deliver to the Issuer all of its right, title and interest in and to all of the Old Notes held by the Holders (or certain funds and/or accounts for which the Holders act as investment advisor) as of the date hereof, as set forth on Schedule I hereto (the “ Exchanged Notes ”), free and clear of any Lien (as defined herein), and the Issuer and the Company, as applicable, shall issue and deliver to each Holder, which shall be in full satisfaction of all obligations of the Issuer under the Exchanged Notes (including in respect of any accrued and unpaid interest), of:

(a) for each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of 2022 Notes validly exchanged pursuant to this Section  1.1 and Section  5.2 , (i) $720 aggregate principal amount of New Notes issued by the Issuer and (ii) 14.0 Warrants issued by the Company;

(b) for each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of 2025 Notes validly exchanged pursuant to Section  1.1 and Section  5.2 , (i) $660 aggregate principal amount of New Notes issued by the Issuer and (ii) 14.0 Warrants issued by the Company; and

(c) in cash by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the bank account specified in writing by such Holder, all accrued and unpaid interest on the Exchanged Notes held by such Holder (or certain funds and/or accounts for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) to, but excluding, the Closing Date.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) the aggregate principal amount of New Notes to be issued to any Holder pursuant to this agreement shall not be in an amount less than $2,000 and shall be rounded down to the nearest integral multiple of $1,000, (y) the number of Warrants to be issued to any Holder pursuant to this Agreement shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number and (z) no interest shall accrue on the Exchanged Notes after the Closing Date.

Section  1.2 Withholding . The Issuer is entitled to deduct and withhold from the consideration otherwise payable by or deliverable by the Issuer to any Holder in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement such amounts as are required to be withheld under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “ Code ”), or other applicable law. Any

 

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amount properly deducted and withheld shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the Holder in respect of which such deduction and withholding was made. The Issuer shall notify each relevant Holder its intention to withhold or deduct from the consideration payable or deliverable to such Holder at least five Business Days prior to the date of the applicable payment or delivery, which notice shall include a statement of the amounts it intends to withhold or deduct in respect of the applicable payment or delivery and the applicable provision of law requiring such withholding or deduction. To the extent any such withholding or deduction is required by law, the parties hereto shall cooperate in good faith to reduce or otherwise eliminate any such withholding or deduction.

Article II:

CLOSING

Section  2.1 Closing . The closing of the Exchange described in Section  1.1 (the “ Closing ”) hereof will take place at the offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 609 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77002 at 9:00 a.m., Houston time, on the second Business Day following the satisfaction or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, waiver of the conditions set forth in Article  VI below (other than those conditions that by their terms are to be satisfied at the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or, to the extent permitted by applicable law, waiver of those conditions), unless another date, time or place is agreed to in writing by the parties hereto (such date being referred to herein as the “ Closing Date ”).

Section  2.2 Closing Deliverables .

(a) Closing Actions and Deliverables of the Obligors . At the Closing, the Obligors shall:

(i) deliver to the New Notes Trustee:

(A) a duly executed counterpart of the New Notes Indenture;

(B) a duly executed counterpart of one or more global certificates representing the New Notes; and

(C) the opinion of Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  F-2 ;

(ii) deliver to the Warrant Agent:

(A) a duly executed counterpart of the Warrant Agreement; and

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(iii) deliver to the Holders:

(A) all definitive documentation in respect of the Old Notes Indenture, the New Indenture and the Intercreditor Agreement, including, without limitation:

(1) customary closing and security documentation (together with the Intercreditor Agreement, the “ Security Documents ”), including: (I) executed copies of each security document listed on Exhibit  C-1 that the Obligors are to execute in connection with the issuance of the New Notes, in each case in form and substance substantially similar to the forms attached as Exhibit  C-2 , with such changes as are otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the Holders and the Company (but in any case in form and substance substantially similar to the corresponding security documents delivered under or in connection with the Credit Facility), together with (x), subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, certificates representing the capital stock pledged pursuant to the Security Documents, accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank, or evidence that such certificates and related stock powers were delivered to the First Lien Agent, (y) proper financing statements, duly prepared for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code of all relevant jurisdictions of incorporation or formation, and (z) completed lien searches, dated on or as of a recent date before the Closing, listing all effective financing statements filed in the relevant jurisdictions of each Obligor’s jurisdiction of incorporation or formation that name any Obligor as debtor, together with copies of such financing statements, and not evidencing any liens not permitted by the New Indenture, the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement and (II) executed mortgages and deeds of trust, in each case in form and substance substantially similar to the forms attached as Exhibit  C-3 , with such changes that are otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, the Holders and the Company (but in any case in form and substance substantially similar to the corresponding mortgages and deeds of trust delivered under or in connection with the Credit Facility) (with such modifications thereto as are appropriate to reflect the second lien nature of the liens created thereunder or as reasonably requested by the Trustee), covering the value of the oil and gas properties required to be pledged pursuant to the New Indenture and the Security Documents (except as otherwise set forth in Section 11.2 of the New Indenture, in connection with the execution and delivery of the Security Documents, the Holders shall be reasonably satisfied that the Liens (as defined in the New Indenture) under the Security Documents will, upon the recording of the Security Documents, be second priority, perfected Liens (subject only to Permitted Liens (as defined in the New Indenture)) on all other property purported to be pledged as Collateral pursuant to the Indenture and the Security Documents);

 

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(2) customary closing documentation relating to the amendment of the Old Indenture and the cancelation of the Old Notes, including the Supplemental Indenture, duly executed and delivered by the Obligors and the Old Notes Trustee, and customary evidence as to the consent of the requisite percentage of holders of the 2022 Notes and the 2025 Notes, respectively, pursuant to the Old Indenture to the amendments pursuant to the Supplemental Indenture; and

(3) customary closing documentation relating to the entry into the New Indenture and the issuance of the New Notes, including: (I) the New Indenture, duly executed and delivered by the Obligors and the New Notes Trustee; (II) one or more global certificates representing the New Notes being issued in the Exchange, issued in the name of The Depository Trust Company or its nominee (as applicable, “ DTC ”) and duly executed and delivered by the Issuer and duly authenticated by the New Notes Trustee;

(B) evidence of the receipt of the Credit Facility Consent;

(C) evidence of the receipt of the Term Loan Consent;

(D) to such Holder’s custodian (or the custodian of certain funds and/or accounts for which such Holder acts as investment advisor), as set forth on Schedule I hereto, by means of book-entry transfer through the facilities of DTC, (1) New Notes representing the aggregate principal amount of New Notes issuable to such Holder as determined pursuant to Section  1.1 and (2) Warrants representing the aggregate number of Warrants issuable to such Holder as determined pursuant to Section  1.1 , each, in the cases of clauses (1) and (2), without any restricted securities legend and bearing an unrestricted CUSIP;

(E) a duly executed counterpart of the Director Nomination Agreement;

(F) the opinions of Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F -1 and Exhibit F -2 ;

(G) the opinions of Lackowicz & Hoffman, Yukon counsel for the Company, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  G-1 and Exhibit G-2 ; and

(H) the opinion of Bennett Jones LLP, Canadian counsel for the Company, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  H .

(b) Closing Actions and Deliverables of the Holders . Each Holder shall:

(i) on the Closing Date (or on such other date as may be agreed by such Holder and the Issuer), effect by book entry, in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC, the delivery to the Issuer (or its trustee or designee) of the Exchanged Notes held by such Holder (or certain funds and/or accounts for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) and all other documents and instruments reasonably requested by the Issuer to effect the transfer of such Exchanged Notes to the Issuer in accordance with the terms hereof;

 

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(ii) on or before the Closing Date, deliver (or cause its DTC participant to deliver) to DTC, through DTC’s “Demand and Dissent” procedures, a consent, in the form set forth on Exhibit  I , with respect to all Exchanged Notes beneficially held by such Holder (or certain funds and/or accounts for which such Holder acts as investment advisor), to the entry into the Supplemental Indenture; provided , that, if DTC instructs that such consent to the entry into the Supplemental Indenture be delivered or made through some other procedure, each Holder shall deliver such consent through any such other procedure in accordance with DTC’s instructions;

(iii) at the Closing, deliver to the Company a duly executed counterpart of the Director Nomination Agreement; and

(iv) at the Closing, deliver to the Company and the Issuer a Qualification Certificate, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  J .

Section  2.3 Consummation of Closing . Subject to the satisfaction of all of the closing actions and deliverables set forth in Section  2.2 hereto other than Sections  2.2(a)(iii)(D) and 2.2(b)(i) , all acts, deliveries and confirmations comprising the Closing, regardless of chronological sequence, will be deemed to occur contemporaneously and simultaneously on the Closing Date.

Section  2.4 No Transfer of Exchanged Notes after the Closing; no Further Ownership Rights in Exchanged Notes . Upon consummation of the Closing, all Exchanged Notes (or interests therein) exchanged pursuant to this Agreement will cease to be transferable and there shall be no further registration of any transfer of any such Exchanged Notes or interests therein. From and after the Closing, the Holders will cease to have any rights with respect to such Exchanged Notes, including in respect of any accrued and unpaid interest, except as otherwise provided for herein or by applicable law. Upon consummation of the Closing, the Exchanged Notes will be deemed cancelled and no longer outstanding.

Article III:

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF OBLIGORS

Each of the Obligors represents and warrants to each of the Holders, jointly and severally, as follows:

Section  3.1 Organization and Good Standing . Each of the Obligors (i) has been duly incorporated or formed and is validly existing as a corporation or other business entity in good standing under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, with power and authority (corporate, limited liability company or other) to own its properties and conduct its business and (ii) has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation or other business entity for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties or conducts any business so as to require such qualification, except, in the case of clause (ii) only, where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, management, operations or prospects, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “ Material Adverse Effect ”).

 

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Section  3.2 Due Authorization . Each of the Obligors has all requisite power and authority (corporate, limited liability company and other) to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the New Notes, the New Guarantees, the New Indenture, the Security Documents, the Warrants, the Warrant Agreement, the Supplemental Indenture, the Director Nomination Agreement and this Agreement (collectively, the “ Transaction Documents ”). This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Obligors and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Holders, constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of each Obligor enforceable against, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) (collectively, the “ Enforceability Exceptions ”).

Section  3.3 No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance by each Obligor of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions to closing set forth in Section  6.3(a) and Section  6.3(b), the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, the grant of the security interest in the Collateral securing the New Notes and the delivery of shares upon exercise of the Warrants) will not: (i) conflict with or result in a breach, violation or failure of (A) any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (B) the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, as amended, By-laws or equivalent organizational document of the Obligors or (C) any law, rule, regulation or statute, or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Obligors or any of their properties and assets, except for, with respect to clauses (A) and (C), any such conflict, breach, violation or failure which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; or (ii) result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien (as defined in the New Indenture) upon any of the properties or assets of any Obligor (other than any Liens created under any of the Transaction Documents (as defined herein) in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Holders).

Section  3.4 No Consents Required . No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental agency or body is required for the Exchange, the execution, delivery and performance by the Obligors of the Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, the grant of the security interest in the Collateral securing the New Notes and the delivery of shares upon exercise of the Warrants), except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications: (i) as may be required under state securities or “blue sky” laws in connection with the Exchange; (ii) that have already been obtained; and (iii) as may be required under the securities laws of each of the provinces and territories of Canada where the Securities are offered and sold and the Yukon and the respective regulations and rules under such laws, together with applicable published rules, policy statements, blanket rulings and orders, instruments and notices of the regulatory authorities in such provinces and territories

 

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(“ Canadian Securities Laws ”) (with which the Obligors shall comply) in respect of the filing of a report of exempt distribution under National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions of the Canadian Securities Administrators (“ NI  45 -106 ”) with payment of applicable filing fees and, if applicable, delivery of an offering memorandum to the securities regulatory authorities in one or more Canadian provinces or territories in which such delivery is required.

Section  3.5 New Notes . The New Notes have been duly and validly authorized by the Issuer and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the New Indenture by the New Notes Trustee, when the New Notes are executed by the Issuer, authenticated by the New Notes Trustee and delivered in exchange for Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Issuer, enforceable against the Issuer, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of and be in the form contemplated by the New Indenture. The New Guarantees contained in the New Indenture have been duly and validly authorized by each of the Company and the Guarantors and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the New Indenture by the New Notes Trustee, when the New Notes are executed by the Issuer, authenticated by the New Notes Trustee and delivered in exchange for Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange, the New Guarantees will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and the Guarantors, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantors, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the New Indenture. The New Indenture has been duly and validly authorized by the Issuer, the Company and the Guarantors and, as of the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Issuer, the Company and the Guarantors and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the New Indenture by the New Notes Trustee, will constitute a valid and legally binding obligations of the Issuer, the Company and the Guarantors, enforceable against the Issuer, the Company and the Guarantors in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

Section  3.6 Warrants . The Warrants have been duly and validly authorized by the Company and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Warrant Agreement by the Warrant Agent, when the Warrants are executed by the Company, authenticated by the Warrant Agent and delivered in exchange for Old Notes pursuant to the Exchange, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of and be in the form contemplated by the Warrant Agreement. The Warrant Agreement has been duly and validly authorized by the Company and, as of the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Warrant Agreement by the Warrant Agent, will constitute a valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

Section  3.7 Underlying Shares . Upon issuance and delivery of the Warrants in accordance with this Agreement and the Warrant Agreement, the Warrants will be exercisable at the option of the Holder thereof into the Company’s common shares in accordance with their terms and the terms of the Warrant Agreement; the shares underlying the Warrants (the “ Underlying Shares ”) have been duly authorized and reserved and, when issued upon exercise of the Warrants in accordance with their terms and the terms of the Warrant Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and the issuance of the Underlying Shares will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights.

 

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Section  3.8 Supplemental Indenture . The supplemental indenture to the Old Indenture giving effect to proposed amendments to the Old Indenture, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit  K (the “ Supplemental Indenture ”), has been duly and validly authorized by each Obligor and, as of the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by each Obligor party thereto and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Supplemental Indenture by the Old Notes Trustee, will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of each Obligor, enforceable against each Obligor in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

Section  3.9 Security Documents . Each of the Security Documents has been duly and validly authorized by the Obligors party thereto and, as of the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by each Obligor party thereto and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of each Security Documents by each other party thereto, will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of such Obligors, enforceable against such Obligors in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions. As of the Closing Date, the provisions of the Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement (the “ Collateral Agreement ”) will create legal and valid Liens (as defined in the New Indenture) on all the Collateral (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) in favor of the Collateral Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties (as defined in the New Indenture), and so long as such filings and other actions required to be taken hereby, by the New Indenture or by the applicable Security Documents, have been taken, such Liens constitute perfected and continuing Liens on the Collateral (to the extent that a Lien thereon can be perfected by the foregoing actions), securing the Secured Obligations (as defined in the Collateral Agreement), enforceable against each Obligor party thereto subject to Permitted Liens (as defined in the New Indenture), except as may be limited by the effect of rules of law governing the availability of equitable remedies and subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

Section  3.10 Collateral . Each Obligor confirms that each of the representations and warranties of such Obligor set forth in each Security Document to which it is a party is true and correct as of the Closing Date.

Section  3.11 Director Nomination Agreement . The Director Nomination Agreement has been duly and validly authorized and, as of the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Director Nomination Agreement by the other parties thereto, will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

Section  3.12 DTC Eligibility . As of the Closing Date, the New Notes and the Warrants will have been declared eligible for clearance and settlement through The Depository Trust Company and will have been, at the Closing Date, delivered to the custodian for The Depository Trust Company for distribution to the accounts of applicable Depository Trust Company participants for each Holder.

 

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Section  3.13 Arm’s Length . Each Obligor acknowledges and agrees that (i) each of the Holders is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to such Obligor with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, such Obligor or any of its subsidiaries and (ii) no Holder is advising any Obligor or any of such Obligor’s subsidiaries as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction.

Section  3.14 Material Adverse Change . Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained since September 30, 2018 any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree; and, since September 30, 2018, except as disclosed in filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission prior to the date of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has (i) issued or granted any securities, (ii) incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, other than liabilities and obligations that were incurred in the ordinary course of business, (iii) entered into any transaction not in the ordinary course of business or (iv) declared or paid any dividend on its capital stock and, since September 30, 2018, there has not been any change in the capital stock, membership interests or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity (or members’ interests) or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

Section  3.15 Investment Company Act . None of the Obligors is, nor after giving effect to the Exchange, will be, an “investment company,” as such term is defined in the United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

Section  3.16 No Violation or Default . Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its Articles of Incorporation, as amended, or By-laws or equivalent organizational document, (ii) in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound or (iii) is in violation of any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties and assets, except for, with respect to clauses (ii) and (iii), any such violation or default which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section  3.17 Insurance . The Company and each of its subsidiaries carry, or are covered by, insurance from insurers of recognized financial responsibility in such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of their respective businesses and the value of their respective properties. All policies of insurance of the Company and its subsidiaries are in full force and effect; the Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms of such policies in all material respects; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue such insurance; there are no claims by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any such policy or instrument as to which any insurance company is denying liability or defending under a reservation of rights clause; and neither the Company nor

 

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any such subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section  3.18 No Restrictions on Subsidiaries . Except as set forth in the Old Indenture, the Credit Facility, the Term Loan Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement, no subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.

Section  3.19 Permits . The Company and each of its subsidiaries have such permits, licenses, franchises, certificates of need and other approvals or authorizations of governmental or regulatory authorities (“ Permits ”) as are required under applicable law, including Environmental Laws (as defined herein), to own their properties and conduct their businesses, except for any of the foregoing that would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each of its subsidiaries have fulfilled and performed all of its obligations with respect to the Permits and no event has occurred that allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow, revocation or termination thereof or results in any other impairment of the rights of the holder or any such Permits, except for any of the foregoing that would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Obligors has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such Permits or has any reason to believe that any such Permits will not be renewed in the ordinary course.

Section  3.20 Environmental Matters . Except for such matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect: (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has violated any federal, state, provincial, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products or asbestos containing materials (collectively, “ Hazardous Materials ”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “ Environmental Laws ”); (ii) none of the Company and its subsidiaries has released, disposed of, or arranged to dispose of Hazardous Materials at any location, and Hazardous Materials do not otherwise contaminate any facility owned or operated by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, in each instance in a manner or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries under Environmental Law; (iii) there are no pending or threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, written demands, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings arising pursuant to any Environmental Law asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries; and (iv) to the knowledge of the Obligors, there are no events or circumstances that would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or Environmental Laws or the violation of any Environmental Laws.

 

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Section  3.21 Intellectual Property . (i) The Company and each of its subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, domain names and other source identifiers, copyrights and copyrightable works, licenses, know-how, software, systems and technology (including trade secrets and other unpatented or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems, methods or procedures) and all other worldwide intellectual property, industrial property and proprietary rights (collectively, “ Intellectual Property ”) used in the conduct of their respective businesses; (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries’ conduct of their respective businesses does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any person and no claim, action, suit or proceeding, including requests for indemnification (each, an “ Action ”), is pending, or to the knowledge of the Obligors, threatened in writing, alleging same; (iii) to the knowledge of the Obligors, the Intellectual Property of the Company and its subsidiaries is not being infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated by any person; (iv) no Action is pending, or to the knowledge of the Obligors, threatened in writing, challenging the validity, enforceability, scope, registration, ownership or use of any Intellectual Property of the Company or its subsidiaries (with the exception of ordinary course office actions in connection with applications for the registration or issuance of such Intellectual Property), and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such Action; and (v) the Company and its subsidiaries take all reasonable measures to maintain and protect their material Intellectual Property, except in the case of clauses (ii) through (iv), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section  3.22 ERISA . (i) Each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ ERISA ”), for which the Company or any member of its “ Controlled Group ” (defined as any person, trade or business which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code or is treated as a single employer under “common control” within the meaning of Section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA) would have any liability (each, a “ Plan ”) has been maintained and administered in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code; (ii) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any Plan excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption; (iii) for each Plan that is subject to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, no Plan has failed (whether or not waived), or is reasonably expected to fail, to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code) applicable to such Plan; (iv) no Plan is, or is reasonably expected to be, in “at risk status” (within the meaning of Section 303(i) of ERISA) or “endangered status” or “critical status” (within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA); (v) the fair market value of the assets of each Plan exceeds the present value of all benefits accrued under such Plan (determined based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan); (vi) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (vii) each Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification; and (viii) neither the Company nor any member of its Controlled Group has incurred,

 

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nor reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the Plan or premiums to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a Plan (including a “multiemployer plan,” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA), except in each case with respect to the events or conditions set forth in clauses (i) through (viii), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section  3.23 Legal Proceedings . No action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or its or their property is pending or, to the knowledge of the Obligors, threatened that (i) would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the performance by any Obligor of this Agreement or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section  3.24 No Labor Disputes . Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, no labor disturbance by, or dispute with, the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Obligors, is imminent.

Section  3.25 Taxes . Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each of its subsidiaries have (i) filed all federal, provincial, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed through the date hereof, subject to permitted extensions and (ii) paid all material taxes due except those being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States or the International Financial Reporting Standards. No unresolved tax deficiencies have been, or could reasonably be expected to be, asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries that would, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section  3.26 Compliance with Anti -Bribery Laws . None of the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Obligors, after due inquiry, any director, officer, agent, employee, Affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has: (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made or taken an act in furtherance of any offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government or regulatory official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “ FCPA ”), or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions; (iv) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada) (the “ CFPOA ”), the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom (the “ Bribery Act ”), or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws; or (v) made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including without limitation, any rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment or improper benefit. The Company and its subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Obligors, the Company’s Affiliates, have conducted their respective businesses

 

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in compliance with the FCPA, the CFPOA, the Bribery Act and all other applicable anti-corruption and anti-bribery statutes and regulations, and have instituted, maintain and enforce, and will continue to maintain and enforce, policies and procedures designed to promote and ensure, and which are reasonably expected to promote and ensure, continued compliance therewith.

Section  3.27 Compliance with Money Laundering Laws . The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada), the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions (including the USA PATRIOT Act of 2011), the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “ Money Laundering Laws ”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Obligors, threatened.

Section  3.28 Compliance with Sanctions Laws . None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Obligors, after due inquiry, any director, officer, agent, employee or Affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, the Canadian government, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “ Sanctions ”), nor is the Company or any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or the target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and Crimea (each, a “ Sanctioned Country ”). For the past five years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.

Section  3.29 General Solicitation . None of the Obligors, nor any of their Affiliates or any person acting on their behalf, has offered New Notes or Warrants in the United States by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”).

Section  3.30 No Integration . None of the Obligors or their Affiliates or any person acting on its or their behalf, directly or indirectly has offered, sold or solicited any offer to buy and will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell or solicit any offer to buy, any security of a type or in a manner which would be integrated with the issuance of the New Notes or the Warrants and require the issuance of the New Notes or the Warrants, as applicable, to be registered under the Securities Act.

Section  3.31 Offering . Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of each Holder contained in Article IV hereof, the offer, issue, and delivery of the New Notes and the Warrants in exchange for Exchanged Notes pursuant to the Exchange are and will be exempt from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act, and have been registered or qualified (or are exempt from registration and qualification) under the registration,

 

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permit, or qualification requirements of all applicable state securities laws; and it is not necessary to qualify the New Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of each Holder contained in Article IV hereof, the New Notes and the Warrants issued pursuant to the Exchange will, at the Closing, be eligible to be resold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act without restriction thereunder by persons that are not affiliates of the Obligors.

Section  3.32 Solvency . Immediately after the consummation of the Exchange, the Obligors, when taken together (the “ Consolidated Entity ”), will be Solvent. As used in this paragraph, the term “Solvent” means, with respect to a particular date, that on such date (i) the present fair market value (or present fair saleable value) of the assets of the Consolidated Entity are not less than the total amount required to pay the probable liabilities of the Consolidated Entity on its total existing debts and liabilities (including contingent liabilities) as they become absolute and matured, (ii) the Consolidated Entity is able to realize upon its assets and pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and commitments as they mature and become due in the normal course of business, (iii) the Consolidated Entity is not incurring debts or liabilities beyond its ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature, (iv) the Consolidated Entity is not engaged in any business or transaction, and is not about to engage in any business or transaction, for which its property would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which the Consolidated Entity is engaged, (v) none of the Obligors is a defendant in any civil action that would result in a judgment that such Obligor is or would become unable to satisfy, (vi) the Obligors are otherwise solvent within the meaning given to that term and similar terms under the Bankruptcy Code and applicable laws relating to fraudulent transfers and conveyances and (vii) none of the Obligors is otherwise an “insolvent person” within the meaning of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada). In computing the amount of such contingent liabilities at any time, it is intended that such liabilities will be computed at the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

Section  3.33 No Other Representations or Warranties . Except for the representations and warranties contained in this Article III , none of the Obligors nor any Affiliate or representative of any Obligor has made or is making any representation or warranty of any kind or nature whatsoever, oral or written, express or implied with respect to the Obligors, this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby and the Obligors hereby severally disclaim any reliance on any representation or warranty of any Holder or any Affiliate or representative thereof except for the representations and expressly set forth in Article  IV .

 

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Article IV:

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF HOLDERS

Each Holder represents and warrants, severally but not jointly, to the Obligors as follows; provided , that, where a Holder is an investment advisor for the account of holders of the Old Notes, the representations and warranties made by such Holder will be deemed qualified to the best of such Holder’s knowledge:

Section  4.1 Organization and Good Standing . Such Holder is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation and has all requisite power and authority to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder.

Section  4.2 Due Authorization . Such Holder has all requisite power and authority (corporate, limited liability company and other) to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement. This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by such Holder and will constitute a valid and binding obligation of such Holder, enforceable against such Holder in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Enforceability Exceptions.

Section  4.3 No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance by such Holder of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not conflict with or result in a breach, violation or failure of (i) any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which such Holder is a party or by which such Holder is bound or to which any of the property or assets of such Holder, (ii) the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, as amended, By-laws or equivalent organizational document of such Holder, or (iii) any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over such Holder or any of its properties and assets, except for, with respect to clauses (i) and (iii), any for any such conflict, breach, violation or failure which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, operations, financial condition or results of operations of such Holder and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

Section  4.4 Ownership . Such Holder is (i) the sole beneficial owner and/or the investment advisor, authorized representative or manager for the beneficial owners of the Exchanged Notes (as defined herein), the principal amount of which is set forth on its signature page attached hereto, having the power to vote and dispose of such Exchanged Notes on behalf of such beneficial owners and (ii) entitled (for its own account or for the account of certain funds and/or accounts for which it acts as investment advisor) to all of the rights and economic benefits of such Exchanged Notes. There are no outstanding agreements, arrangements or understandings under which such Holder, its nominee or the beneficial owners of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor may be obligated to transfer any of the Exchanged Notes, other than this Agreement. On the Closing Date, such Holder will be (i) the sole beneficial owner and/or the investment advisor, authorized representative or manager for the beneficial owners of the Exchanged Notes being exchanged by such Holder and (ii) entitled (for its own account or for the account of certain funds and/or accounts for which it acts as investment advisor) to all of the rights and economic benefits of such Exchanged Notes.

Section  4.5 Transfers . Such Holder (and the beneficial owners of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) has made no prior assignment, sale, participation, grant, conveyance or other transfer of, and has not entered into any other agreement to assign, sell, participate, grant or otherwise transfer (except for liens or encumbrances in favor

 

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of a broker dealer over property in an account with such dealer generally in which an encumbrance is released upon transfer), in whole or in part, any portion of its right, title or interests in such Holder’s Exchanged Notes, subject to this Agreement, that is inconsistent with the representations and warranties made in Section  4.4 hereof or that would render such Holder (and the beneficial owners of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) otherwise unable to comply with its obligations under this Agreement.

Section  4.6 No Liens. The Exchanged Notes held by such Holder (or the beneficial owners of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor, as the case may be) are not subject to any lien, pledge, mortgage, security interest, charge, option or other encumbrance of adverse claim of any kind (a “ Lien ”), except for liens or encumbrances in favor of a broker dealer over property in an account with such dealer generally in which an encumbrance is released upon transfer. The execution and delivery of, and the performance by such Holder of its obligations under, this Agreement, will not result in the creation of any Lien upon the Exchanged Notes held by such Holder (or the beneficial owners of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor, as the case may be). Upon the consummation of the Exchange, the Issuer will acquire the Exchanged Notes to be exchanged by such Holder (or the beneficial owners of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor, as the case may be) free and clear of any Lien.

Section  4.7 Investment Experience . Such Holder has such knowledge and experience in financial and business affairs that such Holder is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Securities. Such Holder (and each beneficial owner of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) is an “accredited investor,” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act and a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act and, if a resident in a province of territory of Canada, it is purchasing or deemed to be purchasing the Securities as principal and is an “accredited investor”, as defined in National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions or subsection 73.3(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario), and are permitted clients, as defined in National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations . Such Holder (and each beneficial owner of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) will acquire the Securities for its own account (or for the account of certain funds and/or accounts for which such Holder acts as investment advisor), for investment, and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution thereof in violation of the registration provisions of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Such Holder (and each beneficial owner of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) understands that the Securities are being issued to it in reliance on specific exemptions from the registration requirements of United States federal and state securities laws and Canadian Securities Laws and that the Obligors are relying upon the truth and accuracy of, and each Holder’s compliance (and the compliance of each beneficial owner of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) with, the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of such Holder (on its own behalf and on behalf of each beneficial owner of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) set forth herein in order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of such Holder (and each beneficial owner of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) to acquire the Securities. Such Holder (and each beneficial owner of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) acknowledges that no representations, express or implied, are being made with respect to

 

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the Obligors, the Securities, or otherwise, other than those expressly set forth herein. In making its decision to invest in the Securities hereunder, such Holder has relied upon independent investigations made by such Holder and, to the extent believed by such Holder to be appropriate, such Holder’s representatives, including such Holder’s own professional, tax and other advisors. Such Holder and its representatives have been given the opportunity to ask questions of, and to receive answers from, the Issuer and its representatives concerning the terms and conditions of the investment in the Securities. Such Holder has reviewed, or has had the opportunity to review, all information it deems necessary and appropriate for such Holder to evaluate the financial risks inherent in an investment in the Securities and has had sufficient time to evaluate the Exchange. Such Holder (and each beneficial owner of the Exchanged Notes for which such Holder acts as investment advisor) understands that its investment in the Securities involves a high degree of risk and that no governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over each Holder or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties and assets has passed on or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Securities.

Section  4.8 Securities Law Matters . Each Holder has been advised by the Issuer and acknowledges that: (i) the offer and sale of the Securities has not been registered under the Securities Act or Canadian Securities Laws; (ii) the offer and sale of the Securities is intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and under Canadian Securities Laws; (iii) there is currently no established market for the Securities; (iv) the Issuer is not, and currently has no intention of becoming, a reporting issuer in any province or territory of Canada; (v) the Securities will be subject to restrictions on trading in Canada and may only be traded in Canada under limited exemptions under applicable Canadian Securities Laws with the Notes acquired by a Holder in Canada being subject to an indefinite hold period under Applicable Canadian Securities Laws; and (vi) the Holder is acquiring the Securities for investment purposes, not for the purpose of further distribution. None of the Holders is an Affiliate of the Issuer or has been an Affiliate of the Issuer within the three-month period prior to the date hereof.

Section  4.9 No Other Representations or Warranties . Except for the representations and warranties contained in this Article  IV , none of the Holders nor any Affiliate or representative of any Holder has made or is making any representation or warranty of any kind or nature whatsoever, oral or written, express or implied with respect to the Holders, this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby and the Holders hereby severally disclaim any reliance on any representation or warranty of any Obligor or any Affiliate or representative thereof except for the representations and expressly set forth in Article  III .

Article V:

CERTAIN COVENANTS

Section  5.1 Consent to Supplemental Indenture . Each Holder other than certain funds and accounts managed by Barclays Bank PLC and certain funds and accounts managed by Capital Ventures International (each, a “ Supporting Holder ”) hereby:

(a) confirms that such Supporting Holder has delivered (or caused its DTC participant to deliver), or will deliver (or cause its DTC participant to deliver), to DTC, through DTC’s “Demand and Dissent” procedures, a consent with respect to all Exchanged Notes beneficially owned by such Supporting Holder (or certain funds and/or accounts for which such Supporting Holder acts as investment advisor), to the entry into the Supplemental Indenture;

 

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(b) acknowledges that any such consents with respect to the Exchanged Notes beneficially owned by such Supporting Holder delivered to or to be delivered to DTC remain valid and in effect and such consents are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects giving effect to this Agreement, including with respect to any changes pursuant to this Agreement to such consents and the form of supplemental indenture attached thereto at the time of delivery to DTC; and

(c) ratifies and confirms any such consents with respect to the Exchanged Notes beneficially owned by such Supporting Holder previously delivered to DTC, including with respect to any changes pursuant to this Agreement to such consents and the form of supplemental indenture attached thereto at the time of delivery to DTC.

Section  5.2 Restrictions on Transfer .

(a) From the date hereof until the earlier of (i) the termination of this Agreement and (ii) the Closing, each Holder agrees that it shall not, and it shall cause each of its Affiliates not to, with respect to the securities listed in Schedule I hereto, except pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, directly or indirectly (x) sell, deliver, transfer, give, pledge, encumber, assign or otherwise dispose of, or enter into any contract, option or other arrangement or understanding with respect to the sale, delivery, transfer, gift, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, assignment or other disposition (including by operation of law) of any Old Notes (or any rights or interests of any nature whatsoever in or with respect to any Old Notes), except for in respect of (A) sales, deliveries, transfers, gifts, pledges, assignments or other dispositions to another Holder of any Exchanged Notes (in which case the aggregate principal amount of Exchanged Notes for the transferor will be automatically decreased by the aggregate principal amount of such Exchanged Notes that are transferred pursuant to this clause (A) and the aggregate principal amount of Exchanged Notes for the transferee will be automatically increased by an equivalent amount), (B) liens or encumbrances in favor of a broker dealer over property in an account with such dealer generally in which an encumbrance is released upon transfer, or as to voting, agreeing or consenting (or abstaining therefrom) with respect to any amendment to or waiver of any terms of, or taking any other action whatsoever with respect to, the Old Notes and/or the Old Indenture or (C) sales, deliveries, transfers, gifts, pledges, assignments or other dispositions to any person or entity that agrees in writing, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit L (a “ Transferee Joinder ”), to be bound by the terms of this Agreement (each such transferee, a “ Transferee Holder ”) (in which case the aggregate principal amount of Exchanged Notes for the transferor Holder will be automatically decreased by the aggregate principal amount of such Exchanged Notes that are transferred pursuant to this clause (C) and the aggregate principal amount of Exchanged Notes for the Transferee Holder will be automatically increased by an equivalent amount) and provided that the Transferee Holder provides the Company and its counsel with a copy of any Transferee Joinder executed by such Transferee Holder within three (3) business days following such execution; or (y) agree (whether or not in writing) to take any of the actions referred to in the foregoing clause (x) of this Section  5.2 , in each case, except pursuant to or as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement.

 

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(b) In the case of any transfers permitted by clause (C) of Section 5.1(a)(x) above, upon execution and delivery of the Transferee Joinder in accordance with such clause (C), (i) the Transferee Holder shall be deemed to be a Holder hereunder with respect to all of its Exchanged Notes and all references to “Holder” in this Agreement shall include any such Transferee Holder, (ii) the transferor Holder shall be deemed to relinquish its rights (and be released from its obligations) under this Agreement solely to the extent of such transferred Exchanged Notes and (iii) such Transferee Holder shall be deemed to make all of the representations and warranties of a Holder set forth in this Agreement with respect to its Exchanged Notes.

Section  5.3 Press Release . The Company and each Holder agree that the Company shall issue a press release and a Form 8-K announcing the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents on the date hereof and otherwise containing all material non-public information and complying with the Confidentiality Agreements, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Holders.

Section  5.4 Ratings . The Company shall use its best efforts to obtain ratings for the New Notes by each of S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global, Inc., and Moody’s Investor Services, Inc. by March 31, 2019.

Section  5.5 Tax Treatment .

(a) The Issuer intends to treat the exchange of the Exchanged Notes for the New Notes and Warrants as a reorganization pursuant to Section 368 of the Code.

(b) The parties agree to treat the New Notes as a class of interest in the Issuer solely as a creditor for purposes of Sections 897 and 1445 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder. The Issuer shall file all applicable tax returns in a manner consistent with such treatment unless otherwise required by a “determination” within the meaning of Section 1313(a) of the Code.

Section  5.6 Expenses . The Company shall satisfy the requirements set forth in Section  9.2 hereto on or before the date specified for such requirement.

Article VI:

CLOSING CONDITIONS

Section  6.1 The obligation of each party to effect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents is subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing of the following conditions:

(a) no governmental authority of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any statute, rule, regulation, judgment, decree, injunction or other order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that is in effect and precludes consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Transaction Documents, and no statute, rule, regulation, order, injunction or decree shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or enforced by any governmental authority that prohibits or makes illegal this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby; and

 

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(b) there shall be no pending litigation, action, proceeding, investigation or labor controversy that purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents.

Section  6.2 The obligations of each Holder to effect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents is subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing of the following conditions:

(a) the representations and warranties of the Obligors contained in Article  III hereof shall be true and correct in all respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing, with the same force and effect as though made on and as of such date;

(b) the applicable Obligors shall have delivered, in accordance with Section  2.2(a) , each of the items required to be delivered by them;

(c) the Obligors shall have received a consent of the requisite lenders under the Credit Facility to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents (the “ Credit Facility Consent ”);

(d) the Obligors shall have received a consent of the requisite lenders under the Term Loan Agreement to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents (the “ Term Loan Consent ”);

(e) the aggregate principal amount of Old Notes that will remain outstanding upon consummation of the Exchange shall not be less than (i) in the case of the 2022 Notes, $140 million aggregate principal amount of 2022 Notes, and (ii) in the case of the 2025 Notes, $225 million aggregate principal amount of 2025 Notes;

(f) the Company shall have paid in full the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements payable pursuant to Section  9.2 and incurred prior to the Closing Date, as notified by the Holders to the Company at least one Business Day prior to the Closing Date;

(g) each Obligor shall have performed or complied with, in all material respects, its covenants and agreements required to be performed or complied with as of Closing under this Agreement, except for the covenants set forth in Section  2.2(a) hereof which each Obligor shall have performed and complied with in all respects; and

(h) a fully executed side letter to the Director Nomination Agreement among the Ad Hoc Group of Holders and Fir Tree Value Master Fund, LP, Fir Tree Capital Opportunity Master Fund, LP, Fir Tree Capital Opportunity Master Fund III, LP, FT COF (E) Holdings, LLC, FT SOF IV Holdings, LLC, FT SOF V Holdings, LLC and FT SOF VII Holdings, LLC, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Ad Hoc Group of Holders, shall have been delivered to the Ad Hoc Group of Holders.

 

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Section  6.3 The obligations of the Obligors to effect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents is subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing of the following conditions:

(a) the Obligors shall have received the Credit Facility Consent, which shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Obligors;

(b) the Obligors shall have received the Term Loan Consent, which shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Obligors;

(c) the representations and warranties of the Holders contained in Article  IV hereof shall be true and correct in all respects as of the date of this Agreement (or the date of the relevant Transferee Joinder, as applicable) and as of the Closing, with the same force and effect as though made on and as of such date;

(d) each of the Holders shall have delivered, in accordance with Section  2.2(b) , each of the items required to be delivered by them; and

(e) each Holder shall have performed or complied with, in all material respects, its covenants and agreements required to be performed or complied with as of Closing under this Agreement, except for the covenants set forth in Section  2.2(b) hereof which each Holder shall have performed and complied with in all respects.

Article VII:

TERMINATION

Section  7.1 Termination . This Agreement may be terminated:

(a) by the Holders owning at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of each series of Old Notes, upon written notice of termination to the Company, if (A) any of the Obligors has breached or failed to perform any of its covenants or other agreements contained in this Agreement to be complied with by them such that the closing condition set forth in Section  6.2(g) would not be satisfied, (B) there exists a breach of any representation or warranty of any of the Obligors contained in Article III of this Agreement such that the Closing condition set forth in Section  6.2(a) would not be satisfied, and in the case of each of clauses (A) and (B) above, such breach, failure to perform or failure to satisfy such Closing condition, as applicable, (x) has not been waived by the Holders or cured on or before the earlier of 30 days after receipt by the Obligors of written notice thereof and December 31, 2018 or (y) is incapable of being cured by the Obligors by December 31, 2018, or (C)(1) the Company shall have an order for relief entered with respect to it or shall commence a voluntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case, or to the conversion of an involuntary case to a voluntary case, under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, manager, trustee, examiner or other custodian for all or a substantial part of its property or shall make any assignment for the benefit of creditors, or (2) the Company shall be unable, or shall fail generally, or shall admit in writing its inability, generally to pay its debts or obligations when due;

 

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(b) by the Company, upon written notice of termination to the Holders, if (A) a Holder has breached or failed to perform any of its covenants or other agreements contained in this Agreement to be complied with by them such that the closing condition set forth in Section  6.3(e) would not be satisfied, (B) there exists a breach of any representation or warranty of a Holder contained in Article IV of this Agreement such that the Closing condition set forth in Section  6.3(a) would not be satisfied, and in the case of each of clauses (A) and (B) above, such breach, failure to perform or failure to satisfy such Closing condition, as applicable, (x) has not been waived by the Company or cured on or before the earlier of 30 days after receipt by the Holders of written notice thereof and December 31, 2018 or (y) is incapable of being cured by the Holders by December 31, 2018; or

(c) by any Holder with respect to itself only upon written notice of termination to the Company if the Closing has not occurred on or before December 31, 2018; provided , that the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section  7.1(c) shall not be available to a Holder if the inability to satisfy any of the conditions to Closing was due primarily to the failure of such Holder to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement.

Section  7.2 Survival . Notwithstanding the provisions of Section  7.1 , the provisions of Section  3.33 , Section  4.9 , Section  5.6 , Article VIII and Article  IX hereof shall survive the termination of this Agreement indefinitely.

Article VIII:

INDEMNIFICATION

Section  8.1 Indemnification . The Obligors agree to indemnify each of the Holders and their respective directors, officers, partners, employees, members, managers and agents (each, a “ Indemnified Party ” and, collectively, the “ Indemnified Parties ”) from and against any costs, losses, liabilities, damages, or expenses, and hold each of them harmless against, any and all actions, suits, proceedings (including any investigations, litigation or inquiries), demands, and causes of action, and, in connection therewith, and promptly upon demand, pay or reimburse each of them for all costs, losses, liabilities, damages, or expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever (including the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel and all other reasonable and documented expenses incurred in connection with investigating, defending or preparing to defend any such matter that may be incurred by them or asserted against or involve any of them) (collectively, “ Losses ”), as a result of, arising out of, or resulting from any Third-Party Claim (as defined herein) asserted against such Indemnified Party arising from or in any way related to, or as a result of any action taken or purported to have been taken by such Indemnified Party in connection with the consummation of, the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

Section  8.2 Indemnification Procedures . Promptly after any Indemnified Party has received notice of any indemnifiable claim hereunder, or the commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by a third Person (other than the Company and its Affiliates or any other Holder or its Affiliates) (each a “ Third-Party Claim ”), which the Indemnified Party believes in good faith is an indemnifiable claim under this Agreement, the Indemnified Party shall give the Company prompt written notice of such Third-Party Claim or the commencement of such action, suit or proceeding, but failure to so notify the Company will not relieve the Indemnifying Party from any liability it

 

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may have to such Indemnified Party hereunder except to the extent that the Company is prejudiced by such failure. Such notice shall state the nature and the basis of such Third-Party Claim to the extent then known. The Company shall have the right to defend and settle, at its own expense and by its own counsel who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Indemnified Party, any such matter as long as the Company pursues the same diligently and in good faith. If the Company undertakes to defend or settle, it shall promptly notify the Indemnified Party of its intention to do so, and the Indemnified Party shall cooperate with the Company and its counsel in all commercially reasonable respects in the defense thereof and the settlement thereof. Such cooperation shall include, but shall not be limited to, furnishing the Company with any books, records and other information reasonably requested by the Company and in the Indemnified Party’s possession or control; provided , that such disclosure would not affect any privilege relating to the Indemnified Party or result in a violation of law or any confidentiality obligation; provided , further , that such requesting party shall, if reasonably requested by the Indemnified Party, enter into a reasonably and customary confidentiality agreement relating to such request. Such cooperation of the Indemnified Party shall be at the reasonable cost of the Company, including the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel to assist the Indemnified Party in connection with such cooperation. After the Company has notified the Indemnified Party of its intention to undertake to defend or settle any such asserted liability, and for so long as the Company diligently pursues such defense, the Company shall not be liable for any additional legal expenses incurred by the Indemnified Party in connection with any defense or settlement of such asserted liability; provided , however , that the Indemnified Party shall be entitled (i) at its expense, to participate in the defense of such asserted liability and the negotiations of the settlement thereof and (ii) if the Company has failed to assume the defense or employ counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indemnified Party, then the Indemnified Party shall have the right to select its own counsel and to assume such legal defense and otherwise to participate in the defense of such action, with the reasonable expenses and fees of one such counsel (in addition to local counsel) and other reasonable expenses related to such participation to be reimbursed by the Company as incurred. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, (x) the Company shall not settle any indemnified Third-Party Claim without the consent of the Indemnified Party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), unless the settlement thereof imposes no liability or obligation on, and includes a complete release from liability of, and does not include any admission of wrongdoing or malfeasance by, the Indemnified Party and (y) the Indemnified Party shall not settle any indemnified Third-Party Claim without the consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

Section  8.3 Limitation on Indemnity . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, none of the Company nor its Affiliates shall be required to indemnify or hold harmless any Indemnified Party if a court of competent jurisdiction shall have finally determined that any Losses resulted from the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Party, from a willful and material breach by a Holder of its obligations under this Agreement or from a claim solely among the Indemnified Parties. To the extent that the Company or its Affiliates have provided indemnification pursuant to this Article VIII prior to any such determination by a court of competent jurisdiction, each Indemnified Party so determined to have suffered Losses as a result of bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct shall promptly refund to the Company, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, any amounts so advanced by the Company or its Affiliates.

 

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Article IX:

MISCELLANEOUS

Section  9.1 Severability . The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof will in no way affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision or the validity and enforceability of this Agreement in any other jurisdiction.

Section  9.2 Expenses . The Company shall reimburse the Holders for all reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, primary counsel to the Holders, and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, primary Canadian counsel to the Holders. The Company shall reimburse the Holders for all such costs and expenses (i) on the Closing Date, if incurred prior to the Closing Date, (ii) within 90 days of the Closing Date, if incurred on or after the Closing Date or (iii) within 90 days of the termination of this Agreement if this Agreement is terminated and the Closing does not occur.

Section  9.3 Governing Law; Jurisdiction . This Agreement will in all respects be construed in accordance with and governed by the substantive laws of the State of New York, without reference to its choice of law rules. All actions or proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement will be heard and determined exclusively in any federal court of the United States of America sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan; provided , that if such federal court does not have jurisdiction over such action or proceeding, such action or proceeding will be heard and determined exclusively in any state court sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan. Consistent with the preceding sentence, the parties hereto hereby (i) submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of any federal or state court sitting in City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, for the purpose of any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement brought by any party hereto and (ii) irrevocably waive, and agree not to assert by way of motion, defense, or otherwise, in any such action or proceeding, any claim that it is not subject personally to the jurisdiction of the above-named courts, that its property is exempt or immune from attachment or execution, that the action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of the action or proceeding is improper, or that this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement may not be enforced in or by any of the above-named courts.

Section  9.4 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 IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

 

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Section  9.5 Headings . Section headings in this Agreement are included herein for convenience of reference only and will not constitute a part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Agreement.

Section  9.6 Certain Definitions . Capitalized terms in this Agreement shall have the meanings specified below, or as specified elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes hereof. The following terms, as used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings as set forth below:

(a) “ Affiliate ” means, with respect to a specified Person, any other Person, directly or indirectly Controlling or Controlled by or under direct or indirect common Control with such specified Person; provided , that the Obligors, Affiliates of the Obligors, any portfolio company of the Holders or any Affiliates of any portfolio company of the Holders (which entities are not otherwise Affiliates of the Holders and would only be deemed Affiliates pursuant to their relationship with one or more portfolio companies of the Holders) shall not be deemed an Affiliate of any Holder.

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

(c) “ Business Day ” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City.

(d) “ Control ,” “ Controlling ” or “ Controlled ” means, as to a specified Person, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

(e) “ Credit Facility ” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Company and UP Energy Corporation, as parent guarantors, the Issuer, as borrower, Bank of Montreal, as administrative agent, and the lenders and other parties party thereto, as amended and supplemented to date.

(f) “ Exchange ” means the exchange of Old Notes for New Notes and Warrants as described in Section  1.1 of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof.

(g) “ First Lien Agent ” means the agent under the Credit Facility and the Term Loan Agreement.

(h) “ Confidentiality Agreements ” mean the Confidentiality Agreements, dated September 25, 2018, between the Company and certain of the Holders, as amended and supplemented to date.

(i) “ Officer ” means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer or the Secretary of the Company or the Issuer, as applicable.

(j) “ Person ” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, limited liability company or government or other entity.

 

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(k) “ Term Loan Agreement ” means the Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Company and UP Energy Corporation, as parent guarantors, the Issuer, as borrower, Barclays Bank PLC, as administrative agent and the lenders and other parties party thereto.

Section  9.7 Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and either of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. A facsimile transmission of this Agreement bearing a signature on behalf of a party hereto shall be legal and binding on such party.

Section  9.8 Assignment; Binding Effect . Each Holder shall not convey, assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the express written consent of the Issuer, and none of the Obligors shall convey, assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement without the express written consent of each Holder. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

Section  9.9 Waiver; Remedies . No delay on the part of any Holder or the Issuer in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any waiver on the part of any Holder or the Issuer of any right, power or privilege under this Agreement operate as a waiver of any other right, power or privilege of such party under this Agreement, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege under this Agreement preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege under this Agreement.

Section  9.10 Specific Performance . The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur if any provision of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with the terms hereof and that the parties shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this agreement or to enforce specifically the performance of the terms and provisions hereof in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity.

Section  9.11 Entire Agreement . This Agreement represents the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.

Section  9.12 Amendment . This Agreement may be modified or amended only by written agreement of each of the parties to this Agreement.

 

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Section  9.13 Notice . Any notice or communications hereunder shall be in writing and will be deemed to have been given if delivered in person or by electronic transmission or by registered or certified first-class mail or courier service to the following addresses, or such other addresses as may be furnished hereafter by notice in writing:

if to the Issuer:

116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400,

Englewood, Colorado 80112

Attention: Chief Executive Officer

Chief Financial Officer

with copies to:

116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400,

Englewood, Colorado 80112

Attention: Legal Department

and

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

609 Main Street

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Matthew R. Pacey

Brooks Antweil

Facsimile: (713) 836-3786

Email:       matt.pacey@kirkland.com

      brooks.antweil@kirkland.com

if to the Holders:

As set forth on each Holder’s signature page hereto.

with copies to:

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Attention: Damian S. Schaible

Eli J. Vonnegut

Email:       damian.schaible@davispolk.com

      eli.vonnegut@davispolk.com

Section  9.14 Disclosure of Personal Information . Each Holder acknowledges that this Agreement requires the Holder to provide certain personal information to the Company. That information is being collected by the Company for the purposes of completing this private placement, which includes, without limitation, determining the Subscriber’s eligibility to acquire the Securities under the Securities Act and applicable Canadian Securities Laws and completing filings required by any securities regulatory authority. The Holder’s personal information may be disclosed by the Company to: (a) securities regulatory authorities; (b) the Company’s registrar and

 

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transfer agent and the Trustee; (c) any government agency, board or other entity; and (d) the Company’s legal counsel, and may be included in record books in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. By executing this Agreement, each Holder is deemed to be consenting to the foregoing collection, use and disclosure of the Holder’s personal information. If the Holder is resident in the Province of Ontario, the Holder is notified by the Company that the Company is required to provide information (“ personal information ”) pertaining to the Holder required to be disclosed in Schedule I of Form 45-106F1 under NI 45-106 (including the Holder’s name, residential address, telephone number, number of Securities acquired, purchase price therefor, statutory exemption relied on and date of distribution), which Form 45-106F1 is required to be filed by the Company under NI 45-106; the personal information will be delivered to the Ontario Securities Commission (the “ OSC ”) in accordance with NI 45-106; such personal information is being collected indirectly by the OSC under the authority granted to it in securities legislation; such personal information is being collected for the purposes of the administration and enforcement of the securities legislation of Ontario; and the public official in Ontario who can answer questions about the OSC’s indirect collection of such personal information is the Administrative Support Clerk at the OSC, Suite 1903, Box 55, 20 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3S8, Telephone: (416) 593-3684. By executing this Agreement, the Holder hereby authorizes the indirect collection of such personal information by the OSC.

Section  9.15 Judgment Currency . Each of the Issuer and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify each Holder, its directors, officers, affiliates and each person, if any, who controls such Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (each, a “ Holder Indemnified Party ”), against any loss incurred by such Holder as a result of any judgment or order being given or made for any amount due hereunder and such judgment or order being expressed and paid in a currency (the “ judgment currency ”) other than U.S. dollars and as a result of any variation as between (i) the rate of exchange at which the U.S. dollar amount is converted into the judgment currency for the purpose of such judgment or order, and (ii) the rate of exchange at which such indemnified person is able to purchase U.S. dollars with the amount of the judgment currency actually received by the indemnified person; provided that neither the Issuer nor any Guarantor (including the Company) shall have any obligation to indemnify any Holder Indemnified Party against any such loss if the judgment or order is being made pursuant to an action brought by the Issuer, the Company, any Guarantor or any of their respective Affiliates against such Holder Indemnified Party. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent obligation of the Issuer and each Guarantor and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “rate of exchange” shall include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or conversion into, the relevant currency.

[ Signature pages follow ]

 

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

 

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.
By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:  

Brad Johnson

Title:  

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.
By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   Interim Chief Executive Officer

 

UP ENERGY CORPORATION

By:

  /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

 

KEYSTONE GAS GATHERING, LLC

By:

  /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

 

ULTRA WYOMING, LLC

By:

  /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

 

UPL PINEDALE, LLC

By:

  /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

[ Signature Page to Exchange Agreement ]


UPL THREE RIVERS HOLDINGS, LLC

By:

  /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

 

ULTRA WYOMING LGS, LLC

By:

  /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

[ Signature Page to Exchange Agreement ]


NAME OF HOLDER:

 

[HOLDER],

on behalf of funds and/or accounts managed and/or advised by it and/or its affiliates

By:

  /s/ Holder Representative

Name:

 

Title:

 

Address:

 
 
 
 

Email:

 
 

[ Signature Page to Exchange Agreement ]


NAME OF HOLDER:

 

[HOLDER],

on behalf of funds and/or accounts managed and/or advised by it and/or its affiliates

By:

  /s/ Holder Representative

Name:

 

Title:

 

Address:

 
 
 
 

Email:

 
 

[ Signature Page to Exchange Agreement ]


Schedule I

[attached]


Exhibit A

Form of New Indenture

[attached]

 

A-1


Exhibit B

Form of Warrant Agreement

[attached]

 

B-1


Exhibit C-1

List of Security Documents

 

1.

That certain Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Note Parties (as defined therein) and the Collateral Agent.

 

2.

Financing statements in respect of the foregoing.

 

3.

That certain Second Lien Mortgage, Deed of Trust, Assignment of As-Extracted Collateral, Security Agreement, Fixture filing and Financing Statement, dated as of the Closing Date among the Mortgagors (as defined therein) and the Collateral Agent as Mortgagee.

 

4.

That certain First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement dated as of the Closing Date, among the Revolving Administrative Agent (as defined therein), the Term Loan Administrative Agent (as defined therein) and the Collateral Agent.

 

C-1


Exhibit C-2

Form of Guaranty and Collateral Agreement

[attached]

 

C-2-1


Exhibit C-3

Form of Mortgages

[attached]

 

C-3-1


Exhibit D

Form of Intercreditor Agreement

[attached]

 

D-1


Exhibit E

Form of Director Nomination Agreement

[attached]

 

E-1


Exhibit F-1

Form of Corporate Opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP to the Holders

[attached]

 

F-1


Exhibit F-2

Form of Collateral Opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP to the New Notes Trustee and the Holders

[attached]

 

F-2


Exhibit G-1

Form of Corporate Opinion of Lackowicz & Hoffman

[attached]

 

G-1


Exhibit G-2

Form of Collateral Opinion of Lackowicz & Hoffman

[attached]

 

G-2


Exhibit H

Form of Opinion of Bennett Jones LLP

[attached]

 

H-1


Exhibit I

Form of Consent to Supplemental Indenture

[MONTH] [DAY], 2018

Pursuant to Section 9.2 of the indenture, dated as of April 12, 2017 (the “ Indenture ”), among Ultra Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Issuer ”), Ultra Petroleum Corp., a company incorporated under the laws of the territory of Yukon, Canada (the “ Company ”), the subsidiary guarantors party thereto (the “ Guarantors ”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “ Trustee ”) providing for the issuance of the Company’s (i) 6.875% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “ 2022 Notes ”) and (ii) 7.125% Senior Notes due 2025 (together with the 2022 Notes, the “ Notes ”), the undersigned Holders, holding greater than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the 2022 Notes outstanding and greater than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes outstanding, hereby consent to the amendments to the Indenture provided for in the First Supplemental Indenture (the “ Amendments ”), dated as of the date of this consent (this “ Consent ”), among the Issuer, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, in the form attached hereto as Annex A (the “ First Supplemental Indenture ”). Capitalized terms used, but not defined, in this Consent shall have the meaning defined in such First Supplemental Indenture.

In order to be adopted, the Amendments must be consented to by the Holders of at least a majority of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of each of the 2022 Notes and the 2025 Notes (the “ Requisite Consents ”). In the event that the Issuer does not receive the Requisite Consents prior to the termination of the Exchange Agreement, dated December 17, 2018, between the Company, the Issuer and certain of the Holders, in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof, the Indenture will remain in effect in its current form, and this Consent will be deemed to have been automatically revoked as of such date and will be of no further force and effect.

[ Signature page follows ]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this instrument to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

NAME OF HOLDER:

 

[HOLDER]

By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

I-2


Annex A

Form of Supplemental Indenture

[attached]

 

A-1


Exhibit J

Form of Qualification Certificate

 

TO:

Ultra Petroleum Corp. (the “ Company ”) and Ultra Resources, Inc. (the “ Issuer ”)

RE:

Exchange Agreement dated December 17, 2018 between the Company, the Issuer and the Holders, among others (“ Exchange Agreement ”)

Instructions: Please complete this Qualification Certificate, including Schedule A.

In connection with the Exchange Agreement, the undersigned Holder hereby represents and warrants to the Issuer and the Company that:

 

6.

The undersigned is (and at the time of purchase will be) resident in the jurisdiction in which the “Subscriber’s Address” set forth below is located, and is not a resident of any other jurisdiction;

 

7.

The undersigned is (or is deemed under applicable securities laws to be) acquiring Notes and Warrants as principal for its own account, and not on behalf of or for the account or benefit of any other person, for investment purposes only and not with a view to the resale or distribution of all or any of such securities;

 

8.

The undersigned is (and at the time of purchase will be) an “accredited investor” within the meaning of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions (“ NI 45-106 ”) of the Canadian Securities Administrators by virtue of satisfying the indicated criterion as set out in Schedule A attached to this certificate;

 

9.

This Qualification Certificate (including Schedules A and B hereto) shall be incorporated into and form a part of the Exchange Agreement;

 

10.

All capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Exchange Agreement.

Without limiting any other acknowledgments and consents set forth in the Exchange Agreement of which this certificate forms a part, the undersigned: (i) acknowledges that the Company and Issuer may be required to file with applicable securities regulatory authorities reports or forms that disclose the Holder’s name, address and contact information, and the number and purchase price of the Securities acquired; (ii) consents to such disclosure; and (iii) acknowledges that such information is or may be made available to the public in accordance with applicable securities laws and regulatory policy.

DATE:                      , 2018.

(Name of Holder - please print)

 

By:    
  (Authorized Signature)

 

 

 

(Official Capacity or Title - please print)

 

 

 

(Print name of individual whose signature appears above if different than name of Holder printed above.)

 

 

 

(Holder’s Address – including postal code)
 

 

 

 

(Daytime Telephone Number)    (E-Mail Address)

 

 

 

(Social Insurance Number / Business Number / Other Tax ID Number)

 

J-1


SCHEDULE A TO QUALIFICATION CERTIFICATE

Accredited Investor Status – Canada

Section 2.3 of National Instrument 45-106 of the Canadian Securities Administrators / Section 73.3 of the Securities Act (Ontario)

INSTRUCTION TO INVESTOR: Complete this Schedule A by placing your initials beside each provision of the following definition that truly and accurately describes you.

The investor certifies being an “ Accredited Investor ” within the meaning of National Instrument 45-106 of the Canadian Securities Administrators on the basis of being:

 

          (d)    a person registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as an adviser or dealer;
          (e)    an individual registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as a representative of a person referred to in paragraph (d);
          (e.1)    an individual formerly registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada, other than an individual formerly registered solely as a representative of a limited market dealer under one or both of the Securities Act (Ontario) or the Securities Act (Newfoundland and Labrador);
          (j)    an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, beneficially owns financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that, before taxes but net of any related liabilities, exceeds $1,000,000; [Note—If this is the basis on which you are an “accredited investor” you must also complete and deliver Exhibit II.]
          (j.1)    an individual who beneficially owns financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that, before taxes but net of any related liabilities, exceeds $5,000,000;
          (k)    an individual whose net income before taxes exceeded $200,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years or whose net income before taxes combined with that of a spouse exceeded $300,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years and who, in either case, reasonably expects to exceed that net income level in the current calendar year; [Note—If this is the basis on which you are an “accredited investor” you must also complete and deliver Exhibit II.]
          (l)    an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, has net assets of at least $5,000,000; [Note—If this is the basis on which you are an “accredited investor” you must also complete and deliver Exhibit II.]
          (m)    a person, other than an individual or investment fund, that has net assets of at least $5,000,000 as shown on its most recently prepared financial statements;
          (n)    an investment fund that distributes or has distributed its securities only to (i) a person that is or was an accredited investor at the time of the distribution, (ii) a person that acquires or acquired securities in the circumstances referred to in section 2.10 [ Minimum amount investment ] of NI 45-106 or 2.19 [ Additional investment in investment funds ] of NI 45-106, or (iii) a person described in paragraph (i) or (ii) that acquires or acquired securities under section 2.18 [ Investment fund reinvestment ] of NI 45-106;
          (o)    an investment fund that distributes or has distributed securities under a prospectus in a jurisdiction of Canada for which the regulator or, in Québec, the securities regulatory authority, has issued a receipt;
          (p)    a trust company or trust corporation registered or authorized to carry on business under the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada) or under comparable legislation in a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction, acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by the trust company or trust corporation, as the case may be;
          (q)    a person acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by that person, if that person is registered or authorized to carry on business as an adviser or the equivalent under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction;
          (t)    a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors;
          (u)    an investment fund that is advised by a person registered as an adviser or a person that is exempt from registration as an adviser;
          (v)    a person that is recognized or designated by the securities regulatory authority or, except in Ontario and Québec, the regulator as an accredited investor; or
          (w)    a trust established by an accredited investor for the benefit of the accredited investor’s family members of which a majority of the trustees are accredited investors and all of the beneficiaries are the accredited investor’s spouse, a former spouse of the accredited investor or a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of that accredited investor, of that accredited investor’s spouse or of that accredited investor’s former spouse.

 

J-2


All monetary references in this Schedule A are in Canadian dollars.

For the purposes of this Schedule A :

financial assets ” means (i) cash, (ii) securities, or (iii) a contract of insurance, a deposit or an evidence of a deposit that is not a security for the purposes of securities legislation;

foreign jurisdiction ” means a country other than Canada or a political subdivision of a country other than Canada;

fully managed account ” means an account of a client for which a person makes the investment decisions if that person has full discretion to trade in securities for the account without requiring the client’s express consent to a transaction;

investment fund ” means a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund (and, for greater certainty, in British Columbia includes an employee venture capital corporation that does not have a restricted constitution, and is registered under Part 2 of the Employee Investment Act (British Columbia) and whose business objective is making multiple investments, and a venture capital corporation registered under Part 1 of the Small Business Venture Capital Act (British Columbia) whose business objective is making multiple investments);

jurisdiction ” means a province or territory of Canada (except when used in the term “foreign jurisdiction”);

person ” includes (i) an individual, (ii) a corporation, (iii) a partnership, trust, fund and an association, syndicate, organization or other organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, and (iv) an individual or other person in that person’s capacity as a trustee, executor, administrator or personal or other legal representative;

related liabilities ” means (i) liabilities incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing the acquisition or ownership of financial assets, or (ii) liabilities that are secured by financial assets; and

spouse ” means, an individual who (i) is married to another individual and is not living separate and apart within the meaning of the Divorce Act (Canada), from the other individual, (ii) is living with another individual in a marriage-like relationship, including a marriage-like relationship between individuals of the same gender, or (iii) in Alberta, is an individual referred to in clause (i) or (ii), or is an adult interdependent partner within the meaning of the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act (Alberta).

 

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Exhibit K

Form of Supplemental Indenture

[attached]

 

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Exhibit L

Form of Transferee Joinder

The undersigned (“ Transferee ”) hereby (i) acknowledges that it has read and understands the Exchange Agreement (the “Agreement”), dated as of December 17, 2018 among Ultra Resources, Inc., Ultra Petroleum Corp., certain subsidiary guarantors party thereto and [Transferor’s Name] and the other holders party thereto and (ii) agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions thereof to the extent and in the same manner as if Transferee was a Holder thereunder, and shall be deemed a “Holder” under the terms of the Agreement. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Agreement.

Date:

 

[Transferee’s Name]
By:    
Name:
Title:

 

Aggregate Amount of Exchanged Notes held by the Transferee:                     

[Address]

Attention: [•]

Fax: [•]

Email: [•]

 

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Exhibit 10.2

WARRANT AGREEMENT

between

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.,

COMPUTERSHARE INC.

and

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY N.A.,

as Warrant Agent

Dated as of December 21, 2018

Warrants to Purchase Common Shares

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

                 Page  
1.      Definitions      1  
2.      Warrant Certificates      6  
     2.1      Original Issuance of Warrants      6  
     2.2      Form of Warrant Certificates      7  
     2.3      Execution and Delivery of Warrant Certificates      7  
     2.4      Global Warrant Certificates      7  
3.      Exercise and Expiration of Warrants      9  
     3.1      Right to Acquire Common Shares Upon Exercise      9  
     3.2      Exercise and Expiration of Warrants      9  
     3.3      Application of Funds upon Exercise of Warrants      12  
     3.4      Payment of Taxes      12  
     3.5      Cancellation of Warrant Certificates      12  
     3.6      Shares Issuable      12  
     3.7      Cashless Exercise      13  
     3.8      Cost Basis Information      13  
4.      Dissolution, Liquidation or Winding up      14  
5.      Adjustments      14  
     5.1      Adjustments      14  
     5.2      Fractional Interest      22  
     5.3      No Other Adjustments      22  
6.      Loss or Mutilation      23  
7.      Reservation and Authorization of Common Shares      23  
8.      Warrant Transfer Books      24  
9.      Warrant Holders      25  
     9.1      No Voting or Dividend Rights      25  
     9.2      Rights of Action      26  
     9.3      Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates      26  
10.      Concerning the Warrant Agent      26  
     10.1      Rights and Duties of the Warrant Agent.      26  
     10.2      Limitation of Liability.      29  
     10.3      Indemnification.      29  
     10.4      Right to Consult Counsel      30  
     10.5      Compensation and Reimbursement      30  
     10.6      Warrant Agent May Hold Company Securities      30  
     10.7      Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor      30  
     10.8      Appointment of Countersigning Agent      31  

 

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11.      Notices      32  
     11.1      Notices Generally      32  
     11.2     

Required Notices to Holders

     33  
12.     

Inspection

     34  
13.     

Amendments

     34  
14.     

Waivers

     35  
15.     

Successor to Company

     35  
16.     

Headings

     36  
17.     

Counterparts

     36  
18.     

Severability

     36  
19.     

No Redemption

     36  
20.     

Persons Benefiting

     36  
21.     

Applicable Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Service of Process; Waiver of Immunity

     37  
22.     

Entire Agreement

     38  
23.     

Force Majeure

     38  
24.     

Further Assurances

     38  
25.     

Information Rights

     38  
26.     

Confidentiality

     38  
27.     

Tax Treatment

     38  

EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A    Form of Warrant Certificate
Exhibit B    Form of Lock-Up Agreement

 

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WARRANT AGREEMENT

This Warrant Agreement (as may be supplemented, amended or amended and restated pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, this “ Agreement ”), dated as of December 21, 2018, between Ultra Petroleum Corp., a corporation incorporated under the Yukon Business Corporations Act (and any Successor Company that becomes successor to the Company in accordance with Section  15 ) (the “ Company ”), Computershare Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Computershare ”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company (and any successors of such Warrant Agent appointed in accordance with the terms hereof) (collectively, the “ Warrant Agent ”). Capitalized terms that are used in this Agreement shall have the meanings set forth in Section  1 hereof.

WITNESSETH THAT:

WHEREAS , the Corporation and the other parties thereto have entered into an Exchange Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2018 (the “ Exchange Agreement ”), pursuant to which the Company proposes to issue and deliver Warrants (as defined below) to purchase up to an aggregate of 10,919,499 Common Shares (as defined below), subject to adjustment as provided herein, and the Warrant Certificates evidencing such Warrants;

WHEREAS , each Warrant shall entitle the registered owner thereof to purchase one Common Share, subject to adjustment as provided herein; and

WHEREAS , the Company desires that the Warrant Agent act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to so act, in connection with the issuance, exchange, transfer, substitution and exercise of Warrants.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the Company and the Warrant Agent agree as follows:

 

1.

Definitions .

Action ” has the meaning set forth in Section  11.2 .

Adjustment Events ” has the meaning set forth in Section  5.1 .

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

Agent Members ” has the meaning set forth in Section  2.4(b) .

Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.


Applicable Procedures ” means, with respect to any transfer or exchange of, or exercise of any Warrants evidenced by, any Global Warrant Certificate, the rules and procedures of the Depositary that apply to such transfer, exchange or exercise.

Appropriate Officer ” means the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer and any Vice President, Treasurer or Secretary of the Company.

Board of Directors ” means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.

Business Day ” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not (i) a legal holiday in the State of New York or (ii) a day on which banking institutions and trust companies in the State of New York or the Depositary are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close.

Cash Transaction ” means any Transaction in which the holders of Common Shares receive solely cash in respect of their Common Shares.

Cashless Exercise ” has the meaning set forth in Section  3.7 .

Cashless Exercise Current Market Price ” means the Current Market Price of the Common Shares on the Exercise Date with respect to any Cashless Exercise.

Cashless Exercise Warrant ” has the meaning set forth in Section  3.7 .

Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any other federal agency at the time administering the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, whichever is the relevant statute for the particular purpose.

Common Shares ” means, subject to the provisions of Section  5.1(h) , the common shares, no par value, of the Company.

Company ” means the company identified in the preamble hereof.

Company Order ” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President, any Vice President, its Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Warrant Agent.

Company Selected Expert ” has the meaning set for in Section  5.1(f)(vi)(B) .

corporation ” means a corporation, association, company (including limited liability company), joint-stock company, business trust or other similar entity.

Countersigning Agent ” means any Person authorized by the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the Warrant Agent to countersign Warrant Certificates.

 

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Current Market Price ” means on any date:

(i) if the reference is to the per share price of Common Shares on any date herein specified and if on such date the Common Shares are listed or admitted to trading on any U.S. national securities exchange or traded and quoted in the over-the-counter market in the United States:

(A) for the purpose of any computation under this Agreement (except under Section  5.2 ), the average of the Quoted Prices for the 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on the Trading Day that is or next precedes the date in question; or

(B) for the purposes of any computation under Section  5.2 , the Quoted Price for such date or, if such date is not a Trading Day, for the next preceding Trading Day; or

(ii) if the reference is to the per share price of Common Shares on any date herein specified and if on such date the Common Shares are not listed or admitted to trading on any U.S. national securities exchange or traded and quoted in the over-the-counter market in the United States, the amount which a willing buyer would pay a willing seller in an arm’s length transaction on such date (neither being under any compulsion to buy or sell) for one Common Share as determined as of such date by the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner, whose determination shall be conclusive and evidenced by a certificate of such officer delivered to the Warrant Agent.

For the avoidance of doubt, no appraisal of any Person or third-party (other than the Board of Directors of the Company as further described in clause (ii)) above shall be permitted or required to determine the Current Market Price.

Definitive Warrant Certificate ” means a Warrant Certificate registered in the name of the Holder thereof that does not bear the Global Warrant Legend and that does not have a “Schedule of Decreases of Warrants” attached thereto.

Depositary ” means DTC and its successors as depositary hereunder.

DTC ” means The Depository Trust Company.

Ex-Dividend Date ” means the first date on which the Common Shares trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive the dividend or distribution in question, from the Company or, if applicable, from the seller of Common Shares on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market.

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

Exercise Date ” has the meaning set forth in Section  3.2(g) .

Exercise Form ” has the meaning set forth in Section  3.2 .

 

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Exercise Period ” means the period from and including the Original Issue Date to and including the Expiration Date.

Exercise Price ” means the exercise price per Common Share, initially set at $0.01, subject to adjustment as provided in Section  5.1 .

Expiration Date ” means the earliest to occur of (x) the Scheduled Expiration Date, (y) the date of consummation of a Cash Transaction to which clause (iii) of Section  5.1(h ) applies and (z) a Winding Up.

Funds ” has the meaning set forth in Section  3.3 .

Global Warrant Certificate ” means a Warrant Certificate deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, that bears the Global Warrant Legend and that has the “Schedule of Decreases of Warrants” attached thereto.

Global Warrant Legend ” means the legend set forth in Section  2.4(a) .

Holder ” means any Person in whose name at the time any Warrant Certificate is registered upon the Warrant Register and, when used with respect to any Warrant Certificate, the Person in whose name such Warrant Certificate is registered in the Warrant Register.

Independent Financial Expert ” means any independent investment banking or financial valuation firm of nationally recognized standing (x) which does not (and whose directors, officers, employees and affiliates, to the knowledge of the Company, do not) have a material direct or indirect financial interest in the Company or any of its Affiliates and (y) which has not been, within the last two years, and, at the time it is called upon to give independent financial advice to the Company or any of its Affiliates, is not (and none of whose directors, officers, employees or affiliates, to the knowledge of the Company, is) a promoter, director or officer of the Company or any of its Affiliates or an underwriter with respect to any of the securities of the Company or any of its Affiliates.

Lock-Up Agreement ” means an agreement signed by a Holder in the form set forth in Exhibit  A attached hereto.

Notice Date ” has the meaning set forth in Section  5.1(f)(vi)(B) .

Original Issue Date ” means December 21, 2018, the date on which Warrants are originally issued under this Agreement.

outstanding ” when used with respect to any Warrants, means, as of the time of determination, all Warrants theretofore originally issued under this Agreement except (i) Warrants that have been exercised pursuant to Section  3.2(a ) , (ii) Warrants that have expired pursuant to Section  3.2(c ) , Section  4 or Section  5.1(h)(iii) and (iii) Warrants that have otherwise been acquired by the Company; provided, however , that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite amount of the outstanding Warrants have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver under the provisions of this Agreement, Warrants held directly or beneficially by the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company or any of their respective employees shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding.

 

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Person ” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, any other entity, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

Quoted Price ” means, on any Trading Day, with respect to the Common Shares, the VWAP of the Common Shares on such Trading Day on the principal U.S. national securities exchange on which the Common Shares are listed or admitted to trading or, if the Common Shares are not listed or admitted to trading on any U.S. national securities exchange, the average of the closing bid and asked prices in the over-the-counter market in the United States as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member firm that shall be selected from time to time by the Company for that purpose.

Recipient ” has the meaning set forth in Section  3.2(f) .

Reference Property ” has the meaning set forth in Section  5.1(h) .

Required Warrant Holders ” means Holders of Warrant Certificates evidencing a majority of the then-outstanding Warrants.

Scheduled Expiration Date ” means July 14, 2025.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Specified Dividend ” has the meaning set forth in Section  5.1(d) .

Subsidiary ” means a corporation (as defined in this Section  1 ) more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. For purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.

Successor Company ” has the meaning set forth in Section  15 .

Trading Day ” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, other than any day on which securities are not traded on the applicable securities exchange or in the applicable securities market.

Transaction ” has the meaning set forth in Section  5.1(h) .

Trigger Event ” has the meaning set forth in Section  5.1(d)(ii) .

unit of Reference Property ” has the meaning set forth in Section  5.1(h)(i)(A) .

 

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VWAP ” means the volume-weighted average price for trading hours of the regular trading session (including any extensions thereof), determined without regard to pre-open or after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the trading hours of the regular trading session (including any extensions thereof).

Warrant Agent ” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereof.

Warrant Certificates ” means those certain warrant certificates evidencing the Warrants, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit  A attached hereto, which, for the avoidance of doubt, are either Global Warrant Certificates or Definitive Warrant Certificates.

Warrant Register ” has the meaning set forth in Section  8 .

Warrants ” means those certain warrants to purchase initially up to an aggregate of 10,919,499 Common Shares at the Exercise Price, subject to adjustment pursuant to Section  5 , issued hereunder.

Winding Up ” has the meaning set forth in Section  4 .

 

2.

Warrant Certificates .

2.1 Original Issuance of Warrants .

(a) On the Original Issue Date, one or more Global Warrant Certificates evidencing the Warrants shall be executed by the Company and delivered to the Warrant Agent for countersignature, and the Warrant Agent shall, upon receipt of a Company Order and at the direction of the Company set forth therein, countersign and deliver such Global Warrant Certificates for original issuance to the Depositary, or its custodian, for crediting to the accounts of its participants for the benefit of the holders of beneficial interests in the Warrants on the Original Issue Date pursuant to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary on the Original Issue Date.

(b) Except as set forth in Section  2.4 , Section  3.2(e) , Section  6 and Section  8 , the Global Warrant Certificates delivered to the Depositary (or a nominee thereof) on the Original Issue Date shall be the only Warrant Certificates issued or outstanding under this Agreement.

(c) Each Warrant Certificate shall evidence the number of Warrants specified therein, and each Warrant evidenced thereby shall represent the right, subject to the provisions contained herein and therein, to purchase one Common Share, subject to adjustment as provided in Section  5 .

(d) Each Warrant Certificate shall at all times bear an unrestricted CUSIP.

 

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2.2 Form of Warrant Certificates .

The Warrant Certificates evidencing the Warrants shall be in registered form only and substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, shall be dated the date on which countersigned by the Warrant Agent, shall have such insertions as are appropriate or required or permitted by this Agreement and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends and endorsements typed, stamped, printed, lithographed or engraved thereon (which does not impact the Warrant Agent’s rights, duties or immunities) as the officers of the Company executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange on which the Warrants may be listed, or to conform to usage.

2.3 Execution and Delivery of Warrant Certificates .

(a) Warrant Certificates evidencing the Warrants which may be countersigned and delivered under this Agreement are limited to Warrant Certificates evidencing 10,919,499 Warrants except for Warrant Certificates countersigned and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, one or more previously countersigned Warrant Certificates pursuant to Section  2.4 , Section  3.2(e) , Section  6 and Section  8 .

(b) The Warrant Agent is hereby authorized to countersign and deliver Warrant Certificates as required by Section  2.1 or by Section  2.4 , Section  3.2(e) , Section  6 or Section  8 .

(c) The Warrant Certificates shall be executed in the corporate name and on behalf of the Company by the Chairman (or any Co-Chairman) of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any one of the Vice Presidents of the Company under corporate seal reproduced thereon and attested to by the Secretary, the Treasurer or one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Company, either manually or by facsimile signature printed thereon. The Warrant Certificates shall be countersigned, either by manual or facsimile signature, by the Warrant Agent and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so countersigned. In case any officer of the Company whose signature shall have been placed upon any of the Warrant Certificates shall cease to be such officer of the Company before countersignature by the Warrant Agent and issue and delivery thereof, such Warrant Certificates may, nevertheless, be countersigned by the Warrant Agent and issued and delivered with the same force and effect as though such person had not ceased to be such officer of the Company, and any Warrant Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by such person as, at the actual date of the execution of such Warrant Certificate, shall be a proper officer of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Agreement any such person was not such officer.

2.4 Global Warrant Certificates .

(a) Any Global Warrant Certificate shall bear the legend substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto (the “ Global Warrant Legend ”).

(b) So long as a Global Warrant Certificate is registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“ Agent Members ”) shall have no rights under this Agreement with respect to the Warrants evidenced by such Global Warrant Certificate held on their behalf by the Depositary or its custodian, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Warrant Agent and any agent of the Company or the Warrant Agent as the absolute owner of such Warrants, and as the sole Holder of such Warrant Certificate, for all purposes. Accordingly, any such Agent Member’s beneficial interest in such Warrants will

 

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be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or its Agent Members, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall have any responsibility or liability with respect to such records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or its Agent Members. 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, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of any security.

(c) Any holder of a beneficial interest in Warrants evidenced by a Global Warrant Certificate registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee shall, by acceptance of such beneficial interest, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in the Warrants evidenced by such Global Warrant Certificate may be effected only through a book-entry system maintained by the Holder of such Global Warrant Certificate (or its agent), and that ownership of a beneficial interest in Warrants evidenced thereby shall be reflected solely in such book-entry form.

(d) Transfers of a Global Warrant Certificate registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee shall be limited to transfers in whole, and not in part, to the Depositary, its successors, and their respective nominees except as set forth in Section  2.4(e) . Interests of beneficial owners in a Global Warrant Certificate registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee shall be transferred in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary.

(e) A Global Warrant Certificate registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee shall be exchanged for Definitive Warrant Certificates only if the Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as or ceases to be a clearing agency registered under Section 17A of the Exchange Act and (ii) a successor to the Depositary registered as a clearing agency under Section 17A of the Exchange Act is not able to be appointed by the Company within 90 days or the Depositary is at any time unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary and a successor to the Depositary is not able to be appointed by the Company within 90 days. In any such event, each Global Warrant Certificate registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee shall be surrendered to the Warrant Agent for cancellation in accordance with Section  3.5 , and the Company shall execute, and the Warrant Agent shall countersign and deliver, upon the Company’s written instruction, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depositary, in exchange for such beneficial owner’s beneficial interest in such Global Warrant Certificate, Definitive Warrant Certificates evidencing, in the aggregate, the number of Warrants theretofore represented by such Global Warrant Certificate with respect to such beneficial owner’s respective beneficial interest. Any Definitive Warrant Certificate delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Warrant Certificate pursuant to this Section  2.4(e) shall not bear the Global Warrant Legend. Interests in any Global Warrant Certificate may not be exchanged for Definitive Warrant Certificates other than as provided in this Section  2.4(e) .

(f) The holder of a Global Warrant Certificate registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder of a Warrant Certificate is entitled to take under this Agreement or such Global Warrant Certificate.

 

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(g) Each Global Warrant Certificate will evidence such of the outstanding Warrants as will be specified therein and each shall provide that it evidences the aggregate number of outstanding Warrants from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate number of outstanding Warrants evidenced thereby may from time to time be reduced, to reflect exercises or expirations. Any endorsement of a Global Warrant Certificate to reflect the amount of any decrease in the aggregate number of outstanding Warrants evidenced thereby will be made by the Warrant Agent (i) in the case of an exercise, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures as required by Section  3.2(d) or (ii) in the case of an expiration, in accordance with Section  3.2(c) .

(h) The Company initially appoints DTC to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Warrant Certificates.

(i) Every Warrant Certificate authenticated and delivered in exchange for, or in lieu of, a Global Warrant Certificate or any portion thereof, pursuant to this Section  2.4 or Section  6 or Section  8 , shall be authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Warrant Certificate, and a Global Warrant Certificate may not be exchanged for a Definitive Warrant Certificate, in each case, other than as provided in Section  2.4(e) . Whenever any provision herein refers to issuance by the Company and countersignature and delivery by the Warrant Agent of a new Warrant Certificate in exchange for the portion of a surrendered Warrant Certificate that has not been exercised, in lieu of the surrender of any Global Warrant Certificate and the issuance, countersignature and delivery of a new Global Warrant Certificate in exchange therefor, the Warrant Agent, on the Company’s written instruction, may endorse such Global Warrant Certificate to reflect a reduction in the number of Warrants evidenced thereby in the amount of Warrants so evidenced that have been so exercised.

(j) Beneficial interests in any Global Warrant Certificate may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the same Global Warrant Certificate in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

(k) At such time as all Warrants evidenced by a particular Global Warrant Certificate have been exercised or expired in whole and not in part, such Global Warrant Certificate shall, if not in custody of the Warrant Agent, be surrendered to or retained by the Warrant Agent for cancellation in accordance with Section  3.5 .

 

3.

Exercise and Expiration of Warrants .

3.1 Right to Acquire Common Shares Upon Exercise . Each Warrant Certificate shall, when countersigned by the Warrant Agent, entitle the Holder thereof, subject to the provisions thereof and of this Agreement, to acquire from the Company, for each Warrant evidenced thereby, one Common Share at the Exercise Price, subject to adjustment as provided in this Agreement. The Exercise Price, and the number of Common Shares obtainable upon exercise of each Warrant, shall be adjusted from time to time as required by Section  5.1 .

3.2 Exercise and Expiration of Warrants .

(a) Exercise of Warrants . Subject to and upon compliance with the terms and conditions set forth herein, including Section  3.2(b) , a Holder of a Warrant Certificate may exercise all or any whole number of the Warrants evidenced thereby, on any Business Day from and after the Original Issue Date until 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date, for the Common Shares obtainable thereunder.

 

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(b) Condition to Exercise of Warrants . No Holder of a Warrant Certificate may exercise any Warrant evidenced thereby until the Current Market Price of the Common Shares has equaled or exceeded $2.50 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Exercise Price) on any Trading Day. For the avoidance of doubt, the Warrants shall be exercisable from and after any Trading Day on which the Current Market Price of the Common Shares has equaled or exceeded $2.50 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Exercise Price), regardless of the Current Market Price of the Common Shares on the applicable Exercise Date.

(c) Expiration of Warrants . The Warrants, to the extent not exercised prior thereto, shall automatically expire, terminate and become void as of 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date. No further action of any Person (including by, or on behalf of, any Holder, the Company, or the Warrant Agent) shall be required to effectuate the expiration of Warrants pursuant to this Section  3.2(c) .

(d) Method of Exercise . In order for a Holder to exercise all or any of the Warrants represented by a Warrant Certificate, the Holder thereof must (i) (x) in the case of a Global Warrant Certificate, comply with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary to provide notice of the number of Warrants being exercised and, if applicable, whether Cashless Exercise is being elected with respect thereto, and deliver such Warrants by book-entry transfer through the facilities of the Depositary to the Warrant Agent in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and otherwise comply with the Applicable Procedures in respect of the exercise of such Warrants or (y) in the case of a Definitive Warrant Certificate, at the office of the Warrant Agent designated for such purpose, (I) deliver to the Warrant Agent an exercise form for the election to exercise such Warrants substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit  A hereto (an “ Exercise Form ”), setting forth the number of Warrants being exercised and, if applicable, whether Cashless Exercise is being elected with respect thereto, and otherwise properly completed and duly executed by the Holder thereof accompanied by a signature guarantee and such other documentation as the Warrant Agent may reasonably request, and (II) surrender to the Warrant Agent the Definitive Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrants; (ii) pay to the Warrant Agent an amount equal to (x) all taxes required to be paid by the Holder, if any, pursuant to Section  3.4 prior to, or concurrently with, exercise of such Warrants and (y) except in the case of a Cashless Exercise, the aggregate of the Exercise Price in respect of each Common Share into which such Warrants are exercisable, in case of (x) and (y), by wire transfer in immediately available funds, to the account (No. 4427699265; ABA No. 026009593; Reference: Ultra Petroleum Corp.; Attention: Abby Cowart) of the Company at the Warrant Agent or such other account of the Company at such banking institution as the Company shall have given notice to the Warrant Agent and such Holder in accordance with Section  11.1(b) ; and (iii) deliver to the Company, with a copy to the Warrant Agent, a Lock-Up Agreement with respect to the Common Shares to be received on exercise of such Warrants.

(e) Partial Exercise . If fewer than all the Warrants represented by a Warrant Certificate are exercised, (i) in the case of exercise of Warrants evidenced by a Global Warrant Certificate, the Warrant Agent shall cause the custodian of DTC to endorse the “Schedule of Decreases of Warrants” attached to such Global Warrant Certificate to reflect the Warrants being

 

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exercised and (ii) in the case of exercise of Warrants evidenced by a Definitive Warrant Certificate, such Definitive Warrant Certificate shall be surrendered and a new Definitive Warrant Certificate of the same tenor and for the number of Warrants which were not exercised shall be executed by the Company. The Warrant Agent shall countersign the new Definitive Warrant Certificate, registered in such name or names, subject to the provisions of Section  8 regarding registration of transfer and payment of governmental charges in respect thereof, as may be directed in writing by the Holder, and shall deliver the new Definitive Warrant Certificate to the Person or Persons in whose name such new Definitive Warrant Certificate is so registered. The Company, whenever required by the Warrant Agent, will supply the Warrant Agent with Definitive Warrant Certificates duly executed on behalf of the Company for such purpose.

(f) Issuance of Common Shares . Upon due exercise of Warrants evidenced by any Warrant Certificate in conformity with the foregoing provisions of Section  3.2(d) , the Warrant Agent shall, when actions specified in Section  3.2(d)(i) have been effected and any payment specified in Section  3.2(d)(ii) is received, deliver to the Company the Exercise Form received pursuant to Section  3.2(d)(i) , deliver or deposit all funds, in accordance with Section  3.3 , received as instructed in writing by the Company and advise the Company by telephone promptly thereafter of the amount of funds so deposited to its account. The Company shall thereupon, as promptly as practicable, and in any event within five (5) Business Days after the Exercise Date referred to below, (i) determine the number of Common Shares issuable pursuant to exercise of such Warrants pursuant to Section  3.6 or, if Cashless Exercise applies, Section  3.7 and (ii) (x) in the case of exercise of Warrants evidenced by a Global Warrant Certificate, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Recipient (as defined below) in accordance with the Applicable Procedures Common Shares in book-entry form to be so held through the facilities of DTC in an amount equal to, or, if the Common Shares may not then be held in book-entry form through the facilities of DTC, duly executed certificates representing, or (y) in the case of exercise of Warrants evidenced by Definitive Warrant Certificates, execute or cause to be executed and deliver or cause to be delivered to the Recipient (as defined below) a certificate or certificates representing, in case of (x) and (y), the aggregate number of Common Shares issuable upon such exercise (based upon the aggregate number of Warrants so exercised), as so determined, together with an amount in cash in lieu of any fractional share(s), if the Company so elects pursuant to Section  5.2 . The Common Shares in book-entry form or certificate or certificates representing Common Shares so delivered shall be, to the extent possible, in such denomination or denominations as such Holder shall request in the applicable Exercise Form and shall be registered or otherwise placed in the name of, and delivered to, the Holder or, subject to Section  3.4 , such other Person as shall be designated by the Holder in such Exercise Form (the Holder or such other Person being referred to herein as the “ Recipient ”). If the Company has a stockholder rights plan in effect upon exercise of the Warrants, each Common Share issued upon such exercise shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, and any certificates representing the Common Shares issued upon such exercise shall bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of any such stockholder rights plan, as the same may be amended from time to time.

(g) Time of Exercise . Each exercise of a Warrant shall be deemed to have been effected immediately prior to the close of business on the day on which each of the requirements for exercise of such Warrant specified in Section  3.2(d) has been duly satisfied (the “ Exercise Date ”). At such time, subject to Section  5.1(f)(iv) , Common Shares in book-entry form or the certificates for the Common Shares issuable upon such exercise as provided in Section  3.2(f) shall be deemed to have been issued and, for all purposes of this Agreement, the Recipient shall, as between such Person and the Company, be deemed to be and entitled to all rights of the holder of record of such Common Shares.

 

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3.3 Application of Funds upon Exercise of Warrants . All funds received by Computershare under this Agreement that are to be distributed or applied by Computershare in the performance of the services hereunder (the “ Funds ”) shall be held by Computershare as agent for the Company and deposited in one or more bank accounts to be maintained by Computershare in its name as agent for the Company. Until paid pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, Computershare will hold the Funds through such accounts in: deposit accounts of commercial banks with Tier 1 capital exceeding $1 billion or with an average rating above investment grade by S&P (LT Local Issuer Credit Rating), Moody’s (Long Term Rating) and Fitch Ratings, Inc. (LT Issuer Default Rating) (each as reported by Bloomberg Finance L.P.). Computershare shall have no responsibility or liability for any diminution of the Funds that may result from any deposit made by Computershare in accordance with this Agreement, including any losses resulting from a default by any bank, financial institution or other third party. Computershare may from time to time receive interest, dividends or other earnings in connection with such deposits. Computershare shall not be obligated to pay such interest, dividends or earnings to the Company, any holder or any other party. The Warrant Agent shall forward funds received for warrant exercises in a given month by the fifth Business Day of the following month by wire transfer to an account designated by the Company.

3.4 Payment of Taxes . The Company shall pay any and all documentary, issuance, registration, stamp and similar taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of Common Shares on exercise of Warrants pursuant hereto. The Company or the Warrant Agent shall not be required, however, to pay any tax or other charge imposed in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of Common Shares in book-entry form or any certificates for Common Shares or payment of cash or other property to any Recipient other than the Holder of the Warrant Certificate evidencing the exercised Warrant, and in case of such transfer or payment, the Warrant Agent and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any Common Shares in book-entry form or any certificate or pay any cash until (a) 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 (b) it has been established to the Company’s and the Warrant Agent’s satisfaction that any such tax or other charge that is or may become due has been paid.

3.5 Cancellation of Warrant Certificates . Any Definitive Warrant Certificate surrendered for exercise shall, if surrendered to the Company, be delivered to the Warrant Agent. All Warrant Certificates surrendered or delivered to or received by the Warrant Agent for cancellation pursuant to this Section  3.5 or Section  2.4(e ) or Section  2.4(k) shall be promptly cancelled by the Warrant Agent and shall not be reissued by the Company. The Warrant Agent shall destroy any such cancelled Warrant Certificates and deliver its certificate of destruction to the Company, unless the Company shall otherwise direct in writing.

3.6 Shares Issuable . The number of Common Shares “obtainable upon exercise” of Warrants at any time shall be the number of Common Shares into which such Warrants are then exercisable. The Company will confirm the number of shares issuable if so requested by the Warrant Agent. The number of Common Shares “into which each Warrant is exercisable” shall be one share, subject to adjustment as provided in Section  5.1 .

 

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3.7 Cashless Exercise . Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, if, on the Exercise Date of a Cashless Exercise, the Cashless Exercise Current Market Price of one Common Share is greater than the applicable Exercise Price on the Exercise Date, then, in lieu of paying to the Company the applicable Exercise Price by wire transfer in immediately available funds, the Holder may elect to receive Common Shares equal to the value (as determined below) of the Warrants or any portion thereof being exercised (such portion, the “ Cashless Exercise Warrants ” with respect to such date) by (i) in the case of Warrants evidenced by a Global Warrant Certificate, providing written notice to the Warrant Agent pursuant to the Applicable Procedures; or (ii) in the case of Warrants evidenced by a Definitive Warrant Certificate, providing notice pursuant to the Exercise Form, in the case of (i) or (ii), that the Holder desires to effect a “cashless exercise” (a “ Cashless Exercise ”) with respect to the Cashless Exercise Warrants, in which event the Company shall issue to the Holder a number of Common Shares with respect to Cashless Exercise Warrants computed using the following formula (it being understood that any portion of the Warrants being exercised on such date that are not Cashless Exercise Warrants will not be affected by this calculation):

 

     X = (Y × (A-B)) ÷ A

WhereX =

   the number of Common Shares to be issued to the Holder in respect of the Cashless Exercise Warrants

Y  =

   the number of Common Shares purchasable under the Cashless Exercise Warrants being exercised by the Holder (on the Exercise Date)

A  =

   the applicable Cashless Exercise Current Market Price of one Common Share (on the Exercise Date)

B   =

   the applicable Exercise Price (as adjusted through and including the Exercise Date).

The Company shall calculate and transmit to the Warrant Agent the number of Common Shares to be issued on such Cashless Exercise, and the Warrant Agent shall have no obligation under this Agreement to calculate, confirm or verify such amount.

3.8 Cost Basis Information .

(a) In the event of a cash exercise, the Company hereby instructs the Warrant Agent to record cost basis for newly issued shares at the time of such exercise in accordance with written instructions by the Company. If the Company does not provide such cost basis information to the Warrant Agent, as outlined above, then the Warrant Agent will treat those shares issued hereunder as uncovered securities or the equivalent, and each holder of such shares must obtain such cost basis information from the Company.

 

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(b) In the event of a Cashless Exercise, the Company shall provide cost basis for shares issued pursuant to a Cashless Exercise at the time the Company provides the shares issued pursuant to such Cashless Exercise to the Warrant Agent pursuant to Section 3.7 hereof.

 

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Dissolution, Liquidation or Winding up .

Unless Section  5.1(h) applies, if, on or prior to the Expiration Date, the Company (or any other Person controlling the Company) shall propose a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up (a “ Winding Up ”) of the affairs of the Company, the Company shall give written notice thereof to the Warrant Agent and all Holders in the manner provided in Section  11.1(b) prior to the date on which such transaction is expected to become effective or, if earlier, the record date for such transaction. Such notice shall also specify the date as of which the holders of record of the Common Shares shall be entitled to exchange their shares for securities, money or other property deliverable upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding up, as the case may be, on which date each Holder of Warrant Certificates shall receive the securities, money or other property which such Holder would have been entitled to receive had such Holder been the holder of record of the Common Shares into which the Warrants were exercisable immediately prior to such dissolution, liquidation or winding up (net of the then-applicable Exercise Price) and the rights to exercise the Warrants shall terminate.

Unless Section  5.1(h) applies, in case of any such voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company, the Company shall deposit with the Warrant Agent any funds or other property which the Holders are entitled to receive pursuant to the above paragraph, together with a Company Order as to the distribution thereof. After receipt of such deposit from the Company and after receipt of surrendered Warrant Certificates evidencing Warrants, and any such other necessary information as the Warrant Agent may reasonably require (including, but not limited to, signature guarantees), the Warrant Agent shall make payment in appropriate amount to such Person or Persons as it may be directed in writing by the Holder surrendering such Warrant Certificate. The Warrant Agent shall not be required to pay interest on any money deposited pursuant to the provisions of this Section  4 except such as it shall agree in writing with the Company to pay thereon. Any moneys, securities or other property which at any time shall be deposited by the Company or on its behalf with the Warrant Agent pursuant to this Section  4 shall be, and are hereby, assigned, transferred and set over to the Warrant Agent in accordance with Section  3.3 hereof; provided , that , moneys, securities or other property need not be segregated from other funds, securities or other property held by the Warrant Agent except to the extent required by law.

 

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Adjustments .

5.1 Adjustments . In order to prevent dilution of the rights granted under the Warrants and to grant the Holders certain additional rights, the Exercise Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time only as specifically provided in this Section  5.1 (the “ Adjustment Events ”) and the number of Common Shares obtainable upon exercise of Warrants shall be subject to adjustment from time to time only as specifically provided in this Section  5.1 .

 

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(a) Subdivisions and Combinations . In the event the Company shall, at any time or from time to time after the Original Issue Date while any Warrants remain outstanding and unexpired in whole or in part, effect a subdivision (by any stock split or otherwise) of the outstanding Common Shares into a greater number of Common Shares (other than (x) a subdivision upon a Transaction to which Section  5.1(h) applies or (y) a stock split effected by means of a stock dividend or distribution to which Section  5.1(b) applies), then and in each such event the Exercise Price in effect at the opening of business on the date upon which such subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately decreased. Conversely, if the Company shall, at any time or from time to time after the Original Issue Date while any Warrants remain outstanding and unexpired in whole or in part, effect a combination (by any reverse stock split or otherwise) of the outstanding Common Shares into a smaller number of Common Shares (other than a combination upon a Transaction to which Section  5.1(h) applies), then and in each such event the Exercise Price in effect at the opening of business on the date upon which such combination becomes effective shall be proportionately increased. Any adjustment under this Section  5.1(a) shall become effective immediately after the opening of business on the date upon which the subdivision or combination becomes effective (or, if the subdivision or combination does not become effective until after the opening of business on such date, the adjustment under this Section  5.1(a) shall become effective immediately after the effectiveness of such subdivision or combination).

(b) Common Share Dividends . In the event the Company shall, at any time or from time to time after the Original Issue Date while any Warrants remain outstanding and unexpired in whole or in part, make or issue to the holders of its Common Shares a dividend or distribution payable in, or otherwise make or issue a dividend or other distribution on any class of its capital stock payable in, Common Shares (other than a dividend or distribution upon a Transaction to which Section  5.1(h) applies), then and in each such event the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date for the determination of the holders of Common Shares entitled to receive such dividend or distribution shall be decreased by multiplying such Exercise Price by a fraction (not to be greater than 1):

(i) the numerator of which shall be the total number of Common Shares issued and outstanding at the close of business on such date for determination; and

(ii) the denominator of which shall be the total number of Common Shares issued and outstanding at the close of business on such date for determination plus the number of Common Shares issuable in payment of such dividend or distribution.

Any adjustment under this Section  5.1(b) shall, subject to Section  5.1(f)(iv) , become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day after the date for the determination of the holders of Common Shares entitled to receive such dividend or distribution.

(c) Reclassifications . A reclassification of the Common Shares (other than any such reclassification in connection with a merger or consolidation or sale to which Section  5.1(h) applies) into Common Shares and shares of any other class of stock shall be deemed:

(i) a Specified Dividend by the Company to the holders of its Common Shares of such shares of such other class of stock for the purposes and within the meaning of Section  5.1(d) (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be “the date for the determination of the holders of Common Shares entitled to receive such dividend or distribution” for the purposes and within the meaning of Section  5.1(d) ); and

 

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(ii) if the outstanding Common Shares shall be changed into a larger or smaller number of Common Shares as a part of such reclassification, such change shall be deemed a subdivision or combination, as the case may be, of the outstanding Common Shares for the purposes and within the meaning of Section  5.1(a) (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be “the date upon which such subdivision becomes effective” or “the date upon which such combination becomes effective,” as applicable, for the purposes and within the meaning of Section  5.1(a) ).

(d) Specified Dividends . In the event the Company shall, at any time or from time to time after the Original Issue Date while any Warrants remain outstanding and unexpired in whole or in part, make or issue any dividend of cash or other distribution of cash and/or property (including rights, options or warrants), whether in a spin-off transaction or otherwise, to all holders of its Common Shares (other than any dividend or distribution (i) upon a Transaction to which Section  5.1(h) applies or (ii) to which Section 5.1(b) applies) (a “ Specified Dividend ”), then and in each such event, the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date for the determination of the holders of Common Shares entitled to receive such dividend or distribution shall be decreased by multiplying such Exercise Price by a fraction (not to be greater than 1):

(i) the numerator of which shall be (x) the Quoted Price on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution minus (y) the amount of any cash and the fair market value of any non-cash property as of the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution (as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) to be distributed with respect to each Common Share; and

(ii) the denominator of which shall be the Quoted Price on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution.

Any adjustment under this Section  5.1(d) shall, subject to Section  5.1(f)(iv) , become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day after the date for the determination of the holders of Common Shares entitled to receive such Specified Dividend.

Rights or warrants issued by the Company to all holders of the Common Shares entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase Common Shares, which rights or warrants (A) are deemed to be transferred with such Common Shares, (B) are not exercisable and (C) are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Shares, in each case in clauses (A) through (C) until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“ Trigger Event ”), shall not give rise to an adjustment pursuant to this Section  5.1(d) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event.

(e) Tender and Exchange Offers . If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries makes a payment in respect of a tender or exchange offer for the Common Shares, to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration (as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) included in the payment

 

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per share of the Common Shares exceeds the Quoted Price on the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer shall be decreased by multiplying such Exercise Price by a fraction (not to be greater than 1):

(i) the numerator of which shall be the product of (x) the number of Common Shares outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires (prior to giving effect to the purchase of all Common Shares accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer) and (y) the Quoted Price on the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; and

(ii) the denominator of which shall be the sum of (x) aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) paid or payable for Common Shares purchased in such tender or exchange offer and (y) the product of (A) the Quoted Price on the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires and (B) the number of Common Shares outstanding immediately after the date such tender or exchange offer expires (after giving effect to the purchase of all Common Shares accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer).

Any adjustment under this Section  5.1(e) shall, subject to Section  5.1(f)(iv) , become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day after the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer.

(f) Other Provisions Applicable to Adjustments . The following provisions shall be applicable to the making of adjustments to the Exercise Price and the number of Common Shares into which each Warrant is exercisable under Section  5.1 :

(i) Treasury Stock . The dividend or distribution of any issued Common Shares owned or held by or for the account of the Company shall be deemed a dividend or distribution of Common Shares for purposes of Section  5.1(b) . The Company shall not make or issue any dividend or distribution on Common Shares held in the treasury of the Company. For the purposes of Section  5.1(b) , the number of Common Shares at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company.

(ii) When Adjustments Are to be Made . The adjustments required by Section  5.1(a) , Section  5.1(b) , Section  5.1(c) , Section  5.1(d) and Section  5.1(e) shall be made whenever and as often as any specified event requiring an adjustment shall occur, except that no adjustment of the Exercise Price that would otherwise be required shall be made unless and until such adjustment either by itself or with other adjustments not previously made increases or decreases the Exercise Price immediately prior to the making of such adjustment by at least 1%. Any adjustment representing a change of less than such minimum amount (except as aforesaid) shall be carried forward and made as soon as such adjustment, together with other adjustments required by Section  5.1(a) , Section  5.1(b) , Section  5.1(c) , Section  5.1(d) and Section  5.1(e) and not previously made, would result in such minimum adjustment and, in any case, shall be made on any Exercise Date.

 

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(iii) Fractional Interests . In computing adjustments under Section  5.1 , fractional interests in Common Shares shall be taken into account to the nearest one-thousandth of a share.

(iv) Deferral of Issuance Upon Exercise . In any case in which Section  5.1(b) , Section  5.1(d) or Section  5.1(e) shall require that a decrease in the Exercise Price be made effective prior to the occurrence of a specified event and any Warrant is exercised after the time at which the adjustment became effective but prior to the occurrence of such specified event and, in connection therewith, Section  5.1(g) shall require a corresponding increase in the number of Common Shares into which each Warrant is exercisable, the Company may elect to defer, with written notice to the Warrant Agent (but not in any event later than the Expiration Date) until the occurrence of such specified event (A) the issuance to the Holder of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant (or other Person entitled thereto) of, and the registration of such Holder (or other Person) as the record holder of, the Common Shares over and above the Common Shares issuable upon such exercise on the basis of the number of Common Shares obtainable upon exercise of such Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment and to require payment in respect of such number of shares the issuance of which is not deferred on the basis of the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment and (B) the corresponding reduction in the Exercise Price; provided , however , that the Company shall deliver to such Holder or other person a due bill or other appropriate instrument that meet any applicable requirements of the principal national securities exchange or other market on which the Common Shares are then traded and evidences the right of such Holder or other Person to receive, and to become the record holder of, such additional Common Shares, upon the occurrence of such specified event requiring such adjustment (without payment of any additional Exercise Price in respect of such additional shares).

(v) Adjustment of Prices . Whenever any provision of this Warrant Agreement requires the calculation of the Quoted Price over a span of multiple days (including, without limitation, for purposes of determining the Current Market Price), the Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments thereto to account for any adjustment to the Exercise Price that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Exercise Price where the record date, effective date or Ex-Dividend Date, as the case may be, of the event occurs, at any time during the period when the Quoted Price is to be calculated.

(vi) Valuation Determinations .

(A) If the Required Warrant Holders object to any determination by the Board of Directors of the Company of (I) the fair market value of any non-cash property distributed on the Common Shares pursuant to Section  5.1(d) , (II) the value of any non-cash consideration payable in a tender or exchange offer pursuant to Section  5.1(e) , (III) the Current Market Price pursuant to clause (ii) of the definition thereof or (IV) the value of a unit of Reference Property pursuant to Section  5.1(h)(i)(A) , the Required Warrant Holders shall have the right to deliver a

 

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written notice to the Company within 10 days after the Company delivers written notice to Holders pursuant to Section  11.2 of such determination requesting that an Independent Financial Expert calculate such value as of the date of determination referred to in the applicable provision.

(B) No later than two Business Days after receiving notice from the Required Warrant Holders pursuant to Section  5.1(f)(vi)(A) above, the Company shall provide notice to the Holders of an Independent Financial Expert selected by the Company (the “ Company Selected Expert ”) to make the related valuation determination (the date on which such notice is delivered, the “ Notice Date ”). In the event that the Required Warrant Holders object in writing to the Company Selected Expert within seven days of the Notice Date, then the Company and Required Warrant Holders shall jointly select an Independent Financial Expert by no later than the 17th day after the Notice Date. If the Company and the Required Warrant Holders are unable to agree on a jointly selected Independent Financial Expert, the Required Warrant Holders shall select promptly, but no later than the 17th day after the Notice Date, a separate Independent Financial Expert and such Independent Financial Expert and the Company Selected Expert shall select promptly, but no later than the 19th day after the Notice Date, a third Independent Financial Expert to make the relevant valuation determination. The determination of the finally selected Independent Financial Expert shall be final and conclusive, and the fees and expenses of any such Independent Financial Experts shall be borne by the Company. The relevant determination shall be completed no later than the date that is 30 days after the date the Company receives notice from the Required Warrant Holders pursuant to Section  5.1(f)(vi)(A) above.

(C) Within two Business Days after completion of the determination of the Independent Financial Expert pursuant to Section  5.1(f)(vi)(B) above, the Company shall cause the complete written report of the Independent Financial Expert as to such determination to be delivered to the Holders.

(g) Adjustment to Shares Obtainable Upon Exercise . Whenever the Exercise Price is adjusted as provided in Section  5.1(a) , (b) , (c) , (d) or (e) , the number of Common Shares into which a Warrant is exercisable shall simultaneously be adjusted by multiplying such number of Common Shares into which a Warrant is exercisable immediately prior to such adjustment by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the Exercise Price immediately prior to such adjustment, and the denominator of which shall be the Exercise Price immediately thereafter.

(h) Changes in Common Shares . In case at any time or from time to time after the Original Issue Date while any Warrants remain outstanding and unexpired in whole or in part, the Company shall be a party to or shall otherwise engage in any transaction or series of related transactions constituting: (1) a merger of the Company into, a direct or indirect sale of all of the Company’s equity to, a consolidation, amalgamation or similar transaction of the Company with, or a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to, any other Person in which the previously outstanding Common Shares shall be (either directly or upon subsequent liquidation) cancelled, reclassified or converted or changed into or exchanged for securities or other property (including cash) or any combination of the foregoing,

 

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or (2) any merger of another Person into the Company or any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Shares, in each case, in which the previously outstanding Common Shares shall be cancelled, reclassified or converted or changed into or exchanged for securities of the Company or other property (including cash) of the Company or another Person or any combination of the foregoing (any such transaction or series of related transactions in clauses (1) or (2), a “ Transaction ”) then:

(i) in the case of any Transaction other than a Cash Transaction, as a condition to the consummation of such Transaction, the Company shall or shall cause such other Person, as the case may be, to execute and deliver to the Warrant Agent a written instrument providing that:

(A) so long as any Warrant remains outstanding in whole or in part (including after giving effect to the changes specified under clause  (B) below), such Warrant, upon the exercise thereof at any time on or after the consummation of such Transaction, shall be exercisable (on such terms and subject to such conditions as shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the provisions set forth in this Agreement) into, in lieu of the Common Shares issuable upon such exercise prior to such consummation, the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) that would have been receivable upon such Transaction by a holder of the number of Common Shares into which such Warrant was exercisable immediately prior to such Transaction (“ Reference Property ,” with each “ unit of Reference Property ” meaning the kind and amount of Reference Property that a holder of one Common Share is entitled to receive); provided that (I) if the Transaction causes the Common Shares to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election), then the Reference Property shall be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration actually received by the holders of Common Shares and (II) the Quoted Price and Current Market Price shall be calculated based on the value of a unit of Reference Property, as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company acting in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner; and

(B) the rights and obligations of such other Person and the Holders in respect of Reference Property shall be substantially unchanged to be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the rights and obligations of the Company and Holders in respect of Common Shares hereunder as set forth in Section  3.1 hereof;

(ii) with respect to any Transaction other than a Cash Transaction, such written instrument under clause (i) above shall provide for adjustments which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such written instrument shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Section  5 . The above provisions of this Section  5.1(h) shall similarly apply to successive Transactions; or

(iii) if such Transaction is a Cash Transaction, then, at the effective time of the consummation of such Cash Transaction any Warrants not exercised prior to the closing of such Cash Transaction shall automatically terminate and become void and shall be cancelled for no further consideration.

 

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(i) Compliance with Governmental Requirements . The Company will take any corporate action that may be necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares at any applicable adjusted Exercise Price.

(j) Optional Tax Adjustment . The Company may at its option, at any time during the term of the Warrants, increase the number of Common Shares into which each Warrant is exercisable, or decrease the Exercise Price, in addition to those changes required by Section  5.1(a) , Section  5.1(b) , Section  5.1(c) , Section  5.1(d) and Section  5.1(e) as deemed advisable by the Board of Directors of the Company, in order that any event treated for Federal income tax purposes as a dividend of stock or stock rights shall not be taxable to the recipients of such dividend of stock or stock rights.

(k) Warrants Deemed Exercisable . For purposes solely of this Section  5 , the number of Common Shares which the holder of any Warrant would have been entitled to receive had such Warrant been exercised in full at any time or into which any Warrant was exercisable at any time shall be determined assuming such Warrant was exercisable in full at such time.

(l) Notice of Adjustment . Upon the occurrence of each adjustment of the Exercise Price or the number of Common Shares into which a Warrant is exercisable pursuant to this Section  5.1 , the Company at its expense shall promptly:

(i) compute such adjustment in accordance with the terms hereof;

(ii) after such adjustment becomes effective, deliver to all Holders, in accordance with Section  11.1(b) and Section  11.2 (including by means of a current report on Form 8-K), a notice setting forth such adjustment and showing in detail the facts upon which such adjustment is based; and

(iii) deliver to the Warrant Agent a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company setting forth the Exercise Price and the number of Common Shares into which each Warrant is exercisable after such adjustment and setting forth a brief, reasonably detailed statement of the facts requiring such adjustment and the computation by which such adjustment was made (including a description of the basis on which the Current Market Price of the Common Shares was determined). As provided in Section  10 , the Warrant Agent shall be entitled to rely on and shall be fully protected in relying on such certificate and on any adjustment or statement therein contained and shall be under no duty or responsibility with respect to any such certificate, except to exhibit the same from time to time to any Holder desiring an inspection thereof during reasonable business hours. The Company hereby agrees that it will provide the Warrant Agent with reasonable written notice of any Adjustment Event set forth in this Section 5.1. The Company further agrees that it will provide to the Warrant Agent any new or amended exercise terms. The Warrant Agent shall have no obligation under any Section of this Agreement to determine whether an Adjustment Event has occurred or to calculate any of the adjustments set forth herein.

 

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(m) Statement on Warrant Certificates . Irrespective of any adjustment in the Exercise Price or amount or kind of shares into which the Warrants are exercisable, Warrant Certificates theretofore or thereafter issued may continue to express the same Exercise Price initially applicable or amount or kind of shares initially issuable upon exercise of the Warrants evidenced thereby pursuant to this Agreement.

5.2 Fractional Interest . The Company shall not be required upon the exercise of any Warrant (including, without limitation, under Section  3.7 ) to issue any fractional Common Shares, but may, in lieu of issuing any fractional Common Shares make an adjustment therefore in cash on the basis of the Current Market Price per Common Share on the date of such exercise. If Warrant Certificates evidencing more than one Warrant shall be presented for exercise at the same time by the same Holder, the number of full Common Shares which shall be issuable upon such exercise thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Warrants so to be exercised. The Holders, by their acceptance of the Warrant Certificates, expressly waive their right to receive any fraction of a Common Share or a stock certificate representing a fraction of a Common Share if such amount of cash is paid in lieu thereof. If the Company shall decide that cash will be provided instead of fractional shares, then the Company shall inform the Warrant Agent of the amount to be paid upon the fractional exercise of the Warrant. Further, if the Company shall decide that cash will be provided instead of fractional shares, then the Company shall provide an initial funding of two thousand dollars ($2000) for the purpose of issuing cash in lieu of fractional shares. From time to time thereafter, Computershare may request additional funding to cover fractional payments. Computershare shall have no obligation to make fractional payments unless the Company shall have provided the necessary funds to pay in full all amounts due and payable with respect thereto.

5.3 No Other Adjustments . Except in accordance with Section  5.1 , the applicable Exercise Price and the number of Common Shares obtainable upon exercise of any Warrant will not be adjusted for the issuance of Common Shares or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Shares or carrying the right to purchase any of the foregoing, including, without limitation

(i) upon the issuance of any other securities by the Company on or after the Original Issue Date, or upon the issuance of Common Shares upon the exercise of any such securities;

(ii) upon the issuance of any Common Shares or other securities or any payments pursuant to any management or other equity incentive plan of the Company;

(iii) upon the issuance of any Common Shares pursuant to the exercise of the Warrants; or

(iv) upon the issuance of any Common Shares or other securities of the Company in connection with a business acquisition transaction.

 

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6.

Loss or Mutilation .

If (a) any mutilated Warrant Certificate is surrendered to the Warrant Agent or (b) both (i) there shall be delivered to the Company and the Warrant Agent (A) a claim by a Holder as to the destruction, loss or wrongful taking of any Warrant Certificate of such Holder and a request thereby for a new replacement Warrant Certificate, and (B) such open penalty surety bond and/or indemnity bond as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless and (ii) such other reasonable requirements as may be imposed by the Company or Warrant Agent as permitted by Section 8-405 of the Uniform Commercial Code have been satisfied, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Warrant Agent that such Warrant Certificate has been acquired by a “protected purchaser” within the meaning of Section 8-405 of the Uniform Commercial Code or bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its written request the Warrant Agent shall countersign and deliver to the registered Holder of the lost, wrongfully taken, destroyed or mutilated Warrant Certificate, in exchange therefore or in lieu thereof, a new Warrant Certificate of the same tenor and for a like aggregate number of Warrants. At the written request of such registered Holder, the new Warrant Certificate so issued shall be retained by the Warrant Agent as having been surrendered for exercise, in lieu of delivery thereof to such Holder, and shall be deemed for purposes of Section  3.2(d)(i)(y)(II) to have been surrendered for exercise on the date the conditions specified in clauses (A) or (B) of the preceding sentence were first satisfied. The Warrant Agent may, at its option, issue replacement Warrants for mutilated certificates upon presentation thereof without such indemnity.

Upon the issuance of any new Warrant Certificate under this Section  6 , the Company or the Warrant Agent may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Warrant Agent and of counsel to the Company) in connection therewith. The Warrant Agent has no duty or obligation to issue a new Warrant Certificate unless it is satisfied that such tax or charge has been paid.

Every new Warrant Certificate executed and delivered pursuant to this Section  6 in lieu of any lost, wrongfully taken or destroyed Warrant Certificate shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the allegedly lost, wrongfully taken or destroyed Warrant Certificate shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Warrant Certificates duly executed and delivered hereunder.

The provisions of this Section  6 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights or remedies with respect to the replacement of mutilated, lost, wrongfully taken, or destroyed Warrant Certificates.

 

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Reservation and Authorization of Common Shares .

The Company covenants that, for the duration of the Exercise Period, the Company will at all times reserve and keep available, from its authorized and unissued Common Shares solely for issuance and delivery upon the exercise of the Warrants and free of preemptive rights, such number of Common Shares and other securities, cash or property as from time to time shall be issuable upon the exercise in full of all outstanding Warrants for cash. The Company further covenants that it shall, from time to time, take all steps necessary to increase the authorized number of Common Shares if at any time the authorized number of Common Shares remaining unissued would otherwise be insufficient to allow delivery of all the Common Shares then deliverable upon the exercise in full of all outstanding Warrants. The Company covenants that all Common Shares

 

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issuable upon exercise of the Warrants will, upon issuance, be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and will be free of restrictions on transfer and will be free from all liens and charges in respect of the issue thereof. The Company shall take all such actions as may be necessary to ensure that all such Common Shares may be so issued without violation of any applicable law or governmental regulation or any requirements of any U.S. national securities exchange upon which Common Shares may be listed (except for official notice of issuance which shall be immediately delivered by the Company upon each such issuance). The Company covenants that all Common Shares will, at all times that Warrants are exercisable, be duly approved for listing subject to official notice of issuance on each securities exchange, if any, on which the Common Shares are then listed. The Company covenants that the stock certificates issued to evidence any Common Shares issued upon exercise of Warrants, if any, will comply with the Yukon Business Corporations Act and any other applicable law.

The Company hereby authorizes and directs its current and future transfer agents for the Common Shares at all times to reserve stock certificates for such number of authorized shares, to the extent as, and if, required. The Company will supply such transfer agents with duly executed stock certificates for such purposes, to the extent as, and if, required.

 

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Warrant Transfer Books .

The Warrant Certificates evidencing the Warrants shall be issued in registered form only. The Company shall cause to be kept at the office or offices of the Warrant Agent designated for such purpose a warrant register (the “ Warrant Register ”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as the Warrant Agent may prescribe and such regulations as may be prescribed by law, the Company shall provide for the registration of Warrant Certificates and of transfers or exchanges of Warrant Certificates as herein provided.

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Warrant Certificate at the office of the Warrant Agent designated for such purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Warrant Agent shall countersign and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Warrant Certificates evidencing a like aggregate number of Warrants.

At the option of the Holder, Warrant Certificates may be exchanged at the office or offices of the Warrant Agent upon payment of the charges hereinafter provided for other Warrant Certificates evidencing a like aggregate number of Warrants. Whenever any Warrant Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Warrant Agent shall countersign and deliver, the Warrant Certificates of the same tenor and evidencing the same number of Warrants as evidenced by the Warrant Certificates surrendered by the Holder making the exchange.

All Warrant Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Warrant Certificates shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same obligations, and entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement, as the Warrant Certificates surrendered for such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

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Every Warrant Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Warrant Agent) be: (i) duly endorsed and containing a signature guarantee from an eligible guarantor institution participating in a signature guarantee program approved by the Securities Transfer Association, or (ii) be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Warrant Agent, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, also containing a signature guarantee from an eligible guarantor institution participating in a signature guarantee program approved by the Securities Transfer Association. Further, to effect such transfer or exchange, all other necessary information or documentation shall be provided as the Warrant Agent may reasonably request.

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Warrant Certificates; provided , however , the Company or the Warrant Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Warrant Certificates.

The Warrant Agent shall, upon the reasonable request of the Company from time to time, deliver to the Company such reports of registered ownership of the Warrants and such records of transactions with respect to the Warrants and the Common Shares as the Company may reasonably request. The Warrant Agent shall, upon reasonable advance notice, also make available to the Company for inspection by the Company’s agents or employees (at the Company’s sole cost and expense), from time to time as the Company may reasonably request, such original books of accounts and records maintained by the Warrant Agent in connection with the issuance and exercise of Warrants hereunder, such inspections to occur at the office of the Warrant Agent designated for such purpose during normal business hours.

The Warrant Agent shall keep copies of this Agreement and any notices given to Holders hereunder available for inspection, upon reasonable advance notice, by the Holders during normal business hours at the office of the Warrant Agent designated for such purpose. The Company shall supply the Warrant Agent from time to time with such numbers of copies of this Agreement as the Warrant Agent may request.

 

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Warrant Holders .

9.1 No Voting or Dividend Rights .

(a) No Holder of a Warrant Certificate evidencing any Warrant shall have or exercise any rights by virtue hereof as a holder of Common Shares of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote, to receive dividends and other distributions as a holder of Common Shares or to receive notice of, or attend, meetings or any other proceedings of the holders of Common Shares.

(b) The consent of any Holder of a Warrant Certificate shall not be required with respect to any action or proceeding of the Company.

(c) Except as provided in Section  4 , no Holder of a Warrant Certificate, by reason of the ownership or possession of a Warrant or the Warrant Certificate representing the same, shall have any right to receive any cash dividends, stock dividends, allotments or rights or other distributions paid, allotted or distributed or distributable to the holders of Common Shares prior to, or for which the relevant record date preceded, the date of the exercise of such Warrant.

 

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(d) No Holder of a Warrant Certificate shall have any right not expressly conferred hereunder or under, or by applicable law with respect to, the Warrant Certificate held by such Holder.

9.2 Rights of Action . All rights of action against the Company in respect of this Agreement, except rights of action vested in the Warrant Agent, are vested in the Holders of the Warrant Certificates, and any Holder of any Warrant Certificate, without the consent of the Warrant Agent or the Holder of any other Warrant Certificate, may, in such Holder’s own behalf and for such Holder’s own benefit, enforce and may institute and maintain any suit, action or proceeding against the Company suitable to enforce, or otherwise in respect of, such Holder’s right to exercise such Holder’s Warrants in the manner provided in this Agreement.

9.3 Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates . Every Holder, by virtue of accepting a Warrant Certificate, consents and agrees with the Company, with the Warrant Agent and with every subsequent holder of such Warrant Certificate that, prior to due presentment of such Warrant Certificate for registration of transfer, the Company and the Warrant Agent may treat the Person in whose name the Warrant Certificate is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes and as the Person entitled to exercise the rights granted under the Warrants, and neither the Company, the Warrant Agent nor any agent thereof shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

 

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Concerning the Warrant Agent . Sections 10.1(d) , 10.2 , 10.3 , 10.4 , 10.5 and 10.6 shall survive termination or removal of the Warrant Agent.

10.1 Rights and Duties of the Warrant Agent .

(a) The Company hereby appoints the Warrant Agent to act as agent of the Company as expressly set forth in this Agreement (and no implied terms or conditions shall be read into this Agreement with respect to the Warrant Agent). The Warrant Agent hereby accepts the appointment as agent of the Company and agrees to perform that agency upon the express terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, by all of which the Company and the Holders of Warrant Certificates, by their acceptance thereof, shall be bound; provided , however , that the terms and conditions contained in the Warrant Certificates are subject to and governed by this Agreement. The Warrant Agent shall act solely as agent of the Company hereunder and does not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the Holders or any beneficial owners of Warrants.

(b) The Warrant Agent shall not, by countersigning this Agreement, the Warrant Certificates or by any other act hereunder, be deemed to make any representations as to validity or authorization of (i) the Warrants or the Warrant Certificates (except as to its countersignature thereon), (ii) any securities or other property delivered upon exercise of any Warrant, (iii) the accuracy of the computation of the number or kind or amount of stock or other securities or other property deliverable upon exercise of any Warrant, (iv) the correctness of any of the representations of the Company made in such certificates that the Warrant Agent receives; or (v) any of the statements of fact or recitals contained in this Warrant Agreement or the Warrant Certificates. The Warrant Agent shall not at any time have any duty to calculate or determine whether any facts exist that may require any adjustments pursuant to Section  5 hereof with respect to the kind and amount of shares or

 

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other securities or any property issuable to Holders upon the exercise of Warrants required from time to time. The Warrant Agent shall have no duty or responsibility to determine the accuracy or correctness of such calculation or with respect to the methods employed in making the same. The Warrant Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any Common Shares or of any securities or property which may at any time be issued or delivered upon the exercise of any Warrant or upon any adjustment pursuant to Section  5 hereof, and it makes no representation with respect thereto. The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible for any failure of the Company to make any cash payment or to issue, transfer or deliver any Common Shares or stock certificates or other securities or property upon the surrender of any Warrant Certificate for the purpose of exercise or upon any adjustment pursuant to Section  5 hereof or to comply with any of the covenants of the Company contained in Section  5 hereof. The Company shall perform, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be performed, executed, acknowledged and delivered all such further acts, instruments and assurances as may reasonably be required by the Warrant Agent in order to enable it to carry out or perform its duties under this Agreement.

(c) The Warrant Agent shall not be liable for or by reason of any of the statements of fact or recitals contained in this Warrant Agreement or in the Warrant Certificates (except its countersignature thereof) or be required to verify the same, and all such statements and recitals are and shall be deemed to have been made by the Company only.

(d) The Warrant Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility in the case of the receipt of any written demand from any holder of Warrants with respect to any action or default by the Company, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any duty or responsibility to initiate or attempt to initiate any proceedings at law or otherwise or to make any demand upon the Company.

(e) 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 attorney or agents, and the Warrant Agent shall not be answerable or accountable for any act, default, neglect or misconduct of any such attorney or agents or for any loss to the Company resulting from any such act, default, neglect or misconduct, absent gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud or bad faith (each as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) in the selection and continued employment thereof.

(f) The Warrant Agent may rely on and shall be held harmless and protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it absent gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud or bad faith (each as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) in reliance upon any certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, notice, letter, facsimile transmission, telegram or other document, or any security delivered to it, and believed by it to be genuine and to have been made or signed by the proper party or parties, or upon any written or oral instructions or statements from the Company with respect to any matter relating to its acting as Warrant Agent hereunder.

 

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(g) The Warrant Agent shall not be obligated to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that it believes would expose or subject it to expense or liability or to a risk of incurring expense or liability, unless it has been furnished with assurances of repayment or indemnity satisfactory to it.

(h) The Warrant Agent shall not be liable or responsible for any failure of the Company to comply with any of its obligations relating to any registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or this Warrant Agreement, including without limitation obligations under applicable regulation or law.

(i) The Warrant Agent shall not be accountable or under any duty or responsibility for the use by the Company of any Warrants authenticated by the Warrant Agent and delivered by it to the Company pursuant to this Warrant Agreement or for the application by the Company of the proceeds of the issue and sale, or exercise, of the Warrants.

(j) The Warrant Agent shall act hereunder solely as agent for the Company, and its duties shall be determined solely by the express provisions hereof (and no duties or obligations shall be inferred or implied). The Warrant Agent shall not assume any obligations or relationship of agency or trust with any of the owners or holders of the Warrants.

(k) The Warrant Agent may rely on and be fully authorized and protected in acting or failing to act upon (a) any guaranty of signature by an “eligible guarantor institution” that is a member or participant in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program or other comparable “signature guarantee program” or insurance program in addition to, or in substitution for, the foregoing; or (b) any law, act, regulation or any interpretation of the same even though such law, act, or regulation may thereafter have been altered, changed, amended or repealed.

(l) 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 Company, the holder of any Warrant Certificate or any 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.

(m) 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 the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, a Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer or the Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent may rely upon such statement, and will be held harmless for such reliance, and shall not be held liable in connection with any delay in receiving such statement.

 

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10.2 Limitation of Liability .

(a) The Warrant Agent shall be liable hereunder only for its own gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud or bad faith (each as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) in the performance of its duties hereunder. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Warrant Agent’s aggregate liability during any term of this Agreement with respect to, arising from, or arising in connection with this Agreement, or from all services provided or omitted to be provided under this Agreement, whether in contract, or in tort, or otherwise, is limited to, and shall not exceed, the amounts paid hereunder by the Company to Warrant Agent as fees and charges, but not including reimbursable expenses, during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event for which recovery from Warrant Agent is being sought. Neither party to this Agreement shall be liable to the other party for any consequential, indirect, special or incidental damages under any provisions of this Agreement or for any consequential, indirect, punitive, special or incidental damages arising out of any act or failure to act hereunder even if that party has been advised of or has foreseen the possibility of such damages.

(b) 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. The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Warrant. The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible to make any adjustments required under the provisions of Section  5 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 Shares to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Warrant or as to whether any Common Shares shall, when issued, be valid and fully paid and non-assessable.

10.3 Indemnification .

(a) The Company covenants and agrees to indemnify and to hold the Warrant Agent harmless against any costs, expenses (including reasonable and documented fees of its legal counsel), losses or damages, which may be paid, incurred or suffered by or to which it may become subject, arising from or out of, directly or indirectly, any claims or liability resulting from its actions as Warrant Agent pursuant hereto; provided, that such covenant and agreement does not extend to, and the Warrant Agent shall not be indemnified with respect to, such costs, expenses, losses and damages incurred or suffered by the Warrant Agent as a result of, or arising out of, its gross negligence, bad faith, or willful misconduct (each as determined by a final decision of a court of competent jurisdiction).

(b) Instructions . From time to time, the Company may provide the Warrant Agent with instructions, by Company Order or otherwise, concerning the services performed by the Warrant Agent hereunder. In addition, at any time the Warrant Agent may apply to any officer of Company for instruction, and may consult with legal counsel for the Warrant Agent or the Company with respect to any matter arising in connection with the services to be performed by the Warrant Agent under this Warrant Agreement. Warrant Agent and its agents and subcontractors shall not be liable and shall be indemnified by Company for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by Warrant Agent in reliance upon any Company instructions or upon the advice or opinion of such counsel. Warrant Agent shall not be held to have notice of any change of authority of any person, until receipt of written notice thereof from Company.

 

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10.4 Right to Consult Counsel . The Warrant Agent may at any time consult with legal counsel satisfactory to it (who may be legal counsel for the Company), and the Warrant Agent shall incur no liability or responsibility to the Company or to any Holder for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it absent gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud or bad faith (each as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) in accordance with the opinion or advice of such counsel.

10.5 Compensation and Reimbursement . The Company agrees to pay the Warrant Agent from time to time compensation for all fees and expenses relating to its services hereunder in accordance with a mutually agreed upon fee schedule and to reimburse the Warrant Agent for reasonable expenses and disbursements, including reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection with the preparation, delivery, negotiation, amendment, administration and execution of this Agreement and the exercise and performance of Warrant Agent’s duties hereunder.

10.6 Warrant Agent May Hold Company Securities . The Warrant Agent and any stockholder, director, officer or employee of the Warrant Agent may buy, sell or deal in any of the Warrants or other securities of the Company or become pecuniarily interested in any transaction in which the Company may be interested, or contract with or lend money to the Company or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it were not Warrant Agent under this Warrant Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Warrant Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other legal entity. Nothing herein shall preclude the Warrant Agent or any Countersigning Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other legal entity.

10.7 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor .

(a) The Warrant Agent may resign its duties and be discharged from all further duties and liability hereunder (except liability arising prior to such resignation as a result of the Warrant Agent’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct each as determined in a final non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction) after giving 30 days’ prior written notice to the Company. In the event the transfer agency relationship in effect between the Company and the Warrant Agent terminates, the Warrant Agent will be deemed to have resigned automatically and be discharged from its duties under this Agreement as of the effective date of such termination. The Company may remove the Warrant Agent upon 30 days’ written notice, and the Warrant Agent shall thereupon in like manner be discharged from all further duties and liabilities hereunder, except as aforesaid. The Warrant Agent shall, at the expense of the Company, cause notice to be given in accordance with Section  11.1(b) to the Company of said notice of resignation. Upon such resignation or removal, the Company shall appoint in writing a new Warrant Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of 30 calendar days after it has been notified in writing of such resignation by the resigning Warrant Agent or after such removal, then the Holder of any Warrant Certificate may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a new Warrant Agent. The new Warrant Agent shall be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been originally named herein

 

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as the Warrant Agent, without any further assurance, conveyance, act or deed; but if for any reason it shall be reasonably necessary or expedient to execute and deliver any further assurance, conveyance, act or deed, the same shall be done at the reasonable expense of the Company and shall be legally and validly executed and delivered by the resigning or removed Warrant Agent. The predecessor Warrant Agent shall not be required to make any additional expenditure (without assurance of reimbursement satisfactory to it) or assume any additional liability in connection with the foregoing. Not later than the effective date of any such appointment, the Company shall file notice thereof with the resigning or removed Warrant Agent. Failure to give any notice provided for in this Section  10.7(a) , however, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of the resignation of the Warrant Agent or the appointment of a new Warrant Agent as the case may be.

(b) Any Person into which the Warrant Agent or any new Warrant Agent may be merged, or any Person resulting from any consolidation to which the Warrant Agent or any new Warrant Agent shall be a party, shall be a successor Warrant Agent under this Agreement without any further act. Any such successor Warrant Agent shall promptly cause notice of its succession as Warrant Agent to be given in accordance with Section  11.1(b) to each Holder of a Warrant Certificate at such Holder’s last address as shown on the Warrant Register.

10.8 Appointment of Countersigning Agent .

(a) The Warrant Agent may appoint a Countersigning Agent or Agents which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Warrant Agent to countersign Warrant Certificates issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or pursuant to Section  6 , and Warrant Certificates so countersigned shall be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Warrant Certificates duly executed and delivered hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Agreement to the countersignature and delivery of Warrant Certificates by the Warrant Agent or to Warrant Certificates countersigned by the Warrant Agent, such reference shall be deemed to include countersignature and delivery on behalf of the Warrant Agent by a Countersigning Agent and Warrant Certificates countersigned by a Countersigning Agent.

(b) Any Person into which a Countersigning Agent may be merged or any corporation resulting from any consolidation to which such Countersigning Agent shall be a party, shall be a successor Countersigning Agent without any further act; provided , that , such corporation would be eligible for appointment as a new Countersigning Agent under the provisions of Section  10.8(a) , without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Warrant Agent or the Countersigning Agent. Any such successor Countersigning Agent shall promptly cause notice of its succession as Countersigning Agent to be given in accordance with Section  11.1(b) to each Holder of a Warrant Certificate at such Holder’s last address as shown on the Warrant Register.

(c) A Countersigning Agent may resign at any time by giving 30 days’ prior written notice thereof to the Warrant Agent and to the Company. The Warrant Agent may at any time terminate the agency of a Countersigning Agent by giving 30 days’ prior written notice thereof to such Countersigning Agent and to the Company.

 

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(d) The Warrant Agent agrees to pay to each Countersigning Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section  10.8 and the Warrant Agent shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of Section  10.5 .

(e) Any Countersigning Agent shall have the same rights and immunities as those of the Warrant Agent set forth Section  10 and this Agreement.

 

11.

Notices .

11.1 Notices Generally .

(a) Any request, notice, direction, authorization, consent, waiver, demand or other communication permitted or authorized by this Agreement to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed with the Company or the Warrant Agent by the other party hereto or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing (including telecopy communication), sent via trackable or first-class mail or delivered by hand (including by courier service) as follows:

if to the Company, to:

Ultra Petroleum Corp.

116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400

Englewood, Colorado 80112

 Attention:    Chief Financial Officer
   Chief Accounting Officer
   Legal Department

Facsimile:

with a copy which shall not constitute notice to:

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

609 Main Street, Suite 4700

Houston, Texas 77002

 Attention:    Matthew R. Pacey
 Facsimile:    (713) 836-3601

if to the Warrant Agent, to:

Computershare Inc.

250 Royall Street

Canton, MA 02021

 Facsimile:    (781) 575-2549
 Attention:    Corporate Actions

 

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with a copy which shall not constitute notice to:

Computershare Inc.

480 Washington Boulevard, 29th Floor

Jersey City, New Jersey 07310

 Facsimile:    (201) 680-4610
 Attention:    Legal Department

or, in either case, such other address as shall have been set forth in a notice delivered in accordance with this Section  11.1(a) .

All such communications shall be effective when sent.

Any Person that telecopies any communication hereunder to any Person shall, on the same date as such telecopy is transmitted, also send, by trackable or first class mail, postage prepaid and addressed to such Person as specified above, an original copy of the communication so transmitted.

(b) Where this Agreement provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, by trackable or first-class mail, to each Holder affected by such event, at the address of such Holder as it appears in the Warrant Register. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Agreement provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice.

In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made by a method approved by the Warrant Agent as one which would be most reliable under the circumstances for successfully delivering the notice to the addressees shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

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

11.2 Required Notices to Holders . In the event the Company shall:

(a) take any action that would result in an adjustment to the Exercise Price and/or the number of Common Shares issuable upon exercise of a Warrant pursuant to Section  5.1 or

(b) consummate any Transaction (each of (a) or (b), an “ Action ”);

 

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then, in each such case, unless the Company has made a filing with the Commission, including pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K, which filing discloses such Action, the Company shall cause to be delivered to the Warrant Agent and shall give to each Holder of a Warrant Certificate, in accordance with Section  11.1(b) hereof, a written notice of such Action, including, in the case of an action pursuant to Section  11.2(a) , the information required under Section  5.1(k)(ii) . Such notice shall be given promptly after taking such Action.

If at any time the Company shall cancel any of the Actions for which notice has been given under this Section  11.2 prior to the consummation thereof, the Company shall give each Holder prompt notice of such cancellation in accordance with Section  11.1(b ) , unless the Company has made a filing with the Commission, including pursuant to a current report on Form 8-K, which filing discloses the cancellation of such Actions.

If at any time the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine (I) the fair market value of any non-cash property distributed on the Common Shares pursuant to Section  5.1(d) , (II) the value of any non-cash consideration payable in a tender or exchange offer pursuant to Section  5.1(e) , (III) the Current Market Price pursuant to clause (ii) of the definition thereof or (IV) the value of a unit of Reference Property pursuant to Section  5.1(h)(i)(A) , the Company shall provide written notice of such determination to each Holder of a Warrant Certificate promptly after making such determination.

In addition, in the event the Company enters into any definitive agreement with respect to any Transaction, unless the Company has made a filing with the Commission, including pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K, which filing discloses such agreement, the Company shall cause to be delivered to the Warrant Agent and shall give to each Holder of a Warrant Certificate, in accordance with Section  11.1(b ) , a notice of the entering into such definitive agreement.

 

12.

Inspection .

The Warrant Agent shall cause a copy of this Agreement to be available for inspection by any Holder of any Warrant Certificate during the Warrant Agent’s normal business hours at the office of the Warrant Agent designated for such purpose. The Warrant Agent may require any such Holder to submit its Warrant Certificate for inspection by the Warrant Agent.

 

13.

Amendments .

(a) This Agreement may be amended by the Company and the Warrant Agent with the consent of the Required Warrant Holders.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company and the Warrant Agent may, without the consent or concurrence of the Holders of the Warrant Certificates, by supplemental agreement or otherwise, amend this Agreement for the purpose of making any changes or corrections in this Agreement that (i) are required to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any defective or inconsistent provision or clerical omission or mistake or manifest error herein contained or (ii) add to the covenants and agreements of the Company in this Agreement further covenants and agreements of the Company thereafter to be observed, or surrender any rights or powers reserved to or conferred upon the Company in this Agreement; provided , however , that in either case such amendment shall not adversely affect the rights or interests of the Holders of the Warrant Certificates hereunder in any material respect.

 

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(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the consent of each Holder of any Warrant Certificate evidencing any Warrants affected thereby shall be required for any supplement or amendment to this Agreement or the Warrants, or any waiver thereof, that would: (i) increase the Exercise Price or decrease the number of Common Shares receivable upon exercise of Warrants, in each case other than as provided in Section  5.1 ; (ii) change the Expiration Date to an earlier date; (iii) modify the provisions contained in Section  5.1 in a manner adverse to the Holders of Warrant Certificates generally with respect to their Warrants; (iv) modify the provisions of this Section  13 ; (v) modify the provisions of Section  3.2(b) ; or (vi) make any change that adversely affects the exercise rights of the Warrants.

(d) The Warrant Agent shall join with the Company in the execution and delivery of any such amendment unless such amendment affects the Warrant Agent’s own rights, duties or immunities hereunder (as determined by the Warrant Agent), in which case the Warrant Agent may, but shall not be required to, join in such execution and delivery; provided , that , as a condition precedent to the Warrant Agent’s execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Company shall deliver to the Warrant Agent a certificate from an Appropriate Officer that states that the proposed amendment is in compliance with the terms of this Section  13 . No supplement or amendment to this Agreement shall be effective unless duly executed by the Warrant Agent. Upon execution and delivery of any amendment pursuant to this Section  13 , such amendment shall be considered a part of this Agreement for all purposes and every Holder of a Warrant Certificate theretofore or thereafter countersigned and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

(e) Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Warrant Agent of any such amendment, unless the Company has made a filing with the Commission, including pursuant to a current report on Form 8-K, which filing discloses such adjustment, the Company shall give notice to the Holders of Warrant Certificates, setting forth in general terms the substance of such amendment, in accordance with the provisions of Section  11.1(b) . Any failure of the Company to mail such notice or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such amendment.

 

14.

Waivers .

The Company may take any action herein prohibited, or omit to perform any act herein required to be performed by it, only if the Company has obtained the written consent of the Required Warrant Holders, as required pursuant to Section  13 , subject to Section  13(c) .

 

15.

Successor to Company .

So long as Warrants remain outstanding, the Company will not consolidate with, amalgamate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to another Person, other than in a Cash Transaction, unless the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “ Successor Company ”), if not the Company, shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Canada or any of its Provinces, the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and shall expressly assume by a supplemental agreement, executed and delivered to the Warrant Agent, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Warrant Agent, the due and punctual performance of every covenant of this Agreement on the part of the Company to be performed and observed and shall have provided for

 

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exercise rights in accordance with Section  5.1(h)(i) . Upon the consummation of such assumption, the Successor Company shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Agreement with the same effect as if such Successor Company had been named as the Company herein.

 

16.

Headings .

The section headings contained in this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and will not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

17.

Counterparts .

This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original, but all of which together constitute one and the same instrument. A signature to this Agreement transmitted electronically shall have the same authority, effect and enforceability as an original signature.

 

18.

Severability .

The provisions of this Agreement will be deemed severable and the invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof will not affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions hereof; provided , that , if any provision of this Agreement, as applied to any party or to any circumstance, is adjudged by a court or governmental body not to be enforceable in accordance with its terms, the parties agree that the court or governmental body making such determination will have the power to modify the provision in a manner consistent with its objectives such that it is enforceable, and/or to delete specific words or phrases, and in its reduced form, such provision will then be enforceable and will be enforced; provided , further , that, if any such modified or excluded provision shall adversely affect the rights, immunities, liabilities, duties or obligations of the Warrant Agent, the Warrant Agent shall be entitled to resign immediately upon written notice to the Company.

 

19.

No Redemption .

The Warrants shall not be subject to redemption by the Company or any other Person; provided , that , the Warrants may be acquired by means other than a redemption, whether by tender offer, open market purchases, negotiated transactions or otherwise, in accordance with applicable securities laws, so long as such acquisition does not otherwise violate the terms of this Agreement.

 

20.

Persons Benefiting .

This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company, the Warrant Agent and the Holders from time to time. Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any person other than the Company, the Warrant Agent and the Holders any rights or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement or any part hereof, and all covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements contained in this Warrant Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and of the Holders. Each Holder, by acceptance of a Warrant Certificate, agrees to all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement applicable thereto.

 

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21.

Applicable Law ; Submission to Jurisdiction; Service of Process; Waiver of Immunity .

THIS AGREEMENT, EACH WARRANT CERTIFICATE ISSUED HEREUNDER, EACH WARRANT EVIDENCED THEREBY AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THERETO, INCLUDING THE INTERPRETATION, CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY AND ENFORCEABILITY THEREOF, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

The Company irrevocably consents and agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Warrants and the Warrant Agent, that any legal action, suit or proceeding against it with respect to obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Warrant Agreement or the Warrants may be brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and hereby irrevocably consents and submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in personam , generally and unconditionally with respect to any action, suit or proceeding for itself in respect of its properties, assets and revenues.

The Company irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Warrant Agreement brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

The Company irrevocably appoints Cogency Global Inc. as its authorized agent in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York upon which process may be served in any legal action, suit or proceeding against it with respect to obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Warrant Agreement or the Warrants, and agrees that service of process upon such agent, and written notice of said service to the Company by the person serving the same to Ultra Petroleum Corp., 116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Attention: Legal Department, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company in any such action, suit or proceeding. The Company further agrees to take any and all action as may be necessary to maintain such appointment of such agent in full force and effect for as long as any Warrants remain outstanding. If for any reason such agent shall cease to be such agent for service of process, the Company shall forthwith appoint a new agent of recognized standing for service of process in the State of New York and deliver to the Warrant Agent a copy of the new agent’s acceptance of that appointment within five Business Days of such acceptance. Nothing herein shall affect the right of the Warrant Agent, any agent or any Holder to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. To the extent that the Company has or hereafter may acquire any sovereign or other immunity from jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process with respect to itself or its property, the Company irrevocably waives such immunity in respect of its obligations hereunder or under any Warrant.

 

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22.

Entire Agreement .

This Agreement sets forth the entire agreement of the parties hereto as to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all previous agreements among all or some of the parties hereto with respect thereto, whether written, oral or otherwise.

 

23.

Force Majeure.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Warrant Agent will not be liable for any delays or failures in performance resulting from acts beyond its reasonable control including, without limitation, acts of God, terrorist acts, shortage of supply, disruptions in public utilities, interruptions or malfunction of computer facilities, or loss of data due to power failures or mechanical difficulties with information storage or retrieval systems, labor difficulties, war, or civil unrest.

 

24.

Intentionally deleted.

 

25.

Information Rights.

Whether or not the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall (a) make available to the Holders without cost to any Holder any reports or other information delivered to the holders of Common Shares solely in their capacity as stockholders by the Company or its Subsidiaries at the same time such reports or other information are delivered or made available to such holders of Common Shares solely in their capacity as stockholders, and (b) provide Holders access to conference calls, webcasts or similar electronic communications to which holders of Common Shares are provided access by the Company or its Subsidiaries solely in their capacity as stockholders, if any, at the same time such conference calls, webcasts or similar communications are made accessible to such holders of Common Shares solely in their capacity as stockholders.

 

26.

Confidentiality.

The Warrant Agent and the Company agree that all books, records, information and data pertaining to the business of the other party, including inter alia, personal, non-public warrant holder information, which are exchanged or received pursuant to the negotiation or the carrying out of this Agreement including the fees for services shall remain confidential, and shall not be voluntarily disclosed to any other person, except as may be required by law, including, without limitation, pursuant to subpoenas from state or federal government authorities (e.g., in divorce and criminal actions).

 

27.

Tax Treatment.

The Warrant Agent and the Company intend to treat, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the issuance of the Warrants as a contribution of such Warrants by the Company to Ultra Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation, followed by the delivery of such Warrants by Ultra Resources, Inc. to the recipients party to the Exchange Agreement. The parties hereto shall not take any action inconsistent with such treatment, unless otherwise required by a “determination” within the meaning of Section 1313(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

[ Remainder of Page Intentionally Left Blank ]

 

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

 

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

By:

  /s/ Brad Johnson
 

Name: Brad Johnson

 

Title:   Interim Chief Executive Officer

 

COMPUTERSHARE INC.

By:

  /s/ Collin Ekeogu
 

Name: Collin Ekeogu

 

Title:   Manager, Corporate Actions

 

COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.

By:

  /s/ Collin Ekeogu
 

Name: Collin Ekeogu

 

Title:   Manager, Corporate Actions

 

[ Signature Page to Warrant Agreement ]


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE

[FACE OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE] 1

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

WARRANT CERTIFICATE

EVIDENCING

WARRANTS TO PURCHASE COMMON SHARES

[FACE]

 

No. [___]   CUSIP No. [___]

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

TRANSFER OF THIS GLOBAL WARRANT CERTIFICATE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, AND NOT IN PART, TO THE COMPANY, DTC, THEIR SUCCESSORS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE NOMINEES.] 2

 

 

1  

To be removed in the versions of the Definitive Warrant Certificates printed in multiple copies for use by the Warrant Agent in preparing Definitive Warrants Certificates for issuance and delivery from time to time to holders.

2  

Include only on Global Warrant Certificate.

 

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ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

 

No. [__]    [__,__,___] Warrants

CUSIP No. [•]

THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for value received, [_______________________], or registered assigns, is the registered owner of the number of Warrants to purchase Common Shares of Ultra Petroleum Corp., a corporation incorporated under the Yukon Business Corporations Act (the “ Company ”, which term includes any successor thereto under the Warrant Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018 (the “ Warrant Agreement ”), between the Company, Computershare Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company) specified above [or such lesser number as may from time to time be endorsed on the “Schedule of Decreases in Warrants” attached hereto] 3 , and is entitled, subject to and upon compliance with the provisions hereof and of the Warrant Agreement, at such Holder’s option, at any time when the Warrants evidenced hereby are exercisable, to purchase from the Company one Common Share of the Company for each Warrant evidenced hereby, at the purchase price of $0.01 per share (as adjusted from time to time, the “ Exercise Price ”), payable in full at the time of purchase, the number of Common Shares into which and the Exercise Price at which each Warrant shall be exercisable each being subject to adjustment as provided in Section  5 of the Warrant Agreement.

All Common Shares issuable by the Company upon the exercise of Warrants shall, upon such issuance, be duly and validly issued and fully paid and nonassessable. The Company shall pay any and all documentary, issuance, registration, stamp and similar taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of Common Shares on exercise of Warrants. The Company shall not be required, however, to pay any tax or other charge imposed in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of Common Shares in book-entry form or any certificates for Common Shares or payment of cash to any Person other than the Holder of the Warrant Certificate evidencing the exercised Warrant, and in case of such transfer or payment, the Warrant Agent and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any Common Shares in book-entry form or any certificate or pay any cash until (a) such tax or charge has been paid or an amount sufficient for the payment thereof has been delivered to the Warrant Agent or to the Company, (b) it has been established to the Company’s satisfaction that any such tax or other charge that is or may become due has been paid or (c) the receipt of any other such information as set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

Subject to and upon compliance with the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Warrant evidenced hereby may be exercised by the Holder hereof at the Exercise Price then in effect on any Business Day from and after the Original Issue Date until 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date in the Warrant Agreement; provided , however , that no such Holder may exercise any Warrant evidenced hereby until the Current Market Price of the Common Shares has equaled or exceeded $2.50 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Exercise Price) on any Trading Day. For the avoidance of doubt, the Warrants evidenced hereby shall be exercisable from and after any Trading Day on which the Current Market Price of the Common Shares has equaled or exceeded $2.50 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Exercise Price), regardless of the Current Market Price of the Common Shares on the applicable Exercise Date.

 

 

3  

Include only on Global Warrant Certificate.

 

A-2


Subject to the provisions hereof and of the Warrant Agreement, the Holder of this Warrant Certificate may exercise all or any whole number of the Warrants evidenced hereby by, in the case of a Global Warrant Certificate, complying with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary to provide notice of the number of Warrants being exercised and, if applicable, whether Cashless Exercise is being elected with respect thereto, and delivering such Warrants by book-entry transfer through the facilities of the Depositary to the Warrant Agent in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and otherwise complying with the Applicable Procedures in respect of the exercise of such Warrants or, in the case of a Definitive Warrant Certificate, delivery to the Warrant Agent of the Exercise Form on the reverse hereof, setting forth the number of Warrants being exercised and, if applicable, whether Cashless Exercise is being elected with respect thereto, and otherwise properly completed and duly executed by the Holder thereof to the Warrant Agent, and surrendering this Warrant Certificate to the Warrant Agent at its office maintained for such purpose, together with payment in full of the Exercise Price as then in effect for each Common Share receivable upon exercise of each Warrant being submitted for exercise unless Cashless Exercise is being elected with respect thereto. Any such payment of the Exercise Price is to be by wire transfer in immediately available funds to such account of the Company at such banking institution as the Company shall have designated from time to time for such purpose.

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

Unless this Warrant Certificate has been countersigned by the Warrant Agent by manual signature of an authorized officer on behalf of the Warrant Agent, this Warrant Certificate shall not be valid for any purpose and no Warrant evidenced hereby shall be exercisable.

This Warrant Certificate is subject to all of the terms, provisions and conditions of the Warrant Agreement, which terms, provisions and conditions are hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof and to which Warrant Agreement reference is hereby made for a full description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of the Warrant Agent, the Company and the Holders.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this certificate to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

Dated: [________ __], 20[__]

 

   

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

[SEAL]

     

By:

   

ATTEST:

       

 

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Countersigned:   
Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Warrant Agent    [                 ]
OR

 

By:

       

By:

   
  Authorized Agent       as Countersigning Agent
     

By:

   
        Authorized Officer

Reverse of Warrant Certificate

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

WARRANT CERTIFICATE

EVIDENCING

WARRANTS TO PURCHASE COMMON SHARES

The Warrants evidenced hereby are one of a duly authorized issue of Warrants of the Company designated as its Warrants to Purchase Common Shares (“ Warrants ”), limited in aggregate number to 10,919,499 issued under and in accordance with the Warrant Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018 (the “ Warrant Agreement ”), between the Company, Computershare Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Computershare ”), and its wholly-owned subsidiary Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company (collectively, the “ Warrant Agent ”, which term includes any successor thereto permitted under the Warrant Agreement), to which the Warrant Agreement and all amendments thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Warrant Agent, the Holders of Warrant Certificates and the owners of the Warrants evidenced thereby and of the terms upon which the Warrant Certificates are, and are to be, countersigned and delivered. A copy of the Warrant Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times at the office of the Warrant Agent for inspection by the Holder hereof.

The Warrant Agreement provides that, in addition to certain adjustments to the number of Common Shares into which a Warrant is exercisable and the Exercise Price required to be made in certain circumstances, in the case of any Transaction (other than a Cash Transaction) the Company shall cause the other Person involved in such Transaction to execute and deliver to the Warrant Agent a written instrument providing that (i) the Warrants evidenced hereby, if then outstanding, will be exercisable thereafter, during the period the Warrants evidenced hereby shall be exercisable as specified herein, only into the Reference Property that would have been receivable upon such Transaction by a holder of the number of Common Shares that would have been issued upon exercise of such Warrant if such Warrant had been exercised in full immediately prior to such Transaction (upon certain assumptions specified in the Warrant Agreement); and (ii) the rights and obligations of the other Person involved in such Transaction and the holders in respect of Reference Property shall be substantially unchanged to be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the rights and obligations of the Company and Holders in respect of Common Shares.

 

A-4


Except as provided in the Warrant Agreement, all outstanding Warrants shall expire and all rights of the Holders of Warrant Certificates evidencing such Warrants shall automatically terminate and cease to exist, as of 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date. The “ Expiration Date ” shall mean the earliest to occur of (x) July 14, 2025; (y) the date of consummation of a Cash Transaction to which clause (iii) of Section  5.1(h) of the Warrant Agreement applies; and (z) a Winding Up.

In the event of the exercise of less than all of the Warrants evidenced hereby, a new Warrant Certificate of the same tenor and for the number of Warrants which are not exercised shall be issued by the Company in the name or upon the written order of the Holder of this Warrant Certificate upon the cancellation hereof.

The Warrant Certificates are issuable only in registered form in denominations of whole numbers of Warrants. Upon surrender at the office of the Warrant Agent and payment of the charges specified herein and in the Warrant Agreement, this Warrant Certificate may be exchanged for Warrant Certificates in other authorized denominations or the transfer hereof may be registered in whole or in part in authorized denominations to one or more designated transferees; provided , however , that such other Warrant Certificates issued upon exchange or registration of transfer shall evidence the same aggregate number of Warrants as this Warrant Certificate. The Company shall cause to be kept at the office or offices of the Warrant Agent the Warrant Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as the Warrant Agent may prescribe and such regulations as may be prescribed by law, the Company shall provide for the registration of Warrant Certificates and of transfers or exchanges of Warrant Certificates. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Warrant Certificates; provided , however , the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Warrant Certificates.

Prior to due presentment of this Warrant Certificate for registration of transfer, the Company, the Warrant Agent and any agent of the Company or the Warrant Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Warrant Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and neither the Company, the Warrant Agent nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

The Warrant Agreement permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of Warrant Certificates under the Warrant Agreement at any time by the Company and the Warrant Agent with the consent of the Required Warrant Holders.

Until the exercise of any Warrant, subject to the provisions of the Warrant Agreement and except as may be specifically provided for in the Warrant Agreement, (i) no Holder of a Warrant Certificate evidencing any Warrant shall have or exercise any rights by virtue hereof as a holder of Common Shares of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote, to receive dividends and other distributions or to receive notice of, or attend meetings of, stockholders or any other proceedings of the Company; (ii) the consent of any such Holder shall not be required with

 

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respect to any action or proceeding of the Company; (iii) except as provided with respect to a Winding Up of the Company, no such Holder, by reason of the ownership or possession of a Warrant or the Warrant Certificate representing the same, shall have any right to receive any cash dividends, stock dividends, allotments or rights or other distributions (except as specifically provided in the Warrant Agreement), paid, allotted or distributed or distributable to the stockholders of the Company prior to or for which the relevant record date preceded the date of the exercise of such Warrant; and (iv) no such Holder shall have any right not expressly conferred by the Warrant or Warrant Certificate held by such Holder.

This Warrant Certificate, each Warrant evidenced thereby and the Warrant Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

All terms used in this Warrant Certificate which are defined in the Warrant Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Warrant Agreement.

 

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Exercise Form

Computershare Inc.

Address

Attention: Transfer Department

Re: Ultra Petroleum Corp. Warrant Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018

In accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions hereof and of the Warrant Agreement, the undersigned registered Holder of this Warrant Certificate hereby irrevocably elects to exercise                          Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate and represents that for each of the Warrants evidenced hereby being exercised such Holder either has (please check one box only):

 

 

tendered the Exercise Price in the aggregate amount of $                      by wire transfer in immediately available funds to such account of the Company at such banking institution as the Company shall have designated from time to time for such purpose; or

 

 

elected a “Cashless Exercise”.

The undersigned requests that the Common Shares issuable upon exercise be in fully registered form in such denominations and registered in such names and delivered, together with any other property receivable upon exercise, in such manner as is specified in the instructions set forth below.

If the number of Warrants exercised is less than all of the Warrants evidenced hereby, (i) if this Warrant Certificate is a Global Warrant Certificate, the Warrant Agent shall endorse the “Schedule of Decreases in Warrants” attached hereto to reflect the Warrants being exercised or (ii) if this Warrant Certificate is a Definitive Warrant Certificate, the undersigned requests that a new Definitive Warrant Certificate representing the remaining Warrants evidenced hereby be issued and delivered to the undersigned unless otherwise specified in the instructions below.

 

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Dated:    

 

    Name:    

 

            (Please Print)
  (Insert Social Security or Other Identifying Number of Holder)     Address:    
       
       
      Signature
      (Signature must conform in all respects to name of Holder as specified on the face of this Warrant Certificate and must bear a signature guarantee by a bank, trust company or member firm of a U.S. national securities exchange.)

Signature Guaranteed:

Instructions (i) as to denominations and names of Common Shares issuable upon exercise and as to delivery of such securities and any other property issuable upon exercise and (ii) if applicable, as to Definitive Warrant Certificates evidencing unexercised Warrants:

Assignment

(Form of Assignment To Be Executed If Holder Desires To Transfer Warrant Certificate)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED                                                       hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto

Please insert social security or

other identifying number

(Please print name and address including zip code)

the Warrants represented by the within Warrant Certificate and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint                                      Attorney, to transfer said Warrant Certificate on the books of the within-named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:    

 

    Signature    

 

      (Signature must conform in all respects to name of Holder as specified on the face of this Warrant Certificate and must bear a signature guarantee by a bank, trust company or member firm of a U.S. national securities exchange.)

 

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SCHEDULE A

SCHEDULE OF DECREASES IN WARRANTS

The following decreases in the number of Warrants evidenced by this Global Warrant Certificate have been made:

 

Date

  

Amount of decrease in

number of Warrants

evidenced by this Global

Warrant Certificate

  

Number of Warrants

evidenced by this Global

Warrant Certificate

following such decrease

  

Signature of authorized
signatory] 4

 

 

4  

Include only on Global Warrant Certificate.

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF LOCK-UP AGREEMENT

Lock-Up Agreement

[Date]

Ultra Petroleum Corp.

16 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400,

Englewood, Colorado 80112

Attention: Legal Department

Computershare Trust Company N.A.

250 Royall Street

Canton, MA 02021

 

  Re:

Ultra Petroleum Corp. - Lock-Up Agreement

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In accordance with the Warrant Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018 (the “Warrant Agreement”), by and among Ultra Petroleum Corp., a corporation incorporated under the Yukon Business Corporations Act (and any Successor Company that becomes successor to the Company in accordance with Section 15) (the “Company”), Computershare Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Computershare”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company (and any successors of such Warrant Agent appointed in accordance with the terms hereof) (collectively, the “Warrant Agent”), on or about the date first set forth above, the undersigned has exercised Warrants to purchase [                      ] Common Shares (the “Issued Shares”). Terms capitalized but not otherwise defined in this Lock-Up Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Warrant Agreement.

In consideration of the issuance by the Company of the Issued Shares, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees that, during the period beginning from the date of this Lock-Up Agreement and continuing to and including the date 60 days after such date, the undersigned will not sell any of the Issued Shares.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the undersigned may transfer the Issued Shares (i) pursuant to an order of a court or regulatory agency or to comply with any regulations related to the undersigned’s ownership of Common Shares, (ii) as a distribution or transfer to general partners, limited partners, members or stockholders of the undersigned, (iii) to the undersigned’s subsidiaries, affiliates, or to any investment fund or other entity which controls or manages or is controlled or managed by, or under common control or management with, the undersigned, (iv) in connection with a tender or exchange offer, (v) in the event of a merger, (vi) by operation of law, (vii) by way of foreclosure on a pledge of the Issued Shares, (viii) with the prior written

 

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consent of the Company or (ix) if the undersigned is given a client order to close the account that holds the Issued Shares and such order is bona fide and is not given for the purpose of avoiding the restrictions under this Agreement. The undersigned is expressly permitted to offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise dispose of any Common Shares other than the Issued Shares.

This Lock-Up Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

Very truly yours,
 

 

Exact Name of Shareholder
 

 

Authorized Signature
 

 

Title

 

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Exhibit 10.3

SECOND LIEN GUARANTY AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT

THIS SECOND LIEN GUARANTY AND COLLATERAL AGREEMENT (as it may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or modified from time to time, this “ Agreement ”), is entered into as of December 21, 2018, by and among each of the undersigned identified on the signature pages hereto as Grantors (together with any other entity that may become a party hereto as provided herein, each a “ Grantor ”, and collectively, the “ Grantors ”) in favor of Wilmington Trust, National Association in its capacity as collateral agent (the “ Collateral Agent ”) for and on behalf of the Secured Parties (as defined below).

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

A. On April 12, 2017, Ultra Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), as borrower thereunder, entered into that certain Credit Agreement with the Revolving Administrative Agent and the Revolving Lenders (as amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “ Revolving Credit Agreement ”) pursuant to which the Revolving Lenders agreed to make loans and other extensions of credit to the Company for the purposes set forth therein.

B. On April 12, 2017, the Company, as borrower thereunder, entered into that certain Term Loan Agreement with the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Lenders (as amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, modified or supplemented from time to time, the “ Term Loan Agreement ”) pursuant to which the Term Loan Lenders agreed to make term loans to the Company for the purposes set forth therein.

C. On the date hereof, the Company, as issuer, Wilmington Trust, National Association, in its capacity as trustee (in such capacity, the “ Trustee ”), and the Collateral Agent entered into that certain Indenture, (the “ Indenture ”) pursuant to which the Company will issue to Holders (as defined in the Indenture) up to $545,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 (the “ Notes ”).

D. The Grantors, upon the terms and conditions stated herein, agree to guarantee the obligations of the Company under the Indenture and other Note Documents.

E. The Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties have conditioned their entry into the Note Documents upon the execution and delivery by the Grantors of this Agreement, and the Grantors have agreed to enter into this Agreement to secure all obligations owing to the Secured Parties under the Indenture and other Note Documents and to grant a lien, junior only to the lien granted to secure the Senior Obligations, on substantially all of their assets in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties to secure the Secured Obligations.

F. Each Grantor has determined that valuable benefits will be derived by it as a result of each Indenture and the extensions of credit made (and to be made) by the respective Holders thereunder.


ACCORDINGLY, the Grantors and the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, hereby act and agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

1.1. Terms Defined in UCC . Terms defined in the UCC which are not otherwise defined in this Agreement are used herein as defined in the UCC (even if such terms are capitalized herein and are not capitalized in the UCC).

1.2. Definitions of Certain Terms Used Herein . As used in this Agreement, in addition to the terms defined in the introductory paragraph hereto and in the Preliminary Statements, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Account Debtor ” means a Person who is obligated on an Account.

Amendment ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section  6.4 hereof.

Applicable Agent ” means the First Lien Collateral Agent or, after the Discharge of Senior Obligations, the Collateral Agent.

Article ” means a numbered article of this Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.

As-extracted Collateral ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Assigned Contracts ” means, collectively, all of the Grantors’ rights and remedies under, and all moneys and claims for money due or to become due to any Grantor under all written contracts, and any and all amendments, supplements, extensions, and renewals thereof including all rights and claims of the Grantors now or hereafter existing: (a) under any insurance, indemnities, warranties, and guarantees provided for or arising out of or in connection with any of the foregoing contracts; (b) for any damages arising out of or for breach or default under or in connection with any of the foregoing contracts; (c) to all other amounts from time to time paid or payable under or in connection with any of the foregoing contracts; or (d) to exercise or enforce any and all covenants, remedies, powers and privileges thereunder.

Assumption Agreement ” means an Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of Annex  1 hereto.

Chattel Paper ” and “ Electronic Chattel Paper ” shall have the meanings set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Collateral ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section  3.1 .

Collateral Account ” means any Deposit Account under the sole dominion and control of the Collateral Agent established by the Collateral Agent as provided in Section  9.1 .

Collateral Agent ” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, solely in its capacity as Collateral Agent under the Indenture, together with any successors in such capacity.

Collateral Equity Interests ” means (a) the Pledged Equity and (b) any Equity Interests other than Pledged Equity that constitute Collateral hereunder.

 

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Commercial Tort Claim ” means a commercial tort claim (as that term is defined in Article 9 of the UCC).

Commodity Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Commodity Account Control Agreement ” means an agreement, in form satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, among any Note Party, a commodity intermediary holding such Note Party’s assets, including funds and commodity contracts, and the Collateral Agent with respect to collection and control of all deposits, commodity contracts (and the application of value on account of such commodity contracts) and other balances held in a Commodity Account maintained by any Note Party with such commodity intermediary (it being agreed that any agreement requiring the Collateral Agent in its individual capacity to indemnify the commodity intermediary shall not be satisfactory to the Collateral Agent).

Company ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals.

Company Obligations ” means all obligations and liabilities of the Company which may arise under or in connection with any Secured Transaction Document (including, without limitation, Article II of this Agreement), whether on account of principal, interest, guarantee obligations, reimbursement obligations, payments in respect of an early termination date, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise (including, without limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel to any Secured Party under any Secured Transaction Document).

Control ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 8 or, if applicable, in Section 9-104, 9-105, 9-106 or 9-107 of Article 9 of the UCC.

Control Agreement ” means a Deposit Account Control Agreement, a Securities Account Control Agreement or a Commodity Account Control Agreement, as context may require.

Copyrights ” means, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s right, title, and interest in and to the following: (a) all copyrights, rights and interests in copyrights, works protectable by copyright, copyright registrations, and copyright applications; (b) all renewals of any of the foregoing; and (c) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing throughout the world.

Deposit Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Deposit Account Control Agreement ” means an agreement, in form satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, among any Note Party, a banking institution holding such Note Party’s funds, and the Collateral Agent with respect to collection and control of all deposits and balances, and the direction of disposition of funds, held in a Deposit Account maintained by any Note Party with such banking institution (it being agreed that any agreement requiring the Collateral Agent in its individual capacity to indemnify the banking institution shall not be satisfactory to the Collateral Agent).

Discharge of Senior Obligations ” has the meaning assigned to “Discharge of Senior Obligations” in the Intercreditor Agreement.

Document ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Effective Date ” means (a) with respect to the Company and each other Grantor party hereto on the date hereof, the “Issue Date” as defined in the Indenture, and (b) with respect to each other Grantor, the “Effective Date” as defined in the Assumption Agreement by means of which such Grantor becomes a party hereto.

 

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Equipment ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Equity Interests ” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such Equity Interest.

Event of Default ” means any “event of default” under a Secured Transaction Document.

Excluded Account ” means (a) any Deposit Account, Commodity Account or Securities Account so long as the average daily maximum balance in each such account, individually, does not exceed $1,000,000 over any 30-day period and the aggregate daily maximum balance of all such Deposit Accounts, Commodity Accounts and Securities Accounts does not at any time exceed $10,000,000, (b) any Deposit Account that is a zero balance account or a deposit account for which the balance of such Deposit Account is transferred at the end of each date to a deposit account that is not an Excluded Account, (c) fiduciary accounts, (d) trust and suspense accounts of any Note Party holding royalty obligations, (e) accounts constituting cash collateral accounts permitted under the Revolving Credit Agreement and Term Loan Credit Agreement, (f) the Professional Fee Escrow Account (as defined in the Plan of Reorganization) (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement and the Term Loan Credit Agreement) and (g) any other Deposit Accounts exclusively used for trust, payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any employees of the Grantors.

Excluded Assets ” means:

(a) any motor vehicle and other vehicles subject to certificates of title in which a lien can only be perfected by action with respect to a certificate of title;

(b) any Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks or Licenses;

(c) any contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document to the extent that the grant of a security interest therein is prohibited by, or constitutes a breach or default under or results in the termination of or gives rise to a right on the part of the parties thereto other than any Grantor to terminate (or materially modify) or requires any consent not obtained under, any such contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document, except to the extent that the term in such contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document providing for such prohibition, breach, default or right of termination or modification or requiring such consent is ineffective under Sections 9-406, 9-407, 9-408 or 9-409 of the UCC (or any successor provision or provisions) of any relevant jurisdiction or any other applicable law;

(d) any assets to the extent the grant of security interests in such assets would (i) be prohibited by a Permitted Contractual Obligation binding on the assets (including permitted liens, leases or licenses) or applicable law (in each case, except to the extent such prohibition (A) could be waived by the Company or any Subsidiary, (B) is the result of an attempt to circumvent the collateral requirements of the Note Documents, or (C) is unenforceable after giving effect to applicable provisions of the UCC or other applicable law, other than proceeds thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC or other applicable law notwithstanding such prohibitions), (ii) require obtaining the consent of any governmental authority, or (iii) result in material and adverse tax consequences to the Company, any Subsidiary or the Parent Guarantor (as defined in the Indenture) that is a Note Party, in each case as reasonably determined by the Company in writing delivered to the Collateral Agent;

 

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(e) those assets with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Company and, so long as the Senior Obligations remain outstanding, the reasonable judgment of the First Lien Collateral Agent, the burdens, costs or consequences of obtaining or perfecting such a security interest are excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties therefrom; and

(f) Excluded Equity Interests;

provided , however , that “Excluded Assets” shall (1) not include any right to receive proceeds from the sale or other disposition of Excluded Assets or any proceeds, substitutions or replacements of Excluded Assets (unless such proceeds, substitutions or replacements would constitute Excluded Assets) and (2) with respect to the exclusions set forth in clause  (c) above, not be construed to limit, impair or otherwise affect the Collateral Agent’s continuing security interests in the Company’s or any Grantor’s rights to or interests of the Company or any Grantor in (x) monies due or to become due under any such contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document (to the extent not prohibited by such contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document and applicable law), or (y) any proceeds from the sale, license, lease or other disposition of any such contract, license, agreement, instrument or other document. References in this Agreement to Collateral and to Goods, Equipment, Investment Property, and other categories or types of Collateral do not include Excluded Assets.

Excluded Equity Interests ” means (a) Excluded Foreign Equity Interests, (b) any Equity Interests to the extent the pledge thereof would be prohibited by any applicable law, (c) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary to the extent the pledge of such Equity Interests is prohibited by Permitted Contractual Obligations existing on the Effective Date or at the time such Subsidiary is acquired (provided that such Permitted Contractual Obligations have not been entered into in contemplation of such Subsidiary being acquired) and (d) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary to the extent that the pledge of such Equity Interests would result in material adverse tax consequences to the Company or any Subsidiary as reasonably determined by the Company.

Excluded Foreign Equity Interests ” means, with respect to each Foreign Subsidiary, Equity Interests issued by such Foreign Subsidiary to the extent necessary to prevent the Collateral from including more than the lesser of (a) 66-2/3% of the total outstanding Equity Interests issued by such Foreign Subsidiary, and (b) if a pledge of 66-2/3% of such Equity Interests would result in adverse tax consequences to any Secured Party, then the maximum percentage that would not result in such adverse consequences.

Excluded Payments ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section  6.6(b)(iii) hereof.

Exhibit ” refers to a specific exhibit to this Agreement (unless another document is specifically referenced) as from time to time supplemented by any Assumption Agreements.

First Lien Collateral Agent ” has the meaning assigned to “First Lien Collateral Agent” in the Intercreditor Agreement, together with any successor in such capacity.

Fixtures ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Foreign Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary organized under the laws of any jurisdiction outside the United States of America.

 

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General Intangible ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Goods ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Grantor ” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Grantor Claims ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section  14.1 hereof.

Guarantor Obligations ” means with respect to any Guarantor, the collective reference to (a) the Company Obligations (b) all obligations and liabilities of such Guarantor which may arise under or in connection with any Secured Transaction Document to which such Guarantor is a party (including, without limitation, Article II of this Agreement), in each case, whether on account of principal, interest, guarantee obligations, reimbursement obligations, payments in respect of an early termination date, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise (including, without limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel to any Secured Party under any Secured Transaction Document) and (c) the Guarantor Obligations of each other Guarantor.

Guarantors ” means, collectively, each Grantor other than the Company.

Guaranty ” means the guarantee made by each Note Party in Section  2.1 .

Holders ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

Indenture ” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Issuer ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section  13.1 .

Instrument ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Intellectual Property ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Intercreditor Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in Section  12.1 .

Inventory ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Investment Property ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Letter-of-Credit Rights ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Licenses ” means, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s right, title, and interest as a licensor in and to any and all licensing agreements or similar arrangements in and to its Patents, Copyrights, or Trademarks.

Merger ” means (a) a merger, (b) a consolidation, or (c) the acquisition by an entity of a significant portion of the assets of, or of a division of, another entity.

Notes ” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.

Note Documents ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Indenture.

 

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Note Party ” means the Issuer and each Guarantor.

Obligations ” means: (a) in the case of the Company, the Company Obligations and (b) in the case of each Guarantor, its Guarantor Obligations.

Patents ” means, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s right, title, and interest (other than as a licensee) in and to: (a) any and all patents and patent applications; (b) all inventions and improvements described and claimed therein; (c) all reissues, divisions, continuations, renewals, extensions, and continuations-in-part thereof; and (d) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing throughout the world.

Payment in Full ” means the (a) irrevocable and indefeasible payment in full of all principal, interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of an insolvency or liquidation proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such insolvency or liquidation proceeding), on all Secured Obligations outstanding under the Note Documents and (b) the payment in full of all other obligations outstanding under and in respect of the Note Documents that are due and payable or otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal and interest are paid (other than indemnification and other contingent obligations not yet due or for which no claim or demand for payment has been made).

Permitted Contractual Obligation ” means any enforceable contractual obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary that is permitted by the terms of the Note Party.

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

Pledged Equity ” means (a) the Equity Interests described or referred to on Exhibit  D and all other Equity Interests at any time owned by any Grantor in any other Grantor, (b) all Equity Interests issued by any Foreign Subsidiary of the Company or of a Guarantor (other than, in each case, Excluded Equity Interests), (c) the certificates or instruments, if any, representing such Equity Interests, (d) all dividends (cash, stock or otherwise), cash, instruments, rights to subscribe, purchase or sell and all other rights and property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any or all of such Equity Interests, (e) all replacements, additions to and substitutions for any of the property referred to in this definition, including, without limitation, claims against third parties, (f) the proceeds, interest, profits and other income of or on any of the property referred to in this definition and (g) all books and records relating to any of the property referred to in this definition.

Proceeds ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC and, in any event shall include, without limitation, all dividends or other income from the Pledged Equity or other Collateral, collections thereon or distributions or payments with respect thereto.

Receivables ” means the Accounts, Chattel Paper, Documents, Investment Property, Instruments and any other rights or claims to receive money which are General Intangibles or which are otherwise included as Collateral.

Revolving Administrative Agent ” means Bank of Montreal in its capacity as the “Administrative Agent” under the Revolving Credit Agreement, together with any successors in such capacity.

Revolving Lenders ” shall have the meaning given to the term “Lenders” in the Revolving Credit Agreement.

 

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Section ” means a numbered section of this Agreement, unless another document is specifically referenced.

Secured Obligations ”, with respect to any Grantor, has the meaning assigned to the term “Obligations” herein.

Secured Parties ” shall have the meaning assigned to “Junior Priority Parties” in the Intercreditor Agreement.

Secured Transaction Documents ” means the collective reference to the Indenture, the other Note Documents and any other document made, delivered or given in connection with any of the foregoing.

Securities Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 8 of the UCC.

Securities Account Control Agreement ” means an agreement, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, among any Note Party, a securities intermediary holding such Note Party’s assets, including funds, securities, financial assets, and the Collateral Agent with respect to collection and control of all deposits, securities and other balances (including direction of transfer or redemption of financial assets in which such Note Party has a security entitlement) held in a Securities Account maintained by any Note Party with such securities intermediary (it being agreed that any agreement requiring the Collateral Agent in its individual capacity to indemnify the securities intermediary shall not be satisfactory to the Collateral Agent).

Security ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 8 of the UCC.

Senior Debt Documents ” has the meaning assigned to “Senior Debt Documents” in the Intercreditor Agreement.

Senior Obligations ” has the meaning assigned to “Senior Obligations” in the Intercreditor Agreement.

Stock Rights ” means all dividends, instruments or other distributions and any other right or property which the Grantors shall receive or shall become entitled to receive for any reason whatsoever with respect to, in substitution for or in exchange for any Equity Interest constituting Collateral, any right to receive an Equity Interest and any right to receive earnings, in which the Grantors now have or hereafter acquire any right, issued by an issuer of such Equity Interest.

Subsidiary ” and “ subsidiary ” shall each have the meaning given to such term in the Indenture.

Supporting Obligation ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

Term Loan Administrative Agent ” means Barclays Bank PLC in its capacity as the “Administrative Agent” under the Term Loan Agreement, together with any successors in such capacity.

Term Loan Lenders ” shall have the meaning given to the term “Lenders” in the Term Loan Agreement.

Trademarks ” means, with respect to any Person, all of such Person’s right, title, and interest (other than as a licensee) in and to the following: (a) all trademarks (including service marks), trade names, trade dress, and trade styles and the registrations and applications for registration thereof and the goodwill of the business symbolized by the foregoing; (b) all licenses of the foregoing; (c) all renewals of the foregoing; and (d) all rights corresponding to any of the foregoing throughout the world.

 

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Trustee ” shall mean Wilmington Trust, National Association, solely in its capacity as Trustee under the Indenture, together with any successors in such capacity.

UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time, of the State of New York or of any other state the laws of which are required as a result thereof to be applied in connection with the attachment, perfection or priority of, or remedies with respect to, Collateral Agent’s or any Secured Party’s Lien (as defined in the Indenture) on any Collateral.

The foregoing definitions shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.

ARTICLE II

GUARANTY

2.1. Guaranty .

(a) Each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably, guarantees to the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties and each of their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, the prompt and complete payment and performance by the Company and the Guarantors when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Company Obligations and the performance by the Company of each of the covenants and other obligations under the Indenture and the other Note Documents, including, without limitation, all Secured Obligations (each such Guarantor’s guarantee contained in this Article  II , collectively, this “ Guaranty ”). This is a guarantee of payment and not collection and the liability of each Guarantor is primary and not secondary.

(b) Anything herein or in any other Note Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum liability of each Guarantor hereunder and under the other Note Documents shall in no event exceed the amount which can be guaranteed by such Guarantor under applicable federal and state laws relating to the insolvency of debtors.

(c) Each Guarantor agrees that the Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the amount of the liability of such Guarantor hereunder without impairing the Guaranty or affecting the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party hereunder.

(d) Each Guarantor agrees that if the maturity of any of the Company Obligations is accelerated by bankruptcy or otherwise, such maturity shall also be deemed accelerated for the purpose of this Guaranty without demand or notice to such Guarantor. This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect until Payment in Full of the Company Obligations shall have occurred.

(e) No payment made by the Company, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person or received or collected by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party from the Company, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding or any set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time in reduction of or in payment of the Secured Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by such Guarantor in respect of the Company Obligations or any payment received or collected from such Guarantor in respect of the Company Obligations), remain liable for the outstanding Secured Obligations up to the maximum liability of such Guarantor hereunder until Payment in Full of the Company Obligations shall have occurred.

 

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2.2. Payments . Each Guarantor hereby agrees and guarantees that payments hereunder will be paid to the Collateral Agent without set-off or counterclaim in dollars at the offices of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Trustee and the Collateral Agent and the ratable benefit of the Holders, without set-off, deduction or counterclaim, in U.S. dollars, in immediately available funds, at the offices of the Collateral Agent specified in Section 12.2 of the Indenture (or from time to time designated in accordance with the terms thereof).

ARTICLE III

GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST

3.1. Grant of Security Interest . Each Grantor hereby pledges, assigns and grants to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of and for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in, lien on and right of setoff against, with the priority described in Section  5.1 of this Agreement, all of its right, title and interest in, to and under all of the following items, categories and types of personal property, whether now owned by or owing to, or hereafter acquired by or arising in favor of such Grantor (including under any trade name or derivations thereof), and whether owned or consigned by or to, or leased from or to, such Grantor, and regardless of where located (all of which will be collectively referred to as the “ Collateral ”), including:

(a) all Accounts;

(b) all Chattel Paper;

(c) all Documents;

(d) all Equipment;

(e) all General Intangibles;

(f) all Goods (other than consumer goods);

(g) all Instruments;

(h) all Inventory;

(i) all Investment Property;

(j) all cash in possession of the Collateral Agent;

(k) all letters of credit, Letter-of-Credit Rights and Supporting Obligations;

(l) all Deposit Accounts;

(m) all Commercial Tort Claims listed on Exhibit  G hereto;

(n) all Securities Accounts;

 

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(o) all Commodity Accounts;

(p) all Assigned Contracts and all Swap Agreements;

(q) all Pledged Equity;

(r) all Fixtures;

(s) all As-extracted Collateral;

(t) and all accessions to, substitutions for and replacements, Proceeds (including Stock Rights), insurance proceeds and products of the foregoing, together with all books and records, customer lists, credit files, computer files, programs, printouts and other computer materials and records related thereto and any General Intangibles at any time evidencing or relating to any of the foregoing;

to secure the prompt and complete payment and performance of its Secured Obligations; provided , however , that “ Collateral ” shall not include any Excluded Assets; and provided further , that if and when any property shall cease to be an Excluded Asset, such property shall be deemed at all times from and after such date to constitute Collateral.

ARTICLE IV

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, WAIVERS AND CONSENTS

4.1. Acknowledgments, Waivers and Consents .

(a) Each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that the obligations undertaken by it under this Agreement involve the guarantee and/or the provision of collateral security for such Grantor’s own obligations and the obligations of Persons other than such Grantor and that such Grantor’s guarantee and/or provision of collateral security for the Secured Obligations are absolute, irrevocable and unconditional under any and all circumstances. In full recognition and furtherance of the foregoing, each Grantor understands and agrees, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law and except as may otherwise be expressly and specifically provided in the Secured Transaction Documents, that each Grantor shall remain obligated hereunder (including, without limitation, with respect to any guarantee made by such Grantor hereby and the collateral security provided by such Grantor herein) and the enforceability and effectiveness of this Agreement and the liability of such Grantor, and the rights, remedies, powers and privileges of the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties under this Agreement and the other Secured Transaction Documents shall not be affected, limited, reduced, discharged or terminated in any way, notwithstanding that, without any reservation of rights against any Grantor and without notice to or further assent by any Grantor, any of the following occur:

(i) any demand for payment of any of the Secured Obligations made by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party shall be rescinded by the Collateral Agent or such other Secured Party and any of the Secured Obligations shall be continued;

(ii) the Secured Obligations, the liability of any Grantor or any other Person upon or for any part thereof or any collateral security or guarantee therefor or right of offset with respect thereto, shall be, from time to time, in whole or in part, renewed, extended, amended, modified, accelerated, compromised, waived, settled, surrendered or released by, or any indulgence or forbearance in respect thereof granted by, the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party;

 

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(iii) the Secured Transaction Documents and any other documents executed and delivered in connection therewith shall be amended, modified, supplemented or terminated, in whole or in part in accordance with the Indenture and the Intercreditor Agreement;

(iv) the Company, any other Grantor or any other Person shall from time to time accept or enter into new or additional agreements, security documents, guarantees or other instruments in addition to, in exchange for or relative to, any Secured Transaction Document, all or any part of the Secured Obligations or any Collateral now or in the future serving as security for the Secured Obligations;

(v) any collateral security, guarantee or right of offset at any time held by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party for the payment of the Secured Obligations shall be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or released;

(vi) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of or in any other term of, all or any part of the Secured Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from any Secured Transaction Document or any other agreement or instrument governing or evidencing any Secured Obligations, including any increase or decrease in the rate of interest thereon; and

(vii) any other event shall occur which constitutes a defense or release of sureties generally, other than the payment and performance in full of all Secured Obligations.

(b) Each Grantor hereby expressly waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any defense now or in the future arising by reason of,

(i) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the payment or performance of the Secured Obligations;

(ii) the illegality, invalidity or unenforceability of the Secured Transaction Documents, any other agreement or instrument governing or evidencing any of the Secured Obligations, any of the Secured Obligations or any other collateral security therefor or guarantee or right of offset with respect thereto at any time or from time to time held by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party;

(iii) any defense, set-off or counterclaim (in any case, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory), other than a defense of payment or performance, which may at any time be available to or be asserted by any Grantor or any other Person against the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party;

(iv) the insolvency, bankruptcy arrangement, reorganization, adjustment, composition, liquidation, disability, dissolution or lack of power of any Grantor or any other Person at any time liable for the payment of all or part of the Secured Obligations or the failure of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to file or enforce a claim in bankruptcy or other proceeding with respect to any Person; or any sale, lease or transfer of any or all of the assets of the any Grantor, or any changes in the equity owners of any Grantor;

(v) the fact that any Collateral or liens or security interests contemplated or intended to be given, created or granted as security for the repayment of the Secured Obligations shall not be properly perfected or created, or shall prove to be unenforceable or subordinate to any other lien or security interest, it being recognized and agreed by each of the Grantors that it is not entering into this Agreement in reliance on, or in contemplation of the benefits of, the validity, enforceability, collectability or value of any of the Collateral for the Secured Obligations;

 

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(vi) any failure of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to marshal assets in favor of any Grantor or any other Person, to exhaust any collateral for all or any part of the Secured Obligations, to pursue or exhaust any right, remedy, power or privilege it may have against any Grantor or any other Person or to take any action whatsoever to mitigate or reduce any Grantor’s liability under this Agreement or any other Secured Transaction Document;

(vii) any present or future law, regulation or order of any jurisdiction (whether of right or in fact) or of any agency which (A) provides that the obligation of a surety or guarantor must neither be larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal, (B) reduces, amends, restructures or otherwise affects any term of any Secured Transaction Document or the Secured Obligations or (C) purports to prohibit the payment of the Company, any other Grantor, any other Note Party or any other guarantor of the Secured Obligations of the principal or interest on the Secured Obligations;

(viii) the possibility that the Secured Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the aggregate liability of such Grantor under this Agreement;

(ix) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of the Company, any other Grantor, any other Note Party or any other guarantor of any of the Secured Obligations, or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting the Company, any other Grantor, any other Note Party or any other guarantor of the Secured Obligations, or any of their assets or any resulting release or discharge of any obligation of the Company, any other Grantor, any other Note Party or any other guarantor or any of the Secured Obligations; or

(x) any other circumstance or act whatsoever by the Company, any other Note Party, any other guarantor of the Secured Obligations, the Collateral Agent, any Lender or any other Person, other than a defense of payment or performance, including any action or omission of the type described in Section  4.1(a) (with or without notice to or knowledge of any Grantor), which constitutes, or might be construed to constitute, an equitable or legal discharge or defense of the Company for the Secured Obligations, or of such Grantor under the Guaranty or with respect to the collateral security provided by such Grantor herein, or which might be available to a surety or guarantor, in bankruptcy or in any other instance;

except in each case to the extent that any written amendment, settlement, compromise, waiver or release expressly modifies or terminates the obligations of such Grantor.

(c) Each Grantor hereby waives to the extent permitted by law: (i) except as expressly provided otherwise in any Secured Transaction Document, all notices to such Grantor, or to any other Person, including but not limited to, notices of the acceptance of this Agreement, the Guaranty or the provision of collateral security provided herein, or the creation, renewal, extension, modification, accrual of any Secured Obligations, or notice of or proof of reliance by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party upon the Guaranty or upon the collateral security provided herein, or of default in the payment or performance of any of the Secured Obligations owed to the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party and enforcement of any right or remedy with respect thereto; or notice of any other matters relating thereto; the Secured Obligations, and any of them, shall conclusively be deemed to have been created, contracted or incurred, or renewed, extended, amended or waived, in reliance upon the Guaranty and the collateral security provided herein and no notice of creation of the Secured Obligations or any extension of credit already or hereafter contracted by or extended to the Company need be given to any Grantor; and all dealings between the Company and any of the Grantors, on the one hand, and the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, on the other hand, likewise shall be conclusively presumed to have been had or

 

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consummated in reliance upon the Guaranty and on the collateral security provided herein; (ii) diligence and demand of payment, presentment, protest, dishonor and notice of dishonor; (iii) any statute of limitations affecting any Grantor’s liability hereunder or the enforcement thereof; (iv) all rights of revocation with respect to the Secured Obligations, the Guaranty and the provision of collateral security herein; and (v) all principles or provisions of law which conflict with the terms of this Agreement and which can, as a matter of law, be waived.

(d) When making any demand hereunder or otherwise pursuing its rights and remedies hereunder against any Grantor, the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party may, but shall be under no obligation to, join or make a similar demand on or otherwise pursue or exhaust such rights and remedies as it may have against the Company, any other Grantor or any other Person or against any collateral security or guarantee for the Secured Obligations or any right of offset with respect thereto, and any failure by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to make any such demand, to pursue such other rights or remedies or to collect any payments from the Company, any other Grantor or any other Person or to realize upon any such collateral security or guarantee or to exercise any such right of offset, or any release of the Company, any other Grantor or any other Person or any such collateral security, guarantee or right of offset, shall not relieve any Grantor of any obligation or liability hereunder, and shall not impair or affect the rights and remedies, whether express, implied or available as a matter of law, of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party against any Grantor. For the purposes hereof “demand” shall include the commencement and continuance of any legal proceedings. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any other Secured Party shall have any obligation to protect, secure, perfect or insure any lien or security interest at any time held by it as security for the Secured Obligations or for the Guaranty or any property subject thereto.

4.2. No Subrogation, Contribution or Reimbursement . Notwithstanding any payment made by any Grantor hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of any Grantor by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party, until the Payment in Full of the Secured Obligations, no Grantor shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party against the Company or any other Grantor or any collateral security or guarantee or right of offset held by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party for the payment of the Secured Obligations, nor shall any Grantor seek or be entitled to seek any indemnity, exoneration, participation, contribution or reimbursement from the Company or any other Grantor in respect of payments made by such Grantor hereunder, and each Grantor hereby expressly waives, releases and agrees not to exercise any such rights of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnity and contribution. Each Grantor further agrees that to the extent that such waiver and release set forth herein is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be void or voidable for any reason, any rights of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnity and contribution such Grantor may have against the Company, any other Grantor or against any collateral or security or guarantee or right of offset held by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party shall be junior and subordinate to any rights the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties may have against the Company and such Grantor and to all right, title and interest the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties may have in any collateral or security or guarantee or right of offset. Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, may use, sell or dispose of any item of Collateral or security as provided in this Agreement without regard to any subrogation rights any Grantor may have, and upon any disposition or sale, any rights of subrogation any Grantor may have shall terminate.

4.3. Release . Each Guarantor consents and agrees that the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) at any time, or from time to time, in compliance with the Secured Transaction Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement and otherwise in its discretion:

(a) renew, extend or change the time of payment, and/or the manner, place or terms of payment of all or any part of the Secured Obligations; and

 

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(b) exchange, release and/or surrender all or any of the Collateral (including the Pledged Equity), or any part thereof, by whomsoever deposited, which is now or may hereafter be held by the Collateral Agent in connection with all or any of the Secured Obligations; all in such manner and upon such terms as the Collateral Agent may deem proper, and without notice to or further assent from any Grantor that is a Guarantor, it being hereby agreed that each such Guarantor shall be and remain bound upon this Agreement, irrespective of the value or condition of any of the Collateral, and notwithstanding any such change, exchange, settlement, compromise, surrender, release, renewal or extension, and notwithstanding also that the Secured Obligations may, at any time, exceed the aggregate principal amount thereof set forth in each of the Indenture, or any other agreement governing any Secured Obligations.

ARTICLE V

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Each Grantor represents and warrants to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties that:

5.1. Title; Perfected Second Priority . The representations and warranties of the Parent (as defined in the Indenture) and the Company in the Indenture concerning each Grantor, this Agreement, and the Collateral are true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier contained therein), except to the extent any such representations and warranties are expressly limited to an earlier date, in which case, such representations and warranties are true and correct in all material respects as of such specified earlier date. When financing statements have been filed in the appropriate offices against each Grantor in the locations listed on Exhibit  E , the Collateral Agent will have a validly perfected security interest in that Collateral of the Grantor in which a security interest may be perfected by the filing of financing statements, subject only to liens or security interests granted to the First Lien Collateral Agent to secure the Senior Obligations, subject in all respects to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.

5.2. Type and Jurisdiction of Organization, Organizational and Identification Numbers . The type of entity of such Grantor, its state of organization, the organizational number issued to it by its state of organization and its federal employer identification number are set forth on Exhibit  A . Except as may be set forth in Exhibit  A or in an applicable Assumption Agreement, such Grantor has not had any other entity type, jurisdiction of organization or organizational number, and has not been a party to any Merger, during the past five years prior to its becoming a Grantor hereunder; provided that if Grantor has been a party to such a Merger, Exhibit  A or the applicable Assumption Agreement sets forth the information required by this Section  5.2 for each constituent party to such Merger.

5.3. Principal Location . Such Grantor’s mailing address and the location of its place of business (if it has only one) or its chief executive office (if it has more than one place of business), are disclosed in Exhibit  A .

5.4. Deposit Accounts, Commodity Accounts and Securities Accounts . All of such Grantor’s Deposit Accounts, Commodity Accounts and Securities Accounts as of the Effective Date are listed on Exhibit  B and any Excluded Accounts as of the Effective Date are identified as such on Exhibit  B .

5.5. Exact Names . Such Grantor’s name in which it has executed this Agreement is the exact legal name of such Grantor as it appears in such Grantor’s organizational documents, as amended, as filed with such Grantor’s jurisdiction of organization as of the Effective Date. Except as may be described in Exhibit  A or in an applicable Assumption Agreement, such Grantor has not, during the past five years prior to its becoming a party hereto, had any other name or been a party to any merger or consolidation; provided that if Grantor has been a party to such a Merger, Exhibit  A or the applicable Assumption Agreement sets forth the information required by this Section  5.2 for each constituent party to such Merger.

 

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5.6. Letter-of-Credit Rights and Chattel Paper on Effective Date . Exhibit  C lists all Letter-of-Credit Rights and Chattel Paper owned by such Grantor as of the Effective Date, if any, with a value in excess of $1,000,000. All action by such Grantor necessary or desirable to protect and perfect the Collateral Agent’s lien and security interest on each item listed on Exhibit  C that can be accomplished by the filing of the financing statements in accordance with the second sentence of Section  5.1 has been duly taken.

5.7. No Financing Statements, Security Agreements . No financing statement describing all or any portion of the Collateral which has not lapsed or been terminated naming such Grantor as debtor has been filed or is of record in any jurisdiction except (a) for financing statements naming the Collateral Agent as the secured party, (b) financing statements with respect to liens or security interests permitted by Section  6.1(e) , (c) financing statements being terminated concurrently with the execution hereof, (d) financing statements filed as a precaution to describe personal property leased to a Grantor and (e) other liens permitted to exist on the Collateral by the Indenture or this Agreement, and in the case of the security interests granted to secure the Senior Obligations permitted under the Indenture, subject in all respects to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.

5.8. Pledged Equity .

(a) Exhibit  D sets forth a complete and accurate list of all Pledged Equity owned by such Grantor as of the Effective Date. Such Grantor is the direct, sole beneficial owner and sole holder of record of the Pledged Equity listed on Exhibit  D as being owned by it, free and clear of any liens or security interests except the security interest created by this Agreement, or granted to the First Lien Collateral Agent to secure the Senior Obligations (subject to the provisions in the Intercreditor Agreement) or as disclosed on Schedule 6.1(e) . Such Grantor further represents and warrants that (i) all Pledged Equity owned by it is duly authorized and validly issued and, if such Pledged Equity is stock in a corporation, is fully paid and non-assessable, (ii) with respect to any certificates delivered to the Applicable Agent or a Person designated by the Applicable Agent representing Pledged Equity, either such certificates are Securities as defined in Article 8 of the UCC as a result of actions by the Company or otherwise, or, if such certificates are not Securities, such Grantor has so informed the Collateral Agent and, if the Applicable Agent is the Collateral Agent, such Grantor shall take steps to perfect its security interest therein as a General Intangible, and (iii) no Pledged Equity is held by a securities intermediary in, or carried in or credited to, a Securities Account Control Agreement.

(b) In addition, except for any that have been obtained, as of the Effective Date, no consent, approval, authorization, or other action by, and no giving of notice, filing with, any governmental authority or any other Person is required for the pledge by such Grantor of such Pledged Equity pursuant to this Agreement or for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such Grantor.

(c) Except as set forth in Exhibit  D , as of the Effective Date such Grantor owns 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests in each issuer that has issued Pledged Equity to such Grantor.

5.9. Instruments, Securities and Documents . Exhibit  D lists all Instruments, Securities (other than Pledged Equity) and Documents constituting or evidencing Collateral owned by such Grantor as of the Effective Date, if any, that such Grantor is required to deliver to the Applicable Agent or a Person designated by the Applicable Agent pursuant to Section  6.4 hereof.

5.10. Benefit to the Guarantor . The Company is a member of an affiliated group of companies that includes each Guarantor, and the Company and the Guarantors are engaged in related businesses. The Company is a subsidiary of the Parent and each Guarantor (other than the Parent) is a Subsidiary of the Company and each Guarantor’s guarantee and surety obligations pursuant to this Agreement reasonably may be expected to benefit, directly or indirectly, it; and it has determined that this Agreement is necessary and convenient to the conduct, promotion and attainment of the business of such Guarantor and the Company.

 

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ARTICLE VI

COVENANTS

From the date of this Agreement, and thereafter until Payment in Full of the Company Obligations shall have occurred, each Grantor agrees that:

6.1. General .

(a) Reserved .

(b) Authorization to File Financing Statements; Ratification . Such Grantor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to file financing statements and other documents describing the Collateral as may be necessary in order to perfect the security interests created hereby. Each Grantor hereby agrees to deliver or file such financing statements, and to take such other actions, from time to time, as are necessary, or as reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, in order to maintain the perfection and priority described in Section  5.1 and, if applicable and subject to the limitations herein, Control of, the Collateral owned by such Grantor. Any financing statement filed by the Collateral Agent may be filed in any filing office in any UCC jurisdiction and may (i) describe such Grantor’s Collateral (1) as all assets of the Grantor or words of similar effect, regardless of whether any particular asset comprised in the Collateral falls within the scope of Article 9 of the UCC of such jurisdiction, or (2) by any other description which reasonably approximates the description contained in this Agreement, and (ii) contain any other information required by part 5 of Article 9 of the UCC for the sufficiency or filing office’s acceptance of any financing statement or amendment, including whether such Grantor is an organization, the type of organization and any organization identification number issued to such Grantor. Such Grantor also agrees to furnish any such information to the Collateral Agent promptly upon reasonable request. The grant of authority to the Collateral Agent under this Section 6.1 shall not relieve each Grantor from its obligation of filing or recording financing statements, continuation statements or other documents necessary to perfect or maintain the perfection of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral.

(c) Further Assurances . Such Grantor will, if so reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, furnish to the Collateral Agent, as often as the Collateral Agent reasonably requests, statements and schedules further identifying and describing the Collateral owned by it and such other reports and information in connection with its Collateral as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, all in such detail as the Collateral Agent may reasonably specify. Such Grantor also agrees to take any and all actions necessary to defend title to the Collateral against all persons and to defend, and effectuate and maintain, the security interest of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) in its Collateral and the priority thereof against any lien or security interest not expressly permitted hereunder.

(d) Disposition of Collateral . Such Grantor will not sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the Collateral owned by it in violation of the Indenture or the other Note Documents.

(e) Liens . Such Grantor will not create, incur, or suffer to exist any lien or security interest on the Collateral owned by it except (i) the security interest created by this Agreement, (ii) granted to the First Lien Collateral Agent to secure the Senior Obligations (subject to the provisions in the Intercreditor Agreement) and (iii) other liens or security interests permitted under the Secured Transaction Documents.

 

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(f) Other Financing Statements . Such Grantor will not authorize the filing of any financing statement naming it as debtor covering all or any portion of the Collateral owned by it, except for (i) financing statements naming the Collateral Agent as the secured party, (ii) financing statements with respect to liens or security interests permitted by Section  6.1(e) , (iii) granted to the First Lien Collateral Agent to secure the Senior Obligations (subject to the provisions in the Intercreditor Agreement) and (iv) financing statements filed as a precaution to describe personal property leased to a Grantor. Such Grantor acknowledges that it is not authorized to file any financing statement or amendment or termination statement with respect to any financing statement naming the Collateral Agent as secured party without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent, subject to such Grantor’s rights under Section 9-509(d)(2) of the UCC; provided, however, that nothing in this subsection 6.1(f) shall relieve each Grantor of its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or under any other Note Document to perfect and maintain the perfection and priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral.

6.2. Electronic Chattel Paper . Such Grantor shall take all steps necessary to grant the Applicable Agent Control of such Grantor’s electronic chattel paper in accordance with the UCC and all “transferable records” as defined in each of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act to the extent necessary to ensure that the aggregate value of all electronic chattel paper of all Grantors for which Control has not been granted to the Applicable Agent does not exceed $1,000,000.

6.3. Inventory and Equipment . Each Grantor will perform its obligations with respect to Inventory and Equipment under Section 8.06 of each of the Revolving Credit Agreement and Term Loan Agreement and under any deed of trust or mortgage that it grants to the Collateral Agent.

6.4. Delivery of Instruments, Certificated Securities, Chattel Paper and Documents. Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, such Grantor will (a) deliver to the Applicable Agent, (i) immediately upon the Effective Date, the originals of all certificated Securities (together with stock or securities powers duly indorsed in blank by an effective indorsement), (ii) within 30 days after the Effective Date (or such later date as the Applicable Agent may agree in its sole discretion) deliver to the Applicable Agent the originals of all Instruments (together with note powers or other instruments of transfer duly indorsed in blank by an effective indorsement) and all tangible Chattel Paper, in each case, constituting Collateral owned by it on the Effective Date, and (iii) thereafter, deliver to the Applicable Agent any such tangible Chattel Paper and Instruments (together with note powers or other instruments of transfer duly indorsed in blank by an effective indorsement) constituting Collateral, in each case, to the extent necessary to ensure that the aggregate value of all Chattel Paper and other Instruments constituting Collateral and owned by the Grantors for which the originals have not been delivered to the Applicable Agent does not exceed $1,000,000, (b) deliver to the Applicable Agent any tangible negotiable Document evidencing or constituting Collateral to the extent necessary to ensure that the aggregate value of all Documents constituting Collateral and owned by the Grantors for which the Documents have not been delivered to the Applicable Agent does not exceed $1,000,000, (c) with respect to any Subsidiary of such Grantor that becomes a Subsidiary after the Effective Date, deliver to the Applicable Agent within fifteen Business Days (or such later date as the Applicable Agent may agree in its sole discretion) after the formation or acquisition of such Subsidiary, the certificates representing the Pledged Equity issued by such Subsidiary (if such Pledged Equity constitutes certificated securities under the UCC) together with stock or securities powers duly indorsed in blank by an effective indorsement, (d) following the Effective Date, upon receipt thereof, deliver to the Applicable Agent any certificated Securities constituting Collateral (other than certificated Securities of Subsidiaries described in clause (c) immediately above), together with stock or securities powers duly indorsed in blank by effective indorsement, to the extent necessary to ensure that the aggregate value of all certificated Securities described in this clause (d) constituting Collateral and owned by the Grantors for which originals have not been delivered to the Applicable Agent does not exceed $1,000,000,

 

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and (e) deliver to the Applicable Agent a duly executed amendment to this Agreement (an “ Amendment ”), substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto, pursuant to which such Grantor will identify and ratify the pledge of such additional Collateral. Such Grantor hereby authorizes the Applicable Agent to attach each Amendment to this Agreement and agrees that all additional Collateral owned by it set forth in such Amendments shall be considered to be part of the Collateral.

6.5. Uncertificated Collateral Equity Interests . If as of the Effective Date, any Collateral Equity Interest constitutes an uncertificated security (within the meaning of Article 8 of the UCC), such Grantor thereof, pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, shall within 30 days following the Effective Date (or such later date as the Applicable Agent may agree in its sole discretion), cause the issuer thereof to enter into a control agreement with such Grantor and the Applicable Agent wherein such issuer agrees to comply with instructions with respect to such Collateral Equity Interest originated by the Applicable Agent without further consent of such Grantor or any other Person, such agreement to be in form satisfactory to the Applicable Agent and sufficient to cause the Applicable Agent’s security interest in such Collateral Equity Interest to be perfected by control within the meaning of Article 8 of the UCC (it being agreed that any agreement requiring the Collateral Agent in its individual capacity to indemnify the issuer shall not be satisfactory to the Collateral Agent). If, after the Effective Date, any Grantor acquires any Collateral Equity Interest constituting an uncertificated security, such Grantor shall cause the issuer thereof, within 30 days (or such later date as the Applicable Agent may agree in its sole discretion) to enter into a control agreement as described in the preceding sentence with respect to such uncertificated Collateral Equity Interest (and making the agreements described in the preceding sentence), such agreement to be in form satisfactory to the Applicable Agent and sufficient to cause the Applicable Agent’s security interest in such Collateral Equity Interests to be perfected by control within the meaning of Article 8 of the UCC (it being agreed that any agreement requiring the Collateral Agent in its individual capacity to indemnify the issuer shall not be satisfactory to the Collateral Agent).

6.6. Collateral Equity Interests .

(a) Registration of Collateral Equity Interests . After an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such Grantor will permit any registerable Collateral Equity Interest owned by it to be registered in the name of the Applicable Agent or its nominee at any time at the option of the Applicable Agent.

(b) Exercise of Rights in Collateral Equity Interests .

(i) Subject to clause  (ii) below, such Grantor shall have the right to exercise all voting rights or other rights relating to the Collateral Equity Interest owned by it for all purposes not inconsistent with this Agreement, the Indenture or any other Secured Transaction Document; provided however , that no vote or other right shall be exercised or action taken which would have the effect of impairing the rights of the Applicable Agent in respect of such Collateral Equity Interest.

(ii) Such Grantor will permit the Applicable Agent or its nominee at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default to exercise, and such Grantor hereby grants the Applicable Agent during the continuance of an Event of Default the exclusive right to exercise, all voting rights or other rights relating to the Collateral Equity Interest owned by such Grantor, including, without limitation, exchange, subscription or any other rights, privileges, or options pertaining to any Equity Interest or Investment Property constituting such Collateral Equity Interest as if it were the absolute owner thereof.

 

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(iii) Such Grantor shall be entitled to collect and receive for its own use all cash dividends and interest paid in respect of the Collateral Equity Interest owned by it to the extent not in violation of the Indenture; provided that, to the extent, if any, that any Collateral Equity Interest is issued by a Person other than a Note Party, the following distributions and payments (collectively referred to as the “ Excluded Payments ”) shall be delivered to the Applicable Agent as and to the extent required in the following subsection (iv): (A) dividends and interest paid or payable other than in cash in respect of such Collateral Equity Interest, and instruments and other property received, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, or in exchange for, any such Collateral Equity Interest; (B) dividends and other distributions paid or payable in cash in respect of such Collateral Equity Interest in connection with a partial or total liquidation or dissolution or in connection with a reduction of capital, capital surplus or paid-in capital of an issuer; and (C) cash paid, payable or otherwise distributed, in respect of principal of, or in redemption of, or in exchange for, such Collateral Equity Interest; provided however , that until actually paid, all rights to such distributions shall remain subject to the liens and security interests created by this Agreement; and

(iv) All Excluded Payments, whenever paid or made, shall be delivered to the Applicable Agent to hold as Pledged Equity and shall, if received by such Grantor, be received in trust for the benefit of the Applicable Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties), be segregated from the other property or funds of such Grantor, and be forthwith delivered to the Agent as Pledged Equity in the same form as so received (with any necessary indorsement).

(c) Securities; Partnership and Limited Liability Company Interests . Each Grantor agrees that:

(i) with respect to any Collateral Equity Interest owned by it that constitutes a security under Article 8 of the UCC (including any such interest in any limited partnership or limited liability company), such Grantor shall not, without the Collateral Agent’s prior consent, cause or (to the extent such Grantor controls the issuer of such Collateral Equity Interest) allow such Collateral Equity Interest to cease to constitute a security under Article 8 of the UCC;

(ii) with respect to any Collateral Equity Interest that constitutes a “certificated security” under Article 8 of the UCC (including any such interest in a limited partnership or limited liability company), such Grantor will not, without the Collateral Agent’s prior consent, cause or (to the extent such Grantor controls the issuer of such Collateral Equity Interest) allow such Collateral Equity Interests to become an “uncertificated security” within the meaning of Article 8 of the UCC;

(iii) with respect to any Collateral Equity Interest that constitutes an “uncertificated security” under Article 8 of the UCC (including any such interest in a limited partnership or limited liability company), such Grantor will not, without the Collateral Agent’s prior consent, cause or (to the extent such Grantor controls the issuer of such Collateral Equity Interests) allow such Collateral Equity Interest to become a “certificated security” within the meaning of the UCC;

(iv) with respect to any Collateral Equity Interest owned by it that constitutes an interest in a limited partnership or limited liability company that is not a security (within the meaning of Article 8 of the UCC) such Grantor shall not, without the Collateral Agent’s prior consent, cause or (to the extent such Grantor controls the issuer of such Collateral Equity Interest) allow the issuer of such Collateral Equity Interest to elect or otherwise take any action that would cause such Collateral Equity Interest to constitute a security for purposes of Article 8 of the UCC; and

(v) with respect to any Pledged Equity owned by it such Grantor will not, without the Collateral Agent’s prior consent, allow or cause such Pledged Equity to be deposited in, carried in or credited to a Securities Account.

 

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6.7. Commercial Tort Claims . Such Grantor shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent of any commercial tort claim (as defined in the UCC) acquired by it that is the subject of pending litigation and that could reasonably be expected to result in a judgment or settlement in such Grantor’s favor in excess of $1,000,000 and such Grantor shall enter into an Amendment substantially in the form of Exhibit  F hereto, granting to the Collateral Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties) a second priority security interest, junior only to the lien granted to secure the Senior Obligations, in such Commercial Tort Claim.

6.8. Letter-of-Credit Rights . If such Grantor is or becomes the beneficiary of a letter of credit with a face amount in excess of $1,000,000, it shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and shall make reasonable commercial efforts to cause the issuer and/or confirmation bank to (a) consent to the assignment of the related Letter-of-Credit Rights to the Applicable Agent and (b) agree to direct all payments thereunder to a Deposit Account subject to a Deposit Account Control Agreement, all in form satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.

6.9. Control Agreements . Within the time period set forth in Section 11.2(c) of the Indenture, for each Deposit Account, Securities Account and Commodity Account (other than Excluded Accounts) that such Grantor at any time maintains, such Grantor will cause (or, at any time prior to the Discharge of Senior Obligations, while and to the extent an agreement granting “control” to the First Lien Collateral Agent over any such Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account is in effect, will make commercially reasonable efforts to cause) at all times, pursuant to a Control Agreement in form satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, the depository bank that maintains such Deposit Account, the securities intermediary that maintains such Securities Account, or the commodities intermediary that maintains such Commodity Account, as applicable, to agree to comply at any time (a) with entitlement orders from the Collateral Agent to such securities intermediary with regard to a Securities Account, (b) with instructions from the Collateral Agent to such depository bank, directing the disposition of funds from time to time in such Deposit Account, and (c) with directions of the Collateral Agent to such commodity intermediary for the application of value on account of commodity contracts carried in such Commodity Account, in each case without further consent of such Grantor and sufficient to grant the Collateral Agent with “control” within the meaning of Section 8-106 of the UCC, Section 9-104 of the UCC and Section 9-106 of the UCC, as applicable, and Grantor shall take such other action as is necessary, or as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, in order to perfect the Collateral Agent’s (on behalf of the Secured Parties) security interest in such Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account, including by control as aforesaid; provided that, such Grantor shall not cause or permit any Excluded Account to cease to constitute an “Excluded Account” (other than as a result of the closing of such Excluded Account) unless such Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account, as applicable, is subject to a Control Agreement in favor of the Collateral Agent in form satisfactory to the Collateral Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing or the terms of any Control Agreement, unless an Event of Default is continuing the Collateral Agent will not enforce the terms of any Control Agreement in order to take possession of, or prevent or limit the ability of any Grantor to direct the disposition of, the funds and other assets held in any Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account. The Company agrees to provide to the Collateral Agent each notice that the Company provides to the First Lien Collateral Agent (at the time such notice is provided to the Revolving Administrative Agent) regarding the opening of a Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodity Account (other than an Excluded Account). Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that, if at any time the Senior Obligations are outstanding, (i) if a Control Agreement for a Deposit Account that would otherwise be subject to this Section 6.9 is reasonably acceptable to the First Lien Collateral Agent then it shall be deemed to be acceptable the Collateral Agent for purposes of complying with this Section 6.9 and (ii) if the Grantors shall have delivered a Control Agreement to the First Lien Collateral Agent for a Deposit Account that would otherwise be subject to this Section 6.9, the form of the Control Agreement (subject to customary modification to reflect the Applicable Agent’s interest in such Deposit Accounts) delivered to the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be deemed acceptable to the

 

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Collateral Agent for purposes of complying with this Section 6.9; provided, however, that no Control Agreement shall be deemed to be acceptable to the Collateral Agent if it requires the Collateral Agent in its individual capacity to indemnify the commodity intermediary, banking institution or securities intermediary (as applicable).

6.10. Change of Name or Location; etc . Such Grantor shall ensure that the Company, promptly, but in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the occurrence thereof, gives written notice to the Collateral Agent of any change in (i) the Company’s or any Guarantor’s corporate name, (ii) the jurisdiction in which the Company or any Guarantor is incorporated, formed, or otherwise organized, (iii) the location of the Company’s or any Guarantor’s chief executive office, (iv) the Company’s or any Guarantor’s identity or corporate, limited liability or partnership structure, or (v) the Company’s or any Guarantor’s organizational identification number in such jurisdiction of organization or federal taxpayer identification number.

6.11. Additional Grantors . Each Grantor agrees to cause each of its Subsidiaries that is required to become a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 3.11 of the Indenture to become a Grantor for all purposes of this Agreement by executing and delivering an Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of Annex  1 hereto.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in respect of any delivery of any document or the taking of any other action required to be taken by a Grantor hereunder, the required date for such delivery or action may be extended solely with the consent of the Applicable Agent but in no event to a date that is later than 90 days after the initial applicable date by which such delivery or action is required.

ARTICLE VII

EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

7.1. Remedies . During the continuation of an Event of Default:

(a) the Collateral Agent shall be entitled (but not obligated) to exercise any or all of the following rights and remedies to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law:

(i) those rights and remedies provided in this Agreement or any other Secured Transaction Document; provided that, this Section  7.1(a) shall not be understood to limit any rights or remedies available to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties prior to an Event of Default;

(ii) those rights and remedies available to a secured party under the UCC (whether or not the UCC applies to the affected Collateral) or under any other applicable law (including, without limitation, any law governing the exercise of a bank’s right of setoff or bankers’ lien) when a debtor is in default under a security agreement;

(iii) the right to give notice of sole control or any other instruction, directive or entitlement order under any Control Agreement and take any action therein with respect to such Collateral, and the right to indorse and collect any cash proceeds of the Collateral;

(iv) without notice, demand or advertisement of any kind to any Grantor or any other Person (except as specifically provided in Section  10.1 or elsewhere herein or in the UCC), the right to enter the premises of any Grantor where any Collateral is located (through self-help and without judicial process), the right to collect, receive, assemble, process, appropriate, sell, lease, assign, grant an option or

 

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options to purchase or otherwise dispose of, deliver, or realize upon, the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale or sales (which sales may be adjourned or continued from time to time with or without notice and may take place at any Grantor’s premises or elsewhere), for cash, on credit or for future delivery without assumption of any credit risk, and upon such other terms as are commercially reasonable;

(v) concurrently with written notice to the applicable Grantor, the right to transfer and register in its name or in the name of its nominee the whole or any part of the Collateral Equity Interest, and, whether or not such Collateral Equity Interest has been registered in the name of the Applicable Agent or its nominee, the rights to exchange certificates or instruments representing or evidencing Collateral Equity Interests for certificates or instruments of smaller or larger denominations, to exercise the voting and all other rights as a holder with respect thereto, to collect, receive and retain all dividends, Stock Rights and other distributions made thereon and to otherwise act with respect to the Collateral Equity Interests as though the Applicable Agent was the outright owner thereof; and

(vi) the right to discharge past due taxes, assessments, charges, fees or liens or security interests on the Collateral (except for such liens or security interests as are specifically permitted hereunder).

(b) The Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, may comply with any applicable state or federal law requirements in connection with a disposition of the Collateral and compliance will not be considered to adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral.

(c) Upon any such public sale or sales or any such private sale or sales, the Collateral Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation), to the extent permitted by law, to purchase for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, the whole or any part of the Collateral so sold, free of any right of equity redemption, which equity redemption the Grantor hereby expressly releases.

(d) Until the Collateral Agent is able to effect a sale, lease, or other disposition of Collateral, the Collateral Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation), as provided under applicable law, to hold or use Collateral, or any part thereof, to the extent that it deems appropriate for the purpose of preserving or protecting the Collateral or its value, enforcing this Agreement or perfecting and maintaining the perfection and priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral. The Collateral Agent may (but shall not be obligated to), if it so elects, seek the appointment of a receiver or keeper to take possession of Collateral and to enforce any of the Collateral Agent’s remedies (for the benefit of the Collateral Agents and the other Secured Parties), with respect to such appointment.

(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Collateral Agent nor any other Secured Party shall be required to (i) make any demand upon, or pursue or exhaust any of their rights or remedies against, any Grantor, any other obligor, guarantor, pledgor or any other Person with respect to the payment of the Secured Obligations or to pursue or exhaust any of their rights or remedies with respect to any Collateral therefor or any direct or indirect guarantee thereof, (ii) marshal the Collateral or any guarantee of the Secured Obligations or to resort to the Collateral or any such guarantee in any particular order, or (iii) effect a public sale of any Collateral.

(f) Each Grantor recognizes that the Collateral Agent may be unable to effect a public sale of any or all the Collateral Equity Interests and may be compelled to resort to one or more private sales thereof in accordance with clause  (a) above. Each Grantor also acknowledges that any private sale may result in prices and other terms less favorable to the seller than if such sale were a public sale and,

 

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notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that any such private sale shall not be deemed to have been made in a commercially unreasonable manner solely by virtue of such sale being private. The Collateral Agent shall be under no obligation to delay a sale of any of the Pledged Equity for the period of time necessary to permit any Grantor or the issuer of the Collateral Equity Interests to register such securities for public sale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or under applicable state securities laws, even if the applicable Grantor and the issuer would agree to do so.

7.2. Grantor’s Obligations Upon Default . Upon the request of the Collateral Agent during the continuance of an Event of Default and subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, each Grantor will:

(a) assemble and make available to the Collateral Agent the Collateral and all books and records relating thereto at any place or places reasonably specified by the Collateral Agent, whether at a Grantor’s premises or elsewhere; and

(b) permit the Collateral Agent, by the Collateral Agent’s representatives and agents, to enter, occupy and use any premises where all or any part of the Collateral, or the books and records relating thereto, or both, are located, to take possession of all or any part of the Collateral or the books and records relating thereto, or both, to remove all or any part of the Collateral or the books and records relating thereto, or both, and to conduct sales of the Collateral, without any obligation to pay the Grantor for such use and occupancy.

7.3. Grant of Intellectual Property License . For the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent to exercise the rights and remedies under this Article  VII at such time as the Collateral Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, each Grantor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to any Grantor) to use, license or sublicense, during the continuance of an Event of Default, any intellectual property rights now owned or hereafter acquired by such Grantor, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such license access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof.

ARTICLE VIII

ACCOUNT VERIFICATION; ATTORNEY IN FACT; PROXY

8.1. Account Verification and Collection . During the continuation of an Event of Default, the Collateral Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) at any time at the Grantors’ expense to (a) verify the validity, amount or any other material information relating to any Accounts, including verification with the relevant Account Debtors, and (b) enforce collection of any such Accounts and to adjust, settle or compromise the amount of payment thereof, in each case to the full extent permitted by applicable law.

8.2. Authorization for Secured Party to Take Certain Action .

(a) Each Grantor irrevocably authorizes the Collateral Agent at any time and from time to time and appoints the Collateral Agent as its attorney in fact to do all acts and things necessary or desirable in the Collateral Agent’s sole discretion to preserve and protect the Collateral and perfect and maintain the perfection and priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral; provided that, this authorization shall not relieve such Grantor of any of its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or under any other Note Document.

 

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(b) All acts of said attorney or designee are hereby ratified and approved. The powers conferred on the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and other Secured Parties, under this Section  8.2 are solely to protect the Collateral Agent’s interests in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to exercise any such powers. The Collateral Agent agrees that it shall not exercise any power or authority granted to it under this Section  8.2 unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

8.3. Proxy . EACH GRANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY CONSTITUTES AND APPOINTS THE COLLATERAL AGENT AS ITS PROXY AND ATTORNEY-IN-FACT TO TAKE THOSE ACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO ITS PLEDGED EQUITY THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN SECTION  6.6(b)(ii) , INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO VOTE SUCH PLEDGED EQUITY, WITH FULL POWER OF SUBSTITUTION TO DO SO. IN ADDITION TO THE RIGHT TO VOTE ANY SUCH PLEDGED EQUITY, THE APPOINTMENT OF THE COLLATERAL AGENT AS PROXY AND ATTORNEY-IN-FACT SHALL INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE ALL OTHER RIGHTS, POWERS, PRIVILEGES AND REMEDIES TO WHICH A HOLDER OF SUCH PLEDGED EQUITY WOULD BE ENTITLED (INCLUDING GIVING OR WITHHOLDING WRITTEN CONSENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS, CALLING SPECIAL MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS AND VOTING AT SUCH MEETINGS). SUCH PROXY SHALL BE EFFECTIVE, AUTOMATICALLY AND WITHOUT THE NECESSITY OF ANY ACTION (INCLUDING ANY TRANSFER OF ANY SUCH PLEDGED EQUITY ON THE RECORD BOOKS OF THE COMPANY THEREOF) BY ANY PERSON (INCLUDING THE COMPANY OF SUCH PLEDGED EQUITY OR ANY OFFICER OR AGENT THEREOF). NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE COLLATERAL AGENT MAY EXERCISE THE RIGHTS AND POWERS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION  8.3 ONLY DURING THE CONTINUANCE OF AN EVENT OF DEFAULT.

8.4. Nature of Appointment; Limitation of Duty . THE APPOINTMENT OF THE COLLATERAL AGENT AS PROXY AND ATTORNEY-IN-FACT IN THIS ARTICLE  VIII IS COUPLED WITH AN INTEREST AND SHALL BE IRREVOCABLE UNTIL THE DATE ON WHICH THIS AGREEMENT IS TERMINATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION  10.13 . NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING CONTAINED HEREIN, NEITHER THE COLLATERAL AGENT, NOR ANY SECURED PARTY, NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES SHALL HAVE ANY DUTY TO EXERCISE ANY RIGHT OR POWER GRANTED HEREUNDER OR OTHERWISE OR TO PRESERVE THE SAME AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE TO DO SO OR FOR ANY DELAY IN DOING SO, EXCEPT IN RESPECT OF DAMAGES ATTRIBUTABLE SOLELY TO THEIR OWN GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT AS FINALLY DETERMINED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION; PROVIDED THAT, IN NO EVENT SHALL THEY BE LIABLE FOR ANY PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

ARTICLE IX

COLLECTION AND APPLICATION OF RECEIVABLES AND OTHER COLLATERAL PROCEEDS

9.1. Collection and Application of Receivables and Other Collateral Proceeds . The Collateral Agent hereby authorizes each Grantor to collect such Grantor’s Receivables, and the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) curtail or terminate said authority at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default (but not at any other time). If required by the Collateral Agent at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, any Proceeds constituting collections of such Receivables, when collected by such Grantor, (a) shall be forthwith (and, in any event, within two (2) Business Days) be deposited by such Grantor in the exact form received, duly indorsed by

 

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such Grantor to the Collateral Agent if required, in a Collateral Account maintained under the sole dominion and control of the Collateral Agent, subject to withdrawal by the Collateral Agent for the account of the Secured Parties only as provided below in this Section, and (b) until so turned over, shall be held by such Grantor in trust for the Secured Parties, segregated from other funds of such Grantor. Each such deposit of Proceeds of Receivables shall be accompanied by a report identifying in reasonable detail the nature and source of the payments included in the deposit. All Proceeds constituting collections of Receivables while held by the Collateral Account bank (or by any Grantor in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties) shall continue to be collateral security for the Secured Obligations of the applicable Grantor and shall not constitute payment thereof until applied as hereinafter provided. At any time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, at the Collateral Agent’s election, the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) apply all or any part of the funds on deposit in the Collateral Account established by the relevant Grantor to the payment of the Secured Obligations of such Grantor then due and owing, such application to be made as set forth below in this Section. In addition to the rights of the Secured Parties specified above with respect to payments of Receivables, if an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, all Proceeds of Collateral received by any Grantor consisting of cash, checks and other near cash items shall be held by such Grantor in trust for the Secured Parties segregated from other funds of such Grantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Grantor, be turned over to the Collateral Agent in the exact form received by such Grantor (duly indorsed by such Grantor to the Collateral Agent, if required). All Proceeds received by the Collateral Agent hereunder shall be held by the Collateral Agent in a Collateral Account maintained under its sole dominion and control. All Proceeds while held by the Collateral Agent in a Collateral Account (or by such Grantor in trust for the Secured Parties) shall continue to be held as collateral security for all the Secured Obligations and shall not constitute payment thereof until applied as provided below in this Section. At any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, at the Collateral Agent’s election, the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) apply all or any part of Proceeds of any Grantor held in any Collateral Account in payment of the Secured Obligations of such Grantor in such order as the Collateral Agent may elect in compliance with the Secured Transaction Documents, and any part of such funds which the Collateral Agent elects not so to apply and deems not required as collateral security for such Secured Obligations shall be paid over from time to time by the Collateral Agent to the Company or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same. Any balance of such Proceeds remaining after the Secured Obligations shall have been paid in full shall be paid over to the Company or to whomsoever may be lawfully entitled to receive the same.

ARTICLE X

GENERAL PROVISIONS

10.1. Waivers . As provided in Section 9-612 of the UCC adopted in the State of New York, any notice of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale or other disposition of all or any part of the Collateral may be made shall be deemed sent within a reasonable time if sent to the Grantors, addressed as set forth in Article  XI , after the occurrence of an Event of Default and at least ten days prior to (a) the date of any such public sale or (b) the time after which any such private sale or other disposition may be made. To the extent it may lawfully do so, each Grantor absolutely and irrevocably waives and relinquishes the benefit and advantage of, and covenants not to assert against the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party, any valuation, stay, appraisal, extension, moratorium, redemption or similar laws and any and all rights or defenses it may have as a surety now or hereafter existing which, but for this provision, might be applicable to the sale of any Collateral made under the judgment, order or decree of any court, or under the power of sale conferred by this Agreement, or applicable law. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, each Grantor hereby waives presentment, demand, protest or any notice (to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law) of any kind in connection with this Agreement or any Collateral.

 

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10.2. Limitation on Collateral Agent’s and any Secured Party’s Duty with Respect to the Collateral . The Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to clean-up or otherwise prepare the Collateral for sale. The Collateral Agent and each other Secured Party shall use reasonable care with respect to the Collateral in its possession or under its control. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any other Secured Party shall have any other duty as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or nominee of the Collateral Agent or such other Secured Party, or any income thereon or as to the preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto.

10.3. Compromises and Collection of Collateral . The Grantors and the Collateral Agent recognize that setoffs, counterclaims, defenses and other claims may be asserted by obligors with respect to certain of the Receivables, that certain of the Receivables may be or become uncollectible in whole or in part and that the expense and probability of success in litigating a disputed Receivable may exceed the amount that reasonably may be expected to be recovered with respect to a Receivable. In view of the foregoing, each Grantor agrees that the Collateral Agent may at any time and from time to time, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, compromise with the obligor on any Receivable, accept in full payment of any Receivable such amount as the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion shall determine or abandon any Receivable, and any such action by the Collateral Agent shall be commercially reasonable so long as the Collateral Agent acts in good faith based on information known to it at the time it takes any such action.

10.4. Secured Party Performance of Debtor Obligations . Without having any obligation to do so, the Collateral Agent may during the continuance of an Event of Default perform or pay any obligation which any Grantor has agreed to perform or pay in this Agreement and the Grantors shall reimburse the Collateral Agent for any amounts paid by the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Section  10.4 . The Grantors’ obligation to reimburse the Collateral Agent pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be included in the Secured Obligations and payable on demand.

10.5. Specific Performance of Certain Covenants . Each Grantor acknowledges and agrees that a breach of any of the covenants contained herein will cause irreparable injury to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, that the Collateral Agent and other Secured Parties have no adequate remedy at law in respect of such breaches and therefore agrees that the covenants of the Grantors contained herein shall be specifically enforceable against the Grantors.

10.6. No Waiver; Amendments; Cumulative Remedies . No delay or omission of the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party to exercise any right or remedy granted under this Agreement or under any other Secured Transaction Document shall impair such right or remedy or be construed to be a waiver of any default thereunder or an acquiescence therein, and any single or partial exercise of any such right or remedy shall not preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or remedy. No waiver, amendment or other variation of the terms, conditions or provisions of this Agreement whatsoever (other than any Amendment or Assumption Agreement) shall be valid unless in writing signed by the Collateral Agent and then only to the extent in such writing specifically set forth. In addition, all such waivers or amendments shall be effective only if authorized pursuant to the applicable provisions under the Indenture, the other Note Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement. All rights and remedies contained in this Agreement or by law afforded shall be cumulative and all shall be available to the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties until the termination of this Agreement in accordance with its terms.

 

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10.7. Limitation by Law; Severability of Provisions . All rights, remedies and powers provided in this Agreement may be exercised only to the extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable provision of law, and all the provisions of this Agreement are intended to be subject to all applicable mandatory provisions of law that may be controlling and to be limited to the extent necessary so that they shall not render this Agreement invalid, unenforceable or not entitled to be recorded or registered, in whole or in part. Any provision in this Agreement that is held to be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid in any jurisdiction shall, as to that jurisdiction, be inoperative, unenforceable, or invalid without affecting the remaining provisions in that jurisdiction or the operation, enforceability, or validity of that provision in any other jurisdiction, and to this end the provisions of this Agreement are declared to be severable.

10.8. Reinstatement . This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or against any Grantor for liquidation or reorganization, should any Grantor become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of any creditor or creditors or should a receiver or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of any Grantor’s assets, and shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, or any part thereof, is, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee of the Secured Obligations, whether as a “voidable preference,” “fraudulent conveyance,” or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made. In the event that any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Secured Obligations shall be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.

10.9. Benefit of Agreement . The terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Grantors, the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties and their respective successors and assigns (including all persons who become bound as a debtor to this Agreement), except that no Grantor shall have the right to assign its rights or delegate its obligations under this Agreement or any interest herein, without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent. No sales of participations, assignments, transfers, or other dispositions of any agreement governing the Secured Obligations or any portion thereof or interest therein shall in any manner impair the lien and security interest granted to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties, hereunder.

10.10. Survival of Representations . All representations and warranties of the Grantors contained in this Agreement shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

10.11. Taxes and Expenses . In addition to, but not in qualification or limitation of, any similar obligations under other Secured Transaction Documents, any taxes payable or ruled payable by Federal or State authority in respect of this Agreement shall be paid by the Grantors, together with interest and penalties, if any, upon and pursuant to the terms set forth in Section 2.18 of the Indenture. The Grantors shall reimburse the Collateral Agent for any and all out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys’, auditors’ and accountants’ fees) paid or incurred by the Collateral Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, collection and enforcement of this Agreement, in each case upon and pursuant to the terms set forth in Section 2.18 of the Indenture. Any and all costs and expenses incurred by the Grantors in the performance of actions required pursuant to the terms hereof shall be borne solely by the Grantors.

10.12. Headings . The title of and section headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, and shall not govern the interpretation of any of the terms and provisions of this Agreement.

10.13. Termination . This Agreement shall continue in effect (notwithstanding the fact that from time to time there may be no Secured Obligations outstanding) until all of the events described in the last sentence of Section  2.1(d) hereof have occurred.

 

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10.14. Entire Agreement . This Agreement and the other Secured Transaction Documents embody the entire agreement and understanding between the Grantors and the Collateral Agent relating to the Collateral and supersede all prior agreements and understandings between the Grantors and the Collateral Agent relating to the Collateral.

10.15. CHOICE OF LAW . THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

10.16. CONSENT TO JURISDICTION . EACH GRANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF ANY UNITED STATES FEDERAL OR NEW YORK STATE COURT, IN EITHER CASE, SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY, NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER NOTE DOCUMENT AND EACH GRANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN ANY SUCH COURT AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE AS TO THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN SUCH A COURT OR THAT SUCH COURT IS AN INCONVENIENT FORUM. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL LIMIT THE RIGHT OF THE COLLATERAL AGENT OR ANY SECURED PARTY OR GRANTOR TO BRING PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

10.17. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL . EACH GRANTOR, THE COLLATERAL AGENT AND EACH OTHER SECURED PARTY HEREBY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY JUDICIAL PROCEEDING INVOLVING, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ANY MATTER (WHETHER SOUNDING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) IN ANY WAY ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO, OR CONNECTED WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER NOTE DOCUMENT OR THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED THEREUNDER.

10.18. Indemnity . Sections 7.7 and 11.10 (j) of the Indenture is hereby incorporated by reference mutatis mutandis , as if stated verbatim herein as agreements and obligations of each Grantor.

10.19. Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one agreement, and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic transmission (e.g. .pdf) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

10.20. Concerning the Collateral Agent . Wilmington Trust, National Association is entering into this Agreement solely in its capacity as Collateral Agent under the Indenture and not in its individual capacity. In acting hereunder, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to all of the rights, privileges and immunities set forth in the Indenture as if such rights, privileges and immunities were set forth herein.

ARTICLE XI

NOTICES

11.1. Notices Generally . All notices and other communications provided for herein shall be given in a manner and subject to the terms of Section 12.2 of the Indenture; provided that any such notice, request or demand to or upon any Grantor shall be addressed to such Grantor at its notice address set forth on Exhibit A .

 

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11.2. Effectiveness of Facsimile Documents and Signatures . This Agreement may be transmitted and/or signed by facsimile to the recipient’s facsimile number set forth on Exhibit A hereto. The effectiveness of this Agreement and signatures shall, subject to applicable law, have the same force and effect as manually signed originals and shall be binding on parties hereto. The Collateral Agent may also require that any such documents and signatures be confirmed by a manually signed original thereof; provided, however, that the failure to request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness of any facsimile document or signature.

11.3. Change of Address, Etc . Any party hereto may change its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.

11.4. Reliance by Collateral Agent . The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices purportedly given by any Grantor even if (a) 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 (b) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. Company shall indemnify the Collateral Agent from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by the Collateral Agent on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of the Grantors. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Collateral Agent may be recorded by the Collateral Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.

11.5. Change in Address for Notices . Each of the Grantors and the Collateral Agent may change the address for service of notice upon it by a notice in writing to the other parties.

ARTICLE XII

THE INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

12.1. Intercreditor Agreement . Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the liens and security interests granted to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement are expressly subject and subordinate to the liens and security interest granted in favor of the Senior Secured Parties (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement referred to below), including liens and security interests granted to Bank of Montreal, as collateral agent (or permitted successor collateral agent), pursuant to or in connection with (1) the Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the Bank of Montreal, as Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2017 and that Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2018, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and (2) the Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, Barclays Bank PLC, Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and (ii) the exercise of any right or remedy by the Collateral Agent hereunder is subject to the limitations and provisions of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement dated as of December 21, 2018 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Intercreditor Agreement ”), among Bank of Montreal, as First Lien Collateral Agent, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor and the Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor from time to time party thereto and affiliated and other entities from time to time party thereto. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern.

 

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ARTICLE XIII

CONSENT TO PLEDGED EQUITY

13.1. Consent of Issuer . Each Grantor, in its respective capacity as an issuer of Pledged Equity (in such capacity, an “ Issuer ”), hereby (a) consents to the grant by each other Grantor to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, of a security interest in and lien on all of the Pledged Equity, (b) represents to the Collateral Agent that it has no rights of setoff or other claims against any of the Pledged Equity, (c) acknowledges and agrees that it shall, upon demand by the Collateral Agent, pay to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, any dividends and distributions due to any Grantor in accordance with the terms hereof, and (d) consents to the transfer of such Pledged Equity to the Collateral Agent or its nominee following an Event of Default and to the substitution of the Collateral Agent or its nominee as a partner in any partnership or as a member in any limited liability company with all the rights and powers related thereto.

13.2. Compliance by Issuer . Each Grantor hereby authorizes and instructs each Issuer to comply with any instruction received by it from the Collateral Agent in writing that (a) states that an Event of Default has occurred and (b) is otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without any other or further instructions from such Grantor.

ARTICLE XIV

SUBORDINATION OF INDEBTEDNESS

14.1. Subordination of All Grantor Claims . As used herein, the term “ Grantor Claims ” means all debts and obligations of the Company or any other Grantor to any Grantor, whether such debts and obligations now exist or are hereafter incurred or arise, or whether the obligation of the debtor thereon be direct, contingent, primary, secondary, several, joint and several, or otherwise, and irrespective of whether such debts or obligations be evidenced by note, contract, open account, or otherwise, and irrespective of the Person or Persons in whose favor such debts or obligations may, at their inception, have been, or may hereafter be created, or the manner in which they have been or may hereafter be acquired by. After and during the continuation of an Event of Default, upon the written direction of the Collateral Agent, no Grantor shall receive or collect, directly or indirectly, from any obligor in respect thereof any amount upon the Grantor Claims.

14.2. Claims in Bankruptcy . In the event of receivership, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, debtor’s relief or other insolvency proceedings involving any Grantor, the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties shall have the right to prove their claim in any proceeding, so as to establish their rights hereunder and receive directly from the receiver, trustee or other court custodian, dividends and payments which would otherwise be payable upon Grantor Claims. Each Grantor hereby assigns such dividends and payments to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties for application against the Company Obligations as provided under Section 4.01 of the Intercreditor Agreement. Should the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party receive, for application upon the Secured Obligations, any such dividend or payment which is otherwise payable to any Grantor, and which, as between such Grantor, shall constitute a credit upon the Grantor Claims, then upon payment in full of the Secured Obligations, the intended recipient shall become subrogated to the rights of the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties to the extent that such payments to the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties on the Grantor Claims have contributed toward the liquidation of the Secured Obligations, and such subrogation shall be with respect to that proportion of the Secured Obligations which would have been unpaid if the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties had not received dividends or payments upon the Grantor Claims.

 

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14.3. Payments Held in Trust . In the event that notwithstanding Section  14.1 and Section  14.2 , any Grantor should receive any funds, payments, claims or distributions which is prohibited by such Sections, then it agrees: (a) to hold in trust for the Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties an amount equal to the amount of all funds, payments, claims or distributions so received, and (b) that it shall have absolutely no dominion over the amount of such funds, payments, claims or distributions except to pay them promptly to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties; and each Grantor covenants promptly to pay the same to the Collateral Agent.

14.4. Liens Subordinate . Each Grantor agrees that, until Payment in Full of the Company Obligations shall have occurred, any liens or security interests securing payment of the Grantor Claims shall be and remain inferior and subordinate to any liens or security interests securing payment of the Secured Obligations, regardless of whether such encumbrances in favor of such Grantor, the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party presently exist or are hereafter created or attach. Until Payment in Full of the Company Obligations shall have occurred, no Grantor shall, without the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent, (a) exercise or enforce any creditor’s right it may have against any debtor in respect of the Grantor Claims, or (b) foreclose, repossess, sequester or otherwise take steps or institute any action or proceeding (judicial or otherwise, including without limitation the commencement of or joinder in any liquidation, bankruptcy, rearrangement, debtor’s relief or insolvency proceeding) to enforce any lien or security interest held by it.

14.5. Notation of Records . Upon the request of the Collateral Agent, all promissory notes and all accounts receivable ledgers or other evidence of the Grantor Claims accepted by or held by any Grantor shall contain a specific written notice thereon that the indebtedness evidenced thereby is subordinated under the terms of this Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Grantors and the Collateral Agent have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

GRANTORS:   ULTRA RESOURCES, INC. , a Delaware corporation
  UP ENERGY CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation
  KEYSTONE GAS GATHERING, LLC , a Delaware limited liability company
  ULTRA WYOMING, LLC , a Delaware limited liability company
  UPL PINEDALE, LLC , a Delaware limited liability company
  UPL THREE RIVERS HOLDINGS, LLC , a Delaware limited liability company
  ULTRA WYOMING LGS, LLC , a Delaware limited liability company
 

 By:

 

/s/ David W. Honeyfield

 

 Name: 

 

David W. Honeyfield

 

 Title:

 

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

  ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP. , a Yukon corporation
 

 By:

 

/s/ David W. Honeyfield

 

 Name: 

 

David W. Honeyfield

 

 Title:

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

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COLLATERAL AGENT:   

Wilmington Trust, National Association ,

solely in its capacity as Collateral Agent

   By:   /s/ Shawn Goffinet
   Name:   Shawn Goffinet
   Title:   Assistant Vice President

 

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Exhibit 10.4

THIRD AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT

THIS THIRD AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “ Amendment ”) is made as of December 21, 2018, by and among ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”), BANK OF MONTREAL, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “ Administrative Agent ”), and each of the Lenders party hereto.

W I T N E S S E T H :

WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders entered into that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among Ultra Petroleum Corp., a Yukon corporation, UP Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and other parties from time to time party thereto (as amended by that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2017, that certain Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2018, and as further amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Credit Agreement ”), for the purpose and consideration therein expressed, whereby the Lenders became obligated to make loans to the Borrower as therein provided;

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders have agreed, as set forth herein, to amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and in the Credit Agreement, in consideration of the loans which may hereafter be made by Lenders to the Borrower, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS AND REFERENCES

Section 1.1.     Defined Terms . Unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise expressly defined herein, the terms defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the same meanings whenever used in this Amendment. Unless otherwise specified, all section references in this Amendment refer to sections of the Credit Agreement.

ARTICLE II.

AMENDMENTS TO CREDIT AGREEMENT

Section 2.1.     Amendments to Credit Agreement . The Credit Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text ) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined text ) as set forth in the pages of the Credit Agreement attached as Exhibit A hereto.


Section 2.2.     Amendment to Exhibits .

(a)     Exhibit J attached hereto is hereby added to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit J.

(b)     Exhibit K attached hereto is hereby added to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit K.

(c)     Exhibit L attached hereto is hereby added to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit L.

ARTICLE III.

CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVENESS

Section 3.1.     Effective Date . This Amendment shall become effective on the first date on which each of the conditions set forth in this Section  3.1 is satisfied (such date, the “ Third Amendment Effective Date ”):

(a)    the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts of this Amendment duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and the Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders in form, substance and date satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(b)    after giving effect to this Amendment, no Default or Event of Default shall exist under the Credit Agreement or under any other Loan Document;

(c)    each representation and warranty of the Borrower and the Guarantors set forth in the Credit Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Third Amendment Effective Date, except (i) to the extent any such representation and warranty is expressly limited to an earlier date, in which case, on and as of the Third Amendment Effective Date, such representation and warranty shall continue to be true and correct as of such specified earlier date, and (ii) to the extent that any such representation and warranty is expressly qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect, such representation and warranty (as so qualified) shall continue to be true and correct in all respects;

(d)    the Administrative Agent shall have received an opinion by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as counsel to the Credit Parties, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(e)    the Borrower and the Guarantors shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent, as security for the Obligations, Security Instruments covering additional Borrowing Base Properties not already subject to a Lien of the Security Instruments such that after giving effect thereto, the Mortgaged Properties represent at least 95% of the total PV-9 of the Proved Reserves of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by the most recently delivered Reserve Report;

(f)    the Administrative Agent shall have received the First Amendment to the Term Loan Agreement (the “ Term Loan Amendment ”), in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Majority Lenders and duly executed by the Borrower, the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement).


(g)    (i) each of the Second Lien Indenture and the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall be in full force and effect and (ii) the occurrence of (x) the First Amendment Effective Date (as defined in the Term Loan Amendment) and (y) the Initial Exchange Date shall each be a concurrent condition to the Third Amendment Effective Date; and

(h)    the Borrower shall have paid (i) an amendment fee payable to the Administrative Agent for the account of each undersigned Lender who has executed and delivered its signature page to this Amendment on or before 3:00pm eastern time on December 18, 2018 in an amount equal to 25 basis points on each such Lender’s Commitments in effect on the Third Amendment Effective Date and (ii) to the extent invoiced, all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Third Amendment Effective Date, including reasonable and documented fees and expenses of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower under the Credit Agreement.

ARTICLE IV.

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 4.1.     Intercreditor Agreement . The Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders hereby authorize and direct the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to enter into, to the extent contemplated to be entered into pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements. Without limiting any other protections afforded to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent herein, each such Lender hereby consents to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and any successor serving in such capacity and agrees not to assert any claim (including as a result of any conflict of interest) against the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any such successor, arising from the role of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or such successor under the Loan Documents or the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements so long as it is either acting in accordance with the terms of such documents and otherwise has not engaged in gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). In addition, the Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any such successor (i) to execute or to enter into amendments of, amendments and restatements of, waivers or other modifications of the Security Instruments, any such Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements 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 that are junior to the Liens securing the Obligations and incurred as permitted by the Credit Agreement and (ii) to establish certain relative rights as between the holders of the Obligations and the holders of the Debt secured by such Liens that are junior to the Liens securing the Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of any conflict between the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the Credit Agreement as to such relative rights and obligations, the provisions of the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall control.

Section 4.2.     Ratification of Agreements . The Loan Documents, as they may be affected by this Amendment, are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects. The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of Lenders under the Credit Agreement, the Notes, or any other Loan Document nor constitute a waiver of any provision of the Credit Agreement, the Notes or any other Loan Document.


Section 4.3.     Loan Documents . This Amendment is a Loan Document, and all provisions in the Credit Agreement (as they may be affected by this Amendment) pertaining to Loan Documents apply thereto.

Section 4.4.     Governing Law . This Amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

Section 4.5.     Counterparts; Fax . This Amendment 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. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment by facsimile or in electronic (i.e., “pdf” or “tif”) format shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment.

THIS AMENDMENT REPRESENTS THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES HERETO AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN OR AMONG THE PARTIES HERETO.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment is executed as of the date first above written.

 

BANK OF MONTREAL , as Administrative Agent
By:  

/s/ Gumaro Tijerina

  Name: Gumaro Tijerina
  Title:   Managing Director

 

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BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. , as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Gumaro Tijerina

  Name: Gumaro Tijerina
  Title:   Managing Director

 

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GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA , as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Jamie Minieri

  Name: Jamie Minieri
  Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

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HANCOCK WHITNEY BANK , as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Paul U. Mears

  Name: Paul U. Mears
  Title:   Senior Vice President

 

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CAPITAL ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ,

as a Lender

By:   /s/ Robert James
  Name: Robert James
  Title:   Director

 

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FIFTH THIRD BANK , as a Lender
By:   /s/ Justin Bellamy
  Name: Justin Bellamy
  Title:   Director

 

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BARCLAYS BANK PLC , as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Sydney G. Dennis

  Name: Sydney G. Dennis
  Title: Director

 

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CIT BANK, N.A. , as a Lender
By:   /s/ John Feeley
  Name: John Feeley
  Title:   Director

 

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Agreed and acknowledged:
ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., as Borrower
By:  

/s/ David W. Honeyfield

  Name:   David W. Honeyfield
  Title:   Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

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EXHIBIT A TO THIRD AMENDMENT


 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of April 12, 2017,

among

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

and

UP ENERGY CORPORATION,

as Parent Guarantor

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.,

as Borrower,

BANK OF MONTREAL,

as Administrative Agent,

and

The Lenders and Other Parties Party Hereto

 

 

BARCLAYS BANK PLC,

as Syndication Agent

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA,

as Documentation Agent

and

BMO CAPITAL MARKETS CORP.,

BARCLAYS BANK PLC and GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I

 

  DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING MATTERS   

Section 1.01

  Terms Defined Above      1  

Section 1.02

  Certain Defined Terms      1  

Section 1.03

  Types of Loans and Borrowings      34 36  

Section 1.04

  Terms Generally; Rules of Construction      34 36  

Section 1.05

  Accounting Terms and Determinations; GAAP      34 37  

ARTICLE II

 

THE CREDITS

 

Section 2.01

  Commitments      35 37  

Section 2.02

  Loans and Borrowings      35 37  

Section 2.03

  Requests for Borrowings      36 38  

Section 2.04

  Interest Elections      36 39  

Section 2.05

  Funding of Borrowings      37 40  

Section 2.06

  Increase, Reduction and Termination of Total Commitment      38 41  

Section 2.07

  Borrowing Base      41 44  

Section 2.08

  Letters of Credit      46  

ARTICLE III

 

PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST; PREPAYMENTS; FEES

 

Section 3.01

  Repayment of Loans      48 51  

Section 3.02

  Interest      48 51  

Section 3.03

  Alternate Rate of Interest      49 52  

Section 3.04

  Prepayments      52  

Section 3.05

  Fees      51 54  

ARTICLE IV

 

PAYMENTS; PRO RATA TREATMENT; SHARING OF SET-OFFS

 

Section 4.01

  Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs      52 55  

Section 4.02

  Presumption of Payment by the Borrower      53 56  

Section 4.03

  Deductions by the Administrative Agent      53 56  

Section 4.04

  Collection of Proceeds of Production      54 56  

Section 4.05

  Defaulting Lenders      54 57  

ARTICLE V

 

INCREASED COSTS; BREAK FUNDING PAYMENTS; TAXES; ILLEGALITY

 

Section 5.01

  Increased Costs      56 59  

Section 5.02

  Break Funding Payments      57 60  

Section 5.03

  Taxes      60  

Section 5.04

  Mitigation Obligations; Designation of Different Lending Office      61 64  

Section 5.05

  Replacement of Lenders      61 64  

Section 5.06

  Illegality      64  

ARTICLE VI

 

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

Section 6.01

  Effective Date      62 65  

 

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Section 6.02

  Each Credit Event      67  

Section 6.03

  Additional Conditions to Letters of Credit      65 68  
ARTICLE VII

 

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

Section 7.01

  Organization; Powers      68  

Section 7.02

  Authority; Enforceability      68  

Section 7.03

  Approvals; No Conflicts      66 69  

Section 7.04

  Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change      66 69  

Section 7.05

  Litigation      69  

Section 7.06

  Environmental Matters      70  

Section 7.07

  Compliance with the Laws and Agreements; No Defaults      71  

Section 7.08

  Investment Company Act      68 71  

Section 7.09

  Taxes      68 71  

Section 7.10

  ERISA      71  

Section 7.11

  Disclosure; No Material Misstatements      69 72  

Section 7.12

  Insurance      72  

Section 7.13

  Restriction on Liens      72  

Section 7.14

  Subsidiaries      70 73  

Section 7.15

  Location of Business and Offices      70 73  

Section 7.16

  Properties; Titles, Etc      73  

Section 7.17

  Maintenance of Properties      71 74  

Section 7.18

  Gas Imbalances, Prepayments      74  

Section 7.19

  Marketing of Production      74  

Section 7.20

  Swap Agreements and Qualified ECP Counterparty      75  

Section 7.21

  Use of Loans and Letters of Credit      75  

Section 7.22

  Solvency      72 75  

Section 7.23

  Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions      75  

Section 7.24

  EEA Financial Institutions      76  

Section 7.25

  Senior Debt Status      76  

Section 7.26

  Security Instruments      73 76  

Section 7.27

  PATRIOT Act      73 76  
ARTICLE VIII

 

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

 

Section 8.01

  Financial Statements; Other Information      73 76  

Section 8.02

  Notices of Material Events      79  

Section 8.03

  Existence; Conduct of Business      77 80  

Section 8.04

  Payment of Obligations      77 80  

Section 8.05

  Performance of Obligations under Loan Documents      80  

Section 8.06

  Operation and Maintenance of Properties      81  

Section 8.07

  Insurance      78 81  

Section 8.08

  Books and Records; Inspection Rights      81  

Section 8.09

  Compliance with Laws      82  

Section 8.10

  Environmental Matters      82  

Section 8.11

  Further Assurances      83  

Section 8.12

  Reserve Reports      80 83  

Section 8.13

  Title Information      84  

Section 8.14

  Additional Collateral; Additional Guarantors      81 84  

Section 8.15

  Unrestricted Subsidiaries Parent Entities      85  

Section 8.16

  Commodity Exchange Act Keepwell Provisions      86  

 

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Section 8.17

  ERISA Compliance      86  

Section 8.18

  Deposit Accounts; Commodities Accounts and Securities Accounts      86  

Section 8.19

  Post-Effective Date Deliverables      87  

ARTICLE IX

 

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

 

Section 9.01

  Financial Covenants      84 88  

Section 9.02

  Debt      85 88  

Section 9.03

  Liens      86 91  

Section 9.04

  Restricted Payments and Payments in Respect of Certain Debt      86 93  

Section 9.05

  Investments, Loans and Advances      87 93  

Section 9.06

  Nature of Business; International Operations      88 93  

Section 9.07

  [Reserved]      88 93  

Section 9.08

  ERISA Compliance      88 93  

Section 9.09

  Sale or Discount of Notes or Receivables      89 94  

Section 9.10

  Mergers, Etc.      89 94  

Section 9.11

  Sale of Properties and Liquidation of Swap Agreements      89 96  

Section 9.12

  Transactions with Affiliates      90 96  

Section 9.13

  Subsidiaries      91 96  

Section 9.14

  Negative Pledge Agreements; Subsidiary Dividend Restrictions      91 96  

Section 9.15

  Designation and Conversion of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries [Reserved]      91 96  

Section 9.16

  Non-Qualified ECP Counterparties      92 97  

Section 9.17

  Amendments to Senior Modifications to Debt Documents      92 97  

Section 9.18

  Swap Agreements      92 98  

ARTICLE X

 

EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES

 

Section 10.01

  Events of Default      94 99  

Section 10.02

  Remedies      95 101  

ARTICLE XI

 

THE AGENTS

 

Section 11.01

  Appointment; Powers      96 102  

Section 11.02

  Duties and Obligations of Administrative Agent      96 102  

Section 11.03

  Action by Administrative Agent      97 103  

Section 11.04

  Reliance by Administrative Agent      98 103  

Section 11.05

  Sub-agents      98 104  

Section 11.06

  Resignation or Removal of Administrative Agent      98 104  

Section 11.07

  Agents as Lenders      99 104  

Section 11.08

  No Reliance      99 105  

Section 11.09

  Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim      100 105  

Section 11.10

  Authority of Administrative Agent to Release Collateral and Liens      100 106  

Section 11.11

  The Arrangers, the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent      101 107  

ARTICLE XII

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 12.01

  Notices      101 107  

Section 12.02

  Waivers; Amendments      102 108  

Section 12.03

  Expenses, Indemnity; Damage Waiver      103 109  

Section 12.04

  Successors and Assigns; No Third Party Beneficiaries      106 111  

 

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Section 12.05

  Survival; Revival; Reinstatement      109 114  

Section 12.06

  Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness      109 115  

Section 12.07

  Severability      110 115  

Section 12.08

  Right of Setoff      110 115  

Section 12.09

  GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS      110 116  

Section 12.10

  Headings      111 117  

Section 12.11

  Confidentiality      111 117  

Section 12.12

  Interest Rate Limitation      112 118  

Section 12.13

  EXCULPATION PROVISIONS      113 118  

Section 12.14

  Collateral Matters; Swap Agreements; Treasury Management Agreements      113 119  

Section 12.15

  [Reserved]      113 119  

Section 12.16

  [Reserved]      113 119  

Section 12.17

  USA Patriot Act Notice      113 119  

Section 12.18

  No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility      114 119  

Section 12.19

  Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions      114 120  

Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules

 

Annex I    Commitments
Exhibit A    Form of Note
Exhibit B    Form of Borrowing Request
Exhibit C    Form of Interest Election Request
Exhibit D    Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit E    Security Instruments as of the Effective Date
Exhibit F    Form of Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit G-1    Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Lenders; not partnerships)
Exhibit G-2    Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Participants; not partnerships)
Exhibit G-3    Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Participants; partnerships)
Exhibit G-4    Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Lenders; partnerships)
Exhibit H    Form of Commitment Increase Certificate
Exhibit I    Form of Additional Lender Certificate
Exhibit J    Form of Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement
Exhibit K    Form of Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement
Exhibit L    Form of Second Lien Indenture
Schedule 1.02    LC Issuance Limit
Schedule 7.04(c)    Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change
Schedule 7.05    Litigation
Schedule 7.06    Environmental Matters
Schedule 7.14    Subsidiaries and Unrestricted Subsidiaries
Schedule 7.18    Gas Imbalances; Take or Pay; Other Prepayments
Schedule 7.19    Marketing Agreements
Schedule 7.20    Swap Agreements
Schedule 9.02    Debt
Schedule 9.05    Investments
Schedule 12.01    Notices

 

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THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of April 12, 2017, is among ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”); ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP., a corporation organized under the laws of the Yukon Territory of Canada (“ Ultra Petroleum ”); UP ENERGY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (“ UP Energy ” and, together with Ultra Petroleum, collectively the “ Parent Guarantor ”); each of the Lenders from time to time party hereto; and BANK OF MONTREAL, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Administrative Agent ”).

RECITALS

A. On April 29, 2016, Parent Guarantor and the Borrower and certain of their respective Subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, initiating cases under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (the “ Bankruptcy Code ”), consolidated administratively under Case No. 16-32202 (the “ Chapter 11 Cases ”);

B. The Debtors filed the Plan of Reorganization (as defined herein) with the Bankruptcy Court on March 14, 2017 (the “ Plan of Reorganization ”) and on March 14, 2017 the Bankruptcy Court entered the Confirmation Order confirming the Plan of Reorganization, which Confirmation Order inter alia authorized and approved the Debtor’s entry into and performance under this Agreement;

C. The Borrower has requested that the Lenders provide certain revolving loans to and extensions of credit on behalf of the Borrower and that the Issuing Bank provide Letters of Credit; and

D. The Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend and to participate in Letters of Credit and the Issuing Bank has indicated its willingness to issue Letters of Credit, in each case subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

E. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals, of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING MATTERS

Section 1.01 Terms Defined Above . As used in this Agreement, each term defined above has the meaning indicated above.

Section 1.02 Certain Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

“2022 Notes” means the senior notes due 2022 issued by the Borrower on the Effective Date and outstanding on the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to $195,035,000, after giving effect to the Permitted Notes Exchange on the Initial Exchange Date.

ABR ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.

Account Control Agreement ” means a control agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, which grants the Collateral Agent “control” as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the applicable jurisdiction over any Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodities Account maintained by any Credit Party, in each case, among the Collateral Agent, the applicable Credit Party and the applicable financial institution at which such Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodities Account is maintained.


ACNTA ” means (without duplication), as of the date of determination, the remainder of:

(a) the sum of:

(i) discounted future net revenues from proved oil and gas reserves of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines (but utilizing prices and costs calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines as if the end of the most recent fiscal quarter preceding the date of determination for which such information is available to the Borrower were year-end and giving effect to applicable Commodity Agreements in place as of the date of determination (whether positive or negative)) before any state or federal income taxes, as estimated in a reserve report prepared as of the end of the Borrower’s most recently completed fiscal year for which audited financial statements are available, as increased by, as of the date of determination, the estimated discounted future net revenues from

(A) estimated proved oil and gas reserves acquired since such year end, which reserves were not reflected in such year-end reserve report, and

(B) estimated proved oil and gas reserves attributable to extensions, discoveries and other additions and upward revisions of estimates of proved oil and gas reserves since such year-end due to exploration, development or exploitation, production or other activities, which would, in accordance with standard industry practice, cause such revisions (including the impact to proved oil and gas reserves and future net revenues from estimated development costs incurred and the accretion of discount since such year-end), and decreased by, as of the date of determination, the estimated discounted future net revenues from

(C) estimated proved oil and gas reserves produced or disposed of since such year end to the extent such estimated discounted future net revenues were included in such year-end reserve report or such estimated reserves under clauses (A) or (B) above, and

(D) estimated proved oil and gas reserves attributable to downward revisions of estimates of proved oil and gas reserves since such year-end due to changes in geological conditions or other factors which would, in accordance with standard industry practice, cause such revisions,

in the case of clauses (A) through (D) calculated on a pre-tax basis substantially in accordance with SEC guidelines (but utilizing prices and costs calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines as if the end of the most recent fiscal quarter preceding the date of determination for which such information is available were year-end and giving effect to applicable Commodity Agreements in place as of the date of determination (whether positive or negative)); provided , however , that in the case of each of the determinations made pursuant to clauses (A) through (D), such increases and decreases shall be as estimated by the Borrower’s petroleum engineers;

(ii) the capitalized costs that are attributable to oil and gas properties of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries to which no proved oil and gas reserves are attributable, based on the Parent Guarantor’s books and records as of a date no earlier than the date of the Parent Guarantor’s latest available annual or quarterly financial statements;

 

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(iii) the Net Working Capital of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries on a date no earlier than the date of the Borrower’s latest annual or quarterly financial statements; and

(iv) the greater of

(A) the net book value of other tangible assets of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries, as of a date no earlier than the date of the Borrower’s latest annual or quarterly financial statements, and

(B) the appraised value, as estimated by independent appraisers, of other tangible assets of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries, as of a date no earlier than the date of the Borrower’s latest audited financial statements; provided , that, if no such appraisal has been performed, the Borrower shall not be required to obtain such an appraisal and only clause (iv)(A) of this definition shall apply;

minus

(b) the sum of:

(i) minority interests;

(ii) any net gas balancing liabilities of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries reflected in the Borrower’s latest annual or quarterly balance sheet (to the extent not deducted in calculating Net Working Capital of the Borrower in accordance with clause (a)(iii) above of this definition);

(iii) to the extent included in (a)(i) above, the discounted future net revenues, calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines (but (x) utilizing prices and costs calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines as if the end of the most recent fiscal quarter preceding the date of determination for which such information is available to the Borrower were year-end), attributable to reserves which are required to be delivered to third parties to fully satisfy the obligations of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to Volumetric Production Payments (determined, if applicable, using the schedules specified with respect thereto); and

(iv) the discounted future net revenues, calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines, attributable to reserves subject to Dollar-Denominated Production Payments which, based on the estimates of production and price assumptions included in determining the discounted future net revenues specified in (a)(i) above, would be necessary to fully satisfy the payment obligations of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to Dollar-Denominated Production Payments (determined, if applicable, using the schedules specified with respect thereto).

If the Borrower changes its method of accounting from the full cost method of accounting to the successful efforts or a similar method, ACNTA will continue to be calculated as if the Borrower were still using the full cost method of accounting.

Act ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.17 .

 

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Additional Interim Redetermination Event ” means (a) any Transfer of any Borrowing Base Property by the Borrower or any other Credit Party to any Person other than the Borrower or another Credit Party or (b) any Liquidation of any commodity Swap Agreement by the Borrower or any other Credit Party if, upon (and after giving effect to) any such event, the sum of (i) the PV-9 of all Borrowing Base Properties Transferred by the Borrower or any other Credit Party to any Person other than the Borrower or another Credit Party since the most recent redetermination of the Borrowing Base plus (ii) the Swap PV of all commodity Swap Agreements Liquidated since the most recent redetermination of the Borrowing Base exceeds 5% of the then effective Borrowing Base.

Additional Lender ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.06(c)(i) .

Additional Lender Certificate ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.06(c)(ii)(J) .

Additional Oil and Gas Assets ” means (a) Oil and Gas Properties, (b) gathering systems and other improvements, infrastructure, equipment and fixtures used in connection with the exploration, exploitation, development, or operation of Oil and Gas Properties or the production, treatment, handling, gathering, transportation, processing, and disposition of hydrocarbons and associated products, (c) Investments in joint ventures that own any assets described in clauses (a) or (b) to the extent permitted by Section 9.05(c) , and (d) Equity Interests acquired from third parties in Persons that own any assets described in clauses (a) or (b) and that are Guarantors or become Guarantors as provided in Section 8.14 promptly following such acquisition.

Adjusted LIBO Rate ” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by the Statutory Reserve Rate.

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

Affected Loans ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.06 .

Affiliate ” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. The term “Affiliated” has a correlative meaning thereto.

Agents ” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and, as the context requires, any syndication agents or documentation agents hereunder that may from time to time be designated by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.

Agreement ” means this Credit Agreement, as the same may from time to time be amended, modified, supplemented or restated.

Alternate Base Rate ” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1 2 of 1% and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one month Interest Period beginning on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1.00%, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the rate appearing on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or on any successor or substitute page of such service, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such service, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market), at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 with a one month maturity are offered at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such day (or the immediately preceding Business Days if such day is not a Business Day). Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively.

 

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Anti-Corruption Laws ” means all state or federal laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates from time to time concerning or relating to money-laundering, bribery or corruption, including the FCPA.

Applicable Margin ” means, for any day, with respect to any ABR Loan or Eurodollar Loan, or with respect to the Commitment Fee Rate, as the case may be:

(a) during a Borrowing Base Period, the rate per annum set forth in the Borrowing Base Utilization Grid below based upon the Borrowing Base Utilization Percentage then in effect:

 

Borrowing Base Utilization Grid

 

Borrowing Base Utilization Percentage

     <25    

> 25

<50


   

> 50

<75


   

> 75

<90


    > 90

Eurodollar Loans

     2.50     2.75     3.00     3.25     3.50

ABR Loans

     1.50     1.75     2.00     2.25     2.50

Commitment Fee Rate

     0.50     0.50     0.50     0.50     0.50

; subject to the last paragraph of this definition, each change in the Applicable Margin shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change, provided , however , that if the Borrower fails to timely deliver a Reserve Report pursuant to Section 8.12(a) , then if such default remains uncured for 30 days, the “Applicable Margin” means, for any day thereafter that such default remains uncured, the rate per annum set forth on the grid when the Borrowing Base Utilization Percentage is at its highest level; and

(b) during an Investment Grade Period, the rate per annum set forth in the grid below based upon (i) the higher of the Credit Ratings assigned to the Borrower by Moody’s or S&P in effect on such day if the lower rating is no lower than the immediately next lower rating and (ii) the higher Credit Rating in between the higher rating and the lower rating otherwise:

 

Credit Rating

   Commitment
Fee Rate
    ABR Loans     Eurodollar Loans  

>BBB+/Baa l 1

     0.15     1.125     2.125

BBB/Baa2

     0.20     1.250     2.250

BBB-/Baa3

     0.25     1.500     2.500

< BB+/Ba l 1

     0.30     1.750     2.750

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio exceeds 4.0 to 1.0 as of the last day of any fiscal quarter (the date on which a compliance certificate for such fiscal quarter is required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(c) , the “ Pricing Step-Up Date ”), then the “Applicable Margin” shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar Loan or ABR Loan, for any day during the period beginning on such Pricing Step-Up Date and ending on the date on which a compliance certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(c) for the first fiscal quarter occurring after such Pricing Step-Up Date for which the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such fiscal quarter is less than or equal to 4.0 to 1.0, the Applicable Margin that would otherwise be in effect with respect to such Eurodollar Loan or ABR Loan, as applicable, plus 0.25%  per annum .

 

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Applicable Percentage ” means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) such Lender’s Commitment at such time by (b) the amount of the Total Commitment at such time; provided that at any time when the Total Commitment shall have been terminated, each Lender’s Applicable Percentage shall be the percentage obtained by dividing (i) such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure at such time by (ii) the aggregate total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders at such time.

Approved Counterparty ” means any Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender and any other Person if such Person or its credit support provider has a long term senior unsecured debt rating of BBB+ (or its equivalent) or higher by S&P and Baa1 (or its equivalent) or higher by Moody’s.

Approved Fund ” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

Approved Petroleum Engineers ” means Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc., W.D. Von Gonten & Co., Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc., Ryder Scott Company Petroleum Consultants, L.P., Wright & Company, Inc. or any other independent petroleum engineers selected by Borrower and acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

Arranger ” means, collectively, BMO Capital Markets Corp., Barclays Bank PLC and Goldman Sachs Bank USA in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners hereunder.

ASC ” means the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification, as in effect from time to time.

Asset Coverage Ratio ” means, as of any date, the ratio of (i) the PV-9 of the Credit Parties’ Oil and Gas Properties reflected in the most recently delivered Reserve Report to (ii) Consolidated Net Debt as of such date; provided that for purposes of calculating the Asset Coverage Ratio, the PV-9 attributable to non-producing Proved Reserves shall not exceed 35% of the aggregate PV-9.

Assignment and Assumption ” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 12.04(b) ), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit F or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

Availability ” means, as of any date, the remainder of (a) the Loan Limit, minus (b) the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders.

Availability Period ” means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the Termination Date.

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.

 

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Bank Price Deck ” means the Administrative Agent’s most recent internal price deck on a forward curve basis for each of oil, natural gas and other Hydrocarbons, as applicable, furnished to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Bankruptcy Code ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

Bankruptcy Court ” means the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division or any other court having jurisdiction over the Chapter 11 Cases from time to time.

Board ” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America or any successor Governmental Authority.

Borrower ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

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

Borrowing Base ” means at any time an amount equal to the amount determined in accordance with Section 2.07 , as the same may be adjusted from time to time pursuant to Section 9.11 . As of the Effective Date, the Borrowing Base shall be $1,200,000,000.

Borrowing Base Deficiency ” occurs, if at any time Total Exposure exceeds the Borrowing Base. The amount of any Borrowing Base Deficiency at the time in question is the amount (if any) by which the Total Exposure exceeds the Borrowing Base then in effect.

Borrowing Base Period ” shall mean any period other than an Investment Grade Period.

Borrowing Base Property ” means, at any time in question, any Oil and Gas Property to which Proved Reserves were attributed in the then most recent Reserve Report.

Borrowing Base Trigger Event ” means, the occurrence of at least two of the following three events: the public announcement that the Borrower’s Credit Rating is (a) Ba1 or lower from (or is unrated by) Moody’s, (b) BB+ or lower from (or is unrated by) S&P or (c) BB+ or lower from (or is unrated by) Fitch.

Borrowing Base Utilization Percentage ” means, as of any day, the fraction expressed as a percentage, the numerator of which is the Revolving Credit Exposure of the Lenders on such day, and the denominator of which is (x) the Borrowing Base in effect on such day minus (y) the Term Loan Exposure on such day.

Borrowing Base Value ” means, with respect to any Oil and Gas Property or any Swap Agreement in respect of commodities, the value attributed thereto by the Administrative Agent for the purpose of determining the Borrowing Base.

Borrowing Request ” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03 .

Business Day ” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; and if such day relates to a Borrowing or continuation of, a payment or prepayment of principal of or interest on, or a conversion of or into, or the Interest Period for, a Eurodollar Loan or a notice by the Borrower with respect to any such Borrowing or continuation, payment, prepayment, conversion or Interest Period, any day which is also a day on which banks are open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

 

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Capital Leases ” means, in respect of any Person, all leases which shall have been, or should have been, in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof, recorded as capital leases on the balance sheet of the Person liable (whether contingent or otherwise) for the payment of rent thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the LGS Lease shall not constitute a Capital Lease and (ii) any lease (whether entered into before or after the Effective Date) that would have been classified as an operating lease in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof will be deemed not to be a Capital Lease.

Cash Collateral ” has the meaning assigned such term in Section 2.08(j)(ii) .

Cash Collateralize ” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent (as a first priority, perfected security interest), for the benefit of the Issuing Bank and the Lenders, cash or Cash Equivalents, at a location and pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. “ Cash Collateralized ” and “ Cash Collateralization ” have correlative meanings.

Cash Equivalents ” means:

(a) direct obligations of the United States or any agency thereof, or obligations guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof.

(b) commercial paper maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof rated in the highest grade by S&P or Moody’s.

(c) demand deposits, and time deposits maturing within one year from the date of creation thereof, with, or issued by any Lender or any office located in the United States of any other bank or trust company which is organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, has capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating at least $100,000,000 (as of the date of such bank or trust company’s most recent financial reports) and has a short term deposit rating of at least A2 or P2, as such rating is set forth from time to time, by S&P or Moody’s, respectively; and

(d) shares of any SEC registered 2a-7 money market fund that has net assets of at least $500,000,000 and the highest rating obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P.

CFTC Hedging Obligation ” means any Obligation in respect of any agreement, contract, confirmation or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Change in Control ” means

(a) any Person, entity or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than the Permitted Investors (or any intermediate companies owned directly or indirectly by the Permitted Investors), shall at any time have acquired direct or indirect beneficial ownership of voting power of the outstanding Equity Interests of Ultra Petroleum having more than the greater of (i) 50% of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors of Ultra Petroleum and (ii) the percentage of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors of Ultra Petroleum owned in the aggregate, directly or indirectly, beneficially, by the Permitted Investors; or

 

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(b) at any time Continuing Directors shall not constitute at least a majority of the directors of Ultra Petroleum; or

(c) a “Change in Control” (as defined in the documentation for any Material Debt) shall have occurred and as a result thereof the maturity of such Material Debt is accelerated, the obligor on such Material Debt is obligated to offer to Redeem such Material Debt, or the obligee on such Material Debt shall otherwise have the right to require the obligor thereon to Redeem such Material Debt; or

(d) Ultra Petroleum shall at any time cease to have beneficial ownership, and the power to vote or direct the voting, of at least 100% of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Borrower.

As used in this definition, “beneficial ownership” (which may be direct or indirect) has the meaning provided in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act.

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, 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 or in implementation thereof 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 ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

Collateral ” means all Property which is subject to a Lien under one or more Security Instruments.

Collateral Account ” has the meaning assigned such term in Section 2.08(j)(ii) .

Collateral Agency Agreement ” means that certain Collateral Agency Agreement dated as of the Effective Date among the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Administrative Agent, as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified or replaced from time to time.

Collateral Agent ” means Bank of Montreal acting in its capacity as collateral agent for the Secured Parties and for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement), and any successor collateral agent appointed hereunder pursuant to the Collateral Agency Agreement.

Commitment ” means, (a) with respect to each Lender that is a Lender on the Effective Date, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Annex I as such Lender’s “Commitment” and (b) in the case of any Lender that becomes a Lender after the Effective Date, the amount specified as such Lender’s “Commitment” in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender assumed a portion of the Total Commitment, in each case as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The aggregate amount of the Commitments as of the Effective Date is $400,000,000.

 

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Commitment Fee Rate ” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Applicable Margin”.

Commitment Increase Certificate ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(c)(ii)(F) .

Commodities Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Commodity Agreements ” means, in respect of any Person, any forward contract, commodity swap agreement, commodity option agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement in respect of Hydrocarbons used, produced, processed or sold by such Person that are customary in the Oil and Gas Business and designed to protect such Person against fluctuation in Hydrocarbon prices.

Commodity Exchange Act ” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq .), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and the application or official interpretation of any thereof.

Company Materials ” has the meaning assigned such term in Section 8.01 .

Confirmation Order ” means the order of the Bankruptcy Court dated March 14, 2017 [ Docket No. 1324 ] confirming the Plan of Reorganization, which order inter alia authorized and approved the Debtors’ entry into and performance under this Agreement.

Consolidated Interest Expense ” means, for any period, the total consolidated interest expense of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries for such period net of gross interest income of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP plus (without duplication) to the extent not already included in such total consolidated interest expense:

(a) imputed interest on Debt attributable to Capital Leases and sale and leaseback transactions of Borrower or any of its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries for such period;

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

(c) amortization of debt issuance costs, debt discount or premium and other financing fees and expenses incurred by Borrower or any of its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries for such period;

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

(e) all cash interest paid in connection with Debt permitted hereunder to the extent that such payments are not accounted for as interest expense pursuant to ASC 470-60 or another applicable codification.

Consolidated Net Debt ” means, at any date, the positive remainder (if any) of (a) Consolidated Total Debt minus (b) the unrestricted and unencumbered cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on such date; provided that cash and Cash Equivalents that would appear as “restricted” on a consolidated balance sheet solely because such cash or Cash Equivalents are subject to an Account Control Agreement shall be deemed to be unrestricted and unencumbered for purposes hereof.

 

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Consolidated Net Income ” means with respect to the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, for any period, the net income (or loss) of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries after allowances for taxes for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded from such net income (to the extent otherwise included therein) the following: (a) the net income of any Person in which the Borrower or any Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary has an interest (which interest does not cause the net income of such other Person to be consolidated with the net income of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP), except to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions actually paid in cash during such period by such other Person to the Borrower or to a Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be; (b) the net income (but not loss) during such period of any Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions or transfers or loans by that Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument or Governmental Requirement applicable to such Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary or is otherwise restricted or prohibited, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP; (c) the net income (or loss) of any Person acquired in a pooling-of-interests transaction for any period prior to the date of such transaction; (d) any extraordinary gains or losses during such period; (e) any non-cash gains or losses or positive or negative adjustments under ASC 815 (and any statements replacing, modifying or superseding such statement) as the result of changes in the fair market value of derivatives; (f) any gains or losses attributable to writeups or writedowns of assets, including ceiling test writedowns, and (g) any non-cash compensation charge arising from any grant or vesting of stock, stock options or other equity-based awards.

Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio ” means, as of any date of calculation, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Net Debt as of such date to (b) EBITDAX for the Rolling Period ending on such date.

Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries ” means any Restricted Subsidiaries that are Consolidated Subsidiaries.

Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries ” means each Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (whether now existing or hereafter created or acquired) the financial statements of which shall be (or should have been) consolidated with the financial statements of the Borrower in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Total Debt ” means, at any date, the principal amount of all Debt (without duplication) of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (a) described in clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the definition herein of “Debt”, other than Debt with respect to letters of credit to the extent such letters of credit have not been drawn, and (b) described in clause (g) of the definition herein of “Debt” to the extent such Debt is comprised of guaranty obligations in respect of Debt of others of the type described in clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the definition herein of “Debt.”

Consolidated Unrestricted Subsidiaries ” means any Unrestricted Subsidiaries that are Consolidated Subsidiaries.

Continuing Director ” means, at any date, an individual (a) who is a director of Ultra Petroleum on the Effective Date, (b) who, as of the date of determination, has been a director of Ultra Petroleum for at least the twelve preceding months, (c) who has been nominated to be a director of the Borrower, directly or indirectly, by a Permitted Investor or Persons nominated by a Permitted Investor, (d) who is nominated, appointed or approved for consideration by shareholders for election by the board of directors of the Ultra Petroleum, or (e) who is appointed by directors so nominated, appointed or approved.

 

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Control ” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “ Controlling ” and “ Controlled ” have meanings correlative thereto.

Credit Parties ” means, collectively, the Borrower, Parent Guarantor and the other Guarantors, and each individually a “Credit Party”.

Credit Rating ” means, the corporate credit rating of the Borrower issued by S&P or Fitch or the corporate family rating of the Borrower issued by Moody’s, as applicable.

Debt ” means, for any Person:

(a) obligations of such Person for borrowed money or evidenced by bankers’ acceptances, debentures, notes, bonds or other similar instruments;

(b) obligations of such Person (whether contingent or otherwise) in respect of letters of credit for which such Person is the applicant;

(c) obligations of such Person with respect to Disqualified Capital Stock;

(d) obligations of such Person under Capital Leases or Synthetic Leases;

(e) obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of Property;

(f) Debt (as defined in the other clauses of this definition) of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) a Lien on any Property of such Person, whether or not such Debt is assumed by such Person; provided , however , that in the case of Debt of the type described in this clause (f), the amount of such Debt shall be deemed to be the lesser of (1) such Person’s liability for such Debt and (2) the book value of such property;

(g) Debt (as defined in the other clauses of this definition) of others guaranteed by such Person or in which such Person otherwise assures a creditor against loss of the Debt (howsoever such assurance shall be made, including by means of obligations to pay for goods or services even if such goods or services are not actually taken, received or utilized) to the extent of the lesser of the amount of such Debt and the maximum stated amount of such guarantee or assurance against loss;

(h) Debt (as defined in the other clauses of this definition) of a partnership for which such Person is liable either by agreement, by operation of law or by a Governmental Requirement, but only to the extent of such liability; and

(i) obligations owing by a Person or any other Person guaranteeing such Person’s Debt under one or more Swap Agreements with the same counterparty that, at the time in question, have a net Swap Termination Value in favor of such counterparty ( i.e. , such Person or any other Person guaranteeing such Person’s Debt is “out of the money”) that exceeds the Threshold Amount;

provided , however , that “Debt” does not include (i) obligations with respect to surety, performance or appeal bonds and similar instruments, (ii) trade accounts and other similar accounts that are payable no later than 120 days after invoice or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP or (iii) obligations under the LGS Lease.

 

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Debtors ” means, collectively, the Borrower and Parent Guarantor and certain of their Subsidiaries, each in their capacity as debtors and debtors-in-possession in the Chapter 11 Cases.

Decrease and Maintenance Lenders ” means (i) at any time when there are seven (7)  or more Non-Defaulting Lenders (x) while no Loan or LC Exposure is outstanding, any four (4) Non-Defaulting Lenders having at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the Total Commitment of all Non-Defaulting Lenders and (y) while any Loan or LC Exposure is outstanding, any four (4) Non-Defaulting Lenders holding at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Loans and participation interests in Letters of Credit of all Non-Defaulting Lenders (in each case without regard to any sale by a Non-Defaulting Lender of a participation in any Loan under Section 12.04(c)) ; and (ii) at any time when there are six (6)  or fewer Non-Defaulting Lenders, the Required Lenders.

Default ” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.

Defaulting Lender ” means, subject to Section 4.05(b) , any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder ( provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any bankruptcy or insolvency law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that 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. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 4.05(b) ) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrower, each Issuing Bank and each Lender.

Deposit Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Disqualified Capital Stock ” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable for any consideration other than other Equity Interests (which would not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is

 

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convertible or exchangeable for Debt or redeemable for any consideration other than other Equity Interests (which would not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock) at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part (but if in part only with respect to such amount that meets the criteria set forth in this definition), on or prior to the date that is one year after the Maturity Date.

Dollar-Denominated Production Payments ” means production payment obligations recorded as liabilities in accordance with GAAP, together with all undertakings and obligations in connection therewith.

dollars ” or “ $ ” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.

Domestic Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia, provided that a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

E&P Subsidiary ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.11 .

EBITDAX ” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period plus the following expenses or charges to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (a) the sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense, (ii) Taxes imposed on or measured by income (however denominated) and franchise Taxes paid or accrued, (iii) depreciation, (iv) depletion, (v) amortization, (vi) exploration and abandonment expenses, (vii) transaction costs, expenses and charges with respect to the acquisition or disposition of Oil and Gas Properties, not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year, (viii) losses from sales or other dispositions of assets (other than Hydrocarbons produced in the ordinary course of business) and other extraordinary or non-recurring losses and (ix) all other noncash charges (excluding accruals for cash expenses made in the ordinary course of business) , and (x) any fees, expenses or charges of third parties incurred through December 31, 2017 in connection with the implementation of fresh start accounting, the Chapter 11 Cases, the Plan of Reorganization, the transactions contemplated thereby and any other reorganization items (provided that (i) such fees, expenses or charges may, at the option of the Borrower, increase EBITDAX for such period whether or not such fees, expenses or charges were incurred in such period or were deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income for such period and (ii) the Borrower may increase EBITDAX pursuant to this clause (x) no more than one time), minus (b) (i) gains from sales or other dispositions of assets (other than Hydrocarbons produced in the ordinary course of business) and other extraordinary or non-recurring gains and (ii) all noncash income (excluding accruals for cash expenses made in the ordinary course of business) added to Consolidated Net Income (including cancellation of indebtedness income to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income). For the purposes of calculating EBITDAX for any Rolling Period for any determination of the financial ratios contained in Section 9.01(a) and Section 9.01(c) , if at any time during such period the Borrower or any Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary shall have made any Material Disposition or Material Acquisition, Consolidated Net Income and EBITDAX for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Material Disposition or Material Acquisition had occurred on the first day of such period; provided that the calculations of such pro forma adjustments are acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. For purposes of calculating EBITDAX for the Rolling Period ending June 30, 2017, EBITDAX shall be an amount equal to the sum of (a) the product of (i) EBITDAX for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2016 and (ii) 2, (b) EBITDAX for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2017, and (c) EBITDAX for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2017.

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.

 

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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.

Effective Date ” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 6.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 12.02 ).

Engineering Reports ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(c)(i) .

Environmental Laws ” means any and all Governmental Requirements pertaining in any way to public health (regarding human exposure to Hazardous Materials), protection of the environment, the preservation or reclamation of natural resources, or the management, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials, in effect in any and all jurisdictions in which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is conducting, or at any time has conducted, business, or where any Property of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is located, including, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“ OPA ”), as amended, the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“ CERCLA ”), as amended, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (“ RCRA ”), as amended, the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Law, as amended, and other environmental conservation or protection Governmental Requirements.

Environmental Permit ” means any permit, registration, license, approval, consent, exemption, variance, or other authorization required under or issued pursuant to applicable Environmental Laws.

Equity Interests ” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such Equity Interest.

ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any successor statute.

ERISA Affiliate ” means each trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that together with Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Subsidiary is a “single employer” within the meaning of section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA or subsections (b) or (c) of section 414 of the Code (or subsections (m) or (o) of section 414 of the Code with respect to a Plan that is subject to the minimum funding requirements of section 412 of the Code).

ERISA Event ” means (a) a reportable event, as defined in section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived under applicable regulations or otherwise); (b) a withdrawal by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, a Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate from a 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

 

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operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete withdrawal, within the meaning of section 4203 of ERISA, or a or partial withdrawal, within the meaning of section 4205 of ERISA, by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from a multiemployer plan (as defined in section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA); (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Plan amendment as termination under section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Plan; or (e) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under section 4042 of ERISA for termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan.

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.

Eurodollar ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate.

Event of Default ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.01 .

“Excepted 2022 Notes” means 2022 Notes in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $140,000,000.

Excepted Liens ” means: (a) Liens for Taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or levies which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (b) Liens in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other social security, old age pension or public liability obligations which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (c) landlords’, operators’, vendors’, carriers’, warehousemen’s, repairmen’s, mechanics’, suppliers’, workers’, materialmen’s, construction or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business or incident to the exploration, development, operation and maintenance of Oil and Gas Properties, each of which is in respect of obligations that are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (d) Liens which arise in the ordinary course of business under operating agreements, joint venture agreements, oil and gas partnership agreements, oil and gas leases, farm-out agreements, division orders, contracts for the sale, transportation or exchange of oil and natural gas, unitization and pooling declarations and agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, overriding royalty agreements, marketing agreements, processing agreements, net profits agreements, development agreements, gas balancing or deferred production agreements, injection, repressuring and recycling agreements, salt water or other disposal agreements, seismic or other geophysical permits or agreements, and other agreements which are usual and customary in the Oil and Gas Business and are for claims which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP, provided that any such Lien referred to in this clause does not materially impair the use of any material Property covered by such Lien for the purposes for which such Property is held by the Borrower or any other Credit Party or materially impair the value of any material Property subject thereto; (e) banker’s liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies arising in the ordinary course of business and burdening only deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a creditor depository institution, provided that no such deposit account is a dedicated cash collateral account; (f) easements, restrictions, servitudes, permits, conditions, covenants, exceptions, reservations, zoning and land use requirements and other title defects in any Property of the Borrower or any other Credit Party, that in each case do not secure Debt and that in the aggregate do not materially impair the use of such Property for the purposes of which such Property is held by the Borrower or any other Credit Party or materially impair the value of such Property

 

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subject thereto; (g) Liens to secure performance of tenders, surety and appeal bonds, government contracts, performance and return of money bonds, bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, regulatory obligations, obligations in respect of workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other forms of government benefits or insurance and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business; (h) Liens, titles and interests of lessors (including sub-lessors) of property leased by such lessors to the Borrower or any other Credit Party, restrictions and prohibitions on encumbrances and transferability with respect to such property and the Borrower’s or such other Credit Party’s interests therein imposed by such leases, and Liens and encumbrances encumbering such lessors’ titles and interests in such property and to which the Borrower’s or such other Credit Party’s leasehold interests may be subject or subordinate, in each case, whether or not evidenced by Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings or other documents of record, provided that such Liens do not secure Debt of the Borrower or any other Credit Party and do not encumber Property of the Borrower or any other Credit Party other than the Property that is the subject of such leases and items located thereon; (i) Liens, titles and interests of licensors of software and other intangible property licensed by such licensors to the Borrower or any other Credit Party, restrictions and prohibitions on encumbrances and transferability with respect to such property and the Borrower’s or such other Credit Party’s interests therein imposed by such licenses, and Liens and encumbrances encumbering such licensors’ titles and interests in such property and to which the Borrower’s or such other Credit Party’s license interests may be subject or subordinate, in each case, whether or not evidenced by Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings or other documents of record, provided that such Liens do not secure Debt of the Borrower or any other Credit Party and do not encumber Property of the Borrower or any other Credit Party other than the Property that is the subject of such licenses; (j) judgment and attachment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default; and (k) Liens of issuers of commercial letters of credit or similar undertakings on the goods that are the subject of such letters of credit or undertakings. Provisions in the Loan Documents allowing Excepted Liens or other Permitted Liens on any item of Property shall be construed to allow such Excepted Liens and other Permitted Liens also to cover any improvements, fixtures or accessions to such Property and the proceeds of and insurance on such Property, improvements, fixtures or accessions. No intention to subordinate any Lien granted in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders is to be hereby implied or expressed by the permitted existence of any Excepted Liens. The term “Excepted Liens” shall not include any Lien securing Debt for borrowed money.

Excess Cash Threshold ” means $100,000,000.

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Exchange Date” means (a) the Initial Exchange Date and (b) each date after the occurrence of the Initial Exchange Date on which a Permitted Notes Exchange is consummated.

“Exchanged Notes” has the meaning assigned thereto in the definition of “Permitted Notes Exchange”.

Excluded Account ” means (a) any Deposit Account, Commodity Account or Securities Account so long as the average daily maximum balance in each such account, individually, does not exceed $1,000,000 over any 30-day period and the aggregate daily maximum balance of all such Deposit Accounts, Commodity Accounts and Securities Accounts does not at any time exceed $10,000,000, (b) any Deposit Account that is a zero balance account or a deposit account for which the balance of such Deposit Account is transferred at the end of each date to a deposit account that is not an Excluded Account, (c) any other Deposit Accounts exclusively used for trust, payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any employees of the Credit Parties, (d) fiduciary accounts, (e) trust and suspense accounts of the Borrower and any Credit Party holding royalty obligations, (f) accounts constituting cash collateral accounts permitted under Section 9.03 and (g) the Professional Fee Escrow Account (as defined in the Plan of Reorganization).

 

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Excluded Cash ” means (a) any cash or cash equivalents of the Credit Parties in an Excluded Account (other than an account that is an Excluded Account pursuant to clause (a) of the definition thereof), (b) cash collateral held by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, (c) cash of the Credit Parties constituting purchase price deposits held in escrow by an unaffiliated third party pursuant to a binding and enforceable purchase and sale agreement with an unaffiliated third party containing customary provisions regarding the payment and refunding of such deposits, (d) any cash or Cash Equivalents set aside and for which any Credit Party has issued checks or has initiated wires or ACH transfers (or will issue checks or initiate wires or ACH transfers within five (5) business days) to make a Restricted Payment permitted Section 9.04(a) , and (e) any cash or Cash Equivalents set aside and for which any Credit Party has issued checks or has initiated wires or ACH transfers (or will issue checks or initiate wires or ACH transfers within five (5) business days) to make payments in respect of accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business for services already rendered.

Excluded Subsidiary ” means:

(a) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower , ; and

(b) (i) any Foreign Subsidiary and/or (ii) any Domestic Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect subsidiary of any Foreign Subsidiary , and .

(c) any Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Excluded Swap Obligation ” means, with respect to the Borrower and the Guarantors individually determined, any CFTC Hedging Obligation if, and solely to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee of the Borrower or such Guarantor of, or the grant by the Borrower or such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such CFTC Hedging Obligation (or any guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act by virtue of the Borrower’s or such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” (as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act) with respect to such CFTC Hedging Obligation at any time such guarantee or grant of a security interest becomes effective with respect to such CFTC Hedging Obligation.

Excluded Taxes ” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient:

(a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes,

(b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment to such Lender that was requested by the Borrower under Section 5.05 ) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 5.03 , amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office,

 

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(c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure or inability to comply with Section 5.03(g) , and

(d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

Existing Senior Notes ” means (x) the 2022 Notes and (y)  the senior notes due 2022 and the senior notes due 2025 , in each case issued by the Borrower on the Effective Date , in an initial and outstanding on the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate principal amount of $1,200,000,000 equal to $225,000,000, after giving effect to the consummation of the Permitted Notes Exchange on the Initial Exchange Date .

“Existing Senior Notes Debt” means unsecured Debt in respect of the Existing Senior Notes, including the principal amounts owing thereunder and any associated obligations to pay interest, premiums, indemnifications, expenses, costs or other amounts .

“Existing Senior Notes Documents” means each indenture or agreement providing for Existing Senior Notes Debt, the Existing Senior Notes, all guaranties of Existing Senior Notes, and any other instruments or agreements made or delivered by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Existing Senior Notes Debt in each case, as amended, restated, modified, supplemented, renewed or replaced in any manner (whether upon or after termination or otherwise) from time to time .

FATCA ” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version to the extent substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code or any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such Sections of the Code.

FCPA ” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

Federal Funds Effective Rate ” means, for any day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it; provided that if such rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

Fee Letters ” means the Amended and Restated Fee Letter dated as of February 28, 2017 among the Borrower, Barclays Bank PLC, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Bank of Montreal and BMO Capital Markets Corp., and any other fee letters that may hereafter be entered into between Administrative Agent and Borrower.

Financial Officer ” means, for any Person, the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, or controller of such Person or any other natural person principally responsible for the financial matters of such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a Financial Officer mean a Financial Officer of the Borrower.

 

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Fitch ” means Fitch Ratings, Inc. and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

Flood Insurance Regulations ” means (a) the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (b) the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (c) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (amending 42 USC § 4001, et seq .), as the same may be amended or recodified from time to time, (d) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 and any regulations promulgated thereunder and (e) the Biggert-Waters Flood Reform Act of 2012, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.

Foreign Lender ” means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is located. For purposes of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

Foreign Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

Fronting Exposure ” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, with respect to any Issuing Bank, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the outstanding Obligations with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank other than such Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.

GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Section 1.05 .

Governmental Authority ” means the government of the United States of America, 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.

Governmental Requirement ” means any law, statute, code, ordinance, order, determination, rule, regulation, judgment, decree, injunction, franchise, permit, certificate, license, rules of common law, authorization or other directive or requirement, whether now or hereinafter in effect, of any Governmental Authority.

Guarantors ” means the Parent Guarantor and each other Restricted Subsidiary that guarantees the Obligations pursuant to Section 8.14(b) .

Guaranty and Collateral Agreement ” means the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement executed by the Borrower and the Guarantors on the Effective Date in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent pursuant to which (a) the Guarantors guaranty, on a joint and several basis, payment of the Obligations, and (b) the Borrower and the Guarantors grant security interests on the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ personal property constituting “Collateral” as defined therein in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties to secure the Obligations, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time.

Hazardous Material ” means any substance regulated or as to which liability might arise under any applicable Environmental Law due to its hazardous or toxic characteristics including: any chemical, compound, material, product, byproduct, substance or waste defined as or included in the definition or meaning of “hazardous substance,” “hazardous material,” “hazardous waste,” “solid waste,” “toxic waste,” “extremely hazardous substance,” “toxic substance,” “contaminant,” “pollutant,” or words of

 

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similar meaning or import found in any applicable Environmental Law; Hydrocarbons, petroleum products, petroleum substances, natural gas, oil, oil and gas waste, crude oil, and any components, fractions, or derivatives thereof; and radioactive materials, explosives, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon, infectious or medical wastes.

Highest Lawful Rate ” means, with respect to each Lender, the maximum nonusurious interest rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received on the Notes or on other Obligations under laws applicable to such 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 allow as of the date hereof.

Hydrocarbons ” means oil, gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, condensate, distillate, liquid hydrocarbons, gaseous hydrocarbons and all products refined or separated therefrom.

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 the Borrower or any Guarantor under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.

Indemnitee ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.03(b) .

Industry Competitor ” means (a) any Person (other than Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their Affiliates or Subsidiaries) that, directly or indirectly, is actively engaged as one of its principal businesses in lease acquisitions, exploration and production operations or development of oil and gas properties (including the drilling and completion of producing wells) and (b) any Person that is clearly identifiable, solely on the basis of such Person’s name, as an Affiliate of any such Person (other than any Affiliates of the Borrower); provided that any Person that would be an Industry Competitor hereunder shall not constitute an Industry Competitor if (x) such Person is a bank, financial institution, bona fide debt fund or investment vehicle that is engaged in, or that advises funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding, or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds or similar extensions of credit or securities in the ordinary course of business and (y) no Industry Competitor or Affiliate described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) directly or indirectly, possesses the power to direct or cause the direction of the investment policies of such entity.

Industry Investment ” means Investments and expenditures made in the ordinary course of, and of a nature that is or shall have become customary in, the Oil and Gas Business as a means of actively engaging therein through agreements, transactions, interests or arrangements that permit one to share risks or costs, comply with regulatory requirements regarding local ownership or satisfy other objectives customarily achieved through the conduct of Oil and Gas Business jointly with third parties, including: (1) ownership interests in oil and gas properties or gathering, transportation, processing, electricity and power generation, or related systems; and (2) Investments and expenditures in the form of or pursuant to operating agreements, processing agreements, farm-in agreements, farm-out agreements, development agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, unitization agreements, pooling arrangements, joint bidding agreements, service contracts, joint venture agreements, partnership agreements (whether general or limited), and other similar agreements (including for limited liability companies) with third parties.

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Initial Reserve Report ” means the report prepared as of December 31, 2016 by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. with respect to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Credit Parties to which Proved Reserves are attributed.

Interest Election Request ” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04 .

Interest Payment Date ” means with respect to any ABR Loan, the last day of each March, June, September and December and with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.

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

Interim Redetermination ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(b) .

Interim Redetermination Date ” means the date on which a Borrowing Base that has been redetermined pursuant to an Interim Redetermination becomes effective as provided in Section 2.07(d) .

Investment ” means, for any Person:

(a) the acquisition (whether for cash, Property, services or securities or otherwise) of Equity Interests of any other Person or any agreement to make any such acquisition (including any “short sale” or any sale of any securities at a time when such securities are not owned by the Person entering into such short sale);

(b) the making of any deposit with, or advance, loan or capital contribution to, assumption of Debt of, purchase or other acquisition of any other Debt of or equity participation or equity interest in, or other extension of credit to, any other Person (including the purchase of Property from another Person subject to an understanding or agreement, contingent or otherwise, to resell such Property to such Person;

(c) the purchase or acquisition (in one or a series of transactions) of Property of another Person that constitutes a business unit both before and after such purchase or acquisition; or

(d) the entering into of any guarantee of, or other surety obligation (including the deposit of any Equity Interests to be sold) with respect to, Debt of any other Person;

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Investment Grade Period ” means, the period from (a) the first date on which (i) the Borrower has received at least two of the Required Ratings, (ii) all Liens on the Collateral have been released and (iii) the Borrower has elected that such Investment Grade Period shall commence until (b) a Borrowing Base Trigger Event.

Issuing Bank ” means BMO Harris Bank N.A. in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 2.08(i) . Any Issuing Bank (other than BMO Harris Bank N.A.) may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate. In the event there is more than one Issuing Bank hereunder at any time, references herein and in the other Loan Documents to the “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to the Issuing Bank in respect of the applicable Letter of Credit, or to all Issuing Banks, as the context requires.

“Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements” means each of the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

LC Commitment ” at any time means $50,000,000.

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

LC Exposure ” means, at any time, the sum of the aggregate Undrawn Amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.

LC Issuance Limit ” means, with respect to each Issuing Bank, the amount set forth on Schedule 1.02 opposite such Issuing Bank’s name.

Lender Treasury Management Agreement ” means a Treasury Management Agreement between the Borrower or any other Credit Party, on the one hand, and any counterparty that is a Treasury Management Lender, on the other hand.

Lenders ” means the Persons listed on Annex I , any Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, and any Person that shall have become a party hereto as an Additional Lender pursuant to Section 2.06(c) , other than, in each case, any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.

Letter of Credit ” means any standby letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement.

Letter of Credit Agreements ” means all letter of credit applications and other agreements (including any amendments, modifications or supplements thereto) submitted by the Borrower, or entered into by the Borrower, with the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit.

LIBO Rate ” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, the rate appearing on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or on any successor or substitute page of such service, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such service, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period; provided

 

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that if such rate that appears on such screen or page shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement. In the event that such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurodollar Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the rate at which dollar deposits of an amount comparable to such Eurodollar Borrowing and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.

LGS Lease ” means the lease agreement pursuant to which Parent Guarantor or its Subsidiary leases the liquids gathering system used for the purposes of gathering, separating, collecting and delivery for sale or transport condensate and water, together with associated natural gas, produced from natural gas and oil wells located in the Pinedale field in Sublette County, Wyoming.

Lien ” means any interest in Property securing an obligation owed to, or a claim by, a Person other than the owner of the Property, whether such interest is based on the common law, statute or contract, and whether such obligation or claim is fixed or contingent, and including but not limited to the lien or security interest arising from a mortgage, pledge, security agreement, conditional sale or trust receipt or a lease, consignment or bailment for security purposes. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall be deemed to be the owner of any Property which it has acquired or holds subject to a conditional sale agreement, or leases under a financing lease or other arrangement pursuant to which title to the Property has been retained by or vested in some other Person in a transaction intended to create a financing.

Liquidate ” means, with respect to any Swap Agreement, the sale, assignment, novation, unwind or early termination of all or any part of such Swap Agreement; provided that for purposes of this definition, a Swap Agreement shall not be deemed to have been Liquidated if, (a) such Swap Agreement is novated to an Approved Counterparty, with the Borrower or another Credit Party being the “remaining party” for purposes of such novation, or (b) upon its sale, assignment, novation, unwind or early termination, it is replaced, in a substantially contemporaneous transaction, with one or more Swap Agreements with prices, tenors and volumes not less favorable to the Credit Parties than those of such replaced Swap Agreements and without cash payments to the Borrower or any other Credit Party in connection therewith. The terms “Liquidated” and “Liquidation” have correlative meanings thereto.

Loan Documents ” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Fee Letters, the Letter of Credit Agreements , the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements and the Security Instruments.

Loan Limit ” means (a) at any time that is an Investment Grade Period, the lesser of (i) the Total Commitment at such time and (ii)(x) the Borrowing Base in effect at the end of the most recent Borrowing Base Period minus (y) the aggregate amount of Term Loans then outstanding (without giving effect to any payments made with respect to such Term Loans after the date of the most recent Scheduled Redetermination or Interim Redetermination) and (b) during a Borrowing Base Period, the lesser of (i) the Total Commitment at such time and (ii)(x) the Borrowing Base at such time as determined in accordance with Section 2.07 , as may be adjusted from time to time pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.07(e) , minus (y) the aggregate amount of Term Loans then outstanding (without giving effect to any payments made with respect to such Term Loans after the date of the most recent Scheduled Redetermination or Interim Redetermination).

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Majority Lenders ” means, at any time while no Loan or LC Exposure is outstanding, Non-Defaulting Lenders having more than fifty percent (50%) of the Total Commitments of all Non-Defaulting Lenders, and at any time while any Loan or LC Exposure is outstanding, Non-Defaulting Lenders holding more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Loans and participation interests in Letters of Credit of all Non-Defaulting Lenders (in each case without regard to any sale by a Non-Defaulting Lender of a participation in any Loan under Section 12.04(c)).

Material Acquisition ” means any acquisition of Property or series of related acquisitions of Property (including by way of merger or consolidation) that involves the payment of consideration by the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries in excess of the lesser of (a) $75,000,000 and (b) the greater of (i) five percent (5%) of (x) during any Borrowing Base Period, the then-effective Borrowing Base or (y) during any Investment Grade Period, ACNTA and (ii) $50,000,000.

Material Adverse Effect ” means (i) after giving effect to the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases, the entry of the Confirmation Order and the confirmation and consummation of the Plan of Reorganization, (ii) excluding any matters publicly disclosed prior to the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases, any matters disclosed in any first day pleadings or declarations in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases and the events and conditions related and/or leading up to the Chapter 11 Cases and the effects thereof and (iii) excluding results from (A) general changes in hydrocarbon prices, (B) general changes in industry or economic conditions, and (C) general changes in political conditions, including any engagements of hostilities, acts of war or terrorist activities or changes imposed by a governmental authority, a material adverse change in, or material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations, Property or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and the Guarantors taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower or any Guarantor to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents, or (c) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender under the Loan Documents.

Material Debt ” means Debt (other than the Obligations) of the Borrower or any other Credit Party with a principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount.

Material Disposition ” means any disposition of Property or series of related dispositions of Properties that yields gross proceeds to the Borrower or any of its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries in excess of the lesser of (a) $75,000,000 and (b) the greater of (i) five percent (5%) of (x) during any Borrowing Base Period, the then-effective Borrowing Base or (y) during any Investment Grade Period, ACNTA and (ii) $50,000,000.

Maturity Date ” means the date that is fifty-seven (57) months after the Effective Date, or, if such date is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately following such anniversary.

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

Mortgaged Property ” means, at any time, any real or immovable Property owned by the Borrower or any Guarantor which is subject to the Liens existing at such time under the terms of the Security Instruments.

Net Working Capital ” means (a) all current assets of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries, except current assets from commodity price risk management activities arising in the ordinary course of the Oil and Gas Business, less (b) all current liabilities of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries, except current liabilities (i) associated with asset retirement obligations relating to Oil and Gas Properties, (ii) included in Debt and (iii) any current liabilities from commodity price risk management activities arising in the ordinary course of the Oil and Gas Business, in each case as set forth in the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower prepared in accordance with GAAP (excluding any adjustments made pursuant to FASB ASC 815).

 

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New Borrowing Base Notice ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(d) .

Non-Defaulting Lender ” means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.

Notes ” means the promissory notes of the Borrower described in Section 2.02(d) and being substantially in the form of Exhibit A or such other form approved by the Administrative Agent, together with all amendments, modifications, replacements, extensions and rearrangements thereof.

Obligations ” means any and all amounts owing or to be owing (including all interest on any of the Loans, any interest accruing at any post-default rate and interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower or any Guarantor (or which could accrue but for the operation of applicable bankruptcy or insolvency laws), whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) by the Borrower or any Guarantor (whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising): (a) to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender under any Loan Document, (b) to any Secured Swap Party under any Secured Swap Agreement, but excluding any additional transactions or confirmations entered into (i) after such Secured Swap Party ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or (ii) after assignment by a Secured Swap Party to another Secured Swap Party that is not a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, or (c) to any Treasury Management Lender under any Lender Treasury Management Agreement, including in each case all renewals, extensions and/or rearrangements of any of the above; provided that solely with respect to any Guarantor that is not an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder, Excluded Swap Obligations of such Guarantor shall in any event be excluded from “Obligations” owing by such Guarantor.

OFAC ” means the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Oil and Gas Business ” means the business of acquiring, exploring, drilling, exploiting, developing, producing, operating, treating, storing, gathering, processing, and selling oil and gas and the products thereof, together with activities (including physical and financial hedging and swapping) that are ancillary thereto.

Oil and Gas Properties ” means rights, titles, interests and estates in and to oil and gas leases, oil, gas and mineral leases, or other liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon leases, mineral fee interests, overriding royalty and royalty interests, net profit interests and production payment interests, including any reserved or residual interests of whatever nature and including any interests acquired pursuant to unit agreements, pooling agreements and declarations of pooled units; provided , that, for the avoidance of doubt, “Oil and Gas Properties” shall exclude all easements and rights of way used or to be used in connection with any gathering system. Unless otherwise indicated herein, each reference to the term “Oil and Gas Properties” means any and all Oil and Gas Properties owned at the time in question by the Borrower and the other Credit Parties.

Other Connection Taxes ” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).

 

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Other Taxes ” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 5.04 or Section 5.05 ).

Parent Guarantor ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

Participant ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04(c) .

Participant Register ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04(c) .

PBGC ” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and any Person succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.

Permitted Investors ” means, collectively, any Person that, on the Effective Date, after giving effect to the Plan of Reorganization, is the beneficial owner, together with any of its Affiliates (but excluding any operating portfolio companies of the foregoing Persons), of Equity Interests representing 10% or more of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower at such time.

“Permitted Junior Exchange Debt” means Debt of the Borrower or any Guarantor that is incurred in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used solely to repay, the applicable Exchanged Notes in connection with any Permitted Notes Exchange and that is secured by a second or more junior priority Lien on the Collateral; provided, that (a) the Liens securing such Debt are subject to the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements, (b) no such Debt may have a maturity date that is earlier than 91 days after the Maturity Date (determined at the time of incurrence), (c) the aggregate principal amount of such Debt does not exceed the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Exchanged Notes, (d) such Debt is issued at market terms, as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in good faith and (e) such Debt may not be mandatorily prepaid prior to the repayment of the Loans (other than customary offers to purchase upon a change of control, asset sale or casualty or condemnation event and customary acceleration rights after an event of default, which such payments shall be subject to Section 9.04 herein); provided, further, that the terms and documentation of such Debt shall be (i) reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (it being agreed and understood that the Second Lien Indenture and any terms and documentation substantially consistent with the Second Lien Indenture are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or (ii) either (x) not materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, to the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, than the Loan Documents (or if materially more restrictive, the Lenders receive the benefit of the more restrictive terms which, for the avoidance of doubt, may be provided to the Lenders without consent) or (y) if materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, then such more restrictive terms are only applicable after the Maturity Date, in each case, as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in good faith.

Permitted Lien ” means any Lien permitted under Section 9.03 .

“Permitted Notes Exchange” means the exchange by the Borrower of any series of Existing Senior Notes for, or the repayment by the Borrower of any series of Existing Senior Notes solely with the net proceeds of, Permitted Junior Exchange Debt (in the case of a repayment, which proceeds are used solely for that purpose), in each case, on the applicable Exchange Date (such Existing Senior Notes, the “Exchanged Notes”).

 

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“Permitted Second Lien Debt” means Permitted Junior Exchange Debt that is governed by the Second Lien Indenture and that is secured by Liens that are junior and subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations pursuant to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

“Permitted Third Lien Debt” means Permitted Junior Exchange Debt that is secured by Liens that are junior and subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations and the Liens securing Permitted Second Lien Debt pursuant to the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

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

Plan ” means any employee pension benefit plan, as defined in section 3(2) of ERISA (other than a multiemployer plan as defined in section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA), that is subject to Title IV of ERISA or section 412 of the Code and that is sponsored, maintained or contributed to by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Subsidiary with respect to which any of them has or could reasonably expect to have any liability, including on account of an ERISA Affiliate.

Plan Effective Date ” means the “Effective Date” as defined in the Plan of Reorganization.

Plan of Reorganization ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

Platform ” has the meaning assigned such term in Section 8.01 .

Prime Rate ” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in San Francisco, California; each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective. Such rate is set by the Administrative Agent as a general reference rate of interest, taking into account such factors as the Administrative Agent may deem appropriate; it being understood that many of the Administrative Agent’s commercial or other loans are priced in relation to such rate, that it is not necessarily the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer and that the Administrative Agent may make various commercial or other loans at rates of interest having no relationship to such rate.

Projected Volume ” means, at any time, the Borrower’s reasonably anticipated projected future production from Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties.

Property ” means any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

Proposed Borrowing Base ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(c)(i) .

Proposed Borrowing Base Notice ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(c)(ii) .

Proved Reserves ” means “Proved Reserves” as defined in the Definitions for Oil and Gas Reserves (as used in this paragraph, the “Definitions”) promulgated by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (or any generally recognized successor) as in effect at the time in question. “Proved Developed Producing Reserves” means Proved Reserves which are categorized as both “Developed” and “Producing” in the Definitions, “Proved Developed Nonproducing Reserves” means Proved Reserves which are categorized as both “Developed” and “Nonproducing” in the Definitions, and “Proved Undeveloped Reserves” means Proved Reserves which are categorized as “Undeveloped” in the Definitions.

 

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Public Lender ” has the meaning assigned such term in Section 8.01 .

Purchase Money Indebtedness ” means Debt, the proceeds of which are used to finance the acquisition, construction, or improvement of inventory, equipment or other Property in the ordinary course of business.

PV-9 ” means, with respect to any Proved Reserves expected to be produced from any Borrowing Base Properties (or in connection with any proposed acquisition, Oil and Gas Properties that will be acquired by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary), the net present value, discounted at 9%  per annum , of the future net revenues expected to accrue to the Borrower’s and the Credit Parties’ collective interests in such reserves during the remaining expected economic lives of such reserves, calculated in accordance with the Bank Price Deck, in each case, without giving effect to non-property related expenses such as general and administrative expenses, debt service, future income tax expenses and depreciation, depletion and amortization.

Qualified ECP Counterparty ” means, in respect of any CFTC Hedging Obligation, the Borrower and each Guarantor to the extent that such Person (a) has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time any guaranty of obligations under such CFTC Hedging Obligation or any grant of a security interest to secure such CFTC Hedging Obligation becomes effective or (b) otherwise constitutes an “eligible contract participant” with respect to such Swap Agreement under the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another Person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

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

Redemption ” means with respect to any Debt, the repurchase, redemption, prepayment, repayment, defeasance or any other acquisition or retirement for value (or the segregation of funds with respect to any of the foregoing) of such Debt. “ Redeem ” has the correlative meaning thereto.

Redetermination Date ” means, with respect to any Scheduled Redetermination or any Interim Redetermination, the date that the redetermined Borrowing Base related thereto becomes effective pursuant to Section 2.07(d) .

“Redomestication Transaction” means a bona fide redomestication of the Parent Guarantor from a corporation incorporated under the Yukon Business Corporations Act to a corporation organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State of the United States or the District of Columbia; provided that such redomestication does not adversely affect the Collateral and would not be reasonably expected to have material adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to a significant portion of the Lenders.

Register ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04(b)(iv) .

Regulation D ” means Regulation D of the Board, as the same may be amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time.

 

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Related Parties ” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors (including attorneys, accountants and experts) of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.

Release ” means any depositing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, placing, emitting, discarding, abandoning, emptying, discharging, migrating, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing.

Remedial Work ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.10(a) .

Required Lenders ” means, at any time while no Loan or LC Exposure is outstanding, Non-Defaulting Lenders having at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the Total Commitment of all Non-Defaulting Lenders, and at any time while any Loan or LC Exposure is outstanding, Non-Defaulting Lenders holding at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Loans and participation interests in Letters of Credit of all Non-Defaulting Lenders (in each case without regard to any sale by a Non-Defaulting Lender of a participation in any Loan under Section 12.04(c) ).

Required Ratings ” means the Borrower’s Credit Rating is (a) Baa3 with a stable or better outlook, or higher, from Moody’s, (b) BBB- with a stable or better outlook, or higher, from S&P or (c) BBB- with a stable or better outlook, or higher from Fitch.

Reserve Report ” means the Initial Reserve Report and each subsequent report, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, setting forth, as of each of the following dates:

July 1, 2017 and each July 1 thereafter

January 1, 2018 and each January 1 thereafter

(or such other date in the event of an Interim Redetermination), the oil and gas reserves attributable to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties, together with a projection of the rate of production and future net income, taxes, operating expenses and capital expenditures with respect thereto as of such date, based upon the pricing assumptions consistent with the Administrative Agent’s lending requirements at the time.

Responsible Officer ” means, as to any Person, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Financial Officer or any Vice President of such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references to a Responsible Officer herein mean a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.

Restricted Payment ” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other Property) with respect to any Equity Interest in the Borrower or any other Credit Party, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other Property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Equity Interest in the Borrower or any other Credit Party.

Restricted Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary .

Revolving Credit Exposure ” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Loans and its LC Exposure at such time.

 

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Rolling Period ” means for the end of any fiscal quarter, the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter.

S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

Sanction ” means any economic or financial sanction or trade embargo imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by the U.S. government, including those administered by OFAC, the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State.

Sanctioned Country ” means, at any time, a country, territory or region which is itself, or whose government is, the subject or target of any Sanctions (including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).

Sanctioned Person ” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by OFAC, the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b).

Scheduled Redetermination ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.07(b) .

Scheduled Redetermination Date ” means the date on which a Borrowing Base that has been redetermined pursuant to a Scheduled Redetermination becomes effective as provided in Section 2.07(d) .

SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor Governmental Authority.

“Second Lien Indenture” means the indenture governing the terms of the Permitted Second Lien Debt to be issued on the Initial Exchange Date in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit L.

“Second Lien Indenture Documents” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.17(b).

“Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit J or such other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided that any such other form shall have been posted to Lenders on the Platform not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the date of execution thereof and the Majority Lenders shall not have objected thereto within such five (5) Business Day period.

Secured Parties ” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Collateral Agent, the Treasury Management Lenders and Secured Swap Parties, and “Secured Party” means any of them individually.

Secured Swap Agreement ” means (a) any Swap Agreement between (i) the Borrower or any other Credit Party and (ii) any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender that exists on the Effective Date, and (b) any Swap Agreement between (i) the Borrower or any other Credit Party and (ii) any Person that is, on the date such Swap Agreement was entered into, a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in each case, even if such Person subsequently ceases to be a Lender (or an Affiliate thereof) for any reason.

Secured Swap Obligations ” means Obligations referred to in clause (b) of the definition of Obligations.

 

 

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Secured Swap Party ” means the counterparty opposite the Borrower or any other Credit Party under any Secured Swap Agreement.

Securities Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable law.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Security Instruments ” means the mortgages, deeds of trust, pledge agreements, security agreements, control agreements and other agreements, instruments, supplements or certificates described or referred to in Exhibit E , and any and all other agreements, instruments, supplements, consents or certificates (including the Collateral Agency Agreement and the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement) now or hereafter executed and delivered by the Borrower, any other Credit Party, or any other Person (other than Secured Swap Agreements or participation or similar agreements between any Lender and any other lender or creditor with respect to any Obligations pursuant to this Agreement) in order to guarantee or provide collateral security for the payment or performance of the Obligations, the Notes, this Agreement or reimbursement obligations under the Letters of Credit, as such agreements may be amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time.

Senior Notes ” means (a) the Existing Senior Notes and (b) unsecured notes or bonds from time to time issued pursuant to one or more public or private capital markets financings (in each case, as modified, renewed, refunded, replaced in any manner or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time in compliance with this Agreement); provided that (i) such notes or bonds do not provide for any amortization of principal or any scheduled or mandatory prepayments, redemptions, repayments, or defeasance of principal on any date prior to 91 days after the Maturity Date (other than provisions requiring offers to repurchase in connection with asset sales or any change of control), (ii) such notes or bonds have a scheduled maturity date that is no earlier than 91 days after the Maturity Date , (iii)  the financial ratio covenants, negative covenants and events of default pertaining to such notes or bonds are not materially more onerous, taken as a whole , than the financial ratio covenants, negative covenants and Events of Default contained in this Agreement and (iv) both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of any principal Debt under such notes or bonds, no Event of Default or Borrowing Base Deficiency exists or would exist after giving effect to any concurrent repayment of other Debt with the proceeds of such incurrence and any automatic reduction in the Borrowing Base pursuant to Section 2.07(e) .

Senior Notes Debt ” means unsecured Debt in respect of Senior Notes, including the principal amounts owing thereunder and any associated obligations to pay interest, premiums, indemnifications, expenses, costs or other amounts.

Senior Notes Documents ” means each indenture or agreement providing for Senior Notes Debt, the Senior Notes, all guaranties of Senior Notes , and any other instruments or agreements made or delivered by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Senior Notes Debt in each case, as amended, restated, modified, supplemented, renewed or replaced in any manner (whether upon or after termination or otherwise) from time to time.

Specified Commodity Sale Contract ” means any contract for the sale of Hydrocarbons for a price to be calculated at the time of delivery based on the market or index price for a location other than the delivery point (as defined in such sale contract) of the Hydrocarbons sold pursuant to such sale contract (together with any related asset management agreement for the release of transportation capacity between such locations), which sale transaction is intended to be settled by physical delivery of such Hydrocarbons by the Borrower or any other Credit Party to a Person that is, on the date such contract is entered into, a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in each case even if such Person subsequently ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender for any reason.

 

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Statutory Reserve Rate ” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject with respect to the Adjusted LIBO Rate, for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurodollar Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.

subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, (a) any other Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, or (b) any other Person of which Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power (irrespective of whether or not at the time Equity Interests of any other class or classes of such Person shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) are, as of such date, owned, Controlled or held by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.

Subsidiary ” means, unless stated otherwise, any subsidiary of the Borrower.

Subsidiary Guarantor ” means any subsidiary of the Borrower that is a Guarantor.

Super Majority Lenders ” means, at any time while no Loans or LC Exposure is outstanding, Non-Defaulting Lenders having more than eighty percent (80%) of the Total Commitments of all Non-Defaulting Lenders, and at any time while any Loans or LC Exposure is outstanding, Non-Defaulting Lenders holding more than eighty percent (80%) of the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Loans and participation interests in Letters of Credit of all Non-Defaulting Lenders (in each case without regard to any sale by a Non-Defaulting Lender of a participation in any Loan under Section 12.04(c) ).

Swap Agreement ” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement, whether exchange traded, “over-the-counter” or otherwise, involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that (i) no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or the other Credit Parties shall be a Swap Agreement and (ii) no sale of a commodity for deferred shipment or delivery that is intended to be physically settled (other than a forward sale contract to the extent that it provides, at the time such contract (or a specified portion of such contract or a specified transaction under such contract) is entered into, for all in fixed prices; provided , that, the Borrower’s or any other Credit Party’s election for “first of month” pricing or other one month pricing pursuant to a forward sale contract for deliveries of Hydrocarbons for the immediately following calendar month shall be deemed not to be a contract for an all in fixed price for purposes of this definition) shall be a Swap Agreement. If multiple transactions are entered into under a master agreement, each transaction is a separate Swap Agreement.

 

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Swap PV ” means, with respect to any Swap Agreement in respect of commodities, the net present value, discounted at 9%  per annum , of the future receipts expected to be paid to the Borrower or the other Credit Parties under such Swap Agreement, calculated in accordance with the Bank Price Deck; provided that the “Swap PV” shall never be less than $0.00.

Swap Termination Value ” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Agreements, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Agreements, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap 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 Swap Agreements, as determined by the counterparties to such Swap Agreements (including, without duplication, any unpaid amounts due on the date of calculation).

Synthetic Leases ” means, in respect of any Person, all leases which shall have been, or should have been, in accordance with GAAP, treated as operating leases on the financial statements of the Person liable (whether contingently or otherwise) for the payment of rent thereunder and which were properly treated as indebtedness for borrowed money for purposes of U.S. federal income taxes, if the lessee in respect thereof is obligated to either purchase for an amount in excess of, or pay upon early termination an amount in excess of, 80% of the residual value of the Property subject to such operating lease upon expiration or early termination of such lease.

Taxes ” means any and 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.

Termination Date ” means the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Commitments.

Term Loans ” means “Loans” as defined under the Term Loan Agreement.

Term Loan Administrative Agent ” means the administrative agent under the Term Loan Agreement

Term Loan Agreement ” means that certain Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017 by and between the Borrower, the lenders party thereto, and Barclays Bank PLC, as administrative agent.

Term Loan Documents ” means “Loan Documents” as defined under the Term Loan Agreement.

Term Loan Exposure ” means, with respect to any Term Loan Lender at any time, the outstanding principal amount of such Term Loan Lender’s Term Loans.

Term Loan Lenders ” means the “Lenders” as defined under the Term Loan Agreement.

Total Commitment ” means the sum of the Commitments of the Lenders .

Threshold Amount ” means the greater of (a) the lesser of (i) five percent (5%) of (x) during any Borrowing Base Period, the then-effective Borrowing Base or (y) during any Investment Grade Period, ACNTA and (ii) $65,000,000 and (b) $50,000,000.

 

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“Third Amendment” means that certain Third Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of December 21, 2018, by and among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto .

“Third Amendment Effective Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Third Amendment.

“Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit K or such other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided that any such other form shall have been posted to Lenders on the Platform not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the date of execution thereof and the Majority Lenders shall not have objected thereto within such five (5) Business Day period.

“Total Commitment” means the sum of the Commitments of the Lenders .

Total Exposure ” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure and the aggregate Term Loan Exposure at such date.

Transactions ” means, (a) with respect to the Borrower, the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement, each other Loan Document to which it is a party, each Term Loan Document to which it is a party and each Existing Senior Notes Document to which it is a party, the borrowing of Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder, the borrowing of Term Loans and the issuance of the Existing Senior Notes and the grant of Liens by the Borrower on Mortgaged Properties and other Collateral pursuant to the Security Instruments and (b) with respect to each Guarantor, the execution, delivery and performance by such Guarantor of each Loan Document, Term Loan Document and Existing Senior Notes Document to which it is a party, the guaranteeing of the Obligations by such Guarantor, the guaranteeing of the obligations under the Term Loan Documents and the Existing Senior Notes Documents and the grant by such Guarantor of Liens on Mortgaged Properties and other Collateral pursuant to the Security Instruments.

Transfer ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.11 .

Treasury Management Agreement ” means any agreement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depositing, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.

Treasury Management Lender ” means any Person that, at the time it enters into a Treasury Management Agreement, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in its capacity as a party to such Treasury Management Agreement.

Type ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate.

Ultra Petroleum ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

Undrawn Amount ” means, at any time, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the maximum amount that may be drawn under such Letter of Credit after giving effect to (a) all provisions in such Letter of Credit providing for future automatic increases in the amount that may be drawn under such Letter of Credit (regardless of whether such automatic increases have then occurred at such time) and (b) any amounts previously drawn under such Letter of Credit.

 

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Uniform Commercial Code ” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time, of the State of New York or of any other state the laws of which are required as a result thereof to be applied in connection with the attachment, perfection or priority of, or remedies with respect to, Administrative Agent’s or any Secured Party’s Lien on any Collateral.

Unproven Acreage ” means, at any time, all Oil and Gas Properties that had no Proved Reserves attributed thereto in the then most recent Reserve Report (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Oil and Gas Properties not evaluated in the most recent Reserve Report).

Unrestricted Parent Entity ” means any Subsidiary of Ultra Petroleum other than UP Energy or any Subsidiary of UP Energy other than the Borrower.

Unrestricted Subsidiary ” means (a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower designated as such on Schedule 7.14 , (b) which the Borrower has designated in writing to the Administrative Agent to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 9.15 or (c) any subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

UP Energy ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.03(g)(iii) .

Volumetric Production Payments ” means production payment obligations recorded as deferred revenue in accordance with GAAP, together with all undertakings and obligations in connection therewith.

Withholding Agent ” means the Borrower, any Guarantor or the Administrative Agent.

Write-Down and Conversion Powers ” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

Section 1.03 Types of Loans and Borrowings . For purposes of this Agreement, Loans and Borrowings, respectively, may be classified and referred to by Type ( e.g. , a “Eurodollar Loan” or a “Eurodollar Borrowing”).

Section 1.04 Terms Generally; Rules of Construction . 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” as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “or” is not exclusive. The word “shall” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “will”. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth in the Loan Documents), (b) any reference herein to any law shall be construed as referring to such law as amended, modified, codified or reenacted, in whole or in part, and in effect from time to time, (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to the restrictions contained in the Loan Documents), (d) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (e) with respect to the determination of any time period, the word “from” means “from and including” and the word “to” means “to and including”, (f) any reference herein to Articles, Sections, Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and

 

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Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (g) with respect to the requirement to deliver any certificate, an executed paper copy of such certificate shall accompany any other form of delivery permitted hereunder. No provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be interpreted or construed against any Person solely because such Person or its legal representative drafted such provision. To the extent the terms “Unrestricted Subsidiary” or “Unrestricted Subsidiaries” are used in any Loan Document, the parties hereto agree that there are no Unrestricted Subsidiaries for such purposes and such provisions shall have no effect solely to the extent relating to any such “Unrestricted Subsidiary” or “Unrestricted Subsidiaries.”

Section 1.05 Accounting Terms and Determinations; GAAP . Unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all determinations with respect to accounting matters hereunder shall be made, and all financial statements and certificates and reports as to financial matters required to be furnished to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder shall be prepared, in accordance with GAAP, applied on a basis consistent with the financial statements referred to in Section 7.04(a) except for changes in which the Borrower’s independent certified public accountants concur and which are disclosed to the Administrative Agent as part of, or along with, the audited annual financial statements delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.01(a) ; provided that, unless the Borrower and the Majority Lenders shall otherwise agree in writing, no such change shall modify or affect the manner in which compliance with the covenants set forth in Article IX is computed such that all such computations shall be conducted utilizing financial information presented consistently with prior periods. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, for the purposes of calculating any of the ratios tested under Section 9.01 , and the components of each of such ratios, Parent Guarantor and all Unrestricted Subsidiaries, and all subsidiaries of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries (including their its assets, liabilities, income, losses, cash flows, and the elements thereof) shall be excluded , except for any cash dividends or distributions actually paid by any Unrestricted Subsidiary or any of its subsidiaries to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, which shall be deemed to be income to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary when actually received by it . .

ARTICLE II

THE CREDITS

Section 2.01 Commitments . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make Loans to the Borrower during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in such Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Commitment or the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the Loan Limit. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, repay and reborrow the Loans.

Section 2.02 Loans and Borrowings .

(a) Borrowings; Several Obligations . Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.

(b) Types of Loans . Subject to Section 3.03 , each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

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(c) Minimum Amounts; Limitation on Number of Borrowings . At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $500,000; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, an ABR Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.08(e) . Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time, provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of ten Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.

(d) Notes . Upon request of a Lender, the Loans made by such Lender shall be evidenced by a single promissory note of the Borrower in substantially the form of Exhibit A , and (i) in the case of any Lender party hereto as of the date of this Agreement, such Note shall be dated as of the date of this Agreement, (ii) in the case of any Lender that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, such Note shall be dated as of the effective date of the Assignment and Assumption, or (iii) in the case of any Lender that becomes a party hereto in connection with an increase in the Total Commitment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) , as of the effective date of such increase, in each case, payable to such Lender in a principal amount equal to its Commitment as in effect on such date, and otherwise duly completed. In the event that any Lender’s Commitment increases or decreases for any reason (whether pursuant to Section 2.06 , Section 12.04(b) or otherwise), the Borrower shall, upon request of such Lender, deliver or cause to be delivered on the effective date of such increase or decrease, a new Note payable to such Lender in a principal amount equal to its Commitment after giving effect to such increase or decrease, and otherwise duly completed, against return to the Borrower of the Note so replaced. The date, amount, Type, interest rate and, if applicable, Interest Period of each Loan made by each Lender, and all payments made on account of the principal thereof, shall be recorded by such Lender on its books for its Note, and, prior to any transfer, may be endorsed by such Lender on a schedule attached to such Note or any continuation thereof or on any separate record maintained by such Lender. Failure to make any such notation or to attach a schedule shall not affect any Lender’s or the Borrower’s rights or obligations in respect of such Loans or affect the validity of such transfer by any Lender of its Note.

Section 2.03 Requests for Borrowings . To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request in writing in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or, in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, one Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that no such notice shall be required for any deemed request of an ABR Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.08(e) . Each such written Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit B and signed by the Borrower. Each such written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02 :

(a) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing;

(b) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;

(c) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;

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(e) the amount of the then effective Borrowing Base, the amount of the then effective Total Commitment, the current Loan Limit, the current total Term Loan Exposures, the current total Revolving Credit Exposures (without regard to the requested Borrowing) and the pro forma total Revolving Credit Exposures (giving effect to the requested Borrowing); and

(f) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.05 .

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Each Borrowing Request shall constitute a representation by the Borrower that the amount of the requested Borrowing shall not cause the total Revolving Credit Exposures to exceed the Loan Limit.

Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section 2.03 , the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.

Section 2.04 Interest Elections .

(a) Conversion and Continuance . Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section 2.04 . The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.

(b) Interest Election Requests . To make an election pursuant to this Section 2.04 , the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election in writing by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such written Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit C and signed by the Borrower.

(c) Information in Interest Election Requests . Each written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02 :

(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(iii) and (iv) shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);

(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;

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(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.

(v) If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

(d) Notice to Lenders by the Administrative Agent . Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

(e) Effect of Failure to Deliver Timely Interest Election Request and Events of Default on Interest Election . If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing: no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing (and any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective) and unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

Section 2.05 Funding of Borrowings .

(a) Funding by Lenders . Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with a Lender and designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided that ABR Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.08(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Bank. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for its 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 its Loan in any particular place or manner.

(b) Presumption of Funding by the Lenders . Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.05(a) 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 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 in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Loans. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s 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.

 

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Section 2.06 Increase, Reduction and Termination of Total Commitment .

(a) Scheduled Termination of Commitments . Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date. If at any time the Borrowing Base or the Total Commitment is terminated or reduced to zero, then the Commitments shall terminate on the effective date of such termination or reduction.

(b) Optional Termination and Reduction of Total Commitment .

(i) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Total Commitment; provided that (A) each reduction of the Total Commitment shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $2,000,000, (B) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Total Commitment if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 3.04(c)(i) , the total Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the Total Commitments, and (C) upon any reduction of the Total Commitment, the Commitments shall be automatically reduced (ratably among the Lenders in accordance with each Lender’s Applicable Percentage) so that they equal the Total Commitment as so reduced.

(ii) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Total Commitment under Section 2.06(b)(i) at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.06(b)(ii) shall be irrevocable; provided , however , that such notice of commitment reduction may state that such termination or reduction is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, the proceeds of which shall be used to repay the Obligations, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by written notice provided to Agent prior to the specified effective date thereof) if such condition is not satisfied. Each reduction of the Total Commitment shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with each Lender’s Applicable Percentage.

(c) Increases, Reductions and Terminations of Total Commitment .

(i) Subject to the conditions set forth in Section 2.06(c)(ii) , the Borrower may increase the Total Commitment then in effect by (A) increasing the Commitment of a Lender or (B) causing a Person that is acceptable to the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Bank that at such time is not a Lender to become a Lender (any such Person that is not at such time a Lender and becomes a Lender, an “ Additional Lender ”), or (C) a combination of the methods described in clauses (A) and (B).

(ii) Any increase in the Total Commitment shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

(A) such increase shall not be less than $25,000,000 unless the Administrative Agent otherwise consents;

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(C) no Lender’s Commitment may be increased without the consent of such Lender;

(D) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Guarantors set forth in this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such increase, except (i) to the extent any such representations and warranties are expressly limited to an earlier date, in which case, on and as of the date of such increase, such representations and warranties shall continue to be true and correct as of such specified earlier date, and (ii) to the extent that any such representation and warranty is expressly qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect, such representation and warranty (as so qualified) shall continue to be true and correct in all respects;

(E) the maturity date of such increase shall be the same as the Maturity Date;

(F) the increase shall be on the exact same terms and pursuant to the exact same documentation applicable to this Agreement (other than with respect to any arrangement, structuring, upfront or other fees or discounts payable in connection with such increase) ( provided that the Applicable Margin of the facility shall be increased to be consistent with that for such increase);

(G) the Borrower may seek Commitments, in its sole discretion, from either existing Lenders or, with the consent of the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Bank (in each case, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), from additional banks, financial institutions or other institutional lenders or investors who will become Lenders hereunder; and

(H) no Borrowing Base Deficiency shall exist after giving effect to the increase ( provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower may elect to redetermine the Borrowing Base in accordance with Section 2.07(b)(iii) for purposes of satisfying the condition set forth in this Section 2.06(c)(ii)(H) ;

(I) if the Borrower elects to increase the Total Commitment by increasing the Commitment of a Lender, the Borrower and such Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit H (a “ Commitment Increase Certificate ”); and

(J) if the Borrower elects to increase the Total Commitment by causing an Additional Lender to become a party to this Agreement, then the Borrower and such Additional Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I (an “ Additional Lender Certificate ”), together with an Administrative Questionnaire and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 ( provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in connection with any such increase), and the Borrower shall (1) if requested by the Additional Lender, deliver a Note payable to such Additional Lender in a principal amount equal to its Commitment, and otherwise duly completed and (2) pay any applicable fees as may have been agreed to between the Borrower and the Additional Lender, and, to the extent applicable and agreed to by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent.

(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to Section 2.06(c)(iv) , from and after the effective date specified in the Commitment Increase Certificate or the Additional Lender Certificate (or if any Eurodollar Borrowings are outstanding, then the last day of the Interest Period in respect of such Eurodollar Borrowings, unless the Borrower has paid any compensation required by Section 5.02 ): (A) the amount of the Total Commitment shall be increased as set forth therein,

 

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and (B) in the case of an Additional Lender Certificate, any Additional Lender party thereto shall be a party to this Agreement and have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In addition, the Lender or the Additional Lender, as applicable, shall purchase a pro rata portion of the outstanding Loans (and participation interests in Letters of Credit) of each of the other Lenders (and such Lenders hereby agree to sell and to take all such further action to effectuate such sale) such that each Lender (including any Additional Lender, if applicable) shall hold its Applicable Percentage of the outstanding Loans (and participation interests) after giving effect to the increase in the Total Commitment (and the resulting modifications of each Lender’s Commitment pursuant to Section 2.06(c)(iv) or Section 2.06(c)(v) ).

(iv) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Commitment Increase Certificate or an Additional Lender Certificate, executed by the Borrower and the Lender or by the Borrower and the Additional Lender party thereto, as applicable, the Administrative Questionnaire referred to in Section 2.06(c)(ii) and the break-funding payments from the Borrower, if any, required by Section 5.02 , if applicable, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Commitment Increase Certificate or Additional Lender Certificate and record the information contained therein in the Register required to be maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 12.04(b)(iv) . No increase in the Total Commitment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this Section 2.06(c)(iv) .

(v) Upon any increase in the Total Commitment pursuant to this Section 2.06(c) , (A) each Lender’s Commitment shall be automatically deemed amended to the extent necessary so that each such Lender’s Applicable Percentage equals the percentage of the Total Commitment represented by such Lender’s Commitment, in each case after giving effect to such increase, and (B)  Annex I to this Agreement shall be deemed amended to reflect the Commitment of each Lender (including any Additional Lender) as thereby increased, any changes in the Lenders’ Commitments pursuant to the foregoing clause (A), and any resulting changes in the Lenders’ Applicable Percentages.

(vi) The Borrower may from time to time terminate or reduce the Total Commitment; provided that (A) each reduction of the Total Commitment shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $1,000,000 and (B) the Borrower shall not reduce the Total Commitment if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 3.04(c) , the total Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the Total Commitment as reduced.

(vii) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Total Commitment under Section 2.06(c)(vi) at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.06(c)(vii) shall be irrevocable. Any termination or reduction of the Total Commitment shall be permanent and may not be reinstated, except pursuant to Section 2.06(c)(i) . Each reduction of the Total Commitment shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with each Lender’s Applicable Percentage.

(viii) Upon any redetermination or other adjustment in the Borrowing Base pursuant to this Agreement that would otherwise result in the difference between (A) the Borrowing Base and (B) total Term Loan Exposures at such time becoming less than the Total Commitment, the Total Commitment shall be automatically reduced (ratably among the Lenders in accordance with each Lender’s Applicable Percentage) so that they equal such difference (and Annex I shall be deemed amended to reflect such amendments to each Lender’s Commitment and the Total Commitment).

 

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(ix) Contemporaneously with any increase in the Borrowing Base pursuant to this Agreement, if (A) the Borrower elects to increase the Total Commitment Amount and (B) each Lender has consented to such increase in its Commitment, then the Total Commitment Amount shall be increased (ratably among the Lenders in accordance with each Lender’s Applicable Percentage) by the amount requested by the Borrower (subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.06(c)(ii)(A) ) without the requirement that any Lender deliver a Commitment Increase Certificate or that the Borrower pay any amounts under Section 5.02 , and Annex I shall be deemed amended to reflect such amendments to each Lender’s Commitment and the Total Commitment. The Administrative Agent shall record the information regarding such increases in the Register required to be maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 12.04(b)(iv) .

Section 2.07 Borrowing Base .

(a) Initial Borrowing Base . During a Borrowing Base Period, this Agreement shall be subject to a Borrowing Base. For the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the first Redetermination Date thereafter, the amount of the Borrowing Base shall be $1,200,000,000. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrowing Base may be subject to further adjustments from time to time pursuant to Section  2.07(e) and Section  9.11 .

(b) Scheduled and Interim Redeterminations . During a Borrowing Base Period, the Borrowing Base shall be redetermined in accordance with this Section 2.07 (each such redetermination, a “ Scheduled Redetermination ”) based on the Reserve Reports prepared as of the following dates:

July 1, 2017 and each July 1 thereafter

January 1, 2018 and each January 1 thereafter

In addition, (i) the Borrower may elect to cause, by notifying the Administrative Agent thereof, and the Administrative Agent shall cause, at the election and direction of the Required Lenders, by notifying the Borrower thereof, one time between Scheduled Redeterminations, the Borrowing Base to be redetermined between Scheduled Redeterminations, (ii) upon any Additional Interim Redetermination Event, the Administrative Agent shall, at the election and direction of the Majority Lenders, by notifying the Borrower thereof, cause the Borrowing Base to be redetermined between Scheduled Redeterminations, and (iii) the Borrower may elect, by notifying the Administrative Agent of any acquisition of Oil and Gas Properties by the Borrower or any other Credit Party with a purchase price in the aggregate of at least five percent (5%) of the then effective Borrowing Base, to cause the Borrowing Base to be redetermined between Scheduled Redeterminations. Each redetermination of the Borrowing Base pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence is referred to herein as an “Interim Redetermination” and shall be effectuated in accordance with this Section 2.07 .

(c) Scheduled and Interim Redetermination Procedure .

(i) Each Scheduled Redetermination and each Interim Redetermination shall be effectuated as follows: Upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of the Reserve Report and the certificate required to be delivered by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Scheduled Redetermination, pursuant to Section 8.12(a) and (d) , and, in the case of an Interim Redetermination, pursuant to Section 8.12(c) and (d) , and such other reports, data and supplemental information, including the information provided pursuant to Section 8.12(c) , as may, from time to time, be reasonably requested by the Required Lenders (the Reserve Report, such certificate and such other reports, data and supplemental information being the “ Engineering Reports ”), the Administrative Agent shall evaluate the information contained in the Engineering Reports and shall, in good faith, propose a new Borrowing Base (the “ Proposed Borrowing Base ”) based upon such information and such other information (including,

 

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without limitation, the status of title information with respect to the Oil and Gas Properties as described in the Engineering Reports and the existence of any other Debt) as the Administrative Agent deems appropriate in its sole discretion and consistent with its normal oil and gas lending criteria as it exists at the particular time.

(ii) The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Proposed Borrowing Base (the “ Proposed Borrowing Base Notice ”):

(A) in the case of a Scheduled Redetermination (1) if the Administrative Agent shall have received the Engineering Reports required to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.12(a) and (d)  in a timely and complete manner, then, on or before each March 15 and September 15 (or such date promptly thereafter as reasonably practicable) of each year following the date of delivery or (2) if the Administrative Agent shall not have received the Engineering Reports required to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.12(a) and (d)  in a timely and complete manner, then promptly after the Administrative Agent has received complete Engineering Reports from the Borrower and has had a reasonable opportunity to determine the Proposed Borrowing Base in accordance with Section 2.07(c)(i) ; and

(B) in the case of an Interim Redetermination, promptly, and in any event, within fifteen (15) days after the Administrative Agent has received the required Engineering Reports.

(iii) (A) Any Proposed Borrowing Base that would increase the Borrowing Base then in effect must be approved or deemed to have been approved by all of the Lenders and (B) any Proposed Borrowing Base that would decrease or maintain the Borrowing Base then in effect must be approved or be deemed to have been approved by the Decrease and Maintenance Lenders, in each case, (x) in each Lender’s sole discretion consistent with its normal oil and gas lending criteria as it exists at the particular time and (y) as provided in this Section 2.07(c)(iii) . Upon receipt of the Proposed Borrowing Base Notice, each Lender shall have fifteen (15) days to agree with the Proposed Borrowing Base or disagree with the Proposed Borrowing Base by proposing an alternate Borrowing Base. If at the end of such fifteen (15) days, any Lender has not communicated its approval or disapproval in writing to the Administrative Agent, such silence shall be deemed to be an approval of the Proposed Borrowing Base. If, at the end of such 15-day period, all of the Lenders, in the case of a Proposed Borrowing Base that would increase the Borrowing Base then in effect, or the Decrease and Maintenance Lenders, in the case of a Proposed Borrowing Base that would decrease or maintain the Borrowing Base then in effect, have approved or deemed to have approved, as aforesaid, then the Proposed Borrowing Base shall become the new Borrowing Base, effective on the date specified in Section 2.07(d) . If, however, at the end of such 15-day period, all of the Lenders or the Decrease and Maintenance Lenders, as applicable, have not approved or deemed to have approved, as aforesaid, then the Administrative Agent shall poll the Lenders to ascertain the highest Borrowing Base then acceptable to a number of Lenders sufficient to constitute the Decrease and Maintenance Lenders and, so long as such amount does not increase the Borrowing Base then in effect, such amount shall become the new Borrowing Base, effective on the date specified in Section 2.07(d) .

(d) Effectiveness of a Redetermined Borrowing Base . After a redetermined Borrowing Base is approved or is deemed to have been approved by all of the Lenders or the Decrease and Maintenance Lenders, as applicable, pursuant to Section 2.07(c)(iii) or adjusted pursuant to Section  2.07(e) or Section  9.11 , the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the amount of the redetermined Borrowing Base (the “ New Borrowing Base Notice ”), and such amount shall become the new Borrowing Base, effective and applicable to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders:

 

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(i) in the case of a Scheduled Redetermination, if the Administrative Agent shall have received the Engineering Reports required to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.12(a) and (d)  in a timely and complete manner, then on or before October 1, 2017 and thereafter each April 1 or October 1, as applicable, following such notice (or, in each case, such date promptly thereafter as reasonably practicable), or if the Administrative Agent shall not have received the Engineering Reports required to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.12(a) and (d)  in a timely and complete manner, then on the Business Day next succeeding delivery of such notice; and

(ii) in the case of an Interim Redetermination, on the Business Day next succeeding delivery of such notice.

Such amount shall then become the Borrowing Base until the next Scheduled Redetermination Date, the next Interim Redetermination Date or the next adjustment to the Borrowing Base under Section 9.11 , whichever occurs first. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Scheduled Redetermination, Interim Redetermination or adjusted Borrowing Base shall become effective until the New Borrowing Base Notice related thereto is received by the Borrower.

(e) Reduction of Borrowing Base Upon Issuance of Senior Notes . In addition to the other redeterminations of the Borrowing Base provided for herein, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, upon the issuance of any Senior Notes after the Effective Date by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to Section 9.02(e) , the Borrowing Base then in effect shall be automatically reduced by an amount equal to the product of 0.25 multiplied by the stated principal amount of such Senior Notes (without regard to any initial issue discount), and, in each case, the Borrowing Base as so reduced shall become the new Borrowing Base immediately upon the date of such issuance, effective and applicable to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent , the Issuing Bank, and the Lenders on such date until the next redetermination or modification of the Borrowing Base pursuant to this Agreement.

Section 2.08 Letters of Credit .

(a) General . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of dollar denominated Letters of Credit for its own account or for the account of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period; provided that the Borrower may not request the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of Letters of Credit hereunder if a Borrowing Base Deficiency exists at such time or would exist as a result thereof. The aggregate amount of the outstanding Letters of Credit issued by any Issuing Bank shall not exceed such Issuing Bank’s LC Issuance Limit and the aggregate amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit issued by all Issuing Banks shall not exceed the LC Commitment. Each Letter of Credit shall be in a minimum face amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) (or such lesser amount as may be agreed to by Issuing Bank). In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.

(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions . To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or facsimile (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Issuing Bank) to the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (not less than five (5) Business Days in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice:

 

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(i) requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended;

(ii) specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day);

(iii) specifying the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with Section 2.08(c) );

(iv) specifying the amount of such Letter of Credit;

(v) specifying the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit; and

(vi) specifying the amount of the then effective Borrowing Base and the then effective Total Commitment and whether a Borrowing Base Deficiency exists at such time, the current total Revolving Credit Exposures and Total Exposure (without regard to the requested Letter of Credit or the requested amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit) and the pro forma total Revolving Credit Exposures and Total Exposure (giving effect to the requested Letter of Credit or the requested amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit).

Each notice shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that after giving effect to the requested issuance, amendment, renewal or extension, as applicable, (A) the LC Exposure shall not exceed the LC Commitment, (B) the aggregate amount of outstanding Letters of Credit issued by the applicable Issuing Bank does not exceed the LC Issuance Limit of such Issuing Bank, and (C) the total Revolving Credit Exposures shall not exceed the Loan Limit. No letter of credit issued by the Issuing Bank (if the Issuing Bank is not the Administrative Agent) shall be deemed to be a “Letter of Credit” issued under this Agreement unless the Issuing Bank has requested and received written confirmation from the Administrative Agent that the representations by Borrower contained in clauses (A) and (C) of the immediately preceding sentence are true and correct).

If requested by the Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on the Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit; provided that, in the event of any conflict between such application and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall control.

(c) Expiration Date . Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension), and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date. Each Letter of Credit with a one (1) year term may provide for the renewal thereof for additional one (1) year periods; provided that no such period shall extend beyond the date described in clause (ii) above.

(d) Participations . By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Bank or the Lenders, the Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Lender, and each Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Bank, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in Section

 

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2.08(e) , or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this Section 2.08(d) in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default, the existence of a Borrowing Base Deficiency or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

(e) Reimbursement . If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if the Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date, or, if such notice has not been received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to such time on the day of receipt; provided that, unless the Borrower has notified the Administrative Agent that it intends to reimburse all or part of such LC Disbursement without using Loan proceeds or has submitted a Borrowing Request with respect thereto, the Borrower shall, subject to the conditions to Borrowing set forth herein, be deemed to have requested, and the Borrower does hereby request under such circumstances, that such payment be financed with an ABR Borrowing in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Borrowing. If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.05 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.05 shall apply, mutatis mutandis , to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.08(e) , the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to this Section 2.08(e) to reimburse the Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and the Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Lender pursuant to this Section 2.08(e) to reimburse the Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Loans as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.

(f) Obligations Absolute . The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in Section 2.08(e) shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit, any Letter of Credit Agreement or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, payment by the Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit or any Letter of Credit Agreement, or any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section 2.08(f) , constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. Neither the Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor the Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit

 

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or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise due care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof or by the Issuing Bank’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.

(g) Disbursement Procedures . The Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. The Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Issuing Bank and the Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement.

(h) Interim Interest . If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, until the Borrower shall have reimbursed the Issuing Bank for such LC Disbursement (either with its own funds or a Borrowing under Section 2.08(e) ), the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Loans. Interest accrued pursuant to this Section 2.08(h) shall be for the account of the Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Lender pursuant to Section 2.08(e) to reimburse the Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment.

(i) Replacement of the Issuing Bank . The Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of the Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.05(b) . From and after the effective date of any such replacement, the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of the Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement of the Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of the Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit. Schedule 1.02 shall be amended upon the written agreement of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and any successor Issuing Bank to set forth such Issuing Bank’s LC Issuance Limit, and no successor Issuing Bank shall be an “Issuing Bank” hereunder until such amendment is effective.

 

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(j) Cash Collateralization .

(i) If the Borrower is required to Cash Collateralize the excess attributable to an LC Exposure in connection with any prepayment pursuant to Section 3.04(c) , or the Borrower is required to Cash Collateralize a Defaulting Lender’s LC Exposure pursuant to Section 4.05(a)(v) , then the Borrower shall Cash Collateralize such LC Exposure or the excess attributable to such LC Exposure, as the case may be, as of such date. In addition, if the Commitments are terminated or the Loans become due and payable pursuant to Section 10.02(a) or the Loans are not paid in full on the Maturity Date, then the Borrower shall deposit, in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure.

(ii) The Borrower, and to the extent provided by any Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender, hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Issuing Bank and the Lenders, a security interest in and Lien on each account (a “ Collateral Account ”) in which the Borrower has Cash Collateralized any obligation hereunder and all cash, checks, drafts, certificates and instruments, if any, from time to time deposited or held in such account, all deposits or wire transfers made thereto, any and all investments purchased with funds deposited in such account, all interest, dividends, cash, instruments, financial assets and other Property from time to time received, receivable or otherwise payable in respect of, or in exchange for, any or all of the foregoing, and all proceeds, products, accessions, rents, profits, income and benefits therefrom, and any substitutions and replacements therefor (collectively, the “ Cash Collateral ”). The Borrower, and to the extent granted by any Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender, agrees to maintain, or cause to be maintained, such security interest as an exclusive first priority and continuing perfected security interest. If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank as herein provided (other than Permitted Liens), or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than the minimum collateral amount required hereunder, the Borrower will, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency (after giving effect to any Cash Collateral provided by the Defaulting Lender).

(iii) The Borrower’s obligation to Cash Collateralize pursuant to this Section 2.08(j) shall be absolute and unconditional, without regard to whether any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit has attempted to draw down all or a portion of such amount under the terms of a Letter of Credit, and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, shall not be subject to any defense or be affected by a right of set-off, counterclaim or recoupment which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary may now or hereafter have against any such beneficiary, the Issuing Bank, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or any other Person for any reason whatsoever.

(iv) Each Collateral Account and all Cash Collateral shall secure the payment and performance of the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over each Collateral Account and the Cash Collateral. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in each Collateral Account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents. If the Borrower is required to Cash Collateralize hereunder in connection with any prepayment pursuant to Section 3.04(c) , then such Cash

 

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Collateral will be returned to the Borrower promptly after the Total Exposure ceases to exceed the Borrowing Base. If the Borrower is required to Cash Collateralize hereunder pursuant to Section 4.05(a)(v) , then such Cash Collateral shall no longer be required to be held as Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.08(j) following the elimination or reduction of the applicable Fronting Exposure (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender) such that there exists excess Cash Collateral; provided that, subject to Section 4.05 the Person providing Cash Collateral and the Issuing Bank may agree that Cash Collateral shall be held to support future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations, and provided further that to the extent that such Cash Collateral was provided by the Borrower, such Cash Collateral shall be returned to the Borrower but shall remain subject to the security interest granted pursuant to the Loan Documents. If the Borrower is required to Cash Collateralize hereunder pursuant to the final sentence of Section 2.08(j)(i) , then such Cash Collateral shall be returned to the Borrower within three Business Days after the LC Exposure has been reduced to zero.

ARTICLE III

PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST; PREPAYMENTS; FEES

Section 3.01 Repayment of Loans . The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Loan on the Termination Date.

Section 3.02 Interest .

(a) ABR Loans . The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin for ABR Borrowings, but in no event to exceed the Highest Lawful Rate.

(b) Eurodollar Loans . The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Borrowings, but in no event to exceed the Highest Lawful Rate.

(c) Post-Default Rate . Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (i) an Event of Default specified in Section 10.01(a) , 10.01(b) , 10.01(h) or 10.01(i) has occurred and is continuing, or (ii) the Required Lenders so elect (or direct the Administrative Agent to so elect) in connection with the occurrence and continuance of any other Event of Default, then in each case all Loans outstanding shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to two percent (2%)  plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loans (including the Applicable Margin applicable with respect to such Loans), but in no event to exceed the Highest Lawful Rate.

(d) Interest Payment Dates . Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and on the Termination Date; provided that interest accrued pursuant to Section 3.02(c) shall be payable on demand. In the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than an optional prepayment of an ABR Loan prior to the Termination Date), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment, and in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.

(e) Interest Rate Computations . All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, unless such computation would exceed the Highest Lawful Rate, in which case interest shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based

 

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on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate, Adjusted LIBO Rate or LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and be binding upon the parties hereto.

Section 3.03 Alternate Rate of Interest . If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:

(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period; or

(b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate or LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or facsimile as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective, and if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing.

Section 3.04 Prepayments .

(a) Optional Prepayments . The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with Section 3.04(b) .

(b) Notice and Terms of Optional Prepayment . The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of any optional prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, or (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid. Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each such partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02 . Each such prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing and shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 3.02 .

(c) Mandatory Prepayments .

(i) If, after giving effect to any termination or reduction in the Total Commitment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) , the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceed the Loan Limit, then the Borrower shall prepay the Borrowings on the date of such termination or reduction in an aggregate principal amount equal to such excess, and if any excess remains after prepaying all of the Borrowings as a result of an LC Exposure, Cash Collateralize such excess as provided in Section 2.08(j) .

 

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(ii) Other than as provided for pursuant to Sections 3.04(c)(i) and , 3.04(c)(iii) and 3.04(c)(iv) , upon the occurrence of a Borrowing Base Deficiency, the Borrower shall eliminate such Borrowing Base Deficiency in its entirety by electing (with written notice to the Administrative Agent) within ten (10) Business Days following the occurrence of such Borrowing Base Deficiency to take one or more of the following actions:

(A) within thirty days after the notice given pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) , prepaying the Borrowings, and if any excess remains after prepaying all of the Borrowings as a result of an LC Exposure, Cash Collateralizing such excess as provided in Section 2.08(j) ;

(B) within thirty days after the notice given pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) , adding additional Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties to the Reserve Report (and, if required under Section 8.14 , mortgaging additional Oil and Gas Properties in compliance with the requirements of Section 8.14 ) that, in each case, are acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and would result in an increase to the Borrowing Base; or

(C) within thirty days after the notice given pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) , electing to make (and thereafter paying in accordance with such election) six equal monthly payments that collectively prepay the Borrowings until such excess is reduced to zero (and if any excess remains after prepaying all of the Borrowings as a result of an LC Exposure, Cash Collateralize such excess as provided in Section 2.08(j) ), with the first such payment being due and payable within such thirty days and each subsequent payment being due and payable on the same day in each of the subsequent calendar months;

provided that all payments required to be made pursuant to this Section 3.04(c)(ii) must be made on or prior to the Termination Date.

(iii) Upon any adjustment to the Borrowing Base pursuant to Section 2.07(e) or Section 9.11 , if the Total Exposure exceeds the Borrowing Base as adjusted, then the Borrower shall prepay the Borrowings in an aggregate principal amount equal to such excess and if any excess remains after prepaying all of the Borrowings as a result of an LC Exposure, Cash Collateralize such excess as provided in Section 2.08(j) . The Borrower shall be obligated to make such prepayment and/or Cash Collateralize such excess on the third (3rd) Business Day after it receives the applicable New Borrowing Base Notice in accordance with Section 2.07(d) ; provided that all payments required to be made pursuant to this Section 3.04(c)(iii) must be made on or prior to the Termination Date.

(iv) If on any date, a Borrowing Base Deficiency results from the addition of PIK Interest (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) to the Total Exposure, then on the date such Borrowing Base Deficiency occurs, the Borrower shall prepay the Borrowings in an aggregate principal amount equal to such Borrowing Base Deficiency and if any excess remains after prepaying all of the Borrowings as a result of an LC Exposure, Cash Collateralize such excess as provided in Section 2.08(j).

( iv v ) Each prepayment of Borrowings pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) shall be applied, first , ratably to any ABR Borrowings then outstanding, and, second , to any Eurodollar Borrowings then outstanding, and if more than one Eurodollar Borrowing is then outstanding, to each such Eurodollar Borrowing in order of priority beginning with the Eurodollar Borrowing with the least number of days remaining in the Interest Period applicable thereto and ending with the Eurodollar Borrowing with the most number of days remaining in the Interest Period applicable thereto.

 

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( v vi ) Each prepayment of Borrowings pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowings. Prepayments pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 3.02 .

(d) No Premium or Penalty . All prepayments permitted or required under this Section 3.04 shall include breakage expense, if any, required under Section 5.02 and shall be without premium or penalty.

Section 3.05 Fees .

(a) Commitment Fees . Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.05(a)(iii) , the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a commitment fee, which shall accrue at the applicable Commitment Fee Rate on the average daily amount of the unused amount of the Commitment of such Lender during the period from and including the date of this Agreement to but excluding the Termination Date. Accrued commitment fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the Termination Date, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof. All commitment fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, unless such computation would exceed the Highest Lawful Rate, in which case interest shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

(b) Letter of Credit Fees . The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Margin used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Loans on the average daily amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the date of this Agreement to but excluding the later of the date on which such Lender’s Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure. The Borrower also agrees to pay to the Issuing Bank, for its own account,(i) a fronting fee, which shall be payable at issuance of each Letter of Credit in an amount equal to 0.125% of the face amount of such Letter of Credit (which, for purposes of this clause (i), shall mean the maximum face amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all provisions in such Letter of Credit providing for future automatic increases in the amount that may be drawn under such Letter of Credit) and (ii) the Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date of this Agreement; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the Termination Date and any such fees accruing after the Termination Date shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section 3.05(b) shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, unless such computation would exceed the Highest Lawful Rate, in which case interest shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

(c) Administrative Agent Fees . The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in the Fee Letters.

 

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ARTICLE IV

PAYMENTS; PRO RATA TREATMENT; SHARING OF SET-OFFS

Section 4.01 Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs .

(a) Payments by the Borrower . The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 5.01 , Section 5.02 , Section 5.03 or otherwise) prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without defense, deduction, recoupment, set-off or counterclaim. Fees, once paid, shall be fully earned and shall not be refundable under any circumstances, absent manifest error. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at its offices specified in Section 12.01 , except payments to be made directly to the Issuing Bank as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Section 5.01 , Section 5.02 , Section 5.03 and Section 12.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made in dollars.

(b) Application of Insufficient Payments . If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied first , towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and second , towards payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such parties.

(c) Sharing of Payments by Lenders . If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and participations in LC Disbursements of other Lenders to the extent necessary 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 participations in LC Disbursements; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this Section 4.01(c) shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section 4.01(c) shall apply). 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.

 

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Section 4.02 Presumption of Payment by the Borrower . Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank 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 or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

Section 4.03 Deductions by the Administrative Agent .

(a) Certain Deductions by the Administrative Agent . If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.05(b) , Section 2.08(d) , Section 2.08(e) or Section 4.02 , or otherwise hereunder, then the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), (i) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender hereunder, in the case of each of (i) and (ii) above, in any order as determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion.

(b) Payments to Defaulting Lenders . If a Defaulting Lender (or a Lender who would be a Defaulting Lender but for the expiration of the relevant grace period) as a result of the exercise of a set-off shall have received a payment in respect of its Revolving Credit Exposure which results in its Revolving Credit Exposure being less than its Applicable Percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposures, then (i) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.05 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 (ii) no payments will be made to such Defaulting Lender until such time as such Defaulting Lender shall have complied with Section 4.05 , and all amounts due and owing to the Lenders have been equalized in accordance with each Lender’s respective pro rata share of the Obligations. Further, if at any time prior to the acceleration or maturity of the Loans, the Administrative Agent shall receive any payment in respect of principal of a Loan or a reimbursement of an LC Disbursement while one or more Defaulting Lenders shall be party to this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall apply such payment first to the Borrowing(s) for which such Defaulting Lender(s) shall have failed to fund its pro rata share until such time as such Borrowing(s) are paid in full or each Lender (including each Defaulting Lender) is owed its Applicable Percentage of all Loans then outstanding. After acceleration or maturity of the Loans, subject to the first sentence of this Section 4.03(b) , all principal will be paid ratably as provided in Section 10.02(c) .

Section 4.04 Collection of Proceeds of Production . The Security Instruments contain an assignment by the Borrower and/or the Guarantors to and in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties of all of the Borrower’s or each Guarantor’s interest in and to production and all proceeds attributable thereto which may be produced from or allocated to the Mortgaged Property. The Security Instruments further provide in general for the application of such proceeds to the satisfaction of the Obligations and other obligations described therein and secured thereby. Notwithstanding the assignment contained in such Security Instruments, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is

 

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continuing, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders will neither notify the purchaser or purchasers of such production nor take any other action to cause such proceeds to be remitted to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, but the Lenders will instead permit such proceeds to be paid to the Borrower and the other Credit Parties and the Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to take such actions as may be necessary to cause such proceeds to be paid to the Borrower and the other Credit Parties.

Section 4.05 Defaulting Lenders .

(a) Defaulting Lender Adjustments . Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law:

(i) Waivers and Amendments . Such Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in the definitions of Required Lenders, Decrease and Maintenance Lenders, Majority Lenders and Super-Majority Lenders and in Section 12.02(b) .

(ii) Defaulting Lender Waterfall . Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article X or otherwise) or received by the Administrative Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 12.08 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first , to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second , to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to any Issuing Bank hereunder; third , to Cash Collateralize the Issuing Bank’s Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender in accordance with Section 2.08(j) ; fourth , as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth , if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held in a deposit account and released pro rata in order to (x) satisfy such Defaulting Lender’s potential future funding obligations with respect to Loans under this Agreement and (y) Cash Collateralize the Issuing Bank’s future LC Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement, in accordance with Section 2.08(j) ; sixth , to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders or Issuing Bank as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender or the Issuing Bank against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh , so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth , to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or LC Disbursements in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such Loans were made or the related Letters of Credit were issued at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 6.02 or Section 6.03 , as applicable, were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and LC Disbursements owed to, all Non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, and LC Disbursements owed to, such Defaulting Lender until such time as all Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit are held by the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the Commitments without giving effect to Section 4.05(a)(iv) . Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 4.05(a) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.

 

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(iii) Certain Fees .

(A) No Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive any commitment fee pursuant to Section 3.05(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender).

(B) Each Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive Letter of Credit Fees pursuant to Section 3.05(b) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender only to the extent allocable to its Applicable Percentage of the stated amount of Letters of Credit for which it has provided Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 2.08(j) .

(C) With respect to any Letter of Credit Fee not required to be paid to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (iii)(B) above, the Borrower shall (x) pay to each Non-Defaulting Lender that portion of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s participation in Letters of Credit that has been reallocated to such Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (iv) below, (y) pay to Issuing Bank the amount of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender to the extent allocable to such Issuing Bank’s Fronting Exposure to such Defaulting Lender, and (z) not be required to pay the remaining amount of any such fee.

(iv) Reallocation of Participations to Reduce Fronting Exposure . All or any part of such Defaulting Lender’s participation in Letters of Credit shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment) but only to the extent that (x) the conditions set forth in Section 6.02 are satisfied at the time of such reallocation (and, unless the Borrower shall have otherwise notified the Administrative Agent at such time, the Borrower shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that such conditions are satisfied at such time), and (y) such reallocation does not cause the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure of any Non-Defaulting Lender to exceed such Non-Defaulting Lender’s Commitment. Subject to Section 12.19 , no reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation.

(v) Cash Collateral . If the reallocation described in clause (iv) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, within one Business Day following the written request of the Administrative Agent or any Issuing Bank (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall, without prejudice to any right or remedy available to it hereunder or under law, Cash Collateralize the Issuing Bank’s Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender (determined after giving effect to subsection (iv) and any Cash Collateral provided by such Defaulting Lender) in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.08(j) .

(b) Defaulting Lender Cure . If the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and Issuing Bank agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein, that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit to be held pro rata by the Lenders in accordance with the Commitments (without giving effect to Section

 

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4.05(a)(iv) ), whereupon such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided , further , that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

(c) New Letters of Credit . So long as any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, extend, renew or increase any Letter of Credit unless it will have no Fronting Exposure after giving effect thereto.

ARTICLE V

INCREASED COSTS; BREAK FUNDING PAYMENTS; TAXES; ILLEGALITY

Section 5.01 Increased Costs .

(a) Eurodollar Changes in Law . 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 by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate); or

(ii) subject the Administrative Agent or any Lender to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Other Connection Taxes) on its Loans, Loan principal, Commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or

(iii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making, converting to, continuing or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender in respect of any Eurodollar Loan (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then 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.

(b) Capital Requirements . If any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s capital or liquidity or on the capital or liquidity of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time, upon receipt of a certificate described in the following subsection (c) the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

 

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(c) Certificates . A certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth, in reasonable detail, the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in Section 4.01(a) or (b)  shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten days after receipt thereof.

(d) Effect of Failure or Delay in Requesting Compensation . Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 5.01 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section 5.01 for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than six months prior to the date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the six month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

Section 5.02 Break Funding Payments . In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan into an ABR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert or continue any Eurodollar Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto, or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 5.05 , then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to be the excess, if any, of (x) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (y) the amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market.

A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 5.02 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within thirty days after receipt thereof.

Section 5.03 Taxes .

(a) Issuing Bank . For purposes of this Section 5.03 , the term “Lender” includes Issuing Bank and the term “applicable law” includes FATCA.

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required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes from such payments (as determined in the good faith of an applicable Withholding Agent), (i) then the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 5.03(b) ), the Administrative Agent, any Lender or Issuing Bank (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower or such Guarantor shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower or such Guarantor shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

(c) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower . The Borrower 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 that have been paid by the Administrative Agent.

(d) Indemnification by the Borrower . The Borrower shall indemnify each Recipient, within thirty days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes paid or payable by such Recipient, or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 5.03 ) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate of the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the Issuing Bank as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or the Issuing Bank (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(e) Indemnification by the Lenders . Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within ten days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 12.04 relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e).

(f) Evidence of Payments . As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes by the Borrower or a Guarantor to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower or Guarantor 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.

(g) Status of Lenders .

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shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution, and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 5.03(g)(ii)(A) , ( ii)(B) , or ( ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender. For purposes of this Section 5.03(g) , the term “Lender” shall include the Administrative Agent.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:

(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;

(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party, duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party,

(2) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,

(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “ U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ”) and (y) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable;

(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY, accompanied by Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI, Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G-2 or Exhibit G-3 , Internal Revenue Service 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 G-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner; or

 

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(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed 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 Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. Federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(h) Treatment of Certain Refunds . If the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the Issuing Bank determines, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.03 , it shall pay to the Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 5.03 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (h), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph (h) to the extent such payment 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 Borrower or any other Person.

(i) Survival . Each party’s obligations under this Section 5.03 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.

 

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Section 5.04 Mitigation Obligations; Designation of Different Lending Office . If any Lender requests compensation under Section 5.01 , or 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 5.03 , then such Lender shall (at the request of Borrower) use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 5.01 or Section 5.03 , as the case may be, in the future and would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

Section 5.05 Replacement of Lenders . If (a) any Lender requests compensation under Section 5.01 , (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 5.03 , and such Lender has not prevented such required payment by designating a different lending office in accordance with Section 5.04 , (c) any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, (d) the Super Majority Lenders have provided their consent to increase the Borrowing Base pursuant to Section 2.07(c)(iii) , but any Lender has not provided such consent, or (e) any Lender has given notice pursuant to Section 5.06 that it is unable to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans but Lenders constituting Majority Lenders have not given such notice, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent (and in the case of clause (d) above, within thirty (30) days of the effectiveness of the redetermination of the Borrowing Base pursuant to Section 2.07(d) ), require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 12.04(b) ), all its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Section 5.01 or Section 5.03 ) and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 12.04(b)(ii)(C) , (ii) if such assignee is not already a Lender, the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (iii) such assigning Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 5.02 ), 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), (iv) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 5.01 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 5.03 , such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments, (v) such assignment does not conflict with applicable law; and (vi) in the case of any assignment resulting from a Lender not consenting to increase the Borrowing Base as described in clause (d) above, the applicable assignee shall have consented to the applicable increase of the Borrowing Base. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.

Section 5.06 Illegality . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in the event that it becomes unlawful for any Lender or its applicable lending office to honor its obligation to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans either generally or having a particular Interest Period hereunder, then (a) such Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof and such Lender’s obligation to make such Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended (the “ Affected Loans ”) until such time as such Lender may again make and maintain such Eurodollar Loans and (b) all Affected Loans which would otherwise be made by such Lender shall be made instead as ABR Loans (and, if such Lender so requests by notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, all Affected Loans of such Lender then outstanding shall be automatically converted into ABR Loans on the date specified by such Lender in such notice) and, to the extent that Affected Loans are so made as (or converted into) ABR Loans, all payments of principal which would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Affected Loans shall be applied instead to its ABR Loans.

 

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ARTICLE VI

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

Section 6.01 Effective Date . The rights and obligations under this Agreement (including the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder) shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions has been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 12.02 ) on April 12, 2017 (and, if not satisfied prior to such time, this Agreement shall be null and void and of no force and effect):

(a) The Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and the Lenders shall have received all commitment and agency fees and all other fees and amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date, including, without duplication, (i) fees payable pursuant to Section 3.05(c) , (ii) fees payable pursuant to the Fee Letters and (iii) to the extent invoiced at least two Business Days prior to the Effective Date, reimbursement or payment of all out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower hereunder (including the fees and expenses of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, counsel to the Administrative Agent).

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary or a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and each Guarantor setting forth (i) resolutions of the members, board of directors or other appropriate governing body with respect to the authorization of the Borrower or such Guarantor to execute and deliver the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to enter into the transactions contemplated in those documents, (ii) the officers of the Borrower or such Guarantor who are authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which the Borrower or such Guarantor is a party and who will, until replaced by another officer or officers duly authorized for that purpose, act as its representative for the purposes of signing documents and giving notices and other communications in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, (iii) specimen signatures of such authorized officers, and (iv) the limited liability company agreement, the articles or certificate of incorporation and bylaws (or comparable organizational documents) of the Borrower and such Guarantor, certified as being true and complete. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders may conclusively rely on such certificate until the Administrative Agent receives notice in writing from the Borrower to the contrary.

(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received certificates of the appropriate State agencies with respect to the existence and good standing of the Borrower and each other Credit Party.

(d) On the Effective Date, the representations and warranties of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the other Credit Parties contained in Article VII shall be true and correct in all material respects (except in the case of any representation or warranty which expressly relates to a given date or period, such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the respective date or for the respective period, as the case may be); provided , that to the extent that any representation or warranty is qualified by or subject to a “material adverse effect”, “material adverse change” or similar term or qualification, the same shall be true and correct in all respects.

(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received from each party hereto counterparts (in such number as may be requested by the Administrative Agent) of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party.

 

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(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received a duly executed Note payable to each Lender that has requested a Note at least two days before the Effective Date in a principal amount equal to its Commitment dated as of the date hereof.

(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received from each party thereto duly executed counterparts (in such number as may be requested by the Administrative Agent) of the Security Instruments described on Exhibit E . Except as otherwise set forth in Section 8.19(b) , in connection with the execution and delivery of the Security Instruments, the Administrative Agent shall be reasonably satisfied that the Liens under the Security Instruments will, upon the recording of the Security Instruments, be first priority, perfected Liens (subject only to Permitted Liens) on all other Property purported to be pledged as Collateral pursuant to the Security Instruments (including all of the Equity Interests in the Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary that are owned by a Credit Party (and to the extent any such Equity Interests are certificated, the Borrower shall also have caused the applicable Credit Party to deliver to the Collateral Agent the original stock certificates evidencing such Equity Interests together with an appropriate undated stock power for each certificate duly executed in blank by the registered owner thereof).

(h) The Administrative Agent shall have received an opinion of Kirkland and Ellis LLP, special New York counsel to the Borrower and the Guarantors, and local counsel in the Yukon Territory, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(i) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of insurance coverage of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties evidencing that the Borrower and the other Credit Parties are carrying insurance in accordance with Section 7.12 .

(j) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Borrower certifying that Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis after giving effect to the Transactions, are solvent.

(k) The Administrative Agent shall have received the Initial Reserve Report, which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(l) The Administrative Agent shall have received appropriate Uniform Commercial Code search certificates reflecting no prior Liens encumbering the Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties for the State of Delaware and the State of Pennsylvania, as applicable, and any other jurisdiction reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, other than those being released on or prior to the Effective Date or Permitted Liens.

(m) To the extent requested in writing by the Administrative Agent at least 8 Business Days prior to the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Effective Date, and be reasonably satisfied in form and substance with, all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including but not restricted to the USA PATRIOT Act.

(n) As of the Effective Date, after giving effect to the Transactions (including the initial Borrowings hereunder), the amount of (i) cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on such date plus (ii) the amount by which the Total Commitments shall exceed the total Revolving Credit Exposure shall not be less than $300,000,000.

 

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(o) The Confirmation Order shall be in full force and effect, not subject to any stay, nor shall it have been amended or modified in any manner adverse to the Lenders without the consent of the Required Lenders.

(p) All conditions precedent to confirmation and to effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization shall have been satisfied or waived to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent, the Plan Effective Date shall have occurred or shall occur substantially contemporaneously with the Effective Date, and the substantial consummation (as defined in section 1101 of the Bankruptcy Code) of the Plan of Reorganization in accordance with its terms shall occur substantially contemporaneously with the Plan Effective Date.

(q) Since the date of entry of the Disclosure Statement Order with respect to the Chapter 11 Cases, there shall not have occurred a Material Adverse Effect or any event or occurrence which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(r) The Administrative Agent shall have received or shall have available on-line through the “Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval” system (or any successor system thereof) maintained by the SEC (or any succeeding governmental authority) (i) audited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, for the three most recently completed fiscal years ended at least 105 days before the Effective Date and (ii) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, for each subsequent fiscal quarter (other than the fourth fiscal quarter of any fiscal year) ended at least 55 days before the Effective Date (in each case, together with the corresponding comparative period from the prior fiscal year).

Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 11.04 , for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 6.01 , 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 under this Section 6.01 to be consented to or approved by or acceptable to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the Effective Date specifying its objection thereto. All documents executed or submitted pursuant to this Section 6.01 by and on behalf of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding.

Section 6.02 Each Credit Event . The obligation of each Lender to make any new Loan, and of the Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

(a) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

(b) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Guarantors set forth in this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, except (i) to the extent any such representations and warranties are expressly limited to an earlier date, in which case, on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, such representations and warranties shall continue to be true and correct as of such specified earlier date, and (ii) to the extent that any such representation and warranty is expressly qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect, such representation and warranty (as so qualified) shall continue to be true and correct in all respects.

 

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(c) Solely with respect to the making of any Loan hereunder, the principal amount of such Loan plus the aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents (other than Excluded Cash) of the Credit Parties at the time of the making of such Loan (before giving effect thereto) minus the principal amount of such Loan (as certified by Borrower in the Borrowing Notice) to be used on or around such date, but in any event not to exceed five (5) Business Days after such date) shall not exceed the Excess Cash Threshold.

(d) The receipt by the Administrative Agent of a Borrowing Request in accordance with Section 2.03 or a request for a Letter of Credit (including an amendment, extension or renewal of a Letter of Credit) in accordance with Section 2.08(b) , as applicable.

Each request for a Borrowing and each request for the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b).

Section 6.03 Additional Conditions to Letters of Credit . In addition to the conditions precedent set forth in Section 6.02 , so long as any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that at the time of such issuance, amendment or increase: (a) the terms of Section 4.05(c) will be satisfied, (b) the LC Exposure will be 100% covered by the Commitments of the Non-Defaulting Lenders and/or the Borrower will Cash Collateralize the LC Exposure in accordance with Section 4.05(a)(v) , and (c) participating interests in any such newly issued or increased Letter of Credit shall be allocated among Non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with Section 4.05(a)(iv) (and Defaulting Lenders shall not participate therein).

ARTICLE VII

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Parent Guarantor and the Borrower jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Lenders that:

Section 7.01 Organization; Powers . The Borrower and each other Credit Party is duly organized, validly existing and, to the extent applicable, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority, and has all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals necessary, to own its assets and to carry on its business as now conducted, and is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required, except where failure to have such power, authority, licenses, authorizations, consents, approvals and qualifications could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 7.02 Authority; Enforceability . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, the Transactions are within the Borrower’s and each Guarantor’s corporate, limited liability company, or partnership powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company or partnership action and, if required, action by any holders of its Equity Interests (including any action required to be taken by any class of directors, managers or supervisors, whether interested or disinterested, as applicable, of the Borrower or any other Person, in order to ensure the due authorization of the Transactions). Each Loan Document to which the Borrower and each Guarantor is a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and such Guarantor and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower and such Guarantor, as applicable, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

 

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Section 7.03 Approvals; No Conflicts . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, the Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority or any other third Person (including holders of its Equity Interests or any class of directors, managers or supervisors, as applicable, whether interested or disinterested, of the Borrower or any other Person), nor is any such consent, approval, registration, filing or other action necessary for the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the Transactions, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, other than (i) the recording and filing of the Security Instruments as required by this Agreement, and (ii) those third party approvals or consents which, if not made or obtained, would not cause a Default or an Event of Default under any provision of this Agreement other than this Section 7.03 or could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation or the limited liability company agreements, charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any other Credit Party or any order of any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture or other agreement regarding Debt binding upon the Borrower or any other Credit Party or its Properties, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or Credit Party and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any Property of the Borrower or any other Credit Party (other than the Liens created by the Loan Documents).

Section 7.04 Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change .

(a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders Ultra Petroleum’s consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, reported on by Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the unaudited quarterly financial statements.

(b) No Material Adverse Effect has occurred since the date of entry of the Disclosure Statement Order with respect to the Chapter 11 Cases.

(c) Except as listed on Schedule 7.04(c) , none of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary has on the date hereof after giving effect to the Transactions, any material Debt (including Disqualified Capital Stock) or any material off-balance sheet liabilities or partnership liabilities that would be required by GAAP to be reflected or noted in audited financial statements, material liabilities for past due taxes, or any unusual forward or long-term commitments or unrealized or anticipated losses from any such unfavorable commitments, except as referred to or reflected or provided for in the financial statements referred to in Section 7.04(a) and the other written information provided by Borrower to Administrative Agent and the Lenders prior to the date hereof.

Section 7.05 Litigation . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, and except as set forth on Schedule 7.05 , there are no actions, suits, investigations or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any other Credit Party (i) not fully covered by insurance (except for normal deductibles), that could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) that are non-frivolous and challenge the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document.

 

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Section 7.06 Environmental Matters . Except for matters set forth on Schedule 7.06 or that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

(a) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and each of their respective Properties and operations thereon are, and within all applicable statute of limitation periods have been, in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws;

(b) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries have obtained all Environmental Permits required for their respective operations and each of their Properties, with all such Environmental Permits being currently in full force and effect, and none of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries has received any written notice or otherwise has knowledge that any such existing Environmental Permit will be revoked or that any application for any new Environmental Permit or renewal of any existing Environmental Permit will be denied;

(c) there are no claims, demands, suits, orders, inquiries, or proceedings concerning any violation of, or any liability (including as a potentially responsible party) under, any applicable Environmental Laws that is pending or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened against Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their respective Properties or as a result of any operations at such Properties;

(d) none of the Properties of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary contain or have contained any: underground storage tanks; asbestos-containing materials; landfills or dumps; hazardous waste management units as defined pursuant to RCRA or any comparable state law; or sites on or nominated for the National Priority List promulgated pursuant to CERCLA or any state remedial priority list promulgated or published pursuant to any comparable state law, in each case that would reasonably be expected to result in liability under Environmental Law;

(e) there has been no Release or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened Release, of Hazardous Materials at, on, under or from Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s Properties, there are no investigations, remediations, abatements, removals, or monitorings of Hazardous Materials required under applicable Environmental Laws at such Properties and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, none of such Properties are adversely affected by any Release or threatened Release of a Hazardous Material originating or emanating from any other real property;

(f) none of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary has received any written notice asserting an alleged liability or obligation under any applicable Environmental Laws with respect to the investigation, remediation, abatement, removal, or monitoring of any Hazardous Materials at, under, or Released or threatened to be Released from any real properties offsite Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s Properties and, to the Borrower’s knowledge, there are no conditions or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to result in the receipt of such written notice;

(g) there has been no exposure of any Person or Property to any Hazardous Materials as a result of or in connection with the operations and businesses of any of Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or the Subsidiaries’ Properties that could reasonably be expected to form the basis for a claim for damages or compensation; and

(h) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower have made available to the Administrative Agent complete and correct copies of all material environmental site assessment reports, and studies on environmental matters (including matters relating to any alleged non-compliance with or liability under Environmental Laws) that have been prepared within the last three (3) years and are in Parent Guarantor’s or the Borrower’s possession and relating to Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s Properties or operations thereon.

 

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Section 7.07 Compliance with the Laws and Agreements; No Defaults .

(a) After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, each of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries is in compliance with all Governmental Requirements applicable to it or its Property and all agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its Property, except where failure to comply could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and possesses all licenses, permits, franchises, exemptions, approvals and other governmental authorizations necessary for the ownership of its Property and the conduct of its business, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Neither the Borrower nor any other Credit Party is in default nor has any Change of Control or similar event or circumstance occurred that, but for the expiration of any applicable grace period or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default under, or would require the Borrower or any other Credit Party to Redeem or make any offer to Redeem under, any indenture, note, credit agreement or similar instrument pursuant to which any Material Debt is outstanding or by which the Borrower or any other Credit Party or any of their Properties is bound.

(c) No Default has occurred and is continuing.

Section 7.08 Investment Company Act . Neither the Borrower nor any other Credit Party is required to register as an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an entity required to register as “investment company,” within the meaning of, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

Section 7.09 Taxes . Each of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all federal income Tax returns and reports, and all other material Tax returns and reports, required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it (in each case, for the avoidance of doubt and to the extent applicable, after giving effect to the Confirmation Order and Plan of Reorganization), except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Taxes and other governmental charges are, in the reasonable opinion of the Borrower, adequate. No Tax Lien (other than an Excepted Lien) has been filed and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted with respect to any such Tax or other such governmental charge.

Section 7.10 ERISA . Except for such matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

(a) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and each ERISA Affiliate is in material compliance with ERISA and, where applicable, the Code regarding each Plan.

(b) Each Plan is, and has been, established and maintained in substantial compliance with its terms, ERISA and, where applicable, the Code.

 

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(c) No act, omission or transaction has occurred which could result in the imposition on Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary (whether directly or indirectly) of either a civil penalty assessed pursuant to subsections (i) or (l) of section 502 of ERISA or a tax imposed pursuant to section 4975 of the Code or breach of fiduciary duty liability damages under section 409 of ERISA.

(d) Full payment when due has been made of all amounts which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, the Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate is required under the terms of each Plan or applicable law to have paid as contributions to such Plan as of the date hereof.

(e) None of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Subsidiary, or any ERISA Affiliate sponsors, maintains, or contributes to an employee welfare benefit plan, as defined in section 3(1) of ERISA that provides benefits to retirees or former employees of such entities, with respect to which its sponsorship of, maintenance of or contribution to may not be terminated by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, a Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate, as the case may be, in its sole discretion at any time without any material liability to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary other than for benefits due as of, or claims incurred prior to, the effective date of such termination, except where such a termination is not allowed under applicable law (including, but not limited to, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985).

Section 7.11 Disclosure; No Material Misstatements . The certificates, written statements and reports, and other written information, taken as a whole, furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Guarantor to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection with the negotiation of any Loan Document or included therein or delivered pursuant thereto, do not contain any material misstatement of fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were or are made, not misleading as of the date such information is dated or certified; provided that (a) to the extent any such certificate, statement, report, or information was based upon or constitutes a forecast or projection, the Borrower represents only that it acted in good faith and utilized reasonable assumptions and due care in the preparation of such certificate, statement, report, or information (it being recognized by the Lenders, however, that projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that results during the period(s) covered by such projections may differ from the projected results and that such differences may be material and that the Borrower makes no representation that such projections will be realized) and (b) as to statements, information and reports supplied by third parties, the Borrower represents only that it is not aware of any material misstatement or omission therein. There are no statements or conclusions in any Reserve Report which are based upon or include material misleading information or fail to take into account known material information regarding the matters reported therein, it being understood that projections concerning volumes attributable to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties and production and cost estimates contained in each Reserve Report are necessarily based upon professional opinions, estimates and projections and that the Borrower and the other Credit Parties do not warrant that such opinions, estimates and projections will ultimately prove to have been accurate.

Section 7.12 Insurance . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower have, and have caused the Restricted Subsidiaries to have, (a) all insurance policies sufficient for the compliance by each of them with all material Governmental Requirements and all material agreements and (b) insurance coverage in such amounts and against such risks as are usually insured against by companies similarly situated and engaged in the same or a similar business for the assets and operations of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (it being understood and agreed that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may self-insure to the extent and in a manner customary for companies engaged in the same or similar business of similar size and financial condition). The Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders have been named as additional insureds in respect of such liability insurance policies and the Collateral Agent has been named as a loss payee with respect to such property loss insurance covering Collateral.

 

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Section 7.13 Restriction on Liens . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, neither the Borrower nor any other Credit Party is a party to any material agreement or arrangement, or subject to any order, judgment, writ or decree, that restricts its ability to grant Liens to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties on or in respect of their Properties to secure the Debt under the Loan Documents, or restricts any Restricted Subsidiary from paying dividends or making any other distributions in respect of its Equity Interests to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or restricts any Restricted Subsidiary from making loans or advances to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or which requires the consent of other Persons in connection therewith, except, in each case, for such encumbrances or restrictions permitted under Section 9.14 .

Section 7.14 Subsidiaries . Except as set forth on Schedule 7.14 or as disclosed in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time (which shall promptly furnish a copy to the Lenders), which shall upon disclosure be deemed a supplement to Schedule 7.14 , neither the Borrower nor any other Credit Party has any subsidiaries (other than subsidiaries of Unrestricted Subsidiaries) . Neither Parent Guarantor nor the Borrower has any Foreign Subsidiaries. Schedule 7.14 identifies, as of the Effective Date, each subsidiary listed thereon as either a Restricted Subsidiary, Unrestricted Subsidiary or Unrestricted Parent Entity, and each Restricted Subsidiary on such schedule is wholly-owned by the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary. As of the Effective Date, Schedule 7.14 sets forth each Person (other than a subsidiary) in which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary owns Equity Interests and the percentage of all Equity Interests in such Person owned by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary.

Section 7.15 Location of Business and Offices . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, the Borrower’s jurisdiction of organization is Delaware, the name of the Borrower as listed in the public records of its jurisdiction of organization is Ultra Resources, Inc., and the organizational identification number of the Borrower in its jurisdiction of organization is 6357887 (or, in each case, as set forth in a notice delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.01(j) in accordance with Section 12.01 ). The Borrower’s chief executive offices are located at the address specified in Section 12.01 (or as set forth in a notice delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(h) and Section 12.01(c) ). Each Guarantor’s jurisdiction of organization, name as listed in the public records of its jurisdiction of organization, organizational identification number in its jurisdiction of organization, and the location of its chief executive office is stated on Schedule 7.14 (or as set forth in a notice delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(h) ). Each Unrestricted Subsidiary’s (other than each Unrestricted Subsidiary that is a subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary) jurisdiction of organization and name as listed in the public records of its jurisdiction of organization is stated on Schedule 7.14 or as set forth in a notice delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(h) .

Section 7.16 Properties; Titles, Etc . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization:

(a) Each of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties has good and defensible title to substantially all of its Borrowing Base Properties evaluated in the most recently delivered Reserve Report and good title to all of its material personal Properties, in each case, free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens. The Borrower or the other Credit Parties specified as the owner owns in all material respects the net interests in production attributable to their Oil and Gas Properties as reflected in the most recently delivered Reserve Report, and the ownership of such Properties does not in any material respect obligate such Person to bear the costs and expenses relating to the maintenance, development and operations of each such Property in an amount in excess of the working interest of each Property set forth in the most recently delivered Reserve Report that is not offset by a corresponding proportionate increase in its net revenue interest in such Property or the revenues therefrom.

 

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(b) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) all material leases and agreements necessary for the conduct of the business of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties and (ii) all oil and gas leases of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties are, in each case, valid and subsisting and in full force and effect, and there exists no default or event or circumstance which with the giving of notice or the passage of time or both would give rise to a default under any such lease or leases referred to in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii).

(c) The rights and Properties presently owned, leased or licensed by the Borrower and the other Credit Parties, including all easements and rights of way, include all rights and Properties necessary to permit the Borrower and the other Credit Parties to conduct their business in all material respects in the same manner as their business has been conducted prior to the date hereof.

(d) All of the Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties which are reasonably necessary for the operation of their businesses are in good working condition and are maintained in accordance with prudent business standards.

(e) The Borrower and each other Credit Party owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual Property material to its business (including databases, geological data, geophysical data, engineering data, seismic data, maps, interpretations and other technical data), and the use thereof by the Borrower and such other Credit Party does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 7.17 Maintenance of Properties . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, except for such acts or failures to act as could not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties have been maintained, operated and developed in a good and workmanlike manner and in conformity with all applicable Governmental Requirements and in conformity with the provisions of all leases, subleases or other contracts comprising a part of the Borrowing Base Properties and other contracts and agreements forming a part of the Borrowing Base Properties.

Section 7.18 Gas Imbalances, Prepayments . Except as set forth on Schedule 7.18 or on the most recent certificate delivered pursuant to Section 8.12(c) , on a net basis there are no gas imbalances, take or pay or other prepayments which would require Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the other Credit Parties to deliver Hydrocarbons produced from their Oil and Gas Properties at some future time, without then or thereafter receiving full payment therefor, exceeding 5.0% of the aggregate annual production of gas from the Oil and Gas Properties of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the other Credit Parties during the most recent calendar year (on an mcf basis).

Section 7.19 Marketing of Production . Except for contracts listed and in effect on the date hereof on Schedule 7.19 , or hereafter either disclosed in writing to the Administrative Agent or included in the most recently delivered Reserve Report, no material agreements exist, which are not cancelable on 90 days’ notice or less without penalty or detriment, for the sale of the Borrower’s and the other Credit Parties’ Hydrocarbon production (including calls on or other rights to purchase, production, whether or not the same are currently being exercised) that pertain to the sale of production at a fixed price and have a maturity or expiry date of longer than six (6) months from the date hereof.

 

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Section 7.20 Swap Agreements and Qualified ECP Counterparty . Schedule 7.20 , as of the date hereof, and after the date hereof, each report required to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.01(d) , as of the date of (or as of the date(s) otherwise set forth in) such report, sets forth, a true and complete list of all Swap Agreements of the Borrower and each other Credit Party, the material terms thereof (including the type, term, effective date, termination date and notional amounts or volumes), the estimated net mark-to-market value thereof, all credit support agreements relating thereto other than Loan Documents (including any margin required or supplied) and the counterparty to each such agreement. The Borrower is a Qualified ECP Counterparty.

Section 7.21 Use of Loans and Letters of Credit . The proceeds of the Loans and the Letters of Credit shall be used (a) for general corporate purposes of the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries; (b) to fund repayment of claims under the Chapter 11 Cases; and (c) to finance the acquisition and development of Oil and Gas Properties. Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries are not engaged principally, or as one of its or their important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or ultimate, of buying or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation T, U or X of the Board). No part of the proceeds of any Loan or Letter of Credit will be used for any purpose which violates the provisions of Regulations T, U or X of the Board. The Borrower will not request any Borrowing or Letter of Credit, and Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall not use, and Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall procure that their Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available, the proceeds of any Borrowing or Letter of Credit to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or any other Person (a) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (b) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, or (c) in any manner that would knowingly or negligently result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto (whether as underwriter, advisor, investor, lender, hedge provider, facility or security agent or otherwise).

Section 7.22 Solvency . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order, the Plan of Reorganization and the transactions contemplated hereby and each Borrowing made hereunder, (a) the aggregate assets (after giving effect to amounts that could reasonably be expected to be received by reason of indemnity, offset, insurance or any similar arrangement), at a fair valuation, of the Borrower and the Guarantors, taken as a whole, exceed the aggregate Debt of the Borrower and the Guarantors on a consolidated basis, (b) each of the Borrower and the Guarantors has not incurred and does not intend to incur, and does not believe that it has incurred, Debt beyond its ability to pay such Debt (after taking into account the timing and amounts of cash it reasonably expects could be received and the amounts that it reasonably expects could be payable on or in respect of its liabilities, and giving effect to amounts that could reasonably be expected to be received by reason of indemnity, offset, insurance or any similar arrangement) as such Debt becomes absolute and matures, and (c) each of the Borrower and the Guarantors does not have (and does not have reason to believe that it will have thereafter) unreasonably small capital for the conduct of its business.

Section 7.23 Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower have implemented and maintain in effect such policies and procedures, if any, as they reasonably deem appropriate, in light of their business and international activities (if any), to ensure compliance by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees and, to the knowledge of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower, their respective directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects. None of (a) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b) to the knowledge of Parent

 

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Guarantor or the Borrower, any agent of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. No Borrowing or Letter of Credit, use of proceeds or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement will violate any Anti-Corruption Law or applicable Sanctions.

Section 7.24 EEA Financial Institutions . No Credit Party is an EEA Financial Institution.

Section 7.25 Senior Debt Status . The Obligations constitute “Senior Debt”, “Designated Senior Debt” or any similar designation under and as defined in any agreement governing any senior subordinated or subordinated Debt and the subordination provisions set forth in each such agreement are legally valid and enforceable against the parties thereto.

Section 7.26 Security Instruments . The Security Instruments are (or, in the case of Security Instruments executed after the Effective Date, will be) effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Credit Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Mortgaged Property and Collateral and proceeds thereof.

Section 7.27 PATRIOT Act . On the Effective Date, each Credit Party is in compliance in all material respects with the material provisions of the PATRIOT Act.

ARTICLE VIII

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder and all other amounts payable under the Loan Documents shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired (without any pending drawings thereon) or terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

Section 8.01 Financial Statements; Other Information . The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender:

(a) Annual Financial Statements .

(i) As soon as available, but in any event in accordance with then applicable law and not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its unaudited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, owners’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

(ii) As soon as available, but in any event in accordance with then applicable law and not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of Parent Guarantor, its audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, owners’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by independent public accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

 

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(b) Quarterly Financial Statements .

(i) As soon as available, but in any event in accordance with then applicable law and not later than 60 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower commencing with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2017, its consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, owners’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

(ii) As soon as available, but in any event in accordance with then applicable law and not later than 60 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of Parent Guarantor commencing with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2017, its consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, owners’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

(c) Certificate of Financial Officer — Compliance . Concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under Section 8.01(a) or Section 8.01(b) , a compliance certificate of a Financial Officer in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (i) certifying as to whether a Default then exists and, if a Default then exists, (ii) specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (iii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with Section 9.01 and (iv) stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof that is applicable to the Borrower has occurred since December 31, 2016 and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements accompanying such certificate.

(d) Certificate of Financial Officer — Swap Agreements . Concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under Section 8.01(a) and Section 8.01(b) , a certificate of a Financial Officer, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, setting forth as of a recent date, a true and complete list of all Swap Agreements of the Borrower and each other Credit Party, the material terms thereof (including the type, term, effective date, termination date and notional amounts or volumes set forth for each month during the term of such Swap Agreement), the estimated net mark-to-market value therefor, any new credit support agreements relating thereto (other than Loan Documents) not listed on Schedule 7.20 , any margin required or supplied under any credit support document and the counterparty to each such agreement.

(e) Certificate of Insurer — Insurance Coverage . Concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under Section 8.01(a) , one or more certificates of insurance coverage from Parent Guarantor’s insurance broker or insurers with respect to the insurance required by Section 8.07 , in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, copies of the applicable policies.

 

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(f) SEC and Other Filings; Reports to Shareholders . For so long as any Credit Party is a publicly traded company, then promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by such Credit Party with the SEC, or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by such Credit Party to its shareholders generally, as the case may be.

(g) Notices Under Material Instruments . Promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any financial statement, report or notice furnished to or by any Person pursuant to the terms of any preferred stock designation, indenture, loan or credit or other similar agreement with respect to Material Debt, and not otherwise required to be furnished to the Lenders pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement.

(h) Information Regarding Borrower and Guarantors . Promptly, but in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the occurrence thereof, written notice of any change in (i) the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s corporate name, (ii) the jurisdiction in which the Borrower or any Guarantor is incorporated, formed, or otherwise organized, (iii) the location of the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s chief executive office, (iv) the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s identity or corporate, limited liability or partnership structure, or (v) the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s organizational identification number in such jurisdiction of organization or federal taxpayer identification number.

(i) Notices of Certain Changes . Promptly, but in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the execution thereof, copies of any material amendment, modification or supplement to the certificate of formation, limited liability company agreement, articles of incorporation, by-laws, any preferred stock designation or any other organic document of the Borrower or any other Credit Party.

(j) Issuance of Senior Notes . In the event the Borrower or any other Credit Party intends to issue any Senior Notes, prior written notice of such intended offering, the intended principal amount thereof and the anticipated date of closing and, upon request of the Administrative Agent, a copy of the preliminary offering memorandum (if any) and the final offering memorandum (if any). [Reserved].

(k) Opening of Accounts . Prompt written notice (such notice to include reasonably detailed information regarding the account number, purpose and applicable bank or other institution in respect of such Deposit Account, Commodities Account or Securities Account) to the Administrative Agent of any Deposit Account, Commodities Account or Securities Account (other than an Excluded Account) opened by the Borrower or any Guarantor.

(l) Other Requested Information . Promptly following any reasonable request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs and financial condition of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (including any Plan and any reports or other information required to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and/or the PBGC with respect thereto under the Code or under ERISA), or compliance with the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

(m) Annual Budget . Within sixty (60) days of the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower (the first such period being the sixty (60) day period after the end of fiscal year 2017), an annual operating budget for the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for the immediately succeeding fiscal year (beginning with the annual operating budget for fiscal year 2018), including the projected monthly production of Hydrocarbons by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries and the assumptions used in calculating such projections, the projected capital expenditures to be incurred by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, and such other information as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.

 

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(n) Certificate of Financial Officer—Consolidating Information . If, at any time, all of the Consolidated Subsidiaries of the Borrower are not Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, then concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under Section 8.01(a) or Section 8.01(b) , a certificate of a Financial Officer setting forth consolidating spreadsheets that show all Consolidated Unrestricted Subsidiaries and the eliminating entries, in such form as would be presentable to the auditors of the Borrower. [Reserved].

(o) Production Report and Lease Operating Statements . Concurrently with any delivery of a Reserve Report under Section 8.12 , (i) a report setting forth, for each calendar month during the then current fiscal year to date, the volume of production and sales attributable to production (and the prices at which such sales were made and the revenues derived from such sales) for each such calendar month from the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors and (ii) a report setting forth, for each calendar quarter during the then current fiscal year to date, the related ad valorem, severance and production taxes and lease operating expenses attributable to such production and incurred for each such calendar quarter.

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(a) , (b)  or (f)  (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 Parent Guarantor or the Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on Parent Guarantor’s or the Borrower’s public website; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Borrower’s 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).

The Administrative Agent may make available to the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of Parent Guarantor and/or the Borrower hereunder (collectively, “ Company Materials ”) by posting the Company Materials on SyndTrak or another similar electronic system (the “ Platform ”). Parent Guarantor and the Borrower hereby acknowledge that certain of the Lenders may from time to time elect to 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 ”) and the Borrower hereby agrees that (w) all Company 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; (x) by marking Company Materials “PUBLIC,” Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to treat such Company Materials as either publicly available information or not material information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or their respective securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws; (y) all Company Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Investor”; and (z) the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to treat Company Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Investor.”

Section 8.02 Notices of Material Events . In addition to the notices required under Section 8.01 and Section 8.10(b) , the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt (and in any event within five (5) Business Days of a Responsible Officer becoming aware thereof) written notice of the following:

 

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(a) the occurrence of any Default;

(b) the filing or commencement of, or the threat in writing of, any action, suit, proceeding, investigation or arbitration by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Borrower or any other Credit Party not previously disclosed in writing to the Lenders that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or the occurrence of any adverse development in any such action, suit, proceeding, investigation or arbitration that is reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(c) the filing or commencement of, or the threat in writing of, any action, suit, proceeding, investigation or arbitration by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that (i) constitutes a material adverse claim against, or asserts a material cloud upon the Borrower’s or any other Credit Party’s title to, any material Mortgaged Property or other Collateral pledged pursuant to the Security Instruments or (ii) otherwise attacks the validity or (other than by asserting a Permitted Lien) the priority of the Administrative Agent’s Liens in any material Mortgaged Property or other Collateral pledged pursuant to the Security Instruments, or of the Security Instruments under which such Mortgaged Property or other Collateral is mortgaged or pledged; and

(d) the occurrence of any ERISA Event that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.

Each notice delivered under this Section 8.02 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.

Section 8.03 Existence; Conduct of Business . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect (a) its legal existence and (b) the rights, licenses, permits, privileges and franchises material to the conduct of its business and maintain, if necessary, its qualification to do business in each other jurisdiction in which its Oil and Gas Properties are located or the ownership of its Properties requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 9.10 . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to maintain its legal existence in Delaware, another State within the United States of America or the District of Columbia.

Section 8.04 Payment of Obligations . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, pay its obligations, including Tax liabilities of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and all of its Restricted Subsidiaries before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP or (b) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or result in the seizure or levy of any material Property of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.

Section 8.05 Performance of Obligations under Loan Documents . The Borrower will pay the Loans in accordance with the terms hereof, and Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, do and perform every act and discharge all of the obligations to be performed and discharged by them under the Loan Documents.

 

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Section 8.06 Operation and Maintenance of Properties . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower, at their own expense, will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to:

(a) operate its Oil and Gas Properties and other material Properties or cause such Oil and Gas Properties and other material Properties to be operated in a careful and efficient manner in accordance with the practices of the industry and in compliance with all applicable contracts and agreements and in compliance with all Governmental Requirements, including applicable proration requirements and Environmental Laws, and all applicable laws, rules and regulations of every other Governmental Authority from time to time constituted to regulate the development and operation of its Oil and Gas Properties and the production and sale of Hydrocarbons and other minerals therefrom, except, in each case, where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) keep and maintain all Property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and preserve, maintain and keep in good repair, working order and efficiency (ordinary wear and tear and depletion excepted) all of its Oil and Gas Properties, except, in each case, where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c) promptly pay and discharge, or make reasonable and customary efforts to cause to be paid and discharged, all delay rentals, royalties, expenses and indebtedness accruing under the leases or other agreements affecting or pertaining to its Oil and Gas Properties and do all other things necessary to keep unimpaired its rights with respect thereto and prevent any forfeiture thereof or default thereunder, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) promptly perform or make reasonable and customary efforts to cause to be performed, in accordance with customary industry standards, the obligations required by the assignments, deeds, leases, sub-leases, contracts and agreements affecting its interests in its Oil and Gas Properties and other material Properties, except, in each case, where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(e) To the extent the Borrower or another Credit Party is not the operator of any Property, the Borrower shall use reasonable efforts to cause the operator to comply with this Section 8.06 , but failure of the operator so to comply will not constitute a Default or an Event of Default hereunder.

Section 8.07 Insurance . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations (it being understood and agreed that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may self-insure to the extent and in a manner customary for companies engaged in the same or similar business of similar size and financial condition). The Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders shall be named as additional insureds in respect of such liability insurance policies, and the Collateral Agent shall be named as a loss payee with respect to property loss insurance covering Collateral and such policies shall provide that the Administrative Agent shall receive not less than 30 days’ prior notice of cancellation or non-renewal (or, if less, the maximum advance notice that the applicable carrier will agree to provide).

Section 8.08 Books and Records; Inspection Rights . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities (to the extent required by GAAP). Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent,

 

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upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its Properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as reasonably requested, and at the sole expense of Borrower not to exceed two times in any calendar year (unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing).

Section 8.09 Compliance with Laws . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, comply with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its Property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will maintain in effect and enforce such policies and procedures, if any, as it reasonably deems appropriate, in light of its businesses and international activities (if any), to ensure compliance by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, their Subsidiaries and each of their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.

Section 8.10 Environmental Matters .

(a) Each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will at its sole expense: (i) comply, and cause its Properties and operations and each Subsidiary and each Subsidiary’s Properties and operations to comply, with all applicable Environmental Laws, to the extent the breach thereof could be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) not Release or threaten to Release, and cause each Subsidiary not to Release or threaten to Release, any Hazardous Material on, under, about or from any of Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or their Subsidiaries’ Properties or any other property offsite the Property to the extent caused by Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or any of their Subsidiaries’ operations except in compliance with applicable Environmental Laws, to the extent such Release or threatened Release could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) timely obtain or file, and cause each Subsidiary to timely obtain or file, all Environmental Permits, if any, required under applicable Environmental Laws to be obtained or filed in connection with the operation or use of Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or their Subsidiaries’ Properties, to the extent such failure to obtain or file could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (iv) promptly commence and diligently prosecute to completion, and cause each Subsidiary to promptly commence and diligently prosecute to completion, any assessment, evaluation, investigation, monitoring, containment, cleanup, removal, repair, restoration, remediation or other remedial obligations (collectively, the “ Remedial Work ”) in the event any Remedial Work is required under applicable Environmental Laws because of or in connection with the actual or suspected past, present or future Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Material on, under, about or from any of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower’s or their Subsidiaries’ Properties, to the extent failure to do so could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (v) conduct, and cause its Subsidiaries to conduct, their respective operations and businesses in a manner that will not expose any Property or Person to Hazardous Materials that could reasonably be expected to cause Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or their Subsidiaries to owe damages or compensation that could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect; and (vi) establish and implement, and shall cause each Subsidiary to establish and implement, such procedures as may be necessary to continuously determine and assure that Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s and their Subsidiaries’ obligations under this Section 8.10(a) are timely and fully satisfied, to the extent failure to do so could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) If Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary receives written notice of any action or, investigation or inquiry by any Governmental Authority or any threatened demand or lawsuit by any Person against Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or their Subsidiaries or their Properties, in each case in connection with any Environmental Laws, the Borrower will within fifteen days after any Responsible Officer obtains actual knowledge thereof give written notice of the same to Administrative Agent if the Borrower could reasonably anticipate that such action will result in liability (whether individually or in the aggregate) in excess of $20,000,000, not fully covered by insurance, subject to normal deductibles.

 

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(c) In connection with any acquisition by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any Oil and Gas Property, other than an acquisition of additional interests in Oil and Gas Properties in which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary previously held an interest, to the extent Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary obtains or is provided with same, Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, promptly following Parent Guarantor, the Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s obtaining or being provided with the same, deliver to the Administrative Agent such final and non-privileged material environmental reports of such Oil and Gas Properties as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.

Section 8.11 Further Assurances .

(a) Each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower at its sole expense will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, promptly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent all such other documents, agreements and instruments reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to comply with, cure any defects or accomplish the conditions precedent, covenants and agreements of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in the Loan Documents, including the Notes, or to further evidence and more fully describe the collateral intended as security for the Obligations, or to correct any omissions in this Agreement or the Security Instruments, or to state more fully the obligations secured therein, or to perfect, protect or preserve any Liens created pursuant to this Agreement or any of the Security Instruments or the priority thereof, or to make any recordings, file any notices or obtain any consents that may be reasonably necessary or appropriate in connection therewith.

(b) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to file one or more financing or continuation statements, and amendments thereto, describing all or any part of the Collateral without the signature of the Borrower or any Guarantor where permitted by law. A carbon, photographic or other reproduction of the Security Instruments or any financing statement covering the Collateral or any part thereof shall be sufficient as a financing statement where permitted by law.

Section 8.12 Reserve Reports .

(a) In addition to the Initial Reserve Report which has been delivered on or prior to the Effective Date, on or before each date set out in the right column of the following table, the Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a Reserve Report evaluating the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors as of the date set out in the same line in the left column of such table:

 

As-of Date

  

Delivery Date

July 1, 2017 and each July 1 thereafter    the next following September 1
January 1, 2018 and each January 1 thereafter.    the next following March 1

(b) The Reserve Reports as of January 1 of each year shall be prepared by one or more Approved Petroleum Engineers, and the Reserve Reports as of July 1 of each year shall be prepared either by Approved Petroleum Engineers or, at the Borrower’s option, by the internal reserve engineering staff of the Borrower in accordance with the procedures used in the immediately preceding January 1 Reserve Report.

 

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(c) In the event of an Interim Redetermination, the Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a Reserve Report prepared either by Approved Petroleum Engineers or by Borrower’s internal reserve engineering staff, in each case in accordance with the procedures used in the immediately preceding January 1 Reserve Report. For any Interim Redetermination requested by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.07(b) , the Borrower shall provide such Reserve Report with an “as of” date as required by the Administrative Agent as soon as possible, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days following the receipt of such request.

(d) With the delivery of each Reserve Report (other than the Initial Reserve Report), the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a certificate from a Responsible Officer on behalf of the Borrower certifying that in all material respects that (i) except as set forth on an exhibit to the certificate, on a net basis there are no gas imbalances, take or pay or other prepayments in excess of the volume specified in Section 7.18 with respect to its Oil and Gas Properties evaluated in such Reserve Report which would require the Borrower or any Guarantor to deliver Hydrocarbons either generally or produced from such Oil and Gas Properties at some future time without then or thereafter receiving full payment therefor, (ii) none of their Borrowing Base Properties have been sold since the date of the last Borrowing Base determination except as set forth on an exhibit to the certificate, which certificate shall list all such Borrowing Base Properties sold and (iii) attached thereto is a schedule of the Borrowing Base Properties evaluated by such Reserve Report that are Mortgaged Properties which demonstrates the percentage of the total value of the Borrowing Base Properties that the value of such Mortgaged Properties represents in compliance with Section 8.14(a) .

Section 8.13 Title Information . During the Borrowing Base Period, on or before the delivery to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders of each Reserve Report required by Section 8.12(a) , the Borrower will use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver title information in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent covering enough of the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by such Reserve Report that were not included in the immediately preceding Reserve Report, so that the Administrative Agent shall have received, together with title information previously delivered to the Administrative Agent, satisfactory title information on at least 80% of the total PV-9 of the Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by such Reserve Report.

Section 8.14 Additional Collateral; Additional Guarantors .

(a) During any Borrowing Base Period and in connection with each redetermination of the Borrowing Base following the Effective Date, the Borrower shall review the Reserve Report and the list of current Mortgaged Properties (as described in Section 8.12(c) ) to ascertain whether the Mortgaged Properties represent at least 85 95 % of the total PV-9 of the Proved Reserves of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by such Reserve Report, after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production. In the event that the Mortgaged Properties do not satisfy the foregoing requirements and subject to Section 8.19(b) , then the Borrower shall, and shall cause the Restricted Subsidiaries to, promptly grant, and, subject to Section 8.19(b) , within thirty (30) days (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion) after delivery of the certificate required under Section 8.12(d) , to the Administrative Agent, as security for the Obligations, Security Instruments covering additional Borrowing Base Properties not already subject to a Lien of the Security Instruments such that after giving effect thereto, the Mortgaged Properties will comply with such requirements. All such Liens will be created and perfected by and in accordance with the provisions of deeds of trust, security agreements and financing statements or other Security Instruments, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and in sufficient executed (and acknowledged where necessary or appropriate) counterparts for recording purposes.

 

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(b) The Borrower shall promptly cause each Domestic Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) to guarantee the Obligations pursuant to the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement. In connection with any such guaranty, the Borrower shall, or shall cause such Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Subsidiary formed in connection with a Redomestication Transaction) to, promptly, but in any event no later than 15 Business Days after the formation or acquisition (or other similar event) of such Subsidiary to, (i) execute and deliver a supplement to the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, executed by such Subsidiary, (ii) pledge all of the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary that are owned by the Borrower or any Guarantor (and deliver the original stock certificates, if any, evidencing the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary, together with an appropriate undated stock power for each certificate duly executed in blank by the registered owner thereof), (iii) grant Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent on all Property of such Subsidiary (other than Property excluded from the grant of such Liens pursuant to the terms of the Security Instruments) and (iv) execute and deliver such other additional closing documents, certificates and legal opinions as shall reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be required to guarantee the Obligations or execute and deliver the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement (or a supplement to such document): (A) any Restricted Subsidiary that is prohibited or restricted by applicable law, rule or regulation or by any contractual obligation existing on the Effective Date (or, if later, the date it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary) from guaranteeing the Obligations or which would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization to provide a guarantee unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received and for only so long as such restriction is outstanding, (B) any Foreign Subsidiary and (C) any Domestic Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary that is a controlled foreign corporation within the meaning of section 957 of the Code (“ CFC ”) or any Domestic Subsidiary with no material assets other than Equity Interests (or Equity Interests and Debt) of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs; provided that the Borrower may (in its sole discretion) cause any Domestic Subsidiary, or if reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, any Foreign Subsidiary (including any consolidated Affiliate in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries own no Equity Interest), to become a Guarantor and to execute and deliver the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement (or a supplement to such document). Domestic Subsidiaries may be excluded from the requirements of this Section 8.14(b) if the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that the cost, burden, difficulty or consequence of providing such a guarantee outweighs the benefit to the Lenders afforded thereby.

(c) Notwithstanding any provision in any of the Loan Documents to the contrary, in no event is any Building (as defined in the applicable Flood Insurance Regulations) or Manufactured (Mobile) Home (as defined in the applicable Flood Insurance Regulations) owned by the Borrower or any other Credit Party required to be included in the Mortgaged Property and no Building or Manufactured (Mobile) Home shall be encumbered by any Security Instrument; provided , that (A) the Borrower’s and the other Credit Parties’ interests in all lands and Hydrocarbons situated under any such Building or Manufactured (Mobile) Home shall not be excluded from the Mortgaged Property and shall be encumbered by all applicable Security Instruments and (B) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiaries to, permit to exist any Lien on any Building or Manufactured (Mobile) Home except Excepted Liens.

Section 8.15 Unrestricted Subsidiaries. Parent Entities. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower:

 

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(a) will cause the management, business and affairs of each of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, the Restricted Subsidiaries and the Unrestricted Parent Entities to be conducted in such a manner (including, without limitation, by keeping separate books of account s , furnishing separate financial statements of Unrestricted Subsidiaries and any Unrestricted Parent Entities to potential creditors and potential creditors thereof and by not permitting Properties of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower , and the respective Restricted Subsidiaries to be commingled) so that each Unrestricted Subsidiary and Unrestricted Parent Entity that is a corporation will be treated as a corporate entity separate and distinct from Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries . ;

(b) will not, and will not permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to , incur, assume, guarantee or be or become liable for any Debt of any of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries or Unrestricted Parent Entities . ; and

(c) will not permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary or Unrestricted Parent Entity to hold any Equity Interest in, or any Debt of, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.

Section 8.16 Commodity Exchange Act Keepwell Provisions . The Borrower hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide to each Credit Party (other than the Borrower) such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by such Credit Party in order for such Credit Party to honor its Obligations with respect to any Swap Agreements or CFTC Hedging Obligations for which it is liable, whether such Swap Agreements or CFTC Hedging Obligations are entered into directly by such Credit Party or are guaranteed under the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement ( provided , however , that the Borrower shall only be liable under this Section 8.16 for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this Section 8.16 , or otherwise under this Agreement or any Loan Document, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). The obligations of the Borrower under this Section 8.16 shall remain in full force and effect until this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms. Borrower intends that this Section 8.16 constitute a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Credit Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Section 8.17 ERISA Compliance . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will promptly furnish and will cause the Subsidiaries and any ERISA Affiliate to promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent after written request therefor by the Administrative Agent, copies of each annual and other report with respect to each Plan or any trust created thereunder, and promptly upon becoming aware of the occurrence of any “prohibited transaction,” as described in section 406 of ERISA or in section 4975 of the Code for which no exemption exists or is available by statute, regulation, administrative exemption, or otherwise, in connection with any Plan or any trust created thereunder and that is reasonably expected to result in liability to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is expected to have Material Adverse Effect, a written notice signed by the President or the principal Financial Officer, the Subsidiary or the ERISA Affiliate, as the case may be, specifying the nature thereof, what action Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, the Subsidiary or the ERISA Affiliate is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto, and, when known, any action taken or proposed by the Internal Revenue Service or the Department of Labor with respect thereto.

Section 8.18 Deposit Accounts; Commodities Accounts and Securities Accounts . Subject to Section 8.19(a) , the Borrower and each Guarantor will cause each of their respective Deposit Accounts, Commodities Accounts or Securities Accounts (in each case, other than Excluded Accounts) to, within 30 days (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion) following the opening of any such account, at all times be subject to an Account Control Agreement in accordance with and to the extent required by the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement.

 

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Section 8.19 Post-Effective Date Deliverables .

(a) Account Control Agreements . Notwithstanding the requirements set forth in Section 8.18 , with respect to each Deposit Account, Commodities Account and Securities Account of the Credit Parties in existence on the Effective Date (other than, in each case, Excluded Accounts), on or prior to the date that is sixty (60) days following the Effective Date (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), the Borrower and each Guarantor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent duly executed Account Control Agreements in accordance with and to the extent required by the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement.

(b) Mortgages in respect of Oil and Gas Properties . To the extent not delivered on the Effective Date, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent mortgages and other Security Instruments sufficient to create first priority, perfected Liens (subject only to Permitted Liens) (i) on or prior to the date that is sixty (60) days following the Effective Date (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), on at least 50% of the total PV-9 of the Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by the most recently delivered Reserve Report, after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production and (ii) on or prior to the date that is ninety (90) days following the Effective Date (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), on at least 85% of the total PV-9 of the Proved Reserves of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by the most recently delivered Reserve Report, after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production.

(c) Swap Agreements . The Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary shall enter into and maintain at all times Swap Agreements with one or more Approved Counterparties pursuant to which the Borrower and such Restricted Subsidiaries shall hedge notional volumes of not less than, (i) during the period beginning on June 30, 2018 and ending on September 29, 2019, 65% of the Projected Volume (based on the most recently delivered Reserve Report) of natural gas from Proved Developed Producing Reserves for each calendar quarter during the subsequent eighteen (18) calendar month period immediately following any date of determination (as forecasted based upon the most recently delivered Reserve Report) and (ii) during the period beginning on September 30, 2019 and ending on March 30, 2020, 50% of the Projected Volume (based on the most recently delivered Reserve Report) of natural gas from Proved Developed Producing Reserves for each calendar quarter during the subsequent eighteen (18) calendar month period immediately following any date of determination (as forecasted based upon the most recently delivered Reserve Report); provided , that to the extent the delivery of a new Reserve Report hereunder results in a failure to satisfy the requirements of this Section 8.19(c) , the Credit Parties shall have thirty (30) days following the delivery of such Reserve Report (or such later date as the Majority Lenders may agree in their sole discretion) to enter into additional Swap Agreements to the extent necessary to satisfy the requirements of this Section 8.19(c) ; provided , further , that if the Borrower reasonably determines that the Lenders (and their respective Affiliates) have insufficient aggregate capacity to enter into Swap Agreements with one or more Credit Parties for at least the minimum volumes of natural gas for each fiscal quarter required pursuant to this Section 8.19(c) , then the requirements of this Section 8.19(c) shall be reduced solely to the extent necessary to reflect the maximum volumes of natural gas for each fiscal quarter for which the Lenders (and their respective Affiliates) have aggregate capacity to enter into such Swap Agreements.

 

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ARTICLE IX

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

Until the Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder and all other amounts payable under the Loan Documents have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit have expired (without any pending drawings thereon) or terminated (or cash collateralized) and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

Section 9.01 Financial Covenants .

(a) Interest Coverage Ratio . The Borrower will not permit, as of the last day of any fiscal quarter commencing with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2017, the ratio of (i) the EBITDAX for the Rolling Period ending on such date to (ii) the Consolidated Interest Expense of the Borrower for the Rolling Period ending on such date, to be less than 2.5 to 1.0.

(b) Current Ratio . The Borrower will not permit, as of the last day of any fiscal quarter commencing with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2017, the ratio of consolidated current assets of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (including the unused amount of the Loan Limit, but excluding non-cash assets under the equivalent of ASC 815 under GAAP) as of such date to consolidated current liabilities of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding non-cash obligations under the equivalent of ASC 815 under GAAP and current maturities under this Agreement) as of such date to be less than 1.0 to 1.0.

(c) Consolidated Net Leverage Ratios . The Borrower will not permit the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio to exceed, as of the last day of each of the following fiscal quarters, the ratio set forth next to such fiscal quarter in the table below:

 

Fiscal Quarters (ending)

   Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio

June 30, 2018 through June 30, 2019

   4.50 to 1.0

September 30, 2019 through December 31, 2019

   4.25 to 1.0

March 31, 2020 and each other fiscal quarter end thereafter

   4.00 to 1.0

(d) Asset Coverage Ratio . At any time during an Investment Grade Period, the Borrower will not permit, as of the last day of any fiscal quarter commencing with the first fiscal quarter ending during such Investment Grade Period, the Asset Coverage Ratio as of such date to be less than 1.50 to 1.00.

Section 9.02 Debt . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, incur, create, assume or suffer to exist any Debt, except:

(a) the Notes or other Obligations arising under the Loan Documents.

(b) Debt under Capital Leases or that constitutes Purchase Money Indebtedness; provided that the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Debt described in this Section 9.02(b) at any one time outstanding shall not exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate.

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(d) Debt constituting a guaranty by Borrower or any other Credit Party of other Debt permitted to be incurred under this Section 9.02 .

(e) Existing Senior Notes and related Existing Senior Notes Debt ; provided that, solely with respect to Senior Notes and related Senior Note Debt (other than the Existing Senior Notes) issued after the Effective Date, at the time any such Senior Notes are issued , after giving effect to the incurrence of such Senior Notes Debt, the Borrower is in pro forma compliance with Section 9.01 . .

(f) Debt that represents an extension, refinancing, or renewal of any of the Existing Senior Notes Debt or Debt issued pursuant to Section 9.02( h g ) or ( j i ); provided that, (i) the principal amount of such Debt is not increased (other than by the costs, fees, premiums and expenses and by accrued and unpaid interest paid in connection with any such extension, refinancing or renewal) except in compliance with the preceding clause (e) (it being understood , for the avoidance of doubt, that any such increase in the principal amount of such Debt shall be deemed to be incurred under the preceding clause (e) and subject to Section 2.07(e) hereof) , (ii) such extension, refinancing or renewal does not result in any principal amount owing in respect of Existing Senior Notes Debt becoming due earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date, and (iii) if the Existing Senior Notes Debt that is refinanced, renewed, or extended was subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, then the terms and conditions of the refinancing, renewal, or extension Debt must include subordination terms and conditions that are at least as favorable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as those that were applicable to the refinanced, renewed, or extended Debt , (iv) such Debt is not guaranteed by or otherwise have recourse to any obligors not obligated on the Debt being refinanced and (iv) such Debt does not otherwise have a payment priority senior in any way to the Debt being refinanced .

(g) other Debt so long as arising under the Term Loan Documents; provided that the aggregate principal amount of all such Debt described in this Section 9.02(g) at any one time outstanding does not exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate amount of the Term Loan Exposure on the Third Amendment Effective Date plus any increase in the principal amount due to interest paid in kind or capitalized .

(h) Debt arising under the Term Loan Documents;

( i h ) Debt under Swap Agreements permitted pursuant to Section 9.18 ; and

(i) [Reserved]; and

(j) Permitted Junior Exchange Debt consisting of (x) Permitted Second Lien Debt incurred on the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $545,000,000 plus any increase to such principal amount after the Initial Exchange Date solely resulting from interest that is paid in-kind on such Debt; provided that after giving effect to the incurrence of such Permitted Second Lien Debt on the Initial Exchange Date, there shall have been an aggregate decrease in Debt described in clause (a) of the definition thereof of the Borrower of not less than $224,800,000, (y) Permitted Second Lien Debt incurred from the Initial Exchange Date to, and including, the one-year anniversary of the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate amount not to exceed $55,100,000 plus any increase to such principal amount after the Initial Exchange Date solely resulting from interest that is paid in-kind on such Debt; provided, such Debt shall only be permitted pursuant to this Section 9.02(j)(y) if such Debt is issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds thereof are used solely to repay, the applicable 2022 Notes at a price per each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of the applicable 2022 Notes validly exchanged not to exceed (A) $720 aggregate principal amount of such Permitted Second Lien Debt incurred pursuant to this Section 9.02(j)(y), plus (B) 14.0 warrants with economic terms identical to those of the warrants issued in the transactions contemplated by the Exchange Agreement dated December 17, 2018, by and among the

 

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Borrower, the Guarantors and the other parties identified on Schedule I thereto, plus (C) an amount of cash necessary to pay any accrued and unpaid interest on the 2022 Notes redeemed or retired pursuant to this Section 9.02(j)(y) and/or (z) Permitted Third Lien Debt incurred after the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $240,000,000 plus any increase to such principal amount resulting from interest that is paid in-kind on such Debt; provided that, in the case of each incurrence of Debt pursuant to this Section 9.02(j), as of the time of the issuance thereof and after giving pro forma effect thereto and to the use of proceeds thereof, (x) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (y) the annual aggregate cash interest expense payable with respect to any such Debt shall not exceed the annual aggregate cash interest expense that would have been payable with respect to such Existing Senior Notes refinanced thereby during the 12-month period preceding such refinancing; provided further, that in respect of any such Debt incurred under this clause (z) (other than any such Debt that is incurred in exchange for Excepted 2022 Notes), such Debt shall only be permitted pursuant to this Section 9.02(j)(z) if such Debt is issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds thereof are used solely to repay, the applicable Exchanged Notes at a price that is no greater than 75% of the principal amount of such Exchanged Notes; and

(j) Debt issued in satisfaction of any Claims derived from or based upon makewhole, applicable premium, redemption premium, or other similar payment provisions under the OpCo Notes MNPA or any other alleged premiums, fees, or Claims arising from the treatment of the OpCo Notes under the Approved Plan, including any Claims for damages or other relief arising from such treatment (capitalized terms used in this Section 9.02(j) but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Plan of Reorganization as in effect on March 14, 2017) so long as the aggregate principal amount of all Debt described in this Section 9.02(j) at any one time outstanding does not exceed $300,000,000 in the aggregate.

(k) Debt that represents an extension, refinancing, or renewal of any Debt permitted under Section 9.02(j); provided that, (i) the principal amount of such Debt is not increased (other than by the costs, fees, premiums and expenses and by accrued and unpaid interest paid in connection with any such extension, refinancing or renewal), (ii) such Debt shall not (x) be secured by a Lien on or otherwise have recourse to any assets that did not secure the Debt being refinanced unless such Debt is subject to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement or Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable and the Borrower has granted, or concurrently therewith grants, a Lien on such asset to secure the Obligations, (y) be secured by a Lien unless the Debt being refinanced is secured and such Lien is pari passu with or junior in priority to the Lien securing the Debt being refinanced and subject to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement or Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable, (y) be guaranteed by or otherwise have recourse to any obligors not obligated on the Debt being refinanced or (z) otherwise have a payment priority senior in any way to the Debt being refinanced and (iii) the terms and conditions of such Debt meet the requirements of clauses (a), (b), (d) and (e) of the definition of “Permitted Junior Exchange Debt”.

Section 9.03 Liens . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any of its Properties (now owned or hereafter acquired), except:

(a) Liens securing the Obligations . ;

(b) Excepted Liens . ;

(c) Liens securing Capital Leases and Purchase Money Indebtedness permitted by Section 9.02(b) but only on the Property under lease or the Property purchased, constructed or improved with such Purchase Money Indebtedness . ;

 

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(d) Liens securing Debt permitted by Section 9.02(g) but only on Property not constituting Borrowing Base Properties or Collateral.

( e d ) Liens securing the Term Loans and the “Obligations” as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement . ;

( f e ) Liens on cash deposits securing obligations under Swap Agreements; provided that the amount of such cash deposits shall not exceed $25,000,000 in the aggregate at any time . ;

(f) [Reserved]; and

(g) Liens on the Collateral securing Debt permitted by Section 9.02(j) and Section  9.02(k); provided that such Liens are subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations pursuant to the applicable Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements.

(g) Liens on cash, surety, performance or appeal bonds and similar instruments securing satisfaction of any Claims derived from or based upon makewhole, applicable premium, redemption premium, or other similar payment provisions under the OpCo Notes MNPA or any other alleged premiums, fees, or Claims arising from the treatment of the OpCo Notes under the Approved Plan, including any Claims for damages or other relief arising from such treatment; provided that any reference to “Claims” in this Section 9.03(g) shall only apply to such Claims to the extent that they do not constitute funded debt (capitalized terms used in this Section 9.03(g) but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Plan of Reorganization as in effect on March 14, 2017).

Section 9.04 Restricted Payments and Payments in Respect of Certain Debt .

(a) The Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will shall not, and will shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly (collectively in this section, “ make ”), any Restricted Payment except:

(i) the Borrower or any Guarantor may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any other Guarantor;

(ii) Parent Guarantor may make Restricted Payments with respect to its Equity Interests payable solely in additional shares of its Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock);

(iii) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments pursuant to stock option plans or other benefit plans for the benefit of the employees, management and directors of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries so long as no Event of Default exists at the time of such payment or results therefrom; and

(iv) Restricted Payments made at any such time during which , immediately after giving effect to the making of any such Restricted Payment on a pro forma basis, on or after September 1, 2019, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value (including, without limitation, in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Parent Guarantor or the Borrower) any Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, so long as (A) no Event of Default exists or is continuing, (B) (x) during an Investment Grade Period, the ratio of Availability to the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders at such time is not less than 1:9 and (y) during a Borrowing Base Period, Availability is not less than 10% of the Borrowing Base in effect at such time, (C) no Borrowing Base Deficiency exists and (D) the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00. 2.25:1.00 determined on a pro forma basis for the most recently ended Rolling Period for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date for which such Restricted Payment is being made.

 

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(b) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date, make or offer to make any optional or voluntary Redemption of or otherwise optionally or voluntarily Redeem (whether in whole or in part) any principal of any Existing Senior Notes Debt, any Permitted Junior Exchange Debt or any Debt permitted under Section 9.02(f) or Section 9.02(k) that represents an extension, refinancing, or renewal of the foregoing, except that:

(i) so long as no Borrowing Base Deficiency or Event of Default exists or results therefrom, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary may, substantially contemporaneously with its receipt of any cash proceeds from any sale by Parent Guarantor or the Borrower of Equity Interests in Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, as applicable, voluntarily prepay or otherwise Redeem any principal of Existing Senior Notes Debt in an amount equal to the amount of the net cash proceeds received by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and/or Restricted Subsidiaries from such sale of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) of Parent Guarantor or the Borrower , ;

(ii) the Credit Parties may refinance (A) Existing Senior Notes Debt in accordance with Section 9.02(f) , and (B) Permitted Junior Exchange Debt in accordance with Section 9.02(k);

(iii) after September 1, 2019, voluntary prepayments or other Redemptions made at any such time during which, immediately after giving effect to such prepayment or Redemption on a pro forma basis, (A) no Event of Default exists or is continuing, (B) (x) during an Investment Grade Period, the ratio of Availability to the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders at such time is not less than 1:9 and (y) during a Borrowing Base Period, Availability is not less than 10% of the Borrowing Base in effect at such time, (C) no Borrowing Base Deficiency exists and (D) the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 . shall be permitted; provided that this clause (iii) shall be available solely for voluntary prepayment or Redemption of (x) Permitted Third Lien Debt, (y) the Existing Senior Notes or (z) any Debt permitted under Section 9.02(f) or Section 9.02(k) that represents an extension, refinancing, or renewal thereof (the debt described in the immediately foregoing clauses (x) through (z), the “Subject Debt”), and solely to the extent such voluntary prepayment or Redemption is at a price in cash equal to no greater than 35% of the principal amount of such Subject Debt;

(iv) the Borrower may consummate (A) a Permitted Notes Exchange and (B) purchases, repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions or retirements of any (x) Existing Senior Notes, (y) Permitted Junior Exchange Debt and (z) any Debt permitted under Section 9.02(f) or Section 9.02(k) with respect to the foregoing, in each case with the proceeds of or in exchange for the Equity Interests in the Parent Guarantor; and

(v) voluntary prepayments or other Redemptions of Subject Debt within one-year of the maturity thereof in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 for all such prepayments and other Redemptions made at any such time as long as, immediately after giving effect to such prepayment or Redemption on a pro forma basis, (A) no Event of Default exists or is continuing, (B) (x) during an Investment Grade Period, the ratio of Availability to the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders at such time is not less than 1:9 and (y) during a Borrowing Base Period, Availability is not less than 10% of the Borrowing Base in effect at such time, (C) no Borrowing Base Deficiency exists and (D) the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 shall be permitted.

 

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Section 9.05 Investments, Loans and Advances . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, make, or permit to remain outstanding, any Investments in or to any Person, except that the foregoing restriction shall not apply to:

(a) Investments made prior to the Effective Date and reflected in the financial statements referred to in Section 7.04 or that are disclosed to the Lenders in Schedule 9.05 .

(b) Cash Equivalents.

(c) Investments made by Parent Guarantor or the Borrower in or to any Guarantor or made by any Guarantor (including any newly formed Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor in accordance with this Agreement) in or to the Borrower or any other Guarantor (including any newly formed Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor in accordance with this Agreement).

(d) loans or advances to employees, officers or directors in the ordinary course of business of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case only as permitted by applicable law, but in any event not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.

(e) Investments in stock, obligations or securities received in settlement of debts arising from Investments permitted under this Section 9.05 or from accounts receivable and other similar obligations arising in the ordinary course of business, which Investments are obtained by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary as a result of a bankruptcy or other insolvency proceeding of, or difficulties in collecting from, the obligor in respect of such obligations.

(f) Investments constituting Debt permitted under Section 9.02 .

(g) other Investments that do not exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate at any time.

( h g ) Investments made at any such time during which, immediately after giving effect to the making of any such Investment on a pro forma basis, (A) no Event of Default exists or is continuing, (B) (x) during an Investment Grade Period, the ratio of Availability to the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders at such time is not less than 1:9 and (y) during a Borrowing Base Period, Availability is not less than 10% of the Borrowing Base in effect at such time, (C) no Borrowing Base Deficiency exists and (D) the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00.

( i h ) Investments in Industry Investments not to exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding.

Section 9.06 Nature of Business; International Operations . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, allow any material change to be made in the character of its business as a company engaged in the Oil and Gas Business. From and after the date hereof, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries will not acquire or commit to acquire any Oil and Gas Properties not located within the geographical boundaries of the United States of America and the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries will not form or acquire any Foreign Subsidiaries. Parent Guarantor shall not directly own any interest in any Oil and Gas Property. Any Oil and Gas Properties of the Credit Parties will at all times be owned by the Borrower or one or more Restricted Subsidiaries.

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Section 9.08 ERISA Compliance . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, at any time:

(a) engage in, or permit any ERISA Affiliate to engage in, any transaction in connection with which the Borrower or a Subsidiary could be subjected to either a civil penalty assessed pursuant to subsections (i) or (l) of section 502 of ERISA or a tax imposed by section 4975 of the Code, except where such penalty or tax could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) fail to make, or permit any ERISA Affiliate to fail to make, full payment when due of all amounts which, under the provisions of any Plan, agreement relating thereto or applicable law, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate is required to pay as contributions thereto, except where such failure could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c) contribute to or assume an obligation to contribute to, or permit any ERISA Affiliate to contribute to or assume an obligation to contribute to, any employee welfare benefit plan, as defined in section 3(1) of ERISA that provides benefits to retirees or former employees of such entities that may not be terminated by such entities in their sole discretion at any time without any liability other than for benefits due as of, or claims incurred prior to, the effective date of such termination, except where such contribution or assumption of an obligation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 9.09 Sale or Discount of Notes or Receivables . Except for the sale of defaulted notes or accounts receivable not made in connection with any financing transaction, Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, sell (with or without recourse or discount) any of its notes receivable or accounts receivable to any Person other than the Borrower or any Guarantor. The settlement or compromise of joint interest billings or of accounts receivable and other receivables in connection with the collection or compromise thereof will not constitute a sale for the purposes of the preceding sentence.

Section 9.10 Mergers, Etc . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, merge into or with or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its Property to any other Person (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) (any such transaction, a “ consolidation ”), or liquidate or dissolve; provided that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing, any Restricted Subsidiary may be liquidated or may participate in a merger or consolidation with the Borrower or Parent Guarantor ( provided that the Borrower or Parent Guarantor shall be the survivor) or any other Restricted Subsidiary or another Person who becomes a Restricted Subsidiary concurrent with such merger or consolidation ; provided, further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing, the Parent Guarantor may consummate a Redomestication Transaction .

Section 9.11 Sale of Properties and Liquidation of Swap Agreements . As used herein, “ Transfer ” means to sell, assign, farm-out, convey or otherwise transfer Property or to Liquidate any Swap Agreement in respect of commodities, provided that Transfer does not include the grant or creation of a Lien. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, Transfer (1) any Oil and Gas Property or any interest in Hydrocarbons produced or to be produced therefrom, (2) any commodity Swap Agreement or (3) any Equity Interest in any Restricted Subsidiary that owns any Oil and Gas Property, any interest in Hydrocarbons produced or to be produced therefrom, or any commodity Swap Agreement (in this Section 9.11 , an “ E&P Subsidiary ”), except for:

 

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(a) the sale of Hydrocarbons in the ordinary course of business;

(b) farmouts of undeveloped acreage and assignments in connection with such farmouts;

(c) Transfers among Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries provided that the provisions of Section 8.14 are complied with to the extent applicable;

(d) the sale or transfer of Unproven Acreage or of any Equity Interests in any E&P Subsidiary (other than an E&P Subsidiary that owns any Borrowing Base Properties, any interest in Hydrocarbons produced or to be produced therefrom, or any commodity Swap Agreement included in the most recent determination of the Borrowing Base), provided that (i) prior to and after giving effect to such sale or transfer, the Borrower is in compliance with Section 9.18 , (ii) if a Borrowing Base Deficiency Exists prior to such sale or transfer, 100% of the net cash proceeds of such sale or transfer are applied to prepay the loans up to an amount sufficient to cure such Borrowing Base Deficiency and (iii) prior to and after giving effect to such sale or transfer, no Default or Event of Default exists at such time; and

(e) Transfers of Borrowing Base Properties, of commodity Swap Agreements, and of Equity Interests in any E&P Subsidiary that owns any Borrowing Base Properties, any interest in Hydrocarbons produced or to be produced therefrom or any commodity Swap Agreement included in the most recent determination of the Borrowing Base, provided that:

(i) the consideration received in respect of such Transfer shall be cash, the assumption of liabilities (including indemnification obligations) related to the Borrowing Base Properties Transferred, new Oil and Gas Properties (and related Additional Oil and Gas Assets) and new commodity Swap Agreements acquired, or Investments permitted under Section 9.05 ;

(ii) the consideration received in respect of such Transfer shall be equal to or greater than the fair market value of the Borrowing Base Properties, commodity Swap Agreements and Equity Interests in E&P Subsidiaries that are Transferred (as reasonably determined by the Borrower and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall deliver a certificate of the Borrower certifying to that effect);

(iii) if any such Transfer is of an E&P Subsidiary, such Transfer shall include all the Equity Interests of such E&P Subsidiary owned by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries; and

(iv) if any Transfer pursuant to this subsection (e) would trigger an Additional Interim Redetermination Event, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of such Transfer or Liquidation and shall provide the Administrative Agent with such information regarding such Transfer as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

To the extent that Transfers made pursuant to subsection (e) would trigger an Additional Interim Redetermination Event, then the Borrowing Base will be reduced by the Borrowing Base Value of the Borrowing Base Properties and commodity Swap Agreements, as applicable, in excess of 5% of the Borrowing Base then in effect, effective upon delivery by the Administrative Agent of the related New Borrowing Base Notice under Section 2.07(d) , and if a Borrowing Base Deficiency exists after such reduction in the Borrowing Base, the Borrower shall prepay Borrowings in accordance with Section 3.04(c)(iii) . For the purposes of the preceding sentence and the preceding subsection (e), the Transfer of an E&P Subsidiary owning such Borrowing Base Properties and/or commodity Swap Agreements shall be deemed the Transfer of the Borrowing Base Properties and the Liquidation of commodity Swap Agreements owned such E&P Subsidiary.

 

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Section 9.12 Transactions with Affiliates . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into any transaction, with any Affiliate (other than Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries) unless such transaction is upon terms that are no less favorable to it than those that could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate or that are otherwise fair to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view. The restrictions set forth in this Section 9.12 shall not apply to (a) executing, delivering, and performing obligations under the Loan Documents, the “Loan Documents” as defined under the Term Loan Agreement and the Existing Senior Notes Documents; (b) compensation to, and the terms of employment contracts with, individuals who are officers, managers and directors of Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, provided such compensation or contract is approved by Ultra Petroleum’s board of directors, (c) the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) by Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, (d) transactions permitted under Section 9.04 or Section 9.05 or otherwise expressly permitted under this Agreement and (e) transactions contemplated by the Plan of Reorganization.

Section 9.13 Subsidiaries . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create or acquire any additional Restricted Subsidiary or redesignate an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary unless the Borrower gives written notice to the Administrative Agent of such creation or acquisition and complies with Section 8.14(b) . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, sell, assign or otherwise dispose of any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary except (a) to the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary or (b) in compliance with Section 9.11 . None of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary will have any Foreign Subsidiaries. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not permit any Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary to be directly owned by any Person other than the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary. UP Energy will not directly own any subsidiary other than the Borrower and any Unrestricted Parent Entity.

Section 9.14 Negative Pledge Agreements; Subsidiary Dividend Restrictions . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any contract, agreement or understanding (other than (i) this Agreement and the Security Instruments, (ii) agreements with respect to Debt secured by Liens permitted by Section 9.03(c) or Section 9.03(d) but then only with respect to the Property that is financed by such Debt, and (iii) documents creating Liens which are described in clause (d), (f), (h) or (i) of the definition of “Excepted Liens”, but then only with respect to the Property that is the subject of the applicable lease, document or license described in such clause (d), (f), (h) or (i ) and (iv) agreements with respect to any Debt permitted under Section 9.02(j) or Section 9.02(k )) that in any way prohibits or restricts the granting, conveying, creation or imposition of the Liens on any of its Property in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties that are created pursuant to the Security Instruments to secure the Obligations. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any contract, agreement or understanding (other than the Loan Documents, the Term Loan Documents and the Existing Senior Notes Documents) that restricts any Restricted Subsidiary from paying dividends or making any other distributions in respect of its Equity Interests to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary.

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(a) Any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be a Restricted Subsidiary unless such Person (i) is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary on Schedule 7.14 , as of the date hereof, (ii) is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary after the date hereof in compliance with Section 9.15(b) , or (iii) is a subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

(b) The Borrower may designate by written notification thereof to the Administrative Agent, any Restricted Subsidiary, including a newly formed or newly acquired Subsidiary, as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if (i) prior, and after giving effect, to such designation, neither a Default nor a Borrowing Base Deficiency would exist and (ii) such designation is deemed to be an Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary in an amount equal to the fair market value as of the date of such designation of the Borrower’s direct and indirect ownership interest in such Subsidiary and such Investment would be permitted to be made under Section 9.05 . Except as provided in this Section 9.15(b) , no Restricted Subsidiary may be redesignated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

(c) The Borrower may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary if after giving effect to such designation, (i) the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties contained in each of the Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of the date of such redesignation except to the extent (A) any such representations and warranties are expressly limited to an earlier date, in which case, on and as of the date of such redesignation, such representations and warranties shall continue to be true and correct as of such specified earlier date and (B) to the extent that any such representation and warranty is expressly qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect, such representation and warranty (as so qualified) shall be true and correct in all respects on and as of the date of such redesignation, (ii) no Event of Default would exist and (iii) the Borrower complies with the requirements of Section 8.14 , Section 8.15 and Section 9.13 . Upon any such designation, an amount equal to the lesser of the fair market value of the Borrower’s direct and indirect ownership interest in such Subsidiary or the amount of the Borrower’s cash investment previously made in such Subsidiary shall be deemed no longer outstanding for purposes of the limitation on Investments under Section 9.05 .

Section 9.16 Non-Qualified ECP Counterparties . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall not permit any Guarantor that is not a Qualified ECP Counterparty to own, at any time, any Borrowing Base Properties. The Borrower shall not permit any Guarantor that is not a Qualified ECP Counterparty to own, at any time, any Equity Interests in any Restricted Subsidiaries.

Section 9.17 Amendments to Senior Modifications to Debt Documents .

(a) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to any of the terms of the Existing Senior Notes Documents if (a) the effect thereof would be to shorten the maturity of the Existing Senior Notes Debt to a date earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date or to provide a right to require Redemption of any Existing Senior Notes Debt earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date, (b) the effect thereof would be to increase the principal amount of such Existing Senior Notes Debt (other than in connection with an additional incurrence of Senior Notes Debt that is permitted under Section 9.02(e) or a refinancing permitted under Section 9.02(f) ), or (c) such action adds or amends any financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or events of default to cause the financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or events of default to be materially more onerous, taken as a whole and as determined by the board of directors of Parent Guarantor, than those in this Agreement without this Agreement being contemporaneously amended to add similar provisions . ; or

 

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(b) enter into, cause or permit to exist or become effective any amendment, restatement, supplement, modification or refinancing (or successive amendments, restatements, supplements, modifications or refinancings) of the Second Lien Indenture, including any guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith (the “Second Lien Indenture Documents”), (x) if (a) the effect thereof would be to shorten the maturity of the Debt outstanding under the Second Lien Indenture Documents to a date earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date or to provide a right to require Redemption of any such Debt earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date, (b) the effect thereof would be to increase the principal amount of such Debt (other than to the extent permitted under Section 9.02(j)), or (c) such action adds or amends any financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or events of default to cause the f inancial ratio covenants, negative covenants or events of default to be materially more onerous, taken as a whole and as determined by the board of directors of Parent Guarantor, than those in this Agreement except to the extent permitted by the definition of “Permitted Junior Exchange Debt” or (y) that increases (1) the interest rate or yield, including by increasing the “applicable margin” or similar component of the interest rate (including to provide for additional compounded or interest paid in-kind), through original issue discount or by modifying the method of computing interest, or (2) a letter of credit, commitment, facility, utilization, makewhole or similar fee (but excluding any customary consent, amendment, arrangement or similar fees) so that the combined interest rate and fees are increased by more than 2.50% per annum with respect to Second Lien Indenture Documents as in effect on the Initial Exchange Date, in each instance in the aggregate at any level of pricing, but excluding increases from the accrual of interest at the “Post-Default Rate” defined in Second Lien Indenture Documents as in effect on the Initial Exchange Date or, for a refinancing, a rate that corresponds to the “Post-Default Rate”.

Section 9.18 Swap Agreements .

(a) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into or maintain any Swap Agreements with any Person other than:

(i) Swap Agreements with an Approved Counterparty not for speculative purposes in respect of commodities fixing a price for a term of not more than sixty months and the notional volumes for which (when aggregated with other commodity Swap Agreements then in effect other than put or floor options as to which an upfront premium has been paid or basis differential swaps on volumes already hedged pursuant to other Swap Agreements) do not exceed, as of the date such Swap Agreement is executed, eighty-five percent (85%) of the reasonably anticipated projected production from Oil and Gas Properties for each month during the sixty-month period during which such Swap Agreement is in effect for each of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids, calculated separately, provided that the Borrower (A) shall have the option to update the reasonably anticipated projected production from Oil and Gas Properties between the delivery of Reserve Reports hereunder (which updates shall be provided to the Administrative Agent in writing and shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) and (B) shall, without causing a breach of this Section 9.18 , have the option to enter into commodity Swap Agreements with respect to (x) such updated projected production and (y) reasonably anticipated projected production from Oil and Gas Properties not then owned by the Borrower or such Subsidiary but which are subject to a binding purchase agreement for which the Borrower or such Subsidiary is scheduled to acquire such Oil and Gas Properties within the applicable period, provided that, if such purchase agreement does not close for any reason on the date required thereunder, including any binding extensions thereof, within thirty (30) days of such required closing date, the Borrower shall unwind or otherwise terminate the Swap Agreements entered into with respect to production that was to be acquired thereunder; and

(ii) Swap Agreements with an Approved Counterparty not for speculative purposes in respect of interest rates, the notional amounts of which (when aggregated with all other Swap Agreements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries then in effect) do not exceed eighty-five percent (85%) of

 

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the then outstanding principal amount of the Borrower’s Debt for borrowed money. In no event shall any Swap Agreement, other than a master Swap Agreement pursuant to which the Borrower executes only put or floor options as to which an upfront premium has been paid and subject to the limitations set forth in Section 9.03(e) , contain any requirement, agreement or covenant for the Borrower or any Subsidiary to post collateral or margin to secure their obligations under such Swap Agreement other than the benefit of the Security Instruments as contemplated herein.

(b) If, after the end of any calendar month, the Borrower determines that the aggregate notional volume of all Swap Agreements in respect of commodities for such calendar month exceeded 100% of actual production of Hydrocarbons in such calendar month, then the Borrower shall (i) promptly notify the Administrative Agent of such determination, and (ii) if requested by the Administrative Agent (or if otherwise necessary to ensure compliance with Section 9.18(a)(i) ), within 30 days after such request, terminate, create off-setting positions or otherwise unwind or monetize existing Swap Agreements such that, at such time, future volumes under commodity Swap Agreements and future Deemed Transportation Volumes will not exceed 100% of reasonably anticipated projected production for the then-current and any succeeding calendar months.

(c) For all purposes of determining the aggregate volumes of Swap Agreements under this Section 9.18 there shall be no double counting for transactions and agreements in respect of the same volumes that hedge different risks, including without limitation:

(i) for price swaps and basis swaps in respect of the same volumes, such as financial basis swaps between Marcellus and Henry Hub and financial price swaps of floating Henry Hub for a fixed price,

(ii) for financial price swaps and Specified Commodity Sale Contracts that functionally operate as basis swaps in respect of the same volumes,

(iii) for basis swaps that hedge different components of basis risk, such as a Specified Commodity Sale Contract that hedges basis risk between Marcellus and Texas Eastern’s East Louisiana zone and a financial basis hedge that hedges basis risk between Texas Eastern’s East Louisiana zone and Henry Hub.

ARTICLE X

EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES

Section 10.01 Events of Default . One or more of the following events shall constitute an “ Event of Default ”:

(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof, by acceleration or otherwise.

(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in Section 10.01(a) ) payable under any Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days.

(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Credit Party in or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification of any Loan Document or waiver under such Loan Document, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made.

 

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(d) the Borrower shall fail to give notice of any Default as required under Section 8.02(a) , or the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 8.01(c) , (i)  or (j) , Section 8.02(b) or (c) , Section 8.03(a) , Section 8.14 , Section 8.18 , Section 8.19 or Article IX .

(e) the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in Section 10.01(a) , Section 10.01(b) or Section 10.01(d) ) or any other Loan Document, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier to occur of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or any other Credit Party having knowledge of such default, or (ii) receipt of notice thereof by the Borrower from the Administrative Agent.

(f) the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall fail to make any payment of principal or interest on any Material Debt, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure to pay shall extend beyond any applicable period of grace.

(g) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Debt becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of such Material Debt or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause such Material Debt to become due, or to require the Redemption thereof or any offer to Redeem to be made in respect thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity.

(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any other Credit Party or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any other Credit Party or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for sixty (60) days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered.

(i) the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in Section 10.01(h) , apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any other Credit Party or for a substantial part of its assets, file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing.

(j) the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due.

(k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third party insurance as to which the insurer, which is not subject to an insolvency proceeding, does not dispute coverage) shall be rendered against the Borrower, any other Credit Party or any combination thereof and the same shall not be either discharged, vacated or stayed within thirty days after becoming a final judgment.

 

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(l) the Loan Documents after delivery thereof shall for any reason, except to the extent permitted by the terms thereof, cease to be in full force and effect and valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with their terms against the Borrower or any other Credit Party thereto, or shall be repudiated by any of them, or cease to create valid and perfected Liens of the priority required thereby on the Collateral purported to be covered thereby, except to the extent permitted by the terms of this Agreement or the Security Instruments, or the Borrower or any other Credit Party or any of their Affiliates shall so state in writing.

(m) a Change in Control shall occur.

Section 10.02 Remedies .

(a) In the case of an Event of Default other than one described in Section 10.01(h) or Section 10.01(i) , at any time thereafter during the continuance of such Event of Default, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Majority Lenders, shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Notes and the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors accrued hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents (including the payment of Cash Collateral to secure the LC Exposure as provided in Section 2.08(j) ), shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower and each Guarantor; and in case of an Event of Default described in Section 10.01(h) or Section 10.01(i) , the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the Notes and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and the other obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors accrued hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents (including the payment of Cash Collateral to secure the LC Exposure as provided in Section 2.08(j) ), shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower and each Guarantor.

(b) In the case of the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders will have all other rights and remedies available at law and equity.

(c) All proceeds realized from the liquidation or other disposition of Collateral or otherwise received after maturity of the Notes, whether by acceleration or otherwise, shall be applied:

(i) first , to payment or reimbursement of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, expenses and indemnities payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;

(ii) second , pro rata to payment or reimbursement of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, expenses and indemnities payable to the Lenders;

(iii) third , pro rata to payment of accrued interest on the Loans;

(iv) fourth , pro rata to payment of principal outstanding on the Loans, to serve as Cash Collateral to secure outstanding LC Exposure, to payment of Secured Swap Obligations then due and owing to Secured Swap Parties and to payment of Obligations then due and owing to Treasury Management Lenders under Lender Treasury Management Agreements;

 

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(v) fifth , pro rata to any other Obligations;

(vi) sixth , any excess, after all of the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash, shall be paid to the Borrower or as otherwise required by any Governmental Requirement.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, amounts received from the Borrower or any Guarantor that is not an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act shall not be applied to any Excluded Swap Obligations (it being understood, that in the event that any amount is applied to Obligations other than Excluded Swap Obligations as a result of this clause, the Administrative Agent shall make such adjustments as it determines are appropriate to distributions pursuant to clause fourth above from amounts received from “eligible contract participants” under the Commodity Exchange Act to ensure, as nearly as possible, that the proportional aggregate recoveries with respect to Obligations described in clause fourth above by the holders of any Excluded Swap Obligations are the same as the proportional aggregate recoveries with respect to other Obligations pursuant to clause fourth above).

ARTICLE XI

THE AGENTS

Section 11.01 Appointment; Powers . Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent to act on its behalf as the administrative agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and the other Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.

Section 11.02 Duties and Obligations of Administrative Agent . The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing: (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing (the use of the term “agent” herein and in the other Loan Documents with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law; rather, such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties), (b) the Administrative Agent shall have no duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except as provided in Section 11.03 , and (c) except as expressly set forth herein, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or a Lender, and shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into: (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or in any other Loan Document, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article VI or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly

 

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required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent or as to those conditions precedent expressly required to be to the Administrative Agent’s satisfaction, (vi) the existence, value, perfection or priority of any collateral security or the financial or other condition of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries or any other obligor or guarantor, or (vii) any failure by the Borrower or any other Person (other than itself) to perform any of its obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document or the performance or observance of any covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein. For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Article VI , each Lender 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 written notice from such Lender prior to the proposed closing date specifying its objection thereto.

Section 11.03 Action by Administrative Agent . The Administrative Agent shall have no 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 in writing as directed by the Majority Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 12.02 ) and in all cases the Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to act hereunder or under any other Loan Documents unless it shall (a) receive written instructions from the Majority Lenders, the Required Lenders, the Decrease and Maintenance Lenders or the Lenders, as applicable, (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 12.02 ) specifying the action to be taken and (b) be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expenses which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The instructions as aforesaid and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto by the Administrative Agent shall be binding on all of the Lenders. If a Default has occurred and is continuing, then the Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default as shall be directed by the requisite Lenders in the written instructions (with indemnities) described in this Section 11.03 , provided that, unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders. In no event, however, shall the Administrative Agent be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, exposes the Administrative Agent to personal liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the Loan Documents or applicable law, including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any bankruptcy or insolvency law. If a Default has occurred and is continuing, no syndication agents or documentation agent shall have any obligation to perform any act in respect thereof. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Majority Lenders, the Required Lenders, the Decrease and Maintenance Lenders or the Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 12.02 ), and otherwise the Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document or under any other document or instrument referred to or provided for herein or therein or in connection herewith or therewith INCLUDING ITS OWN ORDINARY NEGLIGENCE, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Section 11.04 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 believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability

 

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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 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. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the holder thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until a written notice of the assignment or transfer thereof permitted hereunder shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent.

Section 11.05 Sub-agents . The Administrative Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding Sections of this Article XI 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. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and nonappealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.

Section 11.06 Resignation or Removal of Administrative Agent . Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent as provided in this Section 11.06 , the Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Borrower, and the Administrative Agent may be removed by the Majority Lenders if the Administrative Agent in its capacity as a Lender is a Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (d) of the definition thereof. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Majority Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Majority Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation or removal of the retiring Administrative Agent, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank, appoint a successor Administrative Agent which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. The fees payable by the 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 Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article XI and Section 12.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as Administrative Agent.

Section 11.07 Agents as Lenders . Each bank serving as an 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 an Agent, and such bank 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 Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.

 

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Section 11.08 No Reliance . (a) Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any other Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement and each other Loan Document to which it is a party. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any other Agent or any other Lender 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, any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. The Agents shall not be required to keep themselves informed as to the performance or observance by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries of this Agreement, the Loan Documents or any other document referred to or provided for herein or to inspect the Properties or books of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or the Borrower’s Subsidiaries. Except for notices, reports and other documents and information expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, no Agent or the Arrangers shall have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower (or any of their Affiliates) which may come into the possession of such Agent or any of its Affiliates. In this regard, each Lender acknowledges that Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is acting in this transaction as special counsel to the Administrative Agent only, except to the extent otherwise expressly stated in any legal opinion or any Loan Document. Each other party hereto will consult with its own legal counsel to the extent that it deems necessary in connection with the Loan Documents and the matters contemplated therein.

(b) The Lenders acknowledge that the Administrative Agent is acting solely in administrative capacities with respect to the structuring of this Agreement and has no duties, responsibilities or liabilities under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents other than their administrative duties, responsibilities and liabilities specifically as set forth in the Loan Documents and, if applicable, in its capacity as Lenders hereunder. In structuring, arranging or syndicating this Agreement, each Lender acknowledges that the Administrative Agent may be a lender hereunder and under other loans or other securities and waives any existing or future conflicts of interest associated with the their role in such other debt instruments. If in its administration of this facility or any other debt instrument, the Administrative Agent determines (or is given written notice by any Lender) that a conflict exists, then it shall eliminate such conflict within 90 days or resign pursuant to Section 11.06 and shall have no liability for action taken or not taken while such conflict existed.

Section 11.09 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 Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, 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 (but not obligated), by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

(a) 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 Section 12.03 ) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

 

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(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same.

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 12.03 .

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.

Section 11.10 Authority of Administrative Agent to Release Collateral and Liens .

(a) Each Lender and the Issuing Bank hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to take the following actions and the Administrative Agent hereby agrees to take such actions at the request of the Borrower:

(i) to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by Administrative Agent under any Loan Document (w) upon (A) termination of all Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations) owing to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders under the Loan Documents and owing to any Secured Swap Party under any Secured Swap Agreement (other than any Issuing Bank or Secured Swap Party that has advised the Administrative Agent that the Obligations owing to it are otherwise adequately provided for or novated), and (B) termination of all Swap Agreements with Secured Swap Parties (other than any Secured Swap Party that has advised the Administrative Agent that such Swap Agreements are otherwise adequately provided for or novated), (x) that is, or is to be, sold, released or otherwise disposed of as permitted pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents or (y) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Majority Lenders (or, if approval, authorization or ratification by all Lenders is required under Section 12.02(b) , then by all Lenders) . ;

(ii) to subordinate (or release) any Lien on any Property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to any Lien on such Property that is permitted by Section 9.03(c) ;

(iii) to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement and the other Loan Documents if such Person ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents; and

(iv) to execute and deliver to the Borrower, at the Borrower’s sole cost and expense, any and all releases of Liens, termination statements, assignments or other documents necessary or useful to accomplish or evidence the foregoing.

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(c) Except as otherwise provided in Section 12.08 with respect to rights of setoff, and notwithstanding any other provision contained in any of the Loan Documents to the contrary, no Person other than the Administrative Agent has any right to realize upon any of the Collateral individually, to enforce any Liens on Collateral, or to enforce the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, and all powers, rights and remedies under the Security Instruments may be exercised solely by Administrative Agent on behalf of the Persons secured or otherwise benefitted thereby.

(d) By accepting the benefit of the Liens granted pursuant to the Security Instruments, each Person secured by such Liens that is not a party hereto agrees to the terms of this Section 11.10 .

Section 11.11 The Arrangers, the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent . The Arrangers and any other arranger, syndication agent or documentation agent hereafter appointed shall have no duties, responsibilities or liabilities under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents other than their duties, responsibilities and liabilities in their capacity as Lenders hereunder.

ARTICLE XII

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 12.01 Notices .

(a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to Section 12.01(b) ), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile, to it at its address set forth on Schedule 12.01 , and if to any Lender other than Barclays Bank PLC, to it at its address (or facsimile number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.

(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II , III , IV or V , unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender, if any, in writing. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

(c) Any party hereto may change its address or facsimile number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt.

(d) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic 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 telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereby consents to such recording.

 

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Section 12.02 Waivers; Amendments .

(a) No failure on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender to exercise and no delay in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any right, power or privilege, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such right, power or privilege, under any of the Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege under any of the Loan Documents preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, any other Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by Section 12.02(b) , and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any other Agent, any Lender or the Issuing Bank may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.

(b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof nor any Security Instrument nor any provision thereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Majority Lenders or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Majority Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) increase the Borrowing Base without the written consent of each Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender), (iii) decrease or maintain the Borrowing Base without the consent of the Decrease and Maintenance Lenders or reduce the percentages set forth in Section 8.14(a) or Section 8.19(b) to less than 85% or 50% as set forth in such Sections without the consent of the Required Lenders, (iv) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, or reduce any other Obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (v) postpone the scheduled date of payment or prepayment of the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement, or any interest thereon, or any fees payable hereunder, or any other Obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone or extend the Termination Date or the Maturity Date without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (vi) change Section 4.01(b) , Section 4.01(c) , the definition of “Applicable Percentage” or any other term or condition hereof in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender, (vii) waive or amend Section 3.04(c) , Section 6.01 or Section 10.02(c) , without the written consent of each Lender, (viii) release any Guarantor (except as set forth in the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement or in this Agreement), or release all or substantially all of the Collateral, without the written consent of each Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender), or (ix) change any of the provisions of this Section 12.02(b) or the definitions of “Required Lenders”, “Decrease and Maintenance Lenders”, “Majority Lenders” or “Super Majority Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights hereunder or under any other Loan Documents or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder or any other Loan Documents, without the written consent of each Lender; provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, any other Agent or the Issuing Bank hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, such other Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) any supplement to Schedule 7.14 shall be effective simply by delivering to the Administrative Agent a supplemental schedule clearly marked as such and, upon receipt, the Administrative Agent will promptly deliver a copy thereof to the Lenders, (2) the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may amend this Agreement or any other Loan Document without the consent of the Lenders (unless the Majority Lenders object in writing within 5 Business Days of notice by the Administrative Agent of such amendment) in order to correct, amend or cure any ambiguity, inconsistency or defect or correct any typographical error or other manifest error in any Loan Document or to modify or

 

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add financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or Events of Default to cause such financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or Events of Default to be more onerous to the Borrower than those contained in this Agreement (prior to giving effect to such amendment) in connection with any amendment, modification or other change to the Senior Debt Documents pursuant Section 9.17(c) , and (3) the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may, without the consent of any Lender, enter into any amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or enter into any agreement or instrument to add additional Guarantors as contemplated in Section 8.14(b) or to effect the granting, perfection, protection, expansion or enhancement of any security interest in any Collateral or Property to become Collateral to secure the Obligations for the benefit of the Lenders or as required by any Governmental Requirement to give effect to, protect or otherwise enhance the rights or benefits of any Lender under the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Schedule 1.02 may be amended to add an Issuing Bank, remove an Issuing Bank or modify the LC Issuance Limit of any Issuing Bank, provided that no such modification shall result in an increase of the LC Commitment, with the consent solely of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Issuing Bank (and the consent of the Majority Lenders shall not be required).

Section 12.03 Expenses, Indemnity; Damage Waiver .

(a) The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel and other outside consultants for the Administrative Agent, the reasonable travel, photocopy, mailing, courier, telephone and other similar expenses, and the cost of environmental assessments and audits and surveys and appraisals) in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration (both before and after the execution hereof and including advice of counsel to the Administrative Agent as to the rights and duties of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect thereto) of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any amendments, modifications or waivers of or consents related to the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all costs, expenses, Taxes, assessments and other charges incurred by the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) in connection with any filing, registration, recording or perfection of any security interest contemplated by this Agreement or any Security Instrument or any other document referred to therein, (iii) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder, and (iv) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Agent or the Issuing Bank or, during the continuance of any Event of Default, by any Lender (including the fees, charges and disbursements of one counsel for any Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender) in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including its rights under this Section 12.03 , or in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, and including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit.

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COUNSEL FOR ALL INDEMNITEES TAKEN AS A WHOLE IN EACH RELEVANT JURISDICTION, AND IN THE CASE OF AN ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED CONFLICT OF INTEREST, ONE ADDITIONAL COUNSEL AND (IF REASONABLY NECESSARY) ONE LOCAL COUNSEL IN EACH RELEVANT JURISDICTION TO THE AFFECTED INDEMNITEES SIMILARLY SITUATED), INCURRED BY OR ASSERTED AGAINST ANY INDEMNITEE ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH, OR AS A RESULT OF (i) THE EXECUTION OR DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR ANY AGREEMENT OR INSTRUMENT CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY, (ii) THE PERFORMANCE BY THE PARTIES HERETO OR THE PARTIES TO ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER OR THE CONSUMMATION OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR BY ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, (iii) THE FAILURE OF THE BORROWER OR ANY RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY TO COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, INCLUDING THIS AGREEMENT, OR WITH ANY GOVERNMENTAL REQUIREMENT, (iv) ANY INACCURACY OF ANY REPRESENTATION OR ANY BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY OR COVENANT OF THE BORROWER OR ANY GUARANTOR SET FORTH IN ANY OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY INSTRUMENTS, DOCUMENTS OR CERTIFICATIONS DELIVERED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, (v) ANY LOAN OR LETTER OF CREDIT OR THE USE OF THE PROCEEDS THEREFROM, INCLUDING ANY REFUSAL BY THE ISSUING BANK TO HONOR A DEMAND FOR PAYMENT UNDER A LETTER OF CREDIT IF THE DOCUMENTS PRESENTED IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH DEMAND DO NOT STRICTLY COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF SUCH LETTER OF CREDIT, OR ANY OTHER ASPECT OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, (vi) THE OPERATIONS OF THE BUSINESS OF THE BORROWER AND THE BORROWER’S SUBSIDIARIES BY SUCH PERSON, (vii) ANY ASSERTION THAT THE LENDERS WERE NOT ENTITLED TO RECEIVE THE PROCEEDS RECEIVED PURSUANT TO THE SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, (viii) ANY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW APPLICABLE TO THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OR ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES OR OPERATIONS, INCLUDING, THE PRESENCE, GENERATION, STORAGE, RELEASE, THREATENED RELEASE, USE, TRANSPORT, DISPOSAL, ARRANGEMENT OF DISPOSAL OR TREATMENT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ON OR AT ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES, (ix) THE BREACH OR NON-COMPLIANCE BY THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY WITH ANY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW APPLICABLE TO THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY, (x) THE PAST OWNERSHIP BY THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OF ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES OR PAST ACTIVITY ON ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES WHICH, THOUGH LAWFUL AND FULLY PERMISSIBLE AT THE TIME, COULD RESULT IN PRESENT LIABILITY, (xi) THE PRESENCE, USE, RELEASE, STORAGE, TREATMENT, DISPOSAL, GENERATION, THREATENED RELEASE, TRANSPORT, ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSPORT OR ARRANGEMENT FOR DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ON OR AT ANY OF THE PROPERTIES OWNED OR OPERATED BY THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OR ANY ACTUAL OR ALLEGED PRESENCE OR RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ON OR FROM ANY PROPERTY OWNED OR OPERATED BY THE BORROWER OR ANY OF THE BORROWER’S SUBSIDIARIES, (xii) ANY ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY RELATED IN ANY WAY TO THE BORROWER OR ANY OF THE BORROWER’S SUBSIDIARIES, OR ANY OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH OR SAFETY CONDITION IN CONNECTION WITH THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, OR (xiii) ANY ACTUAL OR PROSPECTIVE CLAIM, LITIGATION, INVESTIGATION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY INDEMNITEE IS A PARTY THERETO OR WHETHER BROUGHT BY THE BORROWER, ANY GUARANTOR OR ANY OTHER PARTY, AND SUCH INDEMNITY SHALL EXTEND TO EACH INDEMNITEE

 

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NOTWITHSTANDING THE SOLE OR CONCURRENT NEGLIGENCE OF EVERY KIND OR CHARACTER WHATSOEVER, WHETHER ACTIVE OR PASSIVE, WHETHER AN AFFIRMATIVE ACT OR AN OMISSION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL TYPES OF NEGLIGENT CONDUCT IDENTIFIED IN THE RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS OF ONE OR MORE OF THE INDEMNITEES OR BY REASON OF STRICT LIABILITY IMPOSED WITHOUT FAULT ON ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE INDEMNITEES; 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 DETERMINED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION BY FINAL AND NONAPPEALABLE JUDGMENT TO HAVE RESULTED FROM THE BAD FAITH, GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OF ANY INDEMNITEE.

(c) To the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to any Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the Arrangers or the Issuing Bank under Section 12.03(a) or (b)  or any Related Party of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to such Agent (or any such sub-agent), the Arrangers or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount (including any such unpaid amount in respect of a claim asserted by such Lender); 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 such Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the Arrangers or the Issuing Bank in its capacity as such.

(d) All amounts due under this Section 12.03 shall be payable not later than thirty (30) days after written demand therefor.

(e) Each party’s obligations under this Section 12.03 shall survive the termination of the Loan Documents and payment of the obligations hereunder.

Section 12.04 Successors and Assigns; No Third Party Beneficiaries .

(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section 12.04 . Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in Section 12.04(c) ) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement, and except for the foregoing Persons there are no third party beneficiaries to this Agreement.

(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in Section 12.04(b)(ii) , any Lender may assign to one or more assignees 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) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of:

(A) the Borrower; provided that (i) no consent of the Borrower shall be required if such assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund or if an Event of Default under Section 10.01(a) , (h)  or (i)  has occurred and is continuing and (ii) if the Borrower has not responded within ten (10) Business Days after the delivery of any such request for a consent, such consent shall be deemed to have been given; and

 

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(B) the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Bank; provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment to an assignee that is a Lender immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment.

(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $1,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent; provided that no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement;

(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment;

(D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire;

(E) no such assignment shall be made to a natural person, an Industry Competitor, or the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries; and

(F) no such assignment shall be made to a Defaulting Lender or any of its subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute a Defaulting Lender or a Subsidiary of a Defaulting Lender.

(iii) Subject to Section 12.04(b)(iv) and the acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.01 , Section 5.02 , Section 5.03 and Section 12.03 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment; provided , that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no assignment by a Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 12.04 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 12.04(c) .

 

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(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and of the LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “ Register ”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, the Issuing Bank and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. In connection with any changes to the Register, if necessary, the Administrative Agent will reflect the revisions on Annex I and forward a copy of such revised Annex I to the Borrower, the Issuing Bank and each Lender. This Section 12.04(b)(iv) shall be construed so that all Loans are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code and any related Treasury Regulations (or any other relevant or successor provisions of the Code or such Treasury Regulations).

(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in Section 12.04(b) and any written consent to such assignment required by Section 12.04(b) , the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this Section 12.04(b) .

(c) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “ Participant ”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that:

(i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement;

(ii) such Participant must first agree to comply with Section 12.11 ;

(iii) no such participation may be sold to a natural Person or an Industry Competitor; and

(iv) any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender retains the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, except that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 12.02(b) that affects such Participant.

 

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Each such Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.01 , 5.02 and 5.03 and shall be subject to the requirements of and limitations in Sections 5.01 , 5.02 , 5.03 and 5.05 (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 5.03(g) shall be delivered to the participating Lender, i.e. , the Lender selling such participation) to the same extent as if such Participant were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant shall not be entitled at any time to receive any greater payment under Sections 5.01 or 5.03 , with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive at such time, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.03 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant complies with Section 5.03 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Borrower’s request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrower to effectuate the provisions of Section 5.05 with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 12.08 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 4.01(c) as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “ Participant Register ”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan, or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

(d) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or other central bank having jurisdiction over such Lender, and this Section 12.04 shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 12.04 , no transfer or assignment of the interests or obligations of any Lender or any grant of participations therein shall be permitted if such transfer, assignment or grant would require any Credit Party to file a registration statement with the SEC or to qualify the Loans under the “Blue Sky” laws of any state.

Section 12.05 Survival; Revival; Reinstatement .

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of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding (or any drawing is pending on any Letter of Credit) and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Section 5.01 , Section 5.02 , Section 5.03 and Section 12.03 and Article XI shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof.

(b) To the extent that any payments on the Obligations or proceeds of any Collateral are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to a trustee, debtor in possession, receiver or other Person under any bankruptcy law, common law or equitable cause, then to such extent, the Obligations so satisfied shall be revived and continue as if such payment or proceeds had not been received and the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ Liens, security interests, rights, powers and remedies under this Agreement and each Loan Document shall continue in full force and effect. In such event, each Loan Document shall be automatically reinstated and Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall take such action as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to effect such reinstatement.

Section 12.06 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness .

(a) This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.

(b) This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof and thereof. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES HERETO AND THERETO AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.

(c) Except as provided in Section 6.01 , this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile, as an attachment to an email or other similar electronic means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

Section 12.07 Severability . Any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof or thereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

Section 12.08 Right of Setoff . If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand,

 

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provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency, and of whatsoever kind, including obligations under Swap Agreements) at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary against any of and all the obligations of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary owed to such Lender or its Affiliates now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations may be unmatured or are owed to a branch, office or Affiliate of such Lender different from the branch, office or Affiliate holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Lender and its Affiliates under this Section 12.08 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender or its 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.

Section 12.09 GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS .

(a) THIS AGREEMENT AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW PERMITS ANY LENDER TO CONTRACT FOR, CHARGE, RECEIVE, RESERVE OR TAKE INTEREST AT THE RATE ALLOWED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE WHERE SUCH LENDER IS LOCATED.

(b) ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THE LOAN DOCUMENTS MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY, OR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND, BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH PARTY HEREBY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND (TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW) IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS , WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS. THIS SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION IS NON-EXCLUSIVE AND DOES NOT PRECLUDE A PARTY FROM BRINGING SUIT AGAINST ANOTHER PARTY IN ANY COURT OTHERWISE HAVING JURISDICTION.

(c) EACH PARTY IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS OF ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED COURTS IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY THE MAILING OF COPIES THEREOF BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO IT AT THE ADDRESS SPECIFIED IN SECTION 12.01 OR SUCH OTHER ADDRESS AS IS SPECIFIED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12.01 (OR ITS ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION), SUCH SERVICE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER SUCH MAILING (OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS IS PROVIDED BY APPLICABLE LAW). NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF A PARTY OR ANY HOLDER OF A NOTE TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST ANOTHER PARTY IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

 

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(d) EACH PARTY (i) HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN; (ii) IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO CLAIM OR RECOVER IN ANY SUCH LITIGATION ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES OTHER THAN, OR IN ADDITION TO, ACTUAL DAMAGES; PROVIDED THAT, THE FOREGOING WAIVER SHALL NOT LIMIT THE INDEMNITY OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER UNDER SECTION 12.03 TO THE EXTENT ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARE INCLUDED IN A THIRD PARTY CLAIM IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH AN INDEMNITEE IS ENTITLED TO INDEMNIFICATION BY THE BORROWER UNDER SECTION 12.03 ; AND (iii) CERTIFIES THAT NO PARTY HERETO NOR ANY REPRESENTATIVE OR AGENT OF COUNSEL FOR ANY PARTY HERETO HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, OR IMPLIED THAT SUCH PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVERS, AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT, THE LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION 12.09 .

Section 12.10 Headings . Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

Section 12.11 Confidentiality . Each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential in accordance with the terms hereof), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the disclosing party, (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement for the express benefit of the Borrower containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section 12.11 , to any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or to any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any Swap Agreement relating to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 12.11 or becomes available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source (other than any Credit Party) not known by them to be subject to disclosure restrictions. For the purposes of this Section 12.11 , “ Information ” means all information received from Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary relating to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary and their businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Subsidiary; provided that, in the case of information received from Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section 12.11 shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information. In addition, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to rating agencies, market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry and service providers to the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and the Commitments.

 

 

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Section 12.12 Interest Rate Limitation . It is the intention of the parties hereto that each Lender shall conform strictly to usury laws applicable to it. Accordingly, if the transactions contemplated hereby would be usurious as to any Lender under laws applicable to it (including the laws of the United States of America or any state or other jurisdiction whose laws may be mandatorily applicable to such Lender notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement), then, in that event, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any of the Loan Documents or any agreement entered into in connection with or as security for the Notes, it is agreed as follows: (a) the aggregate of all consideration which constitutes interest under law applicable to any Lender that is contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received by such Lender under any of the Loan Documents or agreements or otherwise in connection with the Notes shall under no circumstances exceed the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law, and any excess shall be canceled automatically and if theretofore paid shall be credited by such Lender on the principal amount of the Obligations (or, to the extent that the principal amount of the Obligations shall have been or would thereby be paid in full, refunded by such Lender to the Borrower); and (b) in the event that the maturity of the Notes is accelerated by reason of an election of the holder thereof resulting from any Event of Default under this Agreement or otherwise, or in the event of any required or permitted prepayment, then such consideration that constitutes interest under law applicable to any Lender may never include more than the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law, and excess interest, if any, provided for in this Agreement or otherwise shall be canceled automatically by such Lender as of the date of such acceleration or prepayment and, if theretofore paid, shall be credited by such Lender on the principal amount of the Obligations (or, to the extent that the principal amount of the Obligations shall have been or would thereby be paid in full, refunded by such Lender to the Borrower). All sums paid or agreed to be paid to any Lender for the use, forbearance or detention of sums due hereunder shall, to the extent permitted by law applicable to such Lender, be amortized, prorated, allocated and spread throughout the stated term of the Loans until payment in full so that the rate or amount of interest on account of any Loans hereunder does not exceed the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law. If at any time and from time to time the amount of interest payable to any Lender on any date shall be computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Lender pursuant to this Section 12.12 and in respect of any subsequent interest computation period the amount of interest otherwise payable to such Lender would be less than the amount of interest payable to such Lender computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Lender, then the amount of interest payable to such Lender in respect of such subsequent interest computation period shall continue to be computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Lender until the total amount of interest payable to such Lender shall equal the total amount of interest which would have been payable to such Lender if the total amount of interest had been computed without giving effect to this Section 12.12 .

Section 12.13 EXCULPATION PROVISIONS . EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO SPECIFICALLY AGREES THAT IT HAS A DUTY TO READ THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND AGREES THAT IT IS CHARGED WITH NOTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; THAT IT HAS IN FACT READ THIS AGREEMENT AND IS FULLY INFORMED AND HAS FULL NOTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE TERMS, CONDITIONS AND EFFECTS OF THIS AGREEMENT; THAT IT HAS BEEN REPRESENTED BY INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL OF ITS CHOICE THROUGHOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS PRECEDING ITS EXECUTION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; AND HAS RECEIVED THE ADVICE OF ITS ATTORNEY IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; AND THAT IT RECOGNIZES THAT CERTAIN OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS RESULT IN ONE PARTY ASSUMING THE LIABILITY INHERENT IN SOME ASPECTS OF THE TRANSACTION AND RELIEVING

 

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THE OTHER PARTY OF ITS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCH LIABILITY. EACH PARTY HERETO AGREES AND COVENANTS THAT IT WILL NOT CONTEST THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF ANY EXCULPATORY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS ON THE BASIS THAT THE PARTY HAD NO NOTICE OR KNOWLEDGE OF SUCH PROVISION OR THAT THE PROVISION IS NOT “CONSPICUOUS.”

Section 12.14 Collateral Matters; Swap Agreements; Treasury Management Agreements . The benefit of the Security Instruments and of the provisions of this Agreement relating to any Collateral securing the Obligations shall also extend to and be available to Secured Swap Parties and Treasury Management Lenders on a pro rata basis (but subject to the terms of the Loan Documents, including provisions thereof relating to the application and priority of payments to the Persons entitled thereto) in respect of any obligations of the Borrower, any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any other Guarantors which arise under Secured Swap Agreements or Lender Treasury Management Agreements, as applicable. No Secured Swap Party or Treasury Management Lender shall have any voting or approval rights under any Loan Document as a result of the existence of obligations owed to it under any such Swap Agreements or Lender Treasury Management Agreements, as applicable. By accepting the benefits of the Collateral, each Secured Swap Party agrees that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any of its Swap Agreements with Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any other Credit Party, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the other Credit Parties may grant Liens under the Loan Documents that burden and attach to such Swap Agreements and the rights of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the other Credit Parties thereunder.

Section 12.15 [Reserved] .

Section 12.16 [Reserved] .

Section 12.17 USA Patriot Act Notice . Each Agent and each Lender hereby notifies Parent Guarantor and the Borrower 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 the Borrower and each Guarantor, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and each Guarantor and other information that will allow it to identify the Borrower and each Guarantor in accordance with the Act.

Section 12.18 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility . 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), each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Subsidiaries’ understanding, that: (a) (i) no fiduciary, advisory or (except as expressly provided in Section 12.04 ) agency relationship between Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the Administrative Agent or any Lender is intended to be or has been created in respect of the transactions contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents, irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent or any Lender has advised or is advising Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary on other matters; (ii) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are arm’s-length commercial transactions between Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand; (iii) each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent that it has deemed appropriate; and (iv) each of Parent Guarantor and 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; and (b) (i) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders each 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 Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries, or any other Person; (ii)

 

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neither the Administrative Agent nor the Lenders has any obligation to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their respective Affiliates may be engaged, for their own accounts or the accounts of customers, in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries, and neither the Administrative Agent nor the Lenders has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or their Subsidiaries. To the fullest extent permitted by Law, each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency (except as expressly set forth in Section 12.04 ) or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.

Section 12.19 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and

(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent 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.

The provisions of this Section 12.19 are intended to comply with, and shall be interpreted in light of, Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union.

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Exhibit 10.5

FIRST AMENDMENT TO SENIOR SECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT

THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO SENIOR SECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT (this “ Amendment ”) is made as of December 21, 2018, by and among ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”), BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns in such capacity, the “ Administrative Agent ”), and each of the Lenders party hereto.

W I T N E S S E T H :

WHEREAS, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders entered into that certain Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among Ultra Petroleum Corp., a Yukon corporation, UP Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and other parties from time to time party thereto (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Credit Agreement ”), for the purpose and consideration therein expressed, whereby the Lenders became obligated to make loans to the Borrower as therein provided;

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders have agreed, as set forth herein, to amend certain provisions of the Credit Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and in the Credit Agreement, in consideration of the loans which may hereafter be made by Lenders to the Borrower, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS AND REFERENCES

Section 1.1.     Defined Terms . Unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise expressly defined herein, the terms defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the same meanings whenever used in this Amendment. Unless otherwise specified, all section references in this Amendment refer to sections of the Credit Agreement.

ARTICLE II.

AMENDMENTS TO CREDIT AGREEMENT

Section 2.1.     Amendments to Credit Agreement .

(a)    The Credit Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text ) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined text ) as set forth in the pages of the Credit Agreement attached as Exhibit A hereto.


Section 2.2.     Amendment to Exhibits .

(a)    Exhibit H attached hereto is hereby added to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit H.

(b)    Exhibit I attached hereto is hereby added to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit I.

(c)    Exhibit J attached hereto is hereby added to the Credit Agreement as Exhibit J.

ARTICLE III.

CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVENESS

Section 3.1.     First Amendment Effective Date . This Amendment shall become effective on the first date on which each of the conditions set forth in this Section  3.1 is satisfied (such date, the “ First Amendment Effective Date ”):

(a)    the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts of this Amendment duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and the Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders in form, substance and date satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(b)    after giving effect to this Amendment, no Default or Event of Default shall exist under the Credit Agreement or under any other Loan Document;

(c)    each representation and warranty of the Borrower and the Guarantors set forth in the Credit Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the First Amendment Effective Date, except (i) to the extent any such representation and warranty is expressly limited to an earlier date, in which case, on and as of the First Amendment Effective Date, such representation and warranty shall continue to be true and correct as of such specified earlier date, and (ii) to the extent that any such representation and warranty is expressly qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect, such representation and warranty (as so qualified) shall continue to be true and correct in all respects;

(d)    the Administrative Agent shall have received an opinion by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as counsel to the Credit Parties, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(e)    each of the Second Lien Indenture and the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall be in full force and effect, and the Initial Exchange Date shall have occurred concurrently with the occurrence of the First Amendment Effective Date;

(f)    the Borrower shall have paid (i) an amendment fee payable to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each undersigned Lender who has executed and delivered its signature page to this Amendment on or before 12:00 pm eastern time on December 21, 2018, in an amount equal to 60 basis points on each such Lender’s Loans on the First Amendment Effective Date and (ii) to the extent invoiced no later than one (1) Business Days prior to the First Amendment Effective Date, all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the First Amendment Effective Date, including reasonable and documented fees and expenses of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Stroock & Stroock & Levan LLP and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower under the Credit Agreement; and


(g)    the Administrative Agent shall have received mortgages and other Security Instruments sufficient to create first priority, perfected Liens (subject only to Permitted Liens) on at least 95% of the total PV-9 of the Proved Reserves of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by the most recently delivered Reserve Report, after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production.

ARTICLE IV.

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 4.1.     Intercreditor Agreement . The Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders hereby authorize and direct the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to enter into, (a) to the extent contemplated to be entered into pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements and (b) to the extent the administrative agent and/or collateral agent under a refinancing or replacement of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement has requested the Administrative Agent to enter into a Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, provided that, such Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement shall have been posted to the Lenders on the Platform not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the date of execution thereof and the Majority Lenders shall not have objected within such five (5) Business Day period. Without limiting any other protections afforded to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent herein, each such Lender hereby consents to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and any successor serving in such capacity and agrees not to assert any claim (including as a result of any conflict of interest) against the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any such successor, arising from the role of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or such successor under the Loan Documents, the Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement or the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements so long as it is either acting in accordance with the terms of such documents and otherwise has not engaged in gross negligence or willful misconduct (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). In addition, the Lenders constituting the Majority Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any such successor (i) to execute or to enter into amendments of, amendments and restatements of, waivers or other modifications of the Security Instruments, any such Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement or Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements 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 that are junior to the Liens securing the Obligations and incurred as permitted by the Credit Agreement and (ii) to establish certain relative rights as between the holders of the Obligations and the holders of the Debt secured by such Liens that are junior to the Liens securing the Obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of any conflict between the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor and the Credit Agreement as to such relative rights and obligations, the provisions of this Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and Permitted Pari Passu Intercretitor Agreement, as applicable, shall control.

Section 4.2.     Ratification of Agreements . The Loan Documents, as they may be affected by this Amendment, are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects. The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of Lenders under the Credit Agreement, the Notes, or any other Loan Document nor constitute a waiver of any provision of the Credit Agreement, the Notes or any other Loan Document.


Section 4.3.     Loan Documents . This Amendment is a Loan Document, and all provisions in the Credit Agreement (as they may be affected by this Amendment) pertaining to Loan Documents apply thereto.

Section 4.4.     Governing Law . This Amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

Section 4.5.     Counterparts; Fax . This Amendment 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. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment by facsimile or in electronic (i.e., “pdf” or “tif”) format shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment.

THIS AMENDMENT REPRESENTS THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES HERETO AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS, OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN OR AMONG THE PARTIES HERETO.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment is executed as of the date first above written.

 

BARCLAYS BANK PLC , as Administrative Agent

By:

 

/s/ Robert Walsh

  Name: Robert Walsh
  Title:   Assistant Vice President

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1828 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

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ICM Senior Loan Fund, L.P., as a Lender
By: Investcorp Credit Management US LLC, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

  Name: David Nadeau
  Title: Portfolio Manager

 

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AGF Floating Rate Income Fund, as a Lender
By: Eaton Vance Management as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

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AIG Flexible Credit Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Kyle Jennings

  Name: Kyle Jennings
  Title: Managing Director

 

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American Century Capital Portfolios, Inc. - AC Alternatives Income Fund, as a Lender
By: BCSF Advisors, as Subadvisor
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

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ANTARA CAPITAL MASTER FUND LP, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Lance Kravitz

  Name: Lance Kravitz
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

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Aon Hewitt Group Trust - High Yield Plus Bond Fund, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

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APIDOS CLO XI, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

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APIDOS CLO XII, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

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APIDOS CLO XV, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

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APIDOS CLO XVI, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

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APIDOS CLO XX, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

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APIDOS CLO XXI, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

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APIDOS CLO XXII, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Apidos CLO XXIII, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager, CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


APIDOS CLO XXIV, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Apidos CLO XXIX, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


APIDOS CLO XXV, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC Credit Partners
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


APIDOS CLO XXVI, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


APIDOS CLO XXVII, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Apidos CLO XXVIII, as a Lender
By: Its Collateral Manager CVC CREDIT PARTNERS U.S. CLO MANAGEMENT LLC,
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Arch Street CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Scott D’Orsi

  Name: Scott D’Orsi
  Title: Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ARES XLIX CLO LTD., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ARES DYNAMIC CREDIT ALLOCATION FUND, INC., as a Lender
By: Ares Capital Management II, LLC, its Adviser
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares Enhanced Credit Opportunities Fund B, LTD., as a Lender
By: ARES ENHANCED CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES FUND MANAGEMENT, L.P., ITS INVESTMENT MANAGER
By: ARES ENHANCED CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES FUND MANAGEMENT GP, LLC, ITS GENERAL PARTNER
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares Institutional Credit Fund, LP, as a Lender
By: Ares Institutional Credit GP LLC, its general partner
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares Institutional High Yield Master Fund LP, as a Lender
By: Ares Management LLC, its Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares Institutional Loan Fund, L.P., as a Lender
By: Ares Management LLC, its Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares L CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares Senior Loan Trust, as a Lender
By: Ares Senior Loan Trust Management, L.P., Its Investment Adviser
By: Ares Senior Loan Trust Management, LLC, Its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XL CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XLI CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XLII CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XLIII CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, as its Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XLIV CLO Ltd., as a Lender

By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, its Asset Manager

By:

 

/s/ Ben Kattan

 

Name: Ben Kattan

 

Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XLV CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, its Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XLVI CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, as its Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XLVII CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, as Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XLVIII CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, as its Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ARES XXIX CLO LTD., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management XXIX, L.P., its Asset Manager
By: Ares CLO GP XXIX, LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXVII CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXVIIIR CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, its Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXXIII CLO Ltd., as a Lender

By: Ares CLO Management XXXIII, L.P.,

its Asset Manager

By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

     Name: Ben Kattan
     Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXXIIR CLO Ltd, as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management XXXII, L.P., its Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXXIR CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, as Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXXIV CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, its collateral manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXXIX CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXXVII CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXXVIII CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management II LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ares XXXVR CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Ares CLO Management LLC, its asset manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Aristeia Master LP, as a Lender
By: Aristeia Capital, L.L.C.
Its Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew B. David

  Name: Andrew B. David
 

Title: Chief Operating Officer

          Aristeia Capital, L.L.C.

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ASIG International Limited, as a Lender
By: Aristeia Capital, L.L.C.
Its Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew B. David

  Name: Andrew B. David
  Title: Chief Operating Officer
  Aristeia Capital, L.L.C.

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


WINDERMERE IRELAND FUND PLC, as a Lender
By: Aristeia Capital, L.L.C.
Its Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew B. David

  Name: Andrew B. David
  Title: Chief Operating Officer
  Aristeia Capital, L.L.C.

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ASIP (HOLDCO) IV S.A.R.L., as a Lender
By: ASIP OPERATING MANAGER IV LLC, ITS INVESTMENT MANAGER
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Assurant CLO I, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Assurant Investment Management LLC as Service Provider to Assurant CLO Management, LLC as its Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Michael Feeney

  Name: Michael Feeney
  Title: Senior Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Assurant CLO II, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Assurant Investment Management LLC as Service Provider to Assurant CLO Management, LLC as its Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Michael Feeney

  Name: Michael Feeney
  Title: Senior Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Assurant CLO III, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Michael Feeney

  Name: Michael Feeney
  Title: Senior Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Auburn CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Trinh, Kaitlin

  Name: Trinh, Kaitlin
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


AUIM Credit Opportunities Master Fund LTD,

as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Krystle Walker

  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


AVAW Loans Sankaty z.H. Internationale Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Fund Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Avery Point IV CLO, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager

By:

 

/s/ Andrew Viens

 

Name: Andrew Viens

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Avery Point V CLO, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager

By:

 

/s/ Andrew Viens

 

Name: Andrew Viens

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Avery Point VI CLO, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager

By:

 

/s/ Andrew Viens

 

Name: Andrew Viens

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Avery Point VII CLO, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager

By:

 

/s/ Andrew Viens

 

Name: Andrew Viens

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


BAIN CAPITAL CREDIT CLO 2016-2, LIMITED, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit CLO Advisors, LP,as Portfolio Manager

By:

 

/s/ Andrew Viens

 

Name: Andrew Viens

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Bain Capital Credit CLO 2017-1, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Collateral Manager

By:

 

/s/ Andrew Viens

 

Name: Andrew Viens

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Bain Capital Credit CLO -2017-2, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Collateral Manager

By:

 

/s/ Andrew Viens

 

Name: Andrew Viens

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Bain Capital Credit CLO 2018-1, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager

By:

 

/s/ Andrew Viens

 

Name: Andrew Viens

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Bain Capital Credit CLO 2018-2, Limited, as a

Lender

By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


BAIN CAPITAL CREDIT MANAGED ACCOUNT (BLANCO), L.P., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Bain Capital Credit Managed Account (PSERS),

L.P., as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Bain Capital Credit Rio Grande FMC, L.P., as a

Lender

By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


BAIN CAPITAL HIGH INCOME PARTNERSHIP, L.P., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


BAIN CAPITAL SENIOR LOAN FUND (SRI), L.P.,

as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


BAIN CAPITAL SENIOR LOAN FUND, L.P., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Bain Capital Senior Loan Fund Public Limited Company, as a Lender
By:   Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Baloise Senior Secured Loan Fund II, as a Lender
By:   Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Sub Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Margaret Sang

  Name: Margaret Sang
  Title: Vice President

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


BARCLAYS LEVERAGED LOAN TRADING (Barclays Bank PLC), as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Jacqueline Custodio

  Name: Jacqueline Custodio
  Title: Authorized Signatory

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO III, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO IV, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO V-B, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO VI, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO VII, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO VIII, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO X, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO XI, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO XII, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Benefit Street Partners CLO XIV, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Todd Marsh

  Name: Todd Marsh
  Title: Authorized Signer

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., as a

Lender

By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,

LLC as Manager

By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Blue Cross of California, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit,LP, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Brighthouse Funds Trust I - Brighthouse/Eaton

Vance Floating Rate Portfolio, as a Lender

By: Eaton Va nce Management as Investment

Sub-Advisor

By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Canoe Floating Rate Income Fund , as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Krystle Walker

  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Catamaran CLO 2013-1 Ltd., as a Lender
By:   Trimaran Advisors, L.L.C.
By:   /s/ Daniel Gilligan
  Name: Daniel Gilligan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Catamaran CLO 2014-1 Ltd., as a Lender
By:   Trimaran Advisors, L.L.C.
By:   /s/ Daniel Gilligan
  Name: Daniel Gilligan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Catamaran CLO 2014-2 Ltd., as a Lender
By:   /s/ Daniel Gilligan
  Name: Daniel Gilligan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Catamaran CLO 2015-1 Ltd., as a Lender
By:   /s/ Daniel Gilligan
  Name: Daniel Gilligan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Catamaran CLO 2016-1 LTD., as a Lender
By:   /s/ Daniel Gilligan
  Name: Daniel Gilligan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Catamaran CLO 2018-1 Ltd., as a Lender
By:   /s/ Daniel Gilligan
  Name: Daniel Gilligan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Catholic Health Initiatives Master Trust, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Adviser and Manager
By:   /s/ Andrew Viens
  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Cedar Funding II CLO Ltd, as a Lender
By:   /s/ Krystle Walker
  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Cedar Funding IV CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By:   /s/ Krystle Walker
  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Cedar Funding IX CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By: AEGON USA Investment Management, LLC, as its Portfolio Manager
By:   /s/ Krystle Walker
  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Cedar Funding V CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By: AEGON USA Investment Management, LLC, as its Portfolio Manager
By:   /s/ Krystle Walker
 

Name: Krystle Walker

 

Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Cedar Funding VI CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By: AEGON USA Investment Management, LLC, as its Portfolio Manager
By:   /s/ Krystle Walker
  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Cedar Funding VII CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By: AEGON USA Investment Management, LLC, as its Portfolio Manager
By:   /s/ Krystle Walker
  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Cedar Funding VIII CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By: AEGON USA Investment Management, LLC, as its Portfolio Manager
By:   /s/ Krystle Walker
  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Fund, as a Le-nder, as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Chevron Master Pension Trust, as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


CHI Operating Investment Program L.P., as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Adviser and Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Citi Loan Funding GCPH TRS LLC, as a Lender
By: Citibank, N.A.,
By:  

/s/ Cynthia Gonzalvo

  Name: Cynthia Gonzalvo
  Title: Associate Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


CITIBANK, N.A., as a Lender
By:   /s/ Brian S. Broyles
  Name: Brian S. Broyles
  Title: Attorney-In-Fact

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


City of New York Group Trust, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


City of New York Group Trust, as a Lender
By:   The Comptroller of the City of New York
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Manager
By:   /s/ Kaitlin Trinh
  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


CLC LEVERAGED LOAN TRUST, as a Lender
By: Oak Hill Advisors, L.P. as Investment Manager
By:   /s/ August, Glenn
  Name: August, Glenn
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Combustion Engineering 524 (g) Asbestos PI Trust, as a Lender
By:   /s/ Krystle Walker
  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Community Insurance Company, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Manager
By:   /s/ Andrew Viens
  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, as a Lender
By:   /s/ Amy C. Adams
  Name: Amy C. Adams
  Title: Senior Vice President and Treasurer

Approved by Law Dept.

By: MPL

Date: 12-18-18

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


CREDIT SUISSE LOAN FUNDING as a Lender, as a Lender
By:   /s/ Robert Healey
  Name: Robert Healey
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Crown Point CLO 4 Ltd., as a Lender
by Pretium Credit Management LLC as Collateral Manager
By:   /s/ John D’Angelo
  Name: John D’Angelo
  Title: Sr. Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Crown Point CLO 5 Ltd., as a Lender
By:   /s/ John D’Angelo
  Name: John D’Angelo
  Title: Sr. Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


CVC Credit Partners Global Yield Master, L.P., as a Lender
By: Its Investment Manager CVC Credit Partners, LLC
By:   /s/ Gretchen Bergstresser
  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DaVinci Reinsurance Ltd., as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Manager
By:   /s/ Kaitlin Trinh
  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Sub-Advisor to:

Destinations Core Fixed Income Fund, as a Lender

By:   /s/ Oi Jong Martel
  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


 

DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH-, as a Lender
By:   DB USA Core Corporation
By:  

/s/ Andrew MacDonald

  Name: Andrew MacDonald
  Title: Assistant Vice President
By:  

/s/ Hoi Yeun Chin

  Name: Hoi Yeun Chin
  Title: Assistant Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Deutsche Enhanced Commodity Strategy Fund, as a Lender
By:   Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Jeff Coles

  Name: Jeff Coles
  Title: Assistant Vice President
By:  

/s/ Mark Rigazio

  Name: Mark Rigazio
  Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Deutsche Floating Rate Fund, as a Lender
By:   Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Jeff Coles

  Name: Jeff Coles
  Title: Assistant Vice President
By:  

/s/ Mark Rigazio

  Name: Mark Rigazio
  Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Investment Advisor to: DL Blue Diamond Fund, LLC, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Investment Advisor to: DoubleLine Core Fixed Income Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Investment Advisor to: DoubleLine Flexible Income Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Investment Advisor to: DoubleLine Floating Rate Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Investment Advisor to: DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Dunham Floating Rate Bond Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Kyle Jennings

  Name: Kyle Jennings
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eastspring Investments US Bank Loan Special Asset Mother Investm------ust [Loan Claim], as a Lender
By:   PPM America, Inc., as Delegated Manager
By:  

/s/ Chris Kappas

  Name: Chris Kappas
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance CLO 2013-1 LTD., as a Lender
By:   Eaton Vance Management Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance CLO 2014-1R, Ltd., as a Lender
By:   Eaton Vance Management As Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance CLO 2015-1 Ltd., as a Lender
By:   Eaton Vance Management Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance CLO 2018-1, Ltd., as a Lender
By:   Eaton Vance Management Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Michael Brottrof

  Name: Michael Brottrof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance Floating Rate Portfolio, as a Lender
By:   Boston Management and Research as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Plus Fund, as a Lender
By:   Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust, as a Lender
By:   Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance Institutional Senior Loan Fund, as a Lender
By:   Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance International (Cayman Islands)

Floating-Rate Income Portfolio, as a Lender

By:   Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance Limited Duration Income Fund, as a Lender
By:   Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance Senior Floating-Rate Trust, as a Lender
By: Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

Name:   Michael Brotthof
Title:   Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust, as a Lender
By: Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

Name:   Michael Brotthof
Title:   Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance Short Duration Diversified Income Fund, as a Lender
By: Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

Name:   Michael Brotthof
Title:   Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance US Loan Fund 2016 a Series Trust of Global Cayman Investment Trust, as a Lender
By: Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

Name:   Michael Brotthof
Title:   Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Eaton Vance VT Floating-Rate Income Fund, as a Lender
By: Eaton Vance Management as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

Name:   Michael Brotthof
Title:   Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Endurance Investment Holdings Ltd., as a Lender

By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,

LLC as Manager

By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

Name:   Kaitlin Trinh
Title:   Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, as a Lender
By: Ares Private Account Management I, L.P., its Investment Manager
By: Ares Private Account Management I GP, LLC, its General Partner
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

Name:   Ben Kattan
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


FirstEnergy System Master Retirement Trust, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

Name:   Andrew Viens
Title:   Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Floating Rate Income Fund, a series of JohnHancock Funds II, as a Lender
By: BCSF Advisors, LP, its Subadviser
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

Name:   Andrew Viens
Title:   Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Floating Rate Loan Fund, a series of 525 Market Street Fund, LLC, as a Lender
By: Wells Capital Management, as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

Name:   Brooklyn Larsen
Title:   Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


FS Energy and Power Fund, as a Lender
By: FS/EIG Advisor, LLC, its investment adviser
By:  

/s/ Andrew Jam on

Name:   Andrew Jam on
Title:   Authorized Person
By:  

/s/ Eric Long

Name:   Eric Long
Title:   Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Future Fund Board of Guardians, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

Name:   Andrew Viens
Title:   Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


FUTURE FUND BOARD OF GUARDIANS, as a Lender
By: Ares Enhanced Loan Investment Strategy Advisor IV, L.P., its investment manager
By: Ares Enhanced Loan Investment Strategy Advisor IV GP, LLC, its general partner
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

Name:   Ben Kattan
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Future Fund Board of Guardians for and on behalf of Medical Research Future Fund, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

Name:   Andrew Viens
Title:   Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


G.A.S. (Cayman) Limited, as trustee for Rainier (Loan Fund), a series trust of the Multi Strategy Umbrella Fund Cayman, as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Manager
By:  

/s/ Trinh, Kaitlin

Name:   Trinh, Kaitlin
Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GGH Leveraged Loan Fund, A Series Trust of MYL Global Investment Trust, as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Trinh, Kaitlin

Name:   Trinh, Kaitlin
Title:   Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GGH US BL Ametrine Sub-Trust A Sub-Trust Of Guggenheim Amethyst Trust, as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Trinh, Kaitlin

Name:   Trinh, Kaitlin
Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GoldenTree Loan Management US CLO 1, Ltd., as a Lender
By: GoldenTree Loan Management LP
By:  

/s/ Karen Weber

Name:   Karen Weber
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GoldenTree Loan Management US CLO 2, Ltd., as a Lender
By: GoldenTree Loan Management LP
By:  

/s/ Karen Weber

Name:   Karen Weber
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GoldenTree Loan Management US CLO 3, Ltd., as a Lender
By: GoldenTree Loan Management LP
By:  

/s/ Karen Weber

Name:   Karen Weber
Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GoldenTree Loan Opportunities IX, Limited, as a
Lender

By:

  GoldenTree Asset Management, LP

By:

 

/s/ Karen Weber

  Name: Karen Weber
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GOLDENTREE LOAN OPPORTUNITIES X, LIMITED, as a Lender

By:

  GoldenTree Asset Management, LP

By:

 

/s/ Karen Weber

  Name: Karen Weber
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GOLDENTREE LOAN OPPORTUNITIES XI, LIMITED, as a Lender
By:   GoldenTree Asset Management, LP
By:  

/s/ Karen Weber

  Name: Karen Weber
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GoldenTree Loan Opportunities XII, Limited, as a Lender
By:   GoldenTree Asset Management, LP
By:  

/s/ Karen Weber

  Name: Karen Weber
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


G OLDMAN SACHS LENDING PARTNERS LLC,
as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Jamie Minieri

  Name: Jamie Minieri
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Government Employees Superannuation Board, as a Lender
By:   Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Griffin Institutional Access Credit Fund, as a Lender
By:   BCSF Advisors, LP, as Sub-Adviser
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Guggenheim Defensive Loan Fund, as a Lender
By:   Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Trinh, Kaitlin

  Name: Trinh, Kaitlin
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Guggenheim Energy & Income Fund, as a Lender

By:

  Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC as Sub-Advisor

By:

 

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Guggenheim Funds Trust - Guggenheim Macro Opportunities Fund, as a Lender

By:

  Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC

By:

 

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

 

Name: Kaitlin Trinh

 

Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Guggenheim Funds Trust - Guggenheim Floating
Rate Strategies Fund,
as a Lender
By:   Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Guggenheim Private Debt Fund Note Issuer 2.0,
LLC,
as a Lender
By:   Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC as Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Guggenheim U.S. Loan Fund II, as a Lender

By:   Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Guggenheim Variable Funds Trust - Series F
(Floating Rate Strategies Series),
as a Lender
By:   Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC as Investment Adviser
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company (D/B/A Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL or Blue Cross Blue Shield of TX or Blue Cross Blue Shield of NM or Blue Cross Blue Shield of OK or Blue Cross Blue Shield of MT), as a Lender
By:   Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC as Manager
By:  

/s/ Trinh, Kaitlin

  Name: Trinh, Kaitlin
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Hempstead II CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By:   Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Trinh, Kaitlin

  Name: Trinh, Kaitlin
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


High Yield Bond Fund, a series of 525 Market Street Fund, LLC, as a Lender
By:   Wells Capital Management, as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


HMS-ORIX HOLDINGS I, LLC, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bradley Wilson

  Name: Bradley Wilson
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


IAM National Pension Fund, as a Lender
By:   Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,
LLC as Adviser
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ICM Global Floating Rate Income Limited, as a
Lender
By:   Investcorp Credit Management US LLC, as the US Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

  Name: David Nadeau
  Title: Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Jamestown CLO II Ltd., as a Lender
By:   3i Debt Management US, LLC as Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

Name:   David Nadeau
Title:   Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Jamestown CLO IV Ltd., as a Lender
By:   3i Debt Management U.S. LLC, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

Name:   David Nadeau
Title:   Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Jamestown CLO IX Ltd., as a Lender
By:   3i Debt Management U.S. LLC, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

Name:   David Nadeau
Title:   Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Jamestown CLO V Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

Name:   David Nadeau
Title:   Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Jamestown CLO VII Ltd., as a Lender
3i Debt Management U.S. LLC, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

Name:   David Nadeau
Title:   Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Jamestown CLO VIII Ltd., as a Lender
By:   3i Debt Management U.S. LLC, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

Name:   David Nadeau
Title:   Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Jamestown CLO VI-R Ltd., as a Lender
By:   Investcorp Credit Management US LLC, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

Name:   David Nadeau
Title:   Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Jamestown CLO X Ltd., as a Lender
By:   3i Debt Management U.S. LLC, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Nadeau, David

Name:   Nadeau, David
Title:   Partner

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JAMESTOWN CLO XI LTD., as a Lender
By:   Investcorp Credit Management US LLC, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ David Nadeau

Name:   David Nadeau
Title:   Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JHF II - U.S. High Yield Bond Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Sub-Advisor to: JNL/DoubleLine Core Fixed Income Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Sub-Advisor to: JNL/DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE Fund,

as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Sub-Advisor to JNL/FPA + DoubleLine Flexible Allocation Fund,

as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JNL/PPM America Floating Rate Income Fund, a series of the JNL Series Trust, as a Lender
By: PPM America, Inc., as sub-adviser
By:  

/s/ Chris Kappas

  Name: Chris Kappas
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JNL/PPM America Long Short Credit Fund, a series of Jackson Variable Series Trust, as a Lender
By: PPM America, Inc. as Sub-Adviser
By:  

/s/ Chris Kappas

  Name: Chris Kappas
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS, as a Lender
BY: Ares Management LLC, as portfolio manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Adviser and Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Kaiser Permanente Group Trust, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Adviser and Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


KAISER PERMANENTE GROUP TRUST, as a Lender
By: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., as named fiduciary
By: Ares Management LLC, as portfolio manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Limited as trustee of Lloyds Bank Pension Scheme No.  1, as a Lender
By: Ares Management Limited, its Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustees Limited as trustee of Lloyds Bank Pension Scheme No.  2, as a Lender
By: Ares Management Limited, its Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Longfellow Place CLO, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Scott D’Orsi

  Name: Scott D’Orsi
  Title: Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Investment Advisor to: Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Lucent Technologies Inc. Master Pension Trust, as a Lender
By: Alcatel-Lucent Investment Management Corporation, as named fiduciary
By: Ares Management LLC, as manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GIM TRUST 2 - SENIOR SECURED LOAN FUND f.k.a SENIOR SECURED LOAN FUND THE INITIAL SERIES TRUST OF GIM TRUST 2, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title: Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN GLOBAL BOND OPPORTUNITIES FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title: Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ADVANCED SERIES TRUST - AST HIGH YIELD PORTFOLIO, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title: Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ADVANCED SERIES TRUST - AST J.P. MORGAN GLOBAL THEMATIC PORTFOLIO, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title: Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ADVANCED SERIES TRUST - AST J.P. MORGAN STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES PORTFOLIO, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ANTARES MANAGING AGENCY LIMITED, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


AON HEWITT COLLECTIVE INVESTMENT TRUST, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


AON HEWITT INVESTMENT CONSULTING, INC., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


COMMINGLED PENSION TRUST FUND (HIGH FLOATING RATE INCOME) OF JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


COMMINGLED PENSION TRUST FUND (HIGH YIELD) OF JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GIM INVESTMENT TRUST - US HIGH YIELD BOND AND LOAN FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


GIM SPECIALIST INVESTMENT FUNDS -GIM MULTI SECTOR CREDIT FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. AS TRUSTEE OF THE JPMORGAN CHASE RETIREMENT PLAN, as a Lender

By:

 

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN DIVERSIFIED FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN FLEXIBLE CREDIT LONG SHORT FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN FLOATING RATE INCOME FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN GLOBAL ALLOCATION FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN HIGII YIELD FUND, as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN INCOME BUILDER FUND, as a Lender

By:

 

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN STRATEGIC INCOME OPPORTUNITIES FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title:   Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


LOUISIANA STATE EMPLOYEES’

RETIREMENT SYSTEM, as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title: Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


LVIP JPMORGAN HIGH YIELD FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Chad Engelbert

  Name: Chad Engelbert
  Title: Executive Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ORIX CORPORATE CAPITAL INC., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bradley Willson

  Name: Bradley Willson
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ELM CLO 2014-1, LTD., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bradley Willson

  Name: Bradley Willson
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


MARINER CLO 2015-1, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bradley Willson

  Name: Bradley Willson
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


MARINER CLO 2016-3, LTD as a Lender, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bradley Willson

  Name: Bradley Willson
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


MARINER CLO 2017-4, LTD as a Lender, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bradley Willson

  Name: Bradley Willson
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


MARINER CLO 5 LTD, LTD., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bradley Willson

  Name: Bradley Willson
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


MARINER CLO 6, LTD., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bradley Wilson

  Name: Bradley Wilson
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Massachusetts Fidelity Trust Company, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Krystle Walker

  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Mercer Field II CLO Ltd., as a Lender

By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management,

LLC as Collateral Manager

By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Steven R. Bruno

  Name: Steven R. Bruno
  Title: Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY-SA 729, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Steven R. Bruno

  Name: Steven R. Bruno
  Title: Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


MetLife Syndicated Bank Loan Fund SCSp, as a Lender

By: MetLife Investment Advisors, LLC, Its

investment manager

By:  

/s/ Steven R. Bruno

  Name: Steven R. Bruno
  Title: Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


BRIGHTHOUSE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY-

SA STRUCTURED ANNUITY (SA), as a Lender

By: MetLife Investment Advisors, LLC, its investment manager.
By:  

/s/ Steven R. Bruno

  Name: Steven R. Bruno
  Title: Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Mt. Whitney Securities, L.L.C., as a Lender
By: Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. As Manager
By:  

/s/ Jeff Coles

  Name: Jeff Coles
  Title: Assistant Vice President
By:  

/s/ Mark Rigazio

  Name: Mark Rigazio
  Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Mt. Whitney Securities, LLC, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Newfleet CLO 2016-1, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Kyle Jennings

  Name: Kyle Jennings
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Newfleet Multi-Sector Income ETF, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Kyle Jennings

  Name: Kyle Jennings
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


NewMark Capital Funding 2014-2 CLO Ltd. By Pretium, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ John D’Angelo

  Name: John D’Angelo
  Title: Sr. Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Nomura Global Manager Select - Bank Loan Fund, as a Lender
By: Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., its Investment Sub-Advisor
By:  

/s/ Jeff Coles

  Name: Jeff Coles
  Title: Assistant Vice President
By:  

/s/ Mark Rigazio

  Name: Mark Rigazio
  Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


NZCG Funding Ltd, as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


OPPENHEIMER SENIOR FLOATING RATE FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Damien Torkelson

  Name: Damien Torkelson
  Title: Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


OPPENHEIMER SENIOR FLOATING RATE PLUS FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Damien Torkelson

  Name: Damien Torkelson
  Title: Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


OPPENHEIMER FUNDAMENTAL ALTERNATIVES FUND, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Damien Torkelson

  Name: Damien Torkelson
  Title: Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


OPPENHEIMER MASTER LOAN FUND, LLC, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Damien Torkelson

  Name: Damien Torkelson
  Title: Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Pacific Select Fund Floating Rate Loan Portfolio, as a Lender
By: Eaton Vance Management as Investment Sub-Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Collateral Manager to: Parallel 2015-1, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Collateral Manager to: Parallel 2017-1, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Collateral Manager to: Parallel 2018-1, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


PensionDanmark Pensionsforsikringsaktieselskab, as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


PPM Long Short Credit Fund, a series of the PPM Funds as a Lender, as a Lender
By: PPM America, Inc., as agent and investment adviser on behalf of the Fund
By:  

/s/ Christopher Kappas

  Name: Christopher Kappas
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


PPM Floating Rate Income Fund, a series of the PPM Funds, as a Lender
By: PPM America, Inc., as agent and investment adviser on behalf of the Fund
By:  

/s/ Christopher Kappas

  Name: Christopher Kappas
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


PPM Strategic Income Fund, as a Lender
By: PPM America, Inc.,as agent and investment adviser on behalf of the Fund
By:  

/s/ Christopher Kappas

  Name: Christopher Kappas
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Race Point IX CLO, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Race Point VIII CLO, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Race Point X CLO, Limited, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Sub-Advisor to: Renaissance Flexible Yield Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Renaissance Floating Rate Income Fund, as a Lender
By: Ares Capital Management II LLC, as Portfolio Sub-Advisor
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Renaissance Investment Holdings Ltd., as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Sub-Advisor to: Renaissance Multi-Sector Fixed Income Private Pool, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Retail Employees Superannuation Trust, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Adviser and Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Rockford Tower CLO 2017-1, Ltd, as a Lender
By: King Street Capital Management, L.P., Its Authorized Signatory
By:  

/s/ Howard Baum

  Name: Howard Baum
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Rockford Tower CLO 2017-2, Ltd., as a Lender
By: King Street Capital Management, L.P., Its Authorized Signatory
By:  

/s/ Howard Baum

  Name: Howard Baum
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Rockford Tower CLO 2017-3, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Rockford Tower Capital Management, L.L.C., Its Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Howard Baum

  Name: Howard Baum
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Rockford Tower CLO 2018-1, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Rockford Tower Capital Management, L.L.C., Its Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Howard Baum

  Name: Howard Baum
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Rockford Tower CLO 2018-2, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Rockford Tower Capital Management, L.L.C., Its Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Howard Baum

  Name: Howard Baum
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Salmagundi II, Ltd, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Will Farr

  Name: Will Farr
  Title: Senior Research Analyst

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


San Francisco City and County Employees Retirement System, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Bain Capital Credit Managed Account (FSS), L.P., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Saranac CLO III Limited, as a Lender
By: Canaras Capital Management, LLC As Sub-Investment Adviser
By:  

/s/ Richard Vratanina

  Name: Richard Vratanina
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


SARANAC CLO V LIMITED, as a Lender
By: Canaras Capital Management, LLC As Sub-Investment Adviser
By:  

/s/ Richard Vratanina

  Name: Richard Vratanina
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Saranac CLO VI Limited, as a Lender
By: Canaras Capital Management LLC as Service Provider
By:  

/s/ Richard Vratanina

  Name: Richard Vratanina
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Saranac CLO VII Limited, as a Lender
By: Canaras Capital Management LLC As Service Provider
By:  

/s/ Richard Vratanina

  Name: Richard Vratanina
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sears Holdings Pension Trust, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


SEI GLOBAL MASTER FUND PLC - THE SEI HIGH YIELD FIXED INCOME FUND, as a Lender
By: ARES MANAGEMENT LLC, AS PORTFOLIO MANAGER
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


SEI Institutional Investments Trust - High Yield Bond Fund, as a Lender
By: Ares Management LLC, as Sub-Adviser
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


SEI INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENTS TRUST - OPPORTUNISTIC INCOME FUND, as a Lender
By: ARES MANAGEMENT LLC, AS SUB-ADVISOR
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


SEI INSTITUTIONAL MANAGED TRUST

- ENHANCED INCOME FUND, as a Lender

By: ARES MANAGEMENT LLC, AS SUB-ADVISER
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


SEI INSTITUTIONAL MANAGED TRUST - HIGH YIELD BOND FUND, as a Lender
By: ARES MANAGEMENT LLC, AS SUB-ADVISER
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Senior Debt Portfolio, as a Lender
By: Boston Management and Research as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Michael Brotthof

  Name: Michael Brotthof
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Seven Sticks CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC, as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title: Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO IX, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO V-R, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO VI, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO VII, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO VIII, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO X, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO XI, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO XII, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO XIV, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO XV, Ltd, as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


SOUND POINT CLO XVI, LTD., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO XVII, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sound Point CLO XVIII, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Sound Point Capital Management, LP as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Alvin Mai

  Name: Alvin Mai
  Title: Operations Associate

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Steele Creek CLO 2014-1R, LTD, as a Lender

By:  

/s/ Will Farr

  Name: Will Farr
  Title: Senior Research Analyst

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Steele Creek CLO 2015-1, LTD., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Will Farr

  Name: Will Farr
  Title: Senior Research Analyst

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Steele Creek CLO 2016-1, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Will Farr

  Name: Will Farr
  Title: Senior Research Analyst

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Steele Creek CLO 2017-1, LTD, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Will Farr

  Name: Will Farr
  Title: Senior Research Analyst

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Steele Creek CLO 2018-1, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Will Farr

  Name: Will Farr
  Title: Senior Research Analyst

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Steele Creek CLO 2018-2, Ltd., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Will Farr

  Name: Will Farr
  Title: Senior Research Analyst

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


[STICHTING BEDRIJFSTAKPENSIOENFONDS VOOR HET BEROEPSVERVOER OVER DE WEG], as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Hume Najdawi

  Name: Hume Najdawi
  Title: Logan Circle Partners, L.P.

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Stichting Pensioenfonds Hoogovens, as a Lender
By: Ares Capital Management III LLC, its Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Sunsuper Pooled Superannuation Trust, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


SUPERANNUATION FUNDS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, as a Lender
By: ARES HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES FUND IV MANAGEMENT, L.P., ITS INVESTMENT MANAGER
By: ARES HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES FUND IV GP, LLC, ITS GENERAL PARTNER
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Suzuka INKA, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Fund Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Swiss Capital Pro Loan V plc, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Gretchen Bergstresser

  Name: Gretchen Bergstresser
  Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Anders Persson

  Name: Anders Persson
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


TELOS CLO 2013-3, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Telos Asset Management, LLC
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Tepper

  Name: Jonathan Tepper
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


TELOS CLO 2013-4, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Telos Asset Management, LLC
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Tepper

  Name: Jonathan Tepper
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


TELOS CLO 2014-5, Ltd., as a Lender
BY: Telos Asset Management, LLC
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Tepper

  Name: Jonathan Tepper
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


TELOS CLO 2014-6, Ltd, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Tepper

  Name: Jonathan Tepper
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Telos COF I, LLC, as a Lender
By: Telos Asset Management LLC as Servicer
By:  

/s/ Jonathan Tepper

  Name: Jonathan Tepper
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


The Hartford Floating Rate Fund, as a Lender
By: Wellington Management Company, LLP as its Investment Adviser
By:  

/s/ Donna Sirianni

  Name: Donna Sirianni
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


The Hartford Floating Rate High Income Fund, as a Lender
By: Wellington Management Company, LLP as its Investment Adviser
By:  

/s/ Donna Sirianni

  Name: Donna Sirianni
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


The Hartford Strategic Income Fund, as a Lender
By: Wellington Management Company, LLP as its Investment Adviser
By:  

/s/ Donna Sirianni

  Name: Donna Sirianni
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


RBS Pension Trustee Limited as Trustee to The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Pension Fund, as a Lender
By: Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Andrew Viens

  Name: Andrew Viens
  Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL Credit Wind River 2012-1 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: THL Credit Senior Loan Strategies LLC, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL CREDIT WIND RIVER 2013-1 CLO LTD., as a Lender
By: THL Credit Senior Loan Strategies LLC, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL Credit Wind River 2013-2 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By THL Credit Advisors LLC, as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL Credit Wind River 2016-2 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By THL Credit Advisors LLC, its Warehouse Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL Credit Wind River 2017-1 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By THL Credit Advisors LLC, its Warehouse Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL Credit Wind River 2017-2 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By THL Credit Advisors LLC, its Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL Credit Wind River 2017-3 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By THL Credit Advisors LLC, its Warehouse Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL CREDIT WIND RIVER 2017-4 CLO LTD, as a Lender
By THL Credit Advisors LLC, as Warehouse Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL Credit Wind River 2018-1 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: THL Credit Advisors LLC, as Warehouse Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


THL Credit Wind River 2018-2 CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By THL Credit Advisors LLC, its Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ James R. Fellows

  Name: James R. Fellows
  Title: Managing Director/Co-Head Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


TIAA CLO II LTD, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Anders Persson

  Name: Anders Persson
  Title:

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Teachers Advisors, LLC on behalf of TIAA CLO III Ltd, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Anders Persson

  Name: Anders Persson
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


TIAA Global Public Investments, LLC - Series Loan, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Anders Persson

  Name: Anders Persson
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Teachers Advisors, Inc., on behalf of TIAA-CREF Bond Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Anders Persson

  Name: Anders Persson
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Teachers Advisors, Inc., on behalf of TIAA-CREF Bond Plus Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Anders Persson

  Name: Anders Persson
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Touchstone Strategic Trust - Touchstone Credit Opportunities Fund, as a Lender
By : Ares Capital Management II LLC, as its Sub-Advisor
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Transamerica Corporation Master Pension Trust, as a Lender
By: AEGON USA, as its Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Krystle Walker

  Name: Krystle Walker
 

Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Transamerica Floating Rate, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Krystle Walker

  Name: Krystle Walker
  Title: Associate Director - Settlements

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Transamerica Life Insurance Company, as a Lender
By: AEGON USA, as its Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Noah Robinson

  Name: Noah Robinson
  Title: Trade Adminstrator

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Investment Advisor to: Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop dba Kamehameha Schools, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


U.S. High Yield Bond Fund, as a Lender
By: Ares Management LLC, as its Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Ben Kattan

  Name: Ben Kattan
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Vibrant CLO III, Ltd., as a Lender
BY: DFG Investment Advisers, Inc.
By:  

/s/ Timothy Milton

  Name: Timothy Milton
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Vibrant CLO IV, Ltd., as a Lender
By: DFG Investment Advisers, Inc., as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Timothy Milton

  Name: Timothy Milton
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Vibrant CLO V, Ltd., as a Lender
By: DFG Investment Advisers, Inc., as Collateral Manager
By:  

/s/ Timothy Milton

  Name: Timothy Milton
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Vibrant CLO VI, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Vibrant Credit Partners LLC, as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Timothy Milton

  Name: Timothy Milton
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Vibrant CLO VII, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Vibrant Credit Partners, LLC as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Timothy Milton

  Name: Timothy Milton
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Vibrant CLO VIII, Ltd., as a Lender
By: Vibrant Credit Partners, LLC as Portfolio Manager
By:  

/s/ Timothy Milton

  Name: Timothy Milton
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Virtus Newfleet Dynamic Credit ETF, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Kyle Jennings

  Name: Kyle Jennings
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Virtus Newfleet Senior Floating Rate Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Kyle Jennings

  Name: Kyle Jennings
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Wellington Multi-Sector Credit Fund, as a Lender
By: Wellington Management Company, LLP as its Investment Adviser
By:  

/s/ Donna Sirianni

  Name: Donna Sirianni
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Wellington Trust Company, National Association Multiple Collective Investment Funds Trust II Multi- Sector Credit II Portfolio, as a Lender
By: Wellington Management Company LLP as its Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Donna Sirianni

  Name: Donna Sirianni
  Title: Vice President

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Wells Fargo  & Company Master Pension Trust, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Wells Fargo Income Opportunities Fund, as a Lender
By: Wells Capital Management, as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Wells Fargo Multi-Sector Income Fund, as a Lender
by: Wells Capital Management, as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Wells Fargo Utilities and High Income Fund, as a Lender
By: Wells Capital Management, as Investment Advisor
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ David Josepho

  Name: David Josepho
  Title: Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Wells Fargo Global Dividend Opportunity Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Brooklyn Larsen

  Name: Brooklyn Larsen
  Title: Trading Operations Specialist

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


The Western and Southern Life Assurance Company, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Bernie M. Casey

  Name: Bernie M. Casey
  Title:   AVP & Senior Credit Analyst

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


DoubleLine Capital LP as Sub-Advisor to: Wilshire Mutual Funds, Inc. - Wilshire Income Opportunities Fund, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Oi Jong Martel

  Name: Oi Jong Martel
  Title:   Authorized Signatory

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO II, Limited, as a Lender
By Zais Leveraged Loan Master Manager, LLC its collateral manager
By: Zais Group, LLC, its sole member
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO 2, Limited, as a Lender
ZAIS CLO 2, Limited
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO 3, Limited, as a Lender
ZAIS CLO 3, Limited
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO 5, Limited, as a Lender
By Zais Leveraged Loan Master Manager, LLC its collateral manager
By: Zais Group, LLC, its sole member
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO 6, Limited, as a Lender
By Zais Leveraged Loan Master Manager, LLC its collateral manager
By: Zais Group, LLC, its sole member
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO 7, Limited, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO 8, Limited, as a Lender
By Zais Leveraged Loan Master Manager, LLC its collateral manager
By: Zais Group, LLC, its sole member
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO 9, Limited, as a Lender
By Zais Leveraged Loan Master Manager, LLC its collateral manager
By: Zais Group, LLC, its sole member
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZAIS CLO 1, Limited, as a Lender
ZAIS CLO 1, Limited
By:  

/s/ Vincent Ingato

  Name: Vincent Ingato
  Title:   Managing Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Ziggurat CLO Ltd., as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Asset Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title:   Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


ZILUX FCP-SIF - Zilux Senior Loans Global, as a Lender
By: Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, LLC as Investment Manager
By:  

/s/ Kaitlin Trinh

  Name: Kaitlin Trinh
  Title:   Authorized Person

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY-SA 728, as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Steven R. Bruno

  Name: Steven R. Bruno
  Title:   Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Brighthouse Life Insurance Company, by MetLife Investment Advisors, LLC, its investment manager., as a Lender
By:  

/s/ Steven R Bruno

  Name: Steven R Bruno
  Title:   Director

 

[Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement]


Agreed and acknowledged:

 

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., as Borrower
By:   /s/ David W. Honeyfield
  Name: David W. Honeyfield
  Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

[ Ultra Resources - Signature Page to First Amendment to Credit Agreement ]


EXHIBIT A TO FIRST AMENDMENT


 

 

SENIOR SECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT

dated as of April 12, 2017,

among

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.

and

UP ENERGY CORPORATION,

as Parent Guarantor,

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.,

as Borrower,

BARCLAYS BANK PLC,

as Administrative Agent,

and

The Lenders and Other Parties Party Hereto

 

 

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA,

as Syndication Agent,

BANK OF MONTREAL,

as Documentation Agent

and

BARCLAYS BANK PLC, GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA and

BMO CAPITAL MARKETS CORP.

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  
ARTICLE I

 

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING MATTERS

 

Section 1.01  

Terms Defined Above

     1  
Section 1.02  

Certain Defined Terms

     1  
Section 1.03  

Types of Loans and Borrowings

     36 41  
Section 1.04  

Terms Generally; Rules of Construction

     36 41  
Section 1.05  

Accounting Terms and Determinations; GAAP

     37 41  
ARTICLE II

 

THE CREDITS

 

Section 2.01  

Commitments

     37 42  
Section 2.02  

Loans and Borrowings

     37 42  
Section 2.03  

Requests for Borrowings

     38 43  
Section 2.04  

Interest Elections

     39 43  
Section 2.05  

Funding of Borrowings

     40 44  
Section 2.06  

Increase of Commitments

     45  

ARTICLE III .

 

PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST; PREPAYMENTS; FEES

 

Section 3.01  

Repayment of Loans

     47  
Section 3.02  

Interest

     42 47  
Section 3.03  

Alternate Rate of Interest

     43 48  
Section 3.04  

Prepayments

     49  
Section 3.05  

Fees

     50  
ARTICLE IV

 

PAYMENTS; PRO RATA TREATMENT; SHARING OF SET-OFFS

 

Section 4.01  

Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs

     45 50  
Section 4.02  

Presumption of Payment by the Borrower

     51  
Section 4.03  

Deductions by the Administrative Agent

     46 51  
Section 4.04  

Collection of Proceeds of Production

     46 52  
ARTICLE V

 

INCREASED COSTS; BREAK FUNDING PAYMENTS; TAXES; ILLEGALITY

 

Section 5.01  

Increased Costs

     52  
Section 5.02  

Break Funding Payments

     53  
Section 5.03  

Taxes

     48 53  
Section 5.04  

Mitigation Obligations; Designation of Different Lending Office

     51 57  
Section 5.05  

Replacement of Lenders

     57  
Section 5.06  

Illegality

     57  
ARTICLE VI

 

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

Section 6.01  

Effective Date

     52 58  
ARTICLE VII

 

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

 

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Section 7.01  

Organization; Powers

     60  
Section 7.02  

Authority; Enforceability

     60  
Section 7.03  

Approvals; No Conflicts

     61  
Section 7.04  

Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change

     61  
Section 7.05  

Litigation

     56 61  
Section 7.06  

Environmental Matters

     62  
Section 7.07  

Compliance with the Laws and Agreements; No Defaults

     63  
Section 7.08  

Investment Company Act

     63  
Section 7.09  

Taxes

     63  
Section 7.10  

ERISA

     63  
Section 7.11  

Disclosure; No Material Misstatements

     64  
Section 7.12  

Insurance

     64  
Section 7.13  

Restriction on Liens

     65  
Section 7.14  

Subsidiaries

     65  
Section 7.15  

Location of Business and Offices

     65  
Section 7.16  

Properties; Titles, Etc

     65  
Section 7.17  

Maintenance of Properties

     66  
Section 7.18  

Gas Imbalances, Prepayments

     66  
Section 7.19  

Marketing of Production

     66  
Section 7.20  

Swap Agreements and Qualified ECP Counterparty

     67  
Section 7.21  

Use of Loans

     67  
Section 7.22  

Solvency

     67  
Section 7.23  

Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions

     67  
Section 7.24  

EEA Financial Institutions

     68  
Section 7.25  

Senior Debt Status

     68  
Section 7.26  

Security Instruments

     68  
Section 7.27  

PATRIOT Act

     68  
ARTICLE VIII

 

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

 

Section 8.01  

Financial Statements; Other Information

     68  
Section 8.02  

Notices of Material Events

     71  
Section 8.03  

Existence; Conduct of Business

     67 72  
Section 8.04  

Payment of Obligations

     72  
Section 8.05  

Performance of Obligations under Loan Documents

     72  
Section 8.06  

Operation and Maintenance of Properties

     72  
Section 8.07  

Insurance

     73  
Section 8.08  

Books and Records; Inspection Rights

     73  
Section 8.09  

Compliance with Laws

     73  
Section 8.10  

Environmental Matters

     74  
Section 8.11  

Further Assurances

     74  
Section 8.12  

Reserve Reports

     70 75  
Section 8.13  

Title Information

     71 76  
Section 8.14  

Additional Collateral; Additional Guarantors

     71 76  
Section 8.15  

Unrestricted Subsidiaries Parent Entities.

     77  
Section 8.16  

Commodity Exchange Act Keepwell Provisions

     77  
Section 8.17  

ERISA Compliance

     73 78  
Section 8.18  

Deposit Accounts; Commodities Accounts and Securities Accounts

     78  
Section 8.19  

Maintenance of Ratings

     78  
Section 8.20  

Post-Effective Date Deliverables

     78  

 

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ARTICLE IX

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

 

Section 9.01  

Intentionally Omitted

     74 79  
Section 9.02  

Debt

     74 79  
Section 9.03  

Liens

     81  
Section 9.04  

Limitation on Restricted Payments

     81  
Section 9.05  

[Reserved]

     86  
Section 9.06  

Nature of Business; International Operations

     86  
Section 9.07  

[Reserved]

     79 86  
Section 9.08  

ERISA Compliance

     86  
Section 9.09  

Sale or Discount of Notes or Receivables

     86  
Section 9.10  

Mergers, Etc

     87  
Section 9.11  

Sale of Properties and Liquidation of Swap Agreements

     87  
Section 9.12  

Transactions with Affiliates

     88  
Section 9.13  

Subsidiaries

     89  
Section 9.14  

Negative Pledge Agreements; Subsidiary Dividend Restrictions

     82 89  
Section 9.15  

Designation and Conversion of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries [Reserved]

     89  
Section 9.16  

Non-Qualified ECP Counterparties

     90  
Section 9.17  

Amendments to Senior Modifications to Debt Documents

     90  
Section 9.18  

Swap Agreements

     91  
ARTICLE X

 

EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES

 

Section 10.01  

Events of Default

     92  
Section 10.02  

Remedies

     94  
ARTICLE XI

 

THE AGENTS

 

Section 11.01  

Appointment; Powers

     94  
Section 11.02  

Duties and Obligations of Administrative Agent

     95  
Section 11.03  

Action by Administrative Agent

     95  
Section 11.04  

Reliance by Administrative Agent

     96  
Section 11.05  

Sub-agents

     96  
Section 11.06  

Resignation or Removal of Administrative Agent

     96  
Section 11.07  

Agents as Lenders

     97  
Section 11.08  

No Reliance

     97  
Section 11.09  

Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim

     98  
Section 11.10  

Authority of Administrative Agent to Release Collateral and Liens

     98  
Section 11.11  

The Arrangers, the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent

     99  
ARTICLE XII

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 12.01  

Notices

     99  
Section 12.02  

Waivers; Amendments

     100  
Section 12.03  

Expenses, Indemnity; Damage Waiver

     101  
Section 12.04  

Successors and Assigns; No Third Party Beneficiaries

     103  
Section 12.05  

Survival; Revival; Reinstatement

     107  
Section 12.06  

Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness

     108  
Section 12.07  

Severability

     108  
Section 12.08  

Right of Setoff

     108  

 

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Section 12.09  

GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS

     109  
Section 12.10  

Headings

     110  
Section 12.11  

Confidentiality

     110  
Section 12.12  

Interest Rate Limitation

     104 111  
Section 12.13  

EXCULPATION PROVISIONS

     111  
Section 12.14  

[Reserved]

     105 112  
Section 12.15  

[Reserved]

     105 112  
Section 12.16  

[Reserved]

     105 112  
Section 12.17  

USA Patriot Act Notice

     105 112  
Section 12.18  

No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility

     112  
Section 12.19  

Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions

     112  
Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules   
Annex I  

Commitments

  
Exhibit A  

Form of Note

  
Exhibit B  

Form of Borrowing Request

  
Exhibit C  

Form of Interest Election Request

  
Exhibit D  

Form of Compliance Certificate

  
Exhibit E  

Security Instruments as of the Effective Date

  
Exhibit F  

Form of Assignment and Assumption

  
Exhibit G-1  

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Lenders; not partnerships)

  
Exhibit G-2  

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Participants; not partnerships)

  
Exhibit G-3  

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Participants; partnerships)

  
Exhibit G-4  

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Lenders; partnerships)

  
Exhibit H  

Form of Commitment Increase Certificate Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement

  
Exhibit I  

Form of Additional Lender Certificate Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement

  
Exhibit J  

Form of Second Lien Indenture

  
Schedule 7.04(c)  

Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change

  
Schedule 7.05  

Litigation

  
Schedule 7.06  

Environmental Matters

  
Schedule 7.14  

Subsidiaries and Unrestricted Subsidiaries

  
Schedule 7.18  

Gas Imbalances; Take or Pay; Other Prepayments

  
Schedule 7.19  

Marketing Agreements

  
Schedule 7.20  

Swap Agreements

  
Schedule 9.02  

Debt

  
Schedule 9.05  

Investments

  
Schedule 12.01  

Notices

  

 

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THIS SENIOR SECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT dated as of April 12, 2017, is among ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”); ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP., a corporation organized under the laws of the Yukon Territory of Canada (“ Ultra Petroleum ”); UP ENERGY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (“ UP Energy ” and, together with Ultra Petroleum, collectively the “ Parent Guarantor ”); each of the Lenders from time to time party hereto; and BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Administrative Agent ”).

RECITALS

A. On April 29, 2016, Parent Guarantor and the Borrower and certain of their respective Subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, initiating cases under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (the “ Bankruptcy Code ”), consolidated administratively under Case No. 16-32202 (the “ Chapter 11 Cases ”);

B. The Debtors filed the Plan of Reorganization (as defined herein) with the Bankruptcy Court on March 14, 2017 (the “ Plan of Reorganization ”) and on March 14, 2017 the Bankruptcy Court entered the Confirmation Order confirming the Plan of Reorganization, which Confirmation Order inter alia authorized and approved the Debtor’s entry into and performance under this Agreement;

C. The Borrower has requested that the Lenders provide certain term loans to and extensions of credit on behalf of the Borrower; and

D. The Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement;

E. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals, of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING MATTERS

Section 1.01 Terms Defined Above . As used in this Agreement, each term defined above has the meaning indicated above.

Section 1.02 Certain Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

“2022 Notes” means the senior notes due 2022 issued by the Borrower on the Effective Date and outstanding on the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to $195,035,000, after giving effect to the Permitted Notes Exchange on the Initial Exchange Date.

ABR ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.

Account Control Agreement ” means a control agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, which grants the Collateral Agent “control” as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the applicable jurisdiction over any Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodities Account maintained by any Credit Party, in each case, among the Collateral Agent, the applicable Credit Party and the applicable financial institution at which such Deposit Account, Securities Account or Commodities Account is maintained.


ACNTA ” means (without duplication), as of the date of determination, the remainder of:

(a) the sum of:

(i) discounted future net revenues from proved oil and gas reserves of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines (but utilizing prices and costs calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines as if the end of the most recent fiscal quarter preceding the date of determination for which such information is available to the Borrower were year-end and giving effect to applicable Commodity Agreements in place as of the date of determination (whether positive or negative)) before any state or federal income taxes, as estimated in a reserve report prepared as of the end of the Borrower’s most recently completed fiscal year for which audited financial statements are available, as increased by, as of the date of determination, the estimated discounted future net revenues from

(A) estimated proved oil and gas reserves acquired since such year end, which reserves were not reflected in such year-end reserve report, and

(B) estimated proved oil and gas reserves attributable to extensions, discoveries and other additions and upward revisions of estimates of proved oil and gas reserves since such year-end due to exploration, development or exploitation, production or other activities, which would, in accordance with standard industry practice, cause such revisions (including the impact to proved oil and gas reserves and future net revenues from estimated development costs incurred and the accretion of discount since such year-end), and decreased by, as of the date of determination, the estimated discounted future net revenues from

(C) estimated proved oil and gas reserves produced or disposed of since such year end to the extent such estimated discounted future net revenues were included in such year-end reserve report or such estimated reserves under clauses (A) or (B) above, and

(D) estimated proved oil and gas reserves attributable to downward revisions of estimates of proved oil and gas reserves since such year-end due to changes in geological conditions or other factors which would, in accordance with standard industry practice, cause such revisions,

in the case of clauses (A) through (D) calculated on a pre-tax basis substantially in accordance with SEC guidelines (but utilizing prices and costs calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines as if the end of the most recent fiscal quarter preceding the date of determination for which such information is available were year-end and giving effect to applicable Commodity Agreements in place as of the date of determination (whether positive or negative)); provided , however , that in the case of each of the determinations made pursuant to clauses (A) through (D), such increases and decreases shall be as estimated by the Borrower’s petroleum engineers;

(ii) the capitalized costs that are attributable to oil and gas properties of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries to which no proved oil and gas reserves are attributable, based on the Parent Guarantor’s books and records as of a date no earlier than the date of the Parent Guarantor’s latest available annual or quarterly financial statements;

 

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(iii) the Net Working Capital of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries on a date no earlier than the date of the Borrower’s latest annual or quarterly financial statements; and

(iv) the greater of

(A) the net book value of other tangible assets of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries, as of a date no earlier than the date of the Borrower’s latest annual or quarterly financial statements, and

(B) the appraised value, as estimated by independent appraisers, of other tangible assets of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries, as of a date no earlier than the date of the Borrower’s latest audited financial statements; provided , that, if no such appraisal has been performed, the Borrower shall not be required to obtain such an appraisal and only clause (iv)(A) of this definition shall apply;

minus

(b) the sum of:

(i) minority interests;

(ii) any net gas balancing liabilities of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries reflected in the Borrower’s latest annual or quarterly balance sheet (to the extent not deducted in calculating Net Working Capital of the Borrower in accordance with clause (a)(iii) above of this definition);

(iii) to the extent included in (a)(i) above, the discounted future net revenues, calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines (but (x) utilizing prices and costs calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines as if the end of the most recent fiscal quarter preceding the date of determination for which such information is available to the Borrower were year-end), attributable to reserves which are required to be delivered to third parties to fully satisfy the obligations of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to Volumetric Production Payments (determined, if applicable, using the schedules specified with respect thereto); and

(iv) the discounted future net revenues, calculated in accordance with SEC guidelines, attributable to reserves subject to Dollar-Denominated Production Payments which, based on the estimates of production and price assumptions included in determining the discounted future net revenues specified in (a)(i) above, would be necessary to fully satisfy the payment obligations of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to Dollar-Denominated Production Payments (determined, if applicable, using the schedules specified with respect thereto).

If the Borrower changes its method of accounting from the full cost method of accounting to the successful efforts or a similar method, ACNTA will continue to be calculated as if the Borrower were still using the full cost method of accounting.

Act ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.17 .

Additional Lender ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.06(a).

 

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Additional Lender Certificate ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.06(b)(xi).

Additional Oil and Gas Assets ” means (a) Oil and Gas Properties, (b) gathering systems and other improvements, infrastructure, equipment and fixtures used in connection with the exploration, exploitation, development, or operation of Oil and Gas Properties or the production, treatment, handling, gathering, transportation, processing, and disposition of hydrocarbons and associated products, (c) Investments in joint ventures that own any assets described in clauses (a) or (b) to the extent permitted by Section 9.04 , and (d) Equity Interests acquired from third parties in Persons that own any assets described in clauses (a) or (b) and that are Guarantors or become Guarantors as provided in Section 8.14 promptly following such acquisition.

Adjusted Eurodollar Rate ” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by the Statutory Reserve Rate.

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

Affected Loans ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.06 .

Affiliate ” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. The term “Affiliated” has a correlative meaning thereto.

Affiliated Lender ” means any Affiliate of the Borrower (other than the Parent Guarantor or the Restricted Subsidiaries).

Agents ” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and, as the context requires, any syndication agents or documentation agents hereunder that may from time to time be designated by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.

Agreement ” means this Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, as the same may from time to time be amended, modified, supplemented or restated.

All-In Yield ” means, as to any Debt, the yield thereof, whether in the form of interest rate, margin, original issue discount, upfront fees, an Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or Alternate Base Rate floor greater than the “floor” then in effect on the Loans; provided that, in determining the applicable interest rate margins (a) customary arrangement, structuring, commitment or other fees payable to the arrangers (or their Affiliates) shall be excluded, (b) original issue discount and upfront fees paid to the lenders thereunder shall be included (with original issue discount being equated to interest based on an assumed four-year life to maturity or, if shorter, the actual Weighted Average Life to Maturity) and (c) if a refinancing facility includes an interest rate floor greater than the applicable interest rate floor for the existing Loans, 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 for the existing Loans shall be required, but only to the extent an increase in the interest rate floor for the Loans 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 Loans may be increased to the extent necessary in respect of such differential between interest rate floors; provided further that each basis point increase to the interest rate floor of the Loans shall count as one basis point of increase in the interest rate margin to the Loans for purposes of the calculations under Section 3.01.

 

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Alternate Base Rate ” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1 2 of 1% and (c) the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate for a one month Interest Period beginning on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1.00%, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate for any day shall be based on the rate appearing on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or on any successor or substitute page of such service, or any successor to or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such service, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market), at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 with a one month maturity are offered at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such day (or the immediately preceding Business Days if such day is not a Business Day). Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate, respectively.

Anti-Corruption Laws ” means all state or federal laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates from time to time concerning or relating to money-laundering, bribery or corruption, including the FCPA.

Applicable Margin ” means, (a)  on any day prior to the Initial Exchange Date , with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, 3.00%  per annum and with respect to any ABR Loan, 2.00%  per annum and (b) on the Initial Exchange Date and on any day thereafter, with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, 4.00% per annum and with respect to any ABR Loan, 3.00%  per annum .

Applicable Percentage ” means, for each Lender, (a) immediately prior to the initial Borrowing on the Effective Date, the percentage of the aggregate amount of the Commitments of all Lenders represented by the amount of such Lender’s Commitment, and (b) thereafter, the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of all Loans then outstanding represented by the amount of such Lender’s Loan.

“Applicable Premium” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.04(e).

“Applicable Premium Trigger Event” means the occurrence of any of the following: (a) the payment by any Credit Party of all, or any part, of the principal balance of Loans pursuant to Section 3.04(a) for any reason whether before or after (i) the occurrence of an Event of Default or (ii) the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws, and notwithstanding any acceleration (for any reason) of the Obligations; (b) the acceleration of the Obligations for any reason, including an acceleration in accordance with Section 10.01, including as a result of an Event of Default under Section 10.01(h) or Section 10.01(i); and/or (c) the satisfaction, release, payment, restructuring, reorganization, replacement, reinstatement, defeasance or compromise of any of the Obligations in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, foreclosure (whether by power of judicial proceeding or otherwise) or deed in lieu of foreclosure or the making of a distribution of any kind in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding under Debtor Relief Laws to the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent for the account of the Lenders in full or partial satisfaction of the Obligations.

Approved Counterparty ” means any Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender and any other Person if such Person or its credit support provider has a long term senior unsecured debt rating of BBB+ (or its equivalent) or higher by S&P and Baa1 (or its equivalent) or higher by Moody’s.

 

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Approved Fund ” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

Approved Petroleum Engineers ” means Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc., W.D. Von Gonten & Co., Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc., Ryder Scott Company Petroleum Consultants, L.P., Wright & Company, Inc. or any other independent petroleum engineers selected by Borrower and acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

“Approved RBL Lender” means a commercial bank or other financial institution that customarily provides reserve-based revolving credit financing to companies operating in the Oil and Gas Business in the ordinary course of its business.

Arranger ” means, collectively, Barclays Bank PLC, Goldman Sachs Bank USA and BMO Capital Markets Corp. in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners hereunder.

ASC ” means the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification, as in effect from time to time.

Asset Coverage Ratio ” means, as of any date of calculation, the ratio of (a) the PV-9 of the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries ( provided that, for purposes of calculating the Asset Coverage Ratio, the PV-9 attributable to non-producing Proved Reserves shall not exceed 35% of the aggregate PV-9) to (b) Consolidated First Lien Debt on such date.

Assignment and Assumption ” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 12.04(b) ), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit F or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.

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.

Bank Price Deck ” means the Revolving Administrative Agent’s forward curve for each of oil, natural gas and other Hydrocarbons, as applicable, furnished to the Borrower by the Revolving Administrative Agent from time to time in accordance with the terms of the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Bankruptcy Code ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

Bankruptcy Court ” means the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division or any other court having jurisdiction over the Chapter 11 Cases from time to time.

Board ” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America or any successor Governmental Authority.

Borrower ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

 

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

Borrowing Base has the meaning given to this term in the Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof.

“Borrowing Base” (a) prior to the time of a refinancing or replacement of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement, has the meaning given to this term in the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement and (b) at any time on and after a refinancing or replacement of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement and at all times thereafter, means the maximum amount in United States dollars determined or re-determined by the Revolving Lenders as the aggregate lending value under the Revolver Debt Documents and this Agreement to be ascribed to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors against which the Revolving Lenders are prepared to provide loans or other Indebtedness to the Borrower and the Guarantors under the Revolver Debt Documents, using customary practices and standards for Approved RBL Lenders in determining borrowing base loans and which are generally applied at such time by the Approved RBL Lenders under the Revolver Debt Documents to borrowers in the Oil and Gas Business, as determined semi-annually during each year and/or on such other occasions as may be provided for by the Revolver Debt Documents, and which is based upon, inter alia, the review by such lenders of the Hydrocarbon reserves, royalty interests and assets and liabilities of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Borrowing Base Deficiency has the meaning given to this term in the occurs, if at any time (a) the sum of the (i) aggregate Revolving Credit Agreement as Exposure and (ii) aggregate amount outstanding of Loans at such time (collectively, the “Total Exposure”) exceeds (b) the Borrowing Base. The amount of any Borrowing Base Deficiency at the time in question is the amount (if any) by which the Total Exposure exceeds the Borrowing Base then in effect on the date hereof .

Borrowing Base Period ” means any period other than an Investment Grade Period.

Borrowing Base Property ” means, at any time in question, any Oil and Gas Property to which Proved Reserves were attributed in the then most recent Reserve Report.

Borrowing Base Trigger Event ” means, the occurrence of at least two of the following three events: the public announcement that the Borrower’s Credit Rating is (a) Ba1 or lower from (or is unrated by) Moody’s, (b) BB+ or lower from (or is unrated by) S&P or (c) BB+ or lower from (or is unrated by) Fitch.

Borrowing Request ” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03 .

Business Day ” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; and if such day relates to a Borrowing or continuation of, a payment or prepayment of principal of or interest on, or a conversion of or into, or the Interest Period for, a Eurodollar Loan or a notice by the Borrower with respect to any such Borrowing or continuation, payment, prepayment, conversion or Interest Period, any day which is also a day on which banks are open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

Capital Leases ” means, in respect of any Person, all leases which shall have been, or should have been, in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof, recorded as capital leases on the balance sheet of the Person liable (whether contingent or otherwise) for the payment of rent thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the LGS Lease shall not constitute a Capital Lease and (ii) any lease (whether entered into before or after the Effective Date) that would have been classified as an operating lease in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof will be deemed not to be a Capital Lease.

 

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Cash Equivalents ” means:

(a) direct obligations of the United States or any agency thereof, or obligations guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof;

(b) commercial paper maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof rated in the highest grade by S&P or Moody’s;

(c) demand deposits, and time deposits maturing within one year from the date of creation thereof, with, or issued by any Lender or any office located in the United States of any other bank or trust company which is organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof, has capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating at least $100,000,000 (as of the date of such bank or trust company’s most recent financial reports) and has a short term deposit rating of at least A2 or P2, as such rating is set forth from time to time, by S&P or Moody’s, respectively; and

(d) shares of any SEC registered 2a-7 money market fund that has net assets of at least $500,000,000 and the highest rating obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P.

CFTC Hedging Obligation ” means any Obligation in respect of any agreement, contract, confirmation or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Change in Control ” means

(a) any Person, entity or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than the Permitted Investors (or any intermediate companies owned directly or indirectly by the Permitted Investors), shall at any time have acquired direct or indirect beneficial ownership of voting power of the outstanding Equity Interests of Ultra Petroleum having more than the greater of (i) 50% of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors of Ultra Petroleum and (ii) the percentage of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors of Ultra Petroleum owned in the aggregate, directly or indirectly, beneficially, by the Permitted Investors; or

(b) at any time Continuing Directors shall not constitute at least a majority of the directors of Ultra Petroleum; or

(c) a “Change in Control” (as defined in the documentation for any Material Debt) shall have occurred and as a result thereof the maturity of such Material Debt is accelerated, the obligor on such Material Debt is obligated to offer to Redeem such Material Debt, or the obligee on such Material Debt shall otherwise have the right to require the obligor thereon to Redeem such Material Debt; or

(d) Ultra Petroleum shall at any time cease to have beneficial ownership, and the power to vote or direct the voting, of at least 100% of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Borrower.

As used in this definition, “beneficial ownership” (which may be direct or indirect) has the meaning provided in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act.

 

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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, 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 or in implementation thereof 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 ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.

Collateral ” means all Property which is subject to a Lien under one or more Security Instruments.

Collateral Agency Agreement ” means that certain Collateral Agency Agreement dated as of the Effective Date among the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Administrative Agent, as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified or replaced from time to time.

Collateral Agent ” means Bank of Montreal acting in its capacity as collateral agent for the Secured Parties and for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), and any successor collateral agent appointed hereunder pursuant to the Collateral Agency Agreement.

Commitment ” means, with respect to any Lender, such Lender’s obligation to make Loans pursuant to Section 2.01 in the amount and percentage set forth opposite its name on Annex I or modified from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 12.04(b) .

Commitment Increase Certificate ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(b)(x).

Commodities Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Commodity Agreements ” means, in respect of any Person, any forward contract, commodity swap agreement, commodity option agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement in respect of Hydrocarbons used, produced, processed or sold by such Person that are customary in the Oil and Gas Business and designed to protect such Person against fluctuation in Hydrocarbon prices.

Commodity Exchange Act ” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq .), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and the application or official interpretation of any thereof.

Company Materials ” has the meaning assigned such term in Section 8.01 .

 

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Confirmation Order ” means the order of the Bankruptcy Court dated March 14, 2017 [ Docket No. 1324 ] confirming the Plan of Reorganization, which order inter alia authorized and approved the Debtors’ entry into and performance under this Agreement.

Consolidated Interest Expense ” means, for any period, the total consolidated interest expense of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries for such period net of gross interest income of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP plus (without duplication) to the extent not already included in such total consolidated interest expense:

(a) imputed interest on Debt attributable to Capital Leases and sale and leaseback transactions of Borrower or any of its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries for such period;

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

(c) amortization of debt issuance costs, debt discount or premium and other financing fees and expenses incurred by Borrower or any of its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries for such period;

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

(e) all cash interest paid in connection with Debt permitted hereunder to the extent that such payments are not accounted for as interest expense pursuant to ASC 470-60 or another applicable codification.

Consolidated First Lien Debt ” means all Consolidated Net Debt that is secured by a Lien on any Collateral, other than Consolidated Net Debt in which the applicable Liens are expressly subordinated or junior to the Liens securing the Obligations.

Consolidated Net Debt ” means, at any date, the positive remainder (if any) of (a) Consolidated Total Debt minus (b) the unrestricted and unencumbered cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on such date; provided that cash and Cash Equivalents that would appear as “restricted” on a consolidated balance sheet solely because such cash or Cash Equivalents are subject to an Account Control Agreement shall be deemed to be unrestricted and unencumbered for purposes hereof.

Consolidated Net Income ” means with respect to the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, for any period, the net income (or loss) of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries after allowances for taxes for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded from such net income (to the extent otherwise included therein) the following: (a) the net income of any Person in which the Borrower or any Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary has an interest (which interest does not cause the net income of such other Person to be consolidated with the net income of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP), except to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions actually paid in cash during such period by such other Person to the Borrower or to a Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be; (b) the net income (but not loss) during such period of any Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions or transfers or loans by that Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument or Governmental Requirement applicable to such Consolidated

 

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Restricted Subsidiary or is otherwise restricted or prohibited, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP; (c) the net income (or loss) of any Person acquired in a pooling-of-interests transaction for any period prior to the date of such transaction; (d) any extraordinary gains or losses during such period; (e) any non-cash gains or losses or positive or negative adjustments under ASC 815 (and any statements replacing, modifying or superseding such statement) as the result of changes in the fair market value of derivatives; (f) any gains or losses attributable to writeups or writedowns of assets, including ceiling test writedowns, and (g) any non-cash compensation charge arising from any grant or vesting of stock, stock options or other equity-based awards.

Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio ” means, as of any date of calculation, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Net Debt as of such date to (b) EBITDAX for the Rolling Period ending on such date.

Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries ” means any Restricted Subsidiaries that are Consolidated Subsidiaries.

Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries ” means each Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (whether now existing or hereafter created or acquired) the financial statements of which shall be (or should have been) consolidated with the financial statements of the Borrower in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Total Debt ” means, at any date, the principal amount of all Debt (without duplication) of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (a) described in clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the definition herein of “Debt”, other than Debt with respect to letters of credit to the extent such letters of credit have not been drawn, and (b) described in clause (g) of the definition herein of “Debt” to the extent such Debt is comprised of guaranty obligations in respect of Debt of others of the type described in clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the definition herein of “Debt.”

Consolidated Unrestricted Subsidiaries ” means any Unrestricted Subsidiaries that are Consolidated Subsidiaries.

Continuing Director ” means, at any date, an individual (a) who is a director of Ultra Petroleum on the Effective Date, (b) who, as of the date of determination, has been a director of Ultra Petroleum for at least the twelve preceding months, (c) who has been nominated to be a director of the Borrower, directly or indirectly, by a Permitted Investor or Persons nominated by a Permitted Investor, (d) who is nominated, appointed or approved for consideration by shareholders for election by the board of directors of the Ultra Petroleum, or (e) who is appointed by directors so nominated, appointed or approved.

Control ” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “ Controlling ” and “ Controlled ” have meanings correlative thereto.

Credit Parties ” means, collectively, the Borrower, Parent Guarantor and the other Guarantors, and each individually a “Credit Party”.

Credit Rating ” means, the corporate credit rating of the Borrower issued by S&P or Fitch or the corporate family rating of the Borrower issued by Moody’s, as applicable.

Debt ” means, for any Person:

(a) obligations of such Person for borrowed money or evidenced by bankers’ acceptances, debentures, notes, bonds or other similar instruments;

 

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(b) obligations of such Person (whether contingent or otherwise) in respect of letters of credit for which such Person is the applicant;

(c) obligations of such Person with respect to Disqualified Capital Stock;

(d) obligations of such Person under Capital Leases or Synthetic Leases;

(e) obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of Property;

(f) Debt (as defined in the other clauses of this definition) of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) a Lien on any Property of such Person, whether or not such Debt is assumed by such Person; provided , however , that in the case of Debt of the type described in this clause (f), the amount of such Debt shall be deemed to be the lesser of (1) such Person’s liability for such Debt and (2) the book value of such property;

(g) Debt (as defined in the other clauses of this definition) of others guaranteed by such Person or in which such Person otherwise assures a creditor against loss of the Debt (howsoever such assurance shall be made, including by means of obligations to pay for goods or services even if such goods or services are not actually taken, received or utilized) to the extent of the lesser of the amount of such Debt and the maximum stated amount of such guarantee or assurance against loss;

(h) Debt (as defined in the other clauses of this definition) of a partnership for which such Person is liable either by agreement, by operation of law or by a Governmental Requirement, but only to the extent of such liability; and

(i) obligations owing by a Person or any other Person guaranteeing such Person’s Debt under one or more Swap Agreements with the same counterparty that, at the time in question, have a net Swap Termination Value in favor of such counterparty ( i.e. , such Person or any other Person guaranteeing such Person’s Debt is “out of the money”) that exceeds the Threshold Amount;

provided , however , that “Debt” does not include (i) obligations with respect to surety, performance or appeal bonds and similar instruments, (ii) trade accounts and other similar accounts that are payable no later than 120 days after invoice or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP or (iii) obligations under the LGS Lease.

Debt Fund Affiliate ” means an Affiliated Lender that is a bona fide debt fund or an investment vehicle that is primarily engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business and for which no personnel making investment decisions in respect of any equity fund which has a direct or indirect equity interest in the Parent Guarantor or the Borrower has the right to make investment decisions.

Debtors ” means, collectively, the Borrower and Parent Guarantor and certain of their Subsidiaries, each in their capacity as debtors and debtors-in-possession in the Chapter 11 Case.

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

 

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Default ” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.

Deposit Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Disqualified Capital Stock ” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable for any consideration other than other Equity Interests (which would not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or is convertible or exchangeable for Debt or redeemable for any consideration other than other Equity Interests (which would not constitute Disqualified Capital Stock) at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part (but if in part only with respect to such amount that meets the criteria set forth in this definition), on or prior to the date that is one year after the Maturity Date.

Dollar-Denominated Production Payments ” means production payment obligations recorded as liabilities in accordance with GAAP, together with all undertakings and obligations in connection therewith.

dollars ” or “ $ ” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.

Domestic Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia, provided that a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

E&P Subsidiary ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.11 .

EBITDAX ” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period plus the following expenses or charges to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (a) the sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense, (ii) Taxes imposed on or measured by income (however denominated) and franchise Taxes paid or accrued, (iii) depreciation, (iv) depletion, (v) amortization, (vi) exploration and abandonment expenses, (vii) transaction costs, expenses and charges with respect to the acquisition or disposition of Oil and Gas Properties, not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year, (viii) losses from sales or other dispositions of assets (other than Hydrocarbons produced in the ordinary course of business) and other extraordinary or non-recurring losses and (ix) all other noncash charges (excluding accruals for cash expenses made in the ordinary course of business) and (x) any fees, expenses or charges of third parties incurred through December 31, 2017 in connection with the implementation of fresh start accounting, the Chapter 11 Cases, the Plan of Reorganization, the transactions contemplated thereby and any other reorganization items (provided that (i) such fees, expenses or charges may, at the option of the Borrower, increase EBITDAX for such period whether or not such fees, expenses or charges were incurred in such period or were deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income for such period and (ii) the Borrower may increase EBITDAX pursuant to this clause (x) no more than one time) minus (b) (i) gains from sales or other dispositions of assets (other than Hydrocarbons produced in the ordinary course of business) and other extraordinary or non-recurring gains and (ii) all noncash income (excluding accruals for cash expenses made in the ordinary course of business) added to Consolidated Net Income (including cancellation of indebtedness income to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income). For the purposes of calculating EBITDAX for any Rolling Period for any determination of the financial ratios contained in clause (a)  and clause (c)  of the definition of “Financial Covenants” , if at any time during such period the Borrower or any Consolidated Restricted Subsidiary shall have made any Material Disposition or Material Acquisition, Consolidated Net Income and EBITDAX for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Material Disposition or Material Acquisition had occurred on the first day of such period; provided that the calculations of such pro forma adjustments are acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion. For purposes of calculating EBITDAX for the Rolling Period ending June 30, 2017, EBITDAX shall be an amount equal to the sum of (a) the product of (i) EBITDAX for the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2016 and (ii) 2, (b) EBITDAX for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2017, and (c) EBITDAX for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2017.

 

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

EEA Member Country ” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

EEA Resolution Authority ” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

Effective Date ” means the date on which the conditions specified in Section 6.01 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 12.02 ).

Environmental Laws ” means any and all Governmental Requirements pertaining in any way to public health (regarding human exposure to Hazardous Materials), protection of, the environment, the preservation or reclamation of natural resources, or the management, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials, in effect in any and all jurisdictions in which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is conducting, or at any time has conducted, business, or where any Property of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is located, including, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“ OPA ”), as amended, the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“ CERCLA ”), as amended, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (“ RCRA ”), as amended, the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Law, as amended, and other environmental conservation or protection Governmental Requirements.

Environmental Permit ” means any permit, registration, license, approval, consent, exemption, variance, or other authorization required under or issued pursuant to applicable Environmental Laws.

Equity Interests ” means shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests in a Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such Equity Interest.

ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any successor statute.

ERISA Affiliate ” means each trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that together with Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Subsidiary is a “single employer” within the meaning of section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA or subsections (b) or (c) of section 414 of the Code (or subsections (m) or (o) of section 414 of the Code with respect to a Plan that is subject to the minimum funding requirements of section 412 of the Code).

 

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ERISA Event ” means (a) a reportable event, as defined in section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived under applicable regulations or otherwise); (b) a withdrawal by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, a Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate from a 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; (c) a complete withdrawal, within the meaning of section 4203 of ERISA, or a or partial withdrawal, within the meaning of section 4205 of ERISA, by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from a multiemployer plan (as defined in section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA); (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Plan amendment as termination under section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Plan; or (e) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under section 4042 of ERISA for termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan.

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.

Eurodollar ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate.

Eurodollar Rate ” means for any Interest Period as to any Eurodollar Loan, (i) the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate which appears on the page of the Reuters Screen which displays the London interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (such page currently being the LIBOR01 page) (the “LIBO Rate”) for deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period in Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time), two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, or (ii) in the event the rate referenced in the preceding clause (i) does not appear on such page or service or if such page or service shall cease to be available, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other service which displays the LIBO Rate for deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period in Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that if LIBO Rates are quoted under either of the preceding clauses (i) or (ii), but there is no such quotation for the Interest Period elected, the LIBO Rate shall be equal to the Interpolated Rate; and provided , further , that if any such rate determined pursuant to the preceding clauses (i) or (ii) is less than one percent, the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate will be deemed to be one percent.

Event of Default ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.01 .

Excepted Liens ” means: (a) Liens for Taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or levies which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (b) Liens in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other social security, old age pension or public liability obligations which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (c) landlords’, operators’, vendors’, carriers’, warehousemen’s, repairmen’s, mechanics’, suppliers’, workers’, materialmen’s, construction or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business or incident to the exploration,

 

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development, operation and maintenance of Oil and Gas Properties, each of which is in respect of obligations that are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP; (d) Liens which arise in the ordinary course of business under operating agreements, joint venture agreements, oil and gas partnership agreements, oil and gas leases, farm-out agreements, division orders, contracts for the sale, transportation or exchange of oil and natural gas, unitization and pooling declarations and agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, overriding royalty agreements, marketing agreements, processing agreements, net profits agreements, development agreements, gas balancing or deferred production agreements, injection, repressuring and recycling agreements, salt water or other disposal agreements, seismic or other geophysical permits or agreements, and other agreements which are usual and customary in the Oil and Gas Business and are for claims which are not delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate action and for which adequate reserves have been maintained in accordance with GAAP, provided that any such Lien referred to in this clause does not materially impair the use of any material Property covered by such Lien for the purposes for which such Property is held by the Borrower or any other Credit Party or materially impair the value of any material Property subject thereto; (e) banker’s liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies arising in the ordinary course of business and burdening only deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a creditor depository institution, provided that no such deposit account is a dedicated cash collateral account; (f) easements, restrictions, servitudes, permits, conditions, covenants, exceptions, reservations, zoning and land use requirements and other title defects in any Property of the Borrower or any other Credit Party, that in each case do not secure Debt and that in the aggregate do not materially impair the use of such Property for the purposes of which such Property is held by the Borrower or any other Credit Party or materially impair the value of such Property subject thereto; (g) Liens to secure performance of tenders, surety and appeal bonds, government contracts, performance and return of money bonds, bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, regulatory obligations, obligations in respect of workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other forms of government benefits or insurance and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business; (h) Liens, titles and interests of lessors (including sub-lessors) of property leased by such lessors to the Borrower or any other Credit Party, restrictions and prohibitions on encumbrances and transferability with respect to such property and the Borrower’s or such other Credit Party’s interests therein imposed by such leases, and Liens and encumbrances encumbering such lessors’ titles and interests in such property and to which the Borrower’s or such other Credit Party’s leasehold interests may be subject or subordinate, in each case, whether or not evidenced by Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings or other documents of record, provided that such Liens do not secure Debt of the Borrower or any other Credit Party and do not encumber Property of the Borrower or any other Credit Party other than the Property that is the subject of such leases and items located thereon; (i) Liens, titles and interests of licensors of software and other intangible property licensed by such licensors to the Borrower or any other Credit Party, restrictions and prohibitions on encumbrances and transferability with respect to such property and the Borrower’s or such other Credit Party’s interests therein imposed by such licenses, and Liens and encumbrances encumbering such licensors’ titles and interests in such property and to which the Borrower’s or such other Credit Party’s license interests may be subject or subordinate, in each case, whether or not evidenced by Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings or other documents of record, provided that such Liens do not secure Debt of the Borrower or any other Credit Party and do not encumber Property of the Borrower or any other Credit Party other than the Property that is the subject of such licenses; (j) judgment and attachment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default; and (k) Liens of issuers of commercial letters of credit or similar undertakings on the goods that are the subject of such letters of credit or undertakings. Provisions in the Loan Documents allowing Excepted Liens or other Permitted Liens on any item of Property shall be construed to allow such Excepted Liens and other Permitted Liens also to cover any improvements, fixtures or accessions to such Property and the proceeds of and insurance on such Property, improvements, fixtures or accessions. No intention to subordinate any Lien granted in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders is to be hereby implied or expressed by the permitted existence of any Excepted Liens. The term “Excepted Liens” shall not include any Lien securing Debt for borrowed money.

 

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Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Exchange Date” means (a) the Initial Exchange Date and (b) each date after the occurrence of the Initial Exchange Date on which a Permitted Notes Exchange is consummated.

“Exchanged Notes” has the meaning assigned thereto in the definition of “Permitted Notes Exchange”.

Excluded Account ” means (a) any Deposit Account, Commodity Account or Securities Account so long as the average daily maximum balance in each such account, individually, does not exceed $1,000,000 over any 30-day period and the aggregate daily maximum balance of all such Deposit Accounts, Commodity Accounts and Securities Accounts does not at any time exceed $10,000,000, (b) any Deposit Account that is a zero balance account or a deposit account for which the balance of such Deposit Account is transferred at the end of each date to a deposit account that is not an Excluded Account, (c) any other Deposit Accounts exclusively used for trust, payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of any employees of the Credit Parties, (d) fiduciary accounts, (e) trust and suspense accounts of the Borrower and any Credit Party holding royalty obligations, (f) accounts constituting cash collateral accounts permitted under Section 9.03 and (g) the Professional Fee Escrow Account (as defined in the Plan of Reorganization).

Excluded Subsidiary ” means:

(a) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, and

(b) (i) any Foreign Subsidiary and/or (ii) any Domestic Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect subsidiary of any Foreign Subsidiary , and .

(c) any Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Excluded Swap Obligation ” means, with respect to the Borrower and the Guarantors individually determined, any CFTC Hedging Obligation if, and solely to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee of the Borrower or such Guarantor of, or the grant by the Borrower or such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such CFTC Hedging Obligation (or any guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act by virtue of the Borrower’s or such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” (as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act) with respect to such CFTC Hedging Obligation at any time such guarantee or grant of a security interest becomes effective with respect to such CFTC Hedging Obligation.

Excluded Taxes ” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient:

(a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes,

 

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(b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment to such Lender that was requested by the Borrower under Section 5.05 ) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 5.03 , amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office,

(c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure or inability to comply with Section 5.03(g) , and

(d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

“Existing Revolving Credit Agreement” means the Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the Initial Exchange Date and without giving effect to any subsequent amendment, restatement, supplement, modification, replacement or refinancing thereof.

Existing Senior Notes ” means (x) the 2022 Notes and (y)  the senior notes due 2022 and the senior notes due 2025 , in each case issued by the Borrower on the Effective Date , in an initial and outstanding on the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate principal amount of $1,200,000,000 equal to $225,000,000, after giving effect to the consummation of the Permitted Notes Exchange on the Initial Exchange Date .

“Existing Senior Notes Debt” means unsecured Debt in respect of the Existing Senior Notes, including the principal amounts owing thereunder and any associated obligations to pay interest, premiums, indemnifications, expenses, costs or other amounts.

“Existing Senior Notes Documents” means each indenture or agreement providing for Existing Senior Notes Debt, the Existing Senior Notes, all guaranties of Existing Senior Notes, and any other instruments or agreements made or delivered by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Existing Senior Notes Debt in each case, as amended, restated, modified, supplemented, renewed or replaced in any manner (whether upon or after termination or otherwise) from time to time.

FATCA ” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version to the extent substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code or any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such Sections of the Code.

Fair Market Value ” shall mean, with respect to any Transfer of Property or any noncash consideration or Property transferred or received by any Person, the fair market value of such consideration or other Property as determined by:

(a) any Financial Officer of the Borrower if such fair market value is greater than $5,000,000 but less than $20,000,000; and

 

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(b) the board of directors of the Borrower as conclusively evidenced by a certified resolution delivered to the Administrative Agent if such fair market value is equal to or in excess of $20,000,000.

FCPA ” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

Federal Funds Effective Rate ” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depository institutions (as determined in such manner as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the federal funds effective rate; provided , that if the Federal Funds Effective Rate for any day is less than one percent, the Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day will be deemed to be one percent.

Fee Letters ” means the Amended and Restated Fee Letter dated as of February 28, 2017 among the Borrower, Barclays Bank PLC, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Bank of Montreal and BMO Capital Markets Corp., and any other fee letters that may hereafter be entered into between Administrative Agent and Borrower.

Financial Covenants ” means, collectively, or individually as the context may require, that:

(a) as of the last day of any fiscal quarter commencing with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2017, the ratio of (i) the EBITDAX for the Rolling Period ending on such date to (ii) the Consolidated Interest Expense of the Borrower for the Rolling Period ending on such date, shall not be less than 2.5 to 1.0;

(b) as of the last day of any fiscal quarter commencing with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2017, the ratio of consolidated current assets of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (including the unused amount of the Loan Limit (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement), but excluding non-cash assets under the equivalent of ASC 815 under GAAP) as of such date to consolidated current liabilities of the Borrower and the Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding non-cash obligations under the equivalent of ASC 815 under GAAP and current maturities under this Agreement) as of such date shall not be less than 1.0 to 1.0;

(c) commencing with the last day of the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2017, the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio (i) as of the last day of any fiscal quarter ending on or before December 31, 2017 shall not exceed 4.25 to 1.00 and (ii) as of the last day of any fiscal quarter thereafter shall not exceed 4.0 to 1.0; and

(d) at any time during an Investment Grade Period, as of the last day of any fiscal quarter commencing with the first fiscal quarter ending during such Investment Grade Period, the RBL Asset Coverage Ratio as of such date shall not be less than 1.50 to 1.00.

Financial Officer ” means, for any Person, the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer, or controller of such Person or any other natural person principally responsible for the financial matters of such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a Financial Officer mean a Financial Officer of the Borrower.

Fitch ” means Fitch Ratings, Inc. and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

 

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Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio ” means for any period, the ratio of (a) the EBITDAX for such period to (b) the Fixed Charges for such period. In the event that the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurs, repays, repurchases, redeems, defeases or otherwise discharges any Debt (other than ordinary working capital borrowings unless, in connection with any such repayment, the commitments to lend associated with such borrowings are permanently reduced or canceled) subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is being calculated and on or prior to the date on which the event for which the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the “Calculation Date”), then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio will be calculated giving pro forma effect to such incurrence, repayment, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other discharge of Debt, and the use of the proceeds therefrom, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter reference period.

For purposes of calculating the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio:

(a) the EBITDAX attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses (and ownership interests therein) disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded;

(b) the Fixed Charges attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses (and ownership interests therein) disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded, but only to the extent that the obligations giving rise to such Fixed Charges will not be obligations of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries following the Calculation Date;

(c) any Person that is a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower on the Calculation Date will be deemed to have been a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower at all times during such Rolling Period;

(d) any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower on the Calculation Date will be deemed not to have been a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower at any time during such Rolling Period;

(e) interest on a Capital Lease obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Borrower to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capital Lease obligation in accordance with GAAP; and

(f) interest on any Debt under any revolving credit facility computed on a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon (A) the average daily principal balance of such Debt during the applicable period or (B) if such facility was created after the end of the applicable period, the average daily principal balance of such Debt during the period from the date of creation of such facility to the date of determination, or, if lower, the maximum commitments under such revolving credit facility as of the applicable date of determination.

Fixed Charges ” means, with respect to the Borrower for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:

(a) the consolidated interest expense of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued, including, without limitation, amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue discount, non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any deferred payment obligations, the interest component of all payments associated with Capital Lease obligations, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings, and net of the effect of all payments made or received pursuant to hedging obligations in respect of interest rates; plus

 

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(b) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period; plus

(c) any interest expense on Debt of another Person that is guaranteed by such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries or secured by a Lien on assets of such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries, whether or not such guaranty or Lien is called upon; plus

(d) all dividends, whether paid or accrued and whether or not in cash, on any series of Disqualified Capital Stock of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or Preferred Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, in each case, other than dividends on Equity Interests payable solely in Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) or to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, in each case, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any lease or other liability is reclassified as Debt or as a Capital Lease obligation due to a change in accounting principles after the Effective Date, the interest component of all payments associated with such lease or other liability shall be excluded from Fixed Charges.

Flood Insurance Regulations ” means (a) the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (b) the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (c) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (amending 42 USC § 4001, et seq .), as the same may be amended or recodified from time to time, (d) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 and any regulations promulgated thereunder and (e) the Biggert-Waters Flood Reform Act of 2012, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.

Foreign Lender ” means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is located. For purposes of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

Foreign Subsidiary ” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Section 1.05 .

Governmental Authority ” means the government of the United States of America, 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.

Governmental Requirement ” means any law, statute, code, ordinance, order, determination, rule, regulation, judgment, decree, injunction, franchise, permit, certificate, license, rules of common law, authorization or other directive or requirement, whether now or hereinafter in effect, of any Governmental Authority.

Guarantors ” means the Parent Guarantor and each other Restricted Subsidiary that guarantees the Obligations pursuant to Section 8.14(b) .

Guaranty and Collateral Agreement ” means the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement executed by the Borrower and the Guarantors on the Effective Date in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent pursuant to which (a) the Guarantors guaranty, on a joint and several basis, payment of the Obligations, and (b) the Borrower and the Guarantors grant security interests on the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ personal property constituting “Collateral” as defined therein in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties to secure the Obligations, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time.

 

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Hazardous Material ” means any substance regulated or as to which liability might arise under any applicable Environmental Law due to its hazardous or toxic characteristics including: any chemical, compound, material, product, byproduct, substance or waste defined as or included in the definition or meaning of “hazardous substance,” “hazardous material,” “hazardous waste,” “solid waste,” “toxic waste,” “extremely hazardous substance,” “toxic substance,” “contaminant,” “pollutant,” or words of similar meaning or import found in any applicable Environmental Law; Hydrocarbons, petroleum products, petroleum substances, natural gas, oil, oil and gas waste, crude oil, and any components, fractions, or derivatives thereof; and radioactive materials, explosives, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon, infectious or medical wastes.

Highest Lawful Rate ” means, with respect to each Lender, the maximum nonusurious interest rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received on the Notes or on other Obligations under laws applicable to such 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 allow as of the date hereof.

Hydrocarbons ” means oil, gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, condensate, distillate, liquid hydrocarbons, gaseous hydrocarbons and all products refined or separated therefrom.

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 the Borrower or any Guarantor under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.

Indemnitee ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.03(b) .

Industry Competitor ” means (a) any Person (other than Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their Affiliates or Subsidiaries) that, directly or indirectly, is actively engaged as one of its principal businesses in lease acquisitions, exploration and production operations or development of oil and gas properties (including the drilling and completion of producing wells) and (b) any Person that is clearly identifiable, solely on the basis of such Person’s name, as an Affiliate of any such Person (other than any Affiliates of the Borrower); provided that any Person that would be an Industry Competitor hereunder shall not constitute an Industry Competitor if (x) such Person is a bank, financial institution, bona fide debt fund or investment vehicle that is engaged in, or that advises funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding, or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds or similar extensions of credit or securities in the ordinary course of business and (y) no Industry Competitor or Affiliate described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) directly or indirectly, possesses the power to direct or cause the direction of the investment policies of such entity.

Industry Investment ” means Investments and expenditures made in the ordinary course of, and of a nature that is or shall have become customary in, the Oil and Gas Business as a means of actively engaging therein through agreements, transactions, interests or arrangements that permit one to share risks or costs, comply with regulatory requirements regarding local ownership or satisfy other objectives customarily achieved through the conduct of Oil and Gas Business jointly with third parties, including: (1) ownership interests in oil and gas properties or gathering, transportation, processing, electricity and power generation, or related systems; and (2) Investments and expenditures in the form of or pursuant to operating agreements, processing agreements, farm-in agreements, farm-out agreements, development agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, unitization agreements, pooling arrangements, joint bidding agreements, service contracts, joint venture agreements, partnership agreements (whether general or limited), and other similar agreements (including for limited liability companies) with third parties.

 

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“Initial Exchange Date” means the first date on which any Permitted Notes Exchange is consummated.

Initial Reserve Report ” means the report prepared as of December 31, 2016 by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. with respect to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Credit Parties to which Proved Reserves are attributed.

Interest Election Request ” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04 .

Interest Payment Date ” means with respect to any ABR Loan, the last day of each March, June, September and December and with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.

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

Interim Redetermination ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof.

Interpolated Rate ” means, in relation to the LIBO Rate, the rate which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:

(a) the applicable LIBO Rate for the longest period (for which that LIBO Rate is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan; and

(b) the applicable LIBO Rate for the shortest period (for which that LIBO Rate is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan,

each as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period of that Loan.

Investment ” means, for any Person:

(a) the acquisition (whether for cash, Property, services or securities or otherwise) of Equity Interests of any other Person or any agreement to make any such acquisition (including any “short sale” or any sale of any securities at a time when such securities are not owned by the Person entering into such short sale);

 

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(b) the making of any deposit with, or advance, loan or capital contribution to, assumption of Debt of, purchase or other acquisition of any other Debt of or equity participation or equity interest in, or other extension of credit to, any other Person (including the purchase of Property from another Person subject to an understanding or agreement, contingent or otherwise, to resell such Property to such Person;

(c) the purchase or acquisition (in one or a series of transactions) of Property of another Person that constitutes a business unit both before and after such purchase or acquisition; or

(d) the entering into of any guarantee of, or other surety obligation (including the deposit of any Equity Interests to be sold) with respect to, Debt of any other Person;

provided that accounts receivable acquired in the ordinary course of business do not constitute Investments.

Investment Grade Period ” means, the period from (a) the first date on which (i) the Borrower has received at least two of the Required Ratings, (ii) all Liens on the Collateral have been released and (iii) the Borrower has elected that such Investment Grade Period shall commence until (b) a Borrowing Base Trigger Event.

“Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements” means each of the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

LC Exposure ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Disbursement” means a payment made by an issuing bank under the Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof pursuant to a letter of credit issued under the Revolving Credit Agreement .

“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of the aggregate Undrawn Amount of all outstanding letters of credit under the Revolving Credit Agreement at such time plus the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time.

Lenders ” means the Persons listed on Annex I , any Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption , and any Person that shall have become a party hereto as an Additional Lender pursuant to Section 2.06, other than, in each case, any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.

LGS Lease ” means the lease agreement pursuant to which Parent Guarantor or its Subsidiary leases the liquids gathering system used for the purposes of gathering, separating, collecting and delivery for sale or transport condensate and water, together with associated natural gas, produced from natural gas and oil wells located in the Pinedale field in Sublette County, Wyoming.

Lien ” means any interest in Property securing an obligation owed to, or a claim by, a Person other than the owner of the Property, whether such interest is based on the common law, statute or contract, and whether such obligation or claim is fixed or contingent, and including but not limited to the lien or security interest arising from a mortgage, pledge, security agreement, conditional sale or trust receipt or a lease, consignment or bailment for security purposes. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall be deemed to be the owner of any Property which it has acquired or holds subject to a conditional sale agreement, or leases under a financing lease or other arrangement pursuant to which title to the Property has been retained by or vested in some other Person in a transaction intended to create a financing.

 

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Liquidate ” means, with respect to any Swap Agreement, the sale, assignment, novation, unwind or early termination of all or any part of such Swap Agreement; provided that for purposes of this definition, a Swap Agreement shall not be deemed to have been Liquidated if, (a) such Swap Agreement is novated to an Approved Counterparty, with the Borrower or another Credit Party being the “remaining party” for purposes of such novation, or (b) upon its sale, assignment, novation, unwind or early termination, it is replaced, in a substantially contemporaneous transaction, with one or more Swap Agreements with prices, tenors and volumes not less favorable to the Credit Parties than those of such replaced Swap Agreements and without cash payments to the Borrower or any other Credit Party in connection therewith. The terms “Liquidated” and “Liquidation” have correlative meanings thereto.

Loan Documents ” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Fee Letters, the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements, any Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, if any, and the Security Instruments.

Loans ” means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement (including any Loans arising on account of the payment of PIK Interest) .

Majority Lenders ” means, as of any date of determination, (a) prior to the Effective Date, Lenders having more than 50% of the Total Commitment and (b) thereafter, Lenders holding in the aggregate more than 50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Loans then outstanding.

Material Acquisition ” means any acquisition of Property or series of related acquisitions of Property (including by way of merger or consolidation) that involves the payment of consideration by the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries in excess of the lesser of (a) $75,000,000 and (b) the greater of (i) five percent (5%) of the then-effective Borrowing Base and (ii) $50,000,000.

Material Adverse Effect ” means (i) after giving effect to the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases, the entry of the Confirmation Order and the confirmation and consummation of the Plan of Reorganization, (ii) excluding any matters publicly disclosed prior to the filing of the Chapter 11 Cases, any matters disclosed in any first day pleadings or declarations in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases and the events and conditions related and/or leading up to the Chapter 11 Cases and the effects thereof and (iii) excluding results from (A) general changes in hydrocarbon prices, (B) general changes in industry or economic conditions, and (C) general changes in political conditions, including any engagements of hostilities, acts of war or terrorist activities or changes imposed by a governmental authority, a material adverse change in, or material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations, Property or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and the Guarantors taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower or any Guarantor to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents, or (c) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Loan Documents.

Material Debt ” means Debt (other than the Obligations) of the Borrower or any other Credit Party with a principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount.

Material Disposition ” means any disposition of Property or series of related dispositions of Properties that yields gross proceeds to the Borrower or any of its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries in excess of the lesser of (a) $75,000,000 and (b) the greater of (i) five percent (5%) of the then-effective Borrowing Base and (ii) $50,000,000.

 

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Maturity Date ” means the seventh anniversary of the Effective Date, or, if such anniversary is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately following such anniversary.

Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

Mortgaged Property ” means, at any time, any real or immovable Property owned by the Borrower or any Guarantor which is subject to the Liens existing at such time under the terms of the Security Instruments.

Net Cash Proceeds ” means, (a) with respect to any issuance or incurrence of Debt, the cash proceeds received by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary therefrom, net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, listing fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees and charges actually Incurred in connection with such issuance, and (b) with respect to any Transfer, the aggregate cash proceeds (including in respect of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards) and the Fair Market Value of any Cash Equivalents received the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any such Transfer, net of (i) the direct costs relating to such Transfer, including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees, and sales commissions, severance costs and any relocation expenses incurred as a result of such Transfer, (ii) taxes paid or payable as a result of such Transfer, in each case, after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements, (iii) amounts required to be applied to the repayment of Debt secured by a Lien on the properties or assets that were the subject of such Transfer, or which must by its terms, or in order to obtain a necessary consent to such Transfer or by applicable law, be repaid out of the proceeds from such Transfer, (iv) payments of unassumed liabilities (not constituting Debt) relating to the assets sold at the time of, or within 30 days after the date of, such Transfer, and (v) any amounts to be set aside in any reserve established in accordance with GAAP or any amount placed in escrow, in either case for adjustment in respect of the sale price of such properties or assets, for indemnification obligations of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Transfer or for other liabilities associated with such Transfer and retained by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary until such time as such reserve is reversed or such escrow arrangement is terminated, in which case Net Cash Proceeds shall include only the amount of the reserve so reversed or the amount returned to the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from such escrow arrangement, as the case may be.

Net Equity Proceeds ” means, with respect to any issuance or sale of Equity Interests, the cash proceeds of such issuance or sale, net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, listing fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees and charges actually Incurred in connection with such issuance or sale and net of taxes paid or payable as a result of such issuance or sale (after taking into account any available tax credit or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements).

Net Working Capital ” means (a) all current assets of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries, except current assets from commodity price risk management activities arising in the ordinary course of the Oil and Gas Business, less (b) all current liabilities of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries, except current liabilities (i) associated with asset retirement obligations relating to Oil and Gas Properties, (ii) included in Debt and (iii) any current liabilities from commodity price risk management activities arising in the ordinary course of the Oil and Gas Business, in each case as set forth in the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower prepared in accordance with GAAP (excluding any adjustments made pursuant to FASB ASC 815).

 

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Non-Debt Fund Affiliate ” means an Affiliated Lender that is not a Debt Fund Affiliate.

Notes ” means the promissory notes of the Borrower described in Section 2.02(d) and being substantially in the form of Exhibit A or such other form approved by the Administrative Agent, together with all amendments, modifications, replacements, extensions and rearrangements thereof.

NYMEX Pricing ” means, as of any date of determination with respect to any month (i) for crude oil, the closing settlement price for the Light, Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) futures contract for such month, and (ii) for natural gas, the closing settlement price for the Natural Gas (Henry Hub) futures contract for such month, in each case as published by New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) on its website currently located at www.nymex.com, or any successor thereto (as such price may be corrected or revised from time to time by the NYMEX in accordance with its rules and regulations).

Obligations ” means any and all amounts owing or to be owing (including all interest on any of the Loans, the Applicable Premium, any interest accruing at any post-default rate and interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower or any Guarantor (or which could accrue but for the operation of applicable bankruptcy or insolvency laws), whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) by the Borrower or any Guarantor (whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising) : to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document; provided that solely with respect to any Guarantor that is not an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder, Excluded Swap Obligations of such Guarantor shall in any event be excluded from “Obligations” owing by such Guarantor.

OFAC ” means the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Oil and Gas Business ” means the business of acquiring, exploring, drilling, exploiting, developing, producing, operating, treating, storing, gathering, processing, and selling oil and gas and the products thereof, together with activities (including physical and financial hedging and swapping) that are ancillary thereto.

Oil and Gas Properties ” means rights, titles, interests and estates in and to oil and gas leases, oil, gas and mineral leases, or other liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon leases, mineral fee interests, overriding royalty and royalty interests, net profit interests and production payment interests, including any reserved or residual interests of whatever nature and including any interests acquired pursuant to unit agreements, pooling agreements and declarations of pooled units; provided , that, for the avoidance of doubt, “Oil and Gas Properties” shall exclude all easements and rights of way used or to be used in connection with any gathering system. Unless otherwise indicated herein, each reference to the term “Oil and Gas Properties” means any and all Oil and Gas Properties owned at the time in question by the Borrower and the other Credit Parties.

Other Connection Taxes ” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).

 

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Other Taxes ” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 5.04 or Section 5.05 ).

Parent Guarantor ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

Participant ” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.04(c) .

Participant Register ” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.04(c) .

PBGC ” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and any Person succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.

Permitted Acquisition Debt ” means Debt (including Disqualified Capital Stock) of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent such Debt was Debt:

(a) of an acquired Person prior to the date on which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary that was not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition; or

(b) of a Person that was merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary that was not incurred in contemplation of such merger, consolidation or amalgamation;

provided that on the date such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or the date such Person was merged, consolidated and amalgamated with or into the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, after giving pro forma effect thereto,

(1) the Borrower would be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test described in Section 9.02 of the Borrower would have been at least 2.0 to 1.0; or

(2) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for of the Borrower would be greater than the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for of the Borrower immediately prior to such transaction.

Permitted Business ” means any business that is the same as, or reasonably related, ancillary or complementary to, any of the businesses in which the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries are engaged on the Effective Date, and reasonable extensions thereof, in each case, as determined in good faith by the Borrower.

Permitted Investments ” means:

(a) any Investment in Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(b) any Investment in cash and Cash Equivalents;

(c) any Investment by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in a Person, if as a result of such Investment:

(i) such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary; or

 

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(ii) such Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(d) any Investment made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from a Transfer permitted under Section 9.11 ;

(e) any Investment to the extent made in exchange for the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) of the Parent Guarantor;

(f) any Investments received (i) in compromise or resolution of, upon satisfaction of judgments with respect to, (A) obligations of trade creditors or customers that were Incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, including pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of any trade creditor or customer, or (B) litigation, arbitration or other disputes; or (ii) as a result of a foreclosure by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to any secured Investment in default;

(g) any Debt or Guaranty of Debt of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary permitted to be incurred by Section 9.02 ;

(h) any Investment existing on, or made pursuant to binding commitments existing on, the Effective Date, and any modifications, renewals or extensions that do not increase the amount of the Investment being modified, renewed or extended (as determined as of such date of modification, renewal or extension) unless the incremental increase in such Investment is otherwise permitted under this Agreement;

(i) Investments acquired after the Effective Date as a result of the acquisition by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of another Person, including by way of a merger, amalgamation or consolidation with or into the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in a transaction that is not prohibited by Section 9.10 after the Effective Date, to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation;

(j) Guaranties by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of operating leases (other than Capitalized Lease Obligations) or of other obligations that do not constitute Debt, in each case entered into by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(k) Investments in any Person to the extent such Investments consist of prepaid expenses, negotiable instruments held for collection and lease, utility and workers’ compensation, performance and other similar deposits made in the ordinary course of business by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(l) Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries or any other Person in an aggregate amount (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (m) that are at the time outstanding not to exceed $100,000,000; [reserved];

 

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(m) loans or advances to employees, officers or directors in the ordinary course of business of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case only as permitted by applicable law, but in any event not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding;

(n) Investments in Industry Investments in an aggregate amount (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (n) that are at the time outstanding not to exceed $50,000,000; and

(o) other Investments (other than Investments in Subordinated Debt of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries) that do not exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate at any time.

In determining whether an Investment is a Permitted Investment, the Parent Guarantor may allocate all or any portion of any Investment and later reallocate all or any portion of any Investment to one or more of the above clauses (a) through (o) and any of the provisions of Section 9.04 .

Permitted Investor ” means any Person that, on the Closing Date, after giving effect to the Plan of Reorganization, is the beneficial owner, together with any of its Affiliates (but excluding any operating portfolio companies of the foregoing Persons), of Equity Interests representing 10% or more of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower at such time.

“Permitted Junior Exchange Debt” means Debt of the Borrower or any Guarantor that is incurred in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used solely to repay, the applicable Exchanged Notes in connection with any Permitted Notes Exchange and that is secured by a second or more junior priority Lien on the Collateral; provided, that (a) the Liens securing such Debt are subject to the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreements, (b) no such Debt may have a maturity date that is earlier than 91 days after the Maturity Date, ( c) such Debt is issued at market terms, as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in good faith and (d) such Debt may not be mandatorily prepaid prior to the repayment of the Loans (other than customary offers to purchase upon a change of control, asset sale or casualty or condemnation event and customary acceleration rights after an event of default, which such payments shall be subject to Section 9.04 herein); provided, further, that the terms and documentation of such Debt shall be (i) reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (it being agreed and understood that the Second Lien Indenture and any terms and documentation substantially consistent with the Second Lien Indenture are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) or (ii) either (x) not materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, to the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, than the Loan Documents (or if materially more restrictive, the Lenders receive the benefit of the more restrictive terms which , for the avoidance of doubt, may be provided to the Lenders without consent) or (y) if materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, then such more restrictive terms are only applicable after the Maturity Date, in each case, as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in good faith.

Permitted Lien ” means any Lien permitted under Section 9.03 .

“Permitted Notes Exchange” means the exchange by the Borrower of any series of Existing Senior Notes for, or the repayment by the Borrower of any series of Existing Senior Notes solely with the net proceeds of, Permitted Junior Exchange Debt (in the case of a repayment, which proceeds are used solely for that purpose), in each case, on the applicable Exchange Date (such Existing Senior Notes, the “Exchanged Notes”).

 

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“Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean an intercreditor agreement with respect to any Liens on Collateral that are intended to be secured on a pari passu basis with the Liens securing the Loans which may be entered into after the date hereof; provided that such intercreditor agreement shall have been posted to Lenders on the Platform not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the date of execution thereof and the Majority Lenders shall not have objected thereto within such five (5) Business Day period.

Permitted Refinancing Debt ” shall mean Debt (“ New Debt ”) incurred in exchange for, or proceeds of which are used to refinance, other Debt (“ Old Debt ”); provided , however , that:

(a) such New Debt is in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of the sum of:

(i) the aggregate principal amount then outstanding of the Old Debt (or, if such Old Debt provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration thereof, such lesser amount as of the date of determination), and

(ii) an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums, related to such exchange or refinancing;

(b) such New Debt has a stated maturity no earlier than the stated maturity of the Old Debt;

(c) such New Debt has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity at the time such New Debt is incurred that is equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Old Debt at such time;

(d) such New Debt is pari passu , with or subordinated to, in right of payment to the Obligations to at least the same extent, if any, as the Old Debt;

(e) to the extent such New Debt is permitted to be secured and such Old Debt was secured at the time of incurrence of such New Debt, the Liens securing such New Debt have a Lien priority equal or junior to the Liens securing the Old Debt; and

(e) such New Debt shall not (i) be secured by a Lien on or otherwise have recourse to any assets that did not secure the Debt being refinanced unless (A) such New Debt is incurred pursuant to Section 9.02(l) and is subject to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement or Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable and the Borrower has granted, or concurrently therewith grants, a Lien on such asset to secure the Obligations or (B) such New Debt is incurred pursuant to Section 9.02(h) and the Borrower has granted, or concurrently therewith grants, a Lien on such asset to secure the Obligations, (ii) be secured by a Lien unless the Debt being refinanced is secured and such new Lien is pari passu with or junior in priority to the Lien securing the Debt being refinanced and subject to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement or Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable, (iii) be guaranteed by or otherwise have recourse to any obligors not obligated on the Debt being refinanced or (iv) otherwise have a payment priority senior in any way to the Debt being refinanced;

(f) if such Old Debt is the Revolving Obligations or debt that has refinanced the Revolving Obligations (collectively “ Revolver Debt ”; the documentation evidencing such debt, the “ Revolver Debt Documents ”) , the New Debt is incurred pursuant to substantially the same terms and conditions as those existing under the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement on the date hereof. ; and

 

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(g) if the Old Debt is Permitted Junior Exchange Debt or Permitted Refinancing Debt in respect thereof, the terms and conditions of such Permitted Refinancing Debt meet the requirements of clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) of the definition of “Permitted Junior Exchange Debt”.

“Permitted Second Lien Debt” means Permitted Junior Exchange Debt that is governed by the Second Lien Indenture and that is secured by Liens that are junior and subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations pursuant to the Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

“Permitted Third Lien Debt” means Permitted Junior Exchange Debt that is secured by Liens that are junior and subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations and the Liens securing Permitted Second Lien Debt pursuant to the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

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

“PIK Interest” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.02(f).

“PIK Notice” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.02(f).

“PIK Rate” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.02(f).

Plan ” means any employee pension benefit plan, as defined in section 3(2) of ERISA (other than a multiemployer plan as defined in section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA), that is subject to Title IV of ERISA or section 412 of the Code and that is sponsored, maintained or contributed to by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Subsidiary with respect to which any of them has or could reasonably expect to have any liability, including on account of an ERISA Affiliate.

Plan Effective Date ” means the “Effective Date” as defined in the Plan of Reorganization.

Plan of Reorganization ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

Platform ” has the meaning assigned such term in Section 8.01 .

Prime Rate ” means the rate of interest last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the U.S. or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Administrative Agent).

Property ” means any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

Proved Reserves ” means “Proved Reserves” as defined in the Definitions for Oil and Gas Reserves (as used in this paragraph, the “Definitions”) promulgated by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (or any generally recognized successor) as in effect at the time in question. “Proved Developed Producing Reserves” means Proved Reserves which are categorized as both “Developed” and “Producing” in the Definitions, “Proved Developed Nonproducing Reserves” means Proved Reserves which are categorized as both “Developed” and “Nonproducing” in the Definitions, and “Proved Undeveloped Reserves” means Proved Reserves which are categorized as “Undeveloped” in the Definitions.

 

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Public Lender ” has the meaning assigned such term in Section 8.01 .

Purchase Money Indebtedness ” means Debt, the proceeds of which are used to finance the acquisition, construction, or improvement of inventory, equipment or other Property in the ordinary course of business.

PV-9 ” means, with respect to any Proved Reserves expected to be produced from any Borrowing Base Properties (or in connection with any proposed acquisition, Oil and Gas Properties that will be acquired by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary), the net present value, discounted at 9%  per annum , of the future net revenues expected to accrue to the Borrower’s and the Credit Parties’ collective interests in such reserves during the remaining expected economic lives of such reserves, calculated (a) during a Term Loan Exclusive Period, in accordance with NYMEX Pricing and (b) at any other time, in accordance with the Bank Price Deck, in each case, without giving effect to non-property related expenses such as general and administrative expenses, debt service, future income tax expenses and depreciation, depletion and amortization.

Qualified ECP Counterparty ” means, in respect of any CFTC Hedging Obligation, the Borrower and each Guarantor to the extent that such Person (a) has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time any guaranty of obligations under such CFTC Hedging Obligation or any grant of a security interest to secure such CFTC Hedging Obligation becomes effective or (b) otherwise constitutes an “eligible contract participant” with respect to such Swap Agreement under the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another Person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Qualifying Equity Interests ” means Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than Disqualified Capital Stock.

RBL Asset Coverage Ratio ” means, as of any date, the ratio of (i) the PV-9 of the Credit Parties’ Oil and Gas Properties reflected in the most recently delivered Reserve Report to (ii) Consolidated Net Debt as of such date; provided that for purposes of calculating the RBL Asset Coverage Ratio, the PV-9 attributable to non-producing Proved Reserves shall not exceed 35% of the aggregate PV-9.

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

Redemption ” means with respect to any Debt, the repurchase, redemption, prepayment, repayment, defeasance or any other acquisition or retirement for value (or the segregation of funds with respect to any of the foregoing) of such Debt. “Redeem” has the correlative meaning thereto.

Redetermination Date ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof.

“Redomestication Transaction” means a bona fide redomestication of the Parent Guarantor from a corporation incorporated under the Yukon Business Corporations Act to a corporation organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State of the United States or the District of Columbia; provided that such redomestication does not adversely affect the Collateral and would not be reasonably expected to have material adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to a significant portion of the Lenders.

Register ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 12.04(b)(iv) .

 

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Regulation D ” means Regulation D of the Board, as the same may be amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time.

Related Parties ” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors (including attorneys, accountants and experts) of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.

Release ” means any depositing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, placing, emitting, discarding, abandoning, emptying, discharging, migrating, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing.

Remedial Work ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.10(a) .

Required Ratings ” means the Borrower’s Credit Rating is (a) Baa3 with a stable or better outlook, or higher, from Moody’s, (b) BBB- with a stable or better outlook, or higher, from S&P or (c) BBB- with a stable or better outlook, or higher from Fitch.

Reserve Report ” means the Initial Reserve Report and each subsequent report, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to (a) the Administrative Agent during a Term Loan Exclusive Period and (b) at any other time, the administrative agent(s) under the Revolver Debt Documents in place at such time, setting forth, as of each of the following dates:

July 1, 2017 and each July 1 thereafter

January 1, 2018 and each January 1 thereafter

(or such other date in the event of an Interim Redetermination), the oil and gas reserves attributable to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties, together with a projection of the rate of production and future net income, taxes, operating expenses and capital expenditures with respect thereto as of such date, based upon the pricing assumptions consistent with (a) during a Term Loan Exclusive Period, the Administrative Agent’s lending requirements at the time and (b) at any other time, the administrative agent under the Revolver Debt Documents in place at such time.

Responsible Officer ” means, as to any Person, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Financial Officer or any Vice President of such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references to a Responsible Officer herein mean a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.

Restricted Investment ” means any Investment other than a Permitted Investment.

Restricted Payment ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 9.04(a)(iv) .

Restricted Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary .

Revolver Debt Documents ” has the meaning assigned to such term in clause (f) of the definition of “Permitted Refinancing Debt”

“Revolver Debt Documents” means (a) the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement or (b) any amendment, restatement, supplement, modification, replacement or refinancing (or successive amendments, restatements, supplements, modifications, replacements or refinancings) of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement after the Initial Exchange Date (this clause (b), an “Other Revolving Credit Agreement”); provided that:

 

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(i) (I) the interest rate or yield, including increasing the “applicable margin” or similar component of the interest rate (including to provide for additional compounded or interest paid-in-kind), through original issue discount or by modifying the method of computing interest, and/or (II) letter of credit, commitment, facility, utilization, makewhole or similar fees (but excluding any customary consent, amendment, arrangement or similar fees) shall not be increased by an amount that exceeds the combined interest rate and fees in the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement by more than 2.50% per annum, in each instance in the aggregate at any level of pricing, but excluding increases from (A) increases in an underlying reference rate not caused by an amendment, restatement, supplement, modification, replacement or refinancing of the Revolving Credit Agreement, (B) accrual of interest at the “default rate” as defined in the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement or, for a refinancing, a rate that corresponds to the default rate, or (C) application of a pricing grid set forth in the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement;

(ii) no Person shall be a borrower, guarantor or otherwise be obligated under the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement or an Other Revolving Credit Agreement unless such Person is a Credit Party;

(iii) the obligations under the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement and each Other Revolving Credit Agreement shall not be secured by Liens on any assets that are not Collateral (other than in respect of cash collateral securing letter of credit obligations);

(iv) the mandatory prepayment provisions in the Other Revolving Credit Agreement shall not result in any of the provisions in Section 3.04 of this Agreement to operate in a manner that would be materially less favorable to the Lenders as compared to the operation of the provisions of Section 3.04 of this Agreement immediately prior to the effectiveness of such Other Revolving Credit Agreement; and

(v) to the extent the administrative agent and/or collateral agent (or, in each case, any similar agent) under the Revolving Credit Agreement requests the Administrative Agent to enter into a Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, such Permitted Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement shall have been posted to the Lenders on the Platform not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the date of execution thereof and the Majority Lenders shall not have objected thereto within such five (5) Business Days period.

Revolving Administrative Agent ” means the administrative agent under the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Revolving Credit Agreement ” means that certain Credit Agreement , dated as of the date hereof April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Revolving Administrative Agent, and the Revolving Lenders, as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, replaced or refinanced from time to time. and any Other Revolving Credit Agreement; provided that the commitments and amounts outstanding thereunder, along with any increase in borrowings, shall not exceed the amount of borrowings that are permitted under Section 9.02(h); provided further that (a) the Borrower shall not consent to any assignment of a lender’s rights and obligations under the Revolving Credit Agreement to a lender that is not an Approved RBL Lender, (b) in any event the lenders holding at least 75% of the aggregate principal amount of the loans under the Revolving Credit Agreement shall at all times be Approved RBL Lenders and (c) at all times the Revolving Credit Agreement shall be a single credit facility consisting of one tranche of loans and commitments (it being understood and agreed that the entry by any Credit Party into an intercreditor agreement, agreement among lenders or any similar agreement that results in actual or synthetic tranches of loans and/or commitments in respect thereof or relating thereto shall constitute non-compliance with this clause (c)).

 

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Revolving Credit Exposure ” means, with respect to any Revolving Lender at any time, the outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure at such time.

Revolving Lenders ” means the lenders party to the Revolving Credit Agreement from time to time.

Revolving Loans ” means the loans made by the Revolving Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Revolving Loan Documents ” means “Loan Documents” as defined under the Revolving Credit Agreement

Revolving Obligations ” means the Revolving Loans and all other “Obligations” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Rolling Period ” means for the end of any fiscal quarter, the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter.

S&P ” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto that is a nationally recognized rating agency.

Sanction ” means any economic or financial sanction or trade embargo imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by the U.S. government, including those administered by OFAC, the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State.

Sanctioned Country ” means, at any time, a country, territory or region which is itself, or whose government is, the subject or target of any Sanctions (including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).

Sanctioned Person ” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by OFAC, the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b).

SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor Governmental Authority.

“Second Lien Indenture” means the indenture governing the terms of the Permitted Second Lien Debt to be issued on the Initial Exchange Date in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit J.

“Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit H or such other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided that any such other form shall have been posted to Lenders on the Platform not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the date of execution thereof and the Majority Lenders shall not have objected thereto within such five (5) Business Day period.

Secured Parties ” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, and the Collateral Agent and “ Secured Party ” means any of them individually.

Securities Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

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Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Security Instruments ” means the mortgages, deeds of trust, pledge agreements, security agreements, control agreements and other agreements, instruments, supplements or certificates described or referred to in Exhibit E , and any and all other agreements, instruments, supplements, consents or certificates (including the Collateral Agency Agreement and the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement) now or hereafter executed and delivered by the Borrower, any other Credit Party, or any other Person (other than Secured Swap Agreements or participation or similar agreements between any Lender and any other lender or creditor with respect to any Obligations pursuant to this Agreement) in order to guarantee or provide collateral security for the payment or performance of the Obligations, the Notes, or this Agreement, as such agreements may be amended, modified, supplemented or restated from time to time.

Senior Notes ” means (a) the Existing Senior Notes and (b) unsecured notes or bonds from time to time issued pursuant to one or more public or private capital markets financings (in each case, as modified, renewed, refunded, replaced in any manner or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time in compliance with this Agreement); provided that (i) such notes or bonds do not provide for any amortization of principal or any scheduled or mandatory prepayments, redemptions, repayments, or defeasance of principal on any date prior to 91 days after the Maturity Date (other than provisions requiring offers to repurchase in connection with asset sales or any change of control), (ii) such notes or bonds have a scheduled maturity date that is no earlier than 91 days after the Maturity Date, ( iii)  the financial ratio covenants, negative covenants and events of default pertaining to such notes or bonds are not materially more onerous, taken as a whole , than the financial ratio covenants, negative covenants and Events of Default contained in this Agreement and (iv) both immediately before and immediately after giving effect to the incurrence of any principal Debt under such notes or bonds, no Event of Default or Borrowing Base Deficiency exists or would exist after giving effect to any concurrent repayment of other Debt with the proceeds of such incurrence.

Senior Notes Debt ” means unsecured Debt in respect of Senior Notes, including the principal amounts owing thereunder and any associated obligations to pay interest, premiums, indemnifications, expenses, costs or other amounts.

Senior Notes Documents ” means each indenture or agreement providing for Senior Notes Debt, the Senior Notes, all guaranties of Senior Notes , and any other instruments or agreements made or delivered by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Senior Notes Debt in each case, as amended, restated, modified, supplemented, renewed or replaced in any manner (whether upon or after termination or otherwise) from time to time.

Specified Commodity Sale Contract ” means any contract for the sale of Hydrocarbons for a price to be calculated at the time of delivery based on the market or index price for a location other than the delivery point (as defined in such sale contract) of the Hydrocarbons sold pursuant to such sale contract (together with any related asset management agreement for the release of transportation capacity between such locations), which sale transaction is intended to be settled by physical delivery of such Hydrocarbons by the Borrower or any other Credit Party to a Person that is, on the date such contract is entered into, a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, in each case even if such Person subsequently ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender for any reason.

Statutory Reserve Rate ” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject with respect to the Adjusted

 

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Eurodollar Rate, for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurodollar Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.

Subordinated Debt ” means (1) with respect to the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, any Debt of such Person which is by its terms, unsecured, or secured by a Lien that is junior to the Lien securing the Obligations or subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations and (2) with respect to any Guarantor, any Debt of such Guarantor which is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to the guaranty of such Guarantor under the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement.

subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person (the “ parent ”) at any date, (a) any other Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, or (b) any other Person of which Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power (irrespective of whether or not at the time Equity Interests of any other class or classes of such Person shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) are, as of such date, owned, Controlled or held by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent.

Subsidiary ” means, unless stated otherwise, any subsidiary of the Borrower.

Subsidiary Guarantor ” means any subsidiary of the Borrower that is a Guarantor.

Swap Agreement ” means (a) any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement, whether exchange traded, “over-the-counter” or otherwise, involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that (i) no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or the other Credit Parties shall be a Swap Agreement and (ii) no sale of a commodity for deferred shipment or delivery that is intended to be physically settled (other than a forward sale contract to the extent that it provides, at the time such contract (or a specified portion of such contract or a specified transaction under such contract) is entered into, for all in fixed prices; provided , that, the Borrower’s or any other Credit Party’s election for “first of month” pricing or other one month pricing pursuant to a forward sale contract for deliveries of Hydrocarbons for the immediately following calendar month shall be deemed not to be a contract for an all in fixed price for purposes of this definition) shall be a Swap Agreement pursuant to this clause (a), and (b) any Secured Lender Physical Contract. If multiple transactions are entered into under a master agreement, each transaction is a separate Swap Agreement.

Swap PV ” means, with respect to any Swap Agreement in respect of commodities, the net present value, discounted at 9%  per annum , of the future receipts expected to be paid to the Borrower or the other Credit Parties under such Swap Agreement, calculated in accordance with the Bank Price Deck; provided that the “Swap PV” shall never be less than $0.00.

 

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Swap Termination Value ” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Agreements, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Agreements, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap 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 Swap Agreements, as determined by the counterparties to such Swap Agreements (including, without duplication, any unpaid amounts due on the date of calculation).

Synthetic Leases ” means, in respect of any Person, all leases which shall have been, or should have been, in accordance with GAAP, treated as operating leases on the financial statements of the Person liable (whether contingently or otherwise) for the payment of rent thereunder and which were properly treated as indebtedness for borrowed money for purposes of U.S. federal income taxes, if the lessee in respect thereof is obligated to either purchase for an amount in excess of, or pay upon early termination an amount in excess of, 80% of the residual value of the Property subject to such operating lease upon expiration or early termination of such lease.

Taxes ” means any and 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 Exclusive Period ” means a period during which the events described by the term “Termination Date” or similar term in any Revolver Debt Document have occurred.

“Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means the Third Lien Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit I or such other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided that any such other form shall have been posted to Lenders on the Platform not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the date of execution thereof and the Majority Lenders shall not have objected thereto within such five (5) Business Day period.

Threshold Amount ” means the greater of (a) the lesser of (i) five percent (5%) of (x) during any Borrowing Base Period, the then effective Borrowing Base or (y) during any Investment Grade Period or any Term Loan Exclusive Period, ACNTA and (ii) $65,000,000 and (b) $50,000,000.

Total Commitment ” means the sum of the Commitments of the Lenders.

Transactions ” means, (a) with respect to the Borrower, the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement, each other Loan Document to which it is a party, each Revolving Loan Document to which it is a party and each Existing Senior Notes Document to which it is a party, the borrowing of Revolving Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit under the Revolving Credit Agreement, the borrowing of Loans hereunder and the issuance of the Existing Senior Notes and the grant of Liens by the Borrower on Mortgaged Properties and other Collateral pursuant to the Security Instruments and (b) with respect to each Guarantor, the execution, delivery and performance by such Guarantor of each Loan Document, Revolving Loan Document and Existing Senior Notes Document to which it is a party, the guaranteeing of the Obligations by such Guarantor, the guaranteeing of the obligations under the Revolving Loan Documents and the Existing Senior Notes Documents and the grant by such Guarantor of Liens on Mortgaged Properties and other Collateral pursuant to the Security Instruments.

Transfer ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.11 .

Type ”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate or the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate.

 

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Ultra Petroleum ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

“Undrawn Amount” means, at any time, with respect to any letter of credit issued under the Revolving Credit Agreement, the maximum amount that may be drawn under such letter of credit after giving effect to (a) all provisions in such letter of credit providing for future automatic increases in the amount that may be drawn under such letter of credit (regardless of whether such automatic increases have then occurred at such time) and (b) any amounts previously drawn under such letter of credit,

Uniform Commercial Code ” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time, of the State of New York or of any other state the laws of which are required as a result thereof to be applied in connection with the attachment, perfection or priority of, or remedies with respect to, Administrative Agent’s or any Secured Party’s Lien on any Collateral.

Unproven Acreage ” means, at any time, all Oil and Gas Properties that had no Proved Reserves attributed thereto in the then most recent Reserve Report (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Oil and Gas Properties not evaluated in the most recent Reserve Report).

Unrestricted Parent Entity ” means any subsidiary of Parent Guarantor other than the Borrower.

Unrestricted Subsidiary ” means (a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower designated as such on Schedule 7.14 , (b) which the Borrower has designated in writing to the Administrative Agent to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 9.15 or (c) any subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

UP Energy ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble hereto.

U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.03(g)(iii) .

Volumetric Production Payments ” means production payment obligations recorded as deferred revenue in accordance with GAAP, together with all undertakings and obligations in connection therewith.

Weighted Average Life to Maturity ” means, when applied to any Debt at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing :

(a) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect of the Debt, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by

(b) the then outstanding principal amount of such Debt.

Wholly-Owned Subsidiary ” means (a) any Restricted Subsidiary of which all of the outstanding Equity Interests (other than any directors’ qualifying shares or shares that are required by the applicable laws and regulations of the jurisdiction of organization of such Subsidiary to be owned by the government of such jurisdiction or individual corporate citizens of such jurisdiction), on a fully-diluted basis, are owned by the Parent Guarantor and/ or one or more of the Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries or (b) any Restricted Subsidiary that is organized in a jurisdiction and is required by the applicable laws and regulations of such jurisdiction to be partially owned by the government of such jurisdiction or individual or corporate citizens of such jurisdiction, provided that the Parent Guarantor, directly or indirectly, owns the remaining Equity Interests in such Subsidiary and, by contract or otherwise, controls the management and business of such Subsidiary and derives economic benefits of ownership of such Subsidiary to substantially the same extent as if such Subsidiary were a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary.

 

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Withholding Agent ” means the Borrower, any Guarantor or the Administrative Agent.

Write-Down and Conversion Powers ” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

Section 1.03 Types of Loans and Borrowings . For purposes of this Agreement, Loans and Borrowings, respectively, may be classified and referred to by Type ( e.g. , a “Eurodollar Loan” or a “Eurodollar Borrowing”).

Section 1.04 Terms Generally; Rules of Construction . 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” as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “or” is not exclusive. The word “shall” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “will”. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth in the Loan Documents), (b) any reference herein to any law shall be construed as referring to such law as amended, modified, codified or reenacted, in whole or in part, and in effect from time to time, (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to the restrictions contained in the Loan Documents), (d) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (e) with respect to the determination of any time period, the word “from” means “from and including” and the word “to” means “to and including”, (f) any reference herein to Articles, Sections, Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (g) with respect to the requirement to deliver any certificate, an executed paper copy of such certificate shall accompany any other form of delivery permitted hereunder. No provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be interpreted or construed against any Person solely because such Person or its legal representative drafted such provision. To the extent the terms “Unrestricted Subsidiary” or “Unrestricted Subsidiaries” are used in any Loan Document, the parties hereto agree that there are no Unrestricted Subsidiaries for such purposes and such provisions shall have no effect solely to the extent relating to any such “Unrestricted Subsidiary” or “Unrestricted Subsidiaries.”

Section 1.05 Accounting Terms and Determinations; GAAP . Unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted, all determinations with respect to accounting matters hereunder shall be made, and all financial statements and certificates and reports as to financial matters required to be furnished to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder shall be prepared, in accordance with GAAP, applied on a basis consistent with the financial statements referred to in Section 7.04(a) except for changes in which the Borrower’s independent certified public accountants concur and which are disclosed to the Administrative Agent as part of, or along with, the audited annual financial statements delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.01(a) ; provided that, unless the Borrower and the Majority Lenders shall otherwise agree in writing, no such change shall modify or affect the manner in which compliance with the covenants set forth in Article IX is computed such that all such computations shall be conducted utilizing financial information presented consistently with prior periods.

 

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ARTICLE II

THE CREDITS

Section 2.01 Commitments . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make Loans to the Borrower on the Effective Date in an aggregate principal amount equal to such Lender’s Commitment. Loans may be repaid, in whole or in part, subject to the terms and conditions hereof. Loans are not revolving and amounts borrowed and repaid may not be thereafter reborrowed. Funding of any Loans shall be in dollars.

Section 2.02 Loans and Borrowings .

(a) Borrowings; Several Obligations . Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.

(b) Types of Loans . Subject to Section 3.03 , each Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(c) Minimum Amounts; Limitation on Number of Borrowings . Each Borrowing of ABR Loans shall be in an amount of not less than $1,000,000 and each Borrowing of Eurodollar Loans shall be in an amount of not less than $2,000,000 and in an integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time, provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of ten Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.

(d) Notes . Upon request of a Lender, the Loans made by such Lender shall be evidenced by a single promissory note of the Borrower in substantially the form of Exhibit A , and (i) in the case of any Lender party hereto as of the date of this Agreement, such Note shall be dated as of the date of this Agreement , or (ii) in the case of any Lender that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, such Note shall be dated as of the effective date of the Assignment and Assumption, or (iii) in the case of any Lender that becomes a party hereto in connection with an increase in the Total Commitment pursuant to Section 2.06(c) , as of the effective date of such increase , in each case, payable to such Lender in a principal amount equal to its Commitment as in effect on such date, and otherwise duly completed. In the event that any Lender’s Commitment increases or decreases for any reason (whether pursuant to Section 2.06, Section 12.04(b) or otherwise), the Borrower shall, upon request of such Lender, deliver or cause to be delivered on the effective date of such increase or decrease, a new Note payable to such Lender in a principal amount equal to its Commitment after giving effect to such increase or decrease, and otherwise duly completed, against return to the Borrower of the Note so replaced. The date, amount, Type, interest rate and, if applicable, Interest Period of each Loan made by each Lender, and all payments made on account of the principal thereof, shall be recorded by such Lender on its books for its Note, and, prior to any transfer, may be endorsed by such Lender on a schedule attached to such Note or any continuation thereof or on any separate record maintained by such Lender. Failure to make any such notation or to attach a schedule shall not affect any Lender’s or the Borrower’s rights or obligations in respect of such Loans or affect the validity of such transfer by any Lender of its Note.

 

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Section 2.03 Requests for Borrowings . To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request in writing in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or, in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, one Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such written Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit B and signed by the Borrower. Each such written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02 :

(a) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing;

(b) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;

(c) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;

(d) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”;

(e) the amount of the then effective Borrowing Base, the amount of the then effective Total Commitment, the current total Revolving Credit Exposures (without regard to any requested “Borrowing” under the Revolving Credit Agreement) and the pro forma total Revolving Credit Exposures (after giving effect to any concurrent “Borrowing” under the Revolving Credit Agreement); and

(f) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.05 .

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section 2.03 , the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.

Section 2.04 Interest Elections .

(a) Conversion and Continuance . Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section 2.04 . The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.

(b) Interest Election Requests . To make an election pursuant to this Section 2.04 , the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election in writing by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such written Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit C and signed by the Borrower.

 

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(c) Information in Interest Election Requests . Each written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02 :

(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(iii) and (iv)  shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);

(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;

(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and

(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.

If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

(d) Notice to Lenders by the Administrative Agent . Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

(e) Effect of Failure to Deliver Timely Interest Election Request and Events of Default on Interest Election . If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing: no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing (and any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective) and unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

Section 2.05 Funding of Borrowings .

(a) Funding by Lenders . Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with a Lender and designated by the Borrower in the Borrowing Request on the Effective Date. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for its 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 its Loan in any particular place or manner.

 

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(b) Presumption of Funding by the Lenders . Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the Effective Date that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing on the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.05(a) 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 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 in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or, in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Loans. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s 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.

Section 2.06 Increase of Commitments .

(a) Subject to the conditions set forth in Section 2.06(b) , the Borrower may increase the Total Commitment then in effect by increasing the Commitment of a Lender or by causing a Person that is acceptable to the Administrative Agent that at such time is not a Lender to become a Lender (any such Person that is not at such time a Lender and becomes a Lender, an “ Additional Lender ”).

(b) Any increase in the Total Commitment shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

(i) such increase shall not be less than $25,000,000 unless the Administrative Agent otherwise consents;

(ii) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the effective date of such increase or would result therefrom;

(iii) no Lender’s Commitment may be increased without the consent of such Lender;

(iv) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Guarantors set forth in this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such increase, except (x) to the extent any such representations and warranties are expressly limited to an earlier date, in which case, on and as of the date of such increase, such representations and warranties shall continue to be true and correct as of such specified earlier date, and (y) to the extent that any such representation and warranty is expressly qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect, such representation and warranty (as so qualified) shall continue to be true and correct in all respects;

(v) the maturity date of such increase shall be no earlier than the Maturity Date;

(vi) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such increase shall be no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the existing Loans;

 

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(vii) subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.06(b)(v) and 2.06(b)(vi) , the amortization schedule for such increase shall be determined by the Borrower and Lenders and Additional Lenders participating in such increase;

(viii) except as otherwise required or permitted by this Section 2.06(b)(viii) , the increase shall be on the exact same terms and pursuant to the exact same documentation applicable to this Agreement (other than with respect to any arrangement, structuring, upfront or other fees or discounts payable in connection with such increase); provided , that, (x) subject to the following clause (y), the All-in Yield of such increase may exceed the All-in Yield applicable at such time under this Agreement by no greater than fifty (50) basis points and (y) in the event the All-in Yield of such increase exceeds the All-in Yield applicable at such time under this Agreement by greater than fifty (50) basis points, the All-in Yield applicable at such time under this Agreement shall be increased in an amount equal to such excess;

(ix) the Borrower is in pro forma compliance with the Financial Covenants (calculated in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) whether or not a Term Loan Exclusive Period is in effect at such time and (x) during a Borrowing Base Period, no Borrowing Base Deficiency shall exist after giving effect to the increase ( provided that , for the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower may elect to redetermine the Borrowing Base in accordance with Section 2.07(b)(iii) of the Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof for purposes of satisfying the condition set forth in this Section 2.06(b)(ix) ) and (y) during an Investment Grade Period or during any Term Loan Exclusive Period, the Asset Coverage Ratio shall not be less than 2.0 to 1.0 after giving pro forma effect to the increase;

(x) if the Borrower elects to increase the Total Commitment by increasing the Commitment of a Lender, the Borrower and such Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit H (a “ Commitment Increase Certificate ”); and

(xi) if the Borrower elects to increase the Total Commitment by causing an Additional Lender to become a party to this Agreement, then the Borrower and such Additional Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I (an “ Additional Lender Certificate ”), together with an Administrative Questionnaire and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 ( provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in connection with any such increase), and the Borrower shall (1) if requested by the Additional Lender, deliver a Note payable to such Additional Lender in a principal amount equal to its Commitment, and otherwise duly completed and (2) pay any applicable fees as may have been agreed to between the Borrower and the Additional Lender, and, to the extent applicable and agreed to by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent.

(c) the Borrower may seek Commitments, in its sole discretion, from either existing Lenders or, with the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), from additional banks, financial institutions or other institutional lenders or investors who will become Lenders hereunder;

(d) subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to Section 2.06(e) , from and after the effective date specified in the Commitment Increase Certificate or the Additional Lender Certificate (or if any Eurodollar Borrowings are outstanding, then the last day of the Interest Period in respect of such Eurodollar Borrowings, unless the Borrower has paid any compensation required by Section 5.02 ): (A) the amount of the Total Commitment shall be increased as set forth therein, and (B) in the case of an Additional Lender Certificate, any Additional Lender party thereto shall be a party to this Agreement and have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

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(e) upon its receipt of a duly completed Commitment Increase Certificate or an Additional Lender Certificate, executed by the Borrower and the Lender or by the Borrower and the Additional Lender party thereto, as applicable, the Administrative Questionnaire referred to in Section 2.06(b)(xi) and the break-funding payments from the Borrower, if any, required by Section 5.02 , if applicable, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Commitment Increase Certificate or Additional Lender Certificate and record the information contained therein in the Register required to be maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 12.04(b)(iv) . No increase in the Total Commitment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this Section 2.06(e) .

(f) upon any increase in the Total Commitment pursuant to this Section 2.06 , (A) each Lender’s Commitment shall be automatically deemed amended to the extent necessary so that each such Lender’s Applicable Percentage equals the percentage of the Total Commitment represented by such Lender’s Commitment, in each case after giving effect to such increase, and (B)  Annex I to this Agreement shall be deemed amended to reflect the Commitment of each Lender (including any Additional Lender) as thereby increased, any changes in the Lenders’ Commitments pursuant to the foregoing clause (A), and any resulting changes in the Lenders’ Applicable Percentages.

ARTICLE III .

PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST; PREPAYMENTS; FEES

Section 3.01 Repayment of Loans . The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, in equal quarterly installments, which shall be due and payable on last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing June 30, 2019, an amount of 0.25% of aggregate principal amount of the Loans outstanding on the Effective Date (as adjusted from time to time pursuant to Section 3.04 ), with the outstanding principal balance of the Loans due and payable on the Maturity Date. All repayments pursuant to this Section 3.01 shall be subject to Section 5.02 , but shall otherwise be without premium or penalty.

Section 3.02 Interest .

(a) ABR Loans . The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin for ABR Borrowings, but in no event to exceed the Highest Lawful Rate.

(b) Eurodollar Loans . The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Borrowings , but in no event to exceed the Highest Lawful Rate.

(c) Post-Default Rate . Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (i) an Event of Default specified in Section 10.01(a) , 10.01(b) , 10.01(h) or 10.01(i) has occurred and is continuing, or (ii) the Majority Lenders so elect (or direct the Administrative Agent to so elect) in connection with the occurrence and continuance of any other Event of Default, then in each case all Loans outstanding shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to two percent (2%)  plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loans (including the Applicable Margin applicable with respect to such Loans), but in no event to exceed the Highest Lawful Rate.

 

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(d) Interest Payment Dates . Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and on the Maturity Date; provided that interest accrued pursuant to Section 3.02(c) shall be payable on demand. In the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than an optional prepayment of an ABR Loan prior to the Maturity Date), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment, and in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.

(e) Interest Rate Computations . All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, unless such computation would exceed the Highest Lawful Rate, in which case interest shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate, Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or Eurodollar Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and be binding upon the parties hereto.

(f) PIK Interest. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Borrower may elect in writing to the Administrative Agent (the “PIK Notice”) no later than three (3) days prior to each Interest Payment Date to pay in-kind up to 0.25% per annum (the “PIK Rate”) of the interest required to be paid pursuant to Section 3.02(a) and Section 3.02(b), as applicable, which such amount shall be paid by increasing the outstanding principal amount of such Loan on each Interest Payment Date so elected and shall be capitalized and treated as principal of such Loan for all purposes hereunder (including for purposes of calculating interest pursuant to Section 3.02(a), Section 3.02(b), Section 3.02(c) and 3.02(e)) (the “PIK Interest”). Any PIK Interest capitalized on a Loan shall become a Loan of the same Type and with the same Interest Period as the Loan with respect to which such PIK Interest accrued. For the avoidance of doubt, all PIK Interest shall be due and payable in cash on the Maturity Date and, if the Borrower elects not to deliver a PIK Notice in respect of any Interest Payment Date, all such interest due and payable on such Interest Payment Date shall be paid in cash.

Section 3.03 Alternate Rate of Interest . If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:

(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period; or

(b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Majority Lenders that the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate or LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or facsimile as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective, and if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing.

 

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Section 3.04 Prepayments .

(a) Optional Prepayments . The Subject to any premiums provided in Section 3.04(e), the Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with Section 3.04(b) . Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, prior to the six-month anniversary of the Effective Date, the Borrower (i) prepays, refinances, substitutes or replaces all or any portion of the Loans with the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any debt financing having an applicable All-in Yield that is less than the effective All-in Yield of the Loans being repaid, refinanced, substituted or replaced or (ii) effects any amendment of this Agreement resulting in the Loans having an applicable All-in Yield that is less than the effective All-in Yield of the Loans immediately prior to such amendment, then each Lender shall be paid (1) in the case of clause (i), a prepayment premium equal to 1.0 % of the aggregate principal amount of such Loans so repaid, refinanced, substituted or replaced and (2) in the case of clause (ii), a fee equal to 1.0 % of the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Loans outstanding immediately prior to such amendment.

(b) Notice and Terms of Optional Prepayment . The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of any optional prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, or (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid. Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each such partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in Section 2.02 . Each such prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing and shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 3.02 .

(c) Mandatory Prepayments .

(i) If, after giving effect to any reduction of the total Revolving Credit Exposure pursuant to Section 3.04(c) of the Revolving Credit Agreement (or any similar provision under the Revolver Debt Documents) as a result of a Borrowing Base Deficiency, (A) the total Revolving Credit Exposure has been reduced to zero and (B) such Borrowing Base Deficiency still exists, the Borrower shall, within five (5) days of such reduction of the total Revolving Credit Exposure to zero, prepay the Borrowings in an aggregate principal amount equal to the amount necessary to eliminate such Borrowing Base Deficiency in its entirety.

(ii) If, at any time during (A) an Investment Grade Period or (B) a Term Loan Exclusive Period, the Asset Coverage Ratio is less than 2.0 to 1.0, the Borrower shall make six equal monthly payments that collectively prepay the Borrowings in an amount sufficient such that after giving pro forma effect to such prepayments, the Asset Coverage Ratio is equal to or greater than 2.0 to 1.0.

(iii) During a Term Loan Exclusive Period, subject to the reinvestment rights set forth in Section 9.11(d) and Section 9.11(e)(iv) , no later than three (3) days following the receipt by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of Net Cash Proceeds in respect of any Transfer, the Borrower shall apply 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds received with respect thereto to prepay outstanding Loans and pay any accrued and unpaid interest then due on the amount of such principal then prepaid.

 

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(iv) Each prepayment of Borrowings pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) shall be applied, first , ratably to any ABR Borrowings then outstanding, and, second , to any Eurodollar Borrowings then outstanding, and if more than one Eurodollar Borrowing is then outstanding, to each such Eurodollar Borrowing in order of priority beginning with the Eurodollar Borrowing with the least number of days remaining in the Interest Period applicable thereto and ending with the Eurodollar Borrowing with the most number of days remaining in the Interest Period applicable thereto.

(v) Each prepayment of Borrowings pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowings. Prepayments pursuant to this Section 3.04(c) shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 3.02 .

(d) No Premium or Penalty . All prepayments permitted or required under this Section 3.04 shall include breakage expense, if any, required under Section 5.02 and shall be without premium or penalty except as provided in Section 3.04(e) .

(e) Applicable Premium. Upon the occurrence of an Applicable Premium Trigger Event, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of Lenders, an amount equal to (the “Applicable Premium”) (1) if the Applicable Premium Trigger Event occurs at any time prior to the first anniversary of the Initial Exchange Date, 2 % of the aggregate principal amount of the Loans subject to such Applicable Premium Trigger Event, (2) if the Applicable Premium Trigger Event occurs at any time on or after the one year anniversary of the Initial Exchange Date but prior to the second year anniversary of the Initial Exchange Date, 1 % of the aggregate principal amount of the Loans subject to such Applicable Premium Trigger Event and (3) if the Applicable Premium Trigger Event occurs at any time on or after the second year anniversary of the Initial Exchange Date, 0%.

Section 3.05 Fees .

(a) Upfront Fee . The Borrower agrees to pay a fee to each Lender payable on the Effective Date equal to 1% of the principal amount of such Lender’s Loans made on the Effective Date, such fee to be paid in cash on the Effective Date ( provided that the payment of such fee may be effected pursuant to customary netting arrangements), or if the Lender so elects by giving notice to the Administrative Agent at least one (1) Business Day prior to the Effective Date, as an original issue discount with respect to such Loans made by it.

(b) Administrative Agent Fees . The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in the Fee Letters.

ARTICLE IV

PAYMENTS; PRO RATA TREATMENT; SHARING OF SET-OFFS

Section 4.01 Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs .

(a) Payments by the Borrower . The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest or fees, or of amounts payable under Section 5.01 , Section 5.02 , Section 5.03 or otherwise) prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without defense, deduction, recoupment, set-off or counterclaim. Fees, once paid, shall be fully earned and shall not be refundable under any circumstances, absent manifest error. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at its offices specified in Section 12.01 , except

 

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that payments pursuant to Section 5.01 , Section 5.02 , Section 5.03 and Section 12.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made in dollars.

(b) Application of Insufficient Payments . If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal then due to such parties.

(c) Sharing of Payments by Lenders . If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary 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; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this Section 4.01(c) shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section 4.01(c) shall apply). 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.

Section 4.02 Presumption of Payment by the Borrower . 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 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, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has 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 with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

Section 4.03 Deductions by the Administrative Agent . If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.05(b) or Section 4.02 , or otherwise hereunder, then the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), (a) apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid or (b) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender hereunder, in the case of each of (i) and (ii) above, in any order as determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion.

 

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Section 4.04 Collection of Proceeds of Production . The Security Instruments contain an assignment by the Borrower and/or the Guarantors to and in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties of all of the Borrower’s or each Guarantor’s interest in and to production and all proceeds attributable thereto which may be produced from or allocated to the Mortgaged Property. The Security Instruments further provide in general for the application of such proceeds to the satisfaction of the Obligations and other obligations described therein and secured thereby. Notwithstanding the assignment contained in such Security Instruments, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders will neither notify the purchaser or purchasers of such production nor take any other action to cause such proceeds to be remitted to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, but the Lenders will instead permit such proceeds to be paid to the Borrower and the other Credit Parties and the Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to take such actions as may be necessary to cause such proceeds to be paid to the Borrower and the other Credit Parties.

ARTICLE V

INCREASED COSTS; BREAK FUNDING PAYMENTS; TAXES; ILLEGALITY

Section 5.01 Increased Costs .

(a) Eurodollar Changes in Law . 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 by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate); or

(ii) subject the Administrative Agent or any Lender to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Other Connection Taxes) on its Loans, Loan principal, Commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or

(iii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making, converting to, continuing or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender in respect of any Eurodollar Loan (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then 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.

(b) Capital Requirements . If any Lender determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or liquidity or on the capital or liquidity of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by such Lender to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into

 

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consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time, upon receipt of a certificate described in the following subsection (c) the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

(c) Certificates . 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 Section 5.01(a) or (b)  shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten days after receipt thereof.

(d) Effect of Failure or Delay in Requesting Compensation . Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 5.01 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 5.01 for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than six months prior to the date that such Lender, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s 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 six month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

Section 5.02 Break Funding Payments . In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan into an ABR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert or continue any Eurodollar Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto, or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 5.05 , then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to be the excess, if any, of (x) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan), over (y) the amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market.

A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 5.02 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within thirty days after receipt thereof.

Section 5.03 Taxes .

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(b) Payments Free of Taxes . Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or any Guarantor under any Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes; provided that if an applicable Withholding Agent shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes from such payments (as determined in the good faith of an applicable Withholding Agent), then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 5.03(b) ), the Administrative Agent, any Lender receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower or such Guarantor shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower or such Guarantor shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

(c) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower . The Borrower 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 that have been paid by the Administrative Agent.

(d) Indemnification by the Borrower . The Borrower shall indemnify each Recipient, within thirty days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes paid or payable by such Recipient, or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 5.03 ) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate of the Administrative Agent, a Lender as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(e) Indemnification by the Lenders . Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within ten days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 12.04 relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e).

(f) Evidence of Payments . As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes by the Borrower or a Guarantor to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower or Guarantor 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.

(g) Status of Lenders .

(i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by

 

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Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution, and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 5.03(g)(ii)(A) , (ii)(B) , or (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender. For purposes of this Section 5.03(g) , the term “Lender” shall include the Administrative Agent.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:

(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;

(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party, duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party,

(2) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI,

(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “ U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ”) and (y) duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable;

(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY, accompanied by Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI, Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G-2 or Exhibit G-3 , Internal Revenue Service 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 G-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner; or

 

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(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed 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 Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. Federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(h) Treatment of Certain Refunds . If the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.03 , it shall pay to the Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 5.03 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (h), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph (h) to the extent such payment 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 Borrower or any other Person.

(i) Survival . Each party’s obligations under this Section 5.03 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.

 

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Section 5.04 Mitigation Obligations; Designation of Different Lending Office . If any Lender requests compensation under Section 5.01 , or 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 5.03 , then such Lender shall (at the request of Borrower) use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 5.01 or Section 5.03 , as the case may be, in the future and would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

Section 5.05 Replacement of Lenders . If (a) any Lender requests compensation under Section 5.01 , (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 5.03 , and such Lender has not prevented such required payment by designating a different lending office in accordance with Section 5.04 , or (c) any Lender has given notice pursuant to Section 5.06 that it is unable to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans but Lenders constituting Majority Lenders have not given such notice, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 12.04(b) ), all its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Section 5.01 or Section 5.03 ) and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 12.04(b)(ii)(C) , (ii) if such assignee is not already a Lender, the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (iii) such assigning 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 5.02 ), 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), (iv) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 5.01 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 5.03 , such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments, and (v) such assignment does not conflict with applicable law. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.

Section 5.06 Illegality . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in the event that it becomes unlawful for any Lender or its applicable lending office to honor its obligation to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans either generally or having a particular Interest Period hereunder, then (a) such Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof and such Lender’s obligation to make such Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended (the “ Affected Loans ”) until such time as such Lender may again make and maintain such Eurodollar Loans and (b) all Affected Loans which would otherwise be made by such Lender shall be made instead as ABR Loans (and, if such Lender so requests by notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, all Affected Loans of such Lender then outstanding shall be automatically converted into ABR Loans on the date specified by such Lender in such notice) and, to the extent that Affected Loans are so made as (or converted into) ABR Loans, all payments of principal which would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Affected Loans shall be applied instead to its ABR Loans.

 

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ARTICLE VI

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

Section 6.01 Effective Date . The rights and obligations under this Agreement (including the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder) shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions has been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 12.02 ) on April 12, 2017 (and, if not satisfied prior to such time, this Agreement shall be null and void and of no force and effect):

(a) The Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and the Lenders shall have received all commitment and agency fees and all other fees and amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date, including, without duplication, (i) fees payable pursuant to Section 3.05(b) , (ii) fees payable pursuant to the Fee Letters and (iii) to the extent invoiced at least two Business Days prior to the Effective Date, reimbursement or payment of all out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower hereunder (including the fees and expenses of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, counsel to the Administrative Agent).

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary or a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and each Guarantor setting forth (i) resolutions of the members, board of directors or other appropriate governing body with respect to the authorization of the Borrower or such Guarantor to execute and deliver the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to enter into the transactions contemplated in those documents, (ii) the officers of the Borrower or such Guarantor who are authorized to sign the Loan Documents to which the Borrower or such Guarantor is a party and who will, until replaced by another officer or officers duly authorized for that purpose, act as its representative for the purposes of signing documents and giving notices and other communications in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, (iii) specimen signatures of such authorized officers, and (iv) the limited liability company agreement, the articles or certificate of incorporation and bylaws (or comparable organizational documents) of the Borrower and such Guarantor, certified as being true and complete. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders may conclusively rely on such certificate until the Administrative Agent receives notice in writing from the Borrower to the contrary.

(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received certificates of the appropriate State agencies with respect to the existence and good standing of the Borrower and each other Credit Party.

(d) On the Effective Date, the representations and warranties of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the other Credit Parties contained in Article VII shall be true and correct in all material respects (except in the case of any representation or warranty which expressly relates to a given date or period, such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the respective date or for the respective period, as the case may be); provided , that to the extent that any representation or warranty is qualified by or subject to a “material adverse effect”, “material adverse change” or similar term or qualification, the same shall be true and correct in all respects.

(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received from each party hereto counterparts (in such number as may be requested by the Administrative Agent) of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party.

(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received a duly executed Note payable to each Lender that has requested a Note at least two days before the Effective Date in a principal amount equal to its Commitment dated as of the date hereof.

 

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(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received from each party thereto duly executed counterparts (in such number as may be requested by the Administrative Agent) of the Security Instruments described on Exhibit E . Except as otherwise set forth in Section 8.20 , in connection with the execution and delivery of the Security Instruments, the Administrative Agent shall be reasonably satisfied that the Liens under the Security Instruments will, upon the recording of the Security Instruments, be first priority, perfected Liens (subject only to Permitted Liens) on all other Property purported to be pledged as Collateral pursuant to the Security Instruments (including all of the Equity Interests in the Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary that are owned by a Credit Party (and to the extent any such Equity Interests are certificated, the Borrower shall also have caused the applicable Credit Party to deliver to the Collateral Agent the original stock certificates evidencing such Equity Interests together with an appropriate undated stock power for each certificate duly executed in blank by the registered owner thereof).

(h) The Administrative Agent shall have received an opinion of Kirkland and Ellis LLP, special New York counsel to the Borrower and the Guarantors, and local counsel in the Yukon Territory, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(i) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of insurance coverage of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties evidencing that the Borrower and the other Credit Parties are carrying insurance in accordance with Section 7.12 .

(j) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Borrower certifying that Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis after giving effect to the Transactions, are solvent.

(k) The Administrative Agent shall have received the Initial Reserve Report, which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(l) The Administrative Agent shall have received appropriate Uniform Commercial Code search certificates reflecting no prior Liens encumbering the Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties for the State of Delaware and the State of Pennsylvania, as applicable, and any other jurisdiction reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, other than those being released on or prior to the Effective Date or Permitted Liens.

(m) To the extent requested in writing by the Administrative Agent at least 8 Business Days prior to the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Effective Date, and be reasonably satisfied in form and substance with, all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including but not restricted to the USA PATRIOT Act.

(n) As of the Effective Date, after giving effect to the Transactions (including the Borrowings hereunder), the amount of (i) cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on such date plus (ii) the amount by which the Total Commitments (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement) shall exceed the total Revolving Credit Exposure shall not be less than $300,000,000.

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(p) All conditions precedent to confirmation and to effectiveness of the Plan of Reorganization shall have been satisfied or waived to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent, the Plan Effective Date shall have occurred or shall occur substantially contemporaneously with the Effective Date, and the substantial consummation (as defined in section 1101 of the Bankruptcy Code) of the Plan of Reorganization in accordance with its terms shall occur substantially contemporaneously with the Plan Effective Date.

(q) Since the date of entry of the Disclosure Statement Order with respect to the Chapter 11 Cases, there shall not have occurred a Material Adverse Effect or any event or occurrence which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(r) The Administrative Agent shall have received or shall have available on-line through the “Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval” system (or any successor system thereof) maintained by the SEC (or any succeeding governmental authority) (i) audited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, for the three most recently completed fiscal years ended at least 105 days before the Effective Date and (ii) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, for each subsequent fiscal quarter (other than the fourth fiscal quarter of any fiscal year) ended at least 55 days before the Effective Date (in each case, together with the corresponding comparative period from the prior fiscal year).

Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 11.04 , for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 6.01 , 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 under this Section 6.01 to be consented to or approved by or acceptable to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the Effective Date specifying its objection thereto. All documents executed or submitted pursuant to this Section 6.01 by and on behalf of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding.

ARTICLE VII

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Parent Guarantor and the Borrower jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Lenders that:

Section 7.01 Organization; Powers . The Borrower and each other Credit Party is duly organized, validly existing and, to the extent applicable, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority, and has all material governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals necessary, to own its assets and to carry on its business as now conducted, and is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required, except where failure to have such power, authority, licenses, authorizations, consents, approvals and qualifications could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 7.02 Authority; Enforceability . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, the Transactions are within the Borrower’s and each Guarantor’s corporate, limited liability company, or partnership powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company or partnership action and, if required, action by any holders of its Equity Interests (including any action required to be taken by any class of directors, managers or supervisors, whether interested or disinterested, as applicable, of the Borrower or any other Person, in order to ensure the due

 

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authorization of the Transactions). Each Loan Document to which the Borrower and each Guarantor is a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and such Guarantor and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower and such Guarantor, as applicable, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

Section 7.03 Approvals; No Conflicts . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, the Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority or any other third Person (including holders of its Equity Interests or any class of directors, managers or supervisors, as applicable, whether interested or disinterested, of the Borrower or any other Person), nor is any such consent, approval, registration, filing or other action necessary for the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the Transactions, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, other than (i) the recording and filing of the Security Instruments as required by this Agreement, and (ii) those third party approvals or consents which, if not made or obtained, would not cause a Default or an Event of Default under any provision of this Agreement other than this Section 7.03 or could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation or the limited liability company agreements, charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any other Credit Party or any order of any Governmental Authority, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any indenture or other agreement regarding Debt binding upon the Borrower or any other Credit Party or its Properties, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or Credit Party and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any Property of the Borrower or any other Credit Party (other than the Liens created by the Loan Documents).

Section 7.04 Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change .

(a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders Ultra Petroleum’s consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, reported on by Ernst & Young LLP, independent public accountants. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the unaudited quarterly financial statements.

(b) No Material Adverse Effect has occurred since the date of entry of the Disclosure Statement Order with respect to the Chapter 11 Cases.

(c) Except as listed on Schedule 7.04(c) , none of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary has on the date hereof after giving effect to the Transactions, any material Debt (including Disqualified Capital Stock) or any material off-balance sheet liabilities or partnership liabilities that would be required by GAAP to be reflected or noted in audited financial statements, material liabilities for past due taxes, or any unusual forward or long-term commitments or unrealized or anticipated losses from any such unfavorable commitments, except as referred to or reflected or provided for in the financial statements referred to in Section 7.04(a) and the other written information provided by Borrower to Administrative Agent and the Lenders prior to the date hereof.

Section 7.05 Litigation . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization and except as set forth on Schedule 7.05 , there are no actions, suits, investigations or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any other Credit Party (i) not fully covered by insurance (except for normal deductibles), that could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) that are non-frivolous and challenge the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document.

 

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Section 7.06 Environmental Matters . Except for matters set forth on Schedule 7.06 or that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

(a) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and each of their respective Properties and operations thereon are, and within all applicable statute of limitation periods have been, in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws;

(b) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries have obtained all Environmental Permits required for their respective operations and each of their Properties, with all such Environmental Permits being currently in full force and effect, and none of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries has received any written notice or otherwise has knowledge that any such existing Environmental Permit will be revoked or that any application for any new Environmental Permit or renewal of any existing Environmental Permit will be denied;

(c) there are no claims, demands, suits, orders, inquiries, or proceedings concerning any violation of, or any liability (including as a potentially responsible party) under, any applicable Environmental Laws that is pending or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened against Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their respective Properties or as a result of any operations at such Properties;

(d) none of the Properties of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary contain or have contained any: underground storage tanks; asbestos-containing materials; landfills or dumps; hazardous waste management units as defined pursuant to RCRA or any comparable state law; or sites on or nominated for the National Priority List promulgated pursuant to CERCLA or any state remedial priority list promulgated or published pursuant to any comparable state law, in each case that would reasonably be expected to result in liability under Environmental Law;

(e) there has been no Release or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened Release, of Hazardous Materials at, on, under or from Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s Properties, there are no investigations, remediations, abatements, removals, or monitorings of Hazardous Materials required under applicable Environmental Laws at such Properties and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, none of such Properties are adversely affected by any Release or threatened Release of a Hazardous Material originating or emanating from any other real property;

(f) none of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary has received any written notice asserting an alleged liability or obligation under any applicable Environmental Laws with respect to the investigation, remediation, abatement, removal, or monitoring of any Hazardous Materials at, under, or Released or threatened to be Released from any real properties offsite Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s Properties and, to the Borrower’s knowledge, there are no conditions or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to result in the receipt of such written notice;

(g) there has been no exposure of any Person or Property to any Hazardous Materials as a result of or in connection with the operations and businesses of any of Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or the Subsidiaries’ Properties that could reasonably be expected to form the basis for a claim for damages or compensation; and

 

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(h) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower have made available to the Administrative Agent complete and correct copies of all material environmental site assessment reports, and studies on environmental matters (including matters relating to any alleged non-compliance with or liability under Environmental Laws) that have been prepared within the last three (3) years and are in Parent Guarantor’s or the Borrower’s possession and relating to Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or any Subsidiary’s Properties or operations thereon.

Section 7.07 Compliance with the Laws and Agreements; No Defaults .

(a) After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, each of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries is in compliance with all Governmental Requirements applicable to it or its Property and all agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its Property, except where failure to comply could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and possesses all licenses, permits, franchises, exemptions, approvals and other governmental authorizations necessary for the ownership of its Property and the conduct of its business, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Neither the Borrower nor any other Credit Party is in default nor has any Change in Control or similar event or circumstance occurred that, but for the expiration of any applicable grace period or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default under, or would require the Borrower or any other Credit Party to Redeem or make any offer to Redeem under, any indenture, note, credit agreement or similar instrument pursuant to which any Material Debt is outstanding or by which the Borrower or any other Credit Party or any of their Properties is bound.

(c) No Default has occurred and is continuing.

Section 7.08 Investment Company Act . Neither the Borrower nor any other Credit Party is required to register as an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an entity required to register as “investment company,” within the meaning of, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

Section 7.09 Taxes . Each of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all federal income Tax returns and reports, and all other material Tax returns and reports, required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it (in each case, for the avoidance of doubt and to the extent applicable, after giving effect to the Confirmation Order and Plan of Reorganization), except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Taxes and other governmental charges are, in the reasonable opinion of the Borrower, adequate. No Tax Lien (other than an Excepted Lien) has been filed and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted with respect to any such Tax or other such governmental charge.

Section 7.10 ERISA . Except for such matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

(a) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and each ERISA Affiliate is in material compliance with ERISA and, where applicable, the Code regarding each Plan.

 

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(b) Each Plan is, and has been, established and maintained in substantial compliance with its terms, ERISA and, where applicable, the Code.

(c) No act, omission or transaction has occurred which could result in the imposition on Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary (whether directly or indirectly) of either a civil penalty assessed pursuant to subsections (i) or (l) of section 502 of ERISA or a tax imposed pursuant to section 4975 of the Code or breach of fiduciary duty liability damages under section 409 of ERISA.

(d) Full payment when due has been made of all amounts which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, the Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate is required under the terms of each Plan or applicable law to have paid as contributions to such Plan as of the date hereof.

(e) None of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Subsidiary, or any ERISA Affiliate sponsors, maintains, or contributes to an employee welfare benefit plan, as defined in section 3(1) of ERISA that provides benefits to retirees or former employees of such entities, with respect to which its sponsorship of, maintenance of or contribution to may not be terminated by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, a Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate, as the case may be, in its sole discretion at any time without any material liability to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary other than for benefits due as of, or claims incurred prior to, the effective date of such termination, except where such a termination is not allowed under applicable law (including, but not limited to, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985).

Section 7.11 Disclosure; No Material Misstatements . The certificates, written statements and reports, and other written information, taken as a whole, furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Guarantor to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection with the negotiation of any Loan Document or included therein or delivered pursuant thereto, do not contain any material misstatement of fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were or are made, not misleading as of the date such information is dated or certified; provided that (a) to the extent any such certificate, statement, report, or information was based upon or constitutes a forecast or projection, the Borrower represents only that it acted in good faith and utilized reasonable assumptions and due care in the preparation of such certificate, statement, report, or information (it being recognized by the Lenders, however, that projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that results during the period(s) covered by such projections may differ from the projected results and that such differences may be material and that the Borrower makes no representation that such projections will be realized) and (b) as to statements, information and reports supplied by third parties, the Borrower represents only that it is not aware of any material misstatement or omission therein. There are no statements or conclusions in any Reserve Report which are based upon or include material misleading information or fail to take into account known material information regarding the matters reported therein, it being understood that projections concerning volumes attributable to the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties and production and cost estimates contained in each Reserve Report are necessarily based upon professional opinions, estimates and projections and that the Borrower and the other Credit Parties do not warrant that such opinions, estimates and projections will ultimately prove to have been accurate.

Section 7.12 Insurance . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower have, and have caused the Restricted Subsidiaries to have, (a) all insurance policies sufficient for the compliance by each of them with all material Governmental Requirements and all material agreements and (b) insurance coverage in such amounts and against such risks as are usually insured against by companies similarly situated and engaged in the same or a similar business for the assets and operations of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries (it being understood and agreed that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may self-insure to the extent and in a manner customary for companies engaged in the same or similar business of similar size and financial condition). The Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders have been named as additional insureds in respect of such liability insurance policies and the Collateral Agent has been named as a loss payee with respect to such property loss insurance covering Collateral.

 

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Section 7.13 Restriction on Liens . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, neither the Borrower nor any other Credit Party is a party to any material agreement or arrangement, or subject to any order, judgment, writ or decree, that restricts its ability to grant Liens to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties on or in respect of their Properties to secure the Debt under the Loan Documents, or restricts any Restricted Subsidiary from paying dividends or making any other distributions in respect of its Equity Interests to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or restricts any Restricted Subsidiary from making loans or advances to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or which requires the consent of other Persons in connection therewith, except, in each case, for such encumbrances or restrictions permitted under Section 9.14 .

Section 7.14 Subsidiaries . Except as set forth on Schedule 7.14 or as disclosed in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time (which shall promptly furnish a copy to the Lenders), which shall upon disclosure be deemed a supplement to Schedule 7.14 , neither the Borrower nor any other Credit Party has any subsidiaries (other than subsidiaries of Unrestricted Subsidiaries) . Neither Parent Guarantor nor the Borrower has any Foreign Subsidiaries. Schedule 7.14 identifies, as of the Effective Date, each subsidiary listed thereon as either a Restricted Subsidiary, Unrestricted Subsidiary or Unrestricted Parent Entity, and each Restricted Subsidiary on such schedule is wholly-owned by the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary. As of the Effective Date, Schedule 7.14 sets forth each Person (other than a subsidiary) in which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary owns Equity Interests and the percentage of all Equity Interests in such Person owned by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary.

Section 7.15 Location of Business and Offices . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, the Borrower’s jurisdiction of organization is Delaware, the name of the Borrower as listed in the public records of its jurisdiction of organization is Ultra Resources, Inc., and the organizational identification number of the Borrower in its jurisdiction of organization is 6357887 (or, in each case, as set forth in a notice delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.01(i) in accordance with Section 12.01 ). The Borrower’s chief executive offices are located at the address specified in Section 12.01 (or as set forth in a notice delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(i) and Section 12.01(c) ). Each Guarantor’s jurisdiction of organization, name as listed in the public records of its jurisdiction of organization, organizational identification number in its jurisdiction of organization, and the location of its chief executive office is stated on Schedule 7.14 (or as set forth in a notice delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(i) ). Each Unrestricted Subsidiary’s (other than each Unrestricted Subsidiary that is a subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary) jurisdiction of organization and name as listed in the public records of its jurisdiction of organization is stated on Schedule 7.14 (or as set forth in a notice delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(i)).

Section 7.16 Properties; Titles, Etc . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization:

(a) Each of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties has good and defensible title to substantially all of its Borrowing Base Properties evaluated in the most recently delivered Reserve Report and good title to all of its material personal Properties, in each case, free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens. The Borrower or the other Credit Parties specified as the owner owns in all material respects the net interests in production attributable to their Oil and Gas Properties as reflected in the most recently delivered Reserve Report, and the ownership of such Properties does not in any material respect

 

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obligate such Person to bear the costs and expenses relating to the maintenance, development and operations of each such Property in an amount in excess of the working interest of each Property set forth in the most recently delivered Reserve Report that is not offset by a corresponding proportionate increase in its net revenue interest in such Property or the revenues therefrom.

(b) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) all material leases and agreements necessary for the conduct of the business of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties and (ii) all oil and gas leases of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties are, in each case, valid and subsisting and in full force and effect, and there exists no default or event or circumstance which with the giving of notice or the passage of time or both would give rise to a default under any such lease or leases referred to in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii).

(c) The rights and Properties presently owned, leased or licensed by the Borrower and the other Credit Parties, including all easements and rights of way, include all rights and Properties necessary to permit the Borrower and the other Credit Parties to conduct their business in all material respects in the same manner as their business has been conducted prior to the date hereof.

(d) All of the Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties which are reasonably necessary for the operation of their businesses are in good working condition and are maintained in accordance with prudent business standards.

(e) The Borrower and each other Credit Party owns, or is licensed to use, all trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, patents and other intellectual Property material to its business (including databases, geological data, geophysical data, engineering data, seismic data, maps, interpretations and other technical data), and the use thereof by the Borrower and such other Credit Party does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 7.17 Maintenance of Properties . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, except for such acts or failures to act as could not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties have been maintained, operated and developed in a good and workmanlike manner and in conformity with all applicable Governmental Requirements and in conformity with the provisions of all leases, subleases or other contracts comprising a part of the Borrowing Base Properties and other contracts and agreements forming a part of the Borrowing Base Properties.

Section 7.18 Gas Imbalances, Prepayments . Except as set forth on Schedule 7.18 or on the most recent certificate delivered pursuant to Section 8.12(c) , on a net basis there are no gas imbalances, take or pay or other prepayments which would require Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the other Credit Parties to deliver Hydrocarbons produced from their Oil and Gas Properties at some future time, without then or thereafter receiving full payment therefor, exceeding 5.0% of the aggregate annual production of gas from the Oil and Gas Properties of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the other Credit Parties during the most recent calendar year (on an mcf basis).

Section 7.19 Marketing of Production . Except for contracts listed and in effect on the date hereof on Schedule 7.19 , or hereafter either disclosed in writing to the Administrative Agent or included in the most recently delivered Reserve Report, no material agreements exist, which are not cancelable on 90 days’ notice or less without penalty or detriment, for the sale of the Borrower’s and the other Credit Parties’ Hydrocarbon production (including calls on or other rights to purchase, production, whether or not the same are currently being exercised) that pertain to the sale of production at a fixed price and have a maturity or expiry date of longer than six (6) months from the date hereof.

 

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Section 7.20 Swap Agreements and Qualified ECP Counterparty . Schedule 7.20 , as of the date hereof, and after the date hereof, each report required to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to Section 8.01(e) , as of the date of (or as of the date(s) otherwise set forth in) such report, sets forth, a true and complete list of all Swap Agreements of the Borrower and each other Credit Party, the material terms thereof (including the type, term, effective date, maturity date and notional amounts or volumes), the estimated net mark-to-market value thereof, all credit support agreements relating thereto other than Loan Documents (including any margin required or supplied) and the counterparty to each such agreement. The Borrower is a Qualified ECP Counterparty.

Section 7.21 Use of Loans . The proceeds of the Loans shall be used (a) for general corporate purposes of the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries; (b) to fund repayment of claims under the Chapter 11 Case; and (c) to finance the acquisition and development of Oil and Gas Properties. Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries are not engaged principally, or as one of its or their important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or ultimate, of buying or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation T, U or X of the Board). No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used for any purpose which violates the provisions of Regulations T, U or X of the Board. The Borrower will not request any Borrowing, and Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall not use, and Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall procure that their Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available, the proceeds of any Borrowing to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or any other Person (a) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (b) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, or (c) in any manner that would knowingly or negligently result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto (whether as underwriter, advisor, investor, lender, hedge provider, facility or security agent or otherwise).

Section 7.22 Solvency . On the Effective Date, after giving effect to the Confirmation Order, the Plan of Reorganization and the transactions contemplated hereby and each Borrowing made hereunder, (a) the aggregate assets (after giving effect to amounts that could reasonably be expected to be received by reason of indemnity, offset, insurance or any similar arrangement), at a fair valuation, of the Borrower and the Guarantors, taken as a whole, exceed the aggregate Debt of the Borrower and the Guarantors on a consolidated basis, (b) each of the Borrower and the Guarantors has not incurred and does not intend to incur, and does not believe that it has incurred, Debt beyond its ability to pay such Debt (after taking into account the timing and amounts of cash it reasonably expects could be received and the amounts that it reasonably expects could be payable on or in respect of its liabilities, and giving effect to amounts that that could reasonably be expected to be received by reason of indemnity, offset, insurance or any similar arrangement) as such Debt becomes absolute and matures, and (c) each of the Borrower and the Guarantors does not have (and does not have reason to believe that it will have thereafter) unreasonably small capital for the conduct of its business.

Section 7.23 Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower have implemented and maintain in effect such policies and procedures, if any, as they reasonably deem appropriate, in light of their business and international activities (if any), to ensure compliance by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees and, to the knowledge of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower, their respective directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and

 

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applicable Sanctions in all material respects. None of (a) Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b) to the knowledge of Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, any agent of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. No Borrowing, use of proceeds or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement will violate any Anti-Corruption Law or applicable Sanctions.

Section 7.24 EEA Financial Institutions . No Credit Party is an EEA Financial Institution.

Section 7.25 Senior Debt Status . The Obligations constitute “Senior Debt”, “Designated Senior Debt” or any similar designation under and as defined in any agreement governing any senior subordinated or subordinated Debt and the subordination provisions set forth in each such agreement are legally valid and enforceable against the parties thereto.

Section 7.26 Security Instruments . The Security Instruments are (or, in the case of Security Instruments executed after the Effective Date, will be) effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Credit Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Mortgaged Property and Collateral and proceeds thereof.

Section 7.27 PATRIOT Act . On the Effective Date, each Credit Party is in compliance in all material respects with the material provisions of the PATRIOT Act.

ARTICLE VIII

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder and all other amounts payable under the Loan Documents shall have been paid in full, each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

Section 8.01 Financial Statements; Other Information . The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender:

 

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Annual Financial Statements .

(i) As soon as available, but in any event in accordance with then applicable law and not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, its unaudited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, owners’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

(ii) As soon as available, but in any event in accordance with then applicable law and not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of Parent Guarantor, its audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, owners’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by independent public accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

 

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  (b)

Quarterly Financial Statements .

(i) As soon as available, but in any event in accordance with then applicable law and not later than 60 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower commencing with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2017, its consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, owners’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

(ii) As soon as available, but in any event in accordance with then applicable law and not later than 60 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of Parent Guarantor commencing with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2017, its consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, owners’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Parent Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

(c) Certificate of Financial Officer — Compliance . Concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under Section 8.01(a) or Section 8.01(b) , a compliance certificate of a Financial Officer in substantially the form of Exhibit D hereto (i) certifying as to whether a Default then exists and, if a Default then exists, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) setting forth reasonably detailed calculations demonstrating compliance with the Financial Covenants and (iii) stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof that is applicable to the Borrower has occurred since December 31, 2016 and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements accompanying such certificate.

(d) Annual Budget . Within sixty (60) days of the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower (the first such period being the sixty (60) day period after the end of fiscal year 2017), an annual operating budget for the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for the immediately succeeding fiscal year (beginning with the annual operating budget for fiscal year 2018), including the projected monthly production of Hydrocarbons by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries and the assumptions used in calculating such projections, the projected capital expenditures to be incurred by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, and such other information as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.

(e) Certificate of Financial Officer—Swap Agreements . Concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under Section 8.01(a) and Section 8.01(b) , a certificate of a Financial Officer, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, setting forth as of a recent date, a true and complete list of all Swap Agreements of the Borrower and each other Credit Party, the material terms thereof (including the type, term, effective date, and maturity date) and notional amounts or volumes set forth for each month during the term of such Swap Agreement), the estimated net mark-to-market value therefor, any new credit support agreements relating thereto (other than Loan Documents) not listed on Schedule 7.20 , any margin required or supplied under any credit support document, and the counterparty to each such agreement.

 

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(f) Certificate of Financial Officer —Consolidating Information. If, at any time, all of the Consolidated Subsidiaries of the Borrower are not Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, then concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under Section 8.01(a) or Section 8.01(b) , a certificate of a Financial Officer setting forth consolidating spreadsheets that show all Consolidated Unrestricted Subsidiaries and the eliminating entries, in such form as would be presentable to the auditors of the Borrower. [Reserved].

(g) Certificate of Insurer—Insurance Coverage . Concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under Section 8.01(a) , one or more certificates of insurance coverage from Parent Guarantor’s insurance broker or insurers with respect to the insurance required by Section 8.07 , in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, copies of the applicable policies.

(h) SEC and Other Filings; Reports to Shareholders . For so long as any Credit Party is a publicly traded company, then promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by such Credit Party with the SEC, or with any national securities exchange, or distributed by such Credit Party to its shareholders generally, as the case may be.

(i) Information Regarding Borrower and Guarantors . Promptly, but in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the occurrence thereof, written notice of any change in (i) the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s corporate name, (ii) the jurisdiction in which the Borrower or any Guarantor is incorporated, formed, or otherwise organized, (iii) the location of the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s chief executive office, (iv) the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s identity or corporate, limited liability or partnership structure, or (v) the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s organizational identification number in such jurisdiction of organization or federal taxpayer identification number.

(j) Production Report and Lease Operating Statements . Concurrently with any delivery of a Reserve Report under Section 8.12 , (i) a report setting forth, for each calendar month during the then current fiscal year to date, the volume of production and sales attributable to production (and the prices at which such sales were made and the revenues derived from such sales) for each such calendar month from the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors, and (ii) a report setting forth, for each calendar quarter during the then current fiscal year to date, the related ad valorem, severance and production taxes and lease operating expenses attributable to such production and incurred for each such calendar quarter.

(k) Notices of Certain Changes . Promptly, but in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the execution thereof, copies of any material amendment, modification or supplement to the certificate of formation, limited liability company agreement, articles of incorporation, by-laws, any preferred stock designation or any other organic document of the Borrower or any other Credit Party.

(l) Other Requested Information . Promptly following any reasonable request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs and financial condition of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (including any Plan and any reports or other information required to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and/or the PBGC with respect thereto under the Code or under ERISA), or compliance with the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

 

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Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(a) , (b)  or (h)  (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 Parent Guarantor or the Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on Parent Guarantor’s or the Borrower’s public website; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Borrower’s 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).

The Administrative Agent may make available to the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of Parent Guarantor and/or the Borrower hereunder (collectively, “ Company Materials ”) by posting the Company Materials on SyndTrak or another similar electronic system (the “ Platform ”). Parent Guarantor and the Borrower hereby acknowledge that certain of the Lenders may from time to time elect to 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 ”) and the Borrower hereby agrees that (w) all Company 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; (x) by marking Company Materials “PUBLIC,” Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to treat such Company Materials as either publicly available information or not material information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or their respective securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws; (y) all Company Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Investor”; and (z) the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to treat Company Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Investor.”

Section 8.02 Notices of Material Events . In addition to the notices required under Section 8.01 and Section 8.10(b) , the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt (and in any event within five (5) Business Days of a Responsible Officer becoming aware thereof) written notice of the following:

(a) the occurrence of any Default;

(b) the filing or commencement of, or the threat in writing of, any action, suit, proceeding, investigation or arbitration by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Borrower or any other Credit Party not previously disclosed in writing to the Lenders that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or the occurrence of any adverse development in any such action, suit, proceeding, investigation or arbitration that is reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(c) the filing or commencement of, or the threat in writing of, any action, suit, proceeding, investigation or arbitration by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that (i) constitutes a material adverse claim against, or asserts a material cloud upon the Borrower’s or any other Credit Party’s title to, any material Mortgaged Property or other Collateral pledged pursuant to the Security Instruments or (ii) otherwise attacks the validity or (other than by asserting a Permitted Lien) the priority of the Administrative Agent’s Liens in any material Mortgaged Property or other Collateral pledged pursuant to the Security Instruments, or of the Security Instruments under which such Mortgaged Property or other Collateral is mortgaged or pledged; and

 

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(d) the occurrence of any ERISA Event that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.

Each notice delivered under this Section 8.02 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.

Section 8.03 Existence; Conduct of Business . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect (a) its legal existence and (b) the rights, licenses, permits, privileges and franchises material to the conduct of its business and maintain, if necessary, its qualification to do business in each other jurisdiction in which its Oil and Gas Properties are located or the ownership of its Properties requires such qualification, except where the failure to so qualify could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 9.10 . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to maintain its legal existence in Delaware, another State within the United States of America or the District of Columbia.

Section 8.04 Payment of Obligations . After giving effect to the Confirmation Order and the Plan of Reorganization, Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, pay its obligations, including Tax liabilities of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and all of its Restricted Subsidiaries before the same shall become delinquent or in default, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP or (b) the failure to make payment pending such contest could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or result in the seizure or levy of any material Property of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.

Section 8.05 Performance of Obligations under Loan Documents . The Borrower will pay the Loans in accordance with the terms hereof, and Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, do and perform every act and discharge all of the obligations to be performed and discharged by them under the Loan Documents.

Section 8.06 Operation and Maintenance of Properties . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower, at their own expense, will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to:

(a) operate its Oil and Gas Properties and other material Properties or cause such Oil and Gas Properties and other material Properties to be operated in a careful and efficient manner in accordance with the practices of the industry and in compliance with all applicable contracts and agreements and in compliance with all Governmental Requirements, including applicable proration requirements and Environmental Laws, and all applicable laws, rules and regulations of every other Governmental Authority from time to time constituted to regulate the development and operation of its Oil and Gas Properties and the production and sale of Hydrocarbons and other minerals therefrom, except, in each case, where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) keep and maintain all Property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and preserve, maintain and keep in good repair, working order and efficiency (ordinary wear and tear and depletion excepted) all of its Oil and Gas Properties, except, in each case, where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(c) promptly pay and discharge, or make reasonable and customary efforts to cause to be paid and discharged, all delay rentals, royalties, expenses and indebtedness accruing under the leases or other agreements affecting or pertaining to its Oil and Gas Properties and do all other things necessary to keep unimpaired its rights with respect thereto and prevent any forfeiture thereof or default thereunder, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) promptly perform or make reasonable and customary efforts to cause to be performed, in accordance with customary industry standards, the obligations required by the assignments, deeds, leases, sub-leases, contracts and agreements affecting its interests in its Oil and Gas Properties and other material Properties, except, in each case, where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(e) To the extent the Borrower or another Credit Party is not the operator of any Property, the Borrower shall use reasonable efforts to cause the operator to comply with this Section 8.06 , but failure of the operator so to comply will not constitute a Default or an Event of Default hereunder.

Section 8.07 Insurance . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations (it being understood and agreed that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may self-insure to the extent and in a manner customary for companies engaged in the same or similar business of similar size and financial condition). The Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders shall be named as additional insureds in respect of such liability insurance policies, and the Collateral Agent shall be named as a loss payee with respect to property loss insurance covering Collateral and such policies shall provide that the Administrative Agent shall receive not less than 30 days’ prior notice of cancellation or non-renewal (or, if less, the maximum advance notice that the applicable carrier will agree to provide).

Section 8.08 Books and Records; Inspection Rights . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities (to the extent required by GAAP). Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its Properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as reasonably requested, and at the sole expense of Borrower not to exceed two times in any calendar year (unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing).

Section 8.09 Compliance with Laws . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, comply with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its Property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will maintain in effect and enforce such policies and procedures, if any, as it reasonably deems appropriate, in light of its businesses and international activities (if any), to ensure compliance by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, their Subsidiaries and each of their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.

 

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Section 8.10 Environmental Matters .

(a) Each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will at its sole expense: (i) comply, and cause its Properties and operations and each Subsidiary and each Subsidiary’s Properties and operations to comply, with all applicable Environmental Laws, to the extent the breach thereof could be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) not Release or threaten to Release, and cause each Subsidiary not to Release or threaten to Release, any Hazardous Material on, under, about or from any of Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or their Subsidiaries’ Properties or any other property offsite the Property to the extent caused by Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or any of their Subsidiaries’ operations except in compliance with applicable Environmental Laws, to the extent such Release or threatened Release could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) timely obtain or file, and cause each Subsidiary to timely obtain or file, all Environmental Permits, if any, required under applicable Environmental Laws to be obtained or filed in connection with the operation or use of Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s or their Subsidiaries’ Properties, to the extent such failure to obtain or file could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (iv) promptly commence and diligently prosecute to completion, and cause each Subsidiary to promptly commence and diligently prosecute to completion, any assessment, evaluation, investigation, monitoring, containment, cleanup, removal, repair, restoration, remediation or other remedial obligations (collectively, the “ Remedial Work ”) in the event any Remedial Work is required under applicable Environmental Laws because of or in connection with the actual or suspected past, present or future Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Material on, under, about or from any of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower’s or their Subsidiaries’ Properties, to the extent failure to do so could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (v) conduct, and cause its Subsidiaries to conduct, their respective operations and businesses in a manner that will not expose any Property or Person to Hazardous Materials that could reasonably be expected to cause Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or their Subsidiaries to owe damages or compensation that could reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect; and (vi) establish and implement, and shall cause each Subsidiary to establish and implement, such procedures as may be necessary to continuously determine and assure that Parent Guarantor’s, the Borrower’s and their Subsidiaries’ obligations under this Section 8.10(a) are timely and fully satisfied, to the extent failure to do so could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) If Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary receives written notice of any action or, investigation or inquiry by any Governmental Authority or any threatened demand or lawsuit by any Person against Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or their Subsidiaries or their Properties, in each case in connection with any Environmental Laws, the Borrower will within fifteen days after any Responsible Officer obtains actual knowledge thereof give written notice of the same to Administrative Agent if the Borrower could reasonably anticipate that such action will result in liability (whether individually or in the aggregate) in excess of $20,000,000, not fully covered by insurance, subject to normal deductibles.

(c) In connection with any acquisition by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any Oil and Gas Property, other than an acquisition of additional interests in Oil and Gas Properties in which Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary previously held an interest, to the extent Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary obtains or is provided with same, Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, promptly following Parent Guarantor, the Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s obtaining or being provided with the same, deliver to the Administrative Agent such final and non-privileged material environmental reports of such Oil and Gas Properties as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.

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(a) Each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower at its sole expense will, and will cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, promptly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent all such other documents, agreements and instruments reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to comply with, cure any defects or accomplish the conditions precedent, covenants and agreements of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in the Loan Documents, including the Notes, or to further evidence and more fully describe the collateral intended as security for the Obligations, or to correct any omissions in this Agreement or the Security Instruments, or to state more fully the obligations secured therein, or to perfect, protect or preserve any Liens created pursuant to this Agreement or any of the Security Instruments or the priority thereof, or to make any recordings, file any notices or obtain any consents that may be reasonably necessary or appropriate in connection therewith.

(b) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to file one or more financing or continuation statements, and amendments thereto, describing all or any part of the Collateral without the signature of the Borrower or any Guarantor where permitted by law. A carbon, photographic or other reproduction of the Security Instruments or any financing statement covering the Collateral or any part thereof shall be sufficient as a financing statement where permitted by law.

Section 8.12 Reserve Reports .

(a) In addition to the Initial Reserve Report which has been delivered on or prior to the Effective Date, on or before each date set out in the right column of the following table, the Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a Reserve Report evaluating the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors as of the date set out in the same line in the left column of such table:

 

As-of Date

  

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July 1, 2017 and each July 1 thereafter    the next following September 1
January 1, 2018 and each January 1 thereafter.    the next following March 1

(b) The Reserve Reports as of January 1 of each year shall be prepared by one or more Approved Petroleum Engineers, and the Reserve Reports as of July 1 of each year shall be prepared either by Approved Petroleum Engineers or, at the Borrower’s option, by the internal reserve engineering staff of the Borrower in accordance with the procedures used in the immediately preceding January 1 Reserve Report.

(c) In the event of an Interim Redetermination, the Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a Reserve Report prepared either by Approved Petroleum Engineers or by Borrower’s internal reserve engineering staff, in each case in accordance with the procedures used in the immediately preceding January 1 Reserve Report. For any Interim Redetermination requested by the Revolving Administrative Agent or the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.07(b) of the Revolving Credit Agreement, the Borrower shall provide such Reserve Report with an “as of” date as required by the Administrative Agent as soon as possible, but in any event no later than thirty (30) days following the receipt of such request.

(d) With the delivery of each Reserve Report (other than the Initial Reserve Report), the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a certificate from a Responsible Officer on behalf of the Borrower certifying that in all material respects that (i) except as set forth on an exhibit to the certificate, on a net basis there are no gas imbalances, take or pay or other prepayments in excess of the volume specified in Section 7.18 with respect to its Oil and Gas Properties evaluated in such Reserve Report which would require the Borrower or any Guarantor to deliver Hydrocarbons either generally or produced from such Oil and Gas Properties at some future time without then or thereafter

 

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receiving full payment therefor, (ii) none of their Borrowing Base Properties have been sold since the date of the last Borrowing Base determination except as set forth on an exhibit to the certificate, which certificate shall list all such Borrowing Base Properties sold and (iii) attached thereto is a schedule of the Borrowing Base Properties evaluated by such Reserve Report that are Mortgaged Properties which demonstrates the percentage of the total value of the Borrowing Base Properties that the value of such Mortgaged Properties represents in compliance with Section 8.14(a) .

Section 8.13 Title Information . On or before the delivery to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders of each Reserve Report required by Section 8.12(a) , the Borrower will use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver title information in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent covering enough of the Oil and Gas Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by such Reserve Report that were not included in the immediately preceding Reserve Report, so that the Administrative Agent shall have received, together with title information previously delivered to the Administrative Agent, satisfactory title information on at least 80% of the total PV-9 of the Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by such Reserve Report.

Section 8.14 Additional Collateral; Additional Guarantors .

(a) In connection with each redetermination of the Borrowing Base following the Effective Date, the Borrower shall review the Reserve Report and the list of current Mortgaged Properties (as described in Section 8.12(c) ) to ascertain whether the Mortgaged Properties represent at least 85 95 % of the total PV-9 of the Proved Reserves of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by such Reserve Report, after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production. In the event that the Mortgaged Properties do not satisfy the foregoing requirements, then the Borrower shall, and shall cause the Restricted Subsidiaries to, promptly grant, and, subject to Section 8.20(b) , within thirty (30) days (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion) after delivery of the certificate required under Section 8.12(d) , to the Administrative Agent, as security for the Obligations, Security Instruments covering additional Borrowing Base Properties not already subject to a Lien of the Security Instruments such that after giving effect thereto, the Mortgaged Properties will comply with such requirements. All such Liens will be created and perfected by and in accordance with the provisions of deeds of trust, security agreements and financing statements or other Security Instruments, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and in sufficient executed (and acknowledged where necessary or appropriate) counterparts for recording purposes.

(b) The Borrower shall promptly cause each Domestic Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) to guarantee the Obligations pursuant to the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement. In connection with any such guaranty, the Borrower shall, or shall cause such Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Subsidiary formed in connection with a Redomestication Transaction) to, promptly, but in any event no later than 15 Business Days after the formation or acquisition (or other similar event) of such Subsidiary to, (i) execute and deliver a supplement to the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, executed by such Subsidiary, (ii) pledge all of the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary that are owned by the Borrower or any Guarantor (and deliver the original stock certificates, if any, evidencing the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary, together with an appropriate undated stock power for each certificate duly executed in blank by the registered owner thereof), (iii) grant Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent on all Property of such Subsidiary (other than Property excluded from the grant of such Liens pursuant to the terms of the Security Instruments) and (iv) execute and deliver such other additional closing documents, certificates and legal opinions as shall reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be required to guarantee the Obligations or execute and deliver the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement (or a supplement to such document): (A) any Restricted Subsidiary that is prohibited or restricted by applicable law, rule or regulation or by any contractual obligation

 

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existing on the Effective Date (or, if later, the date it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary) from guaranteeing the Obligations or which would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization to provide a guarantee unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received and for only so long as such restriction is outstanding, (B) any Foreign Subsidiary and (C) any Domestic Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary that is a controlled foreign corporation within the meaning of section 957 of the Code (“ CFC ”) or any Domestic Subsidiary with no material assets other than Equity Interests (or Equity Interests and Debt) of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs; provided that the Borrower may (in its sole discretion) cause any Domestic Subsidiary, or if reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, any Foreign Subsidiary (including any consolidated Affiliate in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries own no Equity Interest), to become a Guarantor and to execute and deliver the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement (or a supplement to such document). Domestic Subsidiaries may be excluded from the requirements of this Section 8.14(b) if the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that the cost, burden, difficulty or consequence of providing such a guarantee outweighs the benefit to the Lenders afforded thereby.

(c) Notwithstanding any provision in any of the Loan Documents to the contrary, in no event is any Building (as defined in the applicable Flood Insurance Regulations) or Manufactured (Mobile) Home (as defined in the applicable Flood Insurance Regulations) owned by the Borrower or any other Credit Party required to be included in the Mortgaged Property and no Building or Manufactured (Mobile) Home shall be encumbered by any Security Instrument; provided , that (A) the Borrower’s and the other Credit Parties’ interests in all lands and Hydrocarbons situated under any such Building or Manufactured (Mobile) Home shall not be excluded from the Mortgaged Property and shall be encumbered by all applicable Security Instruments and (B) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiaries to, permit to exist any Lien on any Building or Manufactured (Mobile) Home except Excepted Liens.

Section 8.15 Unrestricted Subsidiaries. Parent Entities . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower:

(a) will cause the management, business and affairs of each of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, the Restricted Subsidiaries and the Unrestricted Parent Entities to be conducted in such a manner (including, without limitation, by keeping separate books of account s , furnishing separate financial statements of Unrestricted Subsidiaries and any Unrestricted Parent Entities to potential creditors and potential creditors thereof and by not permitting Properties of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower , and the respective Restricted Subsidiaries to be commingled) so that each Unrestricted Subsidiary and Unrestricted Parent Entity that is a corporation will be treated as a corporate entity separate and distinct from Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries . ;

(b) will not, and will not permit any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to , incur, assume, guarantee or be or become liable for any Debt of any of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries or Unrestricted Parent Entities . ; and

(c) will not permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary or Unrestricted Parent Entity to hold any Equity Interest in, or any Debt of, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.

Section 8.16 Commodity Exchange Act Keepwell Provisions . The Borrower hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide to each Credit Party (other than the Borrower) such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by such Credit Party in order for such Credit Party to honor its Obligations with respect to any Swap Agreements or CFTC Hedging Obligations for which it is liable, whether such Swap Agreements or CFTC Hedging Obligations are entered into directly by such Credit Party or are guaranteed under the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement

 

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( provided , however , that the Borrower shall only be liable under this Section 8.16 for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under this Section 8.16 , or otherwise under this Agreement or any Loan Document, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). The obligations of the Borrower under this Section 8.16 shall remain in full force and effect until this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms. Borrower intends that this Section 8.16 constitute a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Credit Party for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Section 8.17 ERISA Compliance . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will promptly furnish and will cause the Subsidiaries and any ERISA Affiliate to promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent after written request therefor by the Administrative Agent, copies of each annual and other report with respect to each Plan or any trust created thereunder, and promptly upon becoming aware of the occurrence of any “prohibited transaction,” as described in section 406 of ERISA or in section 4975 of the Code for which no exemption exists or is available by statute, regulation, administrative exemption, or otherwise, in connection with any Plan or any trust created thereunder and that is reasonably expected to result in liability to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is expected to have Material Adverse Effect, a written notice signed by the President or the principal Financial Officer, the Subsidiary or the ERISA Affiliate, as the case may be, specifying the nature thereof, what action Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, the Subsidiary or the ERISA Affiliate is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto, and, when known, any action taken or proposed by the Internal Revenue Service or the Department of Labor with respect thereto.

Section 8.18 Deposit Accounts; Commodities Accounts and Securities Accounts . Subject to Section 8.20(a) , the Borrower and each Guarantor will cause each of their respective Deposit Accounts, Commodities Accounts or Securities Accounts (in each case, other than Excluded Accounts) to, within 30 days (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion) following the opening of any such account, at all times be subject to an Account Control Agreement in accordance with and to the extent required by the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement.

Section 8.19 Maintenance of Ratings . The Parent Guarantor will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain Credit Ratings in effect from S&P and Moody’s.

Section 8.20 Post-Effective Date Deliverables .

(a) Account Control Agreements . Notwithstanding the requirements set forth in Section 8.18 , with respect to each Deposit Account, Commodities Account and Securities Account of the Credit Parties in existence on the Effective Date (other than, in each case, Excluded Accounts), on or prior to the date that is sixty (60) days following the Effective Date (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), the Borrower and each Guarantor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent duly executed Account Control Agreements in accordance with and to the extent required by the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement.

(b) Mortgages in respect of Oil and Gas Properties . To the extent not delivered on the Effective Date, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent mortgages and other Security Instruments sufficient to create first priority, perfected Liens (subject only to Permitted Liens) (i) on or prior to the date that is sixty (60) days following the Effective Date (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), on at least 50% of the total PV-9 of the Borrowing Base Properties of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by the most recently delivered Reserve Report, after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production and (ii) on or prior to the date that is ninety (90) days following the Effective Date (or such later

 

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date as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), on at least 85% of the total PV-9 of the Proved Reserves of the Borrower and the Guarantors evaluated by the most recently delivered Reserve Report, after giving effect to exploration and production activities, acquisitions, dispositions and production.

ARTICLE IX

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

Until the Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder and all other amounts payable under the Loan Documents have been paid in full, each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

Section 9.01 Intentionally Omitted .

Section 9.02 Debt . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, incur, create, assume or suffer to exist any Debt, except:

(a) the Notes or other Obligations arising under the Loan Documents and Revolving Obligations and any Permitted Refinancing Debt thereof . ;

(b) Debt under Capital Leases or that constitutes Purchase Money Indebtedness; provided that the sum of the aggregate principal amount of all Debt described in this Section 9.02(b) at any one time outstanding shall not exceed $75,000,000 in the aggregate . ;

(c) intercompany Debt owing by the Borrower or any Guarantor to the Borrower or any Guarantor . ;

(d) Debt constituting a guaranty by Borrower or any other Credit Party of other Debt permitted to be incurred under this Section 9.02 . ;

(e) Existing Senior Notes and related Existing Senior Notes Debt; provided that, solely with respect to Senior Notes and related Senior Notes Debt (other than the Existing Senior Notes) issued after the Effective Date, at the time such Senior Notes are issued, the Borrower is in pro forma compliance with the Financial Covenants whether or not a Term Loan Exclusive Period is in effect at such time; provided further that during an Investment Grade Period, at the time any such Senior Notes are issued after the Effective Date, after giving effect to the incurrence of such Senior Notes Debt, the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the Borrower and its Consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recent Rolling Period for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Debt is incurred would have been at least 2.0 to 1.0 , determined on a pro forma basis (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if the additional Debt had been incurred at the beginning of such Rolling Period, at the time any such Senior Notes or related Senior Notes Debt are issued.

(f) Debt that represents an extension, refinancing, or renewal of any of the Existing Senior Notes Debt or Debt issued pursuant to Section 9.02(i) ; provided that, (i) the principal amount of such Debt is not increased (other than by the costs, fees, premiums and expenses and by accrued and unpaid interest paid in connection with any such extension, refinancing or renewal) except in compliance with the preceding clause (e) , (ii) such extension, refinancing or renewal does not result in any principal amount owing in respect of Existing Senior Notes Debt becoming due earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date, and (iii) if the Existing Senior Notes Debt that is refinanced, renewed, or extended was subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, then the terms and conditions of the refinancing, renewal, or extension Debt must include subordination terms and conditions that are at least as favorable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as those that were applicable to the refinanced, renewed, or extended Debt . ;

 

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(g) other Debt so long as the aggregate principal amount of all Debt described in this Section 9.02(g) at any one time outstanding does not exceed $75,000,000 in the aggregate.

( h g ) Debt arising under the Revolving Loan Documents [reserved] ;

(h) Debt arising under the Revolving Loan Documents and any Permitted Refinancing Debt in respect thereof; provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of all such Debt (excluding customary secured hedging and cash management arrangements) incurred pursuant to this Section 9.02(h) at any time outstanding does not exceed the greater of (x) the Borrowing Base then in effect minus the aggregate principal amount of Loans outstanding at such time (but in no event shall the calculation under this clause (x) exceed $425,000,000) and (y) $325,000,000, (ii) all Debt incurred pursuant to this Section 9.02(h) shall be in the form of reserve-based revolving credit financing provided by one or more Approved RBL Lenders to the extent required by clause (b) of the definition of “Revolving Credit Agreement” and (iii) all Debt incurred pursuant to this Section 9.02(h) shall at all times be governed by the Revolver Debt Documents;

(i) Debt under Swap Agreements permitted pursuant to Section 9.18 ;

(j) Debt issued in satisfaction of any Claims derived from or based upon makewhole, applicable premium, redemption premium, or other similar payment provisions under the OpCo Notes MNPA or any other alleged premiums, fees, or Claims arising from the treatment of the OpCo Notes under the Approved Plan, including any Claims for damages or other relief arising from such treatment (capitalized terms used in this Section 9.02(j) but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Plan of Reorganization as in effect on March 14, 2017) so long as the aggregate principal amount of all Debt described in this Section 9.02(j) at any one time outstanding does not exceed $300,000,000 in the aggregate; [reserved];

(k) Permitted Acquisition Debt so long as the aggregate principal amount of all Debt described in this Section 9.02(k) at any one time outstanding does not exceed $100,000,000 . ; and

(l) (i) Permitted Junior Exchange Debt consisting of (x) Permitted Second Lien Debt incurred on the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $545,000,000 plus any increase to such principal amount after the Initial Exchange Date solely resulting from interest that is paid in-kind on such Debt; provided that after giving effect to the incurrence of such Permitted Second Lien Debt on the Initial Exchange Date, there shall have been an aggregate decrease in Debt described in clause (a) of the definition thereof of the Borrower of not less than $224,800,000, (y) Permitted Second Lien Debt incurred from the Initial Exchange Date to, and including, the one-year anniversary of the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate amount not to exceed $55,100,000, plus any increase to such principal amount after the Initial Exchange Date solely resulting from interest that is paid in-kind on such Debt; provided, such Debt shall only be permitted pursuant to this Section 9.02(l)(i)(y) if such Debt is issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds thereof are used solely to repay, the applicable 2022 Notes at a price per each $1,000 aggregate principal amount of the applicable 2022 Notes validly exchanged not to exceed (A) $720 aggregate principal amount of such Permitted Second Lien Debt incurred pursuant to this Section 9.02(l)(i)(y), plus (B) 14.0 warrants with economic terms identical to those of the warrants issued in the transactions contemplated by the Exchange Agreement dated December 17, 2018, by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors and the other parties identified on Schedule I thereto, plus (C) an amount of cash necessary to pay any accrued and unpaid interest on the 2022 Notes redeemed or retired pursuant to this

 

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Section 9.02(l)(i)(y), and/or (z) Permitted Third Lien Debt incurred after the Initial Exchange Date in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $240,000,000 plus any increase to such principal amount resulting from interest that is paid in-kind on such Debt; provided that, in the case of each incurrence of Debt pursuant to this clause (i), as of the time of the issuance thereof and after giving pro forma effect thereto and to the use of proceeds thereof, (x) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (y) the annual aggregate cash interest expense payable with respect to any such Debt shall not exceed the annual aggregate cash interest expense that would have been payable with respect to such Existing Senior Notes refinanced thereby during the 12-month period preceding such refinancing and (ii) and any Permitted Refinancing Debt in respect thereof.

Section 9.03 Liens . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any of its Properties (now owned or hereafter acquired), except:

(a) Liens securing the Obligations . ;

(b) Excepted Liens . ;

(c) Liens securing Capital Leases and Purchase Money Indebtedness permitted by Section 9.02(b) but only on the Property under lease or the Property purchased, constructed or improved with such Purchase Money Indebtedness . ;

(d) Liens securing Debt permitted by Section 9.02(g) but only on Property not constituting Borrowing Base Properties or Collateral . ;

(e) Liens securing the Revolving Obligations. Debt permitted by Section 9.02(h);

(f) Liens on cash deposits securing obligations under Swap Agreements; provided that the amount of such cash deposits shall not exceed $25,000,000 in the aggregate at any time . ;

(g) Liens on cash, surety, performance or appeal bonds and similar instruments securing satisfaction of any Claims derived from or based upon makewhole, applicable premium, redemption premium, or other similar payment provisions under the OpCo Notes MNPA or any other alleged premiums, fees, or Claims arising from the treatment of the OpCo Notes under the Approved Plan, including any Claims for damages or other relief arising from such treatment; provided that any reference to “Claims” in this Section 9.03(g) shall only apply to such Claims to the extent that they do not constitute funded debt (capitalized terms used in this Section 9.03(g) but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Plan of Reorganization as in effect on March 14, 2017).

(g) [reserved]; and

(h) Liens on the Collateral securing Debt permitted by Section 9.02(l); provided that such Liens are subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations pursuant to the applicable Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

Section 9.04 Limitation on Restricted Payments .

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(i) declare or pay any dividend or make any other payment or distribution on account of the Parent Guarantor’s, Borrower’s or any Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests (including, without limitation, any payment by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than (A) dividends or distributions payable in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) of the Parent Guarantor, (B) dividends or distributions by UP Energy, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, so long as, in the case of any dividend or distribution payable on or in respect of any Equity Interests issued by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary, the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiary holding such Equity Interests receives at least its pro rata share of such dividend or distribution and (C) payments made in respect of any stock appreciation rights or similar benefits plans;

(ii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value (including, without limitation, in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Parent Guarantor or the Borrower) any Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or the Borrower;

(iii) make any principal payment on or with respect to, or purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Subordinated Debt of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (excluding (a)  any intercompany Debt between or among the Parent Guarantor and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries , (b)  the purchase, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other acquisition of Subordinated Debt of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary purchased, redeemed, defeased or otherwise acquired in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case due within one year after the date of purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or acquisition, and (c) any payment of principal at the stated maturity thereof); or ); or

(iv) make any Restricted Investment (all such payments and other actions set forth in clauses (i) through (iii) above (other than any exception thereto) being collectively referred to as “ Restricted Payments ”) , unless, at the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Restricted Payment: ;

provided that, on or after September 1, 2019, the Borrower shall be permitted to make a Restricted Payment described under Section 9.04(a)(iii) solely in respect of Permitted Third Lien Debt, the Existing Senior Notes or any Permitted Refinancing Debt in respect of the foregoing (such Debt, the “Subject Debt”) if (x) such Subject Debt is purchased, repurchased, redeemed, acquired or retired at a price in cash equal to no greater than 35% of the principal amount of such Subject Debt and (y)  at the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Restricted Payment:

(A) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur as a consequence of such Restricted Payment;

(B) the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is less than 3.25:1.00 for the most recently ended Rolling Period for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date for which such Restricted Payment is being made determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Restricted Payment; and

(C) such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary since the Effective Date is less than the sum, without duplication, of:

 

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(1) 50% of the Consolidated Net Income for the period (taken as one accounting period) from the first day of the fiscal quarter during which the Effective Date occurs to the end of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which internal financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment (or, if such Consolidated Net Income for such period is a deficit, less 100% of such deficit); plus

(2) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds and the Fair Market Value of (I) marketable securities (other than marketable securities of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary), (II) Equity Interests of a Person (other than the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) engaged primarily in a Permitted Business and (III) other assets used or useful in a Permitted Business, in each case, received by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary since the Effective Date (x) as a contribution to its common equity capital or from the issue or sale of Qualifying Equity Interests, (y) from the issue or sale of convertible or exchangeable Disqualified Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor or convertible or exchangeable debt securities of the Parent Guarantor, in each case that have been converted into or exchanged for Qualifying Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor (in the case of clauses (x) or (y), other than net cash proceeds received from an issuance or sale of Qualifying Equity Interests, convertible or exchangeable Disqualified Capital Stock or debt securities to a Restricted Subsidiary or to an employee stock ownership plan or similar trust to the extent such issuance or sale to such employee stock ownership plan or similar trust is financed by loans from or guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (unless such loans have been repaid with cash on or prior to the date of determination)) or (z) upon the exercise of any options, warrants or rights to purchase Qualifying Equity Interests; plus

(3) the amount by which Debt of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries which is convertible or exchangeable for Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) is reduced on the Parent Guarantor’s consolidated balance sheet upon the conversion or exchange (other than Debt held by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) subsequent to the Effective Date of such Debt (less the amount of any cash, or the Fair Market Value of any other property, distributed by the Parent Guarantor upon such conversion or exchange); plus

(4) the amounts received by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, with respect to any Restricted Investments made by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Person after the Effective Date resulting from:

(I) repurchases or redemptions of, or returns of capital on, such Restricted Investments by such Person, proceeds realized upon the sale of such Restricted Investment to an unaffiliated purchaser, repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of assets (including by way of dividend or distribution) by such Person to the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than for reimbursement of tax payments); or

(II) the redesignation of Unrestricted Subsidiaries as Restricted Subsidiaries or the merger or consolidation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary with and into the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary [reserved] ;

which amount in the case of Section 9.04(a)(iv)(C)(4)(I) is an the amount equal to the lesser of (A) the initial amount of such Restricted Investment and (B) the cash amount (less any expenses incurred in connection with such transaction) received by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than for reimbursement of tax payments), provided , however , that no amount will be included under Section 9.04(a)(iv)(C)(4)(I) to the extent it is already included in Consolidated Net Income.

 

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(b) Section 9.04(a) shall not prohibit any Restricted Payments under this Section 9.04(b) , provided that at the time of, and after giving effect to, any such Restricted Payment, no Event of Default (or in the case of Section 9.04(b)(iv) , Default) shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof:

(i) any Restricted Payment made or paid within 60 days after the date of declaration or giving of a redemption notice, as the case may be, thereof, if at such date of declaration or notice, such Restricted Payment would have complied with the provisions of this Agreement (and such payment shall be deemed to be paid on the date of declaration or notice for purposes of any calculation required by this covenant);

(i) the purchase, redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other acquisition of Subject Debt within one year of the maturity thereof or at maturity thereof in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000 for all such purchases, redemptions, defeasances, repurchases or other acquisitions of Subject Debt after the Initial Exchange Date;

(ii) the making of any Restricted Payment in exchange for, or out of or with the Net Equity Proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale (other than to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) of, Qualifying Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or from the substantially concurrent contribution of common equity capital to the Parent Guarantor (with a sale or contribution being deemed substantially concurrent if such Restricted Payment occurs not more than 120 days after such sale or contribution);

(iii) the repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Subordinated Debt of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor with the Net Cash Proceeds from a substantially concurrent incurrence of, or exchange for, Permitted Refinancing Debt (with an incurrence of Permitted Refinancing Debt being deemed substantially concurrent if such repurchase, redemption, defeasance, acquisition or retirement occurs not more than 120 days after such incurrence);

(iv) so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, any Restricted Payment to any existing or former directors, employees, management or consultants or advisors of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or their assigns, estates or heirs, in each case in connection with equity incentive plans, under stock option plans or stock purchase agreements or other agreements to compensate such persons approved by the board of directors of the Parent Guarantor; provided that the Equity Interests with respect to which such Restricted Payments are made were received for services related to, or for the benefit of, the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiaries; and provided , further , that Restricted Payments pursuant to this clause will not exceed $2,000,000 in the aggregate during any calendar year (with any unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to successive calendar years and added to such amount subject to a maximum of $5,000,000 in any calendar year); plus , to the extent not previously applied or included, (A) the Net Equity Proceeds received by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary from sales of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) to directors, employees, management or consultants or advisors of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary that occur after the Effective Date (to the extent such Net Equity Proceeds have not otherwise been applied to the payment of Restricted Payments pursuant to Section 9.04(a)(C)(2) ) and (B) the net cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Effective Date; provided that the Parent Guarantor may elect to apply all or any portion of the aggregate increase contemplated by clauses (A) and (B) above in any calendar year; and provided , further , that cancellation of Debt owing to the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary from any existing or former directors, employees, management or consultants or advisors of the the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the repurchase of Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment for purposes of this covenant or any other provision of this Agreement;

 

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(v) the purchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the exercise or conversion of stock options, warrants, rights to acquire Equity Interests or other convertible securities, to the extent such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise or conversion price thereof;

(vi) the purchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary held by any current or former officers, directors, employees, management or consultants or advisors of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the exercise or vesting of any equity compensation (including, without limitation, stock options, restricted stock and phantom stock) in order to satisfy any tax withholding obligation with respect to such exercise or vesting;

(vii) the declaration and payment of regularly scheduled or accrued dividends to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Capital Stock of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary issued on or after the Effective Date in accordance with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test described in Section 9.02 , to the extent such dividends are included in the definition of “Fixed Charges”;

(viii) payments of cash, dividends, distributions, advances or other Restricted Payments by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary to allow the payment of cash in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares (or to allow for the purchase by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary of fractional shares) upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of any stock options, warrants, other rights to purchase Equity Interests or other convertible or exchangeable securities ( provided that any such payment is not for the purpose of evading the limitations of this covenant); and

(ix) each Permitted Notes Exchange to the extent the incurrence of the applicable Permitted Junior Exchange Debt is permitted by Section 9.02(l);

( ix x ) on or after September 1, 2019, other Restricted Payments of the type described in Section 9.04(a)(ii) , so long as the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is no greater less than 2.50 2.25 :1.00 determined on a pro forma basis for the most recently ended Rolling Period for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date for which such Restricted Payment is being made . ; and

(xi) the prepayment, purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Permitted Junior Exchange Debt at a purchase price not greater than 100% of the principal amount of such Permitted Junior Exchange Debt as the result of a mandatory prepayment, purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement event under such Permitted Junior Exchange Debt on account of an asset sale or casualty or condemnation event; provided that, prior to or simultaneously with such prepayment, purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement, the Borrower has made any prepayment required under Section 3.04(c).

(c) For purposes of determining compliance with this “Restricted Payments” covenant, in the event that a Restricted Payment meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Restricted Payments described in Section 9.04 , the Borrower will be permitted to divide or classify (or later divide, classify or reclassify in whole or in part in its sole discretion) such Restricted Payment in any manner that complies with this covenant.

 

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(d) The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) will be the Fair Market Value on the date of the Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be transferred or issued by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment.

Section 9.05 [Reserved] .

Section 9.06 Nature of Business; International Operations . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, allow any material change to be made in the character of its business as a company engaged in the Oil and Gas Business. From and after the date hereof, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries will not acquire or commit to acquire any Oil and Gas Properties not located within the geographical boundaries of the United States of America and the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries will not form or acquire any Foreign Subsidiaries. Parent Guarantor shall not directly own any interest in any Oil and Gas Property. Any Oil and Gas Properties of the Credit Parties will at all times be owned by the Borrower or one or more Restricted Subsidiaries.

Section 9.07 [Reserved] .

Section 9.08 ERISA Compliance . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, at any time:

(a) engage in, or permit any ERISA Affiliate to engage in, any transaction in connection with which the Borrower or a Subsidiary could be subjected to either a civil penalty assessed pursuant to subsections (i) or (l) of section 502 of ERISA or a tax imposed by section 4975 of the Code, except where such penalty or tax could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) fail to make, or permit any ERISA Affiliate to fail to make, full payment when due of all amounts which, under the provisions of any Plan, agreement relating thereto or applicable law, Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate is required to pay as contributions thereto, except where such failure could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c) contribute to or assume an obligation to contribute to, or permit any ERISA Affiliate to contribute to or assume an obligation to contribute to, any employee welfare benefit plan, as defined in section 3(1) of ERISA that provides benefits to retirees or former employees of such entities that may not be terminated by such entities in their sole discretion at any time without any liability other than for benefits due as of, or claims incurred prior to, the effective date of such termination, except where such contribution or assumption of an obligation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 9.09 Sale or Discount of Notes or Receivables . Except for the sale of defaulted notes or accounts receivable not made in connection with any financing transaction, Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, sell (with or without recourse or discount) any of its notes receivable or accounts receivable to any Person other than the Borrower or any Guarantor. The settlement or compromise of joint interest billings or of accounts receivable and other receivables in connection with the collection or compromise thereof will not constitute a sale for the purposes of the preceding sentence.

 

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Section 9.10 Mergers, Etc . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, merge into or with or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its Property to any other Person (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) (any such transaction, a “ consolidation ”), or liquidate or dissolve; provided that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing, any Restricted Subsidiary may be liquidated or may participate in a merger or consolidation with the Borrower or Parent Guarantor ( provided that the Borrower or Parent Guarantor shall be the survivor) or any other Restricted Subsidiary or another Person who becomes a Restricted Subsidiary concurrent with such merger or consolidation provided further that, notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing, the Parent Guarantor may consummate a Redomestication Transaction .

Section 9.11 Sale of Properties and Liquidation of Swap Agreements . As used herein, “ Transfer ” means to sell, assign, farm-out, convey or otherwise transfer Property or to Liquidate any Swap Agreement in respect of commodities, provided that Transfer does not include the grant or creation of a Lien. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, Transfer (1) any Oil and Gas Property or any interest in Hydrocarbons produced or to be produced therefrom, (2) any commodity Swap Agreement or (3) any Equity Interest in any Restricted Subsidiary that owns any Oil and Gas Property, any interest in Hydrocarbons produced or to be produced therefrom, or any commodity Swap Agreement (in this Section 9.11 , an “ E&P Subsidiary ”), except for:

(a) the sale of Hydrocarbons in the ordinary course of business;

(b) farmouts of undeveloped acreage and assignments in connection with such farmouts;

(c) Transfers among Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries provided that the provisions of Section 8.14 are complied with to the extent applicable;

(d) the sale or transfer of Unproven Acreage or of any Equity Interests in any E&P Subsidiary (other than an E&P Subsidiary that owns any Borrowing Base Properties, any interest in Hydrocarbons produced or to be produced therefrom, or any commodity Swap Agreement included in the most recent determination of the Borrowing Base), provided that, prior to and after giving effect to such sale or transfer, (i) the Borrower is in compliance with Section 9.18 , (ii) if a Borrowing Base Deficiency exists prior to such sale or transfer, 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds of such sale or transfer are applied to prepay the Loans up to an amount sufficient to cure such Borrowing Base Deficiency and (iii) no Default or Event of Default exists at such time; provided that if any such Transfer pursuant to this Section 9.11(d) occurs during a Term Loan Exclusive Period, the Net Cash Proceeds from all such Transfers pursuant to this Section 9.11(d) in excess of $20,000,000 shall be applied pursuant to Section 3.04(c)(iii) ; provided that within 365 days from the date of such Transfer, such excess Net Cash Proceeds from such Transfer may be applied by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, to the extent such Person so elects to:

(A) to reinvest in Additional Oil and Gas Assets; provided that in the case of Net Cash Proceeds from a Transfer of Collateral such Additional Oil and Gas Assets shall constitute Collateral; or

(B) enter into a bona fide binding contract with a Person other than an Affiliate of the Borrower to apply the Net Cash Proceeds pursuant to clause (A) immediately above, provided that such binding contract shall be treated as a permitted application of the Net Cash Proceeds from the date of such contract until the earlier of:

 

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(1) the date on which such reinvestment is consummated, and

(2) the 90th day following the expiration of the 365-day period referred to in this Section 9.11(d) ;

(e) Transfers of Borrowing Base Properties, of commodity Swap Agreements, and of Equity Interests in any E&P Subsidiary that owns any Borrowing Base Properties, any interest in Hydrocarbons produced or to be produced therefrom or any commodity Swap Agreement included in the most recent determination of the Borrowing Base, provided that:

(i) the consideration received in respect of such Transfer shall be cash, the assumption of liabilities (including indemnification obligations) related to the Borrowing Base Properties Transferred, new Oil and Gas Properties (and related Additional Oil and Gas Assets) and new commodity Swap Agreements acquired, or Investments permitted under Section 9.04 ;

(ii) the consideration received in respect of such Transfer shall be equal to or greater than the fair market value of the Borrowing Base Properties, commodity Swap Agreements and Equity Interests in E&P Subsidiaries that are Transferred (as reasonably determined by the Borrower and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall deliver a certificate of the Borrower certifying to that effect);

(iii) if any such Transfer is of an E&P Subsidiary, such Transfer shall include all the Equity Interests of such E&P Subsidiary owned by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries; and

(iv) if any such Transfer occurs during a Term Loan Exclusive Period, the Net Cash Proceeds from such Transfer shall be applied pursuant to Section 3.04(c)(iii) ; provided that within 365 days from the date of such Transfer, Net Cash Proceeds from such Transfer may be applied by the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, to the extent such Person so elects to:

(A) to reinvest in Additional Oil and Gas Assets; or

(B) enter into a bona fide binding contract with a Person other than an Affiliate of the Borrower to apply the Net Cash Proceeds pursuant to Section 9.11(e)(iv)(A) , provided that such binding contract shall be treated as a permitted application of the Net Cash Proceeds from the date of such contract until the earlier of

(1) the date on which such reinvestment is consummated, and

(2) the 90th day following the expiration of the 365-day period referred to in this Section 9.11(e)(iv) ; and

Section 9.12 Transactions with Affiliates . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into any transaction, with any Affiliate (other than Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries) unless such transaction is upon terms that are no less favorable to it than those that could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate or that are otherwise fair to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view. The restrictions set forth in this

 

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Section 9.12 shall not apply to (a) executing, delivering, and performing obligations under the Loan Documents, the Revolving Loan Documents and the Senior Notes Documents; (b) compensation to, and the terms of employment contracts with, individuals who are officers, managers and directors of Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, provided such compensation or contract is approved by Ultra Petroleum’s board of directors, (c) the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Capital Stock) by Parent Guarantor or the Borrower, (d) transactions permitted under Section 9.04 or otherwise expressly permitted under this Agreement and (e) transactions contemplated by the Plan of Reorganization.

Section 9.13 Subsidiaries . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create or acquire any additional Restricted Subsidiary or redesignate an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary unless the Borrower gives written notice to the Administrative Agent of such creation or acquisition and complies with Section 8.14(b) . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, sell, assign or otherwise dispose of any Equity Interests in the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary except (a) to the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary or (b) in compliance with Section 9.11 . None of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary will have any Foreign Subsidiaries. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not permit any Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary to be directly owned by any Person other than the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary. UP Energy will not directly own any subsidiary other than the Borrower and any Unrestricted Parent Entity.

Section 9.14 Negative Pledge Agreements; Subsidiary Dividend Restrictions . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any contract, agreement or understanding (other than (i) this Agreement and the Security Instruments, (ii) agreements with respect to Debt secured by Liens permitted by Section 9.03(c) or Section 9.03(d) but then only with respect to the Property that is financed by such Debt, and (iii) documents creating Liens which are described in clause (d), (f), (h) or (i) of the definition of “Excepted Liens”, but then only with respect to the Property that is the subject of the applicable lease, document or license described in such clause (d), (f), (h) or (i)  and (iv) agreements with respect to Permitted Junior Exchange Debt and any Permitted Refinancing Debt in respect thereof ) that in any way prohibits or restricts the granting, conveying, creation or imposition of the Liens on any of its Property in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties that are created pursuant to the Security Instruments to secure the Obligations. Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any contract, agreement or understanding (other than the Loan Documents, the Revolving Loan Documents and the Senior Notes Documents) that restricts any Restricted Subsidiary from paying dividends or making any other distributions in respect of its Equity Interests to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary.

Section 9.15 Designation and Conversion of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries [Reserved] .

(a) Any Person that becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be a Restricted Subsidiary unless such Person (i) is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary on Schedule 7.14 , as of the date hereof, (ii) is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary after the date hereof in compliance with Section 9.15(b) , or (iii) is a subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

(b) The Borrower may designate by written notification thereof to the Administrative Agent, any Restricted Subsidiary, including a newly formed or newly acquired Subsidiary, as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if (i) prior, and after giving effect, to such designation, neither a Default nor a Borrowing Base Deficiency would exist and (ii) such designation is deemed to be an Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary in an amount equal to the fair market value as of the date of such designation of the Borrower’s direct and indirect ownership interest in such Subsidiary and such Investment would be permitted to be made under Section 9.04 . Except as provided in this Section 9.15(b) , no Restricted Subsidiary may be redesignated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

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(c) The Borrower may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary if after giving effect to such designation, (i) the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the other Credit Parties contained in each of the Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of the date of such redesignation except to the extent (A) any such representations and warranties are expressly limited to an earlier date, in which case, on and as of the date of such redesignation, such representations and warranties shall continue to be true and correct as of such specified earlier date and (B) to the extent that any such representation and warranty is expressly qualified by materiality or by reference to Material Adverse Effect, such representation and warranty (as so qualified) shall be true and correct in all respects on and as of the date of such redesignation, (ii) no Event of Default would exist and (iii) the Borrower complies with the requirements of Section 8.14 , Section 8.15 and Section 9.13 . Upon any such designation, an amount equal to the lesser of the fair market value of the Borrower’s direct and indirect ownership interest in such Subsidiary or the amount of the Borrower’s cash investment previously made in such Subsidiary shall be deemed no longer outstanding for purposes of the limitation on Investments under Section 9.04 .

Section 9.16 Non-Qualified ECP Counterparties . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall not permit any Guarantor that is not a Qualified ECP Counterparty to own, at any time, any Borrowing Base Properties. The Borrower shall not permit any Guarantor that is not a Qualified ECP Counterparty to own, at any time, any Equity Interests in any Restricted Subsidiaries.

Section 9.17 Amendments to Senior Modifications to Debt Documents . Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to , :

(a) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to any of the terms of the Existing Senior Notes Documents if (a) the effect thereof would be to shorten the maturity of the Existing Senior Notes Debt to a date earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date or to provide a right to require Redemption of any Existing Senior Notes Debt earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date, (b) the effect thereof would be to increase the principal amount of such Existing Senior Notes Debt (other than in connection with an additional incurrence of Senior Notes Debt that is permitted under Section 9.02(e) or a refinancing to the extent permitted under Section 9.02(f) ), or (c) such action adds or amends any financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or events of default to cause the financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or events of default to be materially more onerous, taken as a whole and as determined by the board of directors of Parent Guarantor, than those in this Agreement without this Agreement being contemporaneously amended to add similar provisions . ; or

(b) enter into, cause or permit to exist or become effective any amendment, restatement, supplement, modification or refinancing (or successive amendments, restatements, supplements, modifications or refinancings) of the Second Lien Indenture, including any guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith (the “Second Lien Indenture Documents”), (x) if (a) the effect thereof would be to shorten the maturity of the Debt outstanding under the Second Lien Indenture Documents to a date earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date or to provide a right to require Redemption of any such Debt earlier than the date that is 91 days after the Maturity Date, (b) the effect thereof would be to increase the principal amount of such Debt (other than to the extent permitted under Section 9.02(l)), or (c) such action adds or amends any financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or events of default to cause the financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or events of default to be materially more onerous, taken as a whole and as determined by the board of directors of Parent Guarantor, than those in this Agreement except to the extent permitted

 

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by the definition of “Permitted Junior Exchange Debt” or (y) that increases (1) the interest rate or yield, including by increasing the “applicable margin” or similar component of the interest rate (including to provide for additional compounded or interest paid in-kind), through original issue discount or by modifying the method of computing interest, or (2) a letter of credit, commitment, facility, utilization, makewhole or similar fee (but excluding any customary consent, amendment, arrangement or similar fees) so that the combined interest rate and fees are increased by more than 2.50% per annum with respect to Second Lien Indenture Documents as in effect on the Initial Exchange Date, in each instance in the aggregate at any level of pricing, but excluding increases from the accrual of interest at the “Post-Default Rate” defined in Second Lien Indenture Documents as in effect on the Initial Exchange Date or, for a refinancing, a rate that corresponds to the “Post-Default Rate”.

Section 9.18 Swap Agreements .

(a) Parent Guarantor and the Borrower will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into or maintain any Swap Agreements with any Person other than:

(i) Swap Agreements with an Approved Counterparty not for speculative purposes in respect of commodities fixing a price for a term of not more than sixty months and the notional volumes for which (when aggregated with other commodity Swap Agreements then in effect other than put or floor options as to which an upfront premium has been paid or basis differential swaps on volumes already hedged pursuant to other Swap Agreements) do not exceed, as of the date such Swap Agreement is executed, eighty-five percent (85%) of the reasonably anticipated projected production from Oil and Gas Properties for each month during the sixty-month period during which such Swap Agreement is in effect for each of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids, calculated separately, provided that the Borrower (A) shall have the option to update the reasonably anticipated projected production from Oil and Gas Properties between the delivery of Reserve Reports hereunder (which updates shall be provided to the Administrative Agent in writing and shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) and (B) shall, without causing a breach of this Section 9.18 , have the option to enter into commodity Swap Agreements with respect to (x) such updated projected production and (y) reasonably anticipated projected production from Oil and Gas Properties not then owned by the Borrower or such Subsidiary but which are subject to a binding purchase agreement for which the Borrower or such Subsidiary is scheduled to acquire such Oil and Gas Properties within the applicable period, provided that, if such purchase agreement does not close for any reason on the date required thereunder, including any binding extensions thereof, within thirty (30) days of such required closing date, the Borrower shall unwind or otherwise terminate the Swap Agreements entered into with respect to production that was to be acquired thereunder, and

(ii) Swap Agreements with an Approved Counterparty not for speculative purposes in respect of interest rates, the notional amounts of which (when aggregated with all other Swap Agreements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries then in effect) do not exceed eighty-five percent (85%) of the then outstanding principal amount of the Borrower’s Debt for borrowed money. In no event shall any Swap Agreement, other than a master Swap Agreement pursuant to which the Borrower executes only put or floor options as to which an upfront premium has been paid and subject to the limitations set forth in Section 9.03(f) , contain any requirement, agreement or covenant for the Borrower or any Subsidiary to post collateral or margin to secure their obligations under such Swap Agreement other than the benefit of the Security Instruments as contemplated herein.

(b) If, after the end of any calendar month, the Borrower determines that the aggregate notional volume of all Swap Agreements in respect of commodities for such calendar month exceeded 100% of actual production of Hydrocarbons in such calendar month, then the Borrower shall (i) promptly notify the Administrative Agent of such determination, and (ii) if requested by the Administrative Agent (or if otherwise necessary to ensure compliance with Section 9.18(a)(i) ), within 30 days after such request, terminate, create off-setting positions or otherwise unwind or monetize existing Swap Agreements such that, at such time, future volumes under commodity Swap Agreements and future Deemed Transportation Volumes will not exceed 100% of reasonably anticipated projected production for the then-current and any succeeding calendar months.

 

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(c) For all purposes of determining the aggregate volumes of Swap Agreements under this Section 9.18 there shall be no double counting for transactions and agreements in respect of the same volumes that hedge different risks, including without limitation:

(i) for price swaps and basis swaps in respect of the same volumes, such as financial basis swaps between Marcellus and Henry Hub and financial price swaps of floating Henry Hub for a fixed price,

(ii) for financial price swaps and Specified Commodity Sale Contracts that functionally operate as basis swaps in respect of the same volumes,

(iii) for basis swaps that hedge different components of basis risk, such as a Specified Commodity Sale Contract that hedges basis risk between Marcellus and Texas Eastern’s East Louisiana zone and a financial basis hedge that hedges basis risk between Texas Eastern’s East Louisiana zone and Henry Hub.

ARTICLE X

EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES

Section 10.01 Events of Default . One or more of the following events shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof, by acceleration or otherwise.

(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in Section 10.01(a) ) payable under any Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days.

(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Credit Party in or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification of any Loan Document or waiver under such Loan Document, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with any Loan Document or any amendment or modification thereof or waiver thereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made.

(d) the Borrower shall fail to give notice of any Default as required under Section 8.02(a) , or the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 8.01(c) , (i) or (j), Section 8.02(b) or (c), Section 8.03(a) , Section 8.14 , Section 8.18 , Section 8.20 or Article IX .

(e) the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in Section 10.01(a) , Section 10.01(b) or Section 10.01(d) ) or any other Loan Document, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after the earlier to occur of (i) a Responsible Officer of the Borrower or any other Credit Party having knowledge of such default, or (ii) receipt of notice thereof by the Borrower from the Administrative Agent.

 

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(f) the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall fail to make any payment of principal or interest on any Material Debt, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure to pay shall extend beyond any applicable period of grace.

(g) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Debt becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of such Material Debt or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause such Material Debt to become due, or to require the Redemption thereof or any offer to Redeem to be made in respect thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity.

(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any other Credit Party or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any other Credit Party or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for sixty (60) days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered.

(i) the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in Section 10.01(h) , apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any other Credit Party or for a substantial part of its assets, file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing.

(j) the Borrower or any other Credit Party shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due.

(k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third party insurance as to which the insurer, which is not subject to an insolvency proceeding, does not dispute coverage) shall be rendered against the Borrower, any other Credit Party or any combination thereof and the same shall not be either discharged, vacated or stayed within thirty days after becoming a final judgment.

(l) the Loan Documents after delivery thereof shall for any reason, except to the extent permitted by the terms thereof, cease to be in full force and effect and valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with their terms against the Borrower or any other Credit Party party thereto, or shall be repudiated by any of them, or cease to create valid and perfected Liens of the priority required thereby on the Collateral purported to be covered thereby, except to the extent permitted by the terms of this Agreement or the Security Instruments, or the Borrower or any other Credit Party or any of their Affiliates shall so state in writing.

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Section 10.02 Remedies .

(a) In the case of an Event of Default other than one described in Section 10.01(h) or Section 10.01(i) , at any time thereafter during the continuance of such Event of Default, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Majority Lenders, shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Notes and the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors accrued hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower and each Guarantor; and in case of an Event of Default described in Section 10.01(h) or Section 10.01(i) , the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the Notes and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and the other obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors accrued hereunder and under the Notes and the other Loan Documents, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of acceleration or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower and each Guarantor.

(b) In the case of the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders will have all other rights and remedies available at law and equity.

(c) All proceeds realized from the liquidation or other disposition of Collateral or otherwise received after maturity of the Notes, whether by acceleration or otherwise, shall be applied:

(i) first , to payment or reimbursement of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, expenses and indemnities payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;

(ii) second , pro rata to payment or reimbursement of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, expenses and indemnities payable to the Lenders;

(iii) third , pro rata to payment of accrued interest on the Loans;

(iv) fourth , pro rata to payment of principal outstanding on the Loans (including with respect to principal on account of PIK Interest in respect of any Loan) ;

(v) fifth , pro rata to any other Obligations;

(vi) sixth , any excess, after all of the Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash, shall be paid to the Borrower or as otherwise required by any Governmental Requirement.

ARTICLE XI

THE AGENTS

Section 11.01 Appointment; Powers . Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent to act on its behalf as the administrative agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and the other Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.

 

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Section 11.02 Duties and Obligations of Administrative Agent . The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing: (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing (the use of the term “agent” herein and in the other Loan Documents with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law; rather, such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties), (b) the Administrative Agent shall have no duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except as provided in Section 11.03 , and (c) except as expressly set forth herein, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or a Lender, and shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into: (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or in any other Loan Document, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article VI or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent or as to those conditions precedent expressly required to be to the Administrative Agent’s satisfaction, (vi) the existence, value, perfection or priority of any collateral security or the financial or other condition of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Borrower’s Subsidiaries or any other obligor or guarantor, or (vii) any failure by the Borrower or any other Person (other than itself) to perform any of its obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document or the performance or observance of any covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein. For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Article VI , each Lender 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 written notice from such Lender prior to the proposed closing date specifying its objection thereto.

Section 11.03 Action by Administrative Agent . The Administrative Agent shall have no 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 in writing as directed by the Majority Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 12.02 ) and in all cases the Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to act hereunder or under any other Loan Documents unless it shall (a) receive written instructions from the Majority Lenders or the Lenders, as applicable, (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 12.02 ) specifying the action to be taken and (b) be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expenses which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The instructions as aforesaid and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto by the Administrative Agent shall be binding on all of the Lenders. If a Default has occurred and is continuing, then the Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default as shall be directed by the requisite Lenders in the written instructions (with indemnities)

 

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described in this Section 11.03 , provided that, unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders. In no event, however, shall the Administrative Agent be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, exposes the Administrative Agent to personal liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the Loan Documents or applicable law, including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any bankruptcy or insolvency law. If a Default has occurred and is continuing, no syndication agents or documentation agent shall have any obligation to perform any act in respect thereof. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Majority Lenders or the Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 12.02 ), and otherwise the Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document or under any other document or instrument referred to or provided for herein or therein or in connection herewith or therewith INCLUDING ITS OWN ORDINARY NEGLIGENCE, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Section 11.04 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 believed by it to be 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 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. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the holder thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until a written notice of the assignment or transfer thereof permitted hereunder shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent.

Section 11.05 Sub-agents . The Administrative Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding Sections of this Article XI 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. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and nonappealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.

Section 11.06 Resignation or Removal of Administrative Agent . Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent as provided in this Section 11.06 , the Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Majority Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Majority Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation or

 

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removal of the retiring Administrative Agent, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. The fees payable by the 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 Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article XI and Section 12.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as Administrative Agent.

Section 11.07 Agents as Lenders . Each bank serving as an 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 an Agent, and such bank 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 Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.

Section 11.08 No Reliance . (a) Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any other Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement and each other Loan Document to which it is a party. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any other Agent or any other Lender 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, any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. The Agents shall not be required to keep themselves informed as to the performance or observance by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries of this Agreement, the Loan Documents or any other document referred to or provided for herein or to inspect the Properties or books of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or the Borrower’s Subsidiaries. Except for notices, reports and other documents and information expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, no Agent or the Arrangers shall have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower (or any of their Affiliates) which may come into the possession of such Agent or any of its Affiliates. In this regard, each Lender acknowledges that Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is acting in this transaction as special counsel to the Administrative Agent only, except to the extent otherwise expressly stated in any legal opinion or any Loan Document. Each other party hereto will consult with its own legal counsel to the extent that it deems necessary in connection with the Loan Documents and the matters contemplated therein.

(b) The Lenders acknowledge that the Administrative Agent is acting solely in administrative capacities with respect to the structuring of this Agreement and has no duties, responsibilities or liabilities under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents other than their administrative duties, responsibilities and liabilities specifically as set forth in the Loan Documents and, if applicable, in its capacity as Lenders hereunder. In structuring, arranging or syndicating this Agreement, each Lender acknowledges that the Administrative Agent may be a lender hereunder and under other loans or other securities and waives any existing or future conflicts of interest associated with the their role in such other debt instruments. If in its administration of this facility or any other debt instrument, the Administrative Agent determines (or is given written notice by any Lender) that a conflict exists, then it shall eliminate such conflict within 90 days or resign pursuant to Section 11.06 and shall have no liability for action taken or not taken while such conflict existed.

 

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Section 11.09 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 Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, 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 (but not obligated), by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

(a) 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 Section 12.03 ) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same.

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 12.03 .

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.

Section 11.10 Authority of Administrative Agent to Release Collateral and Liens .

(a) Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to take the following actions and the Administrative Agent hereby agrees to take such actions at the request of the Borrower:

(i) to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document (x) upon termination of all Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations) owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the Loan Documents, (y) that is, or is to be, sold, released or otherwise disposed of as permitted pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents, or (z) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Majority Lenders (or, if approval, authorization or ratification by all Lenders is required under Section 12.02(b) , then by all Lenders);

 

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(ii) to subordinate (or release) any Lien on any Property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to any Lien on such Property that is permitted by Section 9.03(c) ;

(iii) to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement and the other Loan Documents if such Person ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted under the Loan Documents; and

(iv) to execute and deliver to the Borrower, at the Borrower’s sole cost and expense, any and all releases of Liens, termination statements, assignments or other documents necessary or useful to accomplish or evidence the foregoing.

(b) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent at any time, the Majority Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 11.10 .

(c) Except as otherwise provided in Section 12.08 with respect to rights of setoff, and notwithstanding any other provision contained in any of the Loan Documents to the contrary, no Person other than the Administrative Agent has any right to realize upon any of the Collateral individually, to enforce any Liens on Collateral, or to enforce the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, and all powers, rights and remedies under the Security Instruments may be exercised solely by Administrative Agent on behalf of the Persons secured or otherwise benefitted thereby.

(d) By accepting the benefit of the Liens granted pursuant to the Security Instruments, each Person secured by such Liens that is not a party hereto agrees to the terms of this Section 11.10 .

Section 11.11 The Arrangers, the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent . The Arrangers and any other arranger, syndication agent or documentation agent hereafter appointed shall have no duties, responsibilities or liabilities under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents other than their duties, responsibilities and liabilities in their capacity as Lenders hereunder.

ARTICLE XII

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 12.01 Notices .

(a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to Section 12.01(b) ), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile, to it at its address set forth on Schedule 12.01 , and if to any Lender other than Barclays Bank PLC, to it at its address (or facsimile number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.

(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II , III , IV or V , unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender, if any, in writing. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

 

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(c) Any party hereto may change its address or facsimile number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt.

(d) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic 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 telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereby consents to such recording.

Section 12.02 Waivers; Amendments .

(a) No failure on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to exercise and no delay in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any right, power or privilege, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such right, power or privilege, under any of the Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege under any of the Loan Documents preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, any other Agent and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by Section 12.02(b) , and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any other Agent, or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.

(b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof nor any Security Instrument nor any provision thereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Majority Lenders or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Majority Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, or reduce any other Obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iii) postpone the scheduled date of payment or prepayment of the principal amount of any Loan, or any interest thereon, or any fees payable hereunder, or any other Obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone or extend the Maturity Date or the Maturity Date without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) change Section 4.01(b) , Section 4.01(c) , the definition of “Applicable Percentage” or any other term or condition hereof in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender, (v) waive or amend Section 3.04(c) , Section 6.01 or Section 10.02(c) , without the written consent of each Lender, (vi) release any Guarantor (except as set forth in the Guaranty and Collateral Agreement or in this Agreement), release all or substantially all of the Collateral (other than as provided in Section 11.10 ), or (vii) change any of the provisions of this Section 12.02(b) or the definition of “Majority Lenders” or any other provision hereof

 

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specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights hereunder or under any other Loan Documents or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder or any other Loan Documents, without the written consent of each Lender; provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, any other Agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, such other Agent, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) any supplement to Schedule 7.14 shall be effective simply by delivering to the Administrative Agent a supplemental schedule clearly marked as such and, upon receipt, the Administrative Agent will promptly deliver a copy thereof to the Lenders, (2) the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may amend this Agreement or any other Loan Document without the consent of the Lenders in order to correct, amend or cure any ambiguity, inconsistency or defect or correct any typographical error or other manifest error in any Loan Document or to modify or add financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or Events of Default to cause such financial ratio covenants, negative covenants or Events of Default to be more onerous to the Borrower than those contained in this Agreement (prior to giving effect to such amendment) in connection with any amendment, modification or other change to the Senior Notes Documents pursuant Section 9.17(c) , and (3) the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may, without the consent of any Lender, enter into any amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or enter into any agreement or instrument to add additional Guarantors as contemplated in Section 8.14(b) or to effect the granting, perfection, protection, expansion or enhancement of any security interest in any Collateral or Property to become Collateral to secure the Obligations for the benefit of the Lenders or as required by any Governmental Requirement to give effect to, protect or otherwise enhance the rights or benefits of any Lender under the Loan Documents.

Section 12.03 Expenses, Indemnity; Damage Waiver .

(a) The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel and other outside consultants for the Administrative Agent, the reasonable travel, photocopy, mailing, courier, telephone and other similar expenses, and the cost of environmental assessments and audits and surveys and appraisals) in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration (both before and after the execution hereof and including advice of counsel to the Administrative Agent as to the rights and duties of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect thereto) of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any amendments, modifications or waivers of or consents related to the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all costs, expenses, Taxes, assessments and other charges incurred by the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) in connection with any filing, registration, recording or perfection of any security interest contemplated by this Agreement or any Security Instrument or any other document referred to therein, and (iii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Agent or, during the continuance of any Event of Default, by any Lender in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including its rights under this Section 12.03 , or in connection with the Loans made hereunder, and including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans.

(b) THE BORROWER SHALL INDEMNIFY EACH AGENT (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 DEFEND AND HOLD EACH INDEMNITEE HARMLESS FROM, ANY AND ALL LOSSES, CLAIMS, DAMAGES, PENALTIES, LIABILITIES AND RELATED EXPENSES, INCLUDING THE REASONABLE FEES, CHARGES AND DISBURSEMENTS OF ANY COUNSEL FOR ANY INDEMNITEE,

 

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INCURRED BY OR ASSERTED AGAINST ANY INDEMNITEE ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH, OR AS A RESULT OF (i) THE EXECUTION OR DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR ANY AGREEMENT OR INSTRUMENT CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY, (ii) THE PERFORMANCE BY THE PARTIES HERETO OR THE PARTIES TO ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER OR THE CONSUMMATION OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR BY ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, (iii) THE FAILURE OF THE BORROWER OR ANY RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY TO COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, INCLUDING THIS AGREEMENT, OR WITH ANY GOVERNMENTAL REQUIREMENT, (iv) ANY INACCURACY OF ANY REPRESENTATION OR ANY BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY OR COVENANT OF THE BORROWER OR ANY GUARANTOR SET FORTH IN ANY OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY INSTRUMENTS, DOCUMENTS OR CERTIFICATIONS DELIVERED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, (v) ANY LOAN OR THE USE OF THE PROCEEDS THEREFROM, OR ANY OTHER ASPECT OF THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, (vi) THE OPERATIONS OF THE BUSINESS OF THE BORROWER AND THE BORROWER’S SUBSIDIARIES BY SUCH PERSON, (vii) ANY ASSERTION THAT THE LENDERS WERE NOT ENTITLED TO RECEIVE THE PROCEEDS RECEIVED PURSUANT TO THE SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, (viii) ANY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW APPLICABLE TO THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OR ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES OR OPERATIONS, INCLUDING, THE PRESENCE, GENERATION, STORAGE, RELEASE, THREATENED RELEASE, USE, TRANSPORT, DISPOSAL, ARRANGEMENT OF DISPOSAL OR TREATMENT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ON OR AT ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES, (ix) THE BREACH OR NON-COMPLIANCE BY THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY WITH ANY ENVIRONMENTAL LAW APPLICABLE TO THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY, (x) THE PAST OWNERSHIP BY THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OF ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES OR PAST ACTIVITY ON ANY OF THEIR PROPERTIES WHICH, THOUGH LAWFUL AND FULLY PERMISSIBLE AT THE TIME, COULD RESULT IN PRESENT LIABILITY, (xi) THE PRESENCE, USE, RELEASE, STORAGE, TREATMENT, DISPOSAL, GENERATION, THREATENED RELEASE, TRANSPORT, ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSPORT OR ARRANGEMENT FOR DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ON OR AT ANY OF THE PROPERTIES OWNED OR OPERATED BY THE BORROWER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OR ANY ACTUAL OR ALLEGED PRESENCE OR RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ON OR FROM ANY PROPERTY OWNED OR OPERATED BY THE BORROWER OR ANY OF THE BORROWER’S SUBSIDIARIES, (xii) ANY ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY RELATED IN ANY WAY TO THE BORROWER OR ANY OF THE BORROWER’S SUBSIDIARIES, OR ANY OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH OR SAFETY CONDITION IN CONNECTION WITH THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, OR (xiii) ANY ACTUAL OR PROSPECTIVE CLAIM, LITIGATION, INVESTIGATION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO ANY OF THE FOREGOING, AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY INDEMNITEE IS A PARTY THERETO OR WHETHER BROUGHT BY THE BORROWER, ANY GUARANTOR OR ANY OTHER PARTY, AND SUCH INDEMNITY SHALL EXTEND TO EACH INDEMNITEE NOTWITHSTANDING THE SOLE OR CONCURRENT NEGLIGENCE OF EVERY KIND OR CHARACTER WHATSOEVER, WHETHER ACTIVE OR PASSIVE, WHETHER AN AFFIRMATIVE ACT OR AN OMISSION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL TYPES OF NEGLIGENT CONDUCT IDENTIFIED IN THE RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS OF ONE OR MORE OF THE INDEMNITEES OR BY REASON OF STRICT LIABILITY IMPOSED WITHOUT FAULT ON ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE INDEMNITEES; PROVIDED THAT SUCH INDEMNITY SHALL NOT, AS TO ANY INDEMNITEE, BE AVAILABLE TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH LOSSES, CLAIMS,

 

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DAMAGES, LIABILITIES OR RELATED EXPENSES ARE DETERMINED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION BY FINAL AND NONAPPEALABLE JUDGMENT TO HAVE RESULTED FROM THE BAD FAITH, GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OF ANY INDEMNITEE.

(c) To the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to any Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the Arrangers under Section 12.03(a) or (b)  or any Related Party of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to such Agent (or any such sub-agent), the Arrangers, as the case may be, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount (including any such unpaid amount in respect of a claim asserted by such Lender); 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 such Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), the Arrangers in its capacity as such.

(d) All amounts due under this Section 12.03 shall be payable not later than thirty (30) days after written demand therefor.

(e) Each party’s obligations under this Section 12.03 shall survive the termination of the Loan Documents and payment of the obligations hereunder.

Section 12.04 Successors and Assigns; No Third Party Beneficiaries .

(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section 12.04 . 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 Section 12.04(c) ) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement, and except for the foregoing Persons there are no third party beneficiaries to this Agreement.

(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in Section 12.04(b)(ii) , any Lender may assign to one or more assignees 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) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of:

(A) the Borrower; provided that (i) no consent of the Borrower shall be required if such assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund or if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (ii) if the Borrower has not responded within ten (10) Business Days after the delivery of any such request for a consent, such consent shall be deemed to have been given; and

(B) the Administrative Agent; provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment to an assignee that is a Lender immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment.

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(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $1,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent; provided that no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement;

(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500; provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment;

(D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire; and

(E) no such assignment shall be made to a natural person, an Industry Competitor, or the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries.

(iii) Subject to Section 12.04(b)(iv) and the acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.01 , Section 5.02 , Section 5.03 and Section 12.03 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the Effective Date of such assignment. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 12.04 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 12.04(c) .

(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of 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 may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. In connection with any changes to the Register, if necessary, the Administrative Agent will reflect the revisions on Annex I and forward a copy of such revised Annex I to the Borrower and each Lender. This Section 12.04(b)(iv) shall be construed so that all Loans are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code and any related Treasury Regulations (or any other relevant or successor provisions of the Code or such Treasury Regulations).

 

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(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in Section 12.04(b) and any written consent to such assignment required by Section 12.04(b) , the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this Section 12.04(b) .

(c) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “ Participant ”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that:

(i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement;

(ii) such Participant must first agree to comply with Section 12.11 ;

(iii) no such participation may be sold to a natural Person or an Industry Competitor; and

(iv) any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender retains the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, except that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 12.02(b) that affects such Participant.

Each such Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.01 , 5.02 and 5.03 and shall be subject to the requirements of and limitations in Sections 5.01 , 5.02 , 5.03 and 5.05 (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 5.03(g) shall be delivered to the participating Lender, i.e. , the Lender selling such participation) to the same extent as if such Participant were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant shall not be entitled at any time to receive any greater payment under Sections 5.01 or 5.03 , with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive at such time, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.03 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant complies with Section 5.03 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Borrower’s request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrower to effectuate the provisions of Section 5.05 with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 12.08 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 4.01(c) as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “ Participant Register ”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments,

 

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Loans or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan, or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

(d) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or other central bank having jurisdiction over such Lender, and this Section 12.04 shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, any Lender may, at any time, assign all or a portion of its Loans to an Affiliated Lender, subject to the following limitations:

(i) In connection with an assignment to a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate, (A) the Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall have identified itself in writing as an Affiliated Lender to the assigning Lender and the Administrative Agent prior to the execution of such assignment and (B) the Non-Debt Fund Affiliate shall be deemed to have represented and warranted to the assigning Lender and the Administrative Agent that the requirements set forth in this clause (e)(i) and clause (iv) below, shall have been satisfied upon consummation of the applicable assignment;

(ii) Non-Debt Fund Affiliates will not (A) have the right to receive information, reports or other materials provided solely to Lenders by the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, except to the extent made available to the Borrower, and except that such Affiliate Lenders shall have the right to require delivery to it of notices of borrowings, prepayments and other administrative notices in respect of its Loans required to be delivered to Lenders pursuant to Article II (B) attend or participate in meetings attended solely by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent, or (C) access any electronic site (except that if notices of borrowings, prepayments and other administrative notices in respect of its Loans required to be delivered to Lenders pursuant to Article II are made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Affiliate Lender”, they may have access solely to such portion of the Platform designated “Affiliate Lender”) established for the Lenders or confidential communications from counsel to or financial advisors of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders;

(iii) (A) for purposes of any consent to any amendment, waiver or modification of, or any action under, and for the purpose of any direction to the Administrative Agent or any Lender to undertake any action (or refrain from taking any action) under, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, each Non-Debt Fund Affiliate will be deemed to have consented in the same proportion as the Lenders that are not Non-Debt Fund Affiliates consented to such matter, unless such matter adversely affects such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate more than other Lenders in any material respect, (B) for purposes of voting on any plan of reorganization or plan of liquidation pursuant to any Debtor Relief Laws, each Non-Debt Fund Affiliate hereby agrees (x) not to vote on such of reorganization or plan of liquidation, (y) if such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate does vote on such of reorganization or plan of liquidation notwithstanding the restriction in the foregoing clause (x), such vote will be deemed not to be in good faith and shall be “designated” pursuant to Section 1126(e) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision in any other Debtor Relief Laws), and such vote shall not be counted in determining whether the applicable class has accepted or rejected such of reorganization or plan of liquidation in accordance with Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision in any other Debtor Relief Laws) and (z) not to contest any

 

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request by any party for a determination by the bankruptcy court (or other applicable court of competent jurisdiction) effectuating the foregoing clause (y), in each case under this clause (iii)(B) unless such of reorganization or plan of liquidation adversely affects such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate more than other Lenders in any material respect, and (C) each Non-Debt Fund Affiliate hereby (solely in its capacity as a Lender) irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent (such appointment being coupled with an interest) as such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate’s attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate and in the name of such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate (solely in respect of Loans therein and not in respect of any other claim or status such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate may otherwise have), from time to time in the Administrative Agent’s discretion to take any action and to execute any instrument that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this clause (iii), including to ensure that any vote of such Non-Debt Fund Affiliate on any of reorganization or plan of liquidation is withdrawn or otherwise not counted;

(iv) the aggregate principal amount of Loans held at any one time by Non-Debt Fund Affiliates may not exceed 25% of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans;

(v) the Affiliated Lender will not be entitled to bring actions against the Administrative Agent, in its role as such, or receive advice of counsel or other advisors to the Administrative Agent or any other Lenders or challenge the attorney client privilege of their respective counsel; and

(vi) the portion of any Loans held by Non-Debt Fund Affiliates in the aggregate in excess of 49.9% of the amount of Loans and Commitments required to be held by Lenders in order for such Lenders to constitute “Majority Lenders” shall be disregarded in determining Majority Lenders at any time.

Each Affiliated Lender that is a Lender hereunder agrees to comply with the terms of this paragraph (e) (notwithstanding that it may be granted access to any electronic site established for the Lenders by the Administrative Agent), and agrees that in any subsequent assignment of all or any portion of its Loans it shall identify itself in writing to the assignee as an Affiliated Lender prior to the execution of such assignment.

(f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 12.04 , no transfer or assignment of the interests or obligations of any Lender or any grant of participations therein shall be permitted if such transfer, assignment or grant would require any Credit Party to file a registration statement with the SEC or to qualify the Loans under the “Blue Sky” laws of any state.

Section 12.05 Survival; Revival; Reinstatement .

(a) All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by Parent Guarantor and the Borrower herein and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of any Loans, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, any other Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Section 5.01 , Section 5.02 , Section 5.03 and Section 12.03 and Article XI shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any provision hereof or thereof.

 

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(b) To the extent that any payments on the Obligations or proceeds of any Collateral are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to a trustee, debtor in possession, receiver or other Person under any bankruptcy law, common law or equitable cause, then to such extent, the Obligations so satisfied shall be revived and continue as if such payment or proceeds had not been received and the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ Liens, security interests, rights, powers and remedies under this Agreement and each Loan Document shall continue in full force and effect. In such event, each Loan Document shall be automatically reinstated and Parent Guarantor and the Borrower shall take such action as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to effect such reinstatement.

Section 12.06 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness .

(a) This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract.

(b) This Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof and thereof. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS REPRESENT THE FINAL AGREEMENT AMONG THE PARTIES HERETO AND THERETO AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES.

(c) Except as provided in Section 6.01 , this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile, as an attachment to an email or other similar electronic means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

Section 12.07 Severability . Any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof or thereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

Section 12.08 Right of Setoff . If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency, and of whatsoever kind, including obligations under Swap Agreements) at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary against any of and all the obligations of Parent Guarantor the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary owed to such Lender or its Affiliates now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any

 

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other Loan Document, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations may be unmatured or are owed to a branch, office or Affiliate of such Lender different from the branch, office or Affiliate holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Lender and its Affiliates under this Section 12.08 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender or its 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.

Section 12.09 GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION; CONSENT TO SERVICE OF PROCESS .

(a) THIS AGREEMENT AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW PERMITS ANY LENDER TO CONTRACT FOR, CHARGE, RECEIVE, RESERVE OR TAKE INTEREST AT THE RATE ALLOWED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE WHERE SUCH LENDER IS LOCATED.

(b) ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THE LOAN DOCUMENTS MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY, OR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND, BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH PARTY HEREBY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND (TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW) IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS , WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS. THIS SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION IS NON-EXCLUSIVE AND DOES NOT PRECLUDE A PARTY FROM BRINGING SUIT AGAINST ANOTHER PARTY IN ANY COURT OTHERWISE HAVING JURISDICTION.

(c) EACH PARTY IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS OF ANY OF THE AFOREMENTIONED COURTS IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY THE MAILING OF COPIES THEREOF BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO IT AT THE ADDRESS SPECIFIED IN SECTION 12.01 OR SUCH OTHER ADDRESS AS IS SPECIFIED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12.01 (OR ITS ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION), SUCH SERVICE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER SUCH MAILING (OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS IS PROVIDED BY APPLICABLE LAW). NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF A PARTY OR ANY HOLDER OF A NOTE TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST ANOTHER PARTY IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.

(d) EACH PARTY (i) HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN; (ii) IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO CLAIM OR RECOVER IN ANY SUCH LITIGATION ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES OTHER THAN, OR IN ADDITION TO, ACTUAL

 

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DAMAGES; PROVIDED THAT, THE FOREGOING WAIVER SHALL NOT LIMIT THE INDEMNITY OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER UNDER SECTION 12.03 TO THE EXTENT ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARE INCLUDED IN A THIRD PARTY CLAIM IN CONNECTION WITH WHICH AN INDEMNITEE IS ENTITLED TO INDEMNIFICATION BY THE BORROWER UNDER SECTION 12.03; AND (iii) CERTIFIES THAT NO PARTY HERETO NOR ANY REPRESENTATIVE OR AGENT OF COUNSEL FOR ANY PARTY HERETO HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, OR IMPLIED THAT SUCH PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVERS, AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT, THE LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION 12.09.

Section 12.10 Headings . Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

Section 12.11 Confidentiality . Each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the disclosing party, (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement for the express benefit of the Borrower containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section 12.11 , to any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or to any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any Swap Agreement relating to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 12.11 or becomes available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source (other than any Credit Party) not known by them to be subject to confidentiality restrictions. For the purposes of this Section 12.11 , “ Information ” means all information received from Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary relating to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary and their businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or a Subsidiary; provided that, in the case of information received from Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section 12.11 shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information. In addition, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to rating agencies, market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry and service providers to the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and the Commitments.

 

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Section 12.12 Interest Rate Limitation . It is the intention of the parties hereto that each Lender shall conform strictly to usury laws applicable to it. Accordingly, if the transactions contemplated hereby would be usurious as to any Lender under laws applicable to it (including the laws of the United States of America or any state or other jurisdiction whose laws may be mandatorily applicable to such Lender notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement), then, in that event, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any of the Loan Documents or any agreement entered into in connection with or as security for the Notes, it is agreed as follows: (a) the aggregate of all consideration which constitutes interest under law applicable to any Lender that is contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received by such Lender under any of the Loan Documents or agreements or otherwise in connection with the Notes shall under no circumstances exceed the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law, and any excess shall be canceled automatically and if theretofore paid shall be credited by such Lender on the principal amount of the Obligations (or, to the extent that the principal amount of the Obligations shall have been or would thereby be paid in full, refunded by such Lender to the Borrower); and (b) in the event that the maturity of the Notes is accelerated by reason of an election of the holder thereof resulting from any Event of Default under this Agreement or otherwise, or in the event of any required or permitted prepayment, then such consideration that constitutes interest under law applicable to any Lender may never include more than the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law, and excess interest, if any, provided for in this Agreement or otherwise shall be canceled automatically by such Lender as of the date of such acceleration or prepayment and, if theretofore paid, shall be credited by such Lender on the principal amount of the Obligations (or, to the extent that the principal amount of the Obligations shall have been or would thereby be paid in full, refunded by such Lender to the Borrower). All sums paid or agreed to be paid to any Lender for the use, forbearance or detention of sums due hereunder shall, to the extent permitted by law applicable to such Lender, be amortized, prorated, allocated and spread throughout the stated term of the Loans until payment in full so that the rate or amount of interest on account of any Loans hereunder does not exceed the maximum amount allowed by such applicable law. If at any time and from time to time the amount of interest payable to any Lender on any date shall be computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Lender pursuant to this Section 12.12 and in respect of any subsequent interest computation period the amount of interest otherwise payable to such Lender would be less than the amount of interest payable to such Lender computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Lender, then the amount of interest payable to such Lender in respect of such subsequent interest computation period shall continue to be computed at the Highest Lawful Rate applicable to such Lender until the total amount of interest payable to such Lender shall equal the total amount of interest which would have been payable to such Lender if the total amount of interest had been computed without giving effect to this Section 12.12 .

Section 12.13 EXCULPATION PROVISIONS . EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO SPECIFICALLY AGREES THAT IT HAS A DUTY TO READ THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND AGREES THAT IT IS CHARGED WITH NOTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; THAT IT HAS IN FACT READ THIS AGREEMENT AND IS FULLY INFORMED AND HAS FULL NOTICE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE TERMS, CONDITIONS AND EFFECTS OF THIS AGREEMENT; THAT IT HAS BEEN REPRESENTED BY INDEPENDENT LEGAL COUNSEL OF ITS CHOICE THROUGHOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS PRECEDING ITS EXECUTION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; AND HAS RECEIVED THE ADVICE OF ITS ATTORNEY IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS; AND THAT IT RECOGNIZES THAT CERTAIN OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS RESULT IN ONE PARTY ASSUMING THE LIABILITY INHERENT IN SOME ASPECTS OF THE TRANSACTION AND RELIEVING THE OTHER PARTY OF ITS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUCH LIABILITY. EACH PARTY HERETO AGREES AND COVENANTS THAT IT WILL NOT CONTEST THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF ANY EXCULPATORY PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS ON THE BASIS THAT THE PARTY HAD NO NOTICE OR KNOWLEDGE OF SUCH PROVISION OR THAT THE PROVISION IS NOT “CONSPICUOUS.”

 

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Section 12.14 [Reserved].

Section 12.15 [Reserved] .

Section 12.16 [Reserved] .

Section 12.17 USA Patriot Act Notice . Each Agent and each Lender hereby notifies Parent Guarantor and the Borrower 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 the Borrower and each Guarantor, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and each Guarantor and other information that will allow it to identify the Borrower and each Guarantor in accordance with the Act.

Section 12.18 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility . 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), each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Subsidiaries’ understanding, that: (a) (i) no fiduciary, advisory or (except as expressly provided in Section 12.04 ) agency relationship between Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the Administrative Agent or any Lender is intended to be or has been created in respect of the transactions contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents, irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent or any Lender has advised or is advising Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any Subsidiary on other matters; (ii) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are arm’s-length commercial transactions between Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand; (iii) each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent that it has deemed appropriate; and (iv) each of Parent Guarantor and 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; and (b) (i) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders each 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 Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries, or any other Person; (ii) neither the Administrative Agent nor the Lenders has any obligation to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their respective Affiliates may be engaged, for their own accounts or the accounts of customers, in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries, and neither the Administrative Agent nor the Lenders has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or their Subsidiaries. To the fullest extent permitted by Law, each of Parent Guarantor and the Borrower hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency (except as expressly set forth in Section 12.04 ) or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.

Section 12.19 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

 

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(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.

The provisions of this Section 12.19 are intended to comply with, and shall be interpreted in light of, Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union.

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Exhibit 10.6

FIRST LIEN/SECOND LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

dated as of December 21, 2018

among

BANK OF MONTREAL ,

as Revolving Administrative Agent and as Collateral Agent for the

Senior Secured Parties,

BARCLAYS BANK PLC,

as Term Loan Administrative Agent,

Wilmington Trust, National Association,

as the Second Lien Collateral Agent for the

Junior Priority Parties

and acknowledged and agreed to by

ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.,

as the Borrower

and

the other Grantors party hereto


FIRST LIEN/SECOND LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of December 21, 2018 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, this “ Agreement ”), among BANK OF MONTREAL, as Collateral Agent for the Senior Secured Parties (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ First Lien Collateral Agent ”) and as Administrative Agent under the First Lien Revolving Credit Agreement (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Revolving Administrative Agent ”), BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as Administrative Agent under the First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Term Loan Administrative Agent ”), Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent for the Junior Priority Parties (in such capacity and together with its successors in such capacity, the “ Second Lien Collateral Agent ”), and acknowledged and agreed to by ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”) and the other Grantors (as defined below) from time to time party hereto.

In consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the First Lien Collateral Agent (for itself and on behalf of the Senior Secured Parties), the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent (for itself and on behalf of the Junior Priority Parties) agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Definitions

Section 1.01 Certain Defined Terms . Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Revolving Credit Agreement or, if defined in the New York UCC, the meanings specified therein. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

Agreement ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.

Bankruptcy Code ” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended.

Bankruptcy Law ” means the Bankruptcy Code and any other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar federal, state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.

Borrower ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.

Collateral Documents ” means the Senior Collateral Documents and the Junior Priority Collateral Documents.

Debt Documents ” means the Senior Debt Documents and the Junior Priority Debt Documents.


DIP Financing ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.01.

Discharge of Junior Obligations ” means:

(a) payment in full in cash of the principal of and interest, on all Indebtedness outstanding under the Junior Priority Debt Documents and constituting Junior Obligations; and

(b) payment in full in cash of all other Junior Obligations that are due and payable or otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal and interest are paid (other than Junior Obligations consisting of indemnity obligations not yet due and payable for which no claim or demand for payment, whether oral or written, has been made at such time).

Discharge of Senior Obligations ” means:

(a) payment in full in cash of the principal of and interest (including interest accruing on or after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, whether or not such interest would be allowed in such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), on all Indebtedness outstanding under the Senior Debt Documents and constituting Senior Obligations but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any Excess Senior Obligations;

(b) payment in full in cash of all other Senior Obligations (including any amounts described in clauses (b) and (c) of the definition of “Obligations” in the Revolving Credit Agreement, unless such Obligations (x) are no longer secured by the Collateral pursuant to the terms of the Senior Debt Documents or (y) have been cash collateralized on terms reasonably satisfactory to the applicable counterparty (or other arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the counterparty have been made)) that are due and payable or otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal and interest are paid (other than Senior Obligations consisting of indemnity obligations not yet due and payable for which no claim or demand for payment, whether oral or written, has been made at such time);

(c) termination or expiration of all commitments, if any, to extend credit that would constitute Senior Obligations (including with respect to any Senior Obligations described in clauses (b) and (c) of the definition of “Obligations” in the Revolving Credit Agreement, unless such Obligations (x) are no longer secured by the Collateral pursuant to the terms of the Senior Debt Documents or (y) have been cash collateralized on terms reasonably satisfactory to the applicable counterparty (or other arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the counterparty have been made)); and

(d) termination or cash collateralization (in an amount and manner reasonably satisfactory to the Revolving Administrative Agent, but in no event greater than 105% of the aggregate undrawn face amount) of all Letters of Credit issued under the Senior Debt Documents and constituting Senior Obligations.

 

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Enforcement Action ” means any action to:

(a) foreclose, execute, levy, or collect on, take possession or control of (other than for purposes of perfection), sell or otherwise realize upon (judicially or non-judicially), or lease, license, or otherwise dispose of (whether publicly or privately), Shared Collateral, or otherwise exercise or enforce remedial rights with respect to Shared Collateral (including by way of setoff, recoupment, notification of a public or private sale or other disposition pursuant to the UCC or other applicable law, notification to account debtors, notification to depositary banks under deposit account control agreements, or exercise of rights under landlord consents, if applicable);

(b) solicit bids from third Persons, approve bid procedures for any proposed disposition of Shared Collateral, conduct the liquidation or disposition of Shared Collateral or engage or retain sales brokers, marketing agents, investment bankers, accountants, appraisers, auctioneers, or other third Persons for the purposes of valuing, marketing, promoting, and selling Shared Collateral;

(c) receive a transfer of Shared Collateral in satisfaction of Indebtedness or any other Obligation secured thereby;

(d) otherwise enforce a security interest or exercise another right or remedy, as a secured creditor or otherwise, pertaining to the Shared Collateral at law, in equity, or pursuant to the Senior Debt Documents or Junior Priority Debt Documents (including the commencement of applicable legal proceedings or other actions with respect to all or any portion of the Shared Collateral to facilitate the actions described in the preceding clauses, and exercising voting rights in respect of equity interests comprising Shared Collateral); or

(e) effectuate or cause the sale or other disposition of Shared Collateral by any Grantor after the occurrence and during the continuation of an event of default under any of the Senior Debt Documents or the Junior Priority Debt Documents with the consent of the First Lien Collateral Agent (or the Senior Secured Parties) or, after the Discharge of Senior Obligations, the Second Lien Collateral Agent (or the Junior Priority Parties).

Excess Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations ” means (a) the amount, if any, by which the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Loans and drawn Letters of Credit and the face amount of undrawn Letters of Credit under the Revolving Credit Agreement exceeds the Revolving Credit Agreement Cap Amount plus (b) any interest, fees, prepayment penalties, make-whole payments or other premiums accrued on or with respect to the amount determined in clause (a) .

Excess Senior Obligations ” means either (a) the Excess Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations or (b) the Excess Term Loan Credit Agreement Obligations, as applicable.

Excess Term Loan Credit Agreement Obligations ” means (a) the amount, if any, by which the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans under the Term Loan Credit Agreement exceeds the Term Loan Credit Agreement Cap Amount plus (b) any interest, fees, prepayment penalties, make-whole payments or other premiums accrued on or with respect to the amount determined in clause (a) .

First Lien Collateral Agent ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agency Agreement.

 

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Grantors ” means the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other Guarantors, and each of their respective Subsidiaries and each direct or indirect parent company of the Borrower, in each case that has granted a security interest pursuant to any Collateral Documents to secure any Secured Obligations. The Grantors existing on the date hereof are listed on the signature pages hereto as Grantors.

Guarantors ” means the Parent Guarantor and each other Subsidiary of the Borrower that guarantees the Secured Obligations.

Holder ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Second Lien Notes Indenture.

Indebtedness ” means and includes all Obligations that constitute “Debt” under the Revolving Credit Agreement or Term Credit Agreement or “Indebtedness” under the Second Lien Notes Indenture, as applicable.

Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding ” means:

(1) a voluntary or involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to the Borrower or any other Grantor;

(2) any other voluntary or involuntary insolvency, reorganization, or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization, or other similar case or proceeding with respect to the Borrower or any other Grantor or a material portion of the property of the Borrower or any other Grantor;

(3) a liquidation, dissolution, reorganization, or winding up of the Borrower or any other Grantor, whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy; or

(4) any other proceeding of any type or nature in which substantially all claims of creditors of the Borrower or any other Grantor are determined and any payment or distribution is or may be made on account of such claims.

Junior Obligations ” means the “Secured Obligations” (or similar term) as defined in the applicable Junior Priority Collateral Documents and any equivalent term in any Refinancing thereof.

Junior Priority Collateral ” means any “Collateral” (or similar term) as defined in any Junior Priority Document or any other assets of the Borrower or any other Grantor with respect to which a Lien is granted pursuant to a Junior Priority Collateral Document as security for any Junior Priority Obligation, which Lien is, at any time of determination, a valid and perfected Lien that has not been avoided, disallowed, set aside, invalidated, or subordinated pursuant to Chapter 5 of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

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Junior Priority Collateral Documents ” means the “Note Security Documents” as defined in the Second Lien Notes Indenture and any other collateral agreements, security agreements and other instruments and documents executed and delivered by the Borrower or any other Grantor for purposes of providing collateral security for any Junior Priority Obligation, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Junior Priority Debt Documents ” means the Second Lien Notes Indenture and the other “Note Documents” as defined in the Second Lien Notes Indenture, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Junior Priority Enforcement Date ” means, with respect to the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the date which is 180 days after the occurrence of both (i) an Event of Default (under and as defined in the Second Lien Notes Indenture) and (ii) the First Lien Collateral Agent’s receipt of written notice from the Second Lien Collateral Agent that (x) an Event of Default (under and as defined in the Second Lien Notes Indenture) has occurred and is continuing, (y) the Junior Obligations are currently due and payable in full (whether as a result of acceleration thereof, at final maturity thereof or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of the Junior Priority Debt Documents and (z) the Second Lien Collateral Agent intends to exercise any rights or remedies; provided that the Junior Priority Enforcement Date shall be stayed and shall not occur and shall be deemed not to have occurred with respect to any Shared Collateral (1) at any time the First Lien Collateral Agent has commenced and is actively pursuing any Enforcement Action with respect to all or any material portion of such Shared Collateral or (2) at any time with respect to Enforcement Actions against any Grantor that has granted a security interest in such Shared Collateral, if such Grantor is then a debtor under or with respect to (or otherwise subject to) any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

Junior Priority Lien ” means the Liens on the Junior Priority Collateral in favor of Junior Priority Parties under Junior Priority Collateral Documents.

Junior Priority Parties ” means the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Notes Trustee, the Holders and the other holders of Junior Obligations.

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

Majority Noteholders ” means the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Second Lien Notes issued under the Second Lien Notes Indenture then outstanding.

New York UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.

 

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Parent Guarantor ” means UP Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation.

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

Plan of Reorganization ” means any plan of reorganization, plan of liquidation, agreement for composition, or other type of plan of arrangement proposed in or in connection with any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding.

Pledged or Controlled Collateral ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section  5.05(a) .

Proceeds ” means the proceeds of any sale, collection or other liquidation of Shared Collateral and any payment or distribution made in respect of Shared Collateral in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and any amounts received by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party from a Junior Priority Party in respect of Shared Collateral pursuant to this Agreement and all other Proceeds (as defined in the New York UCC) of Shared Collateral.

Purchase Event ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.07.

Recovery ” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.04.

Refinance ” means, in respect of any indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew, defease, amend, increase, modify, supplement, restructure, refund, replace or repay such indebtedness, or to issue other indebtedness or enter into alternative financing arrangements, in exchange or replacement for such indebtedness (in whole or in part), including by adding or replacing lenders, creditors, agents, borrowers and/or guarantors, and including, in each case, but not limited to, after the original instrument giving rise to such indebtedness has been terminated and including, in each case, through any credit agreement, indenture or other agreement. “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” have correlative meanings.

Representatives ” means the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent.

Revolving Administrative Agent ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Administrative Agent under the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Revolving Credit Agreement ” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the Revolving Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2017 and that Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2018, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

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Revolving Credit Agreement Cap Amount ” means (a) prior to any Refinancing of the Revolving Credit Agreement, $425,000,000 and (b) for any Refinancing of the Revolving Credit Agreement, the sum of (i) $425,000,000 and (ii) any additional Indebtedness incurred to pay interest, premiums, or defeasance costs required by the instruments governing such existing Indebtedness and fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith.

Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations ” means the “Obligations” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement and any equivalent term in any Refinancing thereof.

Revolving Credit Agreement Secured Parties ” means the “Secured Parties” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Revolving Loan Documents ” means the Revolving Credit Agreement and the other “Loan Documents” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Revolving Loans ” means the “Loans” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement.

SEC ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any successor agency thereto.

Second Lien Collateral Agent ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Collateral Trustee under the Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement.

Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement ” means that certain Second Lien Guaranty and Collateral Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Borrower, each other Grantor party thereto and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Second Lien Notes ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Second Lien Notes Indenture.

Second Lien Notes Indenture ” means that certain Indenture, dated as of the date hereof, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced, supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Second Lien Notes Trustee ” means Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee under the Second Lien Notes Indenture, and shall include any successor Trustee under the Second Lien Notes Indenture.

Secured Obligations ” means the Senior Obligations and the Junior Obligations.

 

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Secured Parties ” means the Senior Secured Parties and the Junior Priority Parties.

Senior Collateral ” means any “Collateral” (or similar term) as defined in any Senior Debt Document or any other assets of the Borrower or any other Grantor with respect to which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted pursuant to a Senior Collateral Document as security for any Senior Obligations.

Senior Collateral Documents ” means the “Security Instruments” as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement and/or the Term Loan Credit Agreement and any other collateral agreements, security agreements and other instruments and documents executed and delivered by the Borrower or any other Grantor for purposes of providing collateral security for any Senior Obligation, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Senior Debt Documents ” means the Revolving Loan Documents and the Term Loan Documents, in each case, as may be amended, restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Senior Facilities ” means the Revolving Credit Agreement and the Term Loan Credit Agreement.

Senior Lien ” means the Liens on the Senior Collateral in favor of the Senior Secured Parties under the Senior Collateral Documents.

Senior Obligations ” means the Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations and the Term Loan Credit Agreement Obligations; provided that Senior Obligations shall not include any Excess Senior Obligations.

Senior Secured Parties ” means the Revolving Credit Agreement Secured Parties and the Term Loan Credit Agreement Secured Parties.

Shared Collateral ” means assets that are both Senior Collateral and Junior Priority Collateral.

Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, (a) any other Person the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, or (b) any other Person of which Equity Interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power (irrespective of whether or not at the time Equity Interests of any other class or classes of such Person shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) are, as of such date, owned, Controlled or held by the parent or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent. Unless otherwise specified, references to “Subsidiary” will be deemed to refer to a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor (other than the Borrower).

 

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Term Loan Administrative Agent ” has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement and shall include any successor Administrative Agent under the Term Loan Credit Agreement.

Term Loan Credit Agreement ” means that certain Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Term Loan Credit Agreement Cap Amount ” means

(a) at any time prior to any Refinancing of the Term Loan Credit Agreement, an amount equal to (i) the sum of (x) $975,000,000 and (y) the aggregate amount of principal that represents the payment of interest in-kind in respect of Term Loans in the manner provided in the Term Loan Credit Agreement in effect on the date hereof and (z) the aggregate amount of principal that represents the payment of interest in-kind in respect of Term Loans in excess of the amount contemplated by the foregoing clause (y) so long as the payment thereof is not prohibited by Section 3.02(b)(1) of the Second Lien Notes Indenture as in effect on the date hereof minus (ii) any payments or prepayments of the principal under the Term Loan Credit Agreement, including in connection with any sales of assets and excluding only payments with proceeds of permitted Refinancing of the Term Loan Credit Agreement and (b) for any Refinancing of the Term Loan Credit Agreement, the sum of (i) the amount calculated at such time in accordance with the immediately preceding clause (a), (ii) any additional Indebtedness incurred to pay interest, premiums, or defeasance costs required by the instruments governing such existing Indebtedness and fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith, (iii) the aggregate amount of principal that represents the payment of interest in-kind in respect of Term Loans in the manner provided in the Term Loan Credit Agreement in effect on the date hereof and (iv) the aggregate amount of principal that represents the payment of interest in-kind in respect of Term Loans in excess of the amount contemplated by the foregoing clause (ii) so long as the payment thereof is not prohibited by Section 3.02(b)(1) of the Second Lien Notes Indenture as in effect on the date hereof.

Term Loan Credit Agreement Obligations ” means the “Obligations” as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement and any equivalent term in any Refinancing thereof.

Term Loan Credit Agreement Secured Parties ” means the “Secured Parties” as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement.

Term Loan Documents ” means the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the other “Loan Documents” as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement, in each case, as may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced, extended, renewed, Refinanced and/or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Term Loans ” means the “Loans” as defined in the Term Loan Credit Agreement.

 

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Uniform Commercial Code ” or “ UCC ” means, unless otherwise specified, the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the State of New York.

Section 1.02 Terms Generally; Rules of Construction . 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” as used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “or” is not exclusive. The word “shall” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “will”. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, (b) any reference herein to any law shall be construed as referring to such law as amended, modified, codified or reenacted, in whole or in part, and in effect from time to time, (c) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to the restrictions contained in the Debt Documents), (d) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (e) with respect to the determination of any time period, the word “from” means “from and including” and the word “to” means “to and including” and (f) any reference herein to Articles, Sections, Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted or construed against any Person solely because such Person or its legal representative drafted such provision.

ARTICLE II

Priorities and Agreements with Respect to Shared Collateral

Section 2.01 Subordination .

(a) Notwithstanding the date, time, manner or order of filing or recordation of any document or instrument or grant, attachment or perfection of any Liens granted to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Parties on the Shared Collateral or of any Liens granted to the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party on the Shared Collateral (or any actual or alleged defect in any of the foregoing) and notwithstanding any provision of the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction, any applicable law, any Junior Priority Document or any Senior Debt Document or any other circumstance whatsoever, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, hereby agrees that (a) any Lien on the Shared Collateral securing any Senior Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party or other agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall have priority over and be senior in all respects and prior to any Lien on the Shared Collateral securing any Junior Obligations and (b) any Lien on the Shared Collateral securing any Junior Obligations now or hereafter held by or on behalf of the Second Lien Collateral Agent, any Junior Priority Parties or other agent or trustee therefor, regardless of how acquired, whether by grant, statute, operation of law, subrogation or otherwise, shall be junior and subordinate in all respects to all Liens on the Shared Collateral securing any Senior Obligations. All Liens on the

 

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Shared Collateral securing any Senior Obligations shall be and remain senior in all respects and prior to all Liens on the Shared Collateral securing any Junior Obligations for all purposes, whether or not such Liens securing any Senior Obligations are contractually subordinated to any Lien securing any other obligation of the Borrower, any other Grantor or any other Person.

Section 2.02 Nature of Senior Lender Claims . The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, acknowledges that (a) a portion of the Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations are revolving in nature and that the amount thereof that may be outstanding at any time or from time to time may be increased or reduced and subsequently reborrowed, (b) the terms of the Senior Debt Documents and the Senior Obligations may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, and the Senior Obligations, or a portion thereof, may be Refinanced in whole or in part from time to time and (c) subject to the limitations in the definitions of “Excess Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations” and “Excess Term Loan Credit Agreement Obligations”, the aggregate amount of the Senior Obligations may be increased, in each case, without notice to or consent by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the other Junior Priority Parties and without affecting the provisions hereof. The Lien priorities provided for in Section  2.01 shall not be altered or otherwise affected by any amendment, restatement, amendment and restatement, supplement or other modification, or any Refinancing, of either the Senior Obligations or the Junior Obligations, or any portion thereof. As between the Borrower and the other Grantors and the Junior Priority Parties, the foregoing provisions will not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower and the other Grantors contained in any Junior Priority Document with respect to the incurrence of additional Senior Obligations.

Section 2.03 Prohibition on Contesting Liens . The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that it shall not (and hereby waives any right to) contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), the validity, extent, perfection, priority or enforceability of any Lien securing any Senior Obligations held (or purported to be held) by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any of the other Senior Secured Parties or other agent or trustee therefor in any Senior Collateral, and that the First Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Senior Secured Party, agrees that it shall not (and hereby waives any right to) contest or support any other Person in contesting, in any proceeding (including any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding), the validity, extent, perfection, priority or enforceability of any Lien securing any Junior Obligations held (or purported to be held) by or on behalf of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any of the other Junior Priority Parties in the Junior Priority Collateral. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent or Second Lien Collateral Agent to enforce this Agreement (including the priority of the Liens securing the Senior Obligations as provided in Section  2.01 ) or any of the Senior Debt Documents or Junior Priority Debt Documents.

Section 2.04 No Other Liens . The parties hereto (including the Borrower, on behalf of the Grantors) agree that it is their intention that the Senior Collateral and Junior Priority Collateral be identical, except to the extent set forth in Section 2.06. The parties hereto further agree that, so long as the Discharge of Senior Obligations has not occurred, (a) none of the Grantors shall, or shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, grant or permit any Lien on any asset to secure any Junior Priority Obligation unless it has granted, or concurrently therewith grants, a Lien

 

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on such asset to secure the Senior Obligations (however, the refusal or failure of the First Lien Collateral Agent to accept such Lien will not prevent the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the other Junior Priority Parties from taking the Lien), and (b) if the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party shall hold any Lien on any assets or property of any Grantor securing any Junior Obligations that are not also subject to the Liens securing all Senior Obligations under the Senior Collateral Documents, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or Junior Priority Party (i) shall notify the First Lien Collateral Agent promptly upon becoming aware thereof and, unless such Grantor shall promptly grant a similar Lien on such assets or property to the First Lien Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties, as security for the Senior Obligations, shall assign such Lien to the First Lien Collateral Agent as security for the Senior Obligations for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties (but may retain a junior Lien on such assets or property subject to the terms hereof) and (ii) until such assignment or such grant of a similar Lien to the First Lien Collateral Agent (however, the refusal or failure of the First Lien Collateral Agent to accept such Lien will not prevent the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the other Junior Priority Parties from taking the Lien), shall be deemed to hold and have held such Lien for the benefit of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other Senior Secured Parties as security for the Senior Obligations. To the extent that the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence are not complied with for any reason, without limiting any other right or remedy available to the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party, the Second Lien Collateral Agent agrees, for itself and on behalf of the other Junior Priority Debt Parties, that any amounts received by or distributed to any Junior Priority Debt Party pursuant to or as a result of any Lien granted in contravention of this Section  2.04 shall be subject to the provisions of this Agreement (including Sections  4.01 and  4.02 ). The parties hereto further agree that, so long as the Discharge of Junior Obligations has not occurred, (a) none of the Grantors shall, or shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, grant or permit any Lien on any asset to secure any Senior Obligation unless it has granted, or concurrently therewith grants, a Lien on such asset to secure the Junior Obligations (however, the refusal or failure of the Second Lien Collateral Agent to accept such Lien will not prevent the First Lien Collateral Agent or the other Senior Secured Parties from taking the Lien), and (b) if the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party shall hold any Lien on any assets or property of any Grantor securing any Senior Obligations that are not also subject to the Liens securing all Junior Obligations under the Junior Priority Collateral Documents, the First Lien Collateral Agent or Senior Secured Party shall notify the Second Lien Collateral Agent promptly upon becoming aware thereof (provided that the failure by the First Lien Collateral Agent or such Senior Secured Party to provide such notice shall not result in the impairment or invalidity of such Liens) and such Grantor shall promptly grant a similar Lien on such assets to the Second Lien Collateral Agent (except with respect to any Lien with respect to which the Second Lien Collateral Agent has declined or failed to accept such grant on behalf of the Junior Priority Parties) for the benefit of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties as security for the Junior Obligations. The First Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Collateral Agent agree that the documents and agreements creating or evidencing the Senior Collateral and the Junior Priority Collateral and guarantees for the Senior Obligations and the Junior Obligations shall be in all material respects the same forms of documents other than with respect to the senior and junior lien nature of the Obligations thereunder.

 

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Section 2.05 Perfection of Liens . Except for the limited agreements of the First Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to Section  5.05 hereof, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other Senior Secured Parties shall not be responsible for perfecting and maintaining the perfection of Liens with respect to the Shared Collateral for the benefit of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the other Junior Priority Parties. The provisions of this Agreement are intended to govern the respective Lien priorities as between the Senior Secured Parties and the Junior Priority Parties and shall not impose on the First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the other Junior Priority Parties or any agent or trustee therefor any obligations in respect of the disposition of Proceeds of any Shared Collateral which would conflict with prior perfected claims therein in favor of any other Person or any order or decree of any court or governmental authority or any applicable law.

Section 2.06 Certain Cash Collateral . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any other Senior Debt Documents or Junior Priority Debt Documents to the contrary, collateral consisting of cash and cash equivalents pledged to secure Revolving Credit Agreement Obligations consisting of reimbursement obligations in respect of Letters of Credit or otherwise held by the First Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to Section  2.08(j) of the Revolving Credit Agreement (or any corresponding successor provisions) shall be applied as specified in the Revolving Credit Agreement and will not constitute Shared Collateral.

ARTICLE III

Enforcement

Section 3.01 Exercise of Remedies .

(a) So long as the Discharge of Senior Obligations has not occurred, whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced by or against the Borrower or any other Grantor, (i) neither the Second Lien Collateral Agent nor any Junior Priority Party will (w) file or commence any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding against the Borrower or any other Guarantor, (x) exercise or seek to exercise any Enforcement Action (including the rights to set off or credit bid their debt) with respect to any Shared Collateral in respect of any Junior Obligations, or institute (or join with any Person in instituting) any action or proceeding with respect to such Enforcement Action, (y) contest, protest or object to any Enforcement Action with respect to the Shared Collateral or any foreclosure proceeding or action brought with respect to any other Senior Collateral by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party in respect of the Senior Obligations, the exercise of any right by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party (or any agent or sub-agent on their behalf) in respect of the Senior Obligations under any lockbox agreement, control agreement, landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement to which the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party either is a party or may have rights as a third party beneficiary, or any other exercise by any such party of any rights and remedies relating to the Shared Collateral under the Senior Debt Documents or otherwise in respect of the Shared Collateral, the Senior Collateral or the Senior Obligations or (z) object to the forbearance by the Senior Secured Parties from bringing or pursuing any Enforcement Action (including any foreclosure proceeding or action or any other exercise of any rights or remedies) relating to the Shared Collateral in respect of Senior Obligations and (ii) except as otherwise expressly provided for in clause (F) of the immediately following proviso, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Senior Secured Parties shall have the exclusive right to take an Enforcement Action (including the rights to set off or credit bid their debt) with

 

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respect to the Shared Collateral without any consultation with or the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party; provided , however , that (A) in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding commenced by or against the Borrower or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent may file a claim, proof of claim, or statement of interest with respect to the Junior Obligations, (B) the Second Lien Collateral Agent may take any action (not adverse to the prior Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Senior Obligations or the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent or the other Senior Secured Parties to exercise remedies in respect thereof) in order to create, prove, perfect, preserve or protect (but not enforce) its rights in, and perfection and priority of its Lien on, the Shared Collateral, (C) the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties may exercise their rights and remedies as unsecured creditors, solely to the extent provided in Section  5.04 , (D) the Junior Priority Parties may file any responsive or defensive pleadings in opposition to any motion, claim, adversary proceeding or other pleading made by any person objecting to or otherwise seeking the disallowance of the claims or Liens of the Junior Priority Parties or the avoidance of any Junior Priority Lien to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement, (E) the Junior Priority Parties may vote with respect to any Plan of Reorganization in a manner that is consistent with and otherwise in accordance with this Agreement (including Section 6.10(b)), and (F) subject to the following proviso, from and after the Junior Priority Enforcement Date, the Second Lien Collateral Agent may exercise or seek to exercise any Enforcement Action (including the rights to set off or credit bid their debt) with respect to any Shared Collateral in respect of any Junior Obligations, or institute (or join with any Person in instituting) any action or proceeding with respect to such Enforcement Action; provided that, notwithstanding the occurrence of the Junior Priority Enforcement Date, at any time prior to the commencement by the Second Lien Collateral Agent of the exercise of any such rights or remedies with respect to all or a material portion of the Shared Collateral following the Junior Priority Enforcement Date, in the event that the First Lien Collateral Agent has commenced and is actively pursuing any Enforcement Action with respect to all or a material portion of such Shared Collateral, the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall not be permitted to exercise or seek to exercise any Enforcement Action (including the rights to set off or credit bid their debt) with respect to any Shared Collateral in respect of any Junior Obligations, or institute (or join with any Person in instituting) any action or proceeding with respect to such Enforcement Action (in each case of (A) through (F) above, solely to the extent such action is not inconsistent with, or could not result in a resolution inconsistent with, the terms of this Agreement). In exercising rights and remedies with respect to the Senior Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other Senior Secured Parties may enforce the provisions of the Senior Debt Documents and exercise remedies thereunder, all in such order and in such manner as they may determine in the exercise of their sole discretion. Such exercise and enforcement shall include the rights of an agent appointed by them to sell or otherwise dispose of Shared Collateral upon foreclosure, to incur expenses in connection with such sale or disposition and to exercise all of the rights and remedies of a secured lender under the UCC of any applicable jurisdiction and of a secured creditor under Bankruptcy Laws of any applicable jurisdiction.

(b) So long as the Discharge of Senior Obligations has not occurred, except as expressly provided in clause (F) of the proviso in Section  3.01(a)(ii) and in Section  6.03 , the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that it will not, in any context, including in its role as secured creditor, take or receive any Shared Collateral or any Proceeds of Shared Collateral in connection with the exercise of any right or

 

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remedy (including setoff) with respect to any Shared Collateral in respect of Junior Obligations. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, unless and until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, except as expressly provided in clause (F) of the proviso in Section  3.01(a)(ii) and in Section  6.03 , the sole right of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties with respect to the Shared Collateral is to hold a Lien on the Shared Collateral in respect of Junior Obligations pursuant to the Junior Priority Debt Documents for the period and to the extent granted therein and to receive a share of the Proceeds thereof, if any, after the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred.

(c) The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, (i) agrees that neither the Second Lien Collateral Agent nor any other Junior Priority Party will take any action that would hinder any exercise of remedies (including an Enforcement Action) undertaken by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party with respect to the Shared Collateral, including any sale, lease, exchange, transfer or other disposition of the Shared Collateral, whether by foreclosure or otherwise, and (ii) hereby waives any and all rights it or any Junior Priority Party may have as a junior lien creditor or otherwise to object to the manner in which the First Lien Collateral Agent or the other Senior Secured Parties seek to enforce or collect the Senior Obligations or the Liens granted on any of the Senior Collateral, regardless of whether any action or failure to act by or on behalf of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party is adverse to the interests of the Junior Priority Parties; provided that nothing in this Section 3.01(c) shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of any Junior Priority Party to contest or object to the release of its Liens on the Shared Collateral to the extent expressly permitted under Section 6.01.

(d) The Second Lien Collateral Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that no covenant, agreement or restriction contained in any Junior Priority Document shall be deemed to restrict in any way the rights and remedies of the First Lien Collateral Agent or the other Senior Secured Parties with respect to the Senior Collateral as set forth in this Agreement and the Senior Debt Documents.

(e) Subject to clause (F) of the proviso in Section  3.01(a)(ii) , the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have the exclusive right to exercise any right or remedy with respect to the Shared Collateral and shall have the exclusive right to determine and direct the time, method and place for exercising such right or remedy or conducting any proceeding with respect thereto. Following the Discharge of Senior Obligations, the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall have the exclusive right to exercise any right or remedy with respect to the Shared Collateral, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall have the exclusive right to direct the time, method and place of exercising or conducting any proceeding for the exercise of any right or remedy available to the Junior Priority Parties with respect to the Shared Collateral, or of exercising or directing the exercise of any trust or power conferred on the Second Lien Collateral Agent, or for the taking of any other action authorized by the Junior Priority Collateral Documents.

 

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Section 3.02 [Reserved] .

Section 3.03 Actions upon Breach . Should the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party, contrary to this Agreement, in any way take, attempt to take or threaten to take any action with respect to the Shared Collateral (including any attempt to realize upon or enforce any remedy with respect to this Agreement) or fail to take any action required by this Agreement, the First Lien Collateral Agent or other Senior Secured Party (in its or their own name or in the name of the Borrower or any other Grantor) or the Borrower or any other Grantor may obtain relief against the Second Lien Collateral Agent or such other Junior Priority Party by injunction, specific performance or other appropriate equitable relief. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, hereby (i) agrees that the Senior Secured Parties’ damages from the actions of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party may at that time be difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable and waives any defense that the Senior Secured Parties cannot demonstrate damage or be made whole by the awarding of damages, (ii) agrees that the Borrower’s and the other Grantors’ damages from the actions of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party may at that time be difficult to ascertain and may be irreparable and waives any defense that the Borrower or any other Grantor cannot demonstrate damage or be made whole by the awarding of damages, and (iii) irrevocably waives any defense based on the adequacy of a remedy at law and any other defense that might be asserted to bar the remedy of specific performance in any action that may be brought by the First Lien Collateral Agent, any other Senior Secured Party, or the Borrower or any other Grantor.

ARTICLE IV

Payments

Section 4.01 Application of Proceeds . After an event of default under any Senior Debt Document has occurred and until such event of default is cured or waived, so long as the Discharge of Senior Obligations has not occurred and regardless of whether an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced, the Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof received in connection with the sale or other disposition of, or collection on, such Shared Collateral or upon the exercise of any other remedies (including an Enforcement Action) shall be applied by the First Lien Collateral Agent to the Senior Obligations in such order as specified in the relevant Senior Debt Documents until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred. Upon the Discharge of Senior Obligations, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall deliver promptly to the Second Lien Collateral Agent any Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof held by it in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, to be applied by the Second Lien Collateral Agent to the Junior Obligations in such order as specified in the relevant Junior Priority Debt Documents until the Discharge of Junior Obligations has occurred. Upon the Discharge of Junior Obligations, the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall deliver promptly to the First Lien Collateral Agent any Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof held by it in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, to be applied by the First Lien Collateral Agent to the Excess Senior Obligations in such order as specified in the applicable Senior Debt Documents until such Excess Senior Obligations have been paid in full in cash. Upon the payment in full in cash of the Excess Senior Obligations, any Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof shall be distributed to the relevant Grantor or, to the extent directed by such Grantor or a court of competent jurisdiction, to whomever may be lawfully entitled to receive the then remaining amount to be distributed.

 

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Section 4.02 Payments Over . Subject to Section  6.03 hereof, unless and until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, (a) regardless of whether an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding has been commenced, any Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof received by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party in connection with the exercise of any right or remedy (including setoff) relating to the Shared Collateral, whether or not in contravention of this Agreement or otherwise, and (b) any distributions received by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party with respect to its secured claims pursuant to an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, shall, in the case of clauses  (a) and (b) , be segregated and held in trust for the benefit of and forthwith paid over to the First Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties in the same form as received, with any necessary endorsements (as reasonably determined by the First Lien Collateral Agent), or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. The First Lien Collateral Agent is hereby authorized to make any such endorsements as agent for the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party. This authorization is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable. For the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement provides for Lien priorities as between the Senior Secured Parties with respect to the Senior Obligations, on the one hand, and the Junior Priority Parties with respect to the Junior Obligations, on the other hand, and does not subordinate the Junior Obligations to the Senior Obligations in right of payment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, to the extent that the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party is required to pay over any Shared Collateral or Proceeds thereof as a result of any avoidance or invalidation of or defect with respect to any Senior Lien, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Junior Priority Parties shall only be required to pay over any such Shared Collateral or Proceeds in excess of the amount that the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the Junior Priority Parties would have received and been entitled to but for such avoidance, invalidation or defect.

ARTICLE V

Other Agreements

Section 5.01 Releases and Related Matters .

(a) The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that, in the event of (i) a sale, transfer or other disposition of any Shared Collateral (including all or substantially all of the equity interests of any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor) or (ii) a termination and release of a Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its guaranty of Senior Obligations, in each case, (A) by, or with the consent of, both of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, (B) permitted under both of the Senior Debt Documents and the Junior Priority Debt Documents or (C) pursuant to an Enforcement Action, the Liens granted to the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties upon such Shared Collateral to secure Junior Obligations and/or the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its guaranty of the Junior Obligations, as applicable, shall (whether or not any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding is pending at such time) terminate and be released, immediately and automatically and without any further action, concurrently with the termination and release of all Liens granted upon such Shared Collateral to secure Senior Obligations and/or the termination and release of all obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its guaranty of Senior Obligations, as applicable; provided that the Liens securing the Senior Obligations and the Junior Obligations will attach to the Proceeds of the sale, transfer or other disposition on the same basis of priority as the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Senior Obligations rank to the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Junior Obligations pursuant to

 

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this Agreement. Upon delivery to a Second Lien Collateral Agent of an executed certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that any such termination and release of Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Senior Obligations and/or such termination and release of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its guaranty of Senior Obligations, as the case may be, has become effective and is in compliance with this Agreement (or shall become effective concurrently with such termination and release of the Liens granted to the Junior Priority Parties and the Second Lien Collateral Agent and/or such termination and release of such Subsidiary Guaranty under its guaranty of Junior Obligations, as applicable, and will be in compliance with this Agreement), and any necessary or proper instruments of termination or release prepared by the Borrower or any other Grantor, the Second Lien Collateral Agent will promptly execute, deliver or acknowledge, at the Borrower’s or the other applicable Grantor’s sole cost and expense, such instruments reasonably requested by the Borrower or any other Grantor to evidence such termination and release of the Liens or of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under its guaranty of Junior Obligations. Nothing in this Section  5.01(a) will be deemed to affect any agreement of the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the other Junior Priority Parties, to release the Liens on the Junior Priority Collateral as set forth in the relevant Junior Priority Debt Documents.

(b) Other than for purposes of clause (A) of Section  5.01(a) , the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the First Lien Collateral Agent and any officer or agent of the First Lien Collateral Agent, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and stead of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or other Junior Priority Party or in the First Lien Collateral Agent’s own name, from time to time in the First Lien Collateral Agent’s discretion, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of Section  5.01(a) , to take any and all appropriate action and to execute any and all documents and instruments that may be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of Section  5.01(a) , including any termination statements, endorsements or other instruments of transfer or release. The First Lien Collateral Agent hereby agrees to take action reasonably requested by the Grantors to carry out the terms of this Section  5.01(b) or to accomplish the purposes of Section  5.01(a) .

(c) Unless and until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, hereby consents to the application, whether prior to or after an event of default under any Senior Debt Document, of Proceeds of Shared Collateral to the repayment of Senior Obligations pursuant to the Senior Debt Documents; provided that nothing in this Section  5.01(c) shall be construed to prevent or impair the rights of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or the other Junior Priority Parties to receive required payments of interest, principal and other amounts in respect of the Junior Obligations not otherwise in contravention of this Agreement; provided further , that the immediately preceding proviso shall not apply and such payments shall be subject to Section  4.02 in the event the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Junior Priority Party receives such payments from Proceeds of Shared Collateral in connection with the exercise by the Second Lien Collateral Agent of its rights under Section  3.01(a)(ii)(F) .

 

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(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Junior Priority Collateral Document, in the event the terms of a Senior Collateral Document and a Junior Priority Collateral Document each require any Grantor to (i) make any payments in respect of any item of Shared Collateral to, (ii) deliver or afford control over any item of Shared Collateral to, or deposit any item of Shared Collateral with, (iii) register ownership of any item of Shared Collateral in the name of or make an assignment of ownership of any Shared Collateral or the rights thereunder to, (iv) cause any securities intermediary, commodity intermediary or other Person acting in a similar capacity to agree to comply, in respect of any item of Shared Collateral, with instructions or orders from, or to treat, in respect of any item of Shared Collateral, as the entitlement holder, (v) hold any item of Shared Collateral in trust for (to the extent such item of Shared Collateral cannot be held in trust for multiple parties under applicable law), (vi) obtain the agreement of a bailee or other third party to hold any item of Shared Collateral for the benefit of or subject to the control of or, in respect of any item of Shared Collateral, to follow the instructions of or (vii) obtain the agreement of a landlord with respect to access to leased premises where any item of Shared Collateral is located or waivers or subordination of rights with respect to any item of Shared Collateral in favor of, in any case, both the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party, on the one hand, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party, on the other hand, such Grantor may, until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, comply with such requirement under any applicable Junior Priority Collateral Document as it relates to such Shared Collateral by taking any of the actions set forth above only with respect to, or in favor of, the First Lien Collateral Agent or other Senior Secured Party; provided, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any action or compliance with respect to the foregoing by any Grantor shall not cause a default or event of default to exist under any Senior Debt Document or any Junior Priority Document.

Section 5.02 Insurance and Condemnation Awards . Unless and until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other Senior Secured Parties shall have the sole and exclusive right, subject to the rights of the Grantors under the Senior Debt Documents, to (a) adjust settlement for any insurance policy covering the Shared Collateral in the event of any loss thereunder and (b) approve any award granted in any condemnation or similar proceeding affecting the Shared Collateral. Unless and until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, all proceeds of any such policy and any such award, if in respect of the Shared Collateral, shall be paid (i) first, prior to the occurrence of the Discharge of Senior Obligations, to the First Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of Senior Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of the Senior Debt Documents, (ii) second, after the occurrence of the Discharge of Senior Obligations, to the Second Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Junior Priority Parties pursuant to the terms of the applicable Junior Priority Debt Documents, (iii) third, after the occurrence of the Discharge of Junior Obligations, to the First Lien Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Senior Secured Parties pursuant to the Senior Debt Documents for the payment of any Excess Senior Obligations until such Excess Senior Obligations have been paid in full in cash, and (iv) fourth, to the owner of the subject property, such other Person as may be entitled thereto or as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct. If the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party shall, at any time, receive any proceeds of any such insurance policy or any such award in contravention of this Agreement, it shall pay such proceeds over to the First Lien Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of Section  4.02 to be applied in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence.

 

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Section 5.03 Amendments to Debt Documents .

(a) The Senior Debt Documents may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, extended, renewed, replaced, restructured, and/or otherwise modified in accordance with their terms, and the Indebtedness under the Senior Debt Documents may be Refinanced or replaced, in whole or in part, in each case, without the consent of any Junior Priority Party, so long as not prohibited by the Junior Priority Debt Documents in effect on the date hereof, all without affecting the Lien priorities provided for herein and the other provisions hereof; provided , however , that, without the consent of the Majority Noteholders, no such amendment, restatement, supplement, modification or Refinancing (or successive amendments, restatements, supplements, modifications or Refinancings) shall (i) contravene the provisions of this Agreement or (ii) solely to the extent that the stated maturity date of the Indebtedness outstanding under the Second Lien Notes Indenture is earlier than the stated maturity date of the Senior Obligations, contractually restrict or otherwise directly and adversely affect the payment at or following (and, for the avoidance of doubt, solely at or following, and not prior to) the stated maturity date of the Indebtedness outstanding under the Second Lien Notes Indenture.

(b) Without the prior written consent of the First Lien Collateral Agent, no Junior Priority Document may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, extended, renewed, replaced, restructured, or otherwise modified, or entered into, and no Indebtedness under the Junior Priority Debt Documents may be Refinanced, to the extent such amendment, restatement, supplement or modification or Refinancing, or the terms of such new Junior Priority Document, would (i) contravene the provisions of this Agreement, (ii) be prohibited by the Senior Debt Documents in effect on the date hereof, (iii) change to earlier dates any scheduled (other than mandatory prepayments) dates for payment of principal (including the final maturity date) on Indebtedness under such Junior Priority Document or cause any additional scheduled payments (other than mandatory prepayments) of principal on Indebtedness to be paid, in each case, only to the extent such payment is scheduled to be paid prior to the final maturity date of any applicable Senior Obligation, or (iv) reduce the capacity to incur Indebtedness for borrowed money constituting Senior Obligations to an amount less than the amount of such Senior Obligations permitted to be incurred in accordance with the terms of the Junior Priority Debt Documents in effect on the date hereof or such later date to the extent such amount has been increased. No Junior Priority Collateral Document may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified or entered into to the extent such amendment, supplement or modification, or the terms of any new Junior Priority Collateral Document, would be prohibited by or inconsistent with any of the terms of this Agreement.

(c) The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that the Borrower shall cause each Junior Priority Collateral Document to include the following language (or language to similar effect reasonably approved by the First Lien Collateral Agent and reasonably acceptable to the Second Lien Collateral Agent):

“Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the liens and security interests granted to the Second Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to this Agreement are expressly subject and subordinate to the liens and security interest granted in favor of the Senior Secured Parties (as defined in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement referred to below), including liens and security interests granted to Bank

 

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of Montreal, as collateral agent (or permitted successor collateral agent), pursuant to or in connection with (1) the Credit Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the Bank of Montreal, as Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of June 6, 2017 and that Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2018, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and (2) the Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, dated as of April 12, 2017, among the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor, the other guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, Barclays Bank PLC, Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, as further amended, restated, amended and restated, replaced, extended, renewed, refinanced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and (ii) the exercise of any right or remedy by the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereunder is subject to the limitations and provisions of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement dated as of December 21, 2018 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement ”), among Bank of Montreal, as First Lien Collateral Agent, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Borrower, the Parent Guarantor and the Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor from time to time party thereto and affiliated and other entities from time to time party thereto. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the terms of this Agreement, the terms of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall govern.”

(d) In the event that the First Lien Collateral Agent and/or the Senior Secured Parties enter into any amendment, waiver or consent in respect of any of the Senior Collateral Documents for the purpose of adding to or deleting from, or waiving or consenting to any departures from any provisions of, any Senior Collateral Document or changing in any manner the rights of the First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Borrower or any other Grantor thereunder (excluding any amendment, waiver or consent resulting in the release of any Liens in Senior Collateral or having a substantially similar effect of a release), then such amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless such amendment, waiver or consent would be prejudicial to the rights of the Junior Priority Parties to a greater extent than to the rights of the Senior Secured Parties (other than with respect to the Lien priorities with respect to the Junior Priority Parties and the Senior Secured Parties set forth herein), apply automatically to any comparable provision of each comparable Junior Priority Collateral Document without the consent of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party and without any action by the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Borrower or any other Grantor; provided , however , that (i) no such amendment, waiver or consent shall (A) remove assets subject to the Junior Priority Liens or release any such Liens, except to the extent that such release is required by Section  5.01(a) or under the Junior Priority Documents and provided that there is a release of the corresponding Senior Liens, (B) amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights, privileges, immunities or duties of the Second Lien Collateral Agent in its role as Second Lien Collateral Agent without its prior

 

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written consent or (C) permit any additional Liens on any Shared Collateral that are not permitted under the terms of the Junior Priority Documents or ARTICLE VI of this Agreement, and (ii) written notice of such amendment, waiver or consent shall have been given by the Borrower to the Second Lien Collateral Agent within 10 Business Days after the effectiveness of such amendment, waiver or consent.

(e) The Borrower agrees to deliver to each of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent copies of (i) any amendments, supplements or other modifications to the Senior Debt Documents or the Junior Priority Debt Documents and (ii) any new Senior Debt Documents or Junior Priority Debt Documents promptly after effectiveness thereof.

Section 5.04 Rights as Unsecured Creditors . The Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties may exercise any rights and remedies as unsecured creditors they may have against the Borrower and any other Grantor in accordance with the terms of the Junior Priority Debt Documents and applicable law so long as such rights and remedies do not violate, or are not otherwise inconsistent with, any express provision of this Agreement (it being understood that any express provision of this Agreement that requires any party hereto to act or to refrain from acting shall be applicable to such party in its respective capacities as a secured creditor and as an unsecured creditor). Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the receipt by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party of the required payments of principal, premium, interest, fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts due under the Junior Priority Debt Documents so long as such receipt is not the direct or indirect result of the exercise by a Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party of rights or remedies as a secured creditor in respect of Shared Collateral in contravention of this Agreement or is not otherwise subject to turnover pursuant to Section  4.02 or Section  6.03 . In the event the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party becomes a judgment lien creditor in respect of Shared Collateral as a result of its enforcement of its rights as an unsecured creditor in respect of Junior Obligations, such judgment lien shall be subordinated to the Liens securing Senior Obligations and any DIP Financing (and all obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Junior Obligations are so subordinated to such Liens securing Senior Obligations under this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall impair or otherwise adversely affect any rights or remedies the First Lien Collateral Agent or the other Senior Secured Parties may have with respect to the Senior Collateral.

Section 5.05 Gratuitous Bailee for Perfection .

(a) The First Lien Collateral Agent acknowledges and agrees that if it shall at any time hold a Lien securing any Senior Obligations on any Shared Collateral (including for avoidance of doubt, deposit accounts subject to control agreements) that can be perfected by the possession, control (including as defined in Section 9-104 of the UCC) or notation of such Shared Collateral or of any account in which such Shared Collateral is held, and if such Shared Collateral or any such account is in fact in the possession or under the control of, or notated in the name of, such First Lien Collateral Agent, or of agents or bailees of such Person (such Shared Collateral being referred to herein as the “ Pledged or Controlled Collateral ”), or if it shall at any time obtain any landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or any similar agreement or arrangement granting it rights or access to Shared Collateral, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall also hold, control or notate such

 

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Pledged or Controlled Collateral, or take such actions with respect to such landlord waiver, bailee’s letter or similar agreement or arrangement, as sub-agent or gratuitous bailee for the Second Lien Collateral Agent, in each case solely for the purpose of perfecting the Liens granted under the Junior Priority Collateral Documents or granting rights or access to any Shared Collateral subject to such landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or any similar agreement or arrangement and subject to the terms and conditions of this Section  5.05 .

(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Senior Secured Parties shall be entitled to deal with the Pledged or Controlled Collateral in accordance with the terms of the Senior Debt Documents as if the Liens under the Junior Priority Collateral Documents did not exist. The rights of the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties with respect to the Pledged or Controlled Collateral shall at all times be subject to the terms of this Agreement.

(c) The First Lien Collateral Agent and the other Senior Secured Parties shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party to assure that any of the Pledged or Controlled Collateral is genuine or owned by the Grantors or to protect or preserve rights or benefits of any Person or any rights pertaining to the Shared Collateral, except as expressly set forth in this Section  5.05 . The duties or responsibilities of the First Lien Collateral Agent under this Section  5.05 shall be limited solely to holding, controlling or being notated on the Shared Collateral and the related Liens referred to in paragraph  (a) of this Section  5.05 as sub-agent and gratuitous bailee for the Second Lien Collateral Agent for purposes of perfecting the Lien held by the Second Lien Collateral Agent on behalf of the Junior Priority Parties.

(d) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall not have, by reason of the Junior Priority Collateral Documents or this Agreement, or any other document, a fiduciary relationship in respect of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, hereby waives and releases the First Lien Collateral Agent from all claims and liabilities arising pursuant to the First Lien Collateral Agents’ roles under this Section  5.05 as sub-agents and gratuitous bailees with respect to the Shared Collateral.

(e) Upon the Discharge of Senior Obligations, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall, at the Grantors’ sole cost and expense, (i)(A) deliver to the Second Lien Collateral Agent, to the extent that it is legally permitted to do so, all Shared Collateral, including all proceeds thereof, held or controlled by such First Lien Collateral Agent or any of its agents or bailees, including the transfer of possession and control, or the notation of, as applicable, of the Pledged or Controlled Collateral, together with any necessary endorsements or notices to depositary banks, securities intermediaries and commodities intermediaries, and assign its rights under any landlord waiver or bailee’s letter or any similar agreement or arrangement granting it rights in or access to Shared Collateral, or (B) direct and deliver such Shared Collateral as a court of competent jurisdiction may otherwise direct, (ii) notify any applicable insurance carrier that it is no longer entitled to be a loss payee or additional insured under the insurance policies of any Grantor issued by such insurance carrier and (iii) notify any governmental authority involved in any condemnation or similar proceeding involving any Grantor that the Second Lien Collateral Agent is entitled to

 

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approve any awards granted in such proceeding. The Borrower and the other Grantors shall take such further action as is required to effectuate the transfer contemplated hereby and shall indemnify the First Lien Collateral Agent for any loss or damage suffered by the First Lien Collateral Agent as a result of such transfer, except for any loss or damage suffered by any such Person that is determined by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Person or (to the extent involved in or aware of such transfer) any of its Controlling Persons or Controlled Affiliates or any of the officers, directors, employees, partners or agents of any of the foregoing. The First Lien Collateral Agent shall have no obligations to follow instructions from the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party in contravention of this Agreement.

(f) None of the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any of the other Senior Secured Parties shall be required to marshal any present or future collateral security for any obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party under the Senior Debt Documents or any assurance of payment in respect thereof or to any Junior Priority Party, or to resort to such collateral security or other assurances of payment in any particular order, and all of their rights in respect of such collateral security or any assurance of payment in respect thereof shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights, however existing or arising. Without limiting any of the foregoing, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each Junior Priority Party, hereby agrees that it will not, and hereby waives any right to, assert any marshaling, appraisal, valuation or other similar right that may otherwise be available to a junior secured creditor.

Section 5.06 When Discharge of Senior Obligations Deemed To Not Have Occurred . If, at any time substantially concurrently with or after the occurrence of the Discharge of Senior Obligations, the Borrower or any Subsidiary consummates any Refinancing of or incurs any Senior Obligations, then such Discharge of Senior Obligations shall automatically be deemed not to have occurred for all purposes of this Agreement (other than with respect to any actions taken prior to the date of such consummation or incurrence as a result of the occurrence of such first Discharge of Senior Obligations) and the applicable agreement governing such Senior Obligations shall automatically be treated as a Senior Debt Document for all purposes of this Agreement, including for purposes of the Lien priorities and rights in respect of Shared Collateral set forth herein, and the agent, representative or trustee for the holders of such Senior Obligations shall be a First Lien Collateral Agent for all purposes of this Agreement. Upon receipt of notice of such incurrence (including the identity of the new First Lien Collateral Agent) from the Borrower and the new First Lien Collateral Agent under the agreement governing such Senior Obligations, the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall promptly (a) enter into such documents and agreements (at the expense of the Borrower), including amendments or supplements to this Agreement, as the Borrower or such new First Lien Collateral Agent shall reasonably request in writing in order to provide the new First Lien Collateral Agent the rights of a First Lien Collateral Agent contemplated hereby, (b) deliver to such First Lien Collateral Agent, to the extent that it is legally permitted to do so, all Shared Collateral, including all proceeds thereof, held or controlled by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any of its agents or bailees, including the transfer of possession and control, or the notation, as applicable, of the Pledged or Controlled Collateral, together with any necessary endorsements and notices to depositary banks, securities intermediaries and commodities intermediaries, and assign its rights under any landlord waiver or

 

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bailee’s letter or any similar agreement or arrangement granting it rights in or access to Shared Collateral, (c) notify any applicable insurance carrier that the new First Lien Collateral Agent is entitled to be the loss payee or additional insured under the insurance policies of any Grantor issued by such insurance carrier and (d) notify any governmental authority involved in any condemnation or similar proceeding involving a Grantor that the new First Lien Collateral Agent is entitled to approve any awards granted in such proceeding.

Section 5.07 Purchase Right . Without prejudice to the enforcement of the Senior Secured Parties’ remedies, the Senior Secured Parties agree that following (a) the acceleration of any Senior Obligations in accordance with the terms of the applicable Senior Debt Document, (b) a payment Event of Default (under and as defined in the Senior Debt Document governing any Senior Facility as of the date hereof) at or following final maturity of such Senior Facility, or (c) the commencement of an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding (each, a “ Purchase Event ”), within thirty (30) days of the first of any such Purchase Event to occur, one or more of the Junior Priority Parties may request, and the Senior Secured Parties hereby offer the Junior Priority Parties the option on a ratable basis consistent with their respective Junior Priority Obligations, to purchase all, but not less than all, of the aggregate amount of outstanding Senior Obligations outstanding at the time of purchase at par, plus (to the extent received by the Junior Priority Parties within ninety (90) days after the consummation of such purchase) any premium that would be applicable upon prepayment of the Senior Obligations (including as a result of the occurrence of such Purchase Event, and in the case of any Swap Agreements, on a per Secured Swap Provider basis, the positive amount that is payable by the Borrower or relevant Guarantor thereunder reflecting any unpaid amount then due or amount owing in connection with the termination (or early termination) on or prior to the date of the consummation of such purchase after giving effect to offset and netting arrangements in respect of such Secured Swap Provider, but excluding any rights of the Senior Secured Parties with respect to indemnification and other obligations of the Company and Guarantors under the Senior Debt Documents that are expressly stated to survive the termination of the Senior Debt Documents and any prepayment penalties or premiums), the cash collateral to be furnished to the Senior Secured Parties providing letters of credit under the Senior Debt Document in accordance with the terms thereof and accrued and unpaid interest, fees and expenses, without warranty or representation or recourse (except for representations and warranties required to be made by assigning lenders pursuant to the Assignment and Assumption). If less than all Junior Priority Parties have exercised such purchase right within thirty (30) days of such Purchase Event, the purchase right with respect to the Senior Obligations that were initially offered to such non-accepting Junior Priority Parties may be exercised, on a ratable or greater than ratable basis, within an additional ten (10) days by the Junior Priority Parties that have exercised such purchase right. If such right is exercised, the parties shall endeavor to close promptly thereafter but in any event within ten (10) Business Days of the request. If one or more of the Junior Priority Parties exercise such purchase right, it shall be exercised pursuant to documentation mutually acceptable to each of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the purchasing Junior Priority Parties, in each case, at no cost or expense to the Grantors. If none of the Junior Priority Parties exercises such right within thirty (30) days of such Purchase Event, the Senior Secured Parties shall have no further obligations pursuant to this Section  5.07 for such Purchase Event and may take any further actions in their sole discretion in accordance with the Senior Debt Documents and this Agreement. Each Grantor and the First Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of each Senior Secured Party, irrevocably consents to any assignment effected to one or more Junior Priority

 

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Parties pursuant to this Section 5.07 (so long as such Junior Priority Parties meet all eligibility standards contained in all relevant Senior Debt Documents) and authorizes the purchasing Junior Priority Parties to execute all required assignment documentation on their behalf for purposes of all Senior Debt Documents and hereby agrees that no further consent from such Grantor or any Senior Secured Party shall be required.

ARTICLE VI

Insolvency or Liquidation Proceedings

Section 6.01 Financing Issues . Until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, if the Borrower or any other Grantor shall be subject to any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding and the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party shall consent (or not object) to the use of cash or the sale or use of other collateral or consent (or not object) to the Borrower’s or any other Grantor’s obtaining financing under Section 363 or Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law (“ DIP Financing ”), then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that it will raise no objection to and will not otherwise contest (a) such use of such cash or other collateral, unless the First Lien Collateral Agent shall oppose or object to such use of cash collateral (in which case, no Second Lien Collateral Agent nor any other Junior Priority Party shall seek any relief in connection therewith that is inconsistent with the relief being sought by the Senior Secured Parties); (b) such DIP Financing, so long as (1) the Second Lien Collateral Agent retains its Liens on the Junior Priority Collateral, for the benefit of the Junior Priority Parties, with the same priority relative to the Senior Obligations as is set forth in Section  2.01 , (2) (x) the sum of (A) the aggregate principal amount of such DIP Financing, including any Senior Obligations refinanced with or otherwise “rolled up” by such DIP Financing, plus (B) the aggregate principal amount of Senior Obligations that are not refinanced with or otherwise “rolled up” by such DIP Financing, does not exceed (y) an amount equal to 120% of the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Obligations outstanding as of the date of the commencement of such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding prior to the funding of such DIP Financing, (3) such DIP Financing is secured by a Lien on the Shared Collateral which is pari passu with or senior in priority to the Lien securing the Senior Obligations and (4) such DIP Financing does not compel any Grantor to seek to sell all or substantially all of its assets or seek confirmation of a specific Plan of Reorganization with respect to which all or a material portion of the material terms are set forth in the cash collateral order or DIP Financing documents ( provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, plan terms regarding the liquidation of non-material assets or providing for the Discharge of Senior Obligations are not material terms), and unless the First Lien Collateral Agent shall oppose or object to such DIP Financing, and, except to the extent permitted by Section  6.03 , will not request adequate protection or any other relief in connection therewith and, to the extent the Liens securing any Senior Obligations are subordinated to or pari passu with such DIP Financing, will subordinate (and will be deemed hereunder to have subordinated) its Liens in the Shared Collateral to (x) such DIP Financing (and all obligations relating thereto) on the same basis as the Liens securing the Junior Obligations are so subordinated to Liens securing Senior Obligations under this Agreement, (y) any adequate protection Liens provided to the Senior Secured Parties, and (z) any “carve-out” for professional and United States Trustee fees agreed to by the First Lien Collateral Agent; (c) any motion for relief from the automatic stay or from any injunction against foreclosure or enforcement

 

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in respect of Senior Obligations or the Shared Collateral made by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party; (d) any exercise by any Senior Secured Party of the right to credit bid Senior Obligations at any sale in foreclosure of Shared Collateral or Senior Collateral or under Section 363(k) of the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable law; (e) any other request for judicial relief made in any court by any Senior Secured Party relating to the lawful enforcement of any Lien on Senior Collateral; or (f) any order (including orders to retain professionals or set bid procedures) relating to a sale or other disposition of any Shared Collateral of any Grantor to which the First Lien Collateral Agent has consented or not objected; provided that (1) the Liens securing the Senior Obligations and the Second Priority Debt Obligations will attach to the Proceeds of the sale or other disposition on the same basis of priority as the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Senior Obligations rank to the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Second Priority Debt Obligations pursuant to this Agreement, (2) in the event that the Proceeds of any such sale or other disposition shall not be applied (to the extent applicable) in accordance with Section  4.01 or to permanently reduce the obligations owing pursuant to any DIP Financing, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, may object to or contest such use of proceeds to the extent applied other than in accordance with Section  4.01 or to permanently reduce the obligations owing pursuant to any DIP Financing (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, to such sale or disposition itself) and (3) any Junior Priority Party may contest or object to the release of its Liens on such Shared Collateral in connection with such sale or other disposition solely to the extent an unsecured creditor could contest under applicable law the valuation of such Shared Collateral in such sale or other disposition; provided , however , that the Junior Priority Parties are not deemed to have waived any rights to credit bid on the Shared Collateral in any such sale or disposition in accordance with Section 363(k) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision under any other applicable Bankruptcy Law), so long as any such credit bid provides for the Discharge of Senior Obligations (including the payment in full in cash of the Senior Obligations) concurrently with the consummation of such credit bid. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that notice received two Business Days prior to the entry of an order approving such usage of cash or other collateral or approving such DIP Financing shall be adequate notice. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any Junior Priority Party may provide or offer to provide any DIP Financing unless (x) in the case of any such DIP Financing that is secured by Liens on the Shared Collateral senior or pari passu with the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Senior Obligations, such DIP Financing shall result in the Discharge of Senior Obligations substantially concurrently with the making or funding of the initial extensions of credit thereunder and/or (y) in the case of any such DIP Financing secured by Liens on the Shared Collateral that are junior and subordinated to the Liens on the Shared Collateral securing the Senior Obligations, none of the Senior Secured Parties are providing or have offered to provide, or have consented to any third-party providing, any DIP Financing (and any such DIP Financing provided by such Junior Priority Parties shall otherwise be treated as Junior Obligations for purposes of this Agreement).

Section 6.02 Relief from the Automatic Stay . Until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that none of them shall seek relief from the automatic stay or any other stay in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or take any action in derogation thereof, in each case in respect of any Shared Collateral, without the prior written consent of the First Lien

 

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Collateral Agent; provided that in the event that the First Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the other Senior Secured Parties, is granted relief from the automatic stay or any other such stay, then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the other Junior Priority Parties, may seek relief from such stay, solely on terms substantially identical to those granted to the First Lien Collateral Agent and subject to the terms of this Agreement (including without limitation, Section 3.01(a)).

Section 6.03 Adequate Protection . The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that none of them shall (A) object, contest or support any other Person objecting to or contesting (a) any request by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Parties for adequate protection in any form, (b) any objection by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Parties to any motion, relief, action or proceeding based on the First Lien Collateral Agent’s or other Senior Secured Party’s claiming a lack of adequate protection or (c) the payment of interest, fees, expenses or other amounts of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party as adequate protection or otherwise under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law or (B) assert or support any claim for costs or expenses of preserving or disposing of any Shared Collateral under Section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section  6.03 or in Section  6.01 , in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, (i) if the Senior Secured Parties (or any subset thereof) are granted adequate protection in the form of additional or replacement collateral or superpriority claims in connection with any DIP Financing or use of cash collateral under Section 363 or 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law, then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, may seek or request adequate protection in the form of a Lien on such additional or replacement collateral and/or a superpriority claim (as applicable), which (A) Lien is subordinated to the Liens securing all Senior Obligations and all adequate protection Liens granted to the Senior Secured Parties, on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Junior Obligations are subordinated to the Liens securing Senior Obligations under this Agreement and/or (B) superpriority claim is subordinated to all superpriority claims of the Senior Secured Parties on the same basis as the other claims of the Junior Priority Parties are subordinated to the claims of the Senior Secured Parties under this Agreement; provided that each Junior Priority Party shall have irrevocably agreed, pursuant to Section 1129(a)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code in any stipulation and/or order granting such adequate protection, that such junior superpriority claims may be paid under any Plan of Reorganization in any combination of cash, debt, equity or other property having a value on the effective date of such plan equal to the allowed amount of such claims, (ii) in the event the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the other Junior Priority Parties, are granted adequate protection (in each instance, to the extent such grant is otherwise permissible under the terms and conditions of this Agreement) in the form of a Lien on additional or replacement collateral, then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agree that the First Lien Collateral Agent shall also be granted a senior Lien on such additional or replacement collateral as adequate protection and security for the Senior Obligations and that any Lien on such additional or replacement collateral securing and granted as adequate protection with respect to the Junior Obligations shall be subordinated to the Liens on such collateral securing the Senior Obligations and any other Liens granted to the Senior Secured Parties as adequate protection on the same basis as the other Liens securing the Junior Obligations are

 

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subordinated to such Liens securing Senior Obligations under this Agreement (and, to the extent the Senior Secured Parties are not granted such adequate protection in such form, any amounts recovered by or distributed to any Junior Priority Party pursuant to or as a result of any Lien on such additional or replacement collateral so granted to the Junior Priority Parties shall be subject to Section  4.02 ), and/or (iii) in the event the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of the other Junior Priority Parties, are granted adequate protection (in each instance, to the extent such grant is otherwise permissible under the terms and conditions of this Agreement) in the form of a superpriority claim, then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, agree that the First Lien Collateral Agent shall also be granted adequate protection in the form of a superpriority claim, which superpriority claim shall be senior to the superpriority claim of the Junior Priority Parties (and, to the extent the Senior Secured Parties are not granted such adequate protection in such form, any amounts recovered by or distributed to any Junior Priority Party pursuant to or as a result of any such superpriority claim so granted to the Junior Priority Parties shall be subject to Section  4.02 ). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to the extent that the Senior Secured Parties are granted adequate protection in the form of payments in the amount of current post-petition interest, fees and expenses, and/or other cash payments, then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, shall not be prohibited from seeking and accepting adequate protection in the form of payments in the amount of current post-petition interest, incurred fees and expenses, and/or other cash payments (as applicable), subject to the right of the Senior Secured Parties to object to the reasonableness of the amounts of fees and expenses or other cash payments so sought by the Junior Priority Parties; provided that if the Junior Priority Parties received such adequate protection payments prior to the Discharge of Senior Obligations, then upon the effective date of any Plan of Reorganization or the conclusion or dismissal of the applicable Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, the Junior Priority Parties shall turn over to the First Lien Collateral Agent (for application in accordance with Section 4.01) an amount equal to the lesser of (A) such adequate protection payments (other than on account of incurred legal fees and expenses) received by the Junior Priority Parties and (B) the amount necessary to cause the Discharge of Senior Obligations, unless such Plan of Reorganization is proposed or supported by the number of Senior Secured Parties required under Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Section 6.04 Preference Issues . If any Senior Secured Party is required in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to disgorge, turn over or otherwise pay any amount to the estate of the Borrower or any other Grantor (or any trustee, receiver or similar Person therefor), because the payment of such amount was declared to be fraudulent or preferential in any respect or for any other reason, any amount (a “ Recovery ”), whether received as proceeds of security, enforcement of any right of setoff or otherwise, then the Senior Obligations shall be reinstated to the extent of such Recovery and deemed to be outstanding as if such payment had not occurred and the Senior Secured Parties shall be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement until a Discharge of Senior Obligations with respect to all such recovered amounts. If this Agreement shall have been terminated prior to such Recovery, this Agreement shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior termination shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of the parties hereto.

 

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Section 6.05 Separate Grants of Security and Separate Classifications . The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, acknowledges and agrees that (a) the grants of Liens pursuant to the Senior Collateral Documents and the Junior Priority Collateral Documents constitute separate and distinct grants of Liens and (b) because of, among other things, their differing rights in the Shared Collateral, the Junior Obligations are fundamentally different from the Senior Obligations and must be separately classified in any Plan of Reorganization proposed, confirmed, or adopted in an Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. To further effectuate the intent of the parties as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, if it is held that any claims of the Senior Secured Parties and the Junior Priority Parties in respect of the Shared Collateral constitute a single class of claims (rather than separate classes of senior and junior secured claims), then the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, hereby acknowledges and agrees that all distributions from the Shared Collateral shall be made as if there were separate classes of senior and junior secured claims against the Grantors in respect of the Shared Collateral, with the effect being that, to the extent that the aggregate value of the Shared Collateral is sufficient (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the Junior Priority Parties), the Senior Secured Parties shall be entitled to receive, in addition to amounts distributed to them in respect of principal, pre-petition interest, fees, and expenses, and other claims, all amounts owing in respect of post-petition interest, fees, and expenses (whether or not allowed or allowable in any such Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding) before any distribution from the Shared Collateral is made in respect of the Junior Obligations, and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, hereby acknowledges and agrees to turn over to the First Lien Collateral Agent amounts otherwise received or receivable by them from the Shared Collateral to the extent necessary to effectuate the intent of this sentence, even if such turnover has the effect of reducing the claim or recovery of the Junior Priority Parties.

Section 6.06 No Waivers of Rights of Senior Secured Parties . Nothing contained herein shall, except as expressly provided herein, prohibit or in any way limit the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party from objecting in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding or otherwise to any action taken by any Junior Priority Party, including the seeking by any Junior Priority Party of adequate protection or the assertion by any Junior Priority Party of any of its rights and remedies under the Junior Priority Debt Documents or otherwise.

Section 6.07 Application . This Agreement, which the parties hereto expressly acknowledge is a “subordination agreement” under Section  510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law, shall be effective before, during and after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. The relative rights set forth herein as to the Shared Collateral and proceeds thereof shall continue after the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding on the same basis as prior to the date of the petition therefor, subject to any court order approving the financing of, or use of cash collateral by, any Grantor. All references herein to any Grantor shall include such Grantor as a debtor-in-possession and any receiver or trustee for such Grantor.

Section 6.08 Other Matters . To the extent that the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party has or acquires rights under Section 363 or Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law with respect to any of the Shared Collateral, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, agrees not to assert any such rights, except as expressly provided in this Agreement,

 

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without the prior written consent of the First Lien Collateral Agent, provided that if requested by the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall timely exercise such rights in the manner requested by the First Lien Collateral Agent, including any rights to payments in respect of such rights.

Section 6.09 506(c) Claims . Until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that it will not assert or enforce any claim under Section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code or any similar provision of any other Bankruptcy Law senior to or on a parity with the Liens securing the Senior Obligations for costs or expenses of preserving or disposing of any Shared Collateral.

Section 6.10 Reorganization Securities .

(a) If, in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding, debt obligations of the reorganized debtor secured by Liens upon any property of the reorganized debtor are distributed, pursuant to a Plan of Reorganization, on account of both the Senior Obligations and the Junior Obligations, then, to the extent the debt obligations distributed on account of the Senior Obligations and on account of the Junior Obligations are secured by Liens upon the same assets or property, the provisions of this Agreement will survive the distribution of such debt obligations pursuant to such plan and will apply with like effect to the Liens securing such debt obligations.

(b) No Junior Priority Party (whether in the capacity of a secured creditor or an unsecured creditor) shall propose, vote in favor of, or otherwise directly or indirectly support any Plan of Reorganization that is inconsistent with the lien priorities set forth in this Agreement or any other provision of this Agreement, unless any such Plan of Reorganization (i) results in the Discharge of Senior Obligations, including the repayment in cash, in full of the Senior Obligations (other than with respect to unasserted contingent indemnification obligations and contingent reimbursement obligations), by a date that is no later than the effective date of such Plan of Reorganization or (ii) is proposed or supported by the number of Senior Secured Parties required under Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Section 6.11 Section  1111(b) of the Bankruptcy Code . The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, shall not object to, oppose, support any objection to, or take any other action to impede, the right of any Senior Secured Party to make an election under Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, for itself and on behalf of each other Junior Priority Party, waives any claim it may hereafter have against any senior claimholder arising out of the election by any Senior Secured Party of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code.

Section 6.12 Post-Petition Interest .

(a) None of the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party shall oppose or seek to challenge any claim by the First Lien Collateral Agent or any other Senior Secured Party for allowance in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of Senior Obligations consisting of claims for post-petition interest, fees, or expenses, under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise (for this purpose ignoring all claims held by the Junior Priority Parties).

 

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(b) None of the First Lien Collateral Agent or any or other Senior Secured Party shall oppose or seek to challenge any claim by the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party for allowance in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding of Junior Obligations consisting of claims for post-petition interest, fees, or expenses, under Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, to the extent of the value of the Lien of the Second Lien Collateral Agent on behalf of the Junior Priority Parties on the Shared Collateral (after taking into account the Senior Obligations).

ARTICLE VII

Reliance; Etc.

Section 7.01 Reliance . All loans and other extensions of credit made or deemed made on and after the date hereof by the Senior Secured Parties to the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall be deemed to have been given and made in reliance upon this Agreement. The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, acknowledges that it and such other Junior Priority Parties have, independently and without reliance on the First Lien Collateral Agent or other Senior Secured Party, and based on documents and information deemed by them appropriate, made their own credit analysis and decision to enter into the Junior Priority Debt Documents to which they are party or by which they are bound, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and they will continue to make their own credit decisions in taking or not taking any action under the Junior Priority Debt Documents or this Agreement; provided, that the foregoing shall not impose any obligation on the Second Lien Collateral Agent to make any such credit analysis.

Section 7.02 No Warranties or Liability . The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, acknowledges and agrees that neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any other Senior Secured Party has made any express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the execution, validity, legality, completeness, collectability or enforceability of any of the Senior Debt Documents, the ownership of any Shared Collateral or the perfection or priority of any Liens thereon. The Senior Secured Parties will be entitled to manage and supervise their respective loans and extensions of credit under the Senior Debt Documents in accordance with law and as they may otherwise, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate, and the Senior Secured Parties may manage their loans and extensions of credit without regard to any rights or interests that the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the Junior Priority Parties have in the Shared Collateral or otherwise, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement. Neither the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any other Senior Secured Party shall have any duty to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party to act or refrain from acting in a manner that allows, or results in, the occurrence or continuance of an event of default or default under any agreement with the Borrower or any Subsidiary (including the Junior Priority Debt Documents), regardless of any knowledge thereof that they may have or be charged with. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, the First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties have not otherwise made to each other, nor do they hereby make to each other, any warranties, express or implied, nor do they assume any liability to each other with respect to (a) the enforceability, validity, value or collectability of any of the Senior Obligations, the Junior Obligations or any guarantee or security which may have been granted to any of them in connection therewith, (b) any Grantor’s title to or right to transfer any of the Shared Collateral or (c) any other matter except as expressly set forth in this Agreement.

 

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Section 7.03 Obligations Unconditional . All rights, interests, agreements and obligations of the First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties hereunder shall remain in full force and effect irrespective of:

(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Senior Debt Document or any Junior Priority Document;

(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other terms of, all or any of the Senior Obligations or Junior Obligations, or any amendment or waiver or other modification, including any increase in the amount thereof, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, of the terms of the Senior Facilities or any other Senior Debt Document or of the terms of the Second Lien Notes Indenture or any other Junior Priority Document;

(c) any exchange of any security interest in any Shared Collateral or any other collateral or any amendment, waiver or other modification, whether in writing or by course of conduct or otherwise, of all or any of the Senior Obligations or Junior Obligations or any guarantee thereof;

(d) the commencement of any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding in respect of the Borrower or any other Grantor; or

(e) any other circumstances that otherwise might constitute a defense available to (i) the Borrower or any other Grantor in respect of the Senior Obligations (other than the Discharge of Senior Obligations subject to Sections  5.06 and  6.04 ) or (ii) the Second Lien Collateral Agent or other Junior Priority Party in respect of this Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

Miscellaneous

Section 8.01 Conflicts . Subject to Section  8.22 , in the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of any Senior Debt Document or any Junior Priority Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall govern.

Section 8.02 Continuing Nature of this Agreement; Severability . Subject to Section  6.04 , this Agreement shall continue to be effective until the Discharge of Senior Obligations shall have occurred. This is a continuing agreement of Lien subordination, and the Senior Secured Parties may continue, at any time and without notice to the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party, to extend credit and other financial accommodations and lend monies to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any Subsidiary constituting Senior Obligations in reliance hereon. The terms of this Agreement shall survive and continue in full force and effect in any Insolvency or Liquidation Proceeding. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions hereof, and any

 

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such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction. The parties shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.

Section 8.03 Amendments; Waivers .

(a) No failure or delay on the part of any party hereto in exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the parties hereto are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by any party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph  (b)  of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. No notice or demand on any party hereto in any case shall entitle such party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.

(b) This Agreement may be amended in writing signed by each Representative (in each case, acting in accordance with the documents governing the Revolving Credit Agreement, Term Loan Credit Agreement or Second Lien Notes, as applicable). Any such amendment, supplement or waiver shall be in writing and shall be binding upon the Senior Secured Parties, the Junior Priority Parties and the Grantors and their respective successors and assigns; provided that any such amendment, supplement or waiver which is materially adverse to the interests of the Borrower or which by the terms of this Agreement expressly requires the Borrower’s consent or which increases the obligations or reduces the rights of the Borrower or any Grantor, shall require the consent of the Borrower.

Section 8.04 Information Concerning Financial Condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries . Without imposing any duty on the First Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Collateral Agent beyond what is set forth in the applicable Debt Documents, the First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties shall each be responsible for keeping themselves informed of (a) the financial condition of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries and all endorsers or guarantors of the Senior Obligations or the Junior Obligations and (b) all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Senior Obligations or the Junior Obligations. The First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties shall have no duty to advise any other party hereunder of information known to it or them regarding such condition or any such circumstances or otherwise. In the event that the First Lien Collateral Agent, any other Senior Secured Party, the Second Lien Collateral Agent or any other Junior Priority Party, in its sole discretion, undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to any other party, it shall be under no obligation to (i) make, and the First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties shall not make or be deemed to have made, any express or implied representation or warranty, including with respect to the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness or validity of any such information so provided, (ii) provide any

 

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additional information or to provide any such information on any subsequent occasion, (iii) undertake any investigation or (iv) disclose any information that, pursuant to accepted or reasonable commercial finance practices, such party wishes to maintain confidential or is otherwise required to maintain confidential.

Section 8.05 Subrogation . The Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, hereby agrees not to assert any rights of subrogation it may acquire as a result of any payment hereunder until the Discharge of Senior Obligations has occurred.

Section 8.06 Application of Payments . Except as otherwise provided herein, all payments received by the Senior Secured Parties may be applied, reversed and reapplied, in whole or in part, to such part of the Senior Obligations as the Senior Secured Parties, in their sole discretion, deem appropriate and consistent and in accordance with the terms of the Senior Debt Documents. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, assents to any such extension or postponement of the time of payment of the Senior Obligations or any part thereof and to any other indulgence with respect thereto, to any substitution, exchange or release of any security that may at any time secure any part of the Senior Obligations and to the addition or release of any other Person primarily or secondarily liable therefor.

Section 8.07 Additional Grantors . The Borrower agrees that, if any Restricted Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary shall become a Grantor after the date hereof pursuant to the requirements set forth in Section  8.14 of the Revolving Credit Agreement, Section  8.14 of the Term Loan Credit Agreement and Section 3.11 of the Second Lien Notes Indenture, it will promptly cause such Restricted Subsidiary to become party hereto by executing and delivering an instrument in the form of Annex  I . Upon such execution and delivery, such Restricted Subsidiary will become a Grantor hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a Grantor herein. The execution and delivery of such instrument shall not require the consent of any other party hereunder, and will be acknowledged by the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the First Lien Collateral Agent. The rights and obligations of each Grantor hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any new Grantor as a party to this Agreement.

Section 8.08 Dealings with Grantors . Upon any application or demand by the Borrower or any other Grantor to any Representative to take any action under any of the provisions of this Agreement or under any Collateral Document (if such action is subject to the provisions hereof), at the reasonable written request of such Representative, such Borrower or such other Grantor, as appropriate, shall furnish to such Representative a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that all conditions precedent, if any, expressly provided for in this Agreement or such Collateral Document, as the case may be, relating to the proposed action have been complied with or waived, except (a) that in the case of any such application or demand as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Agreement or any Collateral Document relating to such particular application or demand, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished or (b) for conditions that require the approval or satisfaction of any other Person or require actions not in the Borrower’s or any Grantor’s control.

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Section 8.10 [ Reserved ].

Section 8.11 Consent to Jurisdiction; Waivers . Each Representative, on behalf of itself and the other Secured Parties for which it is acting, irrevocably and unconditionally:

(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the Collateral Documents, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that any Representative or Secured Party may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any Collateral Document against any Grantor or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction;

(b) consents and agrees that any such action or proceeding shall be brought in such courts and waives (to the extent permitted by applicable law) any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to such Person (or its Representative) at the address referred to in Section  8.12 ;

(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right of any other party hereto (or any other Secured Party) to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law; and

(e) waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section  8.11 any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.

Section 8.12 Notices . All notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sent:

 

  (i)

if to any Borrower or any other Grantor, to the Borrower, at its address at:

Ultra Resources, Inc.

116 Inverness Drive E. #400

Englewood, CO 80112

Attention: Andrew Kidd

Email: akidd@ultrapetroleum.com

 

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

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

609 Main Street

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Mary Kogut Brawley

Email: mary.kogut@kirkland.com

 

  (ii)

if to the First Lien Collateral Agent, to it at:

Bank of Montreal

700 Louisiana Street, Suite 200

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention: Gumaro Tijerina

Email: gumaro.tijerina@bmo.com

With copies to:

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

600 Travis Street, Suite 5400

Houston, Texas 5400

Attention: Richard Sitton

Email: rsitton@stblaw.com

 

  (iii)

if to the Second Lien Collateral Agent to it at:

Wilmington Trust, National Association

15950 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 550

Dallas, Texas 75248

Attention: Ultra Resources Second Lien Administrator

Facsimile: (888) 316-6238

With copies to:

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Attention: Damian S. Schaible

       Eli J. Vonnegut
  Email:      damian.schaible@davispolk.com
       eli.vonnegut@davispolk.com

and (which shall not constitute notice):

Shipman & Goodwin LLP

One Constitution Plaza

Hartford, Connecticut 06103

Attention: Marie C. Pollio, Esq.

Fax: (860) 251-5212

Email: mpollio@goodwin.com

 

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Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given shall be in writing and may be personally served, telecopied, electronically mailed or sent by courier service or U.S. mail and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service, upon receipt of a telecopy or electronic mail or upon receipt via U.S. mail (registered or certified, with postage prepaid and properly addressed).

Section 8.13 Further Assurances . The First Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Senior Secured Party, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and each other Junior Priority Party, agrees that it will take such further action and shall execute and deliver such additional documents and instruments (in recordable form, if requested), at the Borrower’s sole cost and expense, as the other parties hereto may reasonably request to effectuate the terms of, and the Lien priorities contemplated by, this Agreement.

Section 8.14 GOVERNING LAW; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL .

(A) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

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

Section 8.15 Binding on Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall be binding upon the First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the other Junior Priority Parties, the Borrower, the other Grantors party hereto, and their respective successors and assigns.

Section 8.16 Section Titles . The section titles contained in this Agreement are and shall be without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are not a part of this Agreement.

Section 8.17 Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, including by means of facsimile or other electronic method, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall together constitute one and the same document. Delivery of an executed signature page to this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Agreement.

 

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Section 8.18 Authorization . By its signature, each Person (other than an individual) executing this Agreement on behalf of a party hereto represents and warrants to the other parties hereto that it is duly authorized to execute this Agreement, and by accepting the benefits of this Agreement, each Senior Secured Party and Junior Priority Party shall be deemed to have authorized the First Lien Collateral Agent or the Second Lien Collateral Agent, as applicable, to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations hereunder. The First Lien Collateral Agent represents and warrants that this Agreement is binding upon the Senior Secured Parties. The Second Lien Collateral Agent represents and warrants that this Agreement is binding upon the Junior Priority Parties.

Section 8.19 No Third Party Beneficiaries; Successors and Assigns . The lien priorities set forth in this Agreement and the rights and benefits hereunder in respect of such lien priorities shall inure solely to the benefit of the First Lien Collateral Agent, the other Senior Secured Parties, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Junior Priority Parties, the Grantors, and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and no other Person (including any trustee, receiver, debtor in possession or bankruptcy estate in a bankruptcy or like proceeding) shall have or be entitled to assert such rights. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall impair the rights or obligations of the Borrower or any other Grantor, which obligations are absolute and unconditional, to pay the Senior Obligations and the Junior Obligations as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms.

Section 8.20 Effectiveness . This Agreement shall become effective when executed and delivered by the parties hereto.

Section 8.21 Collateral Agent and Representative . It is understood and agreed that (a) the First Lien Collateral Agent is entering into this Agreement in its capacity as administrative agent under the Revolving Credit Agreement and collateral agent for the Senior Secured Parties and the provisions of Article XI of the Revolving Credit Agreement and Article XI of the Term Loan Credit Agreement applicable to the Agents (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement) thereunder shall also apply to the First Lien Collateral Agent hereunder and (b) the Second Lien Collateral Agent is entering into this Agreement in its capacity as collateral trustee under the Junior Priority Debt Documents and the provisions of Article VII and Article XI of the Second Lien Notes Indenture applicable to the Collateral Agent (as defined therein) thereunder shall also apply to the Second Lien Collateral Agent hereunder. It is understood that any determination, request, direction, consent or election, deeming any action or document reasonable, appropriate or satisfactory, exercising discretion, or exercising any right or duty under this Agreement to be made by the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall be pursuant to written direction from the Second Lien Notes Trustee or the requisite percentage of Holders under the Second Lien Notes Indenture.

Section 8.22 Relative Rights . Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary (except to the extent contemplated by Section  5.01(a), 5.01(d) or 5.03(d) ), nothing in this Agreement is intended to or will (a) amend, waive or otherwise modify the provisions of the Senior Facilities, any other Senior Debt Document, the Second Lien Notes Indenture or any other Junior

 

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Priority Debt Documents, (b) change the relative priorities of the Senior Obligations or the Liens granted under the Senior Collateral Documents on the Shared Collateral (or any other assets) as among the Senior Secured Parties, (c) otherwise change the relative rights of the Senior Secured Parties in respect of the Shared Collateral as among such Senior Secured Parties or (d) obligate the Borrower or any other Grantor to take any action, or fail to take any action, that would otherwise constitute a breach of, or default under, the Senior Facilities, any other Senior Debt Document, the Second Lien Notes Indenture or any other Junior Priority Document.

Section 8.23 Survival of Agreement . All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by any party in this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

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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 above written.

 

BANK OF MONTREAL,
as Revolving Administrative Agent and First Lien Collateral Agent
By:    /s/ Gumaro Tijerina
  Name: Gumaro Tijerina
  Title:   Managing Director

 

BARCLAYS BANK PLC,
as Term Loan Administrative Agent
By:    /s/ Robert Walsh
  Name: Robert Walsh
  Title:   Assistant Vice President
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Second Lien Notes Trustee and Second Lien Collateral Agent
By:    /s/ Shawn Goffinet
  Name: Shawn Goffinet
  Title:   Assistant Vice President

 

[First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement]


Acknowledged and Agreed to by:
ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.,
as a Grantor
By:   /s/ David W. Honeyfield
  Name: David W. Honeyfield
  Title:   Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

[First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement]


Acknowledged and Agreed to by:
ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP .,
as a Grantor
By:  

/s/ David W. Honeyfield

  Name: David W. Honeyfield
  Title:   Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

UP ENERGY CORPORATION ,

as a Grantor

By:  

/s/ David W. Honeyfield

  Name: David W. Honeyfield
  Title:   Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
ULTRA RESOURCES, INC.,
sole member of Keystone Gas Gathering, LLC, Ultra Wyoming, LLC, UPL Pinedale, LLC and UPL Three Rivers Holdings, LLC, as Grantors
By:  

/s/ David W. Honeyfield

  Name: David W. Honeyfield
  Title:   Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
ULTRA WYOMING, LLC,
sole member of Ultra Wyoming LGS, LLC, as a Grantor
By:  

/s/ David W. Honeyfield

  Name: David W. Honeyfield
  Title:   Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

[First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement]


ANNEX I

SUPPLEMENT NO. [ ] (“ Supplement ”) dated as of [_________], 20[__], to the FIRST LIEN/SECOND LIEN INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of December 21, 2018 (the “ First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement ”), among BANK OF MONTREAL, as Revolving Administrative Agent and as First Lien Collateral Agent under the Senior Facilities, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as Term Loan Administrative Agent, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Second Lien Collateral Agent under the Junior Priority Debt Documents, and acknowledged and agreed to by ULTRA RESOURCES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”), UP ENERGY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “ Parent Guarantor ”), and the other Grantors (as defined therein) from time to time party thereto.

A. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

B. The Grantors have entered into the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement. Pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement, the Term Loan Credit Agreement and the Second Lien Notes Indenture, as applicable, certain newly acquired or organized Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Excluded Subsidiaries are required to enter into the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement. Section  8.07 of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement provides that such Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Excluded Subsidiaries may become party to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement by execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Supplement. The undersigned Restricted Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary (the “ New Grantor ”) is executing this Supplement in accordance with the requirements of the Revolving Credit Agreement, the Term Loan Credit Agreement, and the Second Lien Notes Indenture, as applicable.

Accordingly, the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the New Grantor agree as follows:

SECTION 1. In accordance with Section  8.07 of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the New Grantor by its signature below becomes a Grantor under the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement with the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Grantor, and the New Grantor hereby agrees to all the terms and provisions of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement applicable to it as a Grantor thereunder. Each reference to a “Grantor” in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall be deemed to include the New Grantor. The First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

SECTION 2. The New Grantor represents and warrants on the date hereof to the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Second Lien Collateral Agent and the other Secured Parties that this Supplement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by it and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Bankruptcy Laws and by general principles of equity.

SECTION 3. This Supplement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Supplement shall become effective when the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall have received a counterpart of this Supplement that bears the signature of the New Grantor. Delivery of an executed signature page to this Supplement by facsimile transmission or other electronic method shall be as effective as delivery of a manually signed counterpart of this Supplement.

 

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SECTION 4. Except as expressly supplemented hereby, the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 5. THIS SUPPLEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

SECTION 6. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Supplement should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, no party hereto shall be required to comply with such provision for so long as such provision is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, but the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired. The parties hereto shall endeavor in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.

SECTION 7. All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given as provided in Section  8.12 of the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement. All communications and notices hereunder to the New Grantor shall be given to it in care of the Borrower as specified in the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement.

SECTION 8. The New Grantor agrees to reimburse each of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent for its reasonable out-of-pocket and documented expenses in connection with this Supplement (including the reasonable and out-of-pocket and documented fees, other charges and disbursements of counsel for the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent), in each case, to the extent required by the applicable Senior Debt Documents and Junior Priority Debt Documents, respectively.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Grantor, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent have duly executed this Supplement to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

[NAME OF NEW GRANTOR]
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

Acknowledged by:
[                ], as First Lien Collateral Agent
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

[                ], as Second Lien Collateral Agent
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

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Exhibit 10.7

DIRECTOR NOMINATION AGREEMENT

This Director Nomination Agreement is made and entered into as of December 21, 2018 (this “ Agreement ”) by and among Ultra Petroleum Corp. (the “ Company ”) and the holders signatory hereto (the “ Holders ”) of the 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024 (the “ Notes ”) of Ultra Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Issuer ”).

WHEREAS, the Company and the Holders are parties to that certain Exchange Agreement, dated as of as of December 17, 2018 (the “ Exchange Agreement ”), by and among the Issuer, the Company, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto, the Holders and certain other holders of the Notes;

WHEREAS, the Company and the Holders wish to set forth certain understandings among themselves, including with respect to certain matters relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Company (the “ Board ”); and

WHEREAS, the Holders and Fir Tree Value Master Fund, LP, Fir Tree Capital Opportunity Master Fund, LP, Fir Tree Capital Opportunity Master Fund III, LP, FT COF (E) Holdings, LLC, FT SOF IV Holdings, LLC, FT SOF V Holdings, LLC and FT SOF VII Holdings, LLC (collectively, “ Fir Tree ”) are parties to a letter agreement dated as of December 21, 2018 setting forth certain understandings among themselves, including with respect to the voting by Fir Tree of its Voting Securities on such matters.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants and agreements contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company and each of the Holders agree as follows:

1. Board Observer . The Majority Holders (as such group is determined on the Closing Date (as defined in the Exchange Agreement)) may, at any time on or after the Closing Date and prior to termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 8(a) (the “ Term ”), designate one (1) non-voting observer that meets the Independent Director Criteria (as defined herein) (such non-voting observer, the “ Board Observer ”); provided that such right shall be suspended at any time during which a New Independent Director (as defined herein) has been elected or appointed as a director of the Company pursuant to Section 2. The Company shall appoint the Board Observer as soon as practicable following his or her designation by the Majority Holders and the Board Observer will have the right, in the Board Observer’s capacity as such, to attend meetings of the Board and to receive all materials distributed to members of the Board; provided that (i) the Board Observer will only be allowed to observe meetings of the full Board and of the Board’s executive committee or other committee serving a similar function, if any, thereof and not any meetings of any other committee thereof, (ii) the Board Observer will in no circumstances have any right to vote, consent to or take any action in his or her capacity as Board Observer or on behalf of the Board or any committee thereof; (iii) the Board Observer may be excluded from any meeting of the Board (or any executive committee or other committee serving a similar function, if any, thereof) or portion thereof and may be prohibited from receiving any related materials if (x) the Board determines in good faith that such exclusion is necessary to preserve attorney-client, work product or similar privilege, or to comply with applicable law, or (y) if the Board determines in good faith that there exists, with respect to the subject matter of any such meeting or the related


materials, an actual or potential conflict of interest between the Board Observer or any Affiliate of the Board Observer and the Company; and (iv) the Board Observer shall agree, pursuant to a confidentiality agreement that is consistent with, and no more restrictive than, the terms described herein (including, without limitation, the terms and conditions set forth in Sections 4(b) and (c) of this Agreement) and otherwise in form and substance acceptable to the Company in its reasonable discretion (each, a “ Confidentiality Agreement ”), to keep confidential any Confidential Information (as defined herein) prior to receiving any such material or attending any such meetings.

2. Board Representative .

(a) In the event that a current director of the Company who is not a Section 4.15 Director, as defined in Section 2 of Schedule A to the Company’s Articles of Reorganization, resigns or becomes unable to serve as a director of the Company due to death, disability or other reasons prior to the expiration of his or her term and a New Independent Director is not then a director of the Company, the Company shall nominate one (1) nominee to serve as a new independent director, which nominee shall (A) meet the Independent Director Criteria, (B) have been designated by the Majority Holders (as such group is determined ten (10) days prior to the Notification Date) and notified to the Company prior to the Notification Date and (C) have been approved by the Board, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld (each such nominee, a “ New Independent Director ”). As soon as practicable after nomination, the directors of the Company shall cause such New Independent Director to be appointed as a director of the Company and, at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Company, and at each subsequent Applicable Meeting during the Term, the Company shall cause such New Independent Director to be nominated for election as a director of the Company at such Applicable Meeting and shall recommend to holders of Voting Securities that such New Independent Director be elected as a director of the Company at such Applicable Meeting (and shall not nominate, recommend or otherwise endorse any competing nominee to fill the vacancy on the Board).

(b) Provided that no New Independent Director has been appointed as a director of the Company by the directors of the Company in accordance with Section 2(a), at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the Company, and at each subsequent Applicable Meeting during the Term, until the amendment of the Company’s Articles to implement the Charter Amendment (as defined herein), the Company shall (i) propose an amendment (the “ Charter Amendment ”) to the Company’s Articles to increase the maximum number of directors of the Board by one (1) director from seven (7) directors to eight (8) directors and (ii), subject to the approval of the Shareholders by special resolution of the Charter Amendment, nominate one (1) New Independent Director. Upon approval of the Charter Amendment, the Company shall cause such New Independent Director to be nominated for election as a director of the Company at such Applicable Meeting and shall recommend to holders of Voting Securities that such New Independent Director be elected as a director of the Company at such Applicable Meeting (and shall not nominate, recommend or otherwise endorse any competing nominee to fill the vacancy on the Board created by the Charter Amendment). If the Company’s Articles are amended to implement the Charter Amendment but a New Independent Director is not approved by the Shareholders such that

 

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a vacancy is created on the Board, the Majority Holders may propose to the Board another nominee for election as a director of the Company, pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 2(c), and the directors of the Company shall call a meeting of shareholders to vote on the election of such New Independent Director as a director of the Company to fill such vacancy.

(c) For each Applicable Meeting during the Term at which the term of any New Independent Director then on the Board will expire or at which no New Independent Director is then on the Board (other than by reason of the failure of the Company to amend its Articles to implement the Charter Amendment in accordance with Section 2(b)): (i) the Majority Holders may propose to the Board one (1) New Independent Director for nomination as a director of the Company. The Company shall cause such New Independent Director to be nominated for election as a director of the Company at such Applicable Meeting, and shall cause the Board to recommend to holders of Voting Securities that such New Independent Director be elected as a director of the Company at such Applicable Meeting (and shall not nominate, recommend or otherwise endorse any competing nominee to fill the applicable seat on the Board).

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, no director or officer of the Company shall, and the Company shall not be required to compel any director or officer to, take any action that such director or officer of the Company determines, in his or her sole discretion, may violation such officer or director’s fiduciary duties to the Company.

(e) The election or appointment of a New Independent Director pursuant to Section 2(a), Section 2(b) or Section 2(c) will be subject to such New Independent Director having executed and agreed to comply with all director onboarding materials (which onboarding materials will be no more onerous than the onboarding materials provided to other non-executive directors of the Board and which shall include a Confidentiality Agreement) provided to such New Independent Director prior to such Applicable Meeting. Should the Board and the Majority Holders be unable to mutually agree upon a New Independent Director pursuant to Section 2(a), Section 2(b) or Section 2(c), the Majority Holders will be entitled to continue to recommend different nominees that meet the Independent Director Criteria, until a New Independent Director is so mutually agreed upon and nominated for election as a director of the Company, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, there shall be no requirement to notify the Company of such additional proposals prior to the Notification Date.

(f) At all times while serving as a member of the Board (and as a condition to such service), a New Independent Director shall (i) comply with all policies, codes and guidelines applicable to Board members (subject to Section 4(b)) (the “ Director Policies ”) and (ii) otherwise qualify as “independent” of the Company pursuant to the applicable securities laws and stock exchange requirements; provided that none of the Holders shall be responsible for any breach of this Section 2(f) by a New Independent Director.

 

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(g) Should a New Independent Director resign from the Board or become unable to serve as a director of the Company due to death, disability or other reasons prior to the expiration of his or her term, the Majority Holders (as such group is determined on the date of resignation of such New Independent Director) will have the right to recommend for appointment as a director of the Company one (1) nominee that meets the Independent Director Criteria as a replacement director, subject to the approval by the Board, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld (each, a “ Replacement ”). The appointment of a Replacement for a New Independent Director will be subject to such Replacement having executed and agreed to comply with all director onboarding materials (which onboarding materials will be no more onerous than and in substantially the same form as the onboarding materials provided to other non-executive directors of the Board and which shall include a Confidentiality Agreement) provided to such Replacement, interviews with members of the Board (to be conducted within ten (10) Business Days of the Majority Holders’ recommendation of such Replacement), and a customary background check. The Company will complete its approval process within ten (10) Business Days of the later of its receipt of the Replacement’s executed director onboarding materials and the date of such interview. The Company shall appoint a Replacement as a director of the Company if (and only if), taking into account the Replacement’s skillset and experience (only if such replacement is a Replacement for a New Independent Director), it finds a Replacement to be reasonably acceptable. Promptly after a determination that a Replacement is reasonably acceptable, the Board and all applicable committees of the Board shall take all necessary actions to cause the Replacement to be appointed as a director of the Company and, if the Replacement is qualified under applicable securities laws and stock exchange requirements, as a member of those Board committees on which a New Independent Director being replaced served. In the event the Board reasonably finds that a Replacement is not acceptable, such Majority Holders will be entitled to recommend different nominees which meet the Independent Director Criteria, and such nominees will be subject to the foregoing approval process. For the avoidance of doubt, such Majority Holders will be entitled to continue to recommend different nominees which meet the foregoing criteria until a Replacement is appointed. Except as otherwise specified in this Agreement, if a Replacement is appointed, all references in this Agreement to the term “New Independent Director” will include such Replacement, as applicable. Except as otherwise expressly permitted herein, the Company and the Board shall not take any action to remove or seek the removal of any New Independent Director during the Term other than for Cause (as defined herein).

(h) On each date that a New Independent Director or a Replacement is nominated pursuant to this Agreement, each member of the Holder Group shall deliver to the Board a certificate certifying that such Holder beneficially owns the applicable Requisite Amount of Notes (which Notes, for the avoidance of doubt, may have been acquired in the Exchange or thereafter by such Holder).

(i) The Holders acknowledge that under no circumstances will the Company be required to nominate, elect or appoint more than one (1) New Independent Director as a director of the Company.

3. Resignation . Prior to the appointment of any New Independent Director as a director of the Company, such New Independent Director shall deliver to the Company an irrevocable resignation letter pursuant to which such New Independent Director shall resign from the Board and all applicable committees thereof as of the expiration of the Term. When such New Independent Director’s resignation is effected in accordance with this Section 3, the Company shall have no further obligations under Section 1 of this Agreement.

 

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4. Confidentiality .

(a) Each New Independent Director shall be required to comply with the Company’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, as in effect on the date of this Agreement, including provisions relating to the confidentiality, disclosure and use of, including trading or influencing the actions of any Person based on, any non-public information entrusted to or obtained by such director by reason of his or her position as a director of the Company (“ Confidential Information ”).

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, each New Independent Director, if he or she is an Affiliate of any of the Holders or their respective Affiliates (or their Replacement, if an Affiliate of any of the Holders or their respective Affiliates), may, if he or she wishes to do so, provide Confidential Information to the Holders and their respective controlled Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives and advisors (including legal, tax, accounting and financial advisors and excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any New Independent Director) (collectively, “ Holder Representatives ”) solely to the extent that provision of any such information is made in compliance with applicable securities laws; provided that the Holders (i) shall inform each Holder Representative of the confidential nature of the Confidential Information and (ii) shall not, and shall cause each Holder Representative not to, and shall instruct each other Holder Representative not to, disclose any Confidential Information to any Person other than Holder Representatives in compliance with this Section 4(b). The Company acknowledges that any such disclosure to any Holder or Holder Representative is in the necessary course of business for the Company. Each Holder shall be responsible for the breach of this Section 4(b) by any Holder Representative of such Holder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither any of the Holders nor any Holder Representative will be required to keep confidential or not disclose any information that (i) is already in the possession of such Holder or such Holder Representative from a source other than the Company; provided that such information is not known by such Holder, at the time of disclosure, to be subject to a confidentiality agreement with, or other obligation of confidentiality to, the Company; (ii) is or becomes generally known to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by any of the Holders or any Holder Representative in breach of this Section 4; (iii) is or becomes available or known to any of the Holders or any Holder Representative on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Company; provided that such source is not known by such Holder to be bound by a confidentiality agreement with, or other obligation of confidentiality to, the Company; (iv) is or was independently developed by any of the Holders or any Holder Representative without any use of Confidential Information; or (v) is approved for disclosure by written authorization from the Company.

(c) In the event that any of the Holders or any Holder Representative is required by applicable subpoena, legal process, securities regulation or other legal requirement, or formally requested in an audit or examination by a regulator or self-regulatory organization with jurisdiction to regulate or oversee any aspect of its business (each, a “ Legal

 

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Requirement ”), to disclose any of the Confidential Information, such Holder or Holder Representative shall, to the extent legally permissible and practicable, promptly notify the Company in writing in advance (including by email) so that the Company may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy, at its sole cost and expense. Following notification by such Holder or Holder Representative to the Company (or before such notification if prior notification is not legally permissible or practicable), such Holder or Holder Representative may honor any such Legal Requirement if and solely to the extent that (i) such Person produces or discloses only that portion of the Confidential Information which its legal counsel advises it is legally required to be so produced or disclosed and such Person informs the recipient of such Confidential Information of the existence of the confidentiality obligations under this Section 4 and the confidential nature of the Confidential Information or (ii) the Company consents in writing to having the Confidential Information produced or disclosed pursuant to a Legal Requirement. In no event shall the Holders oppose action by the Company to obtain a protective order or other relief to prevent the production, disclosure or use of the Confidential Information or to obtain reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be afforded the Confidential Information. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any of the Holders or any Holder Representative is subject to routine examination that is not targeted towards to the Company or the Confidential Information by a governmental regulatory agency having authority to regulate such Person, as applicable, such Holders or Holder Representative may disclose such Confidential Information as is requested by such agency in the course of any such examination without prior notice to the Company; provided that such Holders or Holder Representative, as applicable, shall advise the regulatory agency of the confidential nature of such information.

(d) The confidentiality provisions contained in this Section shall terminate on the later of the date (the “ Termination Date ”) that is twelve (12) months after the date that a New Independent Director or any Replacement ceases to serve on the Board.

5. Securities Laws . Each of the Holders acknowledges that it is aware, and agrees that it shall advise each Holder Representative who receives Confidential Information pursuant to Section 4(b), that applicable securities laws prohibit any Person who has received material, non-public information from purchasing or selling securities on the basis of such information or from communicating such information to any other Person unless in compliance with such laws. The Holders represent and warrant that they respectively maintain customary policies and procedures designed to prevent unauthorized trading and misuse of material, non-public information in violation of applicable securities laws.

6. Representations and Warranties of All Parties . Each of the parties represents and warrants to the other party that: (a) such party has all requisite power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder; (b) this Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by it and is a valid and binding obligation of such party, enforceable against such party in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy and similar laws relating to creditors’ rights and to general equity principles); and (c) this Agreement will not result in a violation of any terms or conditions of any agreements to which such Person is a party or by which such party may otherwise be bound or of any law, rule, license, regulation, judgment, order or decree governing or affecting such party.

 

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7. Director Compensation . Each of the Holders represents and warrants and agrees that neither they nor any of their respective Affiliates have provided or agreed to provide, and shall not provide, any compensation in cash or otherwise to any New Independent Director in connection with such New Independent Director’s nomination and appointment as, or service as, a director of the Company (other than any New Independent Director’s regular compensation as an employee of or investor in such Holder or its Affiliate, as applicable).

8. Termination .

(a) This Agreement shall terminate in its entirety: (i) on the date on which no Holder beneficially owns the applicable Requisite Amount of Notes, whether such Notes were acquired in the Exchange or thereafter; or (ii) by delivery of written notice to the Company by the Holders beneficially owning at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes beneficially owned by the Holder Group on such date, requesting the termination of this Agreement.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8(a), the provisions of Sections 5 and 6 shall survive the termination of this Agreement indefinitely.

9. Certain Defined Terms . For purposes of this Agreement:

(a) “ 2019 Annual Meeting ” means the annual meeting to be held in 2019.

(b) “ Affiliate ” means, with respect to a specified Person, any other Person, directly or indirectly Controlling or Controlled by or under direct or indirect common Control with such specified Person.

(c) “ Applicable Meeting ” means each annual and special meeting of Shareholders and any other meeting of Shareholders at which any director is being nominated for election or reelection.

(d) “Business Day ” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City.

(e) “ Cause ” means the termination of a New Independent Director by the Company by reason of: (i) the conviction of such New Independent Director by a court of competent jurisdiction as to which no further appeal can be taken of a crime involving moral turpitude or a felony; (ii) the commission by such New Independent Director of a material act of fraud upon the Company or any Affiliate, or any customer or supplier thereof; (iii) the misappropriation of any funds or property of the Company or any Affiliate, or any customer or supplier thereof, by such New Independent Director, (iv) the engagement by such New Independent Director in any direct and material conflict of interest with the Company or any Affiliate without compliance with the Company’s or Affiliate’s conflict of interest policy, if any, then in effect; (v) the failure of such New Independent Director to continue to meet the Independent Director Criteria; or (vi) the failure of such New Independent Director to comply with the Director Policies.

 

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(f) “ Control ,” “ Controlling ” or “ Controlled ” means, as to a specified Person, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

(g) “ Common Shares ” means the common shares of the Company.

(h) “ Exchange ” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Exchange Agreement.

(i) “ Holder Group ” means, together, each Holder that beneficially owns the applicable Requisite Amount of Notes (which Notes, for the avoidance of doubt, may have been acquired in the Exchange or thereafter by such Holder).

(j) “ Independent Director Criteria ” means that such Person (i) has substantial expertise and experience in exploration and production in the oil and gas industry, (ii) has the relevant financial and business experience to be a director of the Company and (iii) otherwise qualifies as “independent” of the Company pursuant to the applicable securities laws and stock exchange requirements.

(k) “ Majority Holders ” means, at the relevant time specified in this Agreement, members of the Holder Group that beneficially own at least a majority of the principal amount of the Notes beneficially owned by the Holder Group as a whole at such time (which Notes, for the avoidance of doubt, may have been acquired in the Exchange or thereafter by such member).

(l) “ Notification Date ” means sixty (60) days prior to the Applicable Meeting of Shareholders, whether an annual meeting or otherwise.

(m) “ Person ” means any individual, corporation (including not-for-profit), general or limited partnership, limited liability or unlimited liability company, joint venture, estate, trust, association, organization or other entity of any kind or nature.

(n) “ Requisite Amount ” means, with respect to each Holder, at least 50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes held by such Holder on the Closing Date.

(o) “ Shareholder ” means a holder of Voting Securities.

(p) “ Voting Securities ” shall mean the Common Shares and any other securities of the Company entitled to vote in the election of directors

10. Governing Law; Jurisdiction . This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of Delaware without reference to the conflict of laws principles thereof. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably agrees that any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement and the rights and obligations arising hereunder, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect of this Agreement and the rights and obligations arising hereunder brought by the other party hereto or its successors or assigns, shall be brought and determined exclusively in the Delaware Court of Chancery and any state appellate court therefrom within the State of Delaware (or, if the Delaware Court of Chancery declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any federal court within the State of Delaware). Each of the

 

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parties hereto hereby irrevocably submits with regard to any such action or proceeding for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, to the personal jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts and agrees that it will not bring any action relating to this Agreement in any court other than the aforesaid courts. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement, (a) any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of the above-named courts for any reason, (b) any claim that it or its property is exempt or immune from jurisdiction of any such court or from any legal process commenced in such courts (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution of judgment, execution of judgment or otherwise) and (c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable legal requirements, any claim that (i) the suit, action or proceeding in such court is brought in an inconvenient forum, (ii) the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper or (iii) this Agreement, or the subject matter hereof, may not be enforced in or by such courts. Each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives any right such party may have to a trial by jury in respect of any dispute.

11. No Waiver . Any waiver by any party of a breach of any provision of this Agreement shall not operate as or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of this Agreement. The failure of a party to insist upon strict adherence to any term of this Agreement on one or more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive that party of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Agreement.

12. Entire Agreement . This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and may be amended only by an agreement in writing executed by the parties hereto.

13. Notices . All notices, consents, requests, instructions, approvals and other communications provided for herein and all legal process in regard hereto shall be in writing and shall be deemed validly given, made or served, if (a) given by email, when such email is sent to the email address set forth below during normal business hours and the appropriate confirmation is received, or (b) if given by any other means, when actually received during normal business hours at the address specified in this subsection:

if to the Company:

116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400,

Englewood, Colorado 80112

Attention:      Chief Executive Officer

Corporate Secretary

 

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with copies to:

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

609 Main Street

Houston, Texas 77002

Attention:      Matthew R. Pacey

Brooks Antweil

Facsimile:      (713) 836-3786

Email:           matt.pacey@kirkland.com

brooks.antweil@kirkland.com

if to the Holders:

As set forth on each Holder’s signature page hereto.

with copies to:

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Attention:      Damian S. Schaible

Eli J. Vonnegut

Email:           damian.schaible@davispolk.com

eli.vonnegut@davispolk.com

14. Severability . If any provision of this Agreement shall be held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, void or unenforceable, such provision shall be of no force and effect, but the illegality or unenforceability of such provision shall have no effect upon the legality or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement.

15. Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, which together shall constitute a single agreement.

16. Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall not be assignable by any of the parties to this Agreement. This Agreement, however, shall be binding on successors of the parties hereto.

17. No Third Party Beneficiaries . This Agreement is solely for the benefit of the parties hereto and is not enforceable by any other Persons.

 

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18. Amendments . This Agreement may only be amended pursuant to a written agreement executed by the members of the Holder Group and the Company.

19. Interpretation and Construction . Each of the parties hereto acknowledges that it has been represented by counsel of its choice throughout all negotiations that have preceded the execution of this Agreement, and that it has executed the same with the advice of said independent counsel. Each party and its counsel cooperated and participated in the drafting and preparation of this Agreement and the documents referred to herein, and any and all drafts relating thereto exchanged among the parties shall be deemed the work product of all of the parties and may not be construed against any party by reason of its drafting or preparation. Accordingly, any rule of law or any legal decision that would require interpretation of any ambiguities in this Agreement against any party that drafted or prepared it is of no application and is hereby expressly waived by each of the parties hereto, and any controversy over interpretations of this Agreement shall be decided without regards to events of drafting or preparation. The section headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. The term “including” shall be deemed to mean “including without limitation” in all instances.

20. Specific Performance .  Each of the parties hereto acknowledges and agrees that irreparable injury to the other party hereto would occur in the event any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached and that such injury would not be adequately compensable by the remedies available at law (including the payment of money damages). It is accordingly agreed that the Company, on the one hand, and any of the Holders, on the other hand (the “ Moving Party ”), shall each be entitled to specific enforcement of, and injunctive relief to prevent any violation of, the terms hereof, and the other party hereto will not take action, directly or indirectly, in opposition to the Moving Party seeking such relief on the grounds that any other remedy or relief is available at law or in equity. This Section 20 is not the exclusive remedy for any violation of this Agreement.

21. Judgment Currency . The Company agrees to indemnify each Holder, its directors, officers, affiliates and each person, if any, who controls such Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (each, a “ Holder Indemnified Party ”), against any loss incurred by such Holder as a result of any judgment or order being given or made for any amount due hereunder and such judgment or order being expressed and paid in a currency (the “ judgment currency ”) other than U.S. dollars and as a result of any variation as between (i) the rate of exchange at which the U.S. dollar amount is converted into the judgment currency for the purpose of such judgment or order, and (ii) the rate of exchange at which such indemnified person is able to purchase U.S. dollars with the amount of the judgment currency actually received by the indemnified person; provided that the Company shall have no obligation to indemnify any Holder Indemnified Party against any such loss if the judgment or order is being made pursuant to an action brought by the Company or any of its Affiliates against such Holder Indemnified Party. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent obligation of the Company shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “rate of exchange” shall include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or conversion into, the relevant currency.

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

 

ULTRA PETROLEUM CORP.
By:   /s/ Brad Johnson
Name:   Brad Johnson
Title:   Interim Chief Executive Officer

 

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NAME OF HOLDER:
[HOLDER],
on behalf of funds and/or accounts managed and/or advised by it and/or its affiliates
By:   /s/ Holder Representative
Name:  
Title:  
Address:  
     
     
     
Email:  
     

 

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NAME OF HOLDER:
[HOLDER],
on behalf of funds and/or accounts managed and/or advised by it and/or its affiliates
By:   /s/ Holder Representative
Name:  
Title:  
Address:  
     
     
     
Email:  
     

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ultra Petroleum Corp. Closes on Previously Announced Debt Exchange

Agreement Reducing Long-Term Debt by Approximately $235 Million and

Improving Pro Forma Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio to 3.5x

Englewood, Colorado – December 26, 2018 –Ultra Petroleum Corp. (“Ultra Petroleum” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: UPL) closed on the previously announced debt exchange agreement to reduce long-term debt by approximately $235 million (the “Exchange Transaction”) on December 21, 2018. Pro forma for the exchange, as of September 30, 2018, the Company’s Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio (1) is reduced to 3.5x from 3.9x. In addition to the reduction in debt, the New Notes (as defined below) will extend the maturity of the exchanged 2022 Notes (as defined below) to July 2024.

The Exchange Transaction closed with the exchange of approximately $505 million aggregate principal amount, or 72.1 percent, of its 6.875% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “2022 Notes”) and $275 million aggregate principal amount, or 55.0 percent, of its 7.125% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”), for approximately $545 million of new 9.00% Cash / 2.00% PIK Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due July 2024 (the “New Notes”) and approximately 10.9 million new warrants entitling each holder thereof to purchase one common share of the Company.

Under the terms of the Exchange Transaction, the Company retains the ability to further exchange approximately $55 million of the remaining 2022 Notes within one year on the same terms or terms that are more favorable to the Company.

(1) Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio is as defined in the Company’s Credit Agreement dated April 12, 2017.

About Ultra Petroleum

Ultra Petroleum Corp. is an independent energy company engaged in domestic natural gas and oil exploration, development and production. The Company is listed on NASDAQ and trades under the ticker symbol “UPL”.

Additional information on the Company is available at www.ultrapetroleum.com . In addition, our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) are available by written request to Ultra Petroleum Corp. at 116 Inverness Drive East, Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (Attention: Investor Relations) or on our website ( www.ultrapetroleum.com ) or from the SEC on their website at www.sec.gov or by telephone request at 1-800-SEC-0330.

This news release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Any statement, including any opinions, forecasts, projections or other statements, other than statements of historical fact, are or may be forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements herein are reasonable, we can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct and actual results may differ materially from those projected or reflected in such statements. In addition, certain risks and uncertainties inherent in our business as well as risks and uncertainties related to our operational and financial results are set forth in our filings with the SEC, particularly in the section entitled “Risk Factors” included in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the most recent fiscal year, our most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and from time to time in other filings made by the Company with the SEC. Some


of these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, increased competition, the timing and extent of changes in prices for oil and gas, particularly in the areas where we own properties, conduct operations, and market our production, as well as the timing and extent of our success in discovering, developing, producing and estimating oil and gas reserves, our ability to successfully monetize the properties we are marketing, weather and government regulation, and the availability of oil field services, personnel and equipment.

For further information contact:

Investor Relations

303-708-9740, ext. 9898

Email: IR@ultrapetroleum.com